{"1": {"fulltext": "mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm-\\nI\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2BIB Lr)B\\nH ^BoOE.S\\nI\\nIN -WORDS- OF ONE SYLLABLE\\ni", "height": "4060", "width": "2954", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\nCliap.._ _ Coiwriglit No.\\n)Twngnt 1^0.\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.", "height": "3929", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "p", "height": "3940", "width": "2668", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3940", "width": "2906", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "BIBLE STORIES.\\nRETOLD IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE.\\nBy HARRIET T. COMSTOCK.\\nWITH ILLUSTRATIONS.\\nNEW YORK:\\nA. L. BUJRT, PUBLISHEPv.", "height": "3940", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "0133\\n35 55-1\\nLibrary of Congree\\nTwo Copies Received\\nJUL 141900\\nCopyright entry\\nNo tf./J^^\\nSECOND COPY.\\nDelivered to\\nORDtR DIVISION,\\nJ-yLjj6j90iL\\n65309\\nCopyright, 1900, by A. L. BuRT.\\nBIBLE STORIES.\\nBy Harriet T. Comstock.", "height": "3923", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "r\\nCONTENTS.\\nSTORY. PAGE.\\nAdam 1\\nNoah 4\\nAbraham. 8\\nJacob 16\\nJoseph 21\\nMoses 30\\nWhen Moses Died 48\\nThe Childrej^ oe Israel li^ Canaak 50\\nDeborah 54\\nSamuel 57\\nKii^G Saul 61\\n/^^iJuTH 64\\nDavid and Goliath 67\\nSolomon 76\\nElijah 81\\nElisha 86\\nJeremiah 95\\nDaniel 99\\nEsther 108\\nNehemiah Ill\\nJonah 117", "height": "3905", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "iv CONTENTS.\\nSTORY. PAGE.\\nThe Witch of Endok 120\\nJephthah s Daughter 125\\nSAMSOiq- 128\\nDavid and Joist athak 136\\nMiCAH 141\\nBalaam 144", "height": "3921", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "BIBLE STORIES.\\nTHE STO-EY OF AD-AM.\\nWhen God had made the world, and all the love-ly\\nthings that are in it, he made a man and wo-man and called\\nthem Ad-am and Eve. He gave them a fair gar-den to\\nlive in. I think he chose it from the best that he had\\nmade. He put birds in the gar-den and sweet flow-ers and\\ntall trees, and all was giv-en to Ad-am and Eve for their\\nown to love and en- joy only one thing did God ask of\\nthem not to do. He asked them not to eat of the fruit of\\none tree. All the oth-ers were theirs but that one tree\\nGod did not want them to touch, be-cause He knew best.\\nIt was such a lit-tle thing to ask, and at first Ad-am and\\nEve meant to do it they were so hap-py, they were nev-er\\nsick, nev-er tired, and there was noth-ing to make them\\nsad. But one day a thought came to Eve like an e-vil spir-it,\\nit crept in-to her mind day af-ter day she thought it was\\nstrange that in their own gar-den there should be an-y-thing\\nwhich she could not touch and eat if she chose. At last\\nthe fruit on all the oth-er trees seemed to have no taste or\\nbeau-ty but the fruit on the one tree which she knew she\\nought not to touch be-came so fair in her eyes that at last\\nshe said that she would taste it per-haps she meant at first\\non-ly to take a ver-y lit-tle but in the end she and Ad-am", "height": "3841", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "BIBLE STORIES.\\nate all the fruit they want-ed from the tree be-fore they\\nknew the great wrong they were do-ing.\\nBut God saw them, and His heart must have been sad\\nEve oft-en told the chil-dren of the dear first home in the fair gar-den.\\nto think af-ter all that He had done for them, they had not\\nloved him e-nough to o-bey Him and trust Him.\\nHe knew that He must show them how wrong-ly they\\nhad done, so He sent them out of the fair gar-den in-to the\\nnew world where they would have to make their own lives,", "height": "3938", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF ADAM. 3\\nand work for what they want-ed. But be-fore they went\\nHe told them that if they were good and brave and tried to\\nlead bet-ter lives in the end He would give them great-er\\njoy and that their chil-dren would en-joy ma-ny things\\nwhich Ad-am and Eve might nev-er have for them-selves.\\nHow sad they must have been to leave that home so\\nsafe and love-ly How lone-ly they must have been when\\nthey went out in-to the great emp-ty world and knew that\\nun-less they worked they would sure-ly die\\nThey had no home now they must learn to help them-\\nselves and trust God, who, e-ven when they had been so\\nwick-ed, had loved them well e-nough to prom-ise some-\\nthing for the f u-ture. So they went to work and made a new\\nhome, and they had lit-tle chil-dren born to them and I\\nthink Eve must of -ten have told them of the dear first home\\nin the fair gar-den and per-haps she warned them to love\\nand o-bey God and so help to bring the time of joy back\\ninto the world.\\nSome of Ad-am and Eve s chil-dren were good and some\\nbad, and as time went on the bad ones be-came ver-y bad\\nin-deed and ev-en some of the good ones for-got to be good\\nall the time and so the world was grow-ing to be a wick-ed\\nplace and not the hap-py land that God would love tc have\\nseen it and He said that He would wash all sin and all\\nwick-ed peo-ple off the earth with a great flood and now\\nyou are going to hear how one good man named No-ah was\\nsaved, and helped God to do the thing that was best in the\\nend.", "height": "3940", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "BIBLE STORIES.\\nTHE STO-RY OF NO- AH.\\nIn that far off time the world was grow-ing more wick-\\ned all the time there lived a good man whose name was\\nNo-ah he had a wife and three sons.\\nGod said that when the great flood came No-ah and his\\nfam-i-ly should be saved and that they must save some\\nan-i-mals and birds so that when the flood was o-ver the\\nearth would not be quite emp-ty for No-ah and his chil-dren.\\nNow God told No-ah to build a great ark. It was to be\\nlike a ship all made of wood, and in it he w^as to put food\\ne-nough to last for a long time.\\nNo-ah trust-ed God and went to work for in that far\\noff time to do what God had said meant much work and\\ntook a long time.\\nThe peo-ple all laughed at him they did not think a\\nflood was com-ing. The sun was shin-ing just the same.\\nThe birds sang and noth-ing was changed.\\nI think No-ah must have had a hard time while he\\nworked, for no one thought as he did, and yet he nev-er for\\none mo-ment stopped the task which God had bade him do.\\nAf-ter the ark was done No-ah and his wife, his three sons\\nand their wives and two of each kind of bird and an-i-mal\\nwent into the great ship, and then they wait-ed.\\nSoon it be-gan to rain there was noth-ing strange in\\nthat. It was just like other rains, on-ly it did not stop.\\nDay af-ter day it fell, the riv-ers came up o-ver their high\\nbanks the lit-tle hills were hid and then the big ones, and\\nall the earth was like the great sea.", "height": "3932", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "THE STOEY OF NOAH. 6\\nFor f or-ty days that rain fell and all the peo-ple and\\nan-i-mals who were not in No-ah s ship were dead be-neath\\nthe wa-ter.\\nBut o-yer the wat-er the great ark went safe and true.\\nNo-all trust-ed in God and went to work and built the Ark.\\nGod did not let an-y-thing hap-pen to it, nor to an-y-one who\\nwas in it.\\nBut I think it was a sad sight for No-ah and the oth-ers\\nto look out at that aw-ful flood and think of their friends", "height": "3940", "width": "2677", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "6 BIBLE STORIES.\\nand dear ones, dead, be-cause they had not trust-ed God.\\nThere was noth-ing for them to look at but sky and wa-ter,\\nas the for-ty long days went by. Then it stopped rain-ing,\\nthe sky was blue once more, and the sun shone through.\\nAt night the stars and the bright moon came out. How\\nglad they must have been in the ark when they saw these\\nsigns At last the ark stopped float-ing and rest-ed on the\\ntop of a high moun-tain then No-ah saw peaks of oth-er\\nhigh hills show-ing through the wa-ter and he knew that\\nthe wa-ter was not as deep as it had been. He want-ed to\\nknoYv more, but how was he to find out He let a ra-ven\\nout of the win-dow and wait-ed for it to come back. It\\nnev-er came back, for you know a ra-ven eats dead things\\nand there were so ma-ny float-ing in the wa-ter that the\\nbird did not care to be back in the ark when it could find\\nfood and be free out-side once more.\\nNo-ah wait-ed a few days, then he let out a dove. Now,\\ndoves like to rest in trees and they eat grain and seeds. So\\nthe dove flew back to the ark, tired and hun-gry you see,\\nshe could find no home.\\nNo-ah kept her in the ark a week, then he tried once\\na-gain. This time she came back, but in her beak she\\nbrought a green leaf. It was like a mes-sage from God to\\nNo-ah and he kept the dove one more week be-fore he let\\nher fly forth the third time she did not come back, for she\\nhad found a place to build her nest and food to keep her\\na-live. And No-ah knew that all sin had been washed from\\nthe earth, and that for him and his chil-dren it was a new\\nearth and you shall see how it turned out.\\nWhen No-ah and all who were in the ark came out up-\\non dry land, God spoke to them and said that no wa-ter\\nshould drown the earth a-gain, and to make them feel sure", "height": "3921", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "THE STOEY OF NOAH. 7\\nHe put a bright rain-bow in the sky as a proof that He\\nwould not f or-get.\\nWe know how love-ly the rain-bow is, when we see it\\nDay af-ter day the rain fell till all the lit-tle hills and the big ones were cov-ered\\nI with wa-ter.\\nin the sky af-ter a hard rain we have seen it ma-ny times.\\nHow must it have looked that first time when the lit-tle\\nband from the ark gazed up-on it and knew what it meant", "height": "3940", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "BIBLE STORIES.\\nTHE STO-RY OF A-BRA-HAM.\\nA long while af-ter the flood, when there were a great\\nma-ny more peo-ple on the earth, for No-ah s chil-dren had\\nchil-dren, there be-gan to be sin a-gain, and as time went\\nby it grew more and more. At last God spoke to a good\\nman named A-bra-ham and told him to leave the land where\\nhis home was, and where he was rich and al-most like a\\nprince, and go to a new land that would be shown him, and\\nwhere he could bring up his chil-dren and those who would\\ngo with him in love and plen-ty.\\nA-bra-ham was will-ing to do as God told him he was\\nglad to go a-way from the sin he must have seen, but he\\nwas an old man and to leave be-hind all friends and home\\nwas hard. Be-side, God had said that the new land should\\nbe for him and his chil-dren but A-bra-ham had no chil-\\ndren and he and his wife Sa-rah were both old.\\nShe did not trust God as her hus-band did, and per-haps\\nmade it hard-er for him to go, but A-bra-ham asked no\\nques-tions, he felt that in some way God knew how to keep\\nHis word and do all that He had said.\\nSo he left his home, tak-ing great flocks of sheep and\\ncows with him and a great ma-ny ser-vants and some of\\nhis friends. They took tents, too, for in that new land to\\nwhich they were go-ing there would be no hous-es, they\\nfelt sure. And all the rest of A-bra-ham s life he lived in a\\ntent. He nev-er had a house of his own. He was rich, and\\nruled his peo-ple al-most like a king, but he always had a\\ntent home.", "height": "3922", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF ABRAHAM. 9\\nBut the win-ters in that far land were not hke ours\\nthey were short and not so cold, and the long sum-mer was\\nhot and dry, so they did not need a warm house as much\\nas we do.\\nA-bra-liam and all his band went on till they came to the land God had\\nprom-ised them.\\nBy and by, as A-bra-ham and all his band went on,\\nthey came to a land so fair and love-ly that I am sure they\\nmust have felt that God was kind and true to them. There", "height": "3967", "width": "2639", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "10 BIBLE STORIES.\\nwere high, cool hills ris-ing from the green vales the blue\\nsea spread be-fore them and all lay in the glo-ry of the\\nbright sun.\\nIt was their land No foot but theirs trod that rich\\nplace but it was to be-long to A-bra-ham s chil-dren, you\\nknow, and he had no child. It was strange, but God would\\nmake a way, of that they all felt sure. You see, A-bra-ham\\nhad the same faith in God that No-ah had. God had found\\na way for No-ah and these peo-ple felt that God would keep\\nHis word to them.\\nNow, with A-bra-ham was one whom he loved very\\nmuch. He was a man, and ^his name was Lot he was a\\nneph-ew and had brought his flocks and ser-vants al-so.\\nOne day the whole band came to a rock-y place (it was\\nbe-fore they had reached the best land), and A-bra-ham and\\nLot stopped to rest. They built an al-tar of stones and\\nknelt to pray and thank God as they prayed the ser-vants\\nof both men were car-ing for the flocks and a-mong them-\\nselves they be-gan to quar-rel, and came with tales to Lot\\nand A-bra-ham, and there be-gan to be real trou-ble. So\\nA-bra-ham thought it was best for Lot and all his flocks\\nand ser-vants to go one way and leave him to go an-oth-er.\\nHe told Lot that he might choose so that be-tween them\\nmight come no hard thought.\\nLot went to the top of a hill and looked far off and in\\nthe East he saw a riv-er, and lakes, and a green val-ley, and\\nthe homes of ma-ny peo-ple a-long the riv-er side. He\\nthought he would rath-er go there than to stay in the new\\nplace where there were no oth-er peo-ple, so he said he would\\ngo on. He did not think wheth-er the peo-ple in the towns\\nwere good or bad he on-ly thought that the coun-try looked\\nlike a good place to make his home, so he left A-bra-ham", "height": "3933", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "THE STOEY OF ABRAHAM. 11\\na-mong the hills and vales and went to live with the new\\npeo-ple, of whom he knew not one thing.\\nBut when Lot came to his chos-en place with his wife\\nand all his band, he found it more It) .e-ly e-ven than it had\\nseemed from the hill-top. There were fields of rich grass\\nand flocks of sheep all un-der tall palm-trees. The five\\ntowns on the riv-er bank had strong walls a-round them\\nand they were full of rich peo-ple who lived lives full of sin\\nand thought not of God. There Lot made his home, but\\nthe sin made him ver-y sad, he thought that he could make\\nthem bet-ter if he tried, so he told them of God s love and\\nbegged them to turn from their wrong ways and live good\\ntrue lives. But they on-ly laughed at him and grew worse\\nthan be-fore.\\nOne night, two strange men came in-to the cit-y w^here\\nLot lived. No one knew them and no one would take them\\nin but Lot. He gave them food and drink, and while they\\nsat talk-ing, the men told Lot that God was go-ing to des-\\ntroy the cit-y be-cause it was so wick-ed. Though the place\\nlooked so strong and safe, yet in a few hours it would lie\\nin ru-ins.\\nThen the men who were sent by God to save Lot took\\nhold of him and tried to force him and all who be-longed\\nto him to leave the cit-y. They said that to be saved they\\nmust climb to-a high, rough moun-tain and that they must\\nnot look back as they ran. Of course Lot and his wife\\nwere a-f raid, but they begged that they might not be ta-ken\\nto that bare hill they thought that they might run to a\\nlit-tle cit-y which was near-er.\\nTheir wish was grant-ed, and Lot, his wife and two\\noth-ers went with the stran-gers to the small town. They\\nwalked all night and just as the sun came up they found", "height": "3940", "width": "2631", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "12\\nBIBLE STORIES.\\nthem-selves safe with-in the walls at least three of them\\ndid, but Lot s wife, on the way, had looked back. I think\\nshe was sor-ry that she had come and want-ed to see her\\nhome and dear cit-y once a-gain. You know the men had\\nLot and his fam-i-ly fled from the burn-ing cit-ies, but Lot s wife look-ed back\\nand died.\\ntold them that they must not look back, so Lot s wife was\\ndo-ing wrong. What did she see Why, the four strong\\ntowns were on fire and all their beau-ty and glo-ry were", "height": "3933", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF ABRAHAM. 13\\ngone. They were ru-ins just as the men had said they\\nwould be.\\nLot s wife could not move, for the sight was so aw-f ul\\nand there she died and was left out-side of the place of\\nsafe-ty.\\nA sad, dark lake cov-ers the place where those cities stood,\\nit is called the Dead Sea the rocks are crust-ed with salt\\nand e-ven now it seems as if God did not love the place.\\nBut A-bra-ham lived in his fair val-ley and served God\\nand was good to his peo-ple. And by and by he did have a\\nson, just as God said that he shoald, and A-bra-ham and\\nSa-rah named their lit-tle boy I-saac, and I think they must\\nhave loved him more than most fa-thers and moth-ers loved\\ntheir ba-bies, for they had wait-ed so long for him and he\\ncame to prove that God was true and faith-ful, and that\\nlit-tle child was to do great things for others as time went on.\\nNow, when I-saac was a boy of eight or a lit-tle older,\\nGod asked A-bra-ham to do a strange and aw-ful thing.\\nIn those days it was the cus-tom for peo-ple to burn a small\\nan-i-mal on an al-tar to show their love and thanks to God,\\nbut A-bra-ham was told to burn his boy on the al-tar in-\\nstead of a lamb or calf. He was to go and take his lit-tle\\nson with him to the top of a hill, there he was to bind I-saac\\nand put him on a pile of wood and so of-fer him to God as\\na sac-ri-fice.\\nWe know that God on-ly meant to prove A-bra-ham s\\nfaith. God asked him to give up the one thing he loved\\nbest on earth, and A-bra-ham did not fail.\\nAs he went up the hill, bear-ing a knife and a ves-sel of\\nfire, he did not know but that in-deed he must kill this dear\\nboy who walked so trust-ing-ly be-side him.\\nFather, said the boy, I see the wood and fire, but", "height": "3940", "width": "2628", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "14 BIBLE STORIES.\\nwhere is the lamb we are to of-f er I think that ques-tion\\nmust al-most have bro-ken A-bra-ham s heart. My son,\\nhe re-plied, God will give a lamb when the time comes.\\nHe could do as God told him, but A-bra-ham could not\\ntell his boy all. But I-saac knew, per-haps, from his f a-ther s\\nvoice, that he was to be the lamb, but he knew, too, that his\\nkind fa-ther would nev-er do so aw-ful a thing un-less God\\nhad told him to, and in those old days peo-ple who loved\\nGod seemed to be ver-y near to Him and trust-ed Him with-\\nout ask-ing why.\\nSo e-ven lit-tle I-saac, when he knew the fear-ful truth,\\ndid not cry or turn away,^ he walked on up the hill and\\nmeant to do his part, just as A-bra-ham was to do his.\\nThe fire-wood was made in the shape of an al-tar I-saac\\nwas bound and laid up-on the pile, but just as A-bra-ham\\nwas a-bout to kill him, a voice from heav-en cried Lay\\nnot thy hand up-on the boy do noth-ing to him for now\\nI know that thou dost love God and would not keep thine\\non-ly son from Me.\\nThen A-bra-ham un-tied I-saac and was as glad as if\\nthe boy had been dead and had come back to him.\\nFrom that time God blessed A-bra-ham more and more.\\nHe knew that He could trust him in all things.\\nBut at last Sa-rah, the moth-er of I-saac, died, and al-\\nthough A-bra-ham lived in that rich land, he knew that the\\nland real-ly be-longed to I-saac and so he did not know\\nwhere to lay Sa-rah^s body.\\nThen he went to a prince and begged that he might\\nbuy a field and in it make a grave for his wife. The prince\\nsaid that he would give the field, but A-bra-ham felt saf-er\\nto pay for it with gold and so be sure that no one could take\\nit from him. So he weighed out the gold in pieces, not", "height": "3933", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF ABRAHAM. 15\\nmon-ey like ours, but large lumps with a mark stamped on\\neach piece.\\nThen the field, with a cave in it, was giv-en to A-bra-\\nham and Sa-rah was laid to rest, and by and by, when\\nA-bra-ham died, he was laid be-side her they were rolled in\\nhn-en with spi-ces. La-ter I-saac and his chil-dren were put\\nthere and the cave has been sa-cred ev-er since. There is a\\nbuild-ing o-ver it now. No one can go in it, but far down\\nin that build-ing is a gold gate, and in-side the gate sleep\\nthose good men and wo-men of long, long ago.", "height": "3849", "width": "2764", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "16 BIBLE STOKiJiJ\\nTHE STO-RY OF JA-COB.\\nNow, I-saac had two sons named E-sau and Ja-cob.\\nE-sau was the old-est and so had the right, the first right,\\nto all the land which I-saac knew was to be-long to his chil-\\ndren. But E-sau did not care for what he might have by\\nand by as much as he did for what he could get at once.\\nHe did not have faith like his f a-ther and grand-fa-ther\\nhe want-ed to know just what was to be his now. One day\\nhe came home ver-y hun-gry and he saw his broth-er Ja-cob\\nmak-ing soup o-ver the fire and he said that he would rath-\\ner have some of that soup than to keep his chance of own-ing\\nall the land by and by. So for the soup he sold his rights\\nas the old-est son. It seems to us a ver-y strange thing,\\nbut after that Ja-cob had all that should have been E-sau s.\\nA time was to come, though, when E-sau was to be sad for\\nwhat he had done. I-saac was old and blind and thought\\nthat he was dy-ing, so he told E-sau, whom he loved bet-ter\\nthan Ja-cob, to make a great feast that was the way they\\ngave bless-ings in that time. E-sau set to work and brought\\nthe meat, but it was the old-est son s place to hand the food\\nto the fa-ther, and so you see E-sau, who had giv-en that\\nright to his broth-er, had to stand a-side and let Ja-cob kneel\\nto their fa-ther and re-ceive the bless-ing, which meant\\nthat now the old-est son took the f a-ther s place. As I-saac\\\\s\\nhands rest-ed on Ja-cob s head the fa-ther knew that for\\nsome rea-son E-sau had sold his rights to Ja-cob, and the\\npoor old man wept bit-ter-ly.\\nAnd E-sau stand-ing there saw what he had done and", "height": "3933", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF JACOB. 17\\ncried to his fa-ther to bless him, too. I-saac did bless him,\\nbut he could not give a-gain to him. the land and all the\\nprom-ise.\\nAf-ter that, Ja-cob felt that E-sau ha-ted him, and so\\nhe thought that it was best for him to go a- way a-lone, but\\nGod was with Ja-cob and was tak-ing care of him all the\\ntime.\\nThe first day Ja-cob walked un-til night came on and\\nthen he found him-self in a lone-ly place with no house near.\\nThere were stones and bri-ers, but not e-ven a tree to shel-ter\\nhim. He was too tired to go f ar-ther, so he lay down up-on\\nthe stones with on-ly the bright stars a-bove him.\\nThat night he saw such won-ders that he was glad he\\nhad come to that dis-mal spot, for in-deed it was a ho-ly\\nplace.\\nAs he lay look-ing up at the stars, and per-haps think-\\ning of his home, he saw a bright lad-der come down from\\nheav-en and rest up-on the earth at the top stood God\\nHim-self and up and down the lad-der came an-gels to com-\\nfort and cheer him. And in that sa-cred hour God told\\nJa-cob that, though he were poor and a- way from home\\nthen, he yet should own all the land and his chil-dren af-ter\\nhim, and that he should al-ways be ta-ken care of no mat-\\nter where he went.