{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_53894/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_53894","id":"gutenberg_53894","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53894","summary":null,"tags":["Bible stories, English -- Juvenile literature","Category: Children & Young Adult Reading","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Christian education -- Textbooks for children","Christian life -- Juvenile literature"],"text":"[Illustration: THE INFANT JESUS.]\n\n\n\n\n    The Peep of Day\n\n\n    By the Author of\n    \u201cLine Upon Line,\u201d \u201cPrecept Upon\n    Precept,\u201d Etc.\n\n\n    PHILADELPHIA\n    HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS.\n\n\n    LESSON.                              PAGE.\n     1. Of the body                         7\n     2. Of a mother\u2019s care                 10\n     3. Of the soul                        14\n     4. Of the good angels                 17\n     5. Of the wicked angels               20\n     6. The world, Part I                  25\n     7. The world, Part II                 28\n     8. The world, Part III                30\n     9. Adam and Eve                       35\n    10. The first sin                      37\n    11. The Son of God                     40\n    12. The Virgin Mary                    43\n    13. The birth of Jesus                 46\n    14. The shepherds                      47\n    15. The wise men                       49\n    16. King Herod                         50\n    17. The temptation                     52\n    18. The twelve disciples               56\n    19. The first miracle                  59\n    20. Several miracles                   61\n    21. The sinner and Simon               63\n    22. The storm at sea                   65\n    23. Jairus\u2019 daughter                   67\n    24. The loaves and fishes              69\n    25. The kindness of Jesus              73\n    26. The Lord\u2019s Prayer                  75\n    27. Jesus foretells his death          77\n    28. Lazarus                            79\n    29. Jesus enters Jerusalem             83\n    30. The Temple                         85\n    31. Judas                              87\n    32. The Last Supper, Part I            89\n    33. The Last Supper, Part II           92\n    34. The Last Supper, Part III          94\n    35. The garden                         97\n    36. Peter\u2019s denial                    100\n    37. Pontius Pilate                    103\n    38. Death of Judas                    107\n    39. The Cross, Part I                 108\n    40. The Cross, Part II                111\n    41. The Cross, Part III               113\n    42. The soldiers                      115\n    43. The grave                         116\n    44. The resurrection                  119\n    45. Mary Magdalene                    121\n    46. The two friends                   123\n    47. Thomas                            128\n    48. The dinner                        130\n    49. The ascension                     134\n    50. Peter in Prison                   136\n    51. John                              142\n    52. The Judgment Day                  146\n\n\n\n\nPREFACE.\n\n\nTHIS little work aims to be the very least of all;\u2014not in _size_, but\nin the humility of its contents. It aims at the superlative degree of\nlittleness; and in this point seeks to resemble the least watch ever\nmade\u2014the least picture ever painted\u2014the tiniest flower that ever grew.\nIt desires to be among books as the humming-bird among birds.\n\nAs soon as a child\u2019s mind is _capable_ of receiving _systematic_\ninstruction, this humble work attempts to convey it.\n\nFrom a very early period a pious mother will, by _casual_ remarks,\nendeavor to lead her child to the knowledge of his Creator and\nRedeemer; and in due time she will impart _systematic_ instruction. It\nmay be at _three_ years of age\u2014it may _not_ be till _five_\u2014that the\nchild is prepared to listen to these little lessons. But\u2014sooner or\nlater\u2014he will give evidence of his immortality by willingly hearkening\nto discourse concerning the INVISIBLE\u2014the ETERNAL\u2014the INFINITE.\n\nThe simplicity of the language may seem unworthy of the sublimity\nof the subject treated of in these pages; and some may smile at the\ncontrast;\u2014but the little one will not smile\u2014except with joy to hear\nof his Heavenly Father, and of his Incarnate Redeemer; for the merry\ninmates of the nursery are capable of tasting higher pleasures than\ntoys and dainties can afford.\n\n\n\n\nTHE PEEP OF DAY.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON I.\n\nOF THE BODY.\n\n\nDEAR CHILDREN:\u2014You have seen the sun in the sky. Who put the sun in the\nsky?\u2014God.\n\nCan you reach up so high?\u2014No.\n\nWho holds up the sun that it does not fall?\u2014It is God. God lives in\nheaven; heaven is much higher than the sun.\n\nCan you see God?\u2014No. Yet He can see you, for God sees everything.\n\nGod made everything at first, and God takes care of everything. God\nmade you, my little child, and God takes care of you always.\n\nYou have a little body; from your head down to your feet, I call your\nbody.\n\nPut your hand before your mouth. What do you feel coming out of your\nmouth? It is your breath. You breathe every moment. When you are\nasleep, you breathe. You cannot help breathing. But who gives you\nbreath? God does everything. God gave you this little body, and he\nmakes it live, and move, and breathe. There are bones in your body. God\nhas made them strong and hard. There are some bones for your arms, and\nsome bones for your legs. There is a bone for your back, and more bones\nfor you sides.\n\nGod has covered your bones with flesh. Your flesh is soft and warm.\nIn your flesh there is blood. God has put skin outside, and it covers\nyour flesh and blood like a coat. Now all these things, the bones, and\nflesh, and blood, and skin, are called your body. How kind of God it\nwas to give you a body. I hope that your body will not get hurt.\n\nWill your bones break?\u2014Yes, they would, if you were to fall down from a\nhigh place, or if a cart were to go over them.\n\nIf you were to be very sick, your flesh would waste away, and you would\nhave scarcely anything left but skin and bones.\n\nDid you ever see a child who had been sick a very long while? I have\nseen a sick baby. It had not round cheeks like yours, and a fat arm\nlike this. The baby\u2019s flesh was almost gone, and its little bones were\nonly covered with skin. God has kept you strong and well.\n\nHow easy it would be to hurt your poor little body!