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Bible stories in words of one syllable
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AVAM AND EVE SENT OUT OF EDEN.



BIBLE STORIES

IN

WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE

BY

M. A. B.

PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIREOTION OF THE TRACT COMMITTEE.

LONDON:
BOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE,
NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, CHARING CROSS;
43, QUEEN VicTorIA STREET, AND 48, PIccADILLY,
New Yorx; Pott, Younc & Co,





UNWIN BROTHERS, LITTLE BRIDGE STREET, 7IA, LUDGATE HILL, E.C.





TO

MY OWN DEAR TWINS,

WHO, THOUGH THEY CAN NOW READ WELL,
AND FAST,

ARE NOT TOO OLD TO REMEMBER
WHEN THEY WISHED THERE WAS SOME BOOK
THEY COULD READ ALL ALONE
ON SUNDAY;

AND WHO WILL LIKE THEIR AUNTIE
TO DEDICATE

THIS LITTLE BOOK TO THEM.
M. A. B.









PREFACE.

So many pens have already been busy in
writing “Bible Stories” in simple forms
for very young children, I should be almost
tempted to doubt the necessity of the little
work I have now completed, did I not find
many parents and children desiring some-
thing more consecutive than the detached
fragments and mere stories from Scripture
which have yet appeared. I trust this
little book may afford much pleasure and
interest to many children, and occupy those



PREFACE.

Sunday hours often difficult to while away,
when “ Mamma has not time,” or ‘‘is too
tired to read to us.”

I cannot, of ‘course, reduce every word to
a monosyllable, but I hope by dividing, as
I have done, proper names, and the few
words of more than one syllable which I
have been obliged to introduce, to make
them easily read. If the reading of this
little book affords the little ones as much
pleasure as the writing of it has given me,
I shall be well repaid.

M. A. B.







CHAPTER

CONTENTS.

I. God made the World

I.
III.
IV.

v.
VI.

VII.
VIII.
IX.

X.

XI.

XI.
XIII.
XIV.
XV.
XVI.
XVII.
XVIII.
XIX.
XX.
XXII.

Eve and her Sin

The First Death

The Good Man Enoch

Noah comes out of the Ark

Man still Proud and Bad
Abraham, the Man of Faith

The Two Towns that were Burnt

Abraham sends for a Wife for his San Se

Old Isaac sae :

Leah and Rachel ...

Jacob and his Sons

The King’s Dreams 7 ee
Leah’s Sons go to buy Geen ae
The Ten Men go once more to Barat
Jacob goes to Hgypt ... :

The Hard Tasks

More of Moses ...

Moses sent by God

The Plagues of Egypt...

The Red Sea



OHAPTER

XXIL
XXIII.
XXIV.

XXYV.
XXVI.
XXVIII.
XXVIIL
XXIX.

XXX.

XXXII.

XXXII.
XXXII.
XXXIV.
XXXV.
XXXVI.
XXXVII.
XXXVI.
XXXIX.
XL.

XLI.
XLIL.

XLUI.

XLIV.

XLV.
XLVI.
“XLVII.
XLVI.
XLIX,.
L.

CONTENTS.

Manna. ... wee ae as
God gave the Tie : ses
Moses once more in ‘the Mount, |

The Spies ...

The Snakes

Balaam’s Ass :
The Death of Monod.
Joshua took Moses’ Place...

The Men who came to cheat Israel ...

The Judges...

Gideon .

Gideon’s Mleccon

God is with Gideon

The Strong Man Samson...
Ruth... a

The Birth of cemael

The Ark in the Camp... eee
The Ark sent back a
Saul the King ...

Goliath

Saul’s Death ee
David made King ...

The Wise King

Elijah

Elisha ...

Jonah 2

The Jews in a Siranee Tiande
Daniel

The Jews come nace to ante own eee

158





BIBLE STORIES.

CHAPTER I.

GOD MADE THE WORLD.




Wesyq, OU have heard, my dear child-ren,
ale of the great and good God, and
ANG’; how much love He shows us, and
evs' all you have heard will make you
~° glad to hear more, and glad to
read for your-self some of the great things
He has done; so I will write some of these
great things in such short words that you
can sit down and read them to your-self,
Will not that be nice? /

First of all, I must tell you of the time
when there was no earth as it now is; but



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when it had no form or shape, when there
was no one on it, and it was all dark. Then
God spake, and it was light; and He put
the bright sun in the sky to give light by —
day, and the sweet pale moon and stars to
shine in the night.

And God told the seas how far they were
to come, and that they were not to come on ~
the part of the land where He would have it

dry. He made the green grass and the *

tall trees, and all the plants; and then He
‘made all the beasts, both small and great,
and the birds, and the fish to. swim in the
sea. Then, last of all, God made man.
He made him after His own like-ness, good,
and free from all sin. »

God put man to live in a sweet place
where gay plants and rich fruits grew,
where there was no need for the man to
work hard, and grow hot, and worn, as men
must do now. Then God told the man he
was to be lord of all this, and He made



IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE. 18

all the beasts and birds, and all that had
life, to come to the man that he might give
them all their names. Now when God had
done all this He saw that the man had no
one to live with him, no one to speak to,
and God knew he would be sad and lone-ly,
so He gave him a wife to love him, and to
live with him and be a help to him.

The name of this first man was “ Adam,”
and the name of his wife was.‘ Hive.” So
these two were to live in this sweet place I
told you of, the name of which was E-den;
and they were to have all the fruits of the
earth to eat, all but the fruit of one tree.
There were in H-den two trees, one of which
was the “Tree of Life”; the other, which
God said they should not eat of, would, if
they ate of it, make them to know what was
good and what was wrong as God knows it.
I dare say it seems to you when God gave
them so much they should not have sought
to eat of that tree, or break that one rule ?



14 BIBLE STORIES

I grieve to say they did not feel this, and so
I have to tell you at once of their sin and
grief. *

CHAPTER, IT.
EVE AND HER SIN.

OnE day Eve was near the tree which God
said would, if they ate its fruit, make them
wise as God, and she saw a snake, which |
spoke to her and bade her eat the fruit, and
said it would be well for her and for the
man if she would do so. Hve ought to have
known that what God had told her must
be true, and should have paid no heed to
what this snake said, for he was in truth
the Devil, who took the shape of the snake;
but no, she heard the false words, and she
took of the fruit and did eat, and gave some
to the man and he ate it; and so they broke
the rule of the good, kind God, who had
done so much for them.



IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE. 15

And now you must hear what came of this
first sin. God, who sees all things, saw at
once what A-dam and Eve had done, and
He came and spoke to them, and-said they
should live no more in this nice, sweet place
where He had first put them, lest they might
eat of the “ Tree of Life,” and so live on and
onin sin. So He sent a watch to watch by
the tree with a sword of flame, to keep them
from the fruit.

Nor was this all. God put a curse on
the earth that He had made so fair, and
‘for man’s sin it brought forth thorns and
weeds, and man had to work hard to get
food; and pain and grief came where all
had been so fair, and good, and glad.

Oh, poor Eve! must she not have been
sad to think of all she had brought on the
earth? Yes; but while I tell you of the
grief, I must tell you as well how God, in
His great love, gave poor A-dam and Hive
a hope, a bright hope. What was that, do



16 BIBLE STORIES

you think? No less a hope than that in
time His own dear Son should come as one
of her seed, and should save the world from
sin and shame, and set man once more at
peace with God. Think how good and kind
He was to give this glad hope at once! ,,

CHAPTER ITI.
THE FIRST DEATH.

Tue next thing I have to tell you is so sad,
it will grieve me to tell it and you to hear.
Adam and Eve had two sons, whose names
were Cain and A-bel. Cain’s work was to
dig the ground and grow corn and fruit;

and Abel took care of the sheep and flocks.

One day Cain brought some of the fruit of
the ground to God that He might see it, and
take it and bless him. For the same end
A-bel brought a lamb out of his flock to God.
And when God saw these two gifts, that
which A-bel brought did please Him, but



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it was not so with what Cain brought, and
this made Cain wroth with A-bel, so wroth,
that he rose up and slew him: yes, he slew
him whom he was bound to love so much!

When God saw it, He told Cain He
knew what he had done, and he would
let him live no more with those whom he
loved, but he should go forth by him-self,
and no one should be kind to him or care
for him, but all should hate him for the bad
deed that he had done. This death of
A-bel was, you gee, the first death there had
been in the world; and this once more
must make us think of poor Eve, and her
deep grief. \

CHAPTER IV.
THE GOOD MAN ENOCH AND THE SAD FRUITS
OF SIN. -

Tse man I shall next tell you of was
H-noch; he was a grand-son of A-dam,
and of him I must tell you that he was so



IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE. 19

good and true in all his ways that God took
him to live with Him, and did not let
him die. Oh, is not that a glad thought,;
that with no pain or grief he should pass
from his good life here to a glad life with
God.

Now you must try and think that more
and more men were born in the world day
by day, but I will not try and tell you
their names, you could not read them if I
did. But I grieve to say they did not get
bet-ter, or, like H-noch, walk near to God;
no, they were so bad, so full of sin, that God,
who saw it all, said, ‘‘I will sweep men whom
I have made from off the face of the earth.”
And in all the whole world there was but
one man who found grace in God’s sight-*

This man’s name was Noah; and God told
this man that He meant to send a flood; a
great rain on the earth, which would drown
all the world. God told Noah to build an
ark, or ship, that he might be safe in it



20 BIBLE STORIES

when the flood shouldcome. God told him
how he was to build it. Now all this was
strange news to Noah, but he did not doubt
that that which God said was true, and he
set to work to build this ark at once, and as
he built it, he told all the men he spoke to
what God had said, and’ of the flood which
was to come; but they did not care, all they
did was to laugh and mock at Noah; so
year by year, year by year did Noah work
on, and all that time things went. on
just as they had done; but still Noah was
quite sure that God was true, and did not
stop his work.

When the ark was ante made, God told
Noah to take his wife, and his three sons
and their three wives. with him, and go
into the ark; and then God sent two beasts
and two birds of each kind to Noah:to the
ark ; and when all were in, God Him-self
shut the door. Then came down the great
rain; yes, night and day, day and night,



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THE FLOOD.



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for more than six long weeks the hard,
hard rain beat down on the earth. Down
it came till all men and beasts, all
that dwelt on the. earth were dead;
yes, all the world which God so. short
a time past had said was “‘ good,” was now
one vast waste place. Once more we see
in this the grief which comes through sin. L

Li

CHAPTER V.
NOAH COMES OUT OF THE ARK.

Bur Noah—how did Noah get on in his
strange, large ship? He was quite safe,
The hard rain beat, but did not come near
him ; and though his heart must have been
sad for all those he had known on the
earth, yet for him there was peace, and rest
in God. His ark rode on the sea and was
safe. He had heard God’s voice, and he
knew what He said must be true. Noah had
faith; he could not see the flood before



IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE. 23

it came; but God’s word was all true tc him;
and so it should be to all of us; we should
trust in what God tells us, as Noah did.

It was a long time that Noah had to stay
in the ark after the six weeks of rain were
past, for of course the earth was all hid by the
flood, and there was no dry land to be seen.

But now God sent a high wind to blow,
and dry up the water; and when Noah
thought it might be dry, he sent out a bird
from the ark, and this bird flew up and down,
up and down, but found no place to rest on,
so it came back to Noah. Then in a short
time Noah sent out a dove, and the poor
dove found no place to rest on, so she, like
the dove, came back to the safe ark. In a
week more Noah sent out the dove to try in
what state the earth was, and this time the
dove came back with a leaf in her beak, to
show Noah that the trees were to be seen
on the earth. Still Noah thought he would
wait, and to make quite sure that he would



24 BIBLE STORIES

be wise to leave his safe ark, he sent the dove
out once more; then she found the earth
so dry, and fit to live on, she came back to
the ark no more. Still Noah did not come
forth of his own choice; God had told him
when to go and live in the ark, and now
God told him when it was fit he should
leave it.. He said to Noah, ‘Go forth
from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy
sons, and their wives, and take forth from
it all the live things with thee.” So they
all came forth; and the first thing Noah
did when he found him-self on the dry
land was to build an al-tar where he and
his sons might make offerings and pray to
God, and thank Him for His care of them.

And when God saw what Noah did, He
said that He would drown the world no
more with a flood; and He set the bright
rain-bow in the sky, and bade Noah look at
it and know it was a sign that He would

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CHAPTER VI.
MAN STILL PROUD AND BAD.

I pare say you will think all pride after this
must have gone from the hearts of men, and
that they must have felt how great God was,
and how weak they were, when they had seen
what He could do in the flood. But no,
they soon grew proud once more; and then
they thought they would build a large town,
which all men would see, and think how
great they had been, and in the town they
would build a high, high place, which should
reach up to the sky. But God saw their
pride, and He would not have it; so He
put a stop to their work. How, do you
think? He made all their speech strange,
so that no man knew what his friend
meant.

This, as you may think, soon put a stop
to their work. Nor was this all; for God



IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE. 27

sent them to live in all parts of the earth,
to dwell no more in one place as they
had done. So their high place which they
thought so much of, the name of which was
Ba-bel, was not built.)

CHAPTER VIL.
A-BRA-HAM, THE MAN OF FAITH.

Time went on, and more and more men
were born, and the world was much more
full. Oh, that they had been good and
true men, with the love of God in their
hearts! But you will see as you go on how
sin grew asmen grew. Still, I have to tell
you of good men and glad things, as well
as of what is bad and sad. So let me tell
you now of A-bra-ham, a man of faith, as
Noah was. :
When first we hear of him he dwelt in a
land with all his friends, but God bade him



28 BIBLE STORIES’

leave this land, and go far from all he knew
to a land strange to him then, but which
God said He would give to his seed to dwell
in, and where He would bless them and
make them rich and great. So at once
A-bra-ham left his own land, and with his
wife, and his brother’s son, whose name was
Lot, he went forth to the new strange land.

First, God led him from place to place,
and he grew rich in flocks and herds, and
so did Lot, till they had more than could
be well fed in one place, and they went
each one his own way that their men might
not strive for the grass on which to feed the
herds. The place where A-bra-ham went ~
was rich and fine, and there God bade him
stay, and said it should be his own land, and
that it was there he should grow rich.

But great and rich as he was, there was
one thing he had not, and which it was his
ereat, great wish to have, and that was a
child. So he told his wish to God, who

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IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE. 29

said this too he should have; yes, a son
and son’s sons. Then God gave him a son
who was most dear to him, and whose name
was I-saac; and when I-saac was grown up
to be a boy, one day God told A-bra-ham to
‘take this dear son up to a hill, and there
lay a pile of wood, and bind his son and
kill him upon it, and give him up to Him.
_ Poor A-bra-ham, quite strong in his trust
in God, but with a most sad heart, did as

God bade him, and went up to the hill with
his dear boy, and as they went Isaac said,
‘“‘ Here is wood, but where is a lamb for us
to of-fer 2?” and A-bra-ham said, ‘‘ God will
send a lamb,’ and so He did; for just as
-A-bra-ham had bound his son, and was |
-tea-dy to kill him, he saw a ram caught in
the hedge by its horns, and heard a voice

which told him to stop; for God saw his

faith, and trust in Him, and would try him

no more.
Think of A-bra-ham’s joy as he went



30 BIBLE STORIES













ABRAHAM AND ISAAO,



IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE. 31

home with his dear boy still by his side,
and how his trust and faith in his God
must have grown still more and more. ;

CHAPTER VIII.
THE TWO TOWNS THAT WERE BURNT.

Now you must hear some more of Lot, who,
when he and Abraham found they must
part, went to live in a large town.

The men who were in this town were
bad, bad men, and God told Abraham he
meant to send fire down and kill them all.
Then did Abraham pray and ask God that
He would not do so if there were some few
good: men found there. But in all that
large town, and a town close by, there was.
no good man save Lot. So God sent two
an-gels to warn Lot of what was to come
to pass, and bade him take his wife and his
sons and their wives out of the town; and
the an-gels led them out. But as they



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went Lot’s wife did look back at the town,
though they were told they must not do
this, and at once God smote her, and she
was made in-to a pil-lar of salt. See
how sad it was that she.would not do what
God bade her! And as soon as Lot and
those with him were safe out of the place,
God sent down fire, and burnt both towns
quite up.

This is all I need tell you of Lot;
and we will now hear more of A-bra-ham
and his son. ,

CHAPTER IX.
A-BRA-HAM SENDS FOR A WIFE FOR HIS SON.
A-sra-HAm did not wish his son to take a
wife of the land where he was, and he made
up his mind to send his head man to fetch
a wife for I-saac from the land whence God
had brought him. When the head man
came to this land, the beasts he had with
him were in want of drink, and he took



IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE. 83

them to the side of a well, and soon there
came to the well a young girl, who drew
from the well and gave drink to his poor
beasts. “She wasa kind, nice girl, with a
sweet face, and he gave her gifts, and bade
her tell him her name. This she did, and
led him to her home, where he was bade to
stay and rest, and where her friends gave
him all he had need of. So he told them
who he was and what he had come to this
place for, and said he should like to take
this nice kind girl back with him to be wife
to I-saac, and she was glad to go with him,
for he spoke well of I-saac and of A-bra-
ham. ‘This girl’s name was Re-be-kah.

I must give you these long names to spell
out; but some one, I am sure, will tell you
how to.call them. (

~ So Re-be-kah went with this man to
I-saac’s house. He was out in the fields;
and he.saw them come, and he spoke to the

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made glad that God had sent him so good
a wite. —

By and by Tena and Re-be-kah had two
sons born, to whom they gave the names of
H-sau and Ja-cob, and of them there is
much you must hear. hey were twins, but
H-sau was born just a short time before
Jacob.

When they grew up it was H-sau’s work
to go into the fields and hunt, and he was
wise as to how to catch game; but Ja-cob,
who did not care for such wild Spe, dwelt
at home in his tent.

One day H-sau came home from a long
hunt, quite faint for want of food, and he
found that Ja-cob had just made some good
soup which hemeantto eat. Then Eisausaid,
“Feed me, I pray thee, with thy soup, for
Lam faint.” And Jacob said, “I will give it
thee if for it thou wilt sell to me all that
which thou wilt have as first-born son when
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thou art the first-born.” And so much did
E-sau want the soup, he sold his rights as
first-born for the sake of it.s

CHAPTER X. _
OLD I-SAAC.

Next we hear how Ja-cob got his fa-ther
to bless him more than E-sau. This is
how that came to pass. I-saac, by the time
T tell you of, was quite old and blind, and
one day he told H-sau to go and hunt some
game and cook it, and bring it to him, and
he would bless him.

Re-be-kah heard him say this, and her love
for Ja-cob was great, and she did not. want
him to lack what H-sau had; so she bade him
kill a kid, and she made a good dish of meat,
then she told Ja-cob to put the skins of the
kid on his hands and neck, for Ja-cob was
a man with a smooth skin, but H-sau’s skin

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When Ja-cob had done this, he took the
dish of kid to I-saac, and said, “Rise, I
pray thee, and eat.”

And the old fa-ther said, ‘“‘ How hast thou
been so quick, my son ?”