\\nThis was a dream, as you must know, but peo-ple in\\nthose days be-lieved that God spoke to them in dreams so\\nJa-cob a- woke and felt sure that God would do all that the\\ndream had shown. So he built a pile of stones to mark\\nthe place where he had slept and went on his way with a\\nlight heart.\\nIt was a long jour-ney that Ja-cob had to go, for he was\\ngo-ing to the place where Re-bec-ca his moth-er was born.", "height": "3979", "width": "2707", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "18\\nBIBLE STOEIES.\\nAt last he reached the place and went to the home of an\\nnn-cle and there he took care of the flocks, and I am sure\\nthe un-cle was kind and just to him, for when Ja-cob be-\\nThen Ja-cob start-ed with his flocks and his fam-i-ly to go back to E-sau.\\ncame a man and old e-nough to mar-ry he was rich and\\nhad great flocks of his own.\\nHe mar-ried and had ma-ny sons, and as he grew old-er\\nhe thought more and more of E-sau and his old home. Then", "height": "3933", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF JACOB.\\n19\\nGod spoke to him and told him to go back to his broth-er.\\nJa-cob was a-fraid but in spite of his fear he o-beyed. He\\npicked out some of his best cat-tie and sent them a-head as\\nWhen E-sau saw Ja-cob com-ing he ran and threw his arms a-bout his neck and\\ncried for joy.\\na gift to E-sau, then he sent some cat-tie that he knew he\\nwould want for him-self then he next sent his chil-dren, and\\nlast of all he went with his young-est son, who was named\\nJo-seph and who was the dear-est of all.", "height": "3979", "width": "2707", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "20 BIBLE STOHIES.\\nE-sau saw the great band com-ing and ran out to meet\\nthem, not in an-ger, oh no. I think dur-ing the long years\\nhe had felt how wrong he had been and how un-kind to the\\nyoung broth-er who had left home so now he put his arms\\na-bout Ja-cob s neck and cried with joy. So you see, as God\\nhad said, Ja-cob was to have all the rich lands of Ca-naan\\nwhich were his from the first.", "height": "3933", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF JOSEPH. 21\\nTHE STO-RY OF JO-SEPH.\\nNow Ja-cob had twelve sons, but the one he loved best\\nwas the young-est, named Jo-seph.\\nHe dressed him bet-ter than the oth-ers and he made\\nfor him a coat of bright col-ors such as the son who was to\\nhave the most always wore.\\nThis was not a wise thing for Ja-cob to do, for it made\\nall the broth-ers an-gry and they be-gan to hate Jo-seph, for\\nthey thought their f a-ther had f or-got-ten them in his love\\nfor Jo-seph.\\nWhen Jo-seph was sev-en-teen years old, he was with\\nhis f a-ther one day and ten of his broth-ers were in the fields\\nwatch-ing the flocks. Ja-cob told Jo-seph to go and see\\nwhat they were do-ing. Now Jo-seph did not like to be\\nwith his broth-ers, for they were of -ten un-kind and cruel to\\nhim, but he went to o-bey his f a-ther. When the broth-ers\\nsaw him com-ing, as they thought, to spy up-on them, they\\nsaid that they would kill him and he should nev-er go back\\nto their f a-ther.\\nReu-ben, the old-est broth-er, tried to keep them from\\ndo-ing such a f ear-f ul thing, but he saw that he on-ly made\\nthings worse by talk-ing so he said that in-stead of kill-ing\\nhim they should put him in-to a deep well which was quite\\ndry, and leave him there to die.\\nReu-ben meant la-ter to go and help him out. There\\nwas an-oth-er broth-er named Ju-dah and he did not want\\nJo-seph killed at all. Just then he saw a great par-ty of\\nmen on cam-els com-ing. He knew that they were mer-", "height": "3979", "width": "2707", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "22 BIBLE STORIES.\\nchants go-ing to buy and sell in E-gypt, and he said it would\\nbe best to sell Jo-seph to these men for a big price, and in\\nthat way Jo-seph would be ta-ken a- way and they need not\\nkill him.\\nThe mer-chants were on-ly too glad to buy him, for he\\nwas strong and hand-some and would make a fine slave.\\nBut the wick-ed broth-ers kept Jo-seph^s coat and af-ter he\\nwas gone they killed a kid and dipped the coat in the blood\\nand took it home to Ja-cob and told him that a wild beast\\nhad killed Jo-seph and eat-en him.\\nOh how sad-ly Ja-cob wept for the boy he had loved.\\nThe broth-ers made be-lieve to com-fort him, but not once\\ndid they tell him that Jo-seph was a-live.\\nSo Jo-seph was a slave and worked hard in a home\\nwhere no one loved or cared for him an-y more than if he\\nhad been a dog. He, who once wore the dress of a prince,\\nnow wore the coat of a ser-vant. He had loved the hills\\nand o-pen coun-try of his home now he was shut in a city\\nhouse a-mong peo-ple who did not speak the same lan-guage\\nwhich he did.\\nBut in all this hard time he prayed to God and trust-ed\\nHim, and he did his du-ty brave-ly. His mas-ter grew to\\ntrust him, and gave him tasks to do which showed that he\\nknew that the boy was no com-mon slave. But the mas-\\nter s wife was a wick-ed wo-man and she did not like Jo-\\nseph and did not want him to be so trust-ed, so she told a\\ncru-el lie a-bout him, and in the end Jo-seph was thrown\\nin-to a pris-on for a wrong he had nev-er done.\\nIn that pris-on he still brave-ly did what he thought to\\nbe right. He was kind and gen-tle and the keep-er grew to\\nlike and trust him, as the mas-ter had once done.\\nHe did not keep the boy in a cell like the oth-ers, he", "height": "3933", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF JOSEPH.\\n23\\ngave him tasks to do. He let him carry food to the pris-\\non-ers, and I think at those times Jo-seph was kind to the\\npoor men and spoke lov-ing-ly to them and made their hard\\nJos-eph fled a-way when his mas-ter s wife tried to make him do wrong.\\nHves bright-er. One day, two great men were brought to\\nthe pris-on. One was the chief ba-ker, who made bread for\\nthe king, and the oth-er was the cup-bear-er, who car-ried\\nthe wine. They had re-al-ly done no wrong, but the king", "height": "3979", "width": "2707", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "24 BIBLE STORIES.\\nthought they had, and that was why they had been sent\\nthere.\\nOne morn-ing Jo-seph found them look-ing ver-y sad\\nand he asked them what was the mat-ter they said that\\nthey had had strange dreams. They thought a great deal\\nof dreams in those days, as we know, and these men wished\\nthat they could know what these dreams meant.\\nGod put it in-to Jo-seph s heart to know, so he said that\\nif they would tell him the dreams he would try to ex-plain\\nthem. The cup-bear-er had dreamt that he saw a vine with\\nthree bunch-es of grapes on it. He was press-ing the juice\\nout of them in-to a cup for the king. Jo-seph said that the\\ndream meant that in three days the bear-er should a-gain\\nbe serv-ing the king and Jo-seph begged that when the\\nman ivas free he should tell the king a-bout him and so get\\nhim free.\\nThen the ba-ker told his dream. He had seen three\\nbas-kets of bread read-y for the king, but the birds had flown\\ndown and ate the bread. Then Jo-seph had to tell him that\\nthe dream meant that the ba-ker should be hanged and\\nthat the birds would eat his flesh.\\nIt all came to pass as Jo-seph had said. The ba-ker was\\nhanged and in three days the cup-bear-er went back to serve\\nin the pal-ace. But he f or-got all a-bout Jo-seph in his pris-\\non, and so did not speak to the king at all of the mat-ter.\\nBut it seems in some way the king must have heard of\\nhow Jo-seph could tell what dreams meant.\\nThe king dreamed and he sent for the boy to tell him\\nwhat it meant. And Jo-seph said that for sev-en years\\nthere were to be large har-vests and then for sev-en years\\nthere were to be none at all.\\nAf-ter that the king took Jo-seph out of pris-on and", "height": "3933", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "THE STOEY OF JOSEPH.\\n25\\nmade him a lord in the land and told him to buy all the\\ncorn that was left af-ter the peo-ple had ta-ken what they\\nneed-ed and store it, so that there would be plen-ty in the\\nyears when no corn grew.\\nThe king took Jo-seph out of pris-on and made him a lord in the land.\\nWhen the years of fam-ine came Jo-seph had stored\\nplen-ty of corn and the king told him to sell it to all who\\ncame. Not on-ly in E-gypt was the fam-ine but in oth-er\\nplaces, and by and by a-mong those who came to buy", "height": "3979", "width": "2707", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "26 BIBLE STOEIES.\\nwere the broth-ers who so long a-go haa sold him to be a\\nslave.\\nHe knew them at once, but they did not know him, for\\nhe was a man now and wore clothes like a king.\\nJo-seph longed to know if his dear fa-ther was yet\\na-live and a young broth-er named Ben-ja-min, who was\\nnot with them.\\nBut he act-ed as if he did not know them and said that\\nhe thought they had on-ly come to do harm in E-gypt be-\\ncause of the f am-ine. They told him in-deed they had on-ly\\ncome for food. They were all sons of one fa-ther and that\\nlong a-go they had lost a broth-er and that one was still at\\nhome with the fa-ther. Jo-seph did not seem to be-lieve\\nthis, and said that they must go to pris-on, while he sent\\nback to fetch the young broth-er to prove if they spoke the\\ntruth.\\nThey were in great trou-ble now, and Jo-seph s heart was\\nsore as he saw them weep. At last he on-ly kept one\\nbroth-er in pris-on and sent the oth-ers to bring Ben-ja-min.\\nBut he would not take mon-ey for the corn he gave them\\nhe made his ser-vants put it back in iheir bags.\\nWhen they found the mon-ey on their way hom^e they\\nwere a-f raid and when they reached home and told their\\nfa-ther he was a-fraid too.\\nI do not think that they had ev-er been good sons for\\nold Ja-cob could not trust them at all. He said that\\nthey had killed the broth-er who was re-al-ly in E-gypt\\nwith Jo-seph, and he thought that they want-ed now to\\nkill lit-tle Ben-ja-min, and he would not let them take\\nhim.\\nBut they dared not go back with-out Ben-ja-min, for\\nyou know Jo-seph would not be-lieve their sto-ry. At last", "height": "3933", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF JOSEPH. 27\\nthe old f a-ther said if Ju-dah would prom-ise to take good\\ncare of Ben-ja-min he might go.\\nYou know Ju-dah was the one who want-ed to help\\nJo-seph when the broth-ers were go-ing to kill him. He\\nmust have been the best of them, for Ja-cob could trust\\nJu-dah.\\nNow, when the broth-ers came, bring-ing lit-tle Ben-ja-\\nmin with them, Jo-seph could not stand the sight but went\\na-way to weep, so that no one might see him. But he\\nwant-ed to test the oth-ers still more he want-ed to see if\\nthey were as cru-el to this lit-tle child, whom their fa-ther\\nloved best, as they had once been to him. So he made his\\nser-vant hide a rich cup in Ben-ja-min s bag of corn and\\nthen go af-ter him and say that he had sto-len it. The ser-\\nvant did so, and when he ran af-ter the broth-ers on their\\nway home and said that a cup had been sto-len they were\\nver-y an-gry and told him that they were no thieves and\\nhe might search their bags. He did so and of course found\\nthe cup in Ben-ja-min s corn.\\nHow a-f raid were the broth-ers then What was to be\\ndone? Why, Ben-ja-min must go back and suf-fer for the\\nthing he had done. Long a-go the broth-ers would not have\\ncared had this come to Jo-seph, but they all loved lit-tle\\nBen-ja-min and they were sad at heart.\\nThey would not let him go back a-lone, so they all went\\nwith him to the lord of the land and Ju-dah stood up be-\\nfore that stern, qui-et, prince-ly man and told him how the\\nold fa-ther loved that lit-tle boy more than all else on earth,\\nand that he would sure-ly die un-less the child was brought\\nsafe home. Then Ju-dah said that he would stay and be a\\nslave in E-gypt if the lord would let the oth-ers take Ben-\\nja-min home.", "height": "3979", "width": "2707", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "28\\nBIBLE STORIES.\\nAs he spoke, the man who stood so calm be-gan to weep,\\nand he sent the ser-vants a- way, and when he was a-lone\\nwith the broth-ers he told them who he was and said that\\nthey must for-get all the past, for God had turned it in-to\\nJo-seph came out of the cit-y to meet his f a-ther Jacob.\\ngood and made him the one to save E-gypt by stor-ing the\\ncorn.\\nAnd he said that they must go home and tell the dear\\nfa-ther that Jo-seph still lived, and they must bring him", "height": "3933", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF JOSEPH. 29\\nand their wives and chil-dren and all that they had and\\ncome and live in E-gypt where he could care for them and\\nlove them.\\nHow glad-ly did they re-turn home Poor old Ja-cob\\ncould hard-ly be-lieve the good news, but at last he said\\nMy son Jo-seph is yet a-live, I will go to see him be-fore I\\ndie.\\nThen he went with them, and Jo-seph came out of the\\ncit-y to meet him, and as long as he lived Ja-cob stayed in\\nE-gypt and was hap-py with Jo-seph.", "height": "3979", "width": "2707", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "30 BIBLE STORIES.\\nTHE STO-RY OF MO-SES.\\nNow Jo-seph s broth-ers and their chil-dren and their\\nchil-dren lived on in Egypt ma-ny years and they be-came\\na great tribe called the chil-dren of Is-ra-el. But of course\\nthe good king who had ruled when Jo-seph was a-live died,\\nand other kings came, some good, some bad at last one\\nruled that was ver-y bad in-deed, and he saw how great the\\ntribe of the chil-dren of Is-ra-el was, and he was a-f raid that\\nsome day they might turn up-on him and he would not be\\na-ble to con-quer them.\\nHe was very harsh to them he made them make\\nbricks and build towns for him and they were beat-en and\\nill-used. But worst of all he said that, when a lit-tle boy\\nwas born, he must at once be killed, but the lit-tle girls\\nmight live you see if the boys died, by and by there would\\nnot be ma-ny men and then he need not fear the tribe.\\nOf course this or-der was a dread- ful one for the moth-\\ners and f a-thers to hear. They could work and suf-f er, but\\nwhen it came to see-ing their dear ba-bies killed they were\\nsad at heart.\\nNow there was one moth-er who had a ba-by boy named\\nMo-ses and she hid her ba-by for three months then he\\ngrew so big that she could no long-er keep peo-ple from see-\\ning him, so she made a lit-tle boat of rush-es from the riv-er\\nand put the child in it then she set it a-mong the tall weeds\\non the riv-er bank and told her lit-tle girl Mir-i-am to\\nwatch it.\\nThe sis-ter stayed close to the boat and sang soft and", "height": "3933", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF MOSES.\\n31\\nlow SO that the ba-by would not be a-fraid and soon the\\nking s daugh-ter came to the riv-er to bathe, and some of\\nher maids were with her. She saw the lit-tle boat and told\\nWhen the king s daugh-ter came to the riv-er to bathe, she saw Mo-ses in the lit-tle\\nboat and want-ed to have him for her own.\\nsome one to bring it to her, and when she saw the ba-by she\\nsaid that she would take him to the pal-ace and have him\\nfor her own.\\nThen Mir-i-am came from where she was hid-ing and", "height": "3979", "width": "2707", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "32 BIBLE STORIES.\\nasked the prin-cess if she should bring a nurse for the child.\\nThe prin-cess said yes so Mir-i-am ran and brought her\\nmoth-er so you see, though Mouses was the prin-cess lit-tle\\nboy, he had his own moth-er for a nurse and 1 think she\\nmast have been a ten-der, lov-ing one. No doubt she taught\\nthe boy much a-bout his own peo-ple and all their woes.\\nMay-be she thought that when he was grown he would ask\\nthe king to be kind-er, but at least she made him feel sor-ry\\nfor all the sor-row and one day when he was a young man\\nhe saw a ser-vant of the king whip a slave and he was so\\nan-gry that he killed the man and then in fear ran a-way,\\nfor he knew that he would lose his life if the king found\\nout what he had done.\\nHe then went to a cit-y some dis-tance a-way and there\\non the hills he kept sheep for a rich man and was ver-y\\nglad to be a-way from the scenes of pain and care.\\nHe lived there ma-ny years and mar-ried and was hap-\\npy. One day he was a-lone with the sheep, when he saw a\\nbush on fire. He watched it and saw that the fire did not\\nburn the bush at all. Mo-ses went near to look at the\\nstrange sight and as he did so he heard God s voice and it\\ntold him that the chil-dren of Is-ra-el must not suf-fer any\\nmore. God would save them but Mo-ses must go and bring\\nthem out of E-gypt to the land which long a-go had been\\ngiv-en to A-bra-ham for his chil-dren. Mo-ses felt a-fraid to\\ngo back to the wick-ed king, but God said that he would be\\nwith him and help him.\\nSo Mo-ses and his broth-er Aa-ron who, when he heard\\nthat Mo-ses was com-ing to save the tribe, went out to meet\\nhim, and to-geth-er they went to the king and told him that\\nGod want-ed the chil-dren of Is-ra-el to go a-way to wor-ship\\nHim in a new place. The king said I know not your", "height": "3933", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "THE STORY 0^ MOSES.\\n33\\nGod, why should I o-bey Him I will not let the chil-dren\\nof Is-ra-el go. And af-ter that he was more cru-el to them.\\nHe made them make bricks of clay and straw, and to pun-\\nGod ap-peared to Mo-ses in a burn-ing bush and sent him back to E-gypt to bring the\\nchil-dren of Is-rael out of the land.\\nish them he made them find their own straw and yet they\\nmust make as ma-ny bricks in the same time or be beat-en.\\nPoor men un-der this new bur-den they grew an-gry\\nat Mo-ses, for they thought if he had stayed a-way this last\\nsor-row would not have come on them.\\n3", "height": "3979", "width": "2707", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "34 BIBLE STORIES.\\nAa-ron could talk bet-ter than Mo-ses, so when Mo-ses\\ntold him what to say he spoke and the chil-dren of Is-ra-el\\nwould lis-ten to him. He told them to wait a lit-tle long-er\\nand then sure-ly Grod would show them a way out of that\\nhard land and lead them to the fair coun-try which was\\nread-y for them. They could not tell how love-ly the land\\nwas them-selves, for they had nev-er seen it, but they told\\nof what the old grand-fa-thers had said. That dear land\\nwas not a flat coun-try with on-ly one riv-er, they said, but\\nit had high hills and green vales and bright streams.\\nGrapes grew there and cat-tie fed up-on the hills.\\nThe chil-dren of Is-ra-el were so tired that e-ven the\\nthought of go-ing to such a joy-ful place did not rouse them.\\nThey thought it like a wild dream.\\nA-gain and a-gain Mo-ses begged the king to let the\\npoor peo-ple go, but he would not, and on-ly made their lives\\nthe hard-er. At last God said that He must make the king\\nand his peo-ple suf-fer to show them their sin and make\\nthem will-ing to do as He said.\\nNow Mo-ses had brought with him a rod which God\\nhad giv-en him on the day that the bush was on fire. This\\nwas a won-der-f ul rod it had pow-er in it to bring plagues\\non the land. First Mo-ses held it out straight to- ward the\\nriv-er and lo the wa-ter became blood and when Mo-ses\\nwaved his rod the blood be-came pure wa-ter.\\nStill the king said the peo-ple should not go. Then all\\no-ver the land great frogs came they crawled in-to houses\\nand beds and were ver-y fear-ful. Then Mo-ses prayed and\\nthe frogs died. I think Mo-ses thought that if he were\\nkind the king would re-lent and be kind al-so, but no he\\ngrew hard and worse.\\nNext cama dir-ty crea-tures, and this was hard for the", "height": "3933", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF MOSES. 35\\npeo-ple of E-gypt to bear, for they were ver-y clean but the\\nking did not care. Then flies came, and at last the king\\nsaid if the flies were ta-ken a-way he would let the peo-ple\\ngo. But he broke his word and would not free them.\\nTen aw-ful plagues God sent on the peo-ple of E-gypt.\\nThe cat-tie died, the peo-ple had sores and were ill, storms\\ncame and the wind tore the trees up and the hail fell and\\ncut the grain and fruit. Then lo-custs swarmed o-ver the\\nland and ate the leaves and grass, and there was noth-ing\\nleft for men or beasts to eat. The king now said that he\\nwould let the men go but the wo-men and chil-dren must\\nstay.\\nThen God bade Mo-ses hold up his hand. And dark-\\nness came. Oh such dark-ness as that was. Day and\\nnight was all the same. It was not like night. It was a\\nthick dark-ness. No fire or can-die could give light and no\\none dared move a-bout but in that part of the land where\\nthe chil-dren of Is-ra-el dwelt there it was light.\\nFor three days this black-ness last-ed, then the king\\nsaid that the men, wo-men and chil-dren could go, but that\\nthe beasts must be left.\\nBut Mo-ses said that God want-ed them to take all the\\ncat-tie too. Then was the king ver-y an-gry and drove\\nMo-ses from the pal-ace and said that he would nev-er talk\\nto him a-gain.\\nAnd Mo-ses said Thou hast spo-ken well, I will see\\nthy face no more.\\nThat was the last time the king had a chance to do\\nright, for there was to be but one more curse on poor\\nE-gypt and it was to be the worst of all.\\nGod told the chil-dren of Is-ra-el to be read-y for the\\ntime was now come for them to go forth.", "height": "3979", "width": "2707", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "36\\nBIBLE STOEIES.\\nThat night in the still-ness and gloom an an-gel passed\\no-ver the whole land of E-gypt and in ev-er-y house from\\nthe king s cas-tle to the mean-est hut the old-est son lay\\ndead.\\nAn an-gel passed over the whole land of E-gypt and in ev-er-y house the old-est son\\nlay dead,\\nI think the wick-ed king, as he sat by his own dead\\nboy, must have thought of all the lit-tle chil-dren whom he\\nhad caused to be killed long a-go.", "height": "3933", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "THE STOEY OF MOSES. 37\\nNo ba-bies died in the homes of the peo-ple of Is-ra-el,\\nfor their f a-thers had put a mark of blood on each door and\\nthe an-gel of death had passed them by.\\nA great cry went up all o-ver the land for the dear dead\\nchil-dren, and the wick-ed king in his pal-ace said that all\\n.the peo-ple might go and take their cat-tie. He could bear\\nno more. God had bro-ken his proud heart.\\nThe chil-dren of Is-ra-el were read-y now they were\\nfree No more sad toil in the heat and storm. No more\\nkill-ing of their chil-dren they could go to the land of prom-\\nise, and led by a cloud in the day and by a bright flame in\\nthe sky at night they set forth on their long jour-ney, leav-\\ning the dark land of E-gypt for-ev-er.\\nAf-ter they had been gone some time the cru-el king\\nbe-gan to think he had been most weak to let them go.\\nWho now would work for him as they had done So he\\ngot his horse-men and char-i-ots to-geth-er and start-ed\\naf-ter them to drive them back. When he came in sight\\nof them they w^ere rest-ing on the shores of the Eed Sea.\\nThey could not go on for the wa-ter lay be-fore them they\\ncould not turn back. What could they do\\nThen God said to them not to be a-fraid he would\\nsave them.\\nThe cloud which had gone be-fore them now went be-\\nhind and made it dark for the king and his men.\\nThen God told Mo-ses to stretch his rod o-ver the sea.