\n\nIf it were to fall into the fire, it would be burned up. If hot water\nwere thrown upon it, it would be scalded. If it were to fall into deep\nwater, and not be taken out very soon, it would be drowned. If a great\nknife were run through your body, the blood would come out. If a great\nbox were to fall on your head, your head would be crushed. If you were\nto fall out of the window, your neck would be broken. If you were not\nto eat some food for a few days, your little body would be very sick,\nyour breath would stop, and you would grow cold, and you would soon be\ndead.\n\nYou see that you have a very weak little body.\n\nCan you keep your own body from being sick, and from getting hurt?\n\nYou should try not to hurt yourself, but God only can keep your body\nfrom all harm, from fire and water, from wounds and bruises, and all\nkinds of sickness. Kneel down and say to God, \u201cPray keep my poor little\nbody from getting hurt.\u201d God will hear you, and go on taking care of\nyou.\n\n    My little body\u2019s made by God\n    Of soft warm flesh and crimson blood:\n    The slender bones are placed within,\n    And over all is laid the skin.\n\n    My little body\u2019s very weak;\n    A fall or blow my bones might break:\n    The water soon might stop my breath;\n    The fire might close my eyes in death.\n\n    But God can keep me by his care;\n    To him I\u2019ll say this little pray\u2019r:\n    \u201cO God! from harm my body keep,\n    Both when I wake and when I sleep.\u201d\n\n\n\n\nLESSON II.\n\nOF A MOTHER\u2019S CARE.\n\n\nI HAVE told you about your little body. Was your body always as big as\nit is now?\u2014No. Once it was very small indeed.\n\nWhat were you called when your body was very small?\u2014A baby.\n\nNow you can take a little care of yourself, but then you could take no\ncare at all. Can babies walk, or talk, or feed themselves, or dress\nthemselves?\u2014No.\n\nBut God sent you a person who took great care of you when you were a\nbaby.\n\nWho was it?\u2014Your dear mother; she took care of you then. She nursed you\nin her arms, and fed you, and took you out in the air, and washed you,\nand dressed you. Do you love your mother?\u2014Yes.\n\nI know you do. But who gave you a mother? It was God who sent you to a\nkind mother.\n\nA little while ago there was no such little creature as you. Then God\nmade your little body, and he sent you to your mother, who loved you as\nsoon as she saw you. It was God who made your mother love you so much,\nand made her so kind to you.\n\nYour kind mother dressed your poor little body in neat clothes, and\nlaid you in a cradle. When you cried she gave you food, and hushed you\nto sleep in her arms. She showed you pretty things to make you smile.\nShe held you up, and showed you how to move your feet. She taught you\nto speak, and she often kissed you, and called you sweet names.\n\nIs your mother kind to you still?\u2014Yes, she is, though she is sometimes\nangry. But she wishes to make you good: that is why she is sometimes\nangry.\n\nYour mother has sent you to this nice school, and she gives you supper\nwhen you go home. I know she will be kind to you as long as she lives.\n\nBut remember who gave you this mother. God sent you to a dear mother,\ninstead of putting you in the fields, where no one would have seen you\nor taken care of you.\n\nCan your mother keep you alive?\u2014No.\n\nShe can feed you, but she cannot make your breath go on.\n\nGod thinks of you every moment. If he were to forget you, your breath\nwould stop.\n\nDo you ever thank your mother for her kindness?\u2014Yes. You often say,\n\u201cThank you,\u201d and sometimes you put your arms around her neck, and say,\n\u201cI do love you so much, dear mother!\u201d Will you not thank God who gave\nyou a mother, and who keeps you alive? You should kneel down when you\nspeak to God; then you should say, \u201cO God, how good you have been to\nme! I thank you, and love you.\u201d\n\nWould God hear your little thanks?\u2014Yes, God would hear and be pleased.\n\n    Who fed me from her gentle breast,\n    And hush\u2019d me in her arms to rest,\n    And on my cheeks sweet kisses press\u2019d?\n                                    My Mother.\n\n    When sleep forsook my open eye,\n    Who was it sang sweet hush-a-by?\n    And rock\u2019d me that I should not cry?\n                                    My Mother.\n\n    Who sat and watch\u2019d my infant head,\n    When sleeping on my cradle bed,\n    And tears of sweet affection shed?\n                                    My Mother.\n\n    When pain and sickness made me cry,\n    Who gazed upon my heavy eye,\n    And wept for fear that I should die?\n                                    My Mother.\n\n    Who ran to help me when I fell,\n    And would some pretty story tell,\n    Or kiss the place to make it well?\n                                    My Mother.\n\n    Who taught my infant lips to pray,\n    And love God\u2019s holy book and day,\n    And walk in wisdom\u2019s pleasant way?\n                                    My Mother.\n\n    And can I ever cease to be\n    Affectionate and kind to thee,\n    Who wast so very kind to me?\n                                    My Mother.\n\n    Ah no! the thought I cannot bear,\n    And if God please my life to spare,\n    I hope I shall reward thy care,\n                                    My Mother.\n\n    When thou art feeble, old, and gray,\n    My healthy arm shall be thy stay,\n    And I will soothe thy pains away,\n                                    My Mother.\n\n    And when I see thee hang thy head,\n    \u2019Twill be my turn to watch thy bed,\n    And tears of sweet affection shed,\n                                    My Mother.\n\n    For God, who lives above the skies,\n    Would look with vengeance in his eyes\n    If ever I should dare despise\n                                    My Mother.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON III.\n\nOF THE SOUL.\n\n\nHAS God been kind to dogs? Has he given them bodies?\u2014Yes.\n\nHave they bones, and flesh, and blood, and skin?\u2014Yes.\n\nThe dog has a body as well as you. Is the dog\u2019s body like yours?\u2014No.\n\nHow many legs have you?\u2014Two.\n\nHow many legs has the dog?\u2014Four.\n\nHave you got arms?\u2014Yes, two.\n\nHas the dog got arms?\u2014No, it has no arms, nor hands. But the dog has\nlegs instead. Your skin is smooth, but the dog is covered with hair.\n\nIs the cat\u2019s body like yours?\u2014No; it is covered with fur.\n\nIs a chicken\u2019s body like yours? How many legs has the chicken?\u2014Two.\n\nAnd so have you. But are its legs like yours?\u2014No; the chicken has very\nthin, dark legs, and it has claws instead of feet.