And Ja-cob said, ‘The Lord God brought
it to me.” Still the poor blind old man,
had doubts as to which son it was, for he
thought the voice was the voice of Ja-cob.

‘Then he felt his hands, which had the
skins of the kid on them, and he thought
it must be E-sau with his rough skin. And,
so at last he did bless him with the first
and best bless-ing, as though it was his
first-born son.

No doubt God let all this be; still, the
act of sin was no less on the part of Ja-cob.

By and by poor Hi-sau came in from his
hunt, and when he had made his game fit
to eat, he took it to his fa-ther and said,
“Rise, eat, and bless me, my fa-ther.”
Then I-saac said, ‘‘ Who art thou?” and he



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said, “I am thy son, thy first-born son
E-sau.,”

I-saac saw the false act of Ja-cob, and
was sad, but he told H-sau that he “had
blest Ja-cob, and he must be blest.” Then
H-sau wept, and said, “Canst thou not
bless me as well, O my fa-ther?” Then
I-saac blest him, but could not change what
he had said which made Ja-cob head and
lord of all the sons of I-saac.y

CHAPTER XI.
LEAH AND RA-CHEL.

You will not think it strange that H-sau
was wroth with Ja-cob, and said he would
slay him ; so their mo-ther bade him leave
her, and go to a far-off land, the land
where she was born, that he might be safe.
Then he went far from his home, and as he
went on his way night came on, and he laid
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upon which to rest his head. While he slept
he sawa glad sight; he saw in a dream high
steps that went up from the earth to the sky,
and on them an-gels of God, who went up
and down; and at the top he saw the Lord
God, who spoke to him and told him He
would give that land where he lay to him and
to his seed, and that He would bless him and
make him great and rich. When Ja-cob
woke up his heart was glad, and he swore

- that he would seek to do henceforth that

which was right, and to walknear to God, who
was so good to him in of spite all his sins.

Then Ja-cob went on his way, and came
to the land to which his mo-ther had sent
him, and he went in-to a field, where there
was a well, by the side of which were three
flocks of sheep which had laid down to rest,
and the men who had the care of them were
with them.

Ja-cob spoke to the men, and said, “ Do
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Now La-ban was the man his mo-ther
had bade him seek, and the men said, “ Yes,
we know him, and soon will his young girl
Ra-chel come here with his sheep, which
she takes care of.” When she came Ja-cob
went\to help her put the stone off the
well, and he gave drink to her sheep; and
ne told her who he was and whence he
came, and she, quite glad to hear it, took
him to her home.

There, year by year, did he stay, for his
love ‘for Rachel was great, and he would
have her for his-wife; but Laban made
him first take to wite her sis-ter Leah,
whom he did not love so much; and then
he had to wait on some years more ere he
could get Ra-chel for his wife.

You know, in the land I tell you of, men
might have two or more wives.

Well, at last, when Ja-cob had got his
two wives, and had grown quite rich in
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best to go to his old home; and as he
went, who should he meet but H-sau; and
you may think he felt some fear when he
saw him, for he knew how bad and false he
had been to him.

He sent some of his men to H-sau with
gifts of cows and sheep, but he did not
dare to come him-self till he heard that
his heart was kind, and his wrath had
passed by; and to his joy, when they came
near E-sau ran to meet him, and kiss
him, and spoke kind words to his wives
and sons, and would not take the gifts
till Ja-cob told him it would make him
more glad he should do so.

Yet one thing more took place while
Ja-cob was on his way home.

It was just at the time when he had sent
his men on with the gifts to H-sau.

While he stood by him-self God met
him face to face, and told him He should
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You will now find that I speak of him
from time to time by his new name, and
that his sons and grand-sons, bore the
name of Is-ra-el-ites, or the men of
Is-ra-el.

CHAPTER XII.
JA-COB AND HIS SONS.

Anp now I have a good deal to tell you of
Ja-cob or Is-ra-el.. Hirst, you must hear,
that his wife Le-ak had ten sons ;| but his
dear wife Ra-chel for a long time o none,
and he thought God did not mean to bless
her with them. Then at last, to his and
her great joy, she had two boys, whose
names were Jo-seph and Ben-ja-min.
And for the great love he bare to his wife
Ra-chel, his love for these two sons was
deep and strong.

Now the ten sons of Le-ah did not like
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Jo-seph, and they made up their minds
they would get rid of him.

So one day when they were out in the
fields with their sheep, they saw him come
in-to the field, and they said, ‘“‘ Let us put
him down in-to this pit, and kill a goat,
and dip his gay coat which his fa-ther gave
him, in the blood of the goat, and take it
home to his fa-ther and tell him a wild
beast has put him to death.”

But it seems one of these bad men had
not quite so hard a heart as the rest, and
he said, ‘‘ Not so, let us not kill him, but
let us sell him to these men whom you
may see come this way.”

Then they took him up out of the pit
where they had put him, and sold him to
some strange men from the land of Egypt,
whom just then they saw pass by.

Poor boy! how sad he must have felt;
and how sad must his poor fa-ther have
been, whose love for him was so great, when



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he saw the gay coat all red with blood, and
heard the false tale of his death.

So Jo-seph went far off, to Egypt, a
strange land, and there, in a short time,
and for no fault of his, he was cast in-to a
jail. You know what that is, do you not?
It is a strong place built round with high
walls, from whence no man can get out, and
where are put the thieves and bad men who
are not fit to live free lives. »

But Jo-seph, as I told you, had done no
harm or wrong, and was put in there for no
cause. So good was he while he was there
that the head man of the jail was kind to
him, and made him help him to take care
of the men in the jail.

By and by, two of these men dreainé
strange dreams, and thought these dreams
must mean to show them what was to come
to pass. ‘Then God made Jo-seph wise to
see what they meant, and this he told to
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come true; and you will see how in this
way God’s help came to Jo-seph.

CHAPTER XIII.

THE KING'S DREAMS.

In a short time the king of this land of
Egypt had some strange dreams, and he
sent for all his wise men and bade them
tell him what his dreams meant. But no
one could do so; then one of the men who
had been in jail with Jo-seph, told the
King that there was a wise young man
there whose words had come true in the
case of his dream.

The King then sent for Jo-seph and
told him his dreams, and bade him tell
him what they meant.

You would like, I am sure, to hear what
these dreams were.

One was, that the King saw seven full



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ears of corn and seven thin ears, and the
seven thin ears ate up the seven full ears.
And then he dreamt he saw seven fat cows
come up out of a stream, and seven thin
cows come up from the same stream and
eat up the seven fat cows.

Then God gave Jo-seph to know what
these dreams meant; and he said, “ These
two dreams mean five same thing. God
will send seven years when the corn and
fruits of the earth shall grow well and give
much food; and then He will send seven
years when all shall fail, and there will be
no food to eat. So now let the King be
wise and set a man to rule the land, and
store the corn, that there may be no want
when the bad time comes.”

All this the King felt to be true, and he
thought, what man can I find more wise
than this one? And he put a ring on
Jo-seph’s hand, and made him to rule the
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and well it was the King did this, for all
the seven good years did Jo-seph make the
men of the land save up the corn and put
it safe in barns; and when at last the
seven bad years came, and no seed came
up, and no corn was to be had, while all
the lands round were in sad want of bread
this land was well fed, for the corn they
had was like the sand of the sea, so much
was there.4

CHAPTER XIV.
LE-AH’S SONS GO TO BUY CORN.

In the land where Ja-cob and his sons
dwelt there was no corn, nor bread, and
their want was great; so when Ja-cob
heard how much corn there was in H-gypt
he said to his sons, “ Go to E-gypt, where
I hear there is much corn, and buy, that
we may live and not die.”

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Ja-cob would not let Ben-ja-min go; for
he said, ‘“ Lest some harm come to him.”

And when these ten men came to buy
corn, Jo-seph it was who sold it to them ;
but they did not know him, though he
knew them; and they made low bows to
him, as to a great and strange man.

Then Jo-seph spoke with a rough voice,
and in a way not his own to them, and
said, “ Whence come ye?”

Then they said, “We come from the
land of Ca-na-an to buy food.”

And Jo-seph made as though he did not
know them, and said, “‘ Ye are spies, come
to spy out our land, and see how poor we
are.”

And they said, ‘Nay, my lord; but to
buy food are we come. We are all the
sons of one man, and are true men and no
spies. We are twelve sons of one man:
ten are here, one is at home, and one is
not.”



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* Then Jo-seph said, “I will prove you, if
you be true men or spies. Ye shall not go
forth from hence till the young one comes
from home; send one of you to fetch him,
and the rest shall stay here in jail till he
is come.}’ :

Then he kept them in jail for three days,
but his heart was sad. to think of his
old fa-ther and Ben-ja-min at home and in
want, so he kept one of them bound in
jail, and the rest he let go with corn to
their home; but he bade them come back
soon, and bring the young one with them.

Then Jo-seph had corn put in all their
sacks, and when they paid for it, he bade
his men put the money they had paid, as
well as the corn, in all their sacks.

This the men did not know of till they
had gone some way, and then, when one of
them took some food out of his sack to
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When they got home to Ja-cob they told
him all that had come to pass, and they
un-did their sacks, and each one found his
money in his sack. They could not think
what all this meant; but as they had guilt
and grief in their hearts for the bad deed they
had done some years past to Jo-seph, this
strange thing gave them more grief than joy.

And what did their poor fa-ther feel when
he heard them ask him to let them take his
dear young son toH-gypt? He felt he could
not part with him, and he said, “‘ My two
sons Jo-seph and Si-me-on are gone, and
now you would take this one as well. My
son shall not go down with you.”

CHAPTER XV.
THE TEN MEN GO ONCE MORE TO E-GYPT.

So for some time they went no more to
E-gypt; but when all the corn they had



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brought with them was gone, and they
were in sad need of food, they once more
said to Ja-cob, “ Let us go to H-gypt, and
take the boy with us; for if we take him
not we shall get no corn.”

So at last, but with a sad heart, the poor
old man bade them go; but he said they
were to take gifts with them, and money, and
the money they had found in their sacks,
and try to win Jo-seph to be kind to them.

When they came to Jo-seph, and he saw
the lad for whom he had so true a love, his
heart was full of love and joy, and he had
a feast made in his house, and these men
brought to eat with him.

Still they did not know him. They gave
him their gifts, and spoke to him as to a
‘strange man.

And Jo-seph was kind to them, and bade
them eat’ and drink and not fear; and to
Ben-ja-min he sent the best al most of
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But still he did not tell them who he
was; and once more he let them go with
their sacks full of corn; and once more he
made his men put the money in the sacks’
mouths ; and yet more, he bade them put
his own cup that he drank out of in Ben-
ja-min’s sack; and then he let them go.

And when they were not long gone, he
sent his head-man to stop them, and tell
them he knew they had got his cup.

They were full of grief and pain that
this should be said of them, and said,
‘Search and see, for we have not done
this bad thing.”

And lo! itwas found in Ben-ja-min’s sack.

Then they rent their clothes, and went
back to the town. |

And when they came to Jo-seph’s house
they fell on the ground at his feet. And
he said, ““Go back, all of you, to your
fa-ther ; I will but keep him in whose sack
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Now this one was just the one, the loss
of whom they knew would break their poor |
old fa-ther’s heart; so they told Jo-seph of
their fa-ther’s fond love for Ben-ja-min,
and all he had said to them ere he would
trust his dear son with them. #

And their grief was great. So Jo-seph
could hide what he felt no more. He sent
all who stood by from the room, and he
wept, and said, “I am Jo-seph: doth my
fa-ther yet live ?”

- They could not speak for fear; but he
said, ‘‘ Come near, and fear not; you sold
me to this land, but it was God who sent
me, that I might save your lives. Go and
tell your fa-ther that I am lord of all
E-gypt, and bring him here to me; and
you shall dwell in this land, and have all
you need.”

And he fell on Ben-ja-min’s neck and
wept; nor did he fail to kiss those who had
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CHAPTER XVI.
JA-COB GOES TO E-GYPT.

Wuen the King of E-gypt heard of Jo-
seph’s wish to have his fa-ther with him,
he bade him send and bring Ja-cob and his
sons, and their wives, and all they had, and
to come up to live in E-gypt. And, old as
Ja-cob was, when he heard this glad news
he said, “I will go and see my son ere I
die.”

God did not leave Ja-cob in doubt if it
were right that he should go to H-gypt;
but as he went on his way God spoke to
him, and said, “I am God; fear not to go
down to Egypt, for I will there make thee
great. I will go down there with thee, and
I will bring thee forth thence once more.”

So Ja-cob went on his way with no fear.

And when they came to the land, Jo-
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he saw his fa-ther he fell on his neck and
wept long. Weve

Ah! can you not think of the joy they
felt; they who had not met for so long, and
whose love was so great.

And poor old Ja-cob said, ‘‘ Now let me
die, for I have seen thy face once more.”

Then Jo-seph went to the King, and
took five of the sons of Ja-cob with him,
and told the King who they were, and that
they had cows and sheep, which they had
brought with them, for there was no grass
in their own land.

And the King bade Jo-seph give them
the best part of H-gypt to dwell in, and
there they were in peace for long, till the
time of old Ja-cob’s death drew nigh, and
he sent for Jo-seph, and told him when he
was dead he would not be laid in the grave
in E-gypt, but in his own land.

And Ja-cob put his hands on the heads
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when he did so he laid his hand first not
on the first-born son, but on the young one;
and so he did bless him first and best.

Then Ja-cob sent for all his sons, and
spoke much to them of what should come
to pass, and spoke the words God gave him
to speak to them. Strange words they were
to them. then ; but much must they have
thought of them in the years that came,
when he who spoke to them was dead.

And when he had made an end of all his
wise, God-sent words, he went to his last
sleep.

God took him from them.

Poor Jo-seph! it was sad to him to see
his fa-ther die, and he fell on his fa-ther’s
face—his dead, cold face—and wept.

Then he bade wise men, who knew how
to do such things, to wrap the dead corpse
up with sweet spice; and by and by he got
the King’s leave to take the corpse, and lay
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land of E-gypt, but in a grave in Ca-na-an,
where A-bra-ham had laid his wife.

And the King, who was kind in all his
thoughts for Jo-seph, sent men to help him.

So Jo-seph and “the house of Ja-cob”
grew rich and great in Hgypt; and when
Jo-seph grew old, he bade them, when he
was dead and they left H-gypt, not leave his
bones there; for, you see, none of these
men could cease to think of their own land
of Ca-na-an, to which God had brought
them long since.

CHAPTER XVII.
THE HARD TASKS.

Aut you have yet heard of the life of the
sons of Ja-cob in EH-gypt has been good,
but this peace did not last.

When the King, who I told you was so
kind to them, was dead, and Jo-seph was
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known Jo-seph, and who did not like to
see the men of Is-ra-el (that is, the sons
and sons’ sons of Ja-cob, whose name, I
have told you, God said was to be Is-ra-el)
grow so great and rich in his land. So he
sought to put them down, and keep them
poor and low; and he made them work
hard to make bricks, and build, and work
hard in the fields.

And far worse than this—he said when a
boy was born to the Is-ra-el-ites he was to
be put to death, that no more should grow
up to be men in his land; and he said that
when a boy was born the nurse should take
it and put it to death. But no, they had
not the heart to do this, and they were sure
it would not please God; so they would
not do it. |

But this did not save the poor boys; for
the hard, bad king bade the men of E-gypt
take the poor boys and throw them into the
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But God, who sees all that goes on at all
times, and has His own wise ways, let one
man child be kept safe to do a great work for
Him, and of this child you shall now hear.

There was a man and his wife who had
a son born to them—a fine, fair child it
was, and the wife hid him, while he was
quite young, in his own home.

But when he was three months old she
found it hard to hide him more, and great
was her fear and dread lest some one should
find him out, and take him from her, and .
cast him in-to the river.

So what did she do? She made an ark
—a kind of small boat—of flags that grew
by the side of the stream, and she laid her
babe in it, and put it on the edge of the
stream in the flags which grew there.

Poor thing! with what a sad heart she
left her dear child there in all that risk!

By the stream she left a girl of hers to
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By and by a daugh-ter of the King came
to bathe in this stream, and, as she stood ~
at the side, she saw the small ark.

Then she sent one of her maids to fetch
it; and, hark! she heard the poor wee
babe cry. Then she felt much grief for it,
and said, ‘This is one of the poor babes
the King would slay.”

She made up her mind she would save
this child, and take it to her home. Then
the girl whom I told you stood by the stream
came up, and said, ‘‘ Shall I go and call a
nurse to nurse this child for thee?” And
the la-dy said, ‘“‘Go!” So the girl ran and
brought the child’s own mo-ther.

CHAPTER XVIII.
MORE OF MO-SES.

Mosss’ mo-ther took him home to nurse
and care for him; and when he grew so old
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back to the lady at the King’s court. With
her he was brought up, as if he had been
her own son; and it was she who gave him
the name of Mo-ses.

Now when Mo-ses grew to be a man he
saw how hard was the life led by the Is-ra-
el-ites in H-gypt, and he sought how to
help them.

Some of the things he did for them came
to the ears of the King; and he, in his
wrath, sought to slay Moses.

This God would not let be, for He had
much work for Mo-ses to do.

Mo-ses fled to the land of Mid-i-an, to
be safe from the King.

There he sat down by a well; and as he
sat there, some girls came to give their
sheep drink; then Mo-ses drew for them
from the well, and drove off some rude men
who would have kept them back from the
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and gave him bread to eat, and he dwelt
with them in their home, and took one of
them to be his wife.

At the death of this King of H-gypt, you
will grieve to hear a worse one came to the
throne, who put more hard work and toil
on the poor Is-ra-el-ites.

But though man was hard on them, God
saw them, and heard their cry for help; and
the help He sent them was by the same
Mo-ses I have told you of, one of them-
selves, kept safe, no doubt, by God for this
work.

CHAPTER XIX.
MO-SES SENT BY GOD.

Mo-ses was out one day, in a lone, wild
place, with a flock of sheep, and there he
saw a strange sight; he saw a bright flame
come forth from a bush as if the whole

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Then God spoke to him from this bush,
and said, “ Mo-ses, Mo-ses;” and Mo-ses
said, ‘““Here am I.”

Then God said, “‘ Draw not near, but put:
your shoes from off your feet, for I am here.
T am the God of thy fa-thers.”

Then Mo-ses hid his face in fear.

God then told him how He had seen the
hard fate of the poor Is-ra-el-ites, and
heard their cry of grief, and was come down
to help them, and to lead them out of that
land to a rich land, which they should have
for their own.

And God said He would send Mo-ses to
lead them out.

Then said Mo-ses, ‘Who am I, that I
should do this ?”

And God said that He would go with
him ; and though the task would be a hard
one, yet, by His strong arm, it should be
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strength, and of the help that should be
his.

Mo-ses did not like the task at all,
and he said to the Lord, that he could not
speak well, and was not a good man to
plead the Lord’s cause.

Then the Lord said that A-ar-on, the
bro-ther of Mo-ses, should go with him ;
and that He would give them both words
to speak, and would make them wise.

And God bade them take with them a
rod, through which He said they should
work great acts and deeds.