\\nMo-ses did so and the sea fell a-part. The wa-ter stood like\\nhigh hills on ei-ther side, and through the wide dry place\\nthe chil-dren of Is-ra-el went.\\nThe king saw them go-ing o-ver and he tried to go al-so.\\nBut when his hosts were in the midst, the wa-ter closed in\\nand the king and all his men were drowned.", "height": "3979", "width": "2707", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "38\\nBIBLE STORIES.\\nWhen the chil-dren of Is-ra-el came out of E-gypt they\\nhad a long jour-ney to go through the wil-der-ness. Mo-ses\\nand Aa-ron led them but there were some who did not\\nI\\nBut when the E-gypt-ians were in the midst of the Red Sea the water closed in and\\nthe king and all his men were drowned.\\nhke to have Mo-ses for their lead-er. They said they did\\nnot want him for their prince, though he had done so much\\nfor them. They be-gan to make trou-ble and God could not\\nlet them turn a-side His plans, so two of the men who were", "height": "3933", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF MOSES. 39\\na-gainst Mo-ses died a dread-ful death. They fell in-to a\\ndeep pit and the earth fell up-on them and all who saw\\nthe sight knew that it was God s will that Mo-ses should\\nlead and that no one must try to take his place.\\nWhen God gave the com-mand-ments on Mount Si-nai\\nMo-ses and Aa-ron and Aa-ron s sons should be the priests,\\nand they burned in-cense made of dried leaves that have a\\nsweet smell when they burn. The priests had urns with\\nchains to hold them by, and there was a hole in the top of\\nthe urn so the smoke could come out.\\nNow, e-ven af-ter the les-son of the two men fall-ing\\nin-to the pit, there were some who felt an-gry that Aa-ron\\nshould do so much and be a priest. So one man, Ko-rah,\\ngot two hun-dred and fif-ty men to get urns and of-fer up\\npray-ers to God just as Aa-ron did. But God was a-gain\\ngrieved that an-y one should try to do what He had not\\nplanned, so these men were all burned to death, and the\\npeo-ple Avho saw this sec-ond les-son seemed a-gain to know\\nthat God would not al-low an-y, but those whom He chose,\\nto do His work.\\nThe high-priest whom God chose had to of-fer sac-ri-fi-\\nces to Him. That is, he killed a goat or lamb and put it\\non the al-tar. The high-priest wore a fine dress and on his\\nhead a mi-ter with the words, Ho-li-ness un-to the Lord.\\nEound the hem of his robe were small bells made of gold\\nand he had a scarf with twelve rich stones on it, and each\\nstone Avas named after one tribe of the chil-dren of Is-ra-el.\\nNow God told Mo-ses that He would choose a high-\\npriest. The chief man in each of the tribes must bring a\\ndry rod or staff and lay them in the ho-ly place. The one\\nwhose rod be-gan to grow as if it were still on the tree\\nshould bo the priest.", "height": "3979", "width": "2707", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "40 BIBLE STOEIES.\\nWhen the chief men went to look at their rods af-ter\\nthey had lain all night, e lev-en were dead, but one had\\ngreen leaves and love-ly white flow-ers on it. It was\\nAa-ron s rod and that was the way God told the peo-ple\\nthat Aa-ron and his sons af-ter him were to be priests.\\nNow the chil-dren of Is-ra-el were in the des-ert. There\\nwas no wa-ter, on-ly rocks and sand. Mount Si-nai was in\\nthe midst of the plain, and all a-bout were black mar-ble\\nand red rocks. The hot sun shone on the tired band and\\nthey grew thirst-y and un-hap-py.\\nIs the Lord with us or not they kept ask-ing, for\\nthey be-gan to think He would not let them suf-fer so if\\nHe re-al-ly cared. But God was good and He cared for\\nthem more than they knew. He told Mo-ses to take his\\nrod and go to a bare rock and strike it. The tribes, all hot\\nand wea-ry, stood by un-der the blaz-ing sun to watch. As\\nMo-ses struck, a fresh spring of clear wa-ter ran out of the\\nhard rock and all the peo-ple and beasts could drink as\\nmuch as they want-ed. The one great fault of these tribes,\\nthat they could not wait for God to do what He thought\\nbest in His own time, they wanted things done their way\\nand at once. It made it ver-y hard for the lead-ers Mo-ses\\nand Aa-ron knew that God meant to keep His prom-ise and\\nbring them to the good land, but of -ten the tribes kept\\nthem back by their an-gry fault-find-ing.\\nThere was one hard, ston-y part of the des-ert o-ver\\nwhich they had to pass and when they came to that, they\\nfor-got all that God had done to help and care for them be-\\nfore, and be-gan to say bit-ter things and to grum-ble at\\ntheir hard lot. To make them feel how wrong they were\\nGod made the lit-tle snakes come out of the ground and bite\\nthem. Then they saw that it had not been as bad be-fore", "height": "3933", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF MOSES.\\n41\\nas they had thought, and in pain they cried for help. So God\\ntold Mo-ses to make a snake of brass and put it on a pole, and\\nall who were bit-ten could come and look at the brass snake\\nThen Mo-ses made a snake of brass and put it on a pole, and all who were bit-ten\\nwhen they looked at the brass snake were cured.\\nand be cured. So they came cry-ing with pain, but when\\nthey looked at the shin-ing snake they felt no more pain\\nand thanked God.\\nThese poor peo-ple were al-ways sor-ry for their sins", "height": "3979", "width": "2707", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "42 BIBLE STORIES.\\nwhile they were in pain. They nev-er meant to f or-get, but\\nwhen the next tri-al came they were just as bad. But when\\nwe think how long they had toiled in E-gypt with-out a-n-y\\none car-ing for them we can but think that it would take\\na long time for them to learn to trust and be gen-tle.\\nNow we know how God gave them wa-ter in the des-ert,\\nbut oft-en they were hun-gry.\\nThere was grass for the cows and sheep to eat, and\\nihere were trees with sharp thorns, but no fruit, and there\\nwas no corn to make bread of. So you see it seemed rath-\\ner hope-less. Again they cried out and said What will\\nbe-come of us\\nGod did not for-get them. One morn-ing they saw lit-\\ntle white things ly-ing all o-ver the ground. They were\\nsweet and tast-ed good and made them strong. That was\\ncalled Man-na. There was al-ways e-nough for all to have\\nas much as they could eat, but they had to get up ear-ly\\nand get it be-fore the hot sun melt-ed it. On the day be-\\nfore Sun-day there was al-ways e-nough for two days, but\\nthe rest of the week they had to gath-er it fresh each day.\\nNow we must see how God gave the law to the peo-ple.\\nHe told Mo-ses to bring them all to the foot of Mount Si-nai,\\nbut to tell them not to touch the Mount; they were to\\nstand a lit-tle way off and pray and watch. As they stood\\nthey saw a great black cloud on the top of the Mount, and\\nthe hill shook and smoked the peo-ple were a-f raid then\\nfrom out that cloud came a deep voice that all could hear.\\nIt was the voice of God and He gave the ten com-mand-\\nments. Lat-er He gave them to Mo-ses writ-ten on stone\\nper-haps He thought the peo-ple might not re-mem-ber them\\nall. They were such wise laws, we know them to-day and\\na-mong all the laws which have since been made by men,", "height": "3933", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF MOSES. 43\\nnone have ev-er been tru-er and bet-ter than those which\\nGod gave from out the smoke on Mount Si-nai while the\\nwait-ing peo-ple stood and prayed.\\nWhen the laws had been giv-eii God called to Mo-ses to\\ncome up and speak to Him in the cloud. Just think of\\nMo-ses go-ing up a-lone to speak to God It must have\\nmade him brave and thank-f ul to think of God ask-ing him\\nfrom all the oth-ers to come so near. It was then that\\nGod gave him the stones with the laws on them. And God\\ntold Mo-ses to make a chest of wood with gold o-ver it to\\nkeep the laws in. Two fig-ures of an-gels were to be on\\neach side. This chest was to be called the Ark of the Cov-\\ne-nant. It was to be put in a square room, in a tent made\\nof cur-tains, and it was to be car-ried with them where they\\nvf ent. The tent was to be called the Tab-er-na-cle and this\\nwas to be a ho-ly place. The tribes could say their pray-ers\\nout-side but they must not go in-to the room where the\\nArk was. That was to be the Ho-ly of Ho-lies and on-ly\\nthe priests could go there whom God set a-part. You know\\nthe first high-priest Avas Aa-ron. All this God told Mo-ses\\nas He spoke to him on the Mount.\\nDo you know how long Mo-ses stayed on the Mount?\\nFor-ty days The peo-ple could not see him, and a-gain\\nthey grew rest-less when they thought that God had tak-en\\nMo-ses from them. And they did such a f ool-ish thing.\\nThey said since Mo-ses was gone they must have some-\\nthing to wor-ship. So they took their gold rings and pins\\nand melt-ed them and made them into an im-age of a gold\\ncalf. A-round this they danced and sang and made a feast.\\nWhen Mo-ses came down from the Mount with the\\nstone ta-bles in his hands, he heard them. His heart must\\nhave been full of ho-ly thoughts for he had been so near", "height": "3979", "width": "2707", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "44\\nBIBLE STOEIES.\\nGod, and this i-dle noise made him sad. He thought it was\\nht-tle use to bring the laws to them if they could mind no\\nbet-ter or have no great-er faith.\\nWhen Mo-ses came down from the Mount and saw the peo-ple wor-ship-ing the im-\\nage, he was so an-giy, he threw the stone ta-bles to the ground and they broke\\nin-to pieces.\\nSo, in dis-gust, he threw the stones a- way and they broke\\nin-to pieces.\\nHe was an-gry with the peo-ple and broke their i-dol.", "height": "3933", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0054.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF MOSES. 45\\nThen Mo-ses prayed to God to for-give them, and I\\nthink he prayed for him-self too, be-cause he had been so\\nan-gry, for la-ter God let him have two new stones to write\\nthe laws up-on but those first ta-bles, the ones from the\\nHo-ly Mount, were gone f or-ev-er.\\nWhile Mo-ses prayed for the new stones to write the\\nta-bles on, he al-so prayed that God would let him see in-to\\nthe glo-ry of hea-ven. God said that he could not show His\\nface to him, for no man could see that and live, but He did\\nlet him look be-yond the clouds and sky and catch a glimpse\\nof that glo-ry which we all hope to see by and by. And\\nMo-ses fell on his face at the sight, it was so grand and\\nsplen-did and when he came down a-mong the peo-ple they\\nsaid his face shone like the sun.\\nAf-ter the break-ing of the gold calf, Mo-ses told the\\ntribes they must be care-ful and nev-er wor-ship i-dols, they\\nmust on-ly love and pray to the one true God.\\nSo af-ter that the chil-dren of Is-ra-el took up their\\njour-ney. The Ark go4ng be-fore and the cloud lead-ing\\nthem, by day and night.\\nWhen they came near the land of Ca-naan, twelve men\\nwere sent a-head to see it. They came back bring-ing such\\na large bunch of grapes that it had to be car-ried on a pole.\\nThink what that meant to those tired, hun-gry, thirs-ty\\npeo-ple\\nBut the men said that the land was full of big cit-ies\\nand strong men, if they tried to go in they would all be\\nkilled.\\nThen two men, Josh-ua and Ca-leb, cried out that no\\none need fear, for God had said that He would help them.\\nYou see they be-gan to trust a lit-tle. But most of them\\ncried out that af-ter the long, hard jour-ney they would not", "height": "3979", "width": "2707", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0055.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "46\\nBIBLE STORIES.\\ntry to go in-to such a place. They would rath-er go back to\\nE-gypt. When Mo-ses and Aa-ron tried to qui-et them they\\nthrew stones at them.\\nThe spies came back from the land of Ca-naan bring-ing back such a large bunch of\\ngrapes that it had to be car-ried on a pole.\\nThis was a dread-f ul thing for them to do af-ter all that\\nhad been done for them. And Mo-ses told them that all\\nwho had said they would not go in-to the fair coun-try\\nshould nev-er-go. They should live for for-ty years in the", "height": "3933", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0056.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "THE STOEY OF MOSES. 4\\ndes-ert, all but Ca-leb and Josh-ua. Then after for-ty years,\\nif the chil-dren had learned to be good and faith-f ul, they\\nmight go in and have the land which had been meant for\\ntheir f a-thers.", "height": "3979", "width": "2707", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0057.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "48 BIBLE STOEIES.\\nWHEN MO-SES DIED.\\nMo-SES stayed with his peo-ple in the des-ert for for-ty\\nyears. They were close to the land of Ca-naan. On-ly the\\nriv-er Jor-dan rolled be-tween them and the hills and vales\\nof that love-ly place. But now af-ter the long years Mo-ses\\nwas not to lead them in-to Ca-naan.\\nMo-ses had been too of -ten an-gry with them. He had\\ncause, as we know, but God felt that be-cause he did get\\nan-gry he was not fit to be the great-est lead-er. It is just\\nthe same now you know, the men who best lead are they\\nwho are al-ways calm and can mas-ter them-selves. There\\nwas great work to do in the new land, and it need-ed some\\none strong-er than Mo-ses e-ven. Josh-ua was to lead in-\\nstead.\\nPoor Mo-ses it was sad to think that at the last some\\none else must take his place. But he loved God and was\\nwill-ing to do as He thought best. He called all the tribes\\nto him and warned them to o-bey the laws and try to please\\nGod, or in the end they would lose the land for which they\\nhad waited so long. Now, though Mo-ses was not to go in-\\nto the land of prom-ise, God said that he might see it ere he\\ndied. So he led Mo-ses up on to a high hill and there God\\nmade his eyes strong e-nough to see the love-ly land. He\\nsaw the vales all green and sha-dy he saw the hills with\\ngreat trees bend-ing in the soft breeze he saw the spots\\nwhere A-bra-ham, I-saac, and Ja-cob had lived, and he knew\\nthat in that sweet coun-try his peo-ple were to make a\\nhome.", "height": "3933", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0058.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "WHEN MOSES DIED. 49\\nBut the sight was all that Mo-ses was to know of it\\nyet as he looked, his eyes saw a fair-er sight he sa.w the\\nheav-ens o-pen as they had on Mount Si-nai. He saw the\\nglo-ry of the Lord That heav-en was to be a home for\\nMo-ses. He was not to go down a-mong the peo-ple an-y\\nmore. There was to be no more tri-al or sor-row for him\\na-gain. A-lone on that hill of Ne-bo Mo-ses died, and when\\nhe came not back the chil-dren of Is-ra-el wept for him, for\\nthey had loved him deep-ly.", "height": "3979", "width": "2707", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0059.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "50 BIBLE STOEIES.\\nTHE CHIL-DREN OF IS-RA-EL IN CA-NAAN.\\nAnd now Josh-ua led the tribes on to Ca-naan. Be-fore\\nthey could reach it, though, they had to cross o-yer the\\nriv-er Jor-dan. It was a deep riv-er with rocks on each side,\\nand the wa-ter ran ver-y fast. There was no bridge and no\\nboats, and be-side the men there were wo-men and lit-tle\\nchil-dren. But they were not a-f raid. In the des-ert dur-ing\\nthose f or-ty years, the chil-dren, who had grown to be men,\\nhad learned faith. They knew what to do, God had told\\nthem. The priests took the ark and walked right in-to the\\nriv-er. And lo the wa-ter stopped run-ning and the peo-\\nple went o-yer just as long a-go they had crossed the Red\\nSea* And so they, came in-to the land of Ca-naan. But\\nonce a-cross the riy-er a high wall rose be-fore them. The\\nname of this walled cit-y was Jer-i-cho. The tribes could go\\nno fur-ther until they had ta-ken that cit-y\\nNow Grod was to show them how to take the place with-\\nout fight-ing.\\nEach day for a week the priests must take the ark on\\ntheir shoul-ders and walk a-round the walls of the cit-y.\\nSey-en priests were to go in front and blow trum-pets made\\nof goats horns but no one else must make any noise.\\nThey went one day and there was no change. Josh-ua told\\nthem to try the next. Still no change. So the ark was\\ncar-ried for a whole week. On the last day Josh-ua told\\nthem God want-ed them to go not on-ly once but sey-en\\ntimes. And so they did and then at last Josh-ua cried:", "height": "3933", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0060.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "THE CHILDRE:N of ISRAEL IN CANAAN.\\n61\\nShout! All the peo-ple shout-ed and the priests blew\\ntheir trum-pets, and be-hold, down came the strong wall\\nand the chil-dren of Is-ra-el walked in-to the cit-y\\nThe priests took the ark and walked right in-to the river. And lo the wa-ter\\nstopped run-ning and the people crossed over on dry ground.\\nAf-ter that they took more towns, they drove the\\nwick-ed peo-ple out of the fields and cit-ies, for you know\\nall be-longed to them as God had said.\\nThen Josh-ua gave land to each tribe and told the chief", "height": "3979", "width": "2707", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0061.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "52\\nBIBLE STOEIES.\\nmen how to rule. You know Josh-ua was Ja-cob s son, so\\nhe and his tribe had the high green land, which was the\\nbest, and where the grand-fa-ther had lived.\\nAll the peo-ple shout-ed and the priests blew their trum-pets and down came the\\nstrong wall of Jer-i-cho.\\nJu-dah had the land where the tomb of A-bra-ham and\\nSa-rah was.\\nThey plant-ed vines and built hous-es, and for a long\\ntime led qui-et, hap-py lives then their first sor-row came.", "height": "3933", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0062.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IN CANAAN. 63\\nJosh-ua, their dear lead-er, was very old, and he felt that\\nhe must soon die.\\nHe called all the chief men and told them how much\\nGod had done for them. You see he could re-call, what the\\nyoung men did not know, a-bout the jour-ney from E-gypt.\\nHe asked them to prom-ise to trust God and o-bey the\\nlaws giv-en to Mo-ses. They did prom-ise, and then he left\\nthem. But they for-got, as they had done so oft-en. They\\nliked to have i-dols, so they made some of stone and some\\nof wood and be-gan to wor-ship them. Then they learned\\nto live in oth-er wrong ways. God was an-gry with them.\\nBut you must know His an-ger is not like ours it was more\\nlike grief that they should not heed His words and so live\\nthe life He meant for them. He had to show them their\\nwrong by mak-ing them suf-fer that is the way we all\\nhave to learn. So now when the tribes set up new gods\\nthey be-came less brave and strong. Cru-el na-tions came\\nand fought them and drove them from their homes. They\\nwere a-f raid to go up-on the streets for fear of being killed.", "height": "3979", "width": "2707", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0063.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "54 BIBLE STOEIES.\\nDEB-0-RAH.\\nAt last God spoke to a good wo-nian named Deb-o-rah,\\nand told her to send for a man named Ba-rak. Ba-rak was\\na great sol-dier and he would lead the tribes to fight a-gainst\\nSis-er-a, who was then driv-ing them from the land of Ca-\\nnaan. She sent for Ba-rak and told him what God had\\nsaid. But Ba-rak was a-fraid to go a-lone. That did not\\nseem like a brave sol-dier, did it Deb-o-rah told him that\\nif God bade him go he need not fear. But still he said no.\\nThen he asked her to go with him. She was not a-fraid,\\nbut she said if they won the bat-tie a-gainst Sis-er-a he\\nwould say that a wo-man had gained the day, but if Ba-rak\\nwent a-lone the hon-or would all be his.\\nBa-rak said that he would on-ly go if Deb-o-rah went\\ntoo. So she went and it turned out just as she said. The\\nbat-tie was won, but in the end Sis-er-a was killed by a\\nwo-man named Ja-el, and Ba-rak had no hon-or at all be-\\ncause he had been a-fraid.\\nBut I think Deb-o-rah and the oth-er wo-men were brave,\\ntrue sol-diers, don t you\\nAf-ter that for an-oth-er f or-ty years the chil-dren of\\nIs-ra-el rest-ed in their land but they nev-er kept long from\\nhav-ing i-dols and do-ing what God did not like. By and by\\na band of rob-bers came in and burned their crops and took\\ntheir chil-dren for slaves. These rob-bers were called Mid-\\ni-an-ites. They were so strong and cru-el that the tribes\\ncould not fight them at all, so God in pit-y sent a man\\nnamed Gid-e-on to lead them.", "height": "3933", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0064.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "DEBORAH.\\n55\\nGid-e-on said that he want-ed on-ly three hun-dred men\\nto help him. At night these men each took a trum-pet and\\na pitch-er of clay with a lamp in-side, so that the light could\\nJa-el drove a nail in-to Sis-er-a s temple and killed him as he lay sleep-ing in the tent.\\nnot be seen. So they crept a-long till they came to the\\nplace where the rob-bers lay. Then all at once the men\\nbroke their pitch-ers, and let their lamps shine and blew\\non the trum-pets. The rob-bers a-woke, saw all the lights", "height": "3979", "width": "2707", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0065.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "56\\nBIBLE STOEIES.\\nand heard the noise. They were filled with fear. They\\ncould not tell friends from foes, and, af-ter a hard strug-gle,\\nfled a-way.\\nThen Gid-eon s men broke their pitch-ers and blew their trum-pets. The Rob-bers\\na-woke, were filled with fear, and fled a-way.\\nThen Gid-e-on told them as long as they served God\\nthey should have peace and rest but that was the hard-est\\nles-son for them to learn.", "height": "3792", "width": "2827", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0066.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF SAMUEL. 57\\nTHE STO-RY OF SAM-U-EL.\\nThere was a good wo-man named Han-nah, and she\\nwas very sad be-cause she had no ht-tle child.\\nWhen she came with her hus-band to the tem-ple to\\npray, she al-ways prayed that soon God would send her a\\nson. And she said that if God did let her have one she\\nwould lend him to God all the days of his life. That meant\\nthat she would train him to do God s work and love the\\non-ly true God. At last a lit-tle boy was sent to Han-nah,\\nand oh how dear-ly she loved him She named him\\nSam-u-el and thanked God for hear-ing her pray-er. But\\nshe did not f or-get her prom-ise. She meant to lend him to\\nGod. As soon as lit-tle Sam-u-el was old e-nough she took\\nhim to the tem-ple and gave him to the priests that they\\nmight teach him to serve in the ho-ly place.\\nHe lived with the high priest, whose name was E-li.\\nHan-nah must have missed her lit-tle child. 1 think\\nshe must have gone oft-en to the tem-ple to see him. But\\nshe was true and good and was will-ing to let the boy learn\\nto serve the Lord.\\nE-li was an old man and his sons did not treat him\\nwell but Sam-u-el was al-ways sweet and lov-ing to him.\\nSam-u-el wore a white lin-en dress just like the priests,\\nand his moth-er brought him a lit-tle coat.\\nHan-nah had oth-er chil-dren af-ter Sam-u-el. Three\\nboys and two lit-tle girls.\\nNow when Sam-u-el was still ver-y young God spoke to", "height": "3792", "width": "2827", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0067.