\n\nHave you feathers on your skin? Have you wings? Is your mouth like a\nchicken\u2019s beak? Has the chicken any teeth?\u2014No; the chicken\u2019s body is\nnot at all like yours. Yet the chicken has a body\u2014for it has flesh, and\nbones, and blood, and skin.\n\nHas a fly got a body?\u2014Yes, it has a black body, and six black legs, and\ntwo wings like glass. Its body is not at all like yours.\n\nWho gave bodies to dogs, horses, chickens, and flies? Who keeps them\nalive?\n\nGod thinks of all these creatures every moment.\n\nCan a dog thank God. No; dogs and horses, sheep and cows, cannot thank\nGod.\n\nWhy can not they thank God? Is is because they cannot talk?\n\nThat is not the reason.\n\nThe reason is, they cannot think of God. They never heard of God. They\ncannot understand about God.\n\nWhy not?\u2014Because they have no _souls_, or spirits, like yours.\n\nHave you got a soul?\u2014Yes, in your body there is a soul which will never\ndie. Your soul can think of God.\n\nWhen God made your body, he put your soul inside. Are you glad of that?\nWhen God made the dogs, he put no soul like yours inside their bodies,\nand they cannot think of God.\n\nCan I see your soul?\u2014No; I cannot see it. No one can see it but God. He\nknows what you are thinking of now.\n\nWhich is the best, your soul or your body?\u2014Your soul is a great deal\nthe best. Why is your soul the best?\u2014Your body can die, but your soul\ncannot die.\n\nShall I tell you what your body is made of?\u2014Of dust. God made the dust\ninto flesh and blood.\n\nWhat is your soul made of?\u2014Your soul, or spirit, is made of the breath\nof God.\n\nThat little dog will die some day. Its body will be thrown away. The\ndog will be quite gone when its body is dead. But when your body dies,\nyour soul will be alive, and you will not be quite gone.\n\nWhere would you be put if you were dead?\u2014Your body would be put in a\nhole in the ground, but your soul would not be in the hole. Even a baby\nhas a soul, or spirit.\n\nOne day as I was walking in the streets, I saw a man carrying a box.\nSome people were walking behind, crying. There was a dead baby in the\nbox. Was the soul of the baby in the box?\u2014No; its soul was gone up to\nGod.\n\nWill you not thank God for giving you a spirit? Will you not ask Him to\ntake your spirit to live with him when your body dies?\n\nSay to God, \u201cPray, take my spirit to live with Thee when my body dies\nand turns into dust.\u201d\n\n    CHILD.\n    Tell me, mamma, if I must die\n      One day, as little baby died;\n    And look so very pale, and lie\n      Down in the pit-hole by his side?\n\n    Shall I leave dear papa and you,\n      And never see you any more?\n    Tell me, mamma, if this is true:\n      I did not know it was before.\n\n    MAMMA.\n\n    \u2019Tis true, my love, that you must die;\n      The God who made you says you must;\n    And every one of us shall lie,\n      Like the dear baby in the dust.\n\n    These hands, and feet, and busy head,\n      Shall waste and crumble quite away;\n    But though your body shall be dead,\n      There is a part which can\u2019t decay.\n\nWhat is that part which can\u2019t decay? It is your soul.\n\nYour body will decay; it will turn into dust; but your soul will live\nforever: it will never decay.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON IV.\n\nOF THE GOOD ANGELS.\n\n\nYOU know that God lives in heaven. He has no body, for he is a spirit.\n\nDoes he live in heaven alone?\u2014No; angels stand all round his throne.\n\nWhat are angels?\n\nAngels are spirits. They are bright like the sun, but they are not so\nbright as God, for he is brighter than the sun. The angels are always\nlooking at God, and it is God that makes them shine so bright.\n\nThey sing sweet songs about God. They say, \u201cHow good God is! how wise!\nhow great!\u201d\n\nThere is no night in heaven, for the angels are never tired of singing,\nand they never wish to sleep. They are never sick, and they will never\ndie.\n\nThey never weep; there are no tears upon their cheeks, but sweet\nsmiles, for angels are always happy.\n\nIf the angels were naughty, they would be unhappy. Naughtiness always\nmakes people unhappy. The angels are quite good. They love God very\nmuch, and mind all he says.\n\nThey have wings, and can fly very quickly. God sends them down here to\ntake care of us. As soon as God tells an angel to go, he begins to fly.\nThey are very strong, and can keep us from harm.\n\nShould you like the angels to be near you at night? Do you know this\npretty verse or hymn?\n\n    I lay my body down to sleep,\n      Let angels guard my head,\n    And through the hours of darkness keep\n        Their watch around my bed.\n\nYou must ask God to send the angels, for they never go, except when God\nsends them.\n\nGod is their Father. They have not two fathers, as you have. The angels\nare the children of God, and live in God\u2019s house in heaven. When you\nmind what your father tells you, then you are like the angels who mind\nGod.\n\nThe angels love us very much. They wish us to grow good, and to come to\nlive with them in heaven. When a child is sorry for its naughtiness,\nand prays to God to forgive it, the angels are very much pleased.\n\nWhen a little child who loves God falls sick, and is going to die,\nGod says to the angels, \u201cGo and fetch that little child\u2019s soul up to\nheaven.\u201d Then the angels fly down, the little darling shuts its eyes,\nit lays its head on its mothers bosom, its breath stops;\u2014the child is\ndead. Where is its soul? The angels are carrying it up to heaven.\n\nHow happy the child is now! Its pain is over; it is grown quite good;\nit is bright like an angel. It holds a harp in its hand, and begins\nto sing a sweet song of praise to God. Its little body is put into a\ngrave, and turns into dust. One day God will make its body alive again.\n\nDear children, will you pray to God to send his angels to fetch your\nsouls when you die?\n\n    Around God\u2019s glorious throne above\n      The happy angels stand,\n    And ever praise the God they love,\n      And fly at his command.\n\n    Their faces, like the sun, are bright,\n      And sweetest smiles they wear;\n    They never sleep; there is no night,\n      Nor need of candle there.\n\n    But though the angels live so high,\n      They love us men below,\n    And hope to see us in the sky\n      In garments white as snow.\n\n    And when a dying infant lies\n      Upon its mother\u2019s breast,\n    The angels watch it while it dies,\n      And take its soul to rest.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON V.\n\nOF THE WICKED ANGELS.