CHAPTER XxX.
THE PLAGUES OF E-GYPT.

Av last, though it would seem with much
dread at his heart, Mo-ses went back to
H-gypt, to do the work which God had set

him; and as he went he met A-ar-on.
So they both went in to the King, and
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said, they had come to beg him to let them
lead the Is-ra-el-ites out of the land.

How wroth was the King; and how far
more hard he made the tasks of the poor
men!

He bade them who had charge of them,
press them moreand more at their hard work.
They had, as I told you, bricks to make.

Now to make these bricks they had to
use straw, which was brought to them; but
now the King said they must go and find
the straw where they could; and yet they
must make the same bricks as if they had
straw to their hand; and if they did not,
men should beat them.

Poor men! this was hard work for them,
and it was hard for them to think that
Mo-ses and A-ar-on, who had come to help
them, should make their lot worse than it
had yet been.

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A-ar-on to work strange signs in the eyes
of the King.

But no, these strange signs would not
make him see the men were sent of God;
and he would not let the Is-ra-el-ites go.

So at last God, in His wrath, sent what
we call plagues on the land of H-gypt.
First He bade Mo-ses stretch his rod over
the water, and it and all the water in the
land was made blood, so that no one could
drink it, and all the fish-in it died.

Then He sent frogs into all the land,
frogs into the roads and fields, frogs into
the rooms and into the beds. A bad plague
this was, and the King said if the plague
of frogs was taken away, then would he let
the Is-ra-el-ites go.

So God took them off the land; and as
soon as they were gone, the heart of the
King grew hard once more; and he would
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He made all the dust turn into lice.

He made flies come thick over all things.

He sent a bad plague on all the beasts
in the land, which caused them to die.

He made bad boils to come on man and
beast.

He sent hard hail which beat down the
crops. And all that was not spoilt by the
hail, locusts came and eat up.

Then He made it so dak in the day, for |
three whole days, that they could not move,
or see at all.

And when these plagues came, the King
said, if Mo-ses would pray God to take them
off the land, he would let the men of Is-ra-el
go; but it was just the same, each time;
as soon as the plague was gone the King’s
heart grew hard.

But at last God sent a plague that did
quite touch the King’s hard heart.

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and put some of the blood of the lamb on
the posts of the doors; for He said that
night should He send one to pass through
the land, to kill the first-born of each house,
but the blood should show when a house
was that of an Is-ra-el-ite, for there would
he not slay; for none of these plagues came
on them.

And so it was done. And when morn
came, and the men of E-gypt woke up, lo!
in each house the first-born was dead.

Oh, what a land of grief it was that day,
and with what hastethe King sent to Mo-ses
and A-ar-on, and bade them go, and take
all the Is-ra-el-ites with them ; fast, fast he
bid them go, lest more grief should yet come.

And so it was God set them free, and led
them out from the land where grief and
toil had been their lot; and would have
led them at once to the good land He had
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CHAPTER XXI.
THE RED SEA.

You will think, when the king of E-gypt
had gone through so much woe at the
Lord’s hand, he would have let the Is-ra-
el-ites go in peace.

But no; when he heard they were gone,
he said, ‘‘ Why have we let them go? Who
shall now serve us?” So he got his men
and his cars, and he drove with speed on
the way they had gone, and he found them
close to the Red Sea, which they had to
cross to get from his reach.

Then God, the same good God who had
led them forth, bade Mo-ses lift his rod up
and stretch out his hands to the sea; and
when he had done so, the sea rose up like
a wall on this side and on that, so that
the Is-ra-el-ites could pass through on dry
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go in like way, on dry land; but God made
the wheels of their war cars fall off, so that
they could not drive fast, and when they
were but half way through the sea, the
men of Is-ra-el were safe on the far side.

When God, that good God, whose help is
so sure to come to those who trust Him,
saw they were safe, He made the walls of
the sea to close in and drown the King and
all his hosts!

Oh, the joy that Moses and all those he
had led out felt, that they were safe!

They sang at once a glad song of praise
to God.

They said, ‘The Lord is my strength
and my song. He is my God; we will praise
Him. He isa man of war; the Lord is
His name. The king and his hosts has He
cast into the sea.” And much more which
you will like to read when you can make
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CHAPTER XXII.
MANNA.

AND now you say to yourself, “ These men
must have gone on their way in full joy and
trust in the God who had done such great
things for them.”

No: after they had passed through the
Red Sea safe, they came to a place where
there was no stream for them to drink from ;
and though they went on till they found
one, it was not good. And did they then
trust God ?

No ; at once they said it was hard, and
made a grief of it to Mo-ses.

But God came to Mo-ses’ help, and told
him to take a branch of a tree which He
would show him, and cast it in the stream,
and as soon as Mo-ses did so, the stream
was good for them to drink.

Then as they went on, they felt sad they
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had good food there, and here they did not
know what to eat. So God sent them a
kind of bread. He made it come down
like frost on the ground each day, and they
were to go and get in all they would want
for each day, no more; if they took more,
God said it would turn bad, and would not
keep, but on the sixth day they were to get
what would last that day and the next ; for
they were to do no work on the last day of
the week, which was God’s day. Andon that
day God did not send down this bread.

The name of this food was Man-na; it
. was, to look at, like a small white seed;
and to taste, it was sweet.

I told you it would not keep, nor would ©
it, save that Mo-ses, by God’s word, made
them pick up some and put it by in a pot,
that they and their sons, and sons’ sons,
year by year might look at it, and know the
help God had sent them in the strange land.
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CHAPTER XXIII.
GOD GAVE THE LAW.

As the men of Is-ra-el went through this
~ land, they came to a large, high hill, the
name of which was Mount Si-na-i. There
they set their tents up round the Mount.

God bade Mo-ses come up to speak to
Him in this Mount, and the men round in
their tents heard thun-der, and saw fire
come forth from the Mount.

Then God spake to Mo-ses, and gave
him laws by which he should rule the men
of Is-ra-el; and He gave him plans by
which he and the men of Is-ra-el should
know how to build a large tent for the Lord,
where He would meet with Him.
. There was no part which God did not

show to him and tell him of; for God will
have men serve Him in His own way, and ,
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apart priests, and the dress they were to
wear, and the work they were to do in His
house. And He told him of the lights and
the oil they were to bless and use, and the
sweet scent they were to burn, and what
they were to offer.

And God told him how they were to
spend their weeks; six days for their own
work, and one to be kept for the Lord’s use.

When He had said all this, He gave
Mo-ses two large slabs of stone, on which
with His own hand He wrote the laws.

Ah, how glad must Mo-ses have felt
' when he ‘had heard all this, and knew he
might go down and tell it to the men he
thought stood at the foot of the Mount to
watch and wait for him. How he must
have thought, ‘““Now I will make them
glad with all God’s words to me.”

Ah, no! ah, no! They did not wait;
they did not watch. Ina short time they
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us? We know not where he is gone. Up,
make us gods which shall lead us.”

_ So A-a-ron bade them break off their
rings which were in their ears and in their
Wives’ ears, and bring them to him; and out
of these gold rings he made a calf of gold,
And he said, ‘¢These be thy gods which
brought thee up out of the land of H-gypt.”

The next day they made a great feast,
and sat down to eat and to drink, and rose
up to play. And while they did all this,
God bade Mo-ses go down to them, and He
told him what he should find. And God
was wroth with them. So Mo-ses went
down from the Mount, and in his hands he
took the two slabs of stone with the laws
which God wrote on them.

And when Mo-ses got down and saw the
calf, and the men dance and shout in its °
praise, his grief and wrath were such, that
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Mo-ses then took the calf-and burnt it
in the fire, and told the men how great their
sin had been in this want of trust in God,
and in that they had made gods to lead
them, when there was but one true God.

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CHAPTER XXIV.
MOSES ONCE MORE IN THE MOUNT.

You will be glad to hear God let Mo-ses
hew out two more stones, like the first,
and take them up to the top of the Mount.
- And there God spoke to Mo-ses once more,
and stood with him in the Mount. And
Mo-ses knelt there, and hid his face, and
heard with awe the words of the Lord.

And‘as the Lord bade him, he wrote the
words of the Law on the new stones.

And he was long up in the Mount with
God; and when he came down his face
shone, so that he had to put a veil on it
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Next we are told how Mo-ses and the
men of Is-ra-el made the house, or tent,
of God, just as God had told Mo-ses it was
to be made. And when it was done, a cloud
game down on it from God—a cloud by day,
and a cloud of fire by night—to show that
God was there.

The next part we read in God’s Book
tells us all the laws which God gave to
these Is-ra-el-ites by Mo-ses. He told all
they were to do, and all they were not to do.
But I will not tell you all this; it is more
than you could think of while you are so
young.

CHAPTER XXV.
THE SPIES.
Now I will pass on to a time when these
men had so strong a wish for some new kind
of food, and not the same man-na I told you

God fed them with, that they wept, and
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And God’s wrath was great with them ;
and in His wrath He gave them their wish.
He sent them birds which we call quails,
and they were glad.

But while they yet ate of them God’s
wrath sent on thema great plague; that is,
He made them quite ill and sick, so that
many died.

The men were-Avorn and sad that they
went on and on so long, and yet did not
come to the good land which God had said
He would bring them to, and to which He
would have brought them much sooner had
they been good and true.

Some of them said the land where they
were to go was not a good land. Then
Mo-ses chose some men out from them, and
sent them on to see the land, and to spy
out what it was like.

And it was then the time when the
grapes were ripe; so these spies cut down
a bunch of grapes so large, that two men

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had to bear it on a pole. This was to
show how rich a land it was.

And they said, “It is a good land and a

rich, but the men of the land are big and
strong, and we can-not fight them.”
__ But two of the spies, Ca-leb and
Josh-u-a, said, “Let us go up and take
the land; we can do so well.” But no;
the men of Is-ra-el would not hear these
two. They would but say they could not
go up to the land to take it, and that some
one must lead them back to H-gypt. They
were wrong and bad in all they said.

Then God spoke and said, for this their
sin not one of them, but Ca-leb and
Josh-u-a, should go in to the land to have
it. Their sons and young ones should go,
but not one of these men who had come up
out of H-gypt. )

From time to time they broke forth in
wrath and bad words and deeds, and God
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Once some of them were so bad, that
God made the earth open, and fire come up
and kill them.

They came to a place where there was
no drink for them, and at once they were
wroth, and did not think how God had
brought a stream from the bare rock for
them some time back.

Then God bade Mo-ses take the rod he
had had in H-gypt, and speak to the rock,
and a stream would come forth.

And Mo-ses said, ‘“‘ Hear now, ye men.,
Must we fetch you drink out of this
rock?” And he smote the rock twice
with his rod, and the stream came forth at
once for them.

- Ah, but this time God’s wrath was upon
Mo-ses, for he had made it out as if he
had brought the stream out of the rock,
without God’s help, for he said, “‘ Must we
fetch drink out of this rock?” and he struck
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God thus warns us against pride, and
shows that He wills that we do what He
says, and nought else; for He told Mo-ses -
that for this sin he should not lead the men
in to the land, but should die on the way.

Tt seems a small thing to you that
Mo-ses did. Yes, but we must have no
way or choice of our own, must not be proud
of anything which God gives us.

God’s way is the right one; that must
we do.

CHAPTER XXVI.
| THE SNAKES.

Now you shall hear of a plague of fierce
snakes which God sent in wrath for the sins
of these men; and these snakes bit, and their
bite was so bad, it brought death with it.

The men said to Mo-ses, “ This is
for our sins; pray the Lord that He may
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When Mo-ses did so, the Lord bade him
make a large snake of brass and set it up
on a high pole, and tell the men to look up
-at it; and when the men who had bites
from the fierce snakes would look up at this
brass snake, they got well once more.

CHAPTER XXVII.
BA-LA-AM’S ASS.

Now we come to a story which I dare say
you have heard; the story of the ass which
spoke.

As the men of Is-ra-el went on their way

they passed through a land where the King
(Ba-lak) felt much fear of them.
' He knew their strength came from God;
so he sent to fetch a man whose name was
Ba-la-am, and who, he seems to have known,
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men, and then he thought he could drive
them out from the land.

But God said to Ba-la-am, “ Thou shalt
not go. Thou shalt not curse these men
for they are blest.”

So Ba-la-am rose up and said to the men
whom the King had sent, ‘“‘ Get you to your
land, for the Lord will not give me leave to
go with you.”

So they went and told the King, and he
sent more men to Ba-la-am, and said, if he
would come he would make him rich.

But no, he would not go, till at last God
gave him leave to do so; but he was to
speak no word but that which God gave
him. '

Next day Ba-la-am got up, and took
his ass, and rode with the men of the
King.

As he went on the road, the An-gel of
the Lord stood in the way with a drawn
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the ass did. And the ass would not go on
in the road, but would try and turn in-to a
field. And Ba-la-am smote the ass to
make it go on its way.

Still there stood the An-gel, and on each
side of the road there was a wall. And as
the ass could not pass she thrust her-self
close up to the wall, so as to crush Ba-
la-am’s foot, and he smote her once more.

Still the ass saw the An-gel, and she fell
down. ‘Then the Lord gave her the gift
of speech; and she said—

“What have I done that thou shouldst
smite me?”

And Ba-la-am said, “If I had a sword
in my hand, now would I slay thee.”

Then God let Ba-la-am see the An-gel.
And the Angel told him to go on his way
with the men, but to speak none but the
word of God.

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see all the men of Is-ra-el, and bade him
curse them. |

But no, God would have him bless; and
bless he must.

In vain did Ba-lak plead that it was a
curse he sought for. God’s will in this, as
in all else, must be done.

CHAPTER XXVIII.
THE DEATH OF MOSES.

I sHann now pass on, and not speak of the
laws and rules laid down by God through
the lips of Mo-ses, but tell you of the time
when he was near to death, and when he
bade all the men—the twelve tribes they
were, who came from and kept the names
of the twelve sons of Ja-cob—come round
him.

These twelve tribes did Mo-ses bless,
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read by and by, in which he tells the name
of the Lord, that He is great, and all His
ways are good; that He is a Rock of
strength to all who trust Him; that He it
was who had led them out from the strange
land; that He had fed them on the way;
and much more, which it would be in vain for
me to try and write so that you could read it.

When he had said all this, he went up to
the top of a high mount.

Thence God let him see the land which
the tribes were to have for their own, but
where Mo-ses must not go, for that once
when he spake not wisely with his lips.

Thence he saw it all; and then in peace
he laid down to die.

An old man he was, twice as old as most
men are now when they die, but his eye
was not dim; nor was he weak, nor his
strength gone.

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CHAPTER XXIX.
JOSH-U-A TOOK MO-SES’ PLACE.

‘Wo was to lead the men on now? Who
was to take the place of Mo-ses? God gave
them now in-to the hands of Josh-u-a—one
of the two good spies I told you of—and he,
we are told, was wise, and on him Mo-ses
had laid his hands, to bless him and to
make him fit for the work he was to do.
The men of Is-ra-el were glad to have him
to lead them.

And God spake to him, and bade him lead
them on, and said He would give them all
the land; and that He would not leave him
to himself, nor fail him, but that he and
they must be strong and bold, and do all
that Mo-ses had taught them, and keep
God’s laws in all things, and then He, the
Lord, would go with them, and be their
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to the men, and said he would lead them if
they would let him ; and the men said they
would go where he bade them, and do what
he told them.

And now God said He would lead them
at once into the land where they were to
dwell, but to get there they must cross a
deep stream, the name of which was Jordan;
but God bade them not fear, He would take
them through it. So He bade some of the
priests take the Ark, which was a kind of
chest kept in God’s house, and in which were
kept all the things of most worth in that
House (as the pot with the man-na; Aaron’s
rod, which he took with him into Egypt).

Well, as I said, God bade some priests
take this Ark, and all the men of Israel go
with them, and go to the stream; and as
soon as the priests’ feet came to the edge
of the stream, back it went, as the Red
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Then Josh-u-a bade the men take twelve
stones—one stone for each of the tribes—
out of Jor-dan, and pile them up in
a heap at the place where they came
to, and where they spent the night.
This was done that when their sons and
sons’ sons should say, ‘“‘ What are these
stones, and what does this heap mean ?’
they should hear of the great deed done
for them on the day when the Lord
brought them safe through Jor-dan, and,
when they heard this, should praise the
Lord.

Now the men of Is-ra-el were no more in
a waste land, but were where they could
get corn and such things to eat; so their
need of the man-na was past, and God sent
it down no more.

When they came past the stream of J or-
dan, they found there a large and strong
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Lord, they did not see how they could take
so large a town. |

But it came to pass, as Joshua stood by
Je-ri-cho—that was the name of the place
—he saw a man who stood by him with a
drawn sword in his hand; then Josh-u-a
said, “Art thou for us or not?” And
the man said, “As prince of the Lord’s
host am I come to you.” | .

See here, help came once more, straight
from the Lord, to these men, for whom He
had such care!

And the Lord told Joshua, by the angel
whom He sent, that, for six days, all the
men of war were to go round the town once
each day, and that some of the priests were
to bear the Ark, while seven priests should
go with them and it, and each take in his
hand a ram’s horn. And on the last day
they should all go seven times round the
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they should all shout with a loud shout.
And all this they did, and when they did so,
the walls of the strong town fell down flat!

Yes, no strong men of war took it, no -
strength got the day. But the Lord gave
it into their hands. The Lord was their
strength and their might.

Then they burnt the town with fire; but
they first took out of it the brass and the
gold, and all the things of real worth, that .
they might use them in the House of God ;
and on all else Josh-ua put a curse, as God
bade him. ;

CHAPTER XXX.

THE MEN WHO CAME TO CHEAT THE MEN
OF IS-RA-EL.

Next we read, in God’s Word, of the way
in which God made a large town, the name
nf which was Ai, to fall in-to the hands of
Josh-u-a, and how Josh-u-a burnt Ai, and

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took its king, and hung him on a tree till
he was dead.

Now, as you can well think, all the kings
in these lands were in sore straits what to
do, and how to save their lands from these
strong men of Is-ra-el.

And they made a bond to fight as one
man to save their lands.

The men of one of the lands (the land
of Gib-e-on) thought they would be quite
wise, and go to work in such a way that
they should cheat Josh-u-a; and think
what they did!

They took old sacks for their corn, and
put wine in old skins (for, you may have
heard, in these lands of the Hast they put
wine and such things in skins of beasts),
and they put on old clothes, and old shoes
on their feet, and took old dry bread, and
went up to the camp of the men of Is-ra-el,
and said, ‘‘ We be come from far; make a
league with us, and we will serve you.”



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WHO, THOUGH THEY CAN NOW READ WELL,
AND FAST,

ARE NOT TOO OLD TO REMEMBER
WHEN THEY WISHED THERE WAS SOME BOOK
THEY COULD READ ALL ALONE
ON SUNDAY;

AND WHO WILL LIKE THEIR AUNTIE
TO DEDICATE

THIS LITTLE BOOK TO THEM.
M. A. B.



PREFACE.