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "58\\nBIBLE STORIES.\\nhim one day as he was serv-ing in the tem-ple wear-ing his\\nsoft white dress.\\nIt was near night and all the peo-ple had gone out of\\nWhen Sam-u-el heard the voice the third time he said, Speak, Lord, for thy ser-vant\\nhears.\\nthe tem-ple, but the last lamp was still burn-ing. How dim\\nand sol-emn it must have been\\nThen a voice called Sam-u-el", "height": "3792", "width": "2827", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0068.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF SAMUEL.\\n59\\nThe boy sprang up at once, for he thought that it was\\nE-h. He ran and said Didst thou call? Here am I.\\nBut from a-far E-li re-plied I did not call.\\nWhen Eli heard that his two sons were killed and the Ark taken, he feel down and\\nbroke his neck and died.\\nSam-u-el turned back. It was late and he was sleep-y.\\nHe and E-li slept in the tem-ple.\\nSoon the voice again said Sam-u-el Then Eli said", "height": "3792", "width": "2827", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0069.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "60 BIBLE STOEIES.\\nthat it must be God call-ing, and he told Satn-u-el to say\\nSpeak, Lord, for thy ser-vant hears.\\nSam-u-el did so. And then in the still night God told\\nthe boy to warn E-li that sad things were to come to him\\nand his sons.\\nSam-u-el dread-ed to tell E-li this sad news, but he did,\\nand E-li was too good and brave a man to cry out a-gainst\\nwhat might be God s will.\\nThen all the peo-ple knew that lit-tle Sam-u-el was\\nblessed more than most boys and was to be a true proph-et\\nof the Great God.\\nNow the bad thing that came to E-li and his sons was\\nthis\\nGod had not told the chil-dren of Is-ra-el to take the\\nark in-to bat-tie with them. He meant that it should al-\\nways stay in the ho-ly place. But when the tribes went to\\ndo bat-tie with the Phil-is-tines they thought that they\\nwould win if they took the ark. So they took it and E-li s\\ntwo sons car-ried it, shout-ing as they went. But God did\\nnot spare them the foes won. The two sons were killed\\nand the ark was ta-ken by the en-e-my, and when poor old\\nE-li heard this he fell down and broke his neck and died.\\nThe ark on-ly brought trou-ble on the ones who had\\nta-ken it, and in the end they sent it back, but it was not\\nput in its old place it was hid in the woods.\\nThen the chil-dren grew weak and the Phi-lis-tines grew\\nstrong and sad times fell on the dear land of prom-ise.", "height": "3792", "width": "2827", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0070.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF KllsG SAUL. 61\\nTHE STO-RY OF KING SAUL.\\nThere was in the land of Is-ra-el a young man named\\nSaul. He was tall and strong and his f a-ther was a very\\nrich man. One day some of the cat-tie were lost and Saul\\nand a ser-vant went to look for them. They looked all day,\\nbut did not find them, and at night they came to the cit-y\\nwhere Sam-u-el lived. Sam-u-el was not a boy now, but an\\nold white-haired man whom all loved be-cause he was so\\ngood.\\nNow Sam-u-el came out to meet Saul and the young\\nman was proud that the good old chief should come to meet\\nhim and take him in his house.\\nSaul could not think how Sam-u-el should know about\\nhim.\\nThe next day Sam-u-el went with Saul, and the ser-vant\\nand when they had gone a lit-tle way the ser-vant was sent\\na-head, and then Sam-u-el took some oil and put it on Saul s\\nhead and told him that he had been cho-sen by God to be\\nking o-ver all the peo-ple of Is-ra-el.\\nSo Saul was the first king of the chil-dren of Is-ra-el.\\nAt the first, King Saul had a hard time, for the Phi-lis-\\ntines Avere rul-ing the land and were a cru-el, bit-ter foe. In\\nall the tribes of Is-ra-el no one could have a sword e-ven,\\nand Saul and his son Jon-a-than were the on-ly ones who\\nhad a spear. The rest of the peo-ple had ax-es to fight with.\\nThey came to their new king ask-ing what they should do.\\nBut Jon-a-than was not a-fraid, he was brave like his", "height": "3792", "width": "2827", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0071.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "62\\nBIBLE STOKIES.\\nfa-ther, and he said that he and one oth-er would creep\\na-long the rug-ged, steep path, and see what the Phi-hs-tines\\nwere do-ing in their camp be-low the hill.\\nSam-u-el took some oil and put it on Saul s head and told him God had cho-sen him\\nto be king o-ver Is-ra-el.\\nBut as they drew near one of the foe saw them and\\ncried out, Come up to us and we will show you a thing.\\nNow Jon-a-than knew if the Lord want-ed to He could\\nsave a bat-tie with a few as well as with a large num-ber.", "height": "3792", "width": "2827", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0072.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "THE STOEY OF KING SAUL. 63\\nHe told his friend so, and the friend trust-ed him and they\\ncrept along right in-to the camp. Then they sprang up\\nand be-gan to fight. The foe thought a great host must be\\ncom-ing or these two men would not be so brave, and they\\nran as fast as they could.\\nThe peo-ple in Saul s camp heard the noise and saw the\\nfoe run-ning, and they went after them and killed them as\\nthey ran. Then Saul was a great king you may be sure.", "height": "3792", "width": "2827", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0073.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "64 BIBLE STORIES.\\nTHE STO-RY OF RUTH.\\nOne suixL-mer day a good man went in-to his fields to\\nsee what his work-men and wo-men were do-ing. He was\\na ver-y kind mas-ter and he al-ways said to his ser-vants,\\nThe Lord bless you and they stopt their work and re-\\nplied, The Lord bless thee.\\nThis morn-ing he saw a-mong the glean-ers a young\\nwo-man who had not been there be-fore.\\nYou know the glean-ers go af-ter the oth-ers and take\\nup what is left they are near-ly al-ways poor peo-ple.\\nNow this young wo-man was very love-ly and the good\\nman, whose name was Bo-az, asked some one who she was.\\nHe was told that her name was Ruth and that she was a\\ndaugh-ter-in-law of an old wo-man whose name was Na-o-\\nmi. Now Bo-az, when he heard this want-ed to know more,\\nfor Na-o-mi was a cous-in of his, who long a-go had gone to\\na new home to live and he had not heard that she had come\\nback. He did not tell who he was but he found out a-bout\\nRuth. Na-o-mi s son had mar-ried her in that land of Beth-\\nle-hem-ju-dah where Na-o-mi had gone but the young hus-\\nband had died and all oth-ers who had been in Na-o-mi s\\nhome and so she, be-ing old and very poor, said that she\\nwould go back to her first home. Then Ruth had said I\\nwill not leave thee. Thy peo-ple shall be my peo-ple and\\nthy God my God. That was a good deal for the young\\nwife to say, for she could have stayed with her own peo-ple\\nand had a nice home. If she went to Na-o-mfs land it", "height": "3792", "width": "2827", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0074.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF EUTH.\\n65\\nmeant work and a strange place. But she loved a-o-mi\\nand would not leave her in her old age.\\nSo it was that she was glean-ing in Bo-az s fields to get\\nfood for her old moth-er.\\nWhen Bo-az heard Ruth s sto-ry he told his ser-vants to drop a good deal of wheat so\\nthat she might have plen-ty to take with her.\\nAf-ter Bo-az heard this ten-der sto-ry he told his ser-\\nvants to drop a good deal of wheat for Ruth so that she\\nmight have plen-ty to take with her. And when meal-time\\n5", "height": "3792", "width": "2827", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0075.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "66 BIBLE STOEIES.\\ncame he told them to have Ruth eat with them and to give\\nher of the best.\\nIt was a cus-tom in that coun-try for the near-est friend\\nof a dead hus-band, if he were a man, to buy what land was\\nleft and so care for the wid-ow all her life. Now there was\\na small field which Na-o-mi had, and when she knew that\\nBo-az was the one near-est to her, she sold him the field and\\nhe was good and kind and took care of old Na-o-mi and\\nRuth, and in the end mar-ried Ruth. So you see she was no\\nlong-er poor and lone-ly but rich and hap-py.", "height": "3792", "width": "2827", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0076.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF DAVID AND GOLIATH. 67\\nTHE STO-RY OF DA-VID AND GO-LI-ATH.\\nYou know God had said He would help Saul in all that\\nhe did, if he were good and did as God told him. And you\\nknow how Jon-a-than won a bat-tie o-ver the rob-bers and\\ndrove them a- way. But af-ter the bat-tie Saul the king took\\nall the cat-tie for him-self and that was not what God want-\\ned him to do and he knew it. When Sam-u-el came Saul\\nhid the cat-tie and said I have o-beyed the voice of the\\nLord. But Sam-u-el heard the sheep bleat-ing and he knew\\nthat Saul spoke not the truth.\\nThen Saul tried to ex-plain, but he was not re-al-ly sor-ry,\\nso Sam-u-el told him that God would not let him be king,\\nbecause He could no long-er trust him. But who would be\\nthe king In all that fair land there did not seem to be\\nan-y one bet-ter than Saul and yet you see God could not\\nde-pend up-on him.\\nNow a-mong the hills that lie a-bove Beth-le-hem a lit-\\ntle lad named Da-vid watched the sheep as they fed up-on\\nthe green grass.\\nHe was the young-est of eight broth-ers, and one day he\\nwas at home a-lone, for all the rest had gone to a great feast\\nfor the old priest Sam-u-el had come to vis-it the f a-ther and\\nDa-vid was the on-ly one who could be spared to stay in\\nthe fields.\\nHe thought that no one want-ed him, and the thought\\nwas a sad one for a lit-tle boy to have. But some one did\\nwant him. As he watched he saw a ser-vant com-ing up", "height": "3792", "width": "2827", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0077.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "68\\nBIBLE STORIES.\\nth6 hilL The great priest Sam-u-el had sent for him Here\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2was an hon-or in-deed. He had no time to dress, but went\\nas he was in his shep-herd dress and stood be-fore the old\\npriest.\\nSam-u-el smiled on Da-vid and took sa-cred oil and put it on bis head and said When\\nyou are old e-nough you shall be king of this land.\\nThe good man smiled up-on the little lad and then took\\nsa-cred oil, such as he had put on SauFs head, you know,\\nand told Da-vid that in time when he was old e-nough he\\nwas to be the king of that land.", "height": "3776", "width": "2902", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0078.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "THE STOEY OF DAVID AXD GOLIATH. 69\\nAll the old-er broth-ers had passed be-fore Sam-u-el.\\nThey were good men but proud, and the priest knew that if\\nthey had great pow-er they would set their wills a-gainst\\nGod and be as sad a king as Saul, so this lit-tle shep-herd\\nchild was to be set a-side to be the king in that day when\\nthe Lord should need him.\\nNow, though Saul had beat-en the Phil-is-tines once, they\\nkept com-ing back and do-ing great dam-age to the flocks\\nand crops. At last Saul s ar-my and the rob-ber ar-my were\\nup-on two hills fac-ing each oth-er with a wide val-ley be-\\ntween.\\nThen out of the rob-ber ar-my came a huge gi-ant named\\nGo-li-ath. There Avere real gi-ants in those days, and this\\none had three broth-ers quite as tall as him-self\\nGo-li-ath was twice as tall as an-y man whom you ev-er\\nsaw he had a hel-met on his head and a plate of steel on\\nhis breast. He bore a shield in his hand also a man go-ing\\nbe-fore him bore one. He strode out in-to the val-ley and\\nshout ed out that he would fight an-y man in Saul s ar-my.\\nThen if he killed the man the rob-bers would be mas-ters of\\nall.\\nNow, when he called out that he would fight, there was\\nnot one man who dared say he would try a-gainst him.\\nSo day by day the gi-ant walked in the val-ley and\\nlaughed at the foe and called them cow-ards.\\nAt last a lit-tle shep-herd boy came in-to Saul s camp\\nwith some loaves of bread which had been sent to the sol-\\ndiers. He was a fair, pret-ty boy with gen-tle blue eyes and\\ngold-en hair. Now, when he heard all the talk of the gi-ant\\nand saw how a-f raid Saul s men were, he said that he would\\ngo out and fight Go-li-ath. This seemed too f un-ny, but the\\nboy kept beg-ging and at last Saul said How dare you, a", "height": "3792", "width": "2827", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0079.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "70 BIBLE STORIES.\\nmere boy, talk of fight-ing this gi-ant that my strong men\\ndare not meet V\\nThe boy said that once when he was watch-ing his\\nf a-ther s flocks a h-on and a bear had come and tried to take\\na-way a lamb. God had made him strong to kill both the\\nwild beasts, and he knew that God would help him now.\\nPer-haps Saul, who was very brave him-self want-ed to\\ntest this boy s cour-age. It may have been that he felt God\\nhad sent this lit-tle lad to save them all. Be that as it may,\\nhe wantred to dress the child in his ar-mor, but it was far too\\nlarge.\\nThen the boy took five small, smooth stones from a\\nbrook and put them in a long bag which he car-ried, and\\nhe took a sling made of leath-er with which he flung the\\nstones, and so he went out in-to the green val-ley to meet\\nthe great gi-ant.\\nGo-li-ath was fierce when he saw the boy he thought\\nthe foe weremak-ing fun of him. But the boy said You\\ncome with a sword, a spear and a shield but I come to you\\nin the name of the Lord of hosts. Then the child took\\none of his stones and slung it with the sling. It struck the\\ngi-ant in the fore-head, and down he fell\\nWhen he was dead, the boy ran to him, took the sword\\nfrom his stiff hand and cut off the gi-ant s head. Then did\\nthe rob-bers run in great fear.\\nThat lit-tle shep-herd lad was Da-vid, who was to be the\\nking, you know; and be-cause he trust-ed God he won the\\nbat-tie when a great ar-my dared not try.\\nThe last thing a-bout Saul was ver-y sad. He grew to be\\nso care-less tow-ard God that no one trust-ed him, and his\\nmen were driv-en from their own hills, and Saul saw that\\nthe land would lie in ru-ins if he did not leave the throne.", "height": "3776", "width": "2902", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0080.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF DAVID AND GOLIATH.\\n71\\nSo he fell on his own sword and so took his own life. Then\\nDa-vid be-came king, and he was such a good man that\\nGod said he would great-ly bless him. King Da-vid had a\\nWhen Go-li-ath fell down, Da-vid ran up to him and took the sword and cut off the\\ngi-ant s head.\\nba-by son, atid he loved the child ver-y much. The ba-by\\nbe-came sick, and the king prayed that it might get well.\\nBut God did not let the ba-by live it died, and the young\\nking was ver-y sad. But he trust-ed God and knew that it", "height": "3792", "width": "2827", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0081.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "72 BIBLE STOEIES.\\nwas best. I shall go to my boy, he said, but he will not\\ncome back to me. Then the king made some sweet songs\\nand sang them. They were songs made from his true, ten-\\nder heart, and if you read the Psalms in the Bi-ble I am\\nsure you will think that King Da-vid was a great po-et.\\nAf-ter the death of that ba-by boy, Da-vid had more\\nsons. One was named Ab-sa-lom. He was tall and hand-\\nsome, and he had long, thick hair. But he was proud, and\\nwant-ed to be king. When Da-vid be-came old, this cru-el\\nson got an ar-my to-geth-er and drove Da-vid a-way that he\\nmight take his place. Weep-ing and sad, and in poor\\nclothes, the old king went in-to the rock-y hills, for he was\\na-fraid of his son.\\nThe new ar-my threw stones at the old man as he fled,\\nbut the sol-diers of the true king drew near and said that\\nthey would help him. It was an aw-ful thing to hap-pen,\\nbut Da-vid had to fight a bat-tie with his own son, and\\nAb-sa-lom was beat-en and had to run a-way on a mule.\\nAs he was go-ing through a dark wood, his thick hair\\ncaught on the branch-es of a tree, and he could not get it\\nloose. The mule ran a-way and so the wick-ed son was left\\nhang-ing.\\nNow poor old Da-vid loved Ab-sa-lom, and af-ter the\\nbat-tie he told his men to go and seek his son and not to\\nhurt him. The sol-diers found him hang-ing on the tree,\\nand one of them who loved Da-vid said that if Ab-sa-lom\\nwas ta-ken back the fath-er would f or-give him and then\\nthere would be more trou-ble. So he took his ar-row and\\nkilled Ab-sa-lom as he hung.\\nNo word can tell how sad this made the king.\\nMy son my son he cried, would to God I had\\ndied for thee.", "height": "3776", "width": "2902", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0082.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF DAVID AND GOLIATH.\\nn\\nThe peo-ple took Da-vid to the pal-ace and he was king\\na-gain, but oh what a sad, sad king\\nNow, though Da-vid was good, his peo-ple did wrong, so\\nGod sent a plague to the land, and ma-ny died.\\nAs Ab-sa-lom rode through a dark wood, his thick hair caught on the branch-es of a\\ntree and hung him.\\nDa-vid prayed that God would take the curse a-way,\\nand as he prayed he saw the An-gel of Death with a drawn\\nsword point-ing to Je-ru-sa-lem. Now the plague was not", "height": "3792", "width": "2827", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0083.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "74 BIBLE STOEIES.\\nyet there and the king prayed hard-er that it might not\\nen-ter that cit-y.\\nThen Grod told Da-vid he must offer a sac-ri-fice on the\\nthresh-ing-floor of Or-nan, near Je-ru-sa-lem, and then the\\nplague should not reach the cit-y. Do you know what a\\nthresh-ing-floor was? It was a flat rock on a hill where\\nthe corn was laid and ox-en drew boards a-cross it. On\\nthe un-der side of the board were spikes, and they cut the\\ncorn out of the ears. Now the thresh-ing-floor of Or-nan\\nwas the one where A-bra-ham had ta-ken I-saac to of-fer\\nhim to God so long a-go.\\nOr-nan was thresh-ing corn when King Da-vid came to\\nbuy the place. The good man Or-nan said that he would\\ngive the spot to the king but Da-vid would not take it as\\na gift. He want-ed the sac-ri-flce to cost him some-thing.\\nSo he bought it and all the ox-en and corn. It was made a\\nho-ly place giv-en to the Lord, and in that day the plague\\nwas driv-en f\u00c2\u00bbrom the land.\\nWe have not heard of the ark, where the tables of stone\\nwere kept, for a long time. It was in a silk tent and was\\nsaf e-ly guard-ed. But King Da-vid want-ed to build a tem-\\nple for it where it could be kept al-ways.\\nBut God said since Da-vid was a war-rior king he must\\nnot build the sa-cred place, but that Sol-o-mon, a son of\\nDa-vid might build it, for he had nev-er fought in bat-tie.\\nDa-vid was glad that God would let Sol-o-mon do this, and\\nall the rest of the king s life he was bus-y get-ting gold, sil-\\nver, brass, i-ron and ce-dar wood for the ho-ly tem-ple. It\\nwas to be built on the moun-tain of Mo-ri-ah, the place\\nwhere the thresh-ing floor had been, you know. Da-vid\\nlived to be an old man, but, when he knew death was near, he\\nasked aU the peo-ple to give of the best that they had to the", "height": "3776", "width": "2902", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0084.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF DAVID AND GOLIATH. 75\\ntem-ple. And each one brought a good-ly gift and the king\\nblessed it, and said AU things come of Thee, and of Thine\\nown we give Thee. Then he thanked all his peo-ple for\\nlov-ing and be-ing so good and f aitli-ful to him. He told\\nthem to help Sol-o-mon, his son, who was to rule in his\\nplace, to be a good king.\\nLast he told his son to build the tem-ple and al-ways\\nserve the Lord and to be a wise king o-ver the land they\\nboth loved. Then good King Da-vid died and went to God.", "height": "3792", "width": "2827", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0085.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "76 BIBLE STOKIES.\\nTHE STO-RY OF SOL-0-MON.\\nWhen Sol-o-mon be-came the king he was but a boy. I\\nthink he felt how weak and young he was. He may\\nhave wor-ried o-ver it, for one night in a dream God asked\\nhim, What shall I give thee and the boy told God how\\nyoung he was, how hard it was go-ing to be for him to rule\\no-ver this great coun-try where the dear dead fa-ther had\\nruled so wise-ly, and he asked God to give him a heart that\\nwould know just what God want-ed him to do. He did\\nnot ask for rich-es or long life or to be strong a-gainst the\\nfoe, but he want-ed to be wise and true.\\nGod was pleased with this wish and gave Sol-o-mon\\nwhat he asked and much more al-so, as you will see.\\nIn those days peo-ple came to their king with trou-bles\\nand he oft-en had to de-cide hard cases.\\nOne day two wo-men came be-fore the young king, one\\nwith a live ba-by in her arms, the oth-er with a dead one.\\nThey said that they had lived in the same house, and\\none night one of them had rolled on her ba-by and killed it,\\nthen had tak-en the dead ba-by and put it by the oth-er\\nwo-man, steal-ing the live ba-by for her own. Each wo-man\\nsaid that it was the oth-er one who had done this dread-f ul\\nthing. It was a hard ques-tion for the boy king. At last\\nhe sent for the man who put pris-on-ers to death and said,\\nsince the wo-men could not a-gree, the ba-by must be cut in\\ntwo, and each moth-er could have half.\\nOne wo-man said that was a wise way to set-tie it but", "height": "3776", "width": "2902", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0086.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF SOLOMOIST.\\n77\\nthe oth-er cried out, O, my lord, give her the child, do not\\nkill it\\nThen did Sol-o-mon know which was the true moth-er.\\nWhen the true moth-er saw that the man was go-in g to cut her child in two, she\\ncried, O, my lord, do not kill the child, give it to her.\\nOne was full of mean hate, and was will-ing to see the ba-by\\ndie the true moth-er was glad to suf-f er if the dear ba-by\\nmight live.\\nSo the king gave the child to its moth-er and the", "height": "3867", "width": "2868", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0087.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "78 BIBLE STORIES.\\nwick-ed wo-man went a-way. King Sol-o-mon was the\\ngreat-est in wis-dom and rich-es who had ev-er hved. His\\npal-ace was the great-est on earth. The throne was of\\ni-vo-ry, with h-ons of gold on the steps. All the wood was\\nsweet ce-dar. He had ships sail-ing all o-ver the world, and\\nthey came back full of rare stones and pure gold. His\\nfame was so great that kings and queens in far lands heard\\nof him, and the Queen of She-ba came to see him for she\\ncould not be-lieve all that she had heard.\\nWhen she saw the great cas-tle and heard the king s\\nwise words she said that she had not heard half, and that\\nthe peo-ple should be proud to have such a king.\\nIf you want to know some of the wise things this\\nqueen heard, read the Book of Prov-erbs in the Bi-ble.