\n\n\nWHEN did God begin to live in heaven? God always lived in heaven.\n\nOnce there was no such little child as you, but there always was God.\n\nOnce there was no sun, but there always was God.\n\nOnce there were no angels, but there always was God.\n\nNo one made God; God was the first of all things, and God made\neverything.\n\nA very long while ago God made the angels. How many angels did he make?\nNo one could tell how many. There were more than could be counted. They\nwere all good and happy.\n\nBut some of the angels grew bad. They left off loving God, and grew\nproud, and disobedient.\n\nWould God let them stay in heaven after they were bad? No; he cast them\nout, and put them in chains and darkness.\n\nOne of these bad angels was called Satan. He is the chief, or prince of\nthe bad angels. He is called the devil.\n\nThe devil is very wicked, and hates God. He can never go back to heaven\nagain, but he comes here where we live, and he brings the other devils\nwith him.\n\nWe cannot see Satan, because he is a spirit, but he is always walking\nabout, and trying to make people naughty.\n\nSatan loves mischief; he does not wish to be good. It pleases Satan to\nsee people in pain and in tears; but it pleases him best to see them\nnaughty, because then he thinks that they will come and live with him\nin his dark place. He wishes that there should be a great many people\nin hell, so he tries to make us do wicked things, and keep us from\npraying to God.\n\nI cannot tell you how very bad Satan is. He is very cruel, for he likes\nto give pain. He is a liar and teaches people to tell lies. He is\nproud, and wishes people to mind him more than God. He is envious, and\ncannot bear to see people happy.\n\nThe devil hopes very much that you will come and live with him when you\ndie. He knows that if you are bad like him, you will live with him. So\nhe tries to make you like himself. When you are in a passion, you are\nlike the devil. When you say, \u201cI don\u2019t care,\u201d you are like the devil.\nWhen you think yourself good, you are proud like the devil.\n\nCan God keep you from minding the devil? Yes; he can: for God is a\ngreat deal stronger than Satan. Besides this, God is always near you,\nfor God is everywhere. Now Satan cannot be everywhere at the same time.\nIt is true that Satan has a great many angels who go where he tells\nthem; and that Satan and his angels come near you very often. But God\nis always with you; he is before you and behind you, and on every side\nof you; he is about your bed when you sleep, and about your path when\nyou walk. Therefore you need not be afraid of Satan; only ask God to\nhelp you, and he will do so.\n\nSatan is much stronger than you are; but God is stronger than all. If\nanybody were to come to hurt you when you were alone, you would be\nfrightened; but if you saw your father coming you would run to him, and\nyou would not be frightened any more. Now God is our father; he can\nkeep Satan from hurting you. Pray to him, and say, \u201cO dear father, keep\nme from being wicked like the devil, and from going to hell.\u201d\n\n    Satan was once an angel bright\n      And worship\u2019d God on high;\n    But now he dwells in darkest night\n      And endless misery.\n\n    Daring his God to disobey,\n      He lost his happy state:\n    Sinners above could never stay\n      Around God\u2019s throne to wait.\n\n    Thousands of angels with him fell,\n      Who own him as their king;\n    Hoping with us to share their hell,\n      They tempt our souls to sin.\n\n    CHILD.\n\n    God, unto thee I\u2019ll lift my pray\u2019r,\n      (He\u2019ll hear an infant cry,)\n    \u201cSave me, O Lord, lest I should share\n      In Satan\u2019s misery.\u201d\n\n_On the subjects of the preceding Lessons._\n\n      God lives on high\u2014beyond the sky,\n    And angels bright\u2014all clothed in white,\n      The praises sing\u2014of heaven\u2019s king.\n\n      This God can see\u2014both you and me;\n      Can see at night\u2014as in the light;\n      And all we do\u2014remembers too.\n\n      \u2019Tis he bestows\u2014my food and clothes,\n      And my soft bed\u2014to rest my head,\n      And cottage neat and mother sweet.\n\n      And should not I\u2014forever try\n      To do what He\u2014has ordered me,\n      And dearly love\u2014this Friend above?\n\n      I always should\u2014be very good:\n      At home should mind\u2014my parents kind;\n      At school obey\u2014what teachers say.\n\n      Now if I fight\u2014and scratch, and bite,\n      In passions fall\u2014and bad names call,\n      Full well I know\u2014where I shall go.\n\n      Satan is glad\u2014when I am bad,\n      And hopes that I\u2014with him shall lie\n      In fire and chains\u2014and dreadful pains.\n\n      And liars dwell\u2014with him in hell,\n      And many more\u2014who cursed and swore,\n      And all who did\u2014what God forbid.\n\n      And I have not\u2014done what I ought;\n      I am not fit\u2014with God to sit.\n      And angels bright\u2014all clothed in white.\n\n      I will confess\u2014my naughtiness,\n      And will entreat\u2014for mercy sweet\n      O Lord! forgive\u2014and let me live.\n\n      My body must\u2014be turned to dust.\n      Then let me fly\u2014beyond the sky,\n      And see thy face\u2014in that sweet place.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON VI.\n\nTHE WORLD.\u2014PART I.\n\nGENESIS i. 1-10\n\n\nTHIS large place we live in is called the world. It is very beautiful.\nIf we look up we see the blue sky, if we look down we see the green\ngrass. The sky is like a curtain spread over our heads, the grass like\na carpet under our feet, and the bright sun is like a candle to give us\nlight. It was very kind of God to make such a beautiful world, and let\nus live in it.\n\nGod was in heaven, and all his bright angels around him, when he began\nto make the world. God\u2019s Son was with him\u2014for God always has a Son,\njust like himself.\n\nHis Son\u2019s name is Jesus Christ. He is as good and as great as God his\nFather. The Father and the Son are God: they always lived together,\nand they love each other exceedingly. The Father and the Son are one\nGod, and they made the world.\n\nHow did God make the world?\u2014By speaking. First of all, God made the\nlight. God said, \u201cLet there be light,\u201d and there was light. No one can\nmake things by speaking but God: God made things of nothing. He only\nspoke, and the light came.\n\nThen God made the air. You cannot see the air, but you can feel it. The\nair is everywhere. You can sometimes hear the noise it makes, for you\nhear the wind blow, and the wind is air.