So many pens have already been busy in
writing “Bible Stories” in simple forms
for very young children, I should be almost
tempted to doubt the necessity of the little
work I have now completed, did I not find
many parents and children desiring some-
thing more consecutive than the detached
fragments and mere stories from Scripture
which have yet appeared. I trust this
little book may afford much pleasure and
interest to many children, and occupy those
PREFACE.

Sunday hours often difficult to while away,
when “ Mamma has not time,” or ‘‘is too
tired to read to us.”

I cannot, of ‘course, reduce every word to
a monosyllable, but I hope by dividing, as
I have done, proper names, and the few
words of more than one syllable which I
have been obliged to introduce, to make
them easily read. If the reading of this
little book affords the little ones as much
pleasure as the writing of it has given me,
I shall be well repaid.

M. A. B.




CHAPTER

CONTENTS.

I. God made the World

I.
III.
IV.

v.
VI.

VII.
VIII.
IX.

X.

XI.

XI.
XIII.
XIV.
XV.
XVI.
XVII.
XVIII.
XIX.
XX.
XXII.

Eve and her Sin

The First Death

The Good Man Enoch

Noah comes out of the Ark

Man still Proud and Bad
Abraham, the Man of Faith

The Two Towns that were Burnt

Abraham sends for a Wife for his San Se

Old Isaac sae :

Leah and Rachel ...

Jacob and his Sons

The King’s Dreams 7 ee
Leah’s Sons go to buy Geen ae
The Ten Men go once more to Barat
Jacob goes to Hgypt ... :

The Hard Tasks

More of Moses ...

Moses sent by God

The Plagues of Egypt...

The Red Sea
OHAPTER

XXIL
XXIII.
XXIV.

XXYV.
XXVI.
XXVIII.
XXVIIL
XXIX.

XXX.

XXXII.

XXXII.
XXXII.
XXXIV.
XXXV.
XXXVI.
XXXVII.
XXXVI.
XXXIX.
XL.

XLI.
XLIL.

XLUI.

XLIV.

XLV.
XLVI.
“XLVII.
XLVI.
XLIX,.
L.

CONTENTS.

Manna. ... wee ae as
God gave the Tie : ses
Moses once more in ‘the Mount, |

The Spies ...

The Snakes

Balaam’s Ass :
The Death of Monod.
Joshua took Moses’ Place...

The Men who came to cheat Israel ...

The Judges...

Gideon .

Gideon’s Mleccon

God is with Gideon

The Strong Man Samson...
Ruth... a

The Birth of cemael

The Ark in the Camp... eee
The Ark sent back a
Saul the King ...

Goliath

Saul’s Death ee
David made King ...

The Wise King

Elijah

Elisha ...

Jonah 2

The Jews in a Siranee Tiande
Daniel

The Jews come nace to ante own eee

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CHAPTER I.

GOD MADE THE WORLD.




Wesyq, OU have heard, my dear child-ren,
ale of the great and good God, and
ANG’; how much love He shows us, and
evs' all you have heard will make you
~° glad to hear more, and glad to
read for your-self some of the great things
He has done; so I will write some of these
great things in such short words that you
can sit down and read them to your-self,
Will not that be nice? /

First of all, I must tell you of the time
when there was no earth as it now is; but
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when it had no form or shape, when there
was no one on it, and it was all dark. Then
God spake, and it was light; and He put
the bright sun in the sky to give light by —
day, and the sweet pale moon and stars to
shine in the night.

And God told the seas how far they were
to come, and that they were not to come on ~
the part of the land where He would have it

dry. He made the green grass and the *

tall trees, and all the plants; and then He
‘made all the beasts, both small and great,
and the birds, and the fish to. swim in the
sea. Then, last of all, God made man.
He made him after His own like-ness, good,
and free from all sin. »

God put man to live in a sweet place
where gay plants and rich fruits grew,
where there was no need for the man to
work hard, and grow hot, and worn, as men
must do now. Then God told the man he
was to be lord of all this, and He made
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all the beasts and birds, and all that had
life, to come to the man that he might give
them all their names. Now when God had
done all this He saw that the man had no
one to live with him, no one to speak to,
and God knew he would be sad and lone-ly,
so He gave him a wife to love him, and to
live with him and be a help to him.

The name of this first man was “ Adam,”
and the name of his wife was.‘ Hive.” So
these two were to live in this sweet place I
told you of, the name of which was E-den;
and they were to have all the fruits of the
earth to eat, all but the fruit of one tree.
There were in H-den two trees, one of which
was the “Tree of Life”; the other, which
God said they should not eat of, would, if
they ate of it, make them to know what was
good and what was wrong as God knows it.
I dare say it seems to you when God gave
them so much they should not have sought
to eat of that tree, or break that one rule ?
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I grieve to say they did not feel this, and so
I have to tell you at once of their sin and
grief. *

CHAPTER, IT.
EVE AND HER SIN.

OnE day Eve was near the tree which God
said would, if they ate its fruit, make them
wise as God, and she saw a snake, which |
spoke to her and bade her eat the fruit, and
said it would be well for her and for the
man if she would do so. Hve ought to have
known that what God had told her must
be true, and should have paid no heed to
what this snake said, for he was in truth
the Devil, who took the shape of the snake;
but no, she heard the false words, and she
took of the fruit and did eat, and gave some
to the man and he ate it; and so they broke
the rule of the good, kind God, who had
done so much for them.
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And now you must hear what came of this
first sin. God, who sees all things, saw at
once what A-dam and Eve had done, and
He came and spoke to them, and-said they
should live no more in this nice, sweet place
where He had first put them, lest they might
eat of the “ Tree of Life,” and so live on and
onin sin. So He sent a watch to watch by
the tree with a sword of flame, to keep them
from the fruit.

Nor was this all. God put a curse on
the earth that He had made so fair, and
‘for man’s sin it brought forth thorns and
weeds, and man had to work hard to get
food; and pain and grief came where all
had been so fair, and good, and glad.

Oh, poor Eve! must she not have been
sad to think of all she had brought on the
earth? Yes; but while I tell you of the
grief, I must tell you as well how God, in
His great love, gave poor A-dam and Hive
a hope, a bright hope. What was that, do
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you think? No less a hope than that in
time His own dear Son should come as one
of her seed, and should save the world from
sin and shame, and set man once more at
peace with God. Think how good and kind
He was to give this glad hope at once! ,,

CHAPTER ITI.
THE FIRST DEATH.

Tue next thing I have to tell you is so sad,
it will grieve me to tell it and you to hear.
Adam and Eve had two sons, whose names
were Cain and A-bel. Cain’s work was to
dig the ground and grow corn and fruit;

and Abel took care of the sheep and flocks.

One day Cain brought some of the fruit of
the ground to God that He might see it, and
take it and bless him. For the same end
A-bel brought a lamb out of his flock to God.
And when God saw these two gifts, that
which A-bel brought did please Him, but
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it was not so with what Cain brought, and
this made Cain wroth with A-bel, so wroth,
that he rose up and slew him: yes, he slew
him whom he was bound to love so much!

When God saw it, He told Cain He
knew what he had done, and he would
let him live no more with those whom he
loved, but he should go forth by him-self,
and no one should be kind to him or care
for him, but all should hate him for the bad
deed that he had done. This death of
A-bel was, you gee, the first death there had
been in the world; and this once more
must make us think of poor Eve, and her
deep grief. \

CHAPTER IV.
THE GOOD MAN ENOCH AND THE SAD FRUITS
OF SIN. -

Tse man I shall next tell you of was
H-noch; he was a grand-son of A-dam,
and of him I must tell you that he was so
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good and true in all his ways that God took
him to live with Him, and did not let
him die. Oh, is not that a glad thought,;
that with no pain or grief he should pass
from his good life here to a glad life with
God.

Now you must try and think that more
and more men were born in the world day
by day, but I will not try and tell you
their names, you could not read them if I
did. But I grieve to say they did not get
bet-ter, or, like H-noch, walk near to God;
no, they were so bad, so full of sin, that God,
who saw it all, said, ‘‘I will sweep men whom
I have made from off the face of the earth.”
And in all the whole world there was but
one man who found grace in God’s sight-*

This man’s name was Noah; and God told
this man that He meant to send a flood; a
great rain on the earth, which would drown
all the world. God told Noah to build an
ark, or ship, that he might be safe in it
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when the flood shouldcome. God told him
how he was to build it. Now all this was
strange news to Noah, but he did not doubt
that that which God said was true, and he
set to work to build this ark at once, and as
he built it, he told all the men he spoke to
what God had said, and’ of the flood which
was to come; but they did not care, all they
did was to laugh and mock at Noah; so
year by year, year by year did Noah work
on, and all that time things went. on
just as they had done; but still Noah was
quite sure that God was true, and did not
stop his work.

When the ark was ante made, God told
Noah to take his wife, and his three sons
and their three wives. with him, and go
into the ark; and then God sent two beasts
and two birds of each kind to Noah:to the
ark ; and when all were in, God Him-self
shut the door. Then came down the great
rain; yes, night and day, day and night,
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for more than six long weeks the hard,
hard rain beat down on the earth. Down
it came till all men and beasts, all
that dwelt on the. earth were dead;
yes, all the world which God so. short
a time past had said was “‘ good,” was now
one vast waste place. Once more we see
in this the grief which comes through sin. L

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CHAPTER V.
NOAH COMES OUT OF THE ARK.

Bur Noah—how did Noah get on in his
strange, large ship? He was quite safe,
The hard rain beat, but did not come near
him ; and though his heart must have been
sad for all those he had known on the
earth, yet for him there was peace, and rest
in God. His ark rode on the sea and was
safe. He had heard God’s voice, and he
knew what He said must be true. Noah had
faith; he could not see the flood before
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it came; but God’s word was all true tc him;
and so it should be to all of us; we should
trust in what God tells us, as Noah did.

It was a long time that Noah had to stay
in the ark after the six weeks of rain were
past, for of course the earth was all hid by the
flood, and there was no dry land to be seen.

But now God sent a high wind to blow,
and dry up the water; and when Noah
thought it might be dry, he sent out a bird
from the ark, and this bird flew up and down,
up and down, but found no place to rest on,
so it came back to Noah. Then in a short
time Noah sent out a dove, and the poor
dove found no place to rest on, so she, like
the dove, came back to the safe ark. In a
week more Noah sent out the dove to try in
what state the earth was, and this time the
dove came back with a leaf in her beak, to
show Noah that the trees were to be seen
on the earth. Still Noah thought he would
wait, and to make quite sure that he would
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be wise to leave his safe ark, he sent the dove
out once more; then she found the earth
so dry, and fit to live on, she came back to
the ark no more. Still Noah did not come
forth of his own choice; God had told him
when to go and live in the ark, and now
God told him when it was fit he should
leave it.. He said to Noah, ‘Go forth
from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy
sons, and their wives, and take forth from
it all the live things with thee.” So they
all came forth; and the first thing Noah
did when he found him-self on the dry
land was to build an al-tar where he and
his sons might make offerings and pray to
God, and thank Him for His care of them.

And when God saw what Noah did, He
said that He would drown the world no
more with a flood; and He set the bright
rain-bow in the sky, and bade Noah look at
it and know it was a sign that He would

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CHAPTER VI.
MAN STILL PROUD AND BAD.

I pare say you will think all pride after this
must have gone from the hearts of men, and
that they must have felt how great God was,
and how weak they were, when they had seen
what He could do in the flood. But no,
they soon grew proud once more; and then
they thought they would build a large town,
which all men would see, and think how
great they had been, and in the town they
would build a high, high place, which should
reach up to the sky. But God saw their
pride, and He would not have it; so He
put a stop to their work. How, do you
think? He made all their speech strange,
so that no man knew what his friend
meant.

This, as you may think, soon put a stop
to their work. Nor was this all; for God
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sent them to live in all parts of the earth,
to dwell no more in one place as they
had done. So their high place which they
thought so much of, the name of which was
Ba-bel, was not built.)

CHAPTER VIL.
A-BRA-HAM, THE MAN OF FAITH.

Time went on, and more and more men
were born, and the world was much more
full. Oh, that they had been good and
true men, with the love of God in their
hearts! But you will see as you go on how
sin grew asmen grew. Still, I have to tell
you of good men and glad things, as well
as of what is bad and sad. So let me tell
you now of A-bra-ham, a man of faith, as
Noah was. :
When first we hear of him he dwelt in a
land with all his friends, but God bade him
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leave this land, and go far from all he knew
to a land strange to him then, but which
God said He would give to his seed to dwell
in, and where He would bless them and
make them rich and great. So at once
A-bra-ham left his own land, and with his
wife, and his brother’s son, whose name was
Lot, he went forth to the new strange land.

First, God led him from place to place,
and he grew rich in flocks and herds, and
so did Lot, till they had more than could
be well fed in one place, and they went
each one his own way that their men might
not strive for the grass on which to feed the
herds. The place where A-bra-ham went ~
was rich and fine, and there God bade him
stay, and said it should be his own land, and
that it was there he should grow rich.

But great and rich as he was, there was
one thing he had not, and which it was his
ereat, great wish to have, and that was a
child. So he told his wish to God, who

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said this too he should have; yes, a son
and son’s sons. Then God gave him a son
who was most dear to him, and whose name
was I-saac; and when I-saac was grown up
to be a boy, one day God told A-bra-ham to
‘take this dear son up to a hill, and there
lay a pile of wood, and bind his son and
kill him upon it, and give him up to Him.
_ Poor A-bra-ham, quite strong in his trust
in God, but with a most sad heart, did as

God bade him, and went up to the hill with
his dear boy, and as they went Isaac said,
‘“‘ Here is wood, but where is a lamb for us
to of-fer 2?” and A-bra-ham said, ‘‘ God will
send a lamb,’ and so He did; for just as
-A-bra-ham had bound his son, and was |
-tea-dy to kill him, he saw a ram caught in
the hedge by its horns, and heard a voice

which told him to stop; for God saw his

faith, and trust in Him, and would try him

no more.
Think of A-bra-ham’s joy as he went
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ABRAHAM AND ISAAO,
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home with his dear boy still by his side,
and how his trust and faith in his God
must have grown still more and more. ;

CHAPTER VIII.
THE TWO TOWNS THAT WERE BURNT.

Now you must hear some more of Lot, who,
when he and Abraham found they must
part, went to live in a large town.

The men who were in this town were
bad, bad men, and God told Abraham he
meant to send fire down and kill them all.
Then did Abraham pray and ask God that
He would not do so if there were some few
good: men found there. But in all that
large town, and a town close by, there was.
no good man save Lot. So God sent two
an-gels to warn Lot of what was to come
to pass, and bade him take his wife and his
sons and their wives out of the town; and
the an-gels led them out. But as they
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went Lot’s wife did look back at the town,
though they were told they must not do
this, and at once God smote her, and she
was made in-to a pil-lar of salt. See
how sad it was that she.would not do what
God bade her! And as soon as Lot and
those with him were safe out of the place,
God sent down fire, and burnt both towns
quite up.

This is all I need tell you of Lot;
and we will now hear more of A-bra-ham
and his son. ,

CHAPTER IX.
A-BRA-HAM SENDS FOR A WIFE FOR HIS SON.
A-sra-HAm did not wish his son to take a
wife of the land where he was, and he made
up his mind to send his head man to fetch
a wife for I-saac from the land whence God
had brought him. When the head man
came to this land, the beasts he had with
him were in want of drink, and he took
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them to the side of a well, and soon there
came to the well a young girl, who drew
from the well and gave drink to his poor
beasts. “She wasa kind, nice girl, with a
sweet face, and he gave her gifts, and bade
her tell him her name. This she did, and
led him to her home, where he was bade to
stay and rest, and where her friends gave
him all he had need of. So he told them
who he was and what he had come to this
place for, and said he should like to take
this nice kind girl back with him to be wife
to I-saac, and she was glad to go with him,
for he spoke well of I-saac and of A-bra-
ham. ‘This girl’s name was Re-be-kah.

I must give you these long names to spell
out; but some one, I am sure, will tell you
how to.call them. (

~ So Re-be-kah went with this man to
I-saac’s house. He was out in the fields;
and he.saw them come, and he spoke to the

girl and saw her face, and his heart was
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made glad that God had sent him so good
a wite. —

By and by Tena and Re-be-kah had two
sons born, to whom they gave the names of
H-sau and Ja-cob, and of them there is
much you must hear. hey were twins, but
H-sau was born just a short time before
Jacob.

When they grew up it was H-sau’s work
to go into the fields and hunt, and he was
wise as to how to catch game; but Ja-cob,
who did not care for such wild Spe, dwelt
at home in his tent.

One day H-sau came home from a long
hunt, quite faint for want of food, and he
found that Ja-cob had just made some good
soup which hemeantto eat. Then Eisausaid,
“Feed me, I pray thee, with thy soup, for
Lam faint.” And Jacob said, “I will give it
thee if for it thou wilt sell to me all that
which thou wilt have as first-born son when
our fa-ther dies. Thou wilt have it all
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thou art the first-born.” And so much did
E-sau want the soup, he sold his rights as
first-born for the sake of it.s

CHAPTER X. _
OLD I-SAAC.

Next we hear how Ja-cob got his fa-ther
to bless him more than E-sau. This is
how that came to pass. I-saac, by the time
T tell you of, was quite old and blind, and
one day he told H-sau to go and hunt some
game and cook it, and bring it to him, and
he would bless him.

Re-be-kah heard him say this, and her love
for Ja-cob was great, and she did not. want
him to lack what H-sau had; so she bade him
kill a kid, and she made a good dish of meat,
then she told Ja-cob to put the skins of the
kid on his hands and neck, for Ja-cob was
a man with a smooth skin, but H-sau’s skin

was rough and had much hair on it.
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When Ja-cob had done this, he took the
dish of kid to I-saac, and said, “Rise, I
pray thee, and eat.”

And the old fa-ther said, ‘“‘ How hast thou
been so quick, my son ?”

And Ja-cob said, ‘The Lord God brought
it to me.” Still the poor blind old man,
had doubts as to which son it was, for he
thought the voice was the voice of Ja-cob.

‘Then he felt his hands, which had the
skins of the kid on them, and he thought
it must be E-sau with his rough skin. And,
so at last he did bless him with the first
and best bless-ing, as though it was his
first-born son.

No doubt God let all this be; still, the
act of sin was no less on the part of Ja-cob.

By and by poor Hi-sau came in from his
hunt, and when he had made his game fit
to eat, he took it to his fa-ther and said,
“Rise, eat, and bless me, my fa-ther.”
Then I-saac said, ‘‘ Who art thou?” and he
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said, “I am thy son, thy first-born son
E-sau.,”

I-saac saw the false act of Ja-cob, and
was sad, but he told H-sau that he “had
blest Ja-cob, and he must be blest.” Then
H-sau wept, and said, “Canst thou not
bless me as well, O my fa-ther?” Then
I-saac blest him, but could not change what
he had said which made Ja-cob head and
lord of all the sons of I-saac.y

CHAPTER XI.
LEAH AND RA-CHEL.