\\nThey are won-der-f ul words and will last as long as the\\nworld lasts.\\nIt is al-most too sad to tell, but when Sol-o-mon grew\\nold-er he be-came less good. He bought wives from the\\nhea-then, and did not e-ven teach these wo-men of his God,\\nbut let them wor-ship i-dols, and you know how God was\\nal-ways an-gry at that.\\nOf course, when the peo-ple saw their great, wise king do-\\ning these things, they thought it must be right and that\\nthey could do them al-so.\\nThen did God speak and say that ten of the twelve\\ntribes should be ta-ken a-way from the king. It was not\\nto hap-pen while he lived, but when his son came to be king.\\nThis was a sad blow to the great Sol-o-mon for the son,\\nEe-ho-bo-am by name, was but a weak prince and with such\\na small king-dom all the glo-ry would pass a-way.\\nNot all, for you know God said to the good Da-vid that\\nhis king-dom should last al-ways. And God nev-er for-got.", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0088.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "THE STOEY OF SOLOMON. 79\\nIn one of the tribes there was a strong, brave man\\nnamed Jer-o-bo-am, and God sent an an-gel to him to tell\\nhim how the tribes were to be ta-ken from the son of Sol-o-\\nmon, and to whom they were to be giv-en. Jer-o-bo-am had\\na new cloak on and the an-gel tore it into twelve parts, and\\ngave Jer-o-bo-am ten of them. This was to show that\\nJer-o-bo-am was to be the lead-er of the ten tribes. But he\\nmust o-bey God and keep from i-dols.\\nSol-o-mon\\\\s son, Ee-ho-bo-am, did not know of this, but\\nwhen he be-came king he was very sil-ly and did has-ty\\nthings. He would not lis-ten to the wise men whom his\\nfa-ther had trusted, but took the ad-vice of young men as\\nf ool-ish as he was. At last the tribes of Is-ra-el came to\\nhim and asked him not to make them work so hard. The\\nold, wise men told the young king to an-swer gen-tly and\\nbe kind. But he would not lis-ten and was ver-y cru-el.\\nThen ten tribes said that no lon-ger would they own him\\nas their king, and they chose Jer-o-bo-am just as God had\\nsaid.\\nSo now there were two kings in that land a large host\\na-gainst a small one. But Jer-o -bo-am be-gan at once\\nto dis-obey God. He made i-dols and set them up for\\nwor-ship.\\nThen God spoke to a proph-et who lived in a far place,\\nand told him to go to Jer-o-bo-am and warn him of his sin,\\nbut af-ter tell-ing him the man was to re-turn at once, not\\ne- ven stop-ping to eat or drink. The proph-et went, and\\ngave the warn-ing. At first King Jer-o-bo-am was ver-y\\nan-gry and tried to strike the stran-ger, but God held his\\nhand back. Then he felt a-fraid and asked the man to go\\nto his pal-ace with him. But the proph-et said no for God\\nhad told him not to wait. Ah if he had on-ly done as well", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0089.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "80\\nBIBLE STORIED.\\nla-ter on. But he was tired and he lay down un-der a tree\\nto rest, and while he rest-ed a bad man came from Jer-o-\\nbo-am s cit-y and told him that God had said that the\\nproph-et was to turn back to a great feast.\\nThen Jer-o-bo-am and the ten tribes re-belled against Re-ho-bo-am and went by them-\\nselves.\\nSo he went back and God was an-gry, and when at last\\nthe proph-et start-ed for home a great li-on rushed out up-on\\nhim and killed him.", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0090.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF ELIJAH. 81\\nTHE STO-RY OF E-LI-JAH.\\nIn the land of Is-ra-el there was much trou-ble. There\\nwere strange gods and the peo-ple were ver-y wick-ed.\\nAt last God would not let an-y rain fall for three years.\\nThe corn died, there was noth-ing to eat or drink and all\\nwas like a des-ert.\\nThere was one good man, a proph-et, and his name was\\nE-li-jah. God took care of him. He lived in the moun-tain,\\nand there Was a ti-ny brook by his house, which nev-er ran\\ndry. And each day two ra-vens brought bread to the good\\nman.\\nIn time the brook did get dry and God sent E-li-jah in-\\nto a town. There E-li-jah saw a wo-man with a bun-die of\\nsticks he asked her if she would give him some-thing to\\neat. The wo-man said she on-ly had a lit-tlemeal and there\\nwas a son al-so to be fed.\\nE-li-jah told her to make him a small cake, for God had\\nsaid that the meal should not grow less nor the oil fail un-\\ntil rain came.\\nThe wo-man trust-ed and gave him the cake. It was\\njust as E-li-jah had said. Day by day there was al-ways\\ne-nough meal and oil to make cake for the three. But one\\nsad day the wo-man\\\\s son died, and the moth-er wept for\\nhim. Then E-li-jah laid the boy on his bed and prayed God\\nto have pit-y on the good wo-man. As he prayed the soul\\ncame back from the land of death and the lit-tle child lived.\\nNow, of all the proph-ets, E-li-jah was the on-ly one who", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0091.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "82\\nBIBLE STOEIES.\\nserved the true God. He called the peo-ple to-geth-er in a\\nhigh place and said that he would build an al-tar there, and\\nthat all the oth-er proph-ets should build one. On both al-\\nEach day the ra-vens brought bread for E-li-jah to eat, and he drank of the brook\\nun-til it dried up.\\ntars a sac-ri-fice should be laid, and the sac-ri-fice which\\nburnt first would prove which was the God the peo-ple\\nshould trust.", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0092.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF ELIJAH. 83\\nThe al-tars were built, the wood placed and a ram laid\\non each pile. Then the wick-ed proph-ets prayed to their\\ngods to send fire. But not a spark came.\\nThen E-li-jah put wa-ter on his pile, af-ter which he\\nknelt down and prayed to God to show His pow-er.\\nDown came the fire from heav-en, and the peo-ple fell\\non their faces and cried The Lord, he is the God\\nThen came the rain on the thirs-ty land and the f am-ine\\nwas past.\\nBut some were an-gry that E-li-jah should have his way\\nwith the peo-ple, and at last they treat-ed him so bad-ly that\\nhe ran to the des-ert and, sit-ting un-der a tree, was sad to\\nthink that, af-ter all his love and care, the peo-ple should let\\nhim suf-fer.\\nHe fell a-sleep and when he a- woke an an-gel was\\nstand-ing by him with bread and drink, which he bade E-li-\\njah take for there was a great jour-ney be-fore him. You\\nsee God had not for-got-ten the good old man, though men\\nhad.\\nIt was in-deed a long jour-ney which he had to take.\\nHe was to go to that ho-ly mount where God had spo-ken to\\nMo-ses. When he reached it he hid in a cave and a voice\\nsaid What do you here, E-li-jah And the old man\\ntold the sto-ry of his wrongs.\\nThen a great wind came roar-ing by. E-li-jah lis-tened,\\nbut he heard on-ly the wind. Then an earth-quake shook\\nand broke the rocks, af-ter the earth-quake came fire, and\\nthen, when E-li-jah was sore a-fraid, a gen-tle voice spoke.\\nIt was God s voice and it told E-li-jah that there were still\\ngood men in the land he had just left and that he must go\\nback and take up the work a-mong them and e-ven if he\\ncould not see the good he must trust and work.", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0093.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "84 BIBLE STORIES.\\nLong years did E-li-jah serve God. He told the peo-ple of\\ntheir sins and tried to teach them a bet-ter way, but at last he\\nwas old and knew that he must leave his work for some one\\nWhile they were talk-ing a char-i-ot and horses flam-ing like fire, came and took\\nE-li-jali up to heaven.\\nelse to do. But E-li-jah was not to die as oth-ers die, he was\\nto pass from earth in a. way that I will tell you about. He\\ntook a dear friend with him a young man nam-ed E-li-sha.\\nE-li-jah had taught this boy and loved him ver-y much.", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0094.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "THE STOEY OF ELIJAH. 85\\nThe two went to a riv-er called Jor-dan and up-on the bank\\nE-li-jah rolled his man-tie up and struck the wa-ter with it.\\nIt was not the first time the wa-ter had part-ed for good\\nmen to pass-ov-er, as you know, and now they fell back and\\nthe two men passed o-ver to the oth-er side. Then E-li-jah\\nsaid, What shall I do for you, be-fore I am ta-ken a-w^ay\\nAnd E-li-sha said, I pray you, let your spir-it be up-on\\nme. He meant that he want-ed to be like this dear good\\nfriend and teach-er.\\nWhile they were talk-ing a char-i-ot and horses, flam-\\ning like fire, came from the clouds in a great wind. For a\\nmo-ment E-li-sha was so blind-ed he could not see, but when\\nhe looked with clear-er eyes he saw E-li-jah in the char-i-ot\\ngo-ing up to heay-en.\\nE-li-jah threw his man-tie back, and it fell on young\\nE-li-sha, and he went a-way a-lone, full of great thoughts.", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0095.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "86 BIBLE STORIES.\\nE-LI-SHA.\\nNow E-li-sha was the good proph-et and he was hke\\nthe old proph-et E-h-jah. All who saw him said so, and\\nloved him for it.\\nThere was one wo-man who of -ten watched E-li-sha,\\nand per-haps she saw that he was of -ten tired do-ing so\\nmuch for oth-ers, so she said she was go-ing to fit a room\\nfor him in her house, and when he want-ed to rest and be\\na-lone he could come there.\\nThis made E-li-sha glad, and he said to the wo-man\\nthat he would ask God to give her what she want-ed\\nmost.\\nShe said that she was hap-py a-mong her own peo-ple\\nthere did not seem to be but one thing she longed for. She\\nwant-ed a lit-tle son. By and by the dear ba-by came, and\\nI am sure the house where E-li-sha dwelt was a hap-py\\nhome.\\nI love to think that when the boy was old e-nough he\\nof -ten went to the qui-et room and sat up-on the proph-et s\\nknee. What sto-ries the good man could tell I think he\\nknew such tales as no one else could tell, for he had lived\\na long life, and be-side he could tell what was go-ing to\\nhap-pen.\\nWe know that the boy went to the fields with his\\nfa-ther, for one day he was there and the hot sun made\\nhim ver-y ill.\\nMy head my head he cried. They took him to", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0096.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "ELISHA. 87\\nhis moth-er, but she could not help him, and a-bout noon\\nhe died.\\nThe moth-er did not stop to weep. She laid her lit-tle\\nchild gen-tly down per-haps she on-ly kissed the dear\\nqui-et face, then she rode a- way to seek E-li-sha. In that\\naw-ful hour she felt that he who had asked God to send\\nthe ba-by would help her in her sor-row.\\nAf-ter a long ride she met the good man, and knelt at\\nhis feet. She had no need to speak he looked at her face,\\nand he knew all. He may have known it be-fore, and was\\nre-al-ly on his way to her.\\nHe bade the ser-vant take his staff, and not to stop un-\\ntil he had touched the child s face with it. The ser-vant did\\nas he was told, but came back and said the boy still lay\\ndead.\\nThen E-li-sha went, and when he saw the lit-tle boy ly-\\ning so white and still on the bed, he threw him-self be-side\\nhim and prayed God to let the soul come back.\\nThen slow-ly the cold bod-y grew warm, the breath\\ncame soft-ly and the sweet eyes grew wide o-pen.\\nHe was giv-en back to his moth-er, and a-gain the\\nhouse was hap-py. I think E-li-sha must have loved chil-\\ndren ver-y much, for they thought of him and spoke of him\\nwith love. At least one little girl did and I am sure the\\nboy who was brought back from death must have loved\\nhim.\\nThe lit-tle girl a-bout whom I am go-ing to tell you\\nwas stol-en from her home in Is-ra-el and was ta-ken a- way\\nto be a slave. Poor lit-tle child She was of -ten lone-ly\\nand sad, but she thought of her home and of E-li-sha she\\nnev-er for-got him. The mas-ter of this lit-tle cap-tive maid\\nwas named Na-a-man. He was the cap-tain of the ar-my\u00e2\u0080\u0094", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0097.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "88\\nBIBLE STORIES.\\na brave, strong man but he fell ill and the doc-tors could not\\ncure him. The lit-tle girl was sor-ry for him, per-haps he\\nhad been kind to her. So she told her mis-tress that at\\nWhen E-li-sha came and found the lit-tle boy dead, he prayed God to let the soul\\ncome back and the boy lived a-gain and was given to his moth-er.\\nhome in Is-ra-el there was a great proph-et, and if the mas-\\nter could go and see him she was sure that he would be\\ncured.\\nShe talked so much and so sweet-ly of the good man at", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0098.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "ELISHA. 89\\nhome, that at last Na-a-man said he would go. A char-i-ot\\ncar-ried liini to the door of E-li-sha, and there he wait-ed,\\nthink-ing that the proph-et would come out and do some\\ngreat thing.\\nBut E-li-sha did not come out at all. He sent out word\\nthat Na-a-man should go and wash sev-en times in the riv-\\ner Jor-dan. This made Na-a-man an-gry. He thought that\\nhe was be-ing made sport of. What good would bath-ing\\nin the riv-er do him The more he thought of it, the more\\nan-gry he grew. But one of the ser-vants who was with\\nhim said If you had been told to do a great thing, you\\nwould have done it; why not try this sim-ple thing?\\nNa-a-man was wise e-nough to see how true this was. He\\ndid go and wash in the riv-er just as E-li-sha said and\\nwhen he came out of the wa-ter he was quite well a-gain.\\nThen Na-a-man did a thought-ful thing. He went back\\nand thanked E-li-sha, and al-ways af-ter prayed to the true\\nGod.\\nThe worst foes the tribes of Is-ra-el had now were the\\nSyr-i-ans but when the Syr-i-ans be-gan to wage war on\\nthe chil-dren they found the tribes were read-y for them.\\nAt first they thought one of their own men went and told.\\nBut no it was E-li-sha he al-ways knew, and told the\\nking, Jo-ram, what to do.\\nThen the Syr-i-ans said that they must send men to\\nkill the proph-et be-fore they could get the best of the tribes\\nof Is-ra-el.\\nBy night the Syr-i-ans came to where E-li-sha was and\\nin the morn-ing the ser-vant saw that the house was guard-\\ned by ma-ny char-i-ots of the wick-ed foe.\\nA-las, my mas-ter what shall we do? he cried.\\nE-li-sha did not fear They who are with us are more", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0099.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "90 BIBLE STOEIES.\\nthan they who are a-gainst us, he said. Then a strange\\npow-er came to the ser-vant and he saw the hills and vales\\nfull of blaz-ing char-i-ots all come to save him and E-li-sha.\\nThen God kept the eyes of the Syr-i-ans from see-ing\\nE-li-sha and he led the host right to King Jo-ram the king\\nwant-ed to kill them, but E-li-sha would not let him, and\\nthey were all sent safe home. They did not come back for\\na long time af-ter that. I think they were touched by the\\nproph-et s kind-ness.\\nNow, if King Jo-ram had on-ly been good, the land\\nwould not have been in such trou-ble, but he had strange\\ngods in the pal-ace and did wrong things, so God sent the\\nSyr-i-ans a-gain. They came all a-round Sa-ma-ria and\\nshut the peo-ple in. All the food soon went, and the poor\\npeo-ple, in the cit-y, near-ly died of hun-ger.\\nJo-ram thought that E-li-sha brought all this trou-ble on\\nthe king-dom and he said that he would cut off the proph-\\nets head.\\nE-li-sha said gen-tly To-mor-row there will be plen-ty\\nof food in the cit-y.\\nOne of the king s men laughed, and said If the Lord\\nshould make win-dows in heav-en, such a thing might be.\\nE-li-sha turned to the man who had laughed and said\\nsad-ly, Your eyes shall see it, but you shall not eat of the\\nfood.\\nThat night God made the Syr-i-ans hear a great noise\\nand they thought that an ar-my had been sent to help the\\nchil-dren of Is-ra-el, and they were a-fraid, and ran a-way.\\nBut they left their tents, all their ar-mor, and all their food.\\nIn the ear-ly morn-ing some poor lep-ers thought that\\nthey would go and beg food from the Syr-i-ans but when\\nthey came to the place they found no one there, but there", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0100.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "ELISHA. 91\\nwas plen-ty of food, and so they fell up-on that and ate all\\nthey could.\\nWhen they could eat no more they went and told the\\nking. He could not be^lieve it and sent two sol-diers out to\\nsee. They came back and said in-deed it was true. Then\\nthe hun-gry men rushed mad-ly out of the cit-y and strove\\nto get the food.\\nNow the man who had laughed at E-li-sha s words was\\nset by the cit-y gate to keep or-der.\\nBut what or-der could he keep in that hun-gry crowd\\nHe was knocked down and trod-den up-on. So you see he\\ndied be-fore he had tast-ed the food, though he was near\\ne-nough to see it all.\\nNow, when Jo-ram the king had ruled twelve years,\\nGod told E-li-sha to a-noint a young man named Je-hu to\\nbe the king. You know how oil was put on the head of\\nthe one set a-side to be the king\\nWell, Je-hu was a cap-tain in the ar-my, and the oth-er\\ncap-tains were glad to think of Je-hu be-ing king, for he was\\na brave man and a good sol-dier. As soon as it was known\\nthat Je-hu was to be king his ar-my set out to con-quer the\\nwick-ed king, Jo-ram. But Jo-ram was read-y and met them\\non the way. Jo-ram was sit-ting in his char-i-ot, and when\\nJe-hu saw him he shot an ar-row and it struck Jo-ram so\\nthat he died at once.\\nSo the great sol-dier, Je-hu, be-came the king. His men\\ntook all the peo-ple who had an-y god but the true God,\\nand put them in the tem-ple and killed them.\\nWhen the time came for good old E-li-sha to die the king\\nof Is-ra-el came and sat by his bed-side. He want-ed to hear\\nwhat wise words the proph-et might say ere he went a- way\\nnev-er to come back. E-li-sha said 0-pen the win-dow to", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0101.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "92 BIBLE STOEIES.\\nthe east. The king did so. Now, said the old man,\\nshoot, and the king took a bow and shot an arrow. The\\nking said that it was the ar-row of the Lord s de-hv-er-ance.\\nThen he told the king to strike the ground ma-ny times.\\nBut the king on-ly struck three times. In those old\\ndays the great les-son that was taught, and was so hard to\\nlearn, was to o-bey jitst as one was told. The peo-ple want-\\ned to do their way and not as was told them, and that is\\nwhy they had so much trou-ble.\\nNow the king on-ly struck the ground three times.\\nE-li-sha told him that had he struck more times he would\\nhave had more suc-cess o-ver the Syr-i-ans, but now he\\nwould on-ly con-quer them three times.\\nThen did the great proph-et die and it came to pass just\\nas he had said.\\nThe king won three bat-ties and that was all.", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0102.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF HEZEKIAH. 93\\nTHE STORY OF HEZ-E-KI-AH.\\nThis is to be a sto-ry of a true, good king and af-ter all\\nthe bad ones I am sure that you will be glad to hear it.\\nHe was twen-ty five years old when he was made king\\nand he ruled for near-ly thir-ty years. He did all that God\\nwould have him do. He broke the i-dols and was true and\\ngood and tried to make the peo-ple so too.\\nWhen he had ruled four years the cru-el king of As-syr-\\ni-a thought that he would con-quer the young king and\\ntake his peo-ple for slaves. He did come with all his great\\nar-my and did much harm. He did not go in-to Je-ru-sa-lem\\nat once him-self but he sent some men to stand out-side the\\nhigh wall and call out to the peo-ple in-side and wor-ry\\nthem by say-ing that the boy king could not save them\\nfrom the might-y king of As-syr-ia.\\nThe peo-ple in-side at last be-came a-fraid, but Hez-e-ki-\\nah knew that in some way God would help him and show\\nhim just what to do. Then the cru-el king sent a let-ter to\\nHez-e-ki-ah and told him that he might as well give Je-ru-\\nsa-lem up, for he was go-ing to take it an-y way, and that\\nnot e-ven God could help Hez-e-ki-ah a-gainst such a great\\nhost. Hez-e-ki-ah went to the tem-ple and prayed to God.\\nHe said that he knew that he and his peo-ple were\\nweak, but that God was strong-er than an-y-thing on earth,\\nand he knew that it would be right in the end.\\nGod heard that pray-er, and said that the foe should\\nnot reach the walls of the cit-y, nor throw one ar-row in but\\nthat the wick-ed king should flee by the way that he had", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0103.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "94 BIBLE STORIES.\\ncome. This seemed a strange thing to hap-pen when the\\narm-y was so near. But that ver-y night, while the sav-age\\nmen slept, the an-gel of the Lord passed o-ver their camp and\\nman-y hun-dreds of men were killed by an aw-f ul sick-ness.\\nThen in-deed did the cru-el king turn and flee from be-fore\\nJe-ru-sa-lem.\\nThe next king was Jo-si-ah, and he was good al-so, but\\nnot quite as good as Hez-e-ki-ah. One day in the tem-ple\\nhe found a book that no one seemed to know a-bout. It\\nwas the first five books of the Bi-ble, and there they had been\\nhid-den for years. There Avere some laws in the book which\\nno one knew, and when the priests read them to King Jo-\\nsi-ah and his men they were all a-fraid, for they saw that\\nwith-out know-ing it they had been break-ing some of Mo-ses\\nlaws. Then Jo-si-ah sent to a ver-y good wo-man in the\\nci-ty and told her all a-bout it, and asked her if she thought\\nGod would for-give if they all tried to o-bey the laws. But\\nshe said that much of the woe that had been was be-cause\\nthose laws had been lost, and men had been care-less but,\\nsince Jo-si-ah had been good and earn-est, noth-ing would\\nhap-pen to him. So, af-ter thir-ty years of be-ing king,\\nJo-si-ah was killed in a bat-tie. It seems that he must have\\nhad pow-er to make his peo-ple good, for just as soon as he\\ndied they be-came wick-ed and had i-dols and did wrong just\\nas though he had not taught them bet-ter. The sons who\\nruled af-ter Jo-si-ah were bad and cru-el and the peo-ple\\nwere a-fraid of them, and the land was not a hap-py place.\\nThere was on-ly one man who was not in dread of the\\nking. That was Jer-e-mi-ah. When he was but twelve years\\nold God had made him a proph-et, and he was brave and\\nfear-less. He told the king if he was hard and sin-ful noth-\\ning would save him from God s an-ger, and that all would\\nbe glad when he died.", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0104.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF JEREMIAH. 95\\nTHE STO-EY OF JEREMIAH.\\nNow the good proph-et Jer-e-mi-ah, found that talk-ing\\nto the king did no good, so he wrote all the words that God\\nwant-ed the peo-ple to know on a scroll of parch-ment.\\n(They had no pa-per in those days the parch-ment was\\nmade of thin skin.) When the words were read-y a man\\nby the name of Ba-ruch took them to the tem-ple and read\\nthem to the peo-ple. The words said that un-less the peo-\\nple turned and be-came good they would be ta-ken as slaves\\nto a strange land. The peo-ple who heard these words were\\nfilled with fear, but some of the king s great friends were\\nnear, and they knew that the king would be an-gry if he\\nknew what had been done. So they said that Ba-ruch and\\nJer-e-mi-ah must go a- way and hide, and that they would\\ntake the scroll and read the warn-ing to the king.