\n\nNext God put some water up very high. The clouds are full of water, and\nsometimes the water comes down, and we call it rain.\n\nGod made a large deep place, and filled it with water. God spoke to the\nwater, and it rushed into the deep place. God called this water the sea.\n\nThe sea is very large, and it is always moving up and down, and tossing\nitself; but it cannot get out of the large deep place in which God has\nput it; for God said, \u201cStay there.\u201d\n\nWhen the wind blows hard, the sea makes a loud noise, and roars.\n\nGod made some dry land for us to walk upon: we call it ground. We could\nnot walk upon the sea nor build houses on the sea: but the ground is\nhard, and firm, and dry.\n\nNow I have told you of five things that God made:\u2014\n\n1. The light. 2. The air. 3. The clouds. 4. The sea. 5. The dry land.\n\nLet us praise God for making such a large and beautiful world.\n\n    \u2019Twas God who made this world so fair,\n    The shining sun, the sky, the air;\n    \u2019Twas God who made the sea, the ground,\n    And all the things I see around.\n\n    When he began the world to make,\n    These were the mighty words he spake;\n    \u201cLet there be light;\u201d his voice was heard,\n    And the obedient light appeared.\n\n    The angels saw the light arise,\n    And with their praises filled the skies.\n    \u201cHow great our God! How wise! How strong!\u201d\n    Such is their never-ending song.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON VII.\n\nTHE WORLD.\u2014PART II.\n\nGENESIS i. 11-19.\n\n\nWHEN God made the dry land, there was nothing on it: it was bare. So\nGod spake, and things grew out of the ground.\n\nTrees came out of it; they were covered with green leaves of different\nshapes. Some were called oak trees, and some were called elm trees, and\nsome beech trees. And some bore nice fruit, such as plum trees, apple\ntrees, orange trees and fig trees.\n\nVegetables grew out of the earth; potatoes and beans, cabbages and\nlettuces: they are called vegetables.\n\nCorn came out of it. Some corn is called wheat, and some corn is called\nbarley, and some is called oats. The ears of corn bend down when they\nare ripe, and look yellow like gold.\n\nGod made the soft green grass to spring up, and flowers to grow among\nthe grass: flowers of all colors, and of the sweetest smell. The yellow\nbuttercup, the white lily, the blue violet, and the rose, the most\nbeautiful of all flowers.\n\nI have told you of five sorts of things that grow out of the earth:\n\n1. Trees. 2. Vegetables. 3. Corn. 4. Grass. 5. Flowers.\n\nThe world looked very beautiful when it was covered with grass and\ntrees. But only God and the angels saw its beauty.\n\nAfterward God placed the sun in the sky, and bade it shine all day, and\ngo from one end of the world to the other. God made the moon to shine\nat night, and he covered the sky with stars.\n\nYou never saw anything so bright as the sun. It is very large indeed,\nonly it looks small, because it is a great way off. It cannot fall, for\nGod holds it up. God makes it move across the sky. Did you ever hear\nthis pretty verse about the sun?\u2014\n\n    My God, who makes the sun to know\n      His proper hour to rise,\n    And to give light to all below,\n      Doth send him round the skies.\n\nThe moon does not shine as brightly as the sun, for God lets it be dark\nat night, that we may rest and sleep soundly.\n\nWho could count the stars?\u2014No one but God. He knows their names and\ntheir number too. When we look at the moon and stars, let us think,\nHow great God is! Yet he cares for the little birds, and loves little\nchildren.\n\n    CHILD.\n\n    I saw the glorious sun arise\n      From yonder mountain gray;\n    And as he travel\u2019d through the skies,\n      The darkness went away;\n    And all around me was so bright,\n      I wish\u2019d it would be always light.\n\n    But when his shining course was done\n      The gentle moon drew nigh,\n    And stars came twinkling, one by one,\n      Upon the shady sky.\n    Who made the sun to shine so far,\n      The moon and every twinkling star?\n\n    MAMMA.\n\n    \u2019Twas God, my child, who made them all\n      By his almighty skill;\n    He keeps them, that they do not fall,\n      And guides them as he will:\n    That glorious God who lives afar,\n      In heaven, beyond the highest star.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON VIII.\n\nTHE WORLD.\u2014PART III.\n\nGENESIS i. 20-25.\n\n\nGOD had made a great many things, but none of these things were alive.\nAt last he made some living things. He spoke, and the water was filled\nwith fishes, more than could be counted.\n\nSome were very small, and some were very large. Have you heard of the\ngreat whale? It is a fish as long as a church. Fishes are cold, and\nthey have no feet, and they cannot sing, nor speak.\n\nGod made some creatures, more beautiful than fish, to fly about in\nthe air. The birds:\u2014they perched upon the trees, and sang among the\nbranches.\n\nBirds have wings, and are covered with feathers of all colors. The\nrobin has a red breast; the goldfinch has some yellow feathers; and the\njay some blue ones: but the peacock is the most beautiful of birds. It\nhas a little tuft upon its head, and a long train that sweeps behind;\nsometimes it spreads out its feathers, and they look like a large fan.\nThe thrush, the blackbird and the linnet can sing sweetly: but there\nis one bird that can sing more sweetly still\u2014it is the nightingale. At\nnight, when all the other birds have left off singing, the nightingale\nmay be heard in the woods.\n\nSome birds swim upon the water; such as geese, and ducks, and the\nbeautiful swan, with its long neck and its feathers like the snow.\n\nSome birds are very tall. The ostrich is as tall as a man. It cannot\nfly like other birds, but it can run very fast indeed.\n\nThe eagle builds its nest in a very high place. Its wings are very\nstrong, and it can fly as high as the clouds.\n\nThe gentlest of the birds is the dove. It cannot sing, but it sits\nalone and moans softly, as if it were sad.\n\nI cannot tell you the names of all the birds, but you can think of the\nnames of some other kinds.\n\nThere is another sort of living creatures, called insects. God made\nthem come out of the earth, and not out of the water, like fishes.\nInsects are small, and creep upon the earth; such as ants. Some insects\ncan fly also; such as bees and butterflies. The bee sucks the juice\nof flowers, and makes wax and honey. How gay are the wings of the\nbutterfly! they are covered with little feathers, too small to be seen.\n\nAll the insects were good and pretty when God made them.\n\n[Illustration: CHRIST RAISING TO LIFE THE LITTLE MAID.]