You will not think it strange that H-sau
was wroth with Ja-cob, and said he would
slay him ; so their mo-ther bade him leave
her, and go to a far-off land, the land
where she was born, that he might be safe.
Then he went far from his home, and as he
went on his way night came on, and he laid
down on the ground to sleep, with a stone
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upon which to rest his head. While he slept
he sawa glad sight; he saw in a dream high
steps that went up from the earth to the sky,
and on them an-gels of God, who went up
and down; and at the top he saw the Lord
God, who spoke to him and told him He
would give that land where he lay to him and
to his seed, and that He would bless him and
make him great and rich. When Ja-cob
woke up his heart was glad, and he swore

- that he would seek to do henceforth that

which was right, and to walknear to God, who
was so good to him in of spite all his sins.

Then Ja-cob went on his way, and came
to the land to which his mo-ther had sent
him, and he went in-to a field, where there
was a well, by the side of which were three
flocks of sheep which had laid down to rest,
and the men who had the care of them were
with them.

Ja-cob spoke to the men, and said, “ Do
you know La-ban??
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Now La-ban was the man his mo-ther
had bade him seek, and the men said, “ Yes,
we know him, and soon will his young girl
Ra-chel come here with his sheep, which
she takes care of.” When she came Ja-cob
went\to help her put the stone off the
well, and he gave drink to her sheep; and
ne told her who he was and whence he
came, and she, quite glad to hear it, took
him to her home.

There, year by year, did he stay, for his
love ‘for Rachel was great, and he would
have her for his-wife; but Laban made
him first take to wite her sis-ter Leah,
whom he did not love so much; and then
he had to wait on some years more ere he
could get Ra-chel for his wife.

You know, in the land I tell you of, men
might have two or more wives.

Well, at last, when Ja-cob had got his
two wives, and had grown quite rich in
sheep and goats and cows, he thought it
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best to go to his old home; and as he
went, who should he meet but H-sau; and
you may think he felt some fear when he
saw him, for he knew how bad and false he
had been to him.

He sent some of his men to H-sau with
gifts of cows and sheep, but he did not
dare to come him-self till he heard that
his heart was kind, and his wrath had
passed by; and to his joy, when they came
near E-sau ran to meet him, and kiss
him, and spoke kind words to his wives
and sons, and would not take the gifts
till Ja-cob told him it would make him
more glad he should do so.

Yet one thing more took place while
Ja-cob was on his way home.

It was just at the time when he had sent
his men on with the gifts to H-sau.

While he stood by him-self God met
him face to face, and told him He should
change his name from Ja-cob to Is-ra-el.,
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You will now find that I speak of him
from time to time by his new name, and
that his sons and grand-sons, bore the
name of Is-ra-el-ites, or the men of
Is-ra-el.

CHAPTER XII.
JA-COB AND HIS SONS.

Anp now I have a good deal to tell you of
Ja-cob or Is-ra-el.. Hirst, you must hear,
that his wife Le-ak had ten sons ;| but his
dear wife Ra-chel for a long time o none,
and he thought God did not mean to bless
her with them. Then at last, to his and
her great joy, she had two boys, whose
names were Jo-seph and Ben-ja-min.
And for the great love he bare to his wife
Ra-chel, his love for these two sons was
deep and strong.

Now the ten sons of Le-ah did not like
to see this great love of their fa-ther for
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Jo-seph, and they made up their minds
they would get rid of him.

So one day when they were out in the
fields with their sheep, they saw him come
in-to the field, and they said, ‘“‘ Let us put
him down in-to this pit, and kill a goat,
and dip his gay coat which his fa-ther gave
him, in the blood of the goat, and take it
home to his fa-ther and tell him a wild
beast has put him to death.”

But it seems one of these bad men had
not quite so hard a heart as the rest, and
he said, ‘‘ Not so, let us not kill him, but
let us sell him to these men whom you
may see come this way.”

Then they took him up out of the pit
where they had put him, and sold him to
some strange men from the land of Egypt,
whom just then they saw pass by.

Poor boy! how sad he must have felt;
and how sad must his poor fa-ther have
been, whose love for him was so great, when
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he saw the gay coat all red with blood, and
heard the false tale of his death.

So Jo-seph went far off, to Egypt, a
strange land, and there, in a short time,
and for no fault of his, he was cast in-to a
jail. You know what that is, do you not?
It is a strong place built round with high
walls, from whence no man can get out, and
where are put the thieves and bad men who
are not fit to live free lives. »

But Jo-seph, as I told you, had done no
harm or wrong, and was put in there for no
cause. So good was he while he was there
that the head man of the jail was kind to
him, and made him help him to take care
of the men in the jail.

By and by, two of these men dreainé
strange dreams, and thought these dreams
must mean to show them what was to come
to pass. ‘Then God made Jo-seph wise to
see what they meant, and this he told to
the men, who, in time, found his words
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come true; and you will see how in this
way God’s help came to Jo-seph.

CHAPTER XIII.

THE KING'S DREAMS.

In a short time the king of this land of
Egypt had some strange dreams, and he
sent for all his wise men and bade them
tell him what his dreams meant. But no
one could do so; then one of the men who
had been in jail with Jo-seph, told the
King that there was a wise young man
there whose words had come true in the
case of his dream.

The King then sent for Jo-seph and
told him his dreams, and bade him tell
him what they meant.

You would like, I am sure, to hear what
these dreams were.

One was, that the King saw seven full
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ears of corn and seven thin ears, and the
seven thin ears ate up the seven full ears.
And then he dreamt he saw seven fat cows
come up out of a stream, and seven thin
cows come up from the same stream and
eat up the seven fat cows.

Then God gave Jo-seph to know what
these dreams meant; and he said, “ These
two dreams mean five same thing. God
will send seven years when the corn and
fruits of the earth shall grow well and give
much food; and then He will send seven
years when all shall fail, and there will be
no food to eat. So now let the King be
wise and set a man to rule the land, and
store the corn, that there may be no want
when the bad time comes.”

All this the King felt to be true, and he
thought, what man can I find more wise
than this one? And he put a ring on
Jo-seph’s hand, and made him to rule the
land next to the King him-self! And wise
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and well it was the King did this, for all
the seven good years did Jo-seph make the
men of the land save up the corn and put
it safe in barns; and when at last the
seven bad years came, and no seed came
up, and no corn was to be had, while all
the lands round were in sad want of bread
this land was well fed, for the corn they
had was like the sand of the sea, so much
was there.4

CHAPTER XIV.
LE-AH’S SONS GO TO BUY CORN.

In the land where Ja-cob and his sons
dwelt there was no corn, nor bread, and
their want was great; so when Ja-cob
heard how much corn there was in H-gypt
he said to his sons, “ Go to E-gypt, where
I hear there is much corn, and buy, that
we may live and not die.”

So the ten sons of Le-ah went; but
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Ja-cob would not let Ben-ja-min go; for
he said, ‘“ Lest some harm come to him.”

And when these ten men came to buy
corn, Jo-seph it was who sold it to them ;
but they did not know him, though he
knew them; and they made low bows to
him, as to a great and strange man.

Then Jo-seph spoke with a rough voice,
and in a way not his own to them, and
said, “ Whence come ye?”

Then they said, “We come from the
land of Ca-na-an to buy food.”

And Jo-seph made as though he did not
know them, and said, “‘ Ye are spies, come
to spy out our land, and see how poor we
are.”

And they said, ‘Nay, my lord; but to
buy food are we come. We are all the
sons of one man, and are true men and no
spies. We are twelve sons of one man:
ten are here, one is at home, and one is
not.”
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* Then Jo-seph said, “I will prove you, if
you be true men or spies. Ye shall not go
forth from hence till the young one comes
from home; send one of you to fetch him,
and the rest shall stay here in jail till he
is come.}’ :

Then he kept them in jail for three days,
but his heart was sad. to think of his
old fa-ther and Ben-ja-min at home and in
want, so he kept one of them bound in
jail, and the rest he let go with corn to
their home; but he bade them come back
soon, and bring the young one with them.

Then Jo-seph had corn put in all their
sacks, and when they paid for it, he bade
his men put the money they had paid, as
well as the corn, in all their sacks.

This the men did not know of till they
had gone some way, and then, when one of
them took some food out of his sack to
give to his ass, lo! he found his money
there.
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When they got home to Ja-cob they told
him all that had come to pass, and they
un-did their sacks, and each one found his
money in his sack. They could not think
what all this meant; but as they had guilt
and grief in their hearts for the bad deed they
had done some years past to Jo-seph, this
strange thing gave them more grief than joy.

And what did their poor fa-ther feel when
he heard them ask him to let them take his
dear young son toH-gypt? He felt he could
not part with him, and he said, “‘ My two
sons Jo-seph and Si-me-on are gone, and
now you would take this one as well. My
son shall not go down with you.”

CHAPTER XV.
THE TEN MEN GO ONCE MORE TO E-GYPT.

So for some time they went no more to
E-gypt; but when all the corn they had
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brought with them was gone, and they
were in sad need of food, they once more
said to Ja-cob, “ Let us go to H-gypt, and
take the boy with us; for if we take him
not we shall get no corn.”

So at last, but with a sad heart, the poor
old man bade them go; but he said they
were to take gifts with them, and money, and
the money they had found in their sacks,
and try to win Jo-seph to be kind to them.

When they came to Jo-seph, and he saw
the lad for whom he had so true a love, his
heart was full of love and joy, and he had
a feast made in his house, and these men
brought to eat with him.

Still they did not know him. They gave
him their gifts, and spoke to him as to a
‘strange man.

And Jo-seph was kind to them, and bade
them eat’ and drink and not fear; and to
Ben-ja-min he sent the best al most of
all there was to eat.
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But still he did not tell them who he
was; and once more he let them go with
their sacks full of corn; and once more he
made his men put the money in the sacks’
mouths ; and yet more, he bade them put
his own cup that he drank out of in Ben-
ja-min’s sack; and then he let them go.

And when they were not long gone, he
sent his head-man to stop them, and tell
them he knew they had got his cup.

They were full of grief and pain that
this should be said of them, and said,
‘Search and see, for we have not done
this bad thing.”

And lo! itwas found in Ben-ja-min’s sack.

Then they rent their clothes, and went
back to the town. |

And when they came to Jo-seph’s house
they fell on the ground at his feet. And
he said, ““Go back, all of you, to your
fa-ther ; I will but keep him in whose sack
the cup was found.” ;
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Now this one was just the one, the loss
of whom they knew would break their poor |
old fa-ther’s heart; so they told Jo-seph of
their fa-ther’s fond love for Ben-ja-min,
and all he had said to them ere he would
trust his dear son with them. #

And their grief was great. So Jo-seph
could hide what he felt no more. He sent
all who stood by from the room, and he
wept, and said, “I am Jo-seph: doth my
fa-ther yet live ?”

- They could not speak for fear; but he
said, ‘‘ Come near, and fear not; you sold
me to this land, but it was God who sent
me, that I might save your lives. Go and
tell your fa-ther that I am lord of all
E-gypt, and bring him here to me; and
you shall dwell in this land, and have all
you need.”

And he fell on Ben-ja-min’s neck and
wept; nor did he fail to kiss those who had
once been so hard to him.
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CHAPTER XVI.
JA-COB GOES TO E-GYPT.

Wuen the King of E-gypt heard of Jo-
seph’s wish to have his fa-ther with him,
he bade him send and bring Ja-cob and his
sons, and their wives, and all they had, and
to come up to live in E-gypt. And, old as
Ja-cob was, when he heard this glad news
he said, “I will go and see my son ere I
die.”

God did not leave Ja-cob in doubt if it
were right that he should go to H-gypt;
but as he went on his way God spoke to
him, and said, “I am God; fear not to go
down to Egypt, for I will there make thee
great. I will go down there with thee, and
I will bring thee forth thence once more.”

So Ja-cob went on his way with no fear.

And when they came to the land, Jo-
seph drove forth to meet them; and when
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he saw his fa-ther he fell on his neck and
wept long. Weve

Ah! can you not think of the joy they
felt; they who had not met for so long, and
whose love was so great.

And poor old Ja-cob said, ‘‘ Now let me
die, for I have seen thy face once more.”

Then Jo-seph went to the King, and
took five of the sons of Ja-cob with him,
and told the King who they were, and that
they had cows and sheep, which they had
brought with them, for there was no grass
in their own land.

And the King bade Jo-seph give them
the best part of H-gypt to dwell in, and
there they were in peace for long, till the
time of old Ja-cob’s death drew nigh, and
he sent for Jo-seph, and told him when he
was dead he would not be laid in the grave
in E-gypt, but in his own land.

And Ja-cob put his hands on the heads
of Jo-seph’s two sons to bless them; and
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when he did so he laid his hand first not
on the first-born son, but on the young one;
and so he did bless him first and best.

Then Ja-cob sent for all his sons, and
spoke much to them of what should come
to pass, and spoke the words God gave him
to speak to them. Strange words they were
to them. then ; but much must they have
thought of them in the years that came,
when he who spoke to them was dead.

And when he had made an end of all his
wise, God-sent words, he went to his last
sleep.

God took him from them.

Poor Jo-seph! it was sad to him to see
his fa-ther die, and he fell on his fa-ther’s
face—his dead, cold face—and wept.

Then he bade wise men, who knew how
to do such things, to wrap the dead corpse
up with sweet spice; and by and by he got
the King’s leave to take the corpse, and lay
it, as Ja-cob had bade him, not in the strange
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land of E-gypt, but in a grave in Ca-na-an,
where A-bra-ham had laid his wife.

And the King, who was kind in all his
thoughts for Jo-seph, sent men to help him.

So Jo-seph and “the house of Ja-cob”
grew rich and great in Hgypt; and when
Jo-seph grew old, he bade them, when he
was dead and they left H-gypt, not leave his
bones there; for, you see, none of these
men could cease to think of their own land
of Ca-na-an, to which God had brought
them long since.

CHAPTER XVII.
THE HARD TASKS.

Aut you have yet heard of the life of the
sons of Ja-cob in EH-gypt has been good,
but this peace did not last.

When the King, who I told you was so
kind to them, was dead, and Jo-seph was
dead, there was a new king, who had not
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known Jo-seph, and who did not like to
see the men of Is-ra-el (that is, the sons
and sons’ sons of Ja-cob, whose name, I
have told you, God said was to be Is-ra-el)
grow so great and rich in his land. So he
sought to put them down, and keep them
poor and low; and he made them work
hard to make bricks, and build, and work
hard in the fields.

And far worse than this—he said when a
boy was born to the Is-ra-el-ites he was to
be put to death, that no more should grow
up to be men in his land; and he said that
when a boy was born the nurse should take
it and put it to death. But no, they had
not the heart to do this, and they were sure
it would not please God; so they would
not do it. |

But this did not save the poor boys; for
the hard, bad king bade the men of E-gypt
take the poor boys and throw them into the
river: the girls he let live.
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But God, who sees all that goes on at all
times, and has His own wise ways, let one
man child be kept safe to do a great work for
Him, and of this child you shall now hear.

There was a man and his wife who had
a son born to them—a fine, fair child it
was, and the wife hid him, while he was
quite young, in his own home.

But when he was three months old she
found it hard to hide him more, and great
was her fear and dread lest some one should
find him out, and take him from her, and .
cast him in-to the river.

So what did she do? She made an ark
—a kind of small boat—of flags that grew
by the side of the stream, and she laid her
babe in it, and put it on the edge of the
stream in the flags which grew there.

Poor thing! with what a sad heart she
left her dear child there in all that risk!

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By and by a daugh-ter of the King came
to bathe in this stream, and, as she stood ~
at the side, she saw the small ark.

Then she sent one of her maids to fetch
it; and, hark! she heard the poor wee
babe cry. Then she felt much grief for it,
and said, ‘This is one of the poor babes
the King would slay.”

She made up her mind she would save
this child, and take it to her home. Then
the girl whom I told you stood by the stream
came up, and said, ‘‘ Shall I go and call a
nurse to nurse this child for thee?” And
the la-dy said, ‘“‘Go!” So the girl ran and
brought the child’s own mo-ther.

CHAPTER XVIII.
MORE OF MO-SES.

Mosss’ mo-ther took him home to nurse
and care for him; and when he grew so old
that he did not need a nurse she took him
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back to the lady at the King’s court. With
her he was brought up, as if he had been
her own son; and it was she who gave him
the name of Mo-ses.

Now when Mo-ses grew to be a man he
saw how hard was the life led by the Is-ra-
el-ites in H-gypt, and he sought how to
help them.

Some of the things he did for them came
to the ears of the King; and he, in his
wrath, sought to slay Moses.

This God would not let be, for He had
much work for Mo-ses to do.

Mo-ses fled to the land of Mid-i-an, to
be safe from the King.

There he sat down by a well; and as he
sat there, some girls came to give their
sheep drink; then Mo-ses drew for them
from the well, and drove off some rude men
who would have kept them back from the
well,

» And the girls took Moses to their home,
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and gave him bread to eat, and he dwelt
with them in their home, and took one of
them to be his wife.

At the death of this King of H-gypt, you
will grieve to hear a worse one came to the
throne, who put more hard work and toil
on the poor Is-ra-el-ites.

But though man was hard on them, God
saw them, and heard their cry for help; and
the help He sent them was by the same
Mo-ses I have told you of, one of them-
selves, kept safe, no doubt, by God for this
work.

CHAPTER XIX.
MO-SES SENT BY GOD.

Mo-ses was out one day, in a lone, wild
place, with a flock of sheep, and there he
saw a strange sight; he saw a bright flame
come forth from a bush as if the whole

bush were on fire, yet it was not burnt !
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Then God spoke to him from this bush,
and said, “ Mo-ses, Mo-ses;” and Mo-ses
said, ‘““Here am I.”

Then God said, “‘ Draw not near, but put:
your shoes from off your feet, for I am here.
T am the God of thy fa-thers.”

Then Mo-ses hid his face in fear.

God then told him how He had seen the
hard fate of the poor Is-ra-el-ites, and
heard their cry of grief, and was come down
to help them, and to lead them out of that
land to a rich land, which they should have
for their own.

And God said He would send Mo-ses to
lead them out.

Then said Mo-ses, ‘Who am I, that I
should do this ?”

And God said that He would go with
him ; and though the task would be a hard
one, yet, by His strong arm, it should be
done at last. ’

God gave Mo-ses proofs or signs of His
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strength, and of the help that should be
his.

Mo-ses did not like the task at all,
and he said to the Lord, that he could not
speak well, and was not a good man to
plead the Lord’s cause.

Then the Lord said that A-ar-on, the
bro-ther of Mo-ses, should go with him ;
and that He would give them both words
to speak, and would make them wise.

And God bade them take with them a
rod, through which He said they should
work great acts and deeds.

CHAPTER XxX.
THE PLAGUES OF E-GYPT.

Av last, though it would seem with much
dread at his heart, Mo-ses went back to
H-gypt, to do the work which God had set

him; and as he went he met A-ar-on.
So they both went in to the King, and
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said, they had come to beg him to let them
lead the Is-ra-el-ites out of the land.

How wroth was the King; and how far
more hard he made the tasks of the poor
men!

He bade them who had charge of them,
press them moreand more at their hard work.
They had, as I told you, bricks to make.

Now to make these bricks they had to
use straw, which was brought to them; but
now the King said they must go and find
the straw where they could; and yet they
must make the same bricks as if they had
straw to their hand; and if they did not,
men should beat them.