\\nThey did take the parch-ment, and for a lit-tle while\\nthe king sat qui-et and heard. Then he grew an-gry and\\ncut the thing in pieces and burnt it.\\nThis was fool-ish, and if the king had on-ly heard and\\npaid heed much troub-le would have been spared.\\nSoon af-ter that a cru-el arm-y came and shut all the\\npeo-ple up in the cit-y. The king was put in chains, and he\\ndied a sad death, but no one cared, for he had not made\\nfriends. All feared him, and were glad he was gone.\\nBy and by a new king, who was an un-cle of the wick-\\ned king, ruled. His name was Zed-e-ki-ah. The chil-dren\\nof Is-ra-el were not ver-y strong in those days, and their", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0105.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "96 BIBLE STOEIES.\\nking had to do as oth-er kings said. The king of Bab-y-lon\\ntold Zed-e-ki-ah that he might rule if he paid some mon-ey\\neach year to him, and said that he was the strong-er king.\\nThis was hard for the king of Is-ra-el and the peo-ple to\\nbear but God told them through Jer-e-mi-ah that they\\nmust o-bey and be gen-tle if they wished to live in peace.\\nYou see, through their own sins, they had be-come weak\\nand help-less, and now they must suf-fer.\\nBut King Zed-e-ki-ah was a bad man, and this or-der\\nmade him an-gry. Jer-e-mi-ah urged him to o-bey, but he\\nwould not, and he had the proph-et put in-to a pit, with\\nnoth-ing to eat or drink. There he would have died, but a\\nkind black man went to the king and plead for the proph-et.\\nThe king said the man might save Jer-e-mi-ah. And so the\\nwise proph-et was brought from the pit, and went to see\\nthe king when no one knew of the vis-it. A-gain he told^\\nZed-e-ki-ah not to make a war, but to be pa-tient. The\\nking was not an-gry this time, but he said that the peo-ple\\nwant-ed war, and he was a-fraid of them. Then he told the\\nblack man to care for Jer-e-mi-ah, but that neith-er of them\\nmust tell of the vis-it.\\nIn the end the great arm-y of the King of Bab-y-lon\\ntook the fair cit-y of Je-ru-sa-lem. The fine houses were\\nburnt and pulled down and the king and his house-hold\\nwere put in pris-on in Bab-y-lon.\\nNow in the love-ly cit-y of Je-ru-sa-lem on-ly sad ruins\\nwere left. Poor peo-ple were left to be free there and take\\ncare of the crops and grapes. The proph-et Jer-e-mi-ah was\\na-mong them. He wrote some sad songs which he taught\\nthe peo-ple to sing as they worked in their ru-ined cit-y.\\nAnd he told them to be brave and o-bey the King of Bab-y-\\nlon, for af-ter sev-en-ty years the hard times would be o-ver", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0106.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF JEREMIAH.\\n97\\nand that those who had gone a- way would re-turn, and the\\ntem-ple would be built and joy would come.\\nIt is hard to be-lieve, but af-ter all that the peo-ple had\\nt\\nt\\nThen the King of Bab-y-lon came with a great ar-my and took the chil-dren of\\nIs-ra-el cap-tive and made them his slaves.\\nknown they were still wil-f ul and would have their own\\nway. They said they were a-f raid of the King of Bab-y-lon\\nwhile they stayed there, they thought it bet-ter to go to\\nE-gypt.\\nJer-e-mi-ah told them o-ver and o-ver a-gain to lis-ten\\n7", "height": "3835", "width": "2803", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0107.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "98 BIBLE STORIES.\\nto his words, but no a- way they would go and they took\\nthe proph-et with them by force.\\nAnd what did they gain Why, in aht-tle time the King\\nof Bab-y-lon with a great arm-y went to E-gypt where they\\nwere and there took them and made them slaves, and\\nharmed them much more than if they had stayed in Je-ru^\\nsa-lem and done what Jer-e-mi-ah told them to do.\\nA-mong the cap-tives that went in-to Bab-y-lon was a\\nproph-et by the name of E-ze-ki-el and he kept al-ways tell-\\ning the oth-er chil-dren of Is-ra-el, who were cap-tives al-so,\\nhow wrong they had been, af-ter all that God had done, to\\nturn so ma-ny times from Him and wor-ship oth-er gods.\\nNow, when the Is-ra-el-ites came to Bab-y-lon, some had to\\nwork in the fields and some worked in shops.\\nThe land, round Bab-y-lon was not rich as the land of\\nCa-naan was. It v/as a flat coun-try with wide riv-ers flow-\\ning through it. But when the times were dark-est God al-\\nways let E-ze-ki-el know by dreams that in tho end the chil-\\ndren of Is-ra-el should go back to their own dear land, and\\nI am sure that be-lief made the proph-et hap-py when all\\nelse was dark.\\nA-mong the Jews who were ta-ken to Bab-y-lon were\\nsome lit-tle prin-ces who had al-ways lived in a rich home\\nand had bright eas-y lives.\\nNow they were slaves, and had to work at hard tasks\\nwith no one to love or care for them. Worst of all for them,\\nthough, they had to eat bro-ken food that was left from the\\nking s table. And you see the meat the king ate was the\\nmeat that had first been giv-en to i-dols. Now these three\\nlittle prin-ces knew that they should not eat this meat and\\ntwo of them tried not to but in the end were so hun-gry\\nthat they took it, but one did not, and now I am go-ing to\\ntell you about him.", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0108.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "THE STOEY OF DANIEL. 99\\nTHE STORY OF DANIEL.\\nThis lit-tle boy named Dan-iel was not o-yer twelve but\\nhe knew that in his own dear home it was thought wrong\\nto eat meat which had been giv-en on the al-tar to false\\ngods, so, al-though he was hun-gry and liked good things as\\nwell as oth-er chil-dren, he begged his mas-ter, Mel-zar, not\\nto give him and the other boys any more meat but just\\nfeed them on wa-ter and beans.\\nMel-zar said that if they ate on-ly that they would be\\nsick and then the king would be an-gry.\\nDan-iel then asked that they might be fed on it for ten\\ndays. So for ten days they ate noth-ing else and at the end\\nof that time were fair and fat and well.\\nMel-zar learned to love these boys very much for they\\nwere so hon-est and good and he trust-ed them like lit-tle\\nprin-ces in-stead of poor slaves. Oh, those were bitter days\\nfor the chil-dren of Is-ra-el They had to wor-ship a great\\ngold i-dol ev-er-y time the king s mu-sic sound-ed, and the\\nking said if any one did not fall down to pray be-fore the\\ni-dol, he should be thrown into a small house filled with fire.\\nA good many peo-ple who did not want to wor-ship the\\ngold-en god were a-f raid not to af-ter that aw-f ul threat.\\nThree men were brave e-nough to say that they would\\nnot o-bey the wick-ed king, and when the mu-sic sound-ed\\nthey did not kneel they said their God would help them.\\nThe king was ver-y an-gry at this and had them cast\\nin-to the fire. The heat was so great that the men who", "height": "3835", "width": "2803", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0109.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "100 BIBLE STOEIES.\\nbound and threw the good men in were bad-ly burned.\\nBut the fear-ful heat on-ly melt-ed the bands which bound\\nthe poor men and so set them free. Then as the king\\nlooked, think-ing to see them suffer and die, Lo a bright\\nan-gel was with them in the flames and no harm could\\ntouch them.\\nThen the great king was a-fraid and said that in all\\nthe land no one should say a word a-gainst the God who had\\nspared the three brave men from the flames.\\nThe King of Bab-y-lon had a strange dream. He saw a\\ntall tree full of leaves and a-mong the leaves bright birds\\nsang and made nests as he looked the king saw a bright\\nbird come from heav-en and it said that the tree must be\\ncut down till it was on-ly a stump, and that i-ron bands\\nshould be put a-bout it, and that it should be wet with dew\\ntill sev-en years had gone by.\\nThe king was wor-ried over this dream and sent for\\nDan-iel. You know about Dan-iel and what a brave lit-tle\\nboy he had been a-bout the meat Well, now he was a\\nproph-et in a strange land and told the peo-ple what was\\ngo-ing to hap-pen.\\nWhen Dan-iel heard the king s dream he was so sad\\nthat he could hard-ly speak. Then he said that the king\\nwas the tree, and great and strong as he was then, he must\\nsoon be-come weak and have no sense at all. He would\\nhave to leave the grand pal-ace, and live in the o-pen fields\\nget-ting his food as the cat-tie did theirs. The dew would\\nlie on him and he should have no home for ma-ny years\\nthen his sense would come back and he would re-turn to the\\npal-ace. The king was a-fraid when he first heard this, but\\nwhen he thought how strong and well he was, he did not\\nbe-lieve it. One day he was in his fine pal-ace look-ing out", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0110.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "THE STOEY OF DANIEL. 101\\no-yer the cit-y of Bab-y-lon and think-ing that it was all\\nhis, when a voice spoke and said that the time was\\ncome.\\nThen with-out one word of warn-ing more than that,\\nBab-y-lon s great king be-came mad and he ran out a-mong\\nthe hills with the beasts and ate like them. A band of i-ron\\nwas put a-round his bod-y and so the poor king went for\\nsev-en wea-ry years, and when the sev-en years were past\\nhis mind be-came well, and he went back to rule in the\\npal-ace. One of the first things he did then was to urge his\\npeo-ple to hon-or the God that wise Dan-iel loved.\\nI think the king was a bet-ter king af-ter he got well,\\nbut there were ma-ny trou-bles in Bab-y-lon. Af-ter that\\nking, whose name was Neb-u-chad-nez-zar, his grand-son\\nruled and his name was Bel-shaz-zar. This king was a\\nvain, sil-ly man and e-ven when the foes of the Medes and\\nPer-sians came up-on him he just cared for noth-ing but fun\\nand pleas-ure.\\nHe did not think the foe could get in the cit-y. He\\nthought the wall was too strong and high, and if they did\\nnot get in, what did he care\\nSo while the ar-my stood with-out the gates he made a\\ngreat feast and had the sil-ver bowls and gold can-die-sticks\\nwhich had been brought from the ho-ly tem-ple in the land\\nof Ca-naan. Then all the lords and princ-es were mer-ry\\nround the ta-ble and laughed and shout-ed and f or-got how\\nnear dan-ger was.\\nAll at once the joy-ous noise grew still. An aw-ful fear\\nfilled the long hall. Just o-ver the can-die-sticks on the\\nwall was seen a hand. No arm or bod-y, just a firm white\\nhand, and the fin-gers moved slow-ly a-long and as they\\nwent flam-ing let-ters were formed.", "height": "3835", "width": "2803", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0111.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "102\\nBIBLE STORIES.\\nAt last there were four words, but no one could read\\nthem.\\nThe king shook in fear. He was not brave at an-y time\\nand this was a most dread-f ul thing. They all tried to read\\nKing Bel-shaz-zar sent for Dan-iel and he read the writ-ing on the wall.\\nthe mag-ic words but no one could do it. There they\\nblazed on the wall, what could they mean At last the\\nqueen, the king s moth-er, spoke and told her son that he\\nhad best send for Dan-iel, for the old king had trust-ed him", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0112.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF DANIEL. 103\\naf-ter he had told what the strange dream had meant\u00e2\u0080\u009e So\\nthe king sent in a hur-ry for the proph-et. Dan-iel came\\nand looked at the strange writ-ing he knew at once what\\nthe words were.\\nThey meant that the king was but a poor king to rule\\no-ver Bab-y-lon and that the Medes and Per-sians would take\\nhis king-dom from him.\\nAnd while Dan-iel was read-ing the writ-ing and the\\nking was sit-ting in the hall Cy-rus, the king of the Per-\\nsians, with his men were dig-ging ditch-es under the walls,\\nand that ver-y night he came in-to Bab-y-lon and killed the\\nfool-ish king.\\nAf-ter long years there was a prince a-mong the Jews\\nwho were cap-tive in Bab-y-lon named Zer-ub-ba-bel. He\\nwould have been a king in time had the peo-ple stayed in\\nJe-ru-sa-lem and done what God said, but, as it was, the\\nKing of Bab-y-lon let him take his peo-ple back to their own\\ncoun-try on-ly he could not be a king. He must sim-ply\\nlead them and o-bey the King of Bab-y-lon. He and the\\nchil-dren of Is-ra-el were glad to go e-ven so. They were\\nhum-ble now and home-sick for their dear coun-try. But\\noh, what a changed coun-try it was All was ru-in. Grass\\ngrew in the streets and the houses were in heaps on the\\nground.\\nThe first thing they did when they got home was to\\nbuild a tem-ple in the place where the fine tem-ple of Sol-\\no-mon used to stand. This sec-ond tem-ple could not be\\ngrand and love-ly, for the Jews were yer-y poor. The old\\nmen and wo-men who had known the oth-er tem-ple cried\\nwhen they saw this poor one. The young peo-ple were glad\\nto have a tem-ple of their own once more, e-ven if it wa s a\\npoor one. But, to com-f ort the old-er peo-ple, a wise proph-et", "height": "3835", "width": "2803", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0113.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "104\\nBIBLE STOEIES.\\ntold them not to feel so sad, that by and by the lit-tle tem-\\nple would be great-er than Sol-o-mon s for all its glo-ry.\\nNow, when the Jews were all back in their old land,\\nAfter long years the King of Bab-y-lon sent the chil-dren of Is-ra-el back to their own\\ncoun-try. But oh, what a changed coun-try it was\\nZer-ub-ba-bel, the lead-er, took for him-self a lit-tle spot of\\nland a-mong the hills. It was the vil-lage of Beth-le-hem,\\nand it was there that Da-yid had watched the flocks when\\nhe was a lit-tle shep-herd boyo", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0114.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF DANIEL. 105\\nThe lead-er made a home in that small place, and there\\nwere one hun-dred and twen-ty-three peo-ple with him. It\\nwas hard work for them to build houses and make the land\\nrich, but they were f aith-f ul, and in the end made it the dear\\ncit-y where by and by the child Je-sus should be born. A\\nproph-et had told them that great things should come out\\nof Beth-le-hem and they trust-ed, and made the place read-y.\\nWhile the Jews worked and prayed in then* own land,\\na new king ruled in Bab-y-lon his name was Da-ri-us. For\\nsome rea-son the peo-ple loved him as if he were a god, and\\nat last they asked him to pass a law that for thir-ty days\\nno one should pray to an-y god but him, and if an-y should\\nthey should be cast in a den of li-ons. Da-ri-us thought this\\nmade him seem great and a-bove oth-er kings, so he made\\nthe law. When a law was once made in that land it could\\nnot be changed, so you see for thir-ty days Da-ri-us was the\\none god.\\nNow in the cit-y of Bab-y-lon lived Dan-iel, he had not\\ngone a- way with the Jews, and ev-er since he was a lit-tle\\nboy he had al-ways prayed to the one true God, and now\\nthat he was an old man, he was not go-ing to change and\\npray to the f ool-ish young king. So day af -ter day he brave-\\nly put his win-do w up and three times prayed to his God,\\nwith his gen-tle face set to- ward the dear cit-y of Je-ru-sa-lem,\\nhis long lost home.\\nSome one went and told the king what Dan-iel was\\ndo-ing, then was the weak king sor-ry he had made such a\\nlaw, for he liked Dan-iel and trust-ed his wise words. But\\nyou see the king could not help him-self. He could not\\nbreak the law he had made him-self, and now old Dan-iel,\\nthe good brave man, must be thrown to the li-ons and die.\\nThere was just one hope The king did not be-lieve in", "height": "3835", "width": "2803", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0115.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "106\\nBIBLE STORIES.\\nthe true God but all his life he had heard of strange things\\na-bout what that God could do for them who trust-ed Him,\\nand he hoped at the last, in some way, Dan-iel would be\\nsaved.\\nWhile Dan-iel was in the Li-ons den, God sent an-gels to help him and to keep the\\nLi-ons from hurt-ing him.\\nBut the time came and the old proph-et was ta-ken\\nfrom his home and borne to the den of li-ons. God had not\\nhelped him yet.", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0116.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF DANIEL. 107\\nHe was put in the aw-ful place, and the door shut and\\nlocked. The king then gave up hope and was so sad that\\nhe could not sleep.\\nWhen day came ma-ny peo-ple ran to the den and the\\nking was a-mong the first.\\nHe cried through the door and asked Dan-iel if God had\\nbeen a-ble to save him.\\nA mo-ment he wait-ed and then came a gen-tle voice\\nit was Dan-ieFs voice, and it said that God had sent an an-\\ngel to help him and that he was safe and the li-ons would\\nnot harm him.\\nHow glad the king was He was more weak than\\nwick-ed and it made him hap-py to know that Dan-iel was\\nnot dead. The good man was brought up from the den, and\\nI am sure that he was glad-ly wel-come.", "height": "3835", "width": "2803", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0117.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "108 BIBLE STORIES.\\nTHE STO-EY OF ES-THER.\\nIn Per-sia was a young Jew-ish girl named Es-ther.\\nShe had no f a-ther or moth-er and a near re-la-tion brought\\nher up and was kind to her.\\nOne day a strange mes-sage came to her she was to\\nleave her home and go to the king s pal-ace. The king had\\nsent out for all the hand-some maid-ens to come be-fore\\nhim. The one who was the most beau-ti-ful was to be his\\nqueen, all the oth-ers were to be his slaves and live in the\\npal-ace. In ei-ther case poor Es-ther must leave her hap-py\\nhome, and live a-mong stran-gers.\\nEs-ther would not put on fine clothes to make herself\\nmore love-ly, she went sad and qui-et, but when the king\\nsaw her she was so fair and sweet that he chose her at once\\nand she be-came the queen. You may sup-pose that now\\nshe was to be hap-py and have all that she want-ed, for to\\nbe a queen means a great deal but poor Queen Es-ther was\\nnot to be hap-py, she had much sor-row. She was shut up,\\nand no one from her old home could come and see her she\\ncould not e-ven go to her hus-band, the king, un-less he sent\\nfor her had she gone with-out his con-sent she would have\\nbeen put to death.\\nHer kins-man, with whom she had lived, went each day\\nto the pal-ace gate and there wait-ed to hear of Es-ther. I\\nthink he must have loved her ver-y much and missed her\\nfrom his home.\\nNow a-mong the king s men was one named Ha-man.", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0118.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "THE STOEY OF ESTHEE.\\n109\\nHe was a proud man and when he passed in the streets he\\nhked to see peo-ple bow and kneel to hhn. But he was a\\nyer-y wick-ed man and God had told the Jews not to bow to\\nhim or have an-y-thing to do with him.\\nWhen the King saw Esther, she was so fair and sweet that he made her his queen at\\nSo Mor-de-cai, Est-her s kins-man, from his seat by the\\npal-ace gate watched Ha-man go by but would not bow to\\nhim.", "height": "3835", "width": "2803", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0119.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "110 BIBLE STOEIES.\\nThis made the proud man ver-y an-gry, and at last he\\ncould bear it no long-er. He said that he would have all\\nthe Jews put to death. So he went to the king and told\\nhim false things a-bout the Jews and made the king be-\\nlieve them. At last the king said that on a cer-tain day all\\nthe Jews should die. Now Mor-de-cai heard this aw-f u] plot\\nand he got some one to car-ry a se-cfet let-ter to Queen\\nEs-ther beg-ging her to go to the king and tell him how Ha-\\nman had been false, and per-haps the king would spare the\\nJews.\\nThe poor queen was in a sad plight. If she went to the\\nking with-out him send-ing for her then she must die, and\\nun-less she went and did what she could for her peo-ple then\\nthey would all die a cru-el death. At last she thought it\\nbest that one should die rath-er than ma-ny. She would\\ngive her life for those she loved. She wore her rich-est\\nrobes, the ones the king liked best, and sweet and fair, but\\nal-most faint from fear, she went a-lone to his court. When\\nhe saw her she was so love-ly that he smiled and touched\\nher with his gold-en scep-tre. That meant that she would\\nnot be put to death. He asked her why she had come, and\\nwhat she want-ed she said she had come to in-vite him to\\na feast in her own rooms.\\nShe thought if the king was pleased with her and w^ould\\ncome to her a-lone, she could then tell him of the cru-el plot\\nand beg him to save the Jews. The king went to her feast,\\nand she told him all her love for them who had loved her\\nwas sweet to see, and the king grew an-gry as she told the\\nwick-ed thing Ha-man had done, and when she had end-ed\\nher sto-ry the king sent out word that Ha-man should be\\nhung for his sins, and so, be-cause queen Es-ther was will-\\ning to die for her peo-ple, the king loved her the more and\\nspared the Jews.", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0120.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "THE STOEY OF NEHEMIAII. Ill\\nTHE STO-RY OF NE-HE-MI-AH.\\nAs yon know, when the Jews were al-low-ed to go back\\nto their own land, ma-ny of them stayed in Bab-y-lon. Per-\\nhaps some had grown fond of the place, or may-be their\\nmas-ters would not let all go. Now, a-mong those who\\nstayed was a good Jew named Ne-he-mi-ah he was a cup-\\nbear-er to the king, and the king liked him and was good to\\nhim. One day a Jew came all the way from Je-ru-sa-lem to\\ntell this cup-bear-er a-bout his old home.\\nWe know how brave-ly the Jews had worked to build\\nup the fair city, but they were hav-ing a sor-ry time. As\\nfast as they built, rob-ber bands would come in and steal and\\nkill. The tem-ple was part-ly built, but the place was all\\nru-ins near it and the peo-ple were los-ing hope.\\nWhen Ne-he-mi-ah heard this he cried and felt ver-y\\nsad for though he lived in Bab-y-lon he loved his old home\\nand want-ed it to be-come a great city a-gain. When he\\nwent in to wait up-on the king and queen, they saw how\\nsad he looked, and asked him what was the cause. Then\\nhe told them the news his friend had brought, and he\\nbegged the king to let him go back to Je-ru-sa-lem, to help\\nthe poor peo-ple. The king said that he might go if he got\\nback with-in a set time. Ne-he-mi-ah said that he would do\\nso, and be-gan at once the long jour-ney to Je-ru-sa-lem.\\nWhen he got there he found things just as bad as the friend\\nhad said. The great wall was in ru-ins, and a pile of stones\\nstood where the gate had once been.\\nThen Ne-he-mi-ah talked to the Jews and made them", "height": "3835", "width": "2803", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0121.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "in BIBLE STORIES.