\n\nAt last God made the beasts. They came out of the earth when God spoke.\nBeasts walk upon the earth; the most of them have four legs. You know\nthe names of a great many sorts of beasts. Sheep and cows, dogs and\ncats, are beasts. But there are many other sorts besides: the squirrel\nthat jumps from bough to bough, the rabbit that lives in a hole\nunderground, and the goat that climbs the high hills; the stag with his\nbeautiful horns, the lion with his yellow hair, the tiger, whose skin\nis marked with stripes. The elephant is the largest of beasts, the lion\nis the strongest, the dog is the most sensible, the stag is the most\nbeautiful, but the lamb is the gentlest. The dove is the gentlest of\nthe birds, and the lamb is the gentlest of the beasts.\n\nNow God had filled the world with living creatures, and they were all\ngood; even lions and tigers were good and harmless. I have told you of\nfour sorts of living creatures:\n\n1. Fishes. 2. Birds. 3. Insects. 4. Beasts.\n\nAll these creatures have bodies, but they have not souls like you. They\ncan move and breathe. God feeds them every day, and keeps them alive.\nThe Lord is good to them all.\n\n    When God first clothed the earth with green\n      And sprinkled it with flow\u2019rs,\n    There was no living creature seen\n      Within its pleasant bow\u2019rs.\n\n    Soon by his word God fill\u2019d the earth,\n      And waters underneath,\n    With things above the plants in worth,\n      That feel and move and breathe.\n\n    The fishes, cover\u2019d o\u2019er with scales\n      In ocean swiftly glide;\n    With their vast tails the wondrous whales\n      Scatter the waters wide,\n\n    The birds among the branches sing,\n      And chief the nightingale:\n    The peacock shines with painted wing,\n      The dove does softly wail.\n\n    Insects with humming fill the air,\n      And sparkle in the sun:\n    The butterfly by colors fair\n      Surpasses every one.\n\n    The beasts tread firmly on the ground;\n      The goat has nimble feet,\n    The stag\u2019s with branching antlers crown\u2019d;\n      The lamb\u2019s most soft and sweet.\n\n    Pleasure the whole creation fills;\n      They leap, they swim, they fly;\n    They skim the plains, they climb the hills,\n      Or in the valleys lie.\n\n    With herb for meat the Lord provides\n      His numerous family;\n    The lion with the lamb abides,\n      The dove and hawk agree.\n\n    In all the woods and no sound of strife,\n      Or piteous moans arise;\n    None takes away his fellow\u2019s life,\n      And none expiring lies.\n\n    Those happy days, alas! are past,\n      And death has entered here;\n    Why did they not forever last,\n      And when did death appear?\n\n\n\n\nLESSON IX.\n\nADAM AND EVE.\n\nGENESIS i., 26, to the end of Chap. ii.\n\n\nNOW I shall tell you of the last thing God made.\n\nGod took some of the dust of the ground, and made the body of a man;\nthen he breathed on it, and gave it a soul; so the man could understand\nabout God. Adam was quite good like God. Adam loved God very much.\n\nGod put him in a very pretty garden, full of trees covered with fruit.\nThis garden was called the garden of Eden. God showed Adam all the\nbeasts and birds, and let Adam give them what names he pleased. He said\nto Adam, I give you all the fishes, and insects, and birds, and beasts;\nyou are their master. So Adam was king over all things on the earth.\n\nGod said to Adam, You may eat of the fruit that grows on the trees in\nthe garden. Still God did not let him be idle, but told him to take\ncare of the garden. You see how very kind God was to Adam.\n\nBut Adam had no friend to be with him; for the beasts and birds could\nnot talk to Adam. Then God said he would make a woman, to be a friend\nto Adam. So God made Adam fall fast asleep. God took a piece of bone\nand flesh out of his side, and made it into a woman. When Adam woke, he\nsaw her. He knew that she was made of his flesh and bone, and he loved\nher very much. Her name was \u201cwoman,\u201d and afterwards her name was Eve.\n\nYou have heard of all the things God made. They were all beautiful:\nand all the living things were quite happy; there was no pain, and no\nsighing, and no sin in all the world.\n\nGod had been six days in making the world. And when he had finished it,\nhe rested on the seventh day, and made no more things.\n\nThe angels saw the world that God had made: they were pleased, and sang\na sweet song of praise to God. Jesus Christ the Son of God was pleased,\nfor he loved Adam and Eve.\n\nHow did I know about the world being made? It is written in the Bible,\nwhich is God\u2019s own book.\n\nLet us count over all the things that God made:\n\n1. Light. 2. Air. 3. Clouds. 4. Sea. 5. Dry land. 6. Things that grow\nout of the earth. 7. Sun, moon, and stars. 8. Living creatures.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON X.\n\nTHE FIRST SIN.\n\nGENESIS iii.\n\n\nADAM and Eve were very happy in the garden of Eden. They talked to each\nother, and walked together, and they never quarreled, and they praised\nGod for all his kindness to them.\n\nGod used to talk with them sometimes. They were pleased to hear his\nvoice, for they were not afraid of him.\n\nThere was one thing that God had told them not to do. There was a tree\nin the middle of the garden. Some beautiful fruit grew upon it; but God\nsaid to Adam and Eve, You must not eat of the fruit of that tree; for\nif you eat of it, you shall die. Adam and Eve liked to obey God, and\nthey did not wish to eat of this fruit.\n\nYou know that the wicked angel, Satan, hates God, and he hated Adam and\nEve. He wished to make them naughty, that they might go to hell and\nbe burned in his fire. So he thought he would ask them to eat of that\nfruit. He went into the garden, and looked like a serpent. He saw Eve\nalone near the tree. He said to her, Why do you not eat of this fruit?\n\nEve answered, No, I will not; we must not eat of that fruit. If we do,\nGod has said we shall die. Then the serpent said, You shall not die;\nthe fruit will make you wise.\n\nEve looked at the fruit, and thought it seemed nice and pretty, and she\npicked some and ate it; and she gave some to Adam, and he ate it.\n\nIt was very wicked of them to eat this fruit. Now they were grown\nnaughty, and did not love God.\n\nSoon they heard God speaking in the garden; then they were frightened,\nand they went and hid themselves among the trees. But God saw them; for\nhe can see everywhere.\n\nSo God said, Adam, where art thou? Then Adam and Eve came from under\nthe trees.\n\nGod said to Adam, Have you eaten of the fruit that I told you not eat?