Poor men! this was hard work for them,
and it was hard for them to think that
Mo-ses and A-ar-on, who had come to help
them, should make their lot worse than it
had yet been.

Once more, the Lord spoke to Mo-ses, to
cheer kim on; and now He sent him and
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A-ar-on to work strange signs in the eyes
of the King.

But no, these strange signs would not
make him see the men were sent of God;
and he would not let the Is-ra-el-ites go.

So at last God, in His wrath, sent what
we call plagues on the land of H-gypt.
First He bade Mo-ses stretch his rod over
the water, and it and all the water in the
land was made blood, so that no one could
drink it, and all the fish-in it died.

Then He sent frogs into all the land,
frogs into the roads and fields, frogs into
the rooms and into the beds. A bad plague
this was, and the King said if the plague
of frogs was taken away, then would he let
the Is-ra-el-ites go.

So God took them off the land; and as
soon as they were gone, the heart of the
King grew hard once more; and he would
not let the men go.

Then God sent plague on plague. —
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He made all the dust turn into lice.

He made flies come thick over all things.

He sent a bad plague on all the beasts
in the land, which caused them to die.

He made bad boils to come on man and
beast.

He sent hard hail which beat down the
crops. And all that was not spoilt by the
hail, locusts came and eat up.

Then He made it so dak in the day, for |
three whole days, that they could not move,
or see at all.

And when these plagues came, the King
said, if Mo-ses would pray God to take them
off the land, he would let the men of Is-ra-el
go; but it was just the same, each time;
as soon as the plague was gone the King’s
heart grew hard.

But at last God sent a plague that did
quite touch the King’s hard heart.

One day, God told Mo-ses to tell the
Is-ra-el-ites to kill in each house a lamb,
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and put some of the blood of the lamb on
the posts of the doors; for He said that
night should He send one to pass through
the land, to kill the first-born of each house,
but the blood should show when a house
was that of an Is-ra-el-ite, for there would
he not slay; for none of these plagues came
on them.

And so it was done. And when morn
came, and the men of E-gypt woke up, lo!
in each house the first-born was dead.

Oh, what a land of grief it was that day,
and with what hastethe King sent to Mo-ses
and A-ar-on, and bade them go, and take
all the Is-ra-el-ites with them ; fast, fast he
bid them go, lest more grief should yet come.

And so it was God set them free, and led
them out from the land where grief and
toil had been their lot; and would have
led them at once to the good land He had
told Mo-ses of, had they been good and
true.
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CHAPTER XXI.
THE RED SEA.

You will think, when the king of E-gypt
had gone through so much woe at the
Lord’s hand, he would have let the Is-ra-
el-ites go in peace.

But no; when he heard they were gone,
he said, ‘‘ Why have we let them go? Who
shall now serve us?” So he got his men
and his cars, and he drove with speed on
the way they had gone, and he found them
close to the Red Sea, which they had to
cross to get from his reach.

Then God, the same good God who had
led them forth, bade Mo-ses lift his rod up
and stretch out his hands to the sea; and
when he had done so, the sea rose up like
a wall on this side and on that, so that
the Is-ra-el-ites could pass through on dry
land.

Then the King and his men thought to
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go in like way, on dry land; but God made
the wheels of their war cars fall off, so that
they could not drive fast, and when they
were but half way through the sea, the
men of Is-ra-el were safe on the far side.

When God, that good God, whose help is
so sure to come to those who trust Him,
saw they were safe, He made the walls of
the sea to close in and drown the King and
all his hosts!

Oh, the joy that Moses and all those he
had led out felt, that they were safe!

They sang at once a glad song of praise
to God.

They said, ‘The Lord is my strength
and my song. He is my God; we will praise
Him. He isa man of war; the Lord is
His name. The king and his hosts has He
cast into the sea.” And much more which
you will like to read when you can make
out the long words which are too much for
you now. en
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CHAPTER XXII.
MANNA.

AND now you say to yourself, “ These men
must have gone on their way in full joy and
trust in the God who had done such great
things for them.”

No: after they had passed through the
Red Sea safe, they came to a place where
there was no stream for them to drink from ;
and though they went on till they found
one, it was not good. And did they then
trust God ?

No ; at once they said it was hard, and
made a grief of it to Mo-ses.

But God came to Mo-ses’ help, and told
him to take a branch of a tree which He
would show him, and cast it in the stream,
and as soon as Mo-ses did so, the stream
was good for them to drink.

Then as they went on, they felt sad they
had left H-gypt; for they said they had
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had good food there, and here they did not
know what to eat. So God sent them a
kind of bread. He made it come down
like frost on the ground each day, and they
were to go and get in all they would want
for each day, no more; if they took more,
God said it would turn bad, and would not
keep, but on the sixth day they were to get
what would last that day and the next ; for
they were to do no work on the last day of
the week, which was God’s day. Andon that
day God did not send down this bread.

The name of this food was Man-na; it
. was, to look at, like a small white seed;
and to taste, it was sweet.

I told you it would not keep, nor would ©
it, save that Mo-ses, by God’s word, made
them pick up some and put it by in a pot,
that they and their sons, and sons’ sons,
year by year might look at it, and know the
help God had sent them in the strange land.
And this kept, and did not turn bad.
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CHAPTER XXIII.
GOD GAVE THE LAW.

As the men of Is-ra-el went through this
~ land, they came to a large, high hill, the
name of which was Mount Si-na-i. There
they set their tents up round the Mount.

God bade Mo-ses come up to speak to
Him in this Mount, and the men round in
their tents heard thun-der, and saw fire
come forth from the Mount.

Then God spake to Mo-ses, and gave
him laws by which he should rule the men
of Is-ra-el; and He gave him plans by
which he and the men of Is-ra-el should
know how to build a large tent for the Lord,
where He would meet with Him.
. There was no part which God did not

show to him and tell him of; for God will
have men serve Him in His own way, and ,
none else.

And God told Mo-ses how he was to set
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apart priests, and the dress they were to
wear, and the work they were to do in His
house. And He told him of the lights and
the oil they were to bless and use, and the
sweet scent they were to burn, and what
they were to offer.

And God told him how they were to
spend their weeks; six days for their own
work, and one to be kept for the Lord’s use.

When He had said all this, He gave
Mo-ses two large slabs of stone, on which
with His own hand He wrote the laws.

Ah, how glad must Mo-ses have felt
' when he ‘had heard all this, and knew he
might go down and tell it to the men he
thought stood at the foot of the Mount to
watch and wait for him. How he must
have thought, ‘““Now I will make them
glad with all God’s words to me.”

Ah, no! ah, no! They did not wait;
they did not watch. Ina short time they
said to A-a-ron, ‘‘Why has Mo-ses left
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us? We know not where he is gone. Up,
make us gods which shall lead us.”

_ So A-a-ron bade them break off their
rings which were in their ears and in their
Wives’ ears, and bring them to him; and out
of these gold rings he made a calf of gold,
And he said, ‘¢These be thy gods which
brought thee up out of the land of H-gypt.”

The next day they made a great feast,
and sat down to eat and to drink, and rose
up to play. And while they did all this,
God bade Mo-ses go down to them, and He
told him what he should find. And God
was wroth with them. So Mo-ses went
down from the Mount, and in his hands he
took the two slabs of stone with the laws
which God wrote on them.

And when Mo-ses got down and saw the
calf, and the men dance and shout in its °
praise, his grief and wrath were such, that
he cast the stones on the ground, so that
they broke.
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Mo-ses then took the calf-and burnt it
in the fire, and told the men how great their
sin had been in this want of trust in God,
and in that they had made gods to lead
them, when there was but one true God.

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CHAPTER XXIV.
MOSES ONCE MORE IN THE MOUNT.

You will be glad to hear God let Mo-ses
hew out two more stones, like the first,
and take them up to the top of the Mount.
- And there God spoke to Mo-ses once more,
and stood with him in the Mount. And
Mo-ses knelt there, and hid his face, and
heard with awe the words of the Lord.

And‘as the Lord bade him, he wrote the
words of the Law on the new stones.

And he was long up in the Mount with
God; and when he came down his face
shone, so that he had to put a veil on it
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Next we are told how Mo-ses and the
men of Is-ra-el made the house, or tent,
of God, just as God had told Mo-ses it was
to be made. And when it was done, a cloud
game down on it from God—a cloud by day,
and a cloud of fire by night—to show that
God was there.

The next part we read in God’s Book
tells us all the laws which God gave to
these Is-ra-el-ites by Mo-ses. He told all
they were to do, and all they were not to do.
But I will not tell you all this; it is more
than you could think of while you are so
young.

CHAPTER XXV.
THE SPIES.
Now I will pass on to a time when these
men had so strong a wish for some new kind
of food, and not the same man-na I told you

God fed them with, that they wept, and
said, “ Who shall give us flesh to eat ?”
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And God’s wrath was great with them ;
and in His wrath He gave them their wish.
He sent them birds which we call quails,
and they were glad.

But while they yet ate of them God’s
wrath sent on thema great plague; that is,
He made them quite ill and sick, so that
many died.

The men were-Avorn and sad that they
went on and on so long, and yet did not
come to the good land which God had said
He would bring them to, and to which He
would have brought them much sooner had
they been good and true.

Some of them said the land where they
were to go was not a good land. Then
Mo-ses chose some men out from them, and
sent them on to see the land, and to spy
out what it was like.

And it was then the time when the
grapes were ripe; so these spies cut down
a bunch of grapes so large, that two men

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had to bear it on a pole. This was to
show how rich a land it was.

And they said, “It is a good land and a

rich, but the men of the land are big and
strong, and we can-not fight them.”
__ But two of the spies, Ca-leb and
Josh-u-a, said, “Let us go up and take
the land; we can do so well.” But no;
the men of Is-ra-el would not hear these
two. They would but say they could not
go up to the land to take it, and that some
one must lead them back to H-gypt. They
were wrong and bad in all they said.

Then God spoke and said, for this their
sin not one of them, but Ca-leb and
Josh-u-a, should go in to the land to have
it. Their sons and young ones should go,
but not one of these men who had come up
out of H-gypt. )

From time to time they broke forth in
wrath and bad words and deeds, and God
had to bring grief and death on them.
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Once some of them were so bad, that
God made the earth open, and fire come up
and kill them.

They came to a place where there was
no drink for them, and at once they were
wroth, and did not think how God had
brought a stream from the bare rock for
them some time back.

Then God bade Mo-ses take the rod he
had had in H-gypt, and speak to the rock,
and a stream would come forth.

And Mo-ses said, ‘“‘ Hear now, ye men.,
Must we fetch you drink out of this
rock?” And he smote the rock twice
with his rod, and the stream came forth at
once for them.

- Ah, but this time God’s wrath was upon
Mo-ses, for he had made it out as if he
had brought the stream out of the rock,
without God’s help, for he said, “‘ Must we
fetch drink out of this rock?” and he struck
the rock, which God had not told him to do.
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God thus warns us against pride, and
shows that He wills that we do what He
says, and nought else; for He told Mo-ses -
that for this sin he should not lead the men
in to the land, but should die on the way.

Tt seems a small thing to you that
Mo-ses did. Yes, but we must have no
way or choice of our own, must not be proud
of anything which God gives us.

God’s way is the right one; that must
we do.

CHAPTER XXVI.
| THE SNAKES.

Now you shall hear of a plague of fierce
snakes which God sent in wrath for the sins
of these men; and these snakes bit, and their
bite was so bad, it brought death with it.

The men said to Mo-ses, “ This is
for our sins; pray the Lord that He may
help us.”
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When Mo-ses did so, the Lord bade him
make a large snake of brass and set it up
on a high pole, and tell the men to look up
-at it; and when the men who had bites
from the fierce snakes would look up at this
brass snake, they got well once more.

CHAPTER XXVII.
BA-LA-AM’S ASS.

Now we come to a story which I dare say
you have heard; the story of the ass which
spoke.

As the men of Is-ra-el went on their way

they passed through a land where the King
(Ba-lak) felt much fear of them.
' He knew their strength came from God;
so he sent to fetch a man whose name was
Ba-la-am, and who, he seems to have known,
could bless or curse from God.

And Ba-lak bade him come to curse these
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men, and then he thought he could drive
them out from the land.

But God said to Ba-la-am, “ Thou shalt
not go. Thou shalt not curse these men
for they are blest.”

So Ba-la-am rose up and said to the men
whom the King had sent, ‘“‘ Get you to your
land, for the Lord will not give me leave to
go with you.”

So they went and told the King, and he
sent more men to Ba-la-am, and said, if he
would come he would make him rich.

But no, he would not go, till at last God
gave him leave to do so; but he was to
speak no word but that which God gave
him. '

Next day Ba-la-am got up, and took
his ass, and rode with the men of the
King.

As he went on the road, the An-gel of
the Lord stood in the way with a drawn
sword. Ba-la-am did not see this, though
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the ass did. And the ass would not go on
in the road, but would try and turn in-to a
field. And Ba-la-am smote the ass to
make it go on its way.

Still there stood the An-gel, and on each
side of the road there was a wall. And as
the ass could not pass she thrust her-self
close up to the wall, so as to crush Ba-
la-am’s foot, and he smote her once more.

Still the ass saw the An-gel, and she fell
down. ‘Then the Lord gave her the gift
of speech; and she said—

“What have I done that thou shouldst
smite me?”

And Ba-la-am said, “If I had a sword
in my hand, now would I slay thee.”

Then God let Ba-la-am see the An-gel.
And the Angel told him to go on his way
with the men, but to speak none but the
word of God.

Ba-lak came out to meet Ba-la-am, and
took him to a high place, whence he would
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see all the men of Is-ra-el, and bade him
curse them. |

But no, God would have him bless; and
bless he must.

In vain did Ba-lak plead that it was a
curse he sought for. God’s will in this, as
in all else, must be done.

CHAPTER XXVIII.
THE DEATH OF MOSES.

I sHann now pass on, and not speak of the
laws and rules laid down by God through
the lips of Mo-ses, but tell you of the time
when he was near to death, and when he
bade all the men—the twelve tribes they
were, who came from and kept the names
of the twelve sons of Ja-cob—come round
him.

These twelve tribes did Mo-ses bless,
bless with words from God; and he sang a
song, a grand song which you will love to
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read by and by, in which he tells the name
of the Lord, that He is great, and all His
ways are good; that He is a Rock of
strength to all who trust Him; that He it
was who had led them out from the strange
land; that He had fed them on the way;
and much more, which it would be in vain for
me to try and write so that you could read it.

When he had said all this, he went up to
the top of a high mount.

Thence God let him see the land which
the tribes were to have for their own, but
where Mo-ses must not go, for that once
when he spake not wisely with his lips.

Thence he saw it all; and then in peace
he laid down to die.

An old man he was, twice as old as most
men are now when they die, but his eye
was not dim; nor was he weak, nor his
strength gone.

He did God’s work to the last, and he did
it well.
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CHAPTER XXIX.
JOSH-U-A TOOK MO-SES’ PLACE.

‘Wo was to lead the men on now? Who
was to take the place of Mo-ses? God gave
them now in-to the hands of Josh-u-a—one
of the two good spies I told you of—and he,
we are told, was wise, and on him Mo-ses
had laid his hands, to bless him and to
make him fit for the work he was to do.
The men of Is-ra-el were glad to have him
to lead them.

And God spake to him, and bade him lead
them on, and said He would give them all
the land; and that He would not leave him
to himself, nor fail him, but that he and
they must be strong and bold, and do all
that Mo-ses had taught them, and keep
God’s laws in all things, and then He, the
Lord, would go with them, and be their
guide and their guard. So Jo-shua spoke
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to the men, and said he would lead them if
they would let him ; and the men said they
would go where he bade them, and do what
he told them.

And now God said He would lead them
at once into the land where they were to
dwell, but to get there they must cross a
deep stream, the name of which was Jordan;
but God bade them not fear, He would take
them through it. So He bade some of the
priests take the Ark, which was a kind of
chest kept in God’s house, and in which were
kept all the things of most worth in that
House (as the pot with the man-na; Aaron’s
rod, which he took with him into Egypt).

Well, as I said, God bade some priests
take this Ark, and all the men of Israel go
with them, and go to the stream; and as
soon as the priests’ feet came to the edge
of the stream, back it went, as the Red
Sea had done, and left a safe dry path to
cross by!
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Then Josh-u-a bade the men take twelve
stones—one stone for each of the tribes—
out of Jor-dan, and pile them up in
a heap at the place where they came
to, and where they spent the night.
This was done that when their sons and
sons’ sons should say, ‘“‘ What are these
stones, and what does this heap mean ?’
they should hear of the great deed done
for them on the day when the Lord
brought them safe through Jor-dan, and,
when they heard this, should praise the
Lord.

Now the men of Is-ra-el were no more in
a waste land, but were where they could
get corn and such things to eat; so their
need of the man-na was past, and God sent
it down no more.

When they came past the stream of J or-
dan, they found there a large and strong
town, which was in the hands of their foes.
And, though they had full trust in the
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Lord, they did not see how they could take
so large a town. |

But it came to pass, as Joshua stood by
Je-ri-cho—that was the name of the place
—he saw a man who stood by him with a
drawn sword in his hand; then Josh-u-a
said, “Art thou for us or not?” And
the man said, “As prince of the Lord’s
host am I come to you.” | .

See here, help came once more, straight
from the Lord, to these men, for whom He
had such care!

And the Lord told Joshua, by the angel
whom He sent, that, for six days, all the
men of war were to go round the town once
each day, and that some of the priests were
to bear the Ark, while seven priests should
go with them and it, and each take in his
hand a ram’s horn. And on the last day
they should all go seven times round the
town, and then the seven priests should
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they should all shout with a loud shout.
And all this they did, and when they did so,
the walls of the strong town fell down flat!

Yes, no strong men of war took it, no -
strength got the day. But the Lord gave
it into their hands. The Lord was their
strength and their might.

Then they burnt the town with fire; but
they first took out of it the brass and the
gold, and all the things of real worth, that .
they might use them in the House of God ;
and on all else Josh-ua put a curse, as God
bade him. ;

CHAPTER XXX.

THE MEN WHO CAME TO CHEAT THE MEN
OF IS-RA-EL.

Next we read, in God’s Word, of the way
in which God made a large town, the name
nf which was Ai, to fall in-to the hands of
Josh-u-a, and how Josh-u-a burnt Ai, and

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took its king, and hung him on a tree till
he was dead.

Now, as you can well think, all the kings
in these lands were in sore straits what to
do, and how to save their lands from these
strong men of Is-ra-el.

And they made a bond to fight as one
man to save their lands.

The men of one of the lands (the land
of Gib-e-on) thought they would be quite
wise, and go to work in such a way that
they should cheat Josh-u-a; and think
what they did!