\\nbrave to go a-bout the hard work. The rob-ber bands\\nlaughed at them and said that they could not build a wall\\nto keep them out. The cru-el foes used to come on them as\\nthey worked, and they had to be read-y to fight when a\\nThen Ne-he-rai-ah and the Jews set to work to build the wall a-round Je-ru-sa-lem\\nand when any foes ap-peared the watch-man blew the trum-pet.\\ntrum-pet blew. Do you not think they were brave men to\\nwork un-der such tri-als They kept on, and in the end the\\nwall -was built and the gate hung in its place, and for the\\ntime they were safe from the rob-bers.", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0122.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF JOB. 113\\nTHE STO-RY OF JOB.\\nIn the far east there dwelt a man named Job he was\\na ver-y rich and a yer-y good man. He had sev-en sons and\\nthree daugh-ters, and a great ma-ny ser-vants and cat-tie.\\nAnd though he was such a good and ho-ly man there were\\nma-ny who en-vied him and thought that God gave him too\\nmuch. They said that Job would not be so good and brave\\nif he had things to wor-ry him but that God had set him\\na-mid all that was rich and fine, and it was lit-tle praise that\\nJob should have for be-ing good. Then God said that all\\nwhich be-longed to Job should be ta-ken from him to show\\nthose peo-ple that e-ven in tri-al Job was good and true, and\\nwould trust God.\\nSo one day when all his chil-dren were hav-ing a feast\\non their old-est broth-er s birth-day a ser-vant came to Job\\nand told him that a band of rob-bers had come in-to the\\nfield where ma-ny of Job s men were work-ing, and had\\nkilled the ser-vants and sto-len the cat-tie. That one man\\nwas the on-ly one left to tell the sad sto-ry.\\nJust when that ser-vant was through, a sec-ond came\\nrun-ning. He and oth-ers had been in an-oth-er place tend-\\ning sheep, when lo a fire from heav-en had come and had\\nburned all the sheep and men, leav-ing him on-ly a-live.\\nThen came a third and said that an-oth-er band of rob-\\nbers had sto-len the cam-els and killed the men who were\\nwith them.\\nNow Job was not at the feast in his son s house, but in\\n8", "height": "3835", "width": "2803", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0123.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "114\\nBIBLE STOEIES.\\nhis own when he heard this dread-ful news, just as he was\\nthink-ing of go-ing to his chil-dren a man came and said,\\nthat while the peo-ple were eat-ing and drink-ing a great\\nJob s three dear friends came to com- fort him when they heard of his sick-ness and\\ntrials.\\nwind had come from out the des-ert and had torn down the\\nson^s house and all who were in it lay dead.\\nThen poor Job fell on his knees and wept and prayed.\\nHe said that he knew God had the right to take that which", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0124.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF JOB.\\n115\\nHe had giy-en, and Job blessed the name of God e-ven while\\nhis heart broke in woe.\\nAf-ter all this the peo-ple who did not love Job said\\nAf-ter God had proved Job and found him faith-ful he gave him more friends and\\nwealth than he had ta-ken a-way.\\nthat al-though he had had all ta-ken from him, yet he him-\\nself was not hurt. If God made Job suf-f er from pain then\\nper-haps he would show that he would turn from God.", "height": "3835", "width": "2803", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0125.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "116 BIBLE STORIES.\\nThen poor Job be-came ill great sores broke out all o-ver\\nhis bod-y and he was full of pain.\\nHis wife then said to him that she would not serve a\\nGod who made him suf-f er so, but Job said that it was fool-\\nish to love God on-ly when He gave gifts and life was\\nhappy. One must love God e-ven when life was most hard.\\nJob had three dear friends, and when they heard of his\\ntri-als they all came to see him. They meant to com-fort\\nhim, but in-stead of cheer-ing him and help-ing him to bear\\nhis pain and grief, they all sat for sev-en days and did\\nnoth-ing but moan and cry.\\nThen they tempt-ed Job and tried to turn him a-way\\nfrom God, but he was faith-ful, and spoke ma-ny words of\\ngreat wis-dom and beau-ty e-ven when he felt the sad-dest.\\nSo did this good man prove that noth-ing could turn him\\nfrom the true God, and all the peo-ple saw and knew it.\\nThen God gave him more than had been ta-ken a-way.\\nHe had oth-er chil-dren and great wealth. He lived to be\\none hun-dred and for-ty years old.", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0126.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF JOKAH. 117\\nTHE STO-RY OF JO-NAH.\\nThere was a great cit-y called Mn-e-veh and all the\\npeo-ple in it were so wick-ed that God sent a good man\\nnamed Jo-nah to warn the peo-ple and try to make them\\nbet-ter. Jo-nah start-ed, but in-stead of do-ing as God told\\nhim, he went to Tar-shish for he was a-fraid to go in-to the\\nwick-ed cit-y. God would have taken care of him but he\\ndid not trust God e-nough.\\nJo-nah went in a ship to Tar-shish, but on the way God\\nsent a wind and the great ship was al-most wrecked it rose\\nand fell and rolled in the waves un-til the men on board\\nthought that all was lost. The sail-ors were hea-then men\\nwho had ma-ny gods and i-dols, and they cried to all of\\nthem to save them. Then they cast the car-go into the wa-\\nter they thought if they made the ship light, that might\\ndo some good. Through all the storm Jo-nah lay a-sleep\\nway down in the ship. Still the ship rocked and rolled\\ne-ven af-ter the load had been cast in-to the sea,. Then the\\nmen thought that it was be-cause some wick-ed man was\\non board that God had sent such an aw-ful storm. And\\nthey said that they would draw lots and see who should be\\ncast in-to the sea so that the storm would cease. They\\nwaked Jo-nah up and drew lots with the oth-ers, and it fell\\nto his share to be cast in the sea.\\nThen the men said to Jo-nah that he was the cause of\\nall the trou-ble, and they asked him what trade he worked\\nat, and where he came from and to what peo-ple he be-", "height": "3835", "width": "2803", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0127.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "118 BIBLE STORIES.\\nlonged. And Jo-nah told them that he was a Jew, and that\\nhe trust-ed the God who had made the sea and the dry land.\\nAnd Jo-nah told them how he had not done what God told\\nhim to do, and then were they more a-f raid, and Jo-nah see-\\ning how things were told them to throw him in the sea,\\nthat they might be safe for he felt that the storm was sent\\nbe-cause of his sin. The men did not want to drown Jo-nah,\\nso they worked and tried to get to the land. Hard-er and\\nhard-er the storm blew, and at last the men knew that they\\ncould not save the ship in that storm, so they took Jo-nah\\nand cast him in-to the sea. Then the waves grew calm and\\ngen-tle, and the men gave thanks. But where was Jo-nah\\nGod had not meant to let him die, for He still had work for\\nhim to do down be-side the ship was a great fish, like a\\nwhale, and when Jo-nah fell in-to the wa-ter the fish swal-\\nlowed him, not hurt-ing him at all.\\nFor three days and nights Jo-nah was in the whale and\\nthen God made the fish o-pen its mouth and Jo-nah came\\nout as safe as when he went in. Then did Jo-nah thank\\nGod for his mer-cy and I think he was read-y to o-bey when\\nnext God called. In-deed al-most at once the Lord spoke\\nand told him to go in-to Mn-e-veh and to preach the words\\nwhich should be taught him. Jo-nah a-rose and went at\\nonce it took him three days to trav-el there. Nin-e-veh\\nwas a great cit-y and ver-y strong, but the first thing Jo-nah\\nsaid when he went in was, that in for-ty days that great\\ncit-y would be in ru-ins. The peo-ple be-lieved and were\\na-f raid they made a great fast and put on clothes of sor-\\nrow just like they wore when an-y one lay dead.\\nThe king heard of the warn-ing as he sat up-on his\\nthrone, and he for-got how great he was and did just as\\nthe peo-ple did, and said that no one must eat or drink, but", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0128.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "THE STOEY OF JONAH. 119\\nthat all must pray from morn-ing un-til night. He thought\\nthat by so do-ing God would not let the cit-y fall.\\nAnd God saw how sor-ry all the peo-ple were for their\\nsins and how much they were try-ing to be good and please\\nHim, and His heart grew ten-der and He said that their\\ndear cit-y should be saved.\\nNow, strange to say, Jo-nah was not glad when he heard\\nthat he told God that he had been sent to warn the peo-ple,\\nand now if his warn-ing did not come true they would no\\nlon-ger be-lieve in him.\\nYou see Jo-nah thought more of him-self than of what\\nGod thought best.\\nThen Jo-nah went out-side the cit-y walls and sat down\\nin the sun and watched to see what would hap-pen to the\\ncit-y, but no harm came. As Jo-nah sat there in the hot\\nsun God made a great vine to grow o-ver him so that he\\nwould have shade but a worm came and killed the vine,\\nand then a hot wind blew and Jo-nah faint-ed a- way. God\\nsaid, Art thou an-gry at the vine for be-ing killed by the\\nworm And Jo-nah was not ang-ry, of course, for he\\nknew that the vine could not help it. So God said that,\\nsince Jo-nah had a gentle thought for the vine, he should\\nfeel kind-ly to-ward the great cit-y, and for the peo-ple who\\nwere try-ing to be good. I am sure af-ter that Jo-nah was\\nglad that Nin-e-veh was spared.", "height": "3835", "width": "2803", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0129.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "120 BIBLE STORIES.\\nTHE WITCH OF EN-DOR.\\nWe have heard so much a-bout kings, queens and\\nprinces, that now I am go-ing to tell you a-bout some of the\\nplain peo-ple who lived w^hen these great ones ruled in those\\nfar-off lands in the old, old days.\\nWhen Saul was king, you know he was not al-ways a\\ngood king. Some-times he for-got God and did things to\\nplease him-self Things he knew to be wrong. God grieved\\no-ver this, for Saul was not all bad and, had he done as God\\nwant-ed him to do, he would al-ways have been a might-y\\nking.\\nYou know the boy Da-vid had been set a-side to be the\\nking af-ter Saul, and this made the king hate the young\\nprince. He did much to harm him per-haps he tried to\\nkill him, but God watched o-ver Da-vid and no real harm\\ncame to him.\\nSaul some-times thought that Da-vid was un-true to\\nhim and then he would drive him far a-way. At one time\\nhe had sent Da-vid a-way and he felt safe for the time, but\\nsoon some of the sol-diers told him that Da-vid had come\\nback and was on a hill near by.\\nSaul took a large ar-my of men and went to drive Da-\\nvid a-way when he came to the hill the young prince was\\nnot there he had gone to the des-ert and so to the des-ert\\nwent Saul with all his men. But Da-vid heard in time and\\nhe thought that he would go by night and see just how big\\nan ar-my Saul had and all a-bout it. You know Da-vid was", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0132.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "THE WITCH OF ENDOR. 121\\nver-y brave, and he al-ways felt sure that God would keep\\nhim from harm, for he was to rule and there was work for\\nhim to do.\\nSo one night young Da-vid asked if an-y one w^ould go\\nwith him to SauFs camp. It was a dar-ing thing to do, but\\none man said that he would go, and so the two start-ed.\\nThey found the tent-ing ground and there was the king^s\\ntent with his men in a cir-cle a-round him. Ver-y soft-ly\\nthe two men crept a-mong the sleep-ing sol-diers. Those\\nwho were on guard did not see them, and so Da-vid and his\\nfriend came to Saul s tent and found him a-sleep with his\\nspear stuck in the ground by the side of his bed.\\nThe friend want-ed to kill the king as he lay there, but\\nDa-vid said no but they took the king s spear and a flask\\nof wa-ter to prove that they had been in the tent. Then\\nthey went to a hill near by and a-woke a guard and told\\nhim how care-less a watch-er of the king he was, and show-ed\\nhim what they had brought. Saul a-woke and heard\\nDa-vid s voice and I think that he must have felt how true\\na man Da-vid was to spare his life when he, Saul, was seek-\\ning to harm Da-vid. He spoke kind-ly to the young prince\\nand told him that he was sor-ry he had harmed him. Then\\nDa-vid sent the spear back to prove that he did not want to\\nset him-self a-bove the king, and Saul blessed Da-vid and\\ntold him that in time he would do great things and would\\nrule as God had said. But Saul could not be trust-ed and\\nbe-fore long he be-gan to trou-ble Da-vid, so that the prince\\nthought best to seek safe-ty a-mong the Phil-is-tines\\nthough they were foes they were kind-er than Saul. Of\\ncourse Da-vid did not want to live as a foe to his own peo-\\nple, so he asked one of the chief men of the Phil-is-tines to\\ngive him a place of his own, and the chief gave him a cit-y", "height": "3835", "width": "2803", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0133.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "122\\nBIBLE STORIES.\\nto rule o-ver and have for his home. It was a cit-y that the\\nPhil-is-tines had sto-len from the chil-dren of Is-ra-el, so you\\nsee Da-vid was get-ting back what was once his own.\\nWhen Da-vid came to Saul s tent he found him a-sleep with his spear stuck in the\\nground by his side, so Da-vid took the king s spear to prove that he had been in the\\ntent.\\nNow the chief thought that by giv-ing Da-vid so great a\\ngift he had won the young prince to his side and in time of\\nwar Da-vid would fight with him. But this was not so, and", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0134.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "TPIE WITCH OF ENDOE. 123\\nhad Da-vid known what the chief meant he would rath-er\\nhave died than have ta-ken the gift.\\nWhen a new war broke out, Da-yid was in a hard place,\\nand he did not come right out and tell the truth but kept\\nthe chief in doubt as to what side he was on.\\nNear the place where Saul s ar-my was came the cru-el\\nfoe, and when Saul saw the great host he was a-f raid. He\\ndid not know what to do, for God left him a-lone, in that\\nway show-ing him how much he need-ed God and the wise\\nwords of good men.\\nSam-u-el the high priest was dead and there seemed to\\nbe no one left to help Saul and show him the safe course.\\nNow I am com-ing to the Witch of En-dor. She was an old\\nwo-man who lived in a cave and said that she could tell\\nwhat was com-ing to pass be-fore an-y one else could know.\\nThe king had nev-er thought it right to let these witch-es\\nlive and had oft-en driv-en them a- way, but now in his sore\\ntri-al he broke his own law and went to this wo-man him-\\nself to see if she could help him.\\nPoor, f ool-ish Saul God could have helped him but he\\nhad turned a-way from Him and now must go to an old\\nwitch as the on-ly one who might tell him how to act. He\\ndared not go as the king, so he dressed in poor clothes like\\na beg-gar. Don t you think he might have known that if\\nthe witch real-ly could tell things she would have looked\\nthrough the cloth-ing and known Saul But he did not\\nthink of that and, when it was dark and still, he went to the\\ncave. He took on-ly two men with him, for I think he felt\\nthat he was do-ing a sil-ly thing. The old witch did know\\nSaul at once and told him so, and said that she feared he\\nhad on-ly come to harm her. But Saul swore an oath that\\nno harm should touch her if she would tell him how to act.", "height": "3835", "width": "2803", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0135.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "124 BIBLE STOEIES.\\nThen the witch said that she could call an-5^ spir-it back\\nfrom the dead to guide the king, and Saul asked that wise\\nold Sam-u-el should come.\\nThen the old wo-man made be-lieve that she saw\\nSam-u-el she told how he looked and what he wore. An-y\\none could have done that who had seen Sam-u-el, but Saul\\nwas so f ool-ish that he did not think of that, but thought\\nthat the witch had brought the spir-it of Sam-u-el back.\\nSaul bowed al-most in fear, and while he did so the witch\\nspoke in a deep voice, just as if Sam-u-el spoke, and said\\nWhy hast thou brought me up And then the old witch\\nwent on and said that on the next day the Phil-is-tines\\nwould con-quer and kill Saul s sons.\\nThe poor king was so a-fraid that he fell on the floor\\nand could hard-ly get up. The witch brought food for him,\\nand told him that she was sor-ry but that it was not her\\nfault. Af-ter a time the king and his men went a-way, and\\non the mor-row it did hap-pen just as the witch said. God\\nmust have let her speak the words as a warn-ing to wick-ed\\nSaul.", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0136.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "JEPHTHAH S DAUGHTER, 125\\nJEPH-THAH S DAUGH-TER.\\nJeph-thah was a great sol-dier, but when his own\\nmoth-er died his f a-ther got a new wife who had sons of her\\nown, and want ed to drive Jeph-thah a-way. At last he\\nwent, leav-ing be-liind him his on-ly daugli-ter, whom he\\nloved ver-y much. Now af-ter he had gone some of the\\nrob-ber bands made war on the tribes and they wished that\\nbrave Jeph-thah was with them to lead them a-gainst the\\nfoe. At last they went and found him and told him that if\\nhe would re-turn he should be the lead-er of the ar-my.\\nJeph-thah thought it strange that, af-ter they had ha-ted\\nhim so much and had driv-en him from his home, they\\nshould now want to set him a-bove all oth-ers, but he\\nthought that God meant him to do a great work, so he went\\nand be-came the chief in the ar-my. There was a long hard\\nwar, and Jeph-thah fought brave-ly. Some-times it seemed\\nas if God were not on their side, and at last just be-fore a\\nbat-tie Jeph-thah said to God that, if He would let them\\nwin the day, he would give the first per-son who ran out of\\nhis home to meet him up-on his re-turn as a burnt sac-ri-fice.\\nThis meant that Jeph-thah would give the best from his\\nown life if God would give him the vic-to-ry o-ver the foe.\\nGod did give him all that he asked and the tribes won the\\nbat-tie and then start-ed home to tell the good news.\\nAs Jeph-thah drew near his own home, who do you\\nthink came run-ning to meet him Why, his young daugh-", "height": "3835", "width": "2803", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0137.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "126 BIBLE STORIES.\\nter, whom he loved so well, and whom he had not seen for\\nso long Then he thought of his vow to God, and his heart\\nwas sad in-deed. He told her what he had said to God and\\nWhen Jeph-thah re-turned from the bat-tie, his young daugh-ter whom he loved so\\nwell ran out to meet him.\\nshe re-plied that he must keep his word to the good God,\\nbut she asked that she might go a-way for two months to\\npray and make her-self read-y to die. Jeph-thah told her", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0138.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "JEPHTHAH S DAUGHTER. W\\nto go. Af-ter two months she came back, and her fath-er\\ndid give her as a sac-ri-flce to God. For six years did Jeph-\\nthah lead the ar-my, win-ning many bat-ties, and then he\\ndied. I think he must have been the sad-dest sol-dier who\\nev-er lived.", "height": "3835", "width": "2803", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0139.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "128 BIBLE STORIES.\\nTHE STO-RY OF SAM-SOK\\nThere was a man named Zo-rah, and when he was old\\nGod told him that he should have a son. And when the\\nson was born they called him Sam-son. He was a ver-y\\nstrong, hand-some boy and his fa-ther and moth-er were\\nver-y proud of him. Now when he was grown he did a\\nstrange thing in-stead of tak-ing a wife a-mong his own\\npeo-ple he said that he would mar-ry a wo-man who was a\\nPhil-is-tine. This was a sad thing for the old fa-ther and\\nmoth-er to. hear. They could not see that God meant him\\nto do the thing and they want-ed to keep him a-mong his\\nown fam-ily and friends. But af-ter a time they saw that\\nhe would have his way and they went with him to see the\\nmaid whom he loved. On the way a young li-on sprang on\\nthem, and Sam -son caught him and killed him as if the li-on\\nwas but a lit-tle goat. After they had seen the girl and\\nfound her pleas-ing, Sam-son went back to see the li-on\\nwhich he had kill-ed. Be-hold there was a swarm of bees\\nin the li-on s bod-y Sam-son took some of the hon-ey and\\nate it and gave some to his fa-ther and moth-er. Af-ter a\\nfew days Sam-son made a great feast for the wo-man he\\nwas to mar-ry and at the feast Sam-son said, I will ask\\nyou a rid-dle if you will tell me the an-swer in sev-en days\\nI will give you thir-ty fine li-nen gar-ments, and if you can-\\nnot guess it you must give me the same.\\nAnd this is the rid-dle which he gave.", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0140.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF SAMSON\\n129\\nOut of the eat-er came forth meat. And out of the\\nstrong came forth sweet-ness.\\nFor three days all the peo-ple tried and could not guess.\\nWhile Sam-son was on the way to see the wo-man he loved, a young li-on sprang out\\nof the wood and Sam-son caught him and killed him as if the lion had been a\\ngoat.\\nThen they begged the wo-man Sam-son loved to find out\\nthe an-swer for them or they said they would burn her.\\nThe wo-man was a-f raid and went and cried be-fore\\n9", "height": "3835", "width": "2803", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0141.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "130 BIBLE STORIES.\\nSam-son, and said that un-less he told her the an-swer she\\nwould not be-lieve that he loved her.\\nSam-son said that he had told no one, and did not want\\nto tell her. But she cried and seemed to feel so bad-ly that\\non the last day he told her the an-swer, and she went and\\ntold the peo-ple. On the sev-enth day there was an-oth-er\\nfeast and Sam-son said, Do you know the an-swer\\nAnd they said, What is sweet-er than hon-ey And\\nwhat is strong-er than a li-on\\nThen Sam-son knew that the wo-man had told and he\\nleft her and went a-way. But la-ter he was sor-ry per-\\nhaps he thought that he had judged her too harsh-ly so he\\nwent back and took a kid as a pres-ent to her.\\nBut her fa-ther would not let Sam-son see her he said\\nthat she had mar-ried an-oth-er, but that if Sam-son want-ed\\nto, he might mar-ry a young-er sis-ter. Then was Sam-son\\nan-gry and he burned their crops, and kill ed many men, and\\nat last went to live a-mong the caves of E-tam.\\nThe Phil-is-tines then sought to take Sam-son and kill\\nhim and three thous-and men went af-ter him. They must\\nhave felt that he was a might-y man in-deed. When they\\ncame to his cave they told him that they must bind him\\nand take him a-way. Sam-son made them prom-ise that\\nthey would not kill him but on-ly bind and car-ry him\\na-way. They gave the prom-ise, and then bound him with\\ntwo strong new ropes. On the way toward the camp the\\nsol-diers laughed at Sam-son be-cause he who was so strong\\nwas now bound like a lamb and was be-ing ta-ken to be\\nkilled. All at once with one quick twist Sam-son broke the\\nstrong ropes as if they were threads By the road lay a\\nbone of a dead an-i-mal and be-fore the sol-diers knew what\\nhe was a-bout, Sam-son took the bone and fell up-on them", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0142.