\nAnd Adam said, It was this woman who asked me to eat some.\n\nAnd God said to Eve, What is this that thou hast done? And Eve said,\nThe serpent asked me to eat.\n\nGod was very angry with the serpent, and said he should be punished\nforever and ever.\n\nGod said to Adam and Eve, You shall die. I made your bodies of dust,\nand they will turn to dust again.\n\nGod would not let them stay in the sweet garden. He made them go out.\nHe would not let them come back. He told one of his bright angels to\nstand before the gate with a sword of fire and to keep Adam and Eve out\nof the garden.\n\n    Near Eden\u2019s land in days gone by,\n      A lovely garden stood:\n    The trees were pleasant to the eye;\n      The fruit was good for food.\n\n    Two holy creatures spent their days\n      Within that garden fair:\n    In love they dwelt; they sang God\u2019s praise,\n      And humbly knelt in prayer.\n\n    In that sweet land one tree was placed,\n      Their faithful love to try\n    \u201cThat fruit,\u201d said God, \u201cyou shall not taste:\n      Who eats shall surely die.\u201d\n\n    O why did Eve to Satan\u2019s lies\n      So readily attend?\n    Upon the fruit why fix her eyes,\n      Then pluck it with her hand?\n\n    No more shall Eve or Adam stay\n      Within that garden fair\n    An angel stands to guard the way,\n      That none may enter there.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XI.\n\nTHE SON OF GOD.\n\nGENESIS iii. 14-15.\n\n\nARE you not very sorry to hear that Adam and Eve were turned out of the\ngarden?\n\nIt was not so pleasant outside of the garden. A great many weeds and\nthistles grew outside; but in the garden there were only pretty flowers\nand sweet fruits.\n\nAdam was forced to dig the ground till he was hot and tired, for he\ncould not always find fruit upon the trees.\n\nNow Adam felt pain in his body sometimes; and his hair became gray, and\nat last he was quite old.\n\nEve was very often sick and weak, and tears ran down her cheeks. Poor\nAdam and Eve! if you had obeyed God you would have been happy forever.\n\nAdam and Eve knew that they must die at last. God gave them some little\nchildren; and Adam and Eve knew that their children must die too. God\nhad told them that their bodies were made of dust, and that they must\nturn to dust again.\n\nBut there was something more sad still. They were grown wicked. They\ndid not love praising God, as they once had done, but they liked doing\nmany naughty things. They were grown like Satan; so Satan hoped that\nwhen their bodies were put into the ground, their spirits would be with\nhim; for Satan knew that the wicked could not live with God in heaven.\n\nAnd they would have gone to hell, and all their children too, had not\nGod taken pity upon them. God, who is very kind, had found out a way to\nsave them.\n\nTo his Son, a long, long while before, God had said, Adam and Eve and\nall their children must go to hell for their wickedness, unless you\ndie instead of them. My beloved Son, I will send you; you shall have a\nbody; you shall go and live in the world, and you shall obey me, and\nyou shall die for Adam and his children.\n\nThe Son said to his Father, I will come: I will do all that you desire\nme to do. It is my delight to obey you.\n\nSo the Son promised that he would die for Adam and Eve, and for their\nchildren.\n\nHow kind it was of the Father to spare his dear Son, whom he loved so\nvery much! How kind it was of the Son to leave his throne of light, his\nbright angels, and his dear Father, and to take a body and to die!\n\nYou know that we are some of Adam\u2019s children\u2019s children. It was for us\nthat Jesus came to die. We are wicked, and we should go to hell, if\nJesus had not promised to die for us. We ought to love the Father and\nthe Son, because they had pity on us.\n\nLet us praise God with the angels, and say,\u2014\n\n\u201cWe thank thee, O Father, for thy tender love, in giving up thine only\nSon.\n\n\u201cWe thank thee, O Son, for thy tender love, in coming down to bleed and\ndie.\u201d\n\nThe Father waited a long while before he sent his Son down to be a man.\n\nAll the time the Son waited in heaven he thought of what he promised to\ndo; but he would not go and be a man till his Father pleased to send\nhim.\n\n    Adam has sinn\u2019d: and on the ground\n      Shall thorns and thistles grow;\n    His body lies in dust; his soul\u2014\n      Ah! whither shall it go?\n\n    Shall one who dared to disobey,\n      With God forever dwell?\n    When angels sinn\u2019d God did not spare,\n      But cast them down to hell.\n\n    Yet long before the world was made\n      Our God contrived a plan,\n    By which his sinful soul to save,\n      And pardon guilty man.\n\n    The Father said his Son should die,\n      The Son replied, \u201cI will:\n    A feeble body I will take;\n      This body men shall kill.\u201d\n\n    Father, how great thy love to man,\n      To send thy Son from high!\n    How great thy love, O glorious Son,\n      To come, and bleed, and die!\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XII.\n\nTHE VIRGIN MARY.\n\nLUKE, i. 26-55.\n\n\nGOD told Adam and Eve that he would send his Son down some day to die\nfor them. But Adam and Eve did not love God; for they were grown wicked.\n\nCould God make them good?\n\nYes; he could: for there is the Holy Spirit in heaven, and the Holy\nSpirit could come into them and make them good.\n\nYou know, my little children, we are wicked, and God can make us good\nwith his Holy Spirit. If God puts his Holy Spirit in us, we shall not\ngo to hell, and live with Satan.\n\nI hope you will ask God to give you his Holy Spirit. Say to God, O\ngive me thy Holy Spirit, to make me good!\n\nAdam had a great many children and grandchildren, and they had more\nchildren; at last the world was full of people\u2014more people than you\ncould count.\n\nAfter Adam and Eve had been dead a long while, and when the world was\nfull of people, God said to his Son, Now, my beloved Son, go down into\nthe world.\n\nBut God chose that his Son should be a little baby at first\u2014because\neverybody is a little baby at first.\n\nGod sent his Son to be the baby of a poor woman. This woman\u2019s name was\nMary. Mary had no little children. She was a good woman and loved God.\nGod\u2019s Holy Spirit was in her, and made her meek and gentle.\n\nOne day an angel came to her. When Mary saw the bright angel, she was\nfrightened: but the angel said, \u201cFear not, Mary; God loves you. He will\nsend you a baby, that shall be the Son of God. You shall call his name\nJesus. He will come to save people from Satan.\u201d\n\nMary was much surprised at what the angel said. She thought she was not\ngood enough to have such a baby as the Lord Jesus.