They took old sacks for their corn, and
put wine in old skins (for, you may have
heard, in these lands of the Hast they put
wine and such things in skins of beasts),
and they put on old clothes, and old shoes
on their feet, and took old dry bread, and
went up to the camp of the men of Is-ra-el,
and said, ‘‘ We be come from far; make a
league with us, and we will serve you.”
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And Josh-u-a said, ‘Who are ye?

whence are ye come?”
- And these false men said, “‘We come
from far, and we have heard the fame of the
Lord, and all He did in Egypt, and are
come to serve Him.”
And Josh-u-a made peace with them,
and let them live with the men of Is-ra-el.
And in three days Joshua heard the
truth, that they came from a land near at
hand, and when he found this, he dare not
kill them or drive them off, for he had
sworn to them and made a league with them.
But Josh-u-a laid God’s curse on them,
and made them draw from the wells, and cut
up the wood, and do the work of slaves.
And the men of Gib-e-on had such fear
of them that they said, “ We will do what
you wish if you will but spare our lives.”
Then all the kings round were now in
great wrath with Gib-e-on, and great fear

of Is-ra-el, and they came round Gib-e-on
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to take it, and Josh-u-a, with his men of
war, went to help Gib-e-on. |

And God came to the help of Is-ra-el,
and with his hail-stones He smote the
kings and their men, so that there were
more who died of the large hail-stones than
by the hands of the men of war.

Then came to pass a great and strange
thing, to show, I think, that it was the
Lord, and none else, who fought for them.
Josh-u-a, in the sight of all. Is-ra-el, said,
‘‘Sun and moon, stand still.’

And the sun and moon stood still till the
men of war had slain those who fought
them. Yes, for a whole day the sun stood
still in the sky at the voice of a man,—
a man who had full trust in the Lord, and
to whose cry the Lord gave ear.

And the five kings fled, and hid in a
cave; and when Josh-u-a found them he
bade his men roll a big stone to the mouth
of the cave and set men to keep it.
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-Then he sent men to chase the foes and
slay them. And when they had done so,
and come back to Josh-u-a, he brought the
five kings out from the cave, and bade the
chief men of war who were with him come
and put their feet on the necks of the
kings, to show the might and strength the
Lord gave them to slay their foes.

And then Josh-u-a had the five kings
hung on five trees. “

Does this seem hard to you? Yes, but
you see they were kings who fought the
Lord and His men.

Then we read of more and more kings
and strong men who were slain, and how
the Lord’s hand was with Is-ra-el to help
them, and how, as they went to the land,
first one tribe, and then one more tribe was
made to take the land and share it for their
own, till at last all this land was in the
hands of the Is-ra-el-ites, not by their own
strength, but by the strong hand of the Lord
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Josh-u-a was the man whom God gave
the lead to all this time, but he was old,
and God took him to Him-self.

He had taught the Is-ra-el-ites to love
and serve God, and been a good friend to
them in times of strife and times of peace.

CHAPTER XXXI.
THE JUD-GES.

Wen Jo-shu-a was dead, they did not
know who should lead them and rule them.

So they said to the Lord, ‘‘ Who shall
lead us on to fight?” For their strife
was not all past yet.

And God bade Ju-dah lead them. And
God gave some towns and strong lands in-
to their hands; but the men of Is-ra-el
made friends with the men of these lands,
and did not drive them out, as God bade
them. And, worse than this, they took the
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gods of these lands as their gods, and se
lost their good place in God’s eyes.

As I have said once or twice to you, we
must do all He bids us, and not choose out
ways of our own. He did much for these
Is-ra-el-ites ; but He would have all their
hearts.

Then, in His kind love and care for them,
and that they might not turn quite from
Him to the bad paths in which the men
who knew Him not went, He sent them
wise men to guide and lead them.

These were called Jud-ges; and the Lord
was with them to help them to judge right.

But no; the men would not be led by
these Jud-ges in God’s good ways. So God
let their foes rule them, and let them see
how bad it was to turn from Him.

Then, for some time, we read how these
men—so dear to the Lord—did wrong in
His sight, and were in sad grief; and how
God heard their cry, and came to their help,
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and this not once, but time after time, more
times and in more ways than I need try to
tell you of, so I will pick out here and there
a story, as it were, from the midst of the
rest, which you can read. ,

CHAPTER XXXII.
GI-DE-ON.

Here is one of the stories I told you I
would pick out for you.

It is of a man whose name was Gi-de-on.
. At the time I now speak of, the Is-ra-
el-ites were in great grief, for some strong
men had come to their land and brought
with them large flocks and herds, which ate
up the grass of the land.
. They took the cows and sheep of the
Is-ra-el-ites, and made them poor in ie
way as well.

Then the men of Is-ra-el did in cht
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woe what they did not care to do when all
went well with them: then, I say, they sent
up a cry to God, and that God, so glad to
help, sent help to them in the way I shall
now tell you of.

. He sent one of His an-gels to this man
Ge de-on, who with his father did thresh
out corn.

And the an- a said to him: “ The Lord
is with thee.’ And Gi-de-on said, “If
the Lord be with us, why does all this
grief come on us?” And the Lord said to
Gi-de-on: “Go in this thy might, and
thou shalt save Is-ra-el from the hands of
these foes: have not I sent thee?”

Then Gi-de-on said, how should he save
them ? He was poor and young.

‘But God said, ‘I will be with thee, and
thou shalt smite them as one man.”

Then Gi-de-on said, “If I have found
grace in Thy sight, show me, I pray Thee,
a sign that Thou dost talk with me.”
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Gi-de-on then went and brought a kid,
and some cakes, and some broth, and brought
them forth for the an-gel to eat. And the
an-gel bade him lay the meat and the cake
on a rock, and pour the broth on them;
then the an-gel put on them a staff he had
in his hand, and when he did so, a fire came
down and burnt them up; and the an-gel
went up out of Gi-de-on’s sight.

' Then Gi-de-on felt sure he was one sent
from God; and God bade him not fear that
he had seen this an-gel face to face.

CHAPTER XXXITII.
GI-DE-ON’S FLEECE.

Next we hear of this Gi-de-on as bold in his
work for God. We hear that he cast down
the high place built to the false gods, and
by this made the men of the land wroth
with him. But God came to his help, and
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some of the men saw that he was as Tight, and
took his part.

Then Gi-de-on said to the Lord: “If
thou wilt save Is-ra-el by my hand, as Thou
hast said, I will put a fleece of wool on the
floor, and if dew be on the fleece and no-
where else, and all else is dry on the earth,
then I shall know that Thou wilt save
Is-ra-el by my hand.”

And God gave him this sign, for when
he got up next day the fleece was quite
wet with dew, though all else was quite dry.

So Gi-de-on knew the Lord meant to
use him to save Is-ra-el.

CHAPTER XXXIV.
GOD IS WITH GIDEON.

Now Gi-de-on got all the men of war he
had with him, and thought to take them
all with him when he went out to fight the
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foes of Is-ra-el. But God told him he had
more men of war than He chose him to
have, for He said, “If these all go forth
they will say Mine own hand did save
me.”

The Lord then bade Gi-de-on take them
all down to the side of a stream, and let
them drink. |

Some of them knelt down and drank, and
some drank ‘out of the stream with their
tongues, as dogs drink. —

But a few drank out of their hands; and
it was the few who drank thus—quite a
few—whom God let: Gi-de-on take with
him. ©

Then these few men took food with them,
and each man took in his hand a horn to
blow. .

In the night God let Gi-de-on go and
see the Mi-di-an-ites (those foes they had
to fight), and lo! they were like the sand
of the sea, so large a host were they.
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And Gi-de-on heard one of the Mi-di-an-
ites tell an-other of a dream he had just
had. He said he dreamt that a cake of
bread fell into the host of Mi-dian, and
came into a tent and smote it, so that the
tent fell down.

And the man to whom he told his afar
said, the cake was the sword of Gi-de-on,
for God would, by his sword and his hand,
cause the host of Mi-dian to fall into the
hands of the Is-ra-el-ites. -

When Gi-de-on heard this dream he had
no fear, for he knew Whom he had with
him. Then he bade his few men rise, and
take each man in his hand the horn I told
you of, and a jar, and in this jar a lamp.

He bade them do just as they saw him
do. Then he led them in the dark round
the camp of their foes, and he set them in
three lots round the camp. And at the
sign from Gi-de-on they all at the same time
blew their horns, which were in their right
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hands, and brake the jars, which were in
their left hands, and held up their lamps
while with a loud shout they said—

“The sword of the Lord and of Gideon !”’

And they stood each man in his place
round the camp; and all the host with a
cry ran out and fled.

And so great was their fright that in the
dark they drew their swords and slew, not
the Is-ra-el-ites, but their own men!

Then Gi-de-on got all the men of Is-ra-el
to come to his help, and ney put to flight
all their foes.

CHAPTER XXXYV.
THE STRONG MAN SAM-SON.

Here I shall pass by what we are told of
some of the wars of the Is-ra-el-ites, and
how God let them take kings and slay great
men; and next I will tell you of the birth of a
great strong man whose name was Sam-son.
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But first I have the bad news to give
you, that in spite of all God had done for
the men of Is-ra-el, they were not true to
Him, but did what was wrong in His sight,
so that He gave them for a time in-to the
hands of their foes.

And there was a man of them whose
name was Man-o-ah; and his wife had no
son. And God sent an angel to her to tell
her He would give her a son, but that he
must be kept for God’s work, and that work
should be to set the Is-ra-el-ites free from
their foes.

But God said she must not cut or shave
the hair of this son’s head. This was said
as in those lands, where men make vows >
that they will do such and such things,
they show their vow by this sign, that
they do not cut or shave their hair.

And in time this child was born, and they
gave him the name of Sam-son, and he
grew, and the Lord’s hand was with him.
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_ And his strength was great, so great that
with his own hand he slew a lion as oust
it had been but a kid!

Well, when he grew up he made great
friends with one who was not a true friend
to him, and who, though she made as though
her love was great to him, was false in her
heart and in her deeds.

She was not an Is-ra-el-ite, but ae one
of the strange lands near.

Now so much did Sam-son love hee! that
when she told him how much wish she had
to know where his great strength lay, though
at first he said in one thing and then in
something else, at last she won him to tell
her the truth; and he said if the locks of
his hair were cut off his strength would go.

So she went out and told this to the men
of her land who sought to get Samson's
life.

Then she came back to Sam-son and got
him to lie down and sleep, and while he
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slept some of the men crept in and cut off
his long hair.

Then when he woke and got up, lo! his
strength was gone!

Then came his foes and took him, and
bound him, and put out his eyes, and took
him to a place where they made him grind

_ corn.

So glad were they that this once strong
man had no strength left, and could no more
fight them, that they made a great feast -
and while they sat at their feast they sent
for Sam-son to make sport for them.

And a lad led the poor blind Sam-son
down to the house where they sat. Then
they set him in the house, and he got the
lad to put his hands on the two main
pillars of the house.

Now the house was quite full of all these
foes of his, who, while they were at their
feast, sat and made fun of the poor blind

man.
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Then did Sam-son lift up his hands to
God, and asked God once more to give him
strength.

And he took hold of the pillars which
held up the house, and said, ‘“ Let me die
with these men.”

And he leant with all his might, and the
house fell on the lords, and on all the men
which were there, so that the dead he slew
at his death were more than they which he
slew in his life.

CHAPTER XXXVI.
RUTH.

Now I will tell you a tale of what came to
pass in this time, when there were Jud-ges
in the land.

There was a want of corn, as there had
been in H-gypt long ago, and one of the
men of Is-ra-el went to live in the land of
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Mo-ab, that he might get bread; and he
took with him his wife and two sons.

There they were for ten years, till the
death of the man. And in that time, the
two sons took wives of the sons of Mo-ab;
and some time after we hear of the death
of these sons.

Then the mo-ther thought to go to her
own land once more, but she bade the sons’
wives go to their old homes, saying, “‘The
Lord be kind to thee as thou hast been
kind to me and mine,” and she wept, and
with a kiss she sought to leave them.

And one of them went home; but one,
whose name was Ruth, clave to her, and
would not leave her, and said, ‘‘ Ask me not
to leave thee, for thy land shall be my land,
and where thou shalt go, there I will go;
thy God shall be my God; where thou livest
I will live, and where thou diest I will die.”

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of the town came out to meet her; and she
told them how she had gone out in joy and
wealth, and was come home poor and lone.

Now there was one of Na-o-mi’s kin of
the name of Bo-az, who was rich.

So Ruth went out one day to the field
where this rich man was; his corn was cut,
and she went out to glean some of it.

And Bo-az came, and spoke to the men who
cut the corn, and said, ‘‘ The Lord be with
you,” and they said, “The Lord bless thee.”

Then he said to them, ‘‘ Who is this
young maid?” and the head-man said, “She
came back from’ Mo-ab with Na-o-mi, and
she said to me, ‘I pray you let me glean,’
and she has been here all the day.”

Then Bo-az said to Ruth, ‘‘Go not else-
where to glean, but stay here, and where
the men reap do thou glean the corn. I
will les no man harm thee; when thou
wouldst drink, go and drink of that which
the young men have drawn.”
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Then she fell on her face and said, “Why

have I found this grace in thy sight ?”

Then Bo-az told her that he had heard
how good she had been to her mo-ther,
and how she had left her own lands, and
come with her; and he said, “The Lord
bless thy work.”

And he bade her at meal time come
and eat of his bread, and he fed her with
dry corn, such as they eat in those lands.

And when she rose up to glean once
more, Bo-az bade the young men let her
glean close to the sheaves, and drop corn
on the ground that she might get the more.’

So at night-fall, when she went back to
the town, and her mo-ther saw how much
corn she had, she said to her, ‘“‘ Where did
you glean all day ?”

And Ruth told her that the name of the
man in whose fields she had been was Bo-az.
And her mo-ther was glad, for she knew he
was one of her kin. ,
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And so, day by day, Ruth went to glean
in Bo-az’s fields, and he was kind to her,
and felt sad she was so lone.

Then he asked the wise men of the
town, if it would be well he should take her
to be his wife, and they said it would be
well. So he took her to be his wife, and
she had a son born to her.

Now it was the wish of all the men of
Is-ra-el to have sons; and you will see why
it was so, when I tell you that the hope of
the birth of the Lord Christ was in all
their hearts.

I told you, that when the curse came on
Ad-am and Hive, God gave them at the
same time this glad hope; and that hope
was in all the hearts of the men of Is-ra-el
from that time. :

Each one had the fond wish, that He
might be one of his son’s sons. And He
did come from the sons of Ruth and
Bo-az.
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CHAPTER XXXVII.
THE BIRTH OF SAM-U-EL.

As I have just told you how sad the men
of Is-ra-el and their wives were, if they
had no sons; now I will tell you of a man,
whose name was Hl-ka-nah, who had two
Wives.

One of them, Han-nah, had no son, and
she felt it much, and all the more that the
wife who had sons made mock of her, and
made her fret; and though El-ka-nah was
most kind to her, she could not cease to
grieve.

And once, when she went up to the
House of the Lord to pray, she wept sore,
and made a vow to God, if He would give
her a son, she would give him to the Lord
all the days of his life.

And while she knelt to pray, a priest of
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God, whose name was E-li, saw her, and
thought, from her way, that she was drunk,
so he spoke to her and chid her.

But she told him she was not drunk, but
sad and full of grief. Then he bade God
bless her, and give her her heart’s wish.

So she went home glad, and in trust that
God would hear her cry.

Then, by and by, God did bless her with
a son, to whom she gave the name of
Sam-u-el.

And when this child had grown to an
age when he could part from his mother,
she kept the vow she had made to God, and
took him to God’s House.

And she went to H-li and told him that
she it was whom he had seen a few years
back pray to the Lord for a child, and here
was the child the Lord gave her, and that
now she had brought her child to lend to
the Lord.

And she left him with E-li, but ere
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she went she sang a song of praise to the
Lord.

Then H-li took the young boy and taught
him how to wait on the Lord in His House,
and gave him work to do there.

What a glad boy he must have been, to
be in the Lord’s House with His priests, and
let be to do work in the House of the Lord.

Year by year his mo-ther went to see
him, and when she went she took him each
time a coat that she made for him her-self.
Can you not think how glad she must have
felt to see her boy grow more and more in
the ways of God, and doing the Lord’s
work in His House ?

Now, though E-li was a good man, and
a priest of the Lord, he had two sons, who
were bad men, with whom God was wroth,
and He was wroth, too, with E-l, in that
he saw the bad ways of his sons, and did
not chide them. ,;

So, one night, when Sam-u-el was in
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bed, God spoke to him, and said,
“Sam-u-el,” and Sam-u-el, from his bed,
said, ‘‘ Here am I.”

Then he ran to H-li and said, ‘‘Here am
I, for thou didst call me.” And EH-li said,
““T did not call, lie down once more.”
Then the Lord said, ‘‘Sam-u-el.” Then
Sam-u-el got up and went to H-li again,
and said, “‘ Here am I, for thou didst '
call me.” And E-li told him no, he did not
call, and bade him lie down again.

Then a third time, when God spoke, and
said, “‘Sam-u-el,” and Sam-u-el a third
time went to know if it was Eli who spoke,
i-li saw that it must be God whose voice
Sam-u-el had heard; and he bade him
once more lie down, and if he heard the
voice, say, ‘‘ Speak, Lord.”

Then Sam-u-el did as H-li told him.
And God did speak, and bade Sam-u-el go
to E-li and tell him that He, the Lord, saw
the sins of H-li’s sons, and would bring
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grief and shame on E-li and his house for
these sins.

Poor Sam-u-el! he could not bear to tell
all this to Hi-li, so he lay still till day came,
and then he got up and did his work in the
Lord’s House.

But E-li would know what the Lord had
said, and he said to the boy, “‘ What is the
thing which the Lord hath said to thee ?
I pray thee hide it not from me.”

Then Sam-u-el told him all, and hid
nought from him, and H-li said, “It is the
Lord, let Him do what seems to Him good.”

As Sam-u-el grew, God gave him His
words to speak more and more.

CHAPTER XXXVIII.
THE ARK IN THE CAMP.
At this time some strong men came to
fight the Is-ra-el-ites, and they smote them,
and did them much harm in the wars that
rose.
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Then the men of Is-ra-el went and
brought the Ark of the Lord, in which
were kept the two stones of the Law,
and the pot of Man-na, and the Rod which
Moses had had with him in Egypt. And
they brought this Ark out to the camp, for
they thought if they had it with them God
would be with them to bless their arms.

The two sons of E-li, who were priests,
came with the Ark.

When the men of Is-ra-el saw the Ark
come to their camp, they set up a loud
shout, so that the whole camp rang with
the sound.

And when their foes heard the shout
they said, ‘‘ Woe to us, God is come up to
the camp: who shall save us from the
hand of this great God!”

But it was not God’s will to save the
Is-ra-el-ites ; they were wrong to take the
Ark from God’s house, and you will see
what came of it.
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Their foes still smote them, and those
who were not slain fled, and the Ark of
the Lord fell in-to the hands of the foes,
and the two sons of H-li were slain.

Then there ran a man to bear this sad
news to the town whence the Ark had
come, and when he told that it was in the
hands of their foes, all the men of the town
wept, and when H-li, who sat on a seat by
the road-side, heard the cry, he said,
“What means this noise?” and the man
came near and told him.