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OV SAMS0:N\\n131\\nand killed a thous-and men. The rest fled and left him\\na-lone. When they had gone Sam-son was tired and thir-\\nsty but God made a spring of wa-ter to come forth from\\nSam-son found a bone of a dead an-i-mal by the road side and with it killed a\\nthous-and men.\\nthe rockSj and af\u00c2\u00b0ter drinking Bam-son was strong to go on.\\nHe went next to a cit-y called Ga-za, and when the peo-ple\\nheard that he was in the place they got all the strong men\\nto sur-round the cit-y and they said when he came out in", "height": "3835", "width": "2803", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0143.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "132 BIBLE STORIES.\\nthe morning they would kill him. But at mid-night Sam-\\nson came to the cit-y gates and found them locked he put\\nhis arms a-bout the great pil-la.rs and tore the strong gate\\ndown and car-ried it on his should-ers past all the wait-ing\\npeo-ple, up-on a high hill, and no one went af-ter him.\\nSome time af-ter Sam-son loved an-oth-er woman and\\nher name was De-li-lah. I think for all his strength and\\nfierce-ness, Sam-son must have been yer-y ten-der with the\\npeo-ple whom he loved for they could do an-y thing with\\nhim. Now all the Phil-is-tines were a-fraid of his aw-ful\\nstrength but they want-ed to find out how to get a-head of\\nthis strength so the men who were watch-ing told De-li-lah\\nthat if she could find how they might pre-vail a-gainst Sam-\\nson they would give her a large sum of momey. So she\\nplead with him to tell her how an-y one could mas-ter him.\\nFirst he told her that if he were bound with green withes\\nthen he could not free him-self. So she bound him, and\\nthen called to the men who were near. But Sam-son cast\\nthe withes a-side like strings. De-li-lah was an-gry be-cause\\nSam-son had de-ceived her, but she did not show it and\\nasked him a-gain. He told her if he were bound with\\nstrong new ropes he could not get a-way. So she bound\\nhim, and called to the men. They did not come in they\\nwait-ed each time and I think Sam-son thought it all a play.\\nBut as she called, he a-gain broke the bands and De-li-lah\\nsaw that he still had de-ceived her. A-gain she plead and,\\nthen he said that if she braid-ed his long strong hair, and\\nnailed it to the wall with an i-ron spike, then would he be\\nfast in-deed. She tried it, but Sam-son not only drew out\\nthe spike which held him but the beam too. De-li-lah was\\nnow ver-y an-gry and she said that un-less Sam-son told her\\nthe truth, she would not be-lieve that he loved her. So he", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0144.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF SAMSOK\\n133\\ntold her truly that his strength lay in his hair which had\\nnev-er been cut. If his head were sha-ven he would be no\\nstrong-er than an-y oth-er man. She saw now that he was\\nThe Phil-is-tines found Samson a-sleep with his head on De-li-lah s knee so they\\nshaved off liis hair, which took away all his strength, and they bound him and\\nthrew him into pris-on.\\nspeak-ing the truth, so she sent for the men to come, and\\nthey came bring-ing the mon-ey. They found Sam-son\\na-sleep with his head on De-li-lah s knee she told them to", "height": "3835", "width": "2803", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0145.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "lU\\nBIBLE STORIES.\\nshave his head as he lay, and they did so. Sam-son a- woke\\nand tried to rise, but his might-y strength was gone. He\\nwas dragged a- way and put in-to pris-on and his eyes were\\nWith his arms a-round the pil-lars Samson gave a push and the walls of the house\\nfell down and all the people and Samson were killed.\\nput out. But as he sat there, weak and blind in the damp\\npris-on, his hair be-gan to grow. God had not left him quite\\na-lone.", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0146.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "THE STOEY OF SAMSON. 135\\nWhen the Phil-is-tines heard that Sam-son was weak\\nand in pris-on they were glad and came to-geth-er and made\\na great feast, and they said that Sam-son must be led forth\\nthat all might see him. So a lit-tle child was sent to lead\\nhim out. This was done to shame him and to prove how\\nweak and help-less he had grown. But no one seemed to\\nsee how poor, blind Sam-son s hair had grown. The men\\nand wo-men who sat in the large hall made sport of him\\nand forced him to dance and act f ool-ish so that they might\\nlaugh. In the midst of it all Sam-son said to the lit-tle child\\nwho led him, Let me feel the pil-lars of the house, that I\\nmay rest upon them. The boy led him to them and Sam-\\nson prayed Grod to give him strength just once a-gain that\\nhe might kill them who had put out his eyes.\\nWith his arms a-round the pil-lars Sam-son gave a push\\nand lo the walls of the house gave way and all the peo-ple\\nwith-in were killed and Sam-son with them.", "height": "3835", "width": "2803", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0147.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "136 BIBLE STORIES.\\nTHE STO-RY OF DA-VID AND JON-A-THAK\\nWe know a good deal a-bout the boy Da-vid as a shep-\\nherd lad up-on his f a-ther s hills and we know of him as a\\nsol-dier and la-ter a good king.\\nWe know, too, of brave Jon-a-than, Saul s son, and of\\nhow he and two oth-ers crept a-lone by night to the Phil-is-\\ntine camp and in the end gained the bat-tie over the foe.\\nBut I want to tell you a ver-y sweet sto-ry a-bout these two\\nboys when Da-vid first came to Saul s court dressed in his\\nplain shep-herd dress, and on-ly a tim-id lit-tle lad. King\\nSaul knew that Dav-id some day was to be the king, and Jon-\\na-than knew it too. He was such a brave young prince that\\nwe could hard-ly blame him if he had not liked Da-vid,\\nknow-ing that he in-stead of him-self was to rule af-ter Saul.\\nBut Jon-a-than loved Da-vid from the first they were soon\\nthe dear-est friends, and like so ma-ny boys have done, they\\nmade a sa-cred vow to share all that they had. Jon-a-than\\ngave him a robe like his own, and a sword and gir-dle, so\\nthat Da-vid no lon-ger looked like a lit-tle. shep-herd but a\\ntrue prince. Then King Saul, before he had grown to dis-\\ntrust Da-vid, made him a lead-er in the ar-my just like Jon-\\na-than, and I am sure the two young men were ver-y proud\\nand hap-py. But as time went on, and Saul saw how the\\npeo-ple all liked Da-vid bet-ter than him or e-ven Jon-a-\\nthan, his heart be-gan to grow hard and bit-ter. Da-vid\\nsaw this and it made him ver-y sad. He tried to please the\\nking by play-ing sweet mu-sic for him and sing-ing the", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0148.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "THE STOEY OF DAVID AND JOT^ATHAN.\\n137\\nsongs he used to sing on the hills of his boy-hood s home.\\nI think he did that to show Saul how meek his heart was,\\nand how thank-f ul he was for all the kind things which had\\nOne day as Da-vid sang be-fore Saul the king threw a sharp knife at him, try-ing to\\nkill him.\\nbeen done for him. One day as he sang thus, the king\\nthrew a sharp knife at him, try-ing to kill him. It did no\\nharm to Da-vid but it made him a-fraid. Now, some-time", "height": "3835", "width": "2803", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0149.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "138 BIBLE STOEIES.\\nbe-fore, Da-vid had mar-ried Saul s dangh-ter, and this was\\nnot pleas-ing to the king, for it made the young prince e-ven\\nmore hke his own son, and he had ceased to love him now\\nhe want-ed to kill him. The king then spoke to Jon-a-than\\nand some of the sol-diers, and told them that he want-ed\\nDa-vid to die, and per-haps he told Jon-a-than that if there\\nwere no Da-vid he would be the king. But Jon-a-than was\\na true friend, and he went to Da-vid and told him that he\\nhad bet-ter go a-v\\\\^ay un-til Saul felt kind-er to- wards him.\\nSo Da-vid went, and Jon-a-than spoke to his f a-ther and tried\\nto show him how wrong he had been and what a true, good\\nman Da-vid was. King Saul at last said that he had been\\nun-just, and then Da-vid came home to the court and felt\\nver-y hap-py.\\nSoon af-ter there was an-oth-er war and Da-vid did such\\nbrave deeds that all the peo-ple praised him, and Saul be-\\ncame an-gry be-cause they did not praise on-ly him. This\\ntime he thought that no one should know what he was\\na-bout to do, but that he would sure-ly kill Da-vid. So he\\nsent a cru-el man to Da-vid s own rooms to hide and wait\\nfor Da-vid. But Mi-chal, Da-vid s wife, found out the plan\\nand she told Da-vid then she let him out of the win-dow\\nin a bas-ket, and she made a flg-ure and put it in Da-vid s\\nbed and told Saul s bad ser-vant that her hus-band was sick.\\nThe man went and told the king, and Saul said that e-ven\\nif he was sick he must be ta-ken out of bed and be killed.\\nThe sec-ond ser-vant who went saw at once that it was on-ly\\na fig-ure in the bed and he ran quick-ly and told the king.\\nThen was Saul full of rage, but you see Da-vid had had time\\ne-nough to get a-way. He went to Sam-u-el, the old high\\npriest, and there he was safe. Af-ter a- while Da-vid got to\\nJon-a-than to ask him what he thought he ought to do.", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0150.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF DAVID AND JONATHAN.\\n139\\nJon-a-than was still faith-ful and lov-ing, but he could\\nhard-ly be-lieve all that Da-vid told him a-bout the way Saul\\nwas try-ing to take his life. Then Jon-a-than said that he\\nThen Jon-a-than put his arms a-bout his dear friend Da-vid and wept at all the pain\\ncaused by Saul s cru-el tem-per.\\nwould watch his fa-ther close-ly and in three days would\\nlet Da-vid know. Da-vid was to go to a cer-tain place and\\nhide Jon-a-than was to take a lit-tle lad and a bow and ar-", "height": "3835", "width": "2803", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0151.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "140 BIBLE STORIES.\\nrows when he came near to where Da-yid lay hid he would\\nshoot the ar-rows and tell the boy to go and get them. If\\nJon-a-than said The ar-rows are on this side of thee, to\\nthe boy, Da-yid was to know that all was saf e. But if he\\nsaid The ar-rows are be-yond thee, he was to know that\\nthere was dan-ger. True to his word, on the third day Jon-\\na-than went to the field with his bow and ar-rows. He shot\\nthe darts in-to the air and sent the lit-tle lad to find them\\nThe ar-rows are be-yond thee, he cried, and Da-vid knew\\nthat he was not safe. Then Jon-a-than sent the boy back\\nto the court and he went to Da-vid. He put his arms a-bout\\nhis dear friend and wept at all the pain he had known be-\\ncause of Saul s cru-el tem-per, and they made a faith-ful\\nand ten-der vow to be true to each oth-er al-ways, and to\\ncare for each oth-er s chil-dren in all the time to come.", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0152.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF MICAH. 141\\nTHE STO-RY OF MI-CAH.\\nNear to Mount E-phra-im lived a man named Mi-cah,\\nand his moth-er had saved e-lev-en hun-dred pieces of sil-ver.\\nShe meant to leave those to Mi-cah when she died. But he\\nfound them and took them for his own use. When the\\nmoth-er found that her mon-ey was sto-len she was ver-y\\nan-gry and said she hoped aw-ful things would come to\\nhim who was the thief. Per-haps she thought that her son\\nhad ta-ken it and want-ed to give him the chance to give\\nit back. He was a-f raid when he heard his moth-er s words,\\nand he said that he had ta-ken it but would give it back.\\nThen the wo-man took part of the mon-ey and had some\\nim-ages made to set up in her house. Now this was wrong,\\nfor if one had an im-age in the house in those days, the\\nnext step was to wor-ship it, and that was the one thing\\nGod had said they must nev-er do. Now, Mi-cah meant to\\nserve the true God, but the tem-ple was far off, and right\\nthere in his home were those i-dols, so he be-gan to pray to\\nthem. When Mi-cah s son was old e-nough he made a priest\\nof him. You know he real-ly could not do this, for it was\\non-ly the tribe of Aa-ron who were priests be-sides a man\\ncould not make a priest just by say-ing the word. But Mi-\\ncah for a- while thought that all was right still I think in\\nhis heart he knew he was wrong, for when a young man of\\nthe tribe of Ju-dah stopped at his house to rest and eat, Mi-\\ncah asked him to stay and be like a priest and f a-ther in the\\nhouse. He said that he would give him a sum of mon-ey", "height": "3835", "width": "2803", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0153.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "142 BIBLE STOEIES.\\nand all his clo-thing and food if he would be the priest.\\nThe young man said that he would, so Mi-cah made an-\\noth-er priest, who real-ly was not a true priest at all, as you\\nknow.\\nBut fool-ish Mi-cah said Now I know that God will\\ndo me good.\\nNow, the tribe of Dan was so large that they want-ed\\nmore land, and they sent out spies to see where they might\\nget it. There were five men, and they, too, stopped at Mi-\\ncah s house to rest on the way. When they heard that Mi-\\ncah had a priest right in his house they begged to see\\nhim and ask him if they were go-ing to find land for their\\ntribe. So they prayed be-fore him just as if he were a true\\npriest, and he did tell them true as to what they were to do\\non their jour-ney. The spies went on to a cit-y called La-ish\\nand there they found the peo-ple i-dle and not think-ing of\\ntak-ing care of them-selves or their land. The spies then\\nwent back and told their tribe, and six hun-dred men joined\\nthem and went to take the help-less cit-y. On the way they\\nhad to pass Mi-cah s house, you know, and the spies told the\\nsol-diers all about the i-dols and the priest. Then the sol-\\ndiers told the men who had been there be-fore to go in and\\nsteal the i-dols and bind the priest and bring them a-long.\\nThey said it would be bet-ter for a priest to serve all of them\\nthan just one man and his peo-ple. Mi-cah was a- way when\\nthis dread-f ul thing was done, but when he came home and\\nfound how it was, he and his friends start-ed af-ter the rob-\\nbers. When they came up to them the sol-diers asked Mi-\\ncah what was the mat-ter just as if they did not know.\\nMi-cah grew an-gry and spoke rough-ly. Then the sol-diers\\ntold him he had bet-ter go home or they would harm him.\\nSo he went back, and all his i-dols and his priest were gone.", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0154.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "THE STORY OF MICAH. 143\\nYou see he real-ly had not the true God, and yet when these\\nfalse ones were ta-ken a-way he felt as bad-ly as if God had\\nturned from him.\\nThe sol-diers took the cit-y and set up Mi-cah s i-dols in\\na tem-ple and Mi-cah s priest was their priest.", "height": "3835", "width": "2803", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0155.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "144 BIBLE STOEIES.\\nTHE STO-RY OF BA-LAAM.\\nYou know I have told you the sto-ry of the Witch of\\nEn-dor Now, I will tell you the sto-ry of a man who lived\\nway back in the time of Mo-ses his name was Ba-laam\\nand he was a kind of wiz-ard that means a per-son who\\nseems to do mag-ic things and sees what oth-ers can-not see.\\nAll these things came to pass when the chil-dren of Is-ra-el\\nwere on the plain near Mo-ab. They had had a bat-tie with\\nthe Mo-ab-ites and had driv-en them off. Ba-lak was the\\nking of the Mo-ab peo-ple, and he was a-f raid that they were\\nall to be killed, so he sent to a place called Pe-thor, where\\nthis Ba-laam lived he thought that if Ba-laam a\\\\ ould come\\nand curse these chil-dren of Is-ra-el they would not be a-ble\\nto harm him or his peo-ple an-y more. Now the king had\\nto send a great deal of money to Ba-laam for he would do\\nnoth-ing un-less he was well paid.\\nE-ven if Ba-laam had cursed the chil-dren of Is-ra-el it\\nwould not have hurt them, but God did not want an-y one\\nto say harsh words about them, so when the king s men\\ntold Ba-laam what the king want-ed him to do, he did not\\nfeel in his heart as if he dared to do it. So he told the ser-\\nvants to wait un-til the next day and he would think what\\nwas best to do. In his sleep that night a dream came to\\nBa-laam; God seemed to say: Thou shalt not curse the\\npeo-ple for they are my peo-ple. The next day Ba-laam told\\nthe king s men that God would not let him do this wrong\\nthing to the chil-dren of Is-ra-el. The ser-vants went back to", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0156.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "THE STOKY OF BALAAM. 145\\nKing Ba-lak and told him that Ba-laam. would not come with\\nthem. The men on-ly said that Ba-laam would not come, they\\ndid not say why he would not come. So the king thought\\nthat he would try him once a-gain. This time he sent prin-\\nces to beg him to come, and said that if he came he should be\\nmade great in the land. A-gain Ba-laam told the men to\\nstay all night so that he might think what to do. Now,\\nBa-laam knew what was right he knew that God did not\\nwant him to say wick-ed words a-bout the chil-dren of Is-\\nra-el, but a-bove all else Ba-laam loved rich-es and when he\\nthought of all that the king would do for him, he grew\\nweak. He wait-ed all night think-ing that God would come\\nin an-oth-er dream. But God had spo-ken once and Ba-\\nlaam knew what was right, and God meant to let him act\\nfor him-self So the next day Ba-laam told the prin-ces that\\nhe would go, and they put him on the back of a fine ass,\\nwhich was a great hon-or, and they all start-ed for the\\nking s court. But on the way a strange thing came to pass.\\nThey were go-ing over a road with fair fields on one side\\nand a high wall on the oth-er. It was a nar-row road. All\\nat once Ba-laam s ass stood still and would not move. Ba-\\nlaam beat him, but still he stood still, or tried to turn back.\\nThe men could see no reas-on for such an act. The road\\nwas emp-ty and no one was in sight.\\nAh there they were wrong. They could see no one,\\nbut the poor ass saw in the road an an-gel all bright and\\nshin-ing, and in its hand it bore a flash-ing sword No one\\ncould make the ass go by such a sight. And God had sent\\nthe an-gel to keep Ba-laam from do-ing wrong. A-gain Ba-\\nlaam beat the ass and the ass pressed a-gainst the stone\\nwall, hurt-ing its mas-ter s foot. Then Ba-laam beat hard-er\\nthan ev-er. At that the poor beast fell down, and the cru-el\\n10", "height": "3835", "width": "2803", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0157.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "146 BIBLE STOEIES.\\nblows came more and miore. Then did God give the ass\\npow-er to speak and it asked Ba-laam why he treat-ed him\\nso bad-ly when it had al-ways been so f aith-f ul to him. All\\nAll at once Ba-laam s ass stood still and would not move, for right in the way stood\\nan an-gel all bright and shin-ing.\\nat once the mas-ter s eyes were made to see the an-gel in the\\nroad, and he was a-fraid and fell up-on the ground and hid\\nhis face.", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0158.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "THE STOEY OF BALAAM. 147\\nThen did Ba-laam say how sor-ry he was that he had\\nbeen so cru-el, and he said that he would go back if the\\nan-gel told him to, but the an-gel said he might now go on,\\nsince he wished to so much, but to be care-f ul what he said.\\nPer-haps the an-gel thought that Ba-laam would real-ly help\\nGod more by go-ing, af-ter this strange les-son, than by stay-\\ning. We shall see.\\nWhen Ba-laam came to the king s place he was in great\\ndoubt. He dared not go a-gainst God s will, and he want-ed\\nto please Ba-lak, so he tried to do both. He told the king\\nhe must have sev-en al-tars built and that sac-ri-fi-ces must\\nbe burnt on them, and that the king must wait be-fore the\\nal-tars while he should go to a high place and per-haps he\\nwould be told what next to do.\\nAnd there in that high place God met Ba-laam, we\\nknow not how, but when BaJaam told God how he had\\nbuilt al-tars and burnt sac-ri-fi-ces, think-ing so to please\\nGod, God saw right in-to the heart and knew the truth, and\\nHe said that He did not want such sac-ri-fi-ces. A-gain He\\ntold Ba-laam not to dare to curse Is-ra-el, and Ba-laam went\\nback to the king, and, try as he might, he just had to say\\nthe words that God put in his heart, in-stead of his own\\nwords, which might have pleased the wick-ed king.\\nHe said that he dared not curse those whom God had\\nnot cursed and he said that the Jews would al-ways live\\na-lone, that they should be great and hap-py as long as they\\nserved the true God.\\nBa-lak was ver-y an-gry when he heard all this. What\\nhave you done he cried. I told you to curse these peo-\\nple and you have blessed. Then the king thought of a\\nnew plan. He thought if he showed Ba-laam a few of the\\nchil-dren of Is-ra-el who were not as brave as those Ba-laam", "height": "3835", "width": "2803", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0159.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "148 BIBLE STORIES.\\nhad seen, he might be more will-ing to curse them. So he\\ntook Ba-laam to a high place a-gain where he could stand\\nand look down on the poor-er peo-ple. A-gain the king\\nmade sev-en al-tars, and a-gain Ba-laam went off a-lone.\\nWhen he came back the king asked him what he had seen\\nand heard. He said that God had told him to bless the\\nchil-dren of Is-ra-el, and that they were the true, chos-en ones,\\nand that no one could harm them un-less God gave the\\ncom-mand.\\nThen the king cried out beg-ging Ba-laam not to bless\\nthem or curse them, but just leave them a-lone. But this\\nBa-laam could not do, for God was us-ing him. He told the\\nking all that was to hap-pen to the tribes, and Ba-lak at last\\ndrove him a-way, for he could not bear to know all that the\\nchil-dren of Is-ra-el were to en- joy.\\nTHE END.", "height": "3785", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "biblestories00coms_0160.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "BURT S SERIES OF ONE SYLLABLE BOOKS.\\nUNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME.\\n/ESOP S FABLES.\\nRetold in words of one syllable for young people. By Mary Godolphin. With\\n41 Illustrations. lUuminated cloth. Price 50 cents.\\nANDERSEN S FAIRY TALES.\\n(Selections. Retold in words of one syllable for young people. By Harriet T.\\nComstock, With many Illustrations. Illuminated cloth. Price 50 cents.\\nBIBLE HEROES.\\nTold in words of one syllable for young people. By Harriet T. Comstock. With\\nmany Illustrations. Illuminated cloth. Price 50 cents.\\nGULLIVER S TRAVELS\\nInto several remote regions of the world. Retold in words of one syllable for\\nyoung people. By J. C. G. With 32 Illustrations. 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