Now E-li was an old, old man, so old that
his eyes were dim, so that he could not see,
and the man told him that he had come
from the fight, and how the Is-ra-el-ites
were slain, or had fled, and that his two
sons were dead, and that the Ark was in
the hands of their foes.

And so soon as poor old H-li heard
of the Ark he fell off his seat by the way-
side, dead !
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You see his grief was more for the
Ark, which was the Lord’s, than for his
sons.

CHAPTER XXXIX.
THE ARK SENT BACK.

Gop brought much woe on the men who
took the Ark, and as long as they kept it
they were sick and ill, they and their
priests. So ill were they, and so full of
woes, they thought at last they had best
take the Ark back.

So they put it on a cart which they
made two cows draw.

Now, though these two cows had young
calves, and though their calves were left
shut up at home, they went straight to the
land of Is-ra-el, though no man led them
there.

It was God who led them.
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And the men of the place they came to
were in the fields; for it was the time
when they cut their wheat.

And when they saw the Ark of the Lord
on the road, their hearts were full of joy.

Then the cows took the Ark in-to a
field.

And the men that were at work there
thought, it seems, to keep the Ark, but
that was not God’s will, and He sent
grief on them.

So they saw they were wrong, and they
sent word to those who should have the
Ark with them, to come and fetch it,
which they did.

The men of Is-ra-el were still in much
grief, for their foes were strong; and
Sa-mu-el told them they would have no
peace till they were true to God, and
put from them the false gods they had
set up.

They knew he was right, and they hid
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not their sins, but put their false gods
from them, and bade Sam-u-el cease not to
ery to God for them. :

And the Lord heard his cry, and took
them safe from the hands of their foes.

CHAPTER XL.
SAUL THE KING.

Sam-vu-rL was Judge in Is-ra-el all the
days of his life; and when he grew old he
set his sons to rule for him, but his sons
did not walk in his ways or judge well.

This, as you may think, brought fresh
grief; and the men of Is-ra-el said they
would have a king to rule them.

Then Sam-u-el sought the Lord, to
know if it was His will that they should
have a king.

And the Lord said that they should have

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one, but that Sam-u-el should warn them —
that he would rule them with a heavy hand.

So, though Sam-u-el told them what it
would be, they did not care. They had
set their minds on a king, and a king they
would have.

Then the Lord bade Sam-u-el do what
they said, and give them a king.

Now there was a man whose name was
Saul, a choice young man, a fine, tall man,
and he it was whom God gave them as their
king. And most of them were glad, and
said, “ God save the king! ”

But some of them did not like it, and

there was much strife in the land.
_ And Sam-u-el had a hard task to make
the men let the king, Saul, rule them,
though it was their own wish to have a
king.

Saul did not walk as God would have
him, and so in time we read that God
bade Sam-u-el choose for Him a fresh king.
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Sam-u-el, though no doubt he saw the
need there was for this, was fond of Saul,
and seems to have felt great grief that he
had to be put from off the throne of
Is-ra-el. But God bade him not mourn,
but go and lay his hands on one who should
be king. And who was this? No great
and grand man, but a young lad, the son
of one Jesse, who had eight sons, and this
one, David, was the youngest of them.

This lad—for when first we hear of him
he was no more than a lad—could play
well on the harp. And once, when King
Saul was ill, and what we should call
mad, those who were round him thought if
he could have some one to play to him it
might soothe him. So they sent for this
young lad, of whom they had heard, and
who was with his father’s sheep. And
Saul. soon learnt to love him, and the notes
of his harp did soothe him, as they thought

they would.
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CHAPTER XLI.
GO-LI-ATH.

WELL, by and by we read how Saul and
the men of Is-ra-el had to fight once more
those strong men, the Phi-lis-tines.

And while the war went on there came
one of the Phi-lis-tines, a great, great, big
man, tall and strong; and he had on his
head a brass cap, and he had a coat of
mail, and brass on his legs. ‘Then he bore
in his hand a large, long spear, and a man
went with him to bear his shield.

And this big man came out in front of
the men who were drawn up to fight, and
gaid, “‘ Choose out a man for you, and if
he can fight me and kill me, we will be
your slaves; but if I kill him, you shall
“gerve us.” Na
' And when Saul and his men heard this
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they felt great fear, for they saw how big
and strong he was.

Who do you think came to their help ?

None but this same young lad David.

Tt seems that three of the sons of Jes-se
were with Saul’s men of war, and Jes-se
bade Da-vid go and see how they were, and
take them some loaves and a gift of cheese
to their chief. And when Da-vid was in
the camp he saw this big man (whose name
was Go-li-ath) and heard what he said; and,
strange as it may seem to you, he felt that
he dare go and fight him. And he said so ;
and his words were told to Saul, who sent
for him to speak to him.

And when Saul saw him he bade him
not try and fight Go-li-ath, as he was too
young and small.

But Da-vid told him how, when he had
kept his fa-ther’s sheep, a li-on and a bear
had come to take the lambs, and God had
sent him such strength he had slain them
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botn ;,and_he said in the Lord’s strength
he would go and fight this strong man. :

Then Saul bade him: go, but first he
would give him his own sword and his own
coat of mail, which Da-vid put on, but
found he could not wear it nor use the
sword; so he put them off and went just
as he was, with his sling, and his staff in
his hand. He did but stop to pick up
some stones from the brook and put them
in his bag.

Soin this plain way, with all his trust
in the Lord, he went forth to meet the
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And on came Go-li-ath in all his might,
and the man who bore his shield with
him. And when he came up to Da-vid,
and saw none but this young fair lad come
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Ah, he did not know Who it was Who
fought for David.

And so thought Da-vid when he said,
“You come with a sword and a_ spear, —
but I come to you in the name of the
Lord of Hosts.”

Then, when Go-li-ath drew near, Da-vid
put his hand in his bag and drew forth a
stone, and slung it, and it smote Go-li-ath
in the head, and he fell on his face on the
earth.

Now Da-vid, as you know, had no sword,
so he ran and took Go-li-ath’s sword, and
with it he cut off the giant’s head.

When the Phi-lis-tines saw all this they
fled. But the men of Is-ra-el rose with a
shout and went on their track, and slew

them as they went.

' hen Da-vid went with the dead man’s
head in his hand to Saul, and told him all
that had come to pass. And as he told it,
Saul’s son, Jon-a-than, stood by and heard
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it; and he felt such love for Da-vid, that
from that time he was his fast friend.

Nor would Saul let Da-vid leave him
and go to his own home; but he kept him
with him, and made him one of his great
men.

CHAPTER XLII.
SAUL'’S DEATH.

Da-vip won much love and praise from the
men of Is-ra-el; and the time came when
the sight of this made Saul wroth, for he
thought their love for Da-vid was more
than their love for him.

So he sought to slay him, by his own
hand, by the hands of his sons, and by the
foes in fight.

But God kept him safe, and made him
wise in all his ways; for, as I have told
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you, it was Da-vid God meant to be king
by and by.

We read much more in God’s Word of
Saul and his life, and of his ways, and how
he did not seek to walk with God, but I
must pass by this and tell you of his death,
which was in this wise. He and his sons
fought with their old foes, the Phi-lis-tines,
who in the. fight slew his three sons and
smote Saul with a sore wound.

His fear was so great lest he should fall
in-to their hands, that he said to a man
who was with him, “ Draw thy sword, and
thrust me through.” The man would not
do so, and Saul put an end to his own
life; for he took a sword and fell on it.

When the men of Is-ra-el saw that Saul
was dead, they fled from their towns, and
let them fall in-to the hands of the Phi-
lis-tines ; who came and dwelt in them.
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CHAPTER XLIII.
DAVID MADE KING.

Wuen Saul was dead, David, the young
man I told you of, who fought and slew
the giant Go-li-ath, was made king.
First he was made king of one part of
the land, and one of Saul’s sons was
king of all the rest; but by and by,
when this son of King Saul’s was dead,
_ David was made king of all the land. He
went to live in a new town—Je-ru-sa-lem
—a large and strong town, and David
made up his mind to go and fetch the Ark
of God, which had been a long time in a
strange land, and place it in a tent which
he had made for it.

There was much joy when it was brought
to Je-ru-sa-lem, for the men of the town
all felt as if God had come to dwell with
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them ; but David was not quite glad in his
own heart, for he felt he and his great men
each had a grand house to live in, and that
the Ark of God was in a tent; and he
knew this was not as it should be. So
he set to work to get and store up gold
and brass, and fine stones and wood, but
God would. not let him build. He told
him he had been a man of wars; that is,
there had been much strife in his reign;
and that the house of God must be built
by a man of peace; and God told him his
son should be that man, and he should
build the house.

So David got all he could in store, glad
that if he might not build the house of
God him-self, his son might have that joy.

When he came to the throne, good as
King David was, he was not free from sin,
and much grief came to him from this. He
lost one child who was most dear to him;
and then one of his sons rose up, and got
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men to fight with him, and to try to put
David off the throne. This was a deep
grief to him, but God often lets grief come
on those who are not true to Him. Still
David’s last words were praise to God, and
he was glad to tell his son how to walk in
God’s ways.

You know those psalms which are in the
Bi-ble, and which you hear read in church
each day? It was David who wrote most
of them. They are words God gave him to
write, to tell of Christ who should come,
and of God’s love and help to His Church.

CHAPTER XLIV.
THE WISE KING.

Wuen David was dead, his son So-lo-mon
was king in all the land. God told him he
might ask for just ‘what he would like best
to have, and that he should have it.
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What do you think you would ask for in
such a case?

Wealth, long life, and joy?

Yes, I dare say you would, but King
So-lo-mon said, “‘ Make me wise, that I
may know how to be a good king.”

So God made him more wise than the
men or kings round him, and he made him
more rich as well—so rich that all men
said, with cause, how wise, how great, and
how rich a king he was.

Then So-lo-mon lost no time, but set to
work at once to use the gold and rich
stones which King David had left for the
house of God. He sent ships to get
sweet wood, and he sent for wise men
from far off to come and work; and he
made all as grand and good as it could
be; and it took him seven years to build
it; and then, when it was done, he sent
some of the priests to fetch the Ark and
pat it in the new house of God; and
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then there was much joy among all who
saw and knew it.

When So-lo-mon had done this work,
and saw all was as good as it could be in .
God’s house, then, not till then, he set to
work to build a large house for him-self,
and all this was as it should be; but So-lo-
mon did not keep all his heart for God, but
let his thoughts turn where they should
not; and God said to him that when he
was dead, his son should not be as great a
king as he had been, but that harm would
come of his faults.

King So-lo-mon wrote three of the —
Books of the Bi-ble. It seems to meso |
. sad that I cannot but tell you some bad
news of all the men I write of: though
the men I write of may be good in great
part, and God may bless them much, of
each one I must tell you sad things;
but so I fear it must be till all sin has
passed away
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CHAPTER XLV
E-LI-JAH.

Now comes a time hard to tell you of, for,
as God fore-told, grief arose in the land,
The sons of So-lo-mon fought, and the
land was split in-to two parts, with a king
to each part. Some of the kings were bad,
and left the true God to turn to false ones.
By and by the land was in a sad plight for
want of rain, which did not fall for a long
time, The corn and wheat did not grow,
and there was sore lack of food. God had
sent a man, whose name was H-li-jah, to
A-hab, one of the kings, to warn him that °
no rain was to fall.

Now when he went.to warn A-hab of -
God’s wrath, and to tell him that for
three years no rain would fall on the
land, the Queen sought to slay this man.
God made much use of this man H-li-jah,

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who let his lips be free for the word of
God to pass through to them, and did not |
fear to speak the truth to the King and
his men, though they sought to lull him.

And now let me tell you what God did
for him. One day he was. on the bank of
a stream, with a good man with him to
wait on him and be his friend. And H-li-
jah told H-li-sha—that was the name of
his friend —“ I know the Lord will take me
hence; ask of me what thou wilt.”

And H-li-sha said, “‘ Let the same wise
gifts which God has let you have be with me.”

Then there came a whirl-wind, and E-li-
sha saw a car of fire come from heaven and
take E-li-jah up from earth; and,as he ©
went up his cloak fell, and H-li-sha took
it up, and knew by this sign that God would
let His grace and His gifts which had
been with H-li-jah rest on him.

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who had done his work so well here, who
spoke such bold words to the King and the
~ Queen, and let God use him as he would,
had this proof of God’s love, that no sad
death came to him, and God took him up
to Him in His grand car of fire? This
makes us think of the good man E-noch,
who, you read, “was not, for God took him.”

CHAPTER XLVI.
E-LI-SHA.

Now you will like to hear more of H-li-sha,
the man on whom fell the cloak of H-li-jah.

God made much use of him, as He had
done of H-li-jah.

First we read that he was sent by God
to set a new king in the place of the son
of the bad king A-hab. This new king
did much to put sin and the false gods
from the land, where by this time God was
not much thought of; but he did not do all
IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE. 149

he should have done, and the tribes of the
land still for the most part put their trust
in false gods, and but few went to pray to
God at Je-ru-sa-lem, as he had told them
to do year by year. E-li-sha said much ‘to
warn them, and when he was dead God sent
one by one wise men with His words in
their lips to warn them, and to bid them
turn from their sins and be true to Him,
and to show them the grief and the sad
times which would be sure to come on them
if they went on still in their sins.

The words of God, as told by these wise
men, you will, by and by, read in the
Bible, where they are in books each called
by the name of the man who spoke them. I
need not tell you much of them, but there
is one which I dare say you have been told
of, and you might think it strange if I did
not write of him here. I mean Jonah.
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CHAPTER XLVII.
JO-NAH.

Ar this time a king of a iand near the land
of Is-ra-el made war with Is-ra-el; he and
the men of his land were rich and strong,
but bad. God told Jo-nah to go to the
town where this king dwelt, and tell him.
and the men of that town how wroth the
Lord was with them.

Now Jo-nah did not like this task at all;
so he fled from the Lord, and found a ship
which was to go else-where ; and he paid to
go in this ship, and thought he might thus
hide from God, but that, we know, no man
can do. Then the Lord sent a great wind
to blow on the sea, and raise a fierce storm.
The men in the ship were in great fright,
and they cast their goods which they had
in the ship in-to the sea, to make the ship
lighter ; this was no good, nor did it help
IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE. 151

them that they put up their cries to their
false gods. At last they found Jo-nah, who
lay in the ship in a sound sleep, and they
woke him, and bade him cry to his God for
help. Then they said, “‘ Let us cast lots,
that we may find out who is on board this
ship who has done wrong, and for whose
fault this great woe is come on us.” They
cast lots, and the lot fell on Jo-nah.
The men bade him tell them who and what
he was; and he told them he was a Jew,
and that his God was He who had made
the sea and the land. Then said the men,
‘Why do you flee from your God? What
shall we do to make the sea once more
calm?” Then Jonah, who knew full well
that all this storm came for his sins, bade
them cast him forth into the sea. With
much grief they did as he bade them; then
the storm passed off, and they knew that the
Lord of whom Jo-nah spake was the true
God, and they made their vows to Him.
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Now comes a strange tale, but one that
shows us how great and how kind is-our
God. Though Jo-nah would not do as God
bade him, and sought to fly from Him, yet
God knew that in his heart he had love and
trust in God; and though He let him be
thrown forth into the sea, He did not let him
drown there, but He sent a large fish—a
whale. Have you seen a whale, or the
bones of one? and do you know what a
large fish it is? Well, such a fish came
close to the ship, and when poor Jo-nah
was cast in-to the sea, this whale came and
took him up, but not to eat him, but that
he might be kept quite safe inside him.
For three whole days and nights Jo-nah
was safe inside the whale.

In this strange place Jo-nah put up his
cry to God; he told God how wrong he felt
he had been not to do as God had told him;
and he gave God thanks who had not let
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words of Jo-nah He came to his help, and
he made the large fish take him and leave
him on the dry land.

God now sent Jo-nah to the town to
warn the king and the men of the town of
God’s wrath. This time Jo-nah went at
once, and the king and his men heard the
words of Jo-nah, and were full of grief for
their sins; and they put on signs of grief and
rent their clothes, and put up a cry to God
. that He might no more be wroth with them.

God saw by their acts and their words
that they felt true grief, and He was no
more wroth with them. j

CHAPTER XLVIII.
THE JEWS IN A STRANGE LAND.

GrranGe as it may seem, the Jews would
not think of the words by which He would
warn them; and so,as God will not plead on
and on if men turn a deaf ear to Him, He
IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE. 155

at last let them fall in-to the hands of the
strong men of the lands round them,
as He had said He would; and the Jews
were for se-ven-ty years kept in a strange
land—their joy all gone, their hearts sad
Now in this strange land their faith in
the true God was much tried.

The Bible tells a strange story of this.
Tt seems that the king of the land where
they were, made a large false god of gold,
and set it up on high, and bade all men pray
to it; but three of the Jews would not do
this; so the King, in his wrath, bade his
guards make a fire as hot as they could
make it, and cast the three men in-to it.

When the King came to see if they were
dead, lo! they were not the least hurt; not
a hair of their heads was burnt; and he
saw them walk up and down in the fierce
fire, and with them a fourth man, who was
like the Son of God, and who must have
come to help and cheer them.
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CHAPTER XUIX.
DA-NI-EL.

At this time we read of a man of the Jews
whose name was Da-ni-el, who found grace
in the sight of the King, and of a king who
came and took the land where the Jews
were kept. But the King made a law that
no one should pray at all for thirty days,
save to him, the King; and this law
Da-ni-el could not keep, but with the
brave heart of a man who knew he did
what was right in God’s sight, he knelt,
as was his wont, three times a day to pray,
where they who went by could see him.

The King heard of this, and sent his
guards to take Da-ni-el and cast him in-to
a den of li-ons, as he had said he would
do to those who broke his law.

Did God let him be hurt for his faith
‘and his love? Not at all. He made the


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li-ons good and tame, and when the King
came to see what had come to Da-ni-el,
and thought he should find him torn by
the wild beasts and dead, he found not a
scratch or hurt on him.

This is once more a proof of God’s care
and love for those who trust in Him.

CHAPTER L.
THE JEWS COME BACK TO THEIR OWN LAND.

I xnow you will feel glad when I tell you a
good king now came to the throne of the
land where the poor Jews were, and he gave
them leave to go back to their own land
once more. And as he had a love of God
in his heart, he gave them gold and rare
woods, and brass, and all such things, that
they might once more build the house of
their God which had been laid waste.
IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE. 159

Think what joy and praise the Jews
must have had in their hearts as once more
they went to their own land and to Je-ru-
sa-lem. But when they got there, they
found it all flat with the ground, a sad
sight to see. Their hearts were bent on
God and His praise; so first they built
His house, and kept the great feasts with
joy; and then they set to work and built
the walls of the town, and set up its
gates.

When this was done, the laws which ©
God had made for them and taught them
by Mo-ses were read in their ears; and
they wept for grief when they saw how
much they had gone from them.

Now that I have told you of this time
when the Jews came back to their own
land, I must stop, for I could write no
more which you would care to read.

I hope you may have found much to like
in this book; and I hope, far more, that
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you will try day by day to learn to read
God’s own Book, that so you may soon
know all it tells of Him, and His kind
and wise ways and acts.

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