\n\nWhen the angel was gone back to heaven, Mary sang a sweet song of\npraise to God for his goodness.\n\nMary said, My soul praises God, and my spirit is glad because of my\nSaviour.\n\nMary called her baby her Saviour, for she knew that he would save her\nfrom hell.\n\n    I wonder not that Mary fear\u2019d\n    When Gabriel to her appear\u2019d:\n    How could she know he came to bring\n    So sweet a message from his King?\n\n    Full long the Son in heaven had stay\u2019d\n    Since first the promise had been made\n    To shed his blood for Adam\u2019s sin,\n    And happiness for man to win.\n\n    But yet the Son had ne\u2019er forgot,\n    And what he said he changed not;\n    The time was come he should be born,\n    And in this world should live forlorn.\n\n    Mary shall be the mother dear,\n    Who in her arms the child shall bear;\n    The angel came this news to bring,\n    And Mary listen\u2019d wondering.\n\n    And did the Lord a poor maid choose\u2014\n    And all the great and rich refuse?\n    High honors God delights to place\n    On those who humbly seek his face.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XIII.\n\nTHE BIRTH OF JESUS.\n\nLUKE, ii. 1-7.\n\n\nMARY had a husband called Joseph. He was a good man, and very kind to\nMary.\n\nNow before Mary\u2019s baby was born, a great king said that everybody must\nhave their names written down. So Mary and Joseph left their house, and\nwent a great way off. At last they came to a town called Bethlehem.\n\nIt was night. Where could they sleep? They went to an inn, and said, Do\nlet us in. We have come from a great way off.\n\nBut the master of the inn said, I have no room in my inn for you.\n\nWhat could poor Mary do? Must she sleep in the street? Mary said she\nwould sleep in the stable, if the master would let her.\n\nSo Mary and Joseph went into the stable. There were cows and asses in\nthe stable.\n\nWhile Mary was in the stable, God sent her the little baby he had\npromised her. She knew he was the Son of God, though he looked like\nother little babies.\n\nShe wrapped him in some long clothes, called swaddling clothes; but\nshe had no cradle for him to sleep in, and she could not lay him on the\nground, lest the beasts should tread upon him; so she put him in the\nmanger, and she sat by him to take care of him.\n\nHow dearly Mary loved this sweet babe!\n\nThis baby had not a naughty heart, as other babies have. Jesus had no\nsin, but was quite meek and lowly. Yet other babies have cradles and\nsoft pillows, while Jesus lay in a manger.\n\nI will tell you a verse to say to your little baby brother when you\nrock his cradle:\n\n    Soft and easy is thy cradle;\u2014\n      Coarse and hard thy Saviour lay\n    When his birthplace was a stable,\n      And his softest bed was hay.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XIV.\n\nTHE SHEPHERDS.\n\nLUKE, ii. 8-20.\n\n\nTHERE were some fields near Bethlehem. On the night when Jesus was\nborn, some shepherds were sitting by their sheep in those fields. Why\ndid they sit up at night? To keep their sheep from the wolves and\nlions which walk about at night. There are no lions where we live, but\nnear Bethlehem there were some.\n\nThese shepherds saw a great light. A beautiful angel came from heaven.\nThe poor shepherds were afraid; but the angel said, Fear not, I have\nsweet news to tell you. God has sent his own Son from heaven to save\nyou from hell. He is a baby now, lying in a manger. Go to Bethlehem,\nand you will find him.\n\nWhen the angel had done speaking, hundreds and hundreds of bright\nangels filled the sky, and began singing and praising God for having\nsent his Son to save men.\n\nAt last the angels went back to heaven, and the shepherds were left\nalone.\n\nDid they stay with their sheep? No; they said, Let us go and see the\nSon of God.\n\nThey ran to Bethlehem, and went to the stable of the inn. There was\na babe in the manger; Mary and Joseph were sitting by. The shepherds\nsaid, This is the Son of God. Angels have spoken to us to-night, and\ntold us where to find him.\n\nAll the people in Bethlehem were much surprised when the shepherds told\nthem about the angels and the Son of God.\n\n    Blessed Babe! what glorious features!\n      Spotless, fair, divinely bright:\n    Must he dwell with brutal creatures?\n      How could angels bear the sight?\n\n    Was there nothing but a manger\n      Wretched sinners could afford,\n    To receive the heavenly stranger?\n      Did they thus affront the Lord?\n\n    See the kinder shepherds round him\n      Telling wonders from the sky;\n    Where they sought him, there they found him.\n      With his virgin mother by.\n\n    See the lovely babe a-dressing,\n      Lovely infant, how he smiled!\n    When he wept, the mother\u2019s blessing\n      Sooth\u2019d and hush\u2019d the holy child.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XV.\n\nTHE WISE MEN.\n\nMATTHEW ii.\n\n\nTHERE were some wise and rich men. They lived a great way from\nBethlehem. They knew that God had sent his Son to be a babe but they\ndid not know where to find him; so God put a beautiful star in the sky,\nand God made it move toward the place where Jesus was. So the wise men\nleft their houses, and set out on a long journey; but first they said,\nLet us bring some presents for the Son of God: for he is a king. They\ntook some gold, and some sweet-smelling stuff to burn. They looked at\nthe star as they went. At last it stopped over a house in Bethlehem.\nThe wise men were very glad indeed. They longed to see the Son of God.\nThey went in, and there they saw Mary and her child Jesus: they fell\ndown, and began to praise him, and to call him the Son of God, and the\nKing.\n\nThey took out their presents, and gave them to him. Mary was poor; but\nnow she had some money to buy things for her little baby.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XVI.\n\nKING HEROD.\n\nMATTHEW, ii. LUKE, ii. 51, 52.\n\n\nTHERE was a very wicked king called Herod. He lived a little way from\nBethlehem. He heard that a babe was born in Bethlehem, and that some\npeople said that the babe was a king.\n\nNow Herod did not like that there should be any other king besides\nhimself. Herod did not like that even the Son of God should be king.\nSo Herod said, I will kill this babe that is called a king.\n\nHerod knew that this babe was in Bethlehem; but there were many babes\nin Bethlehem, and Herod did not know which was the babe that was called\na king.\n\nSome people knew which it was; but they loved Jesus, and they would not\ntell Herod. A very wicked thought came into Herod\u2019s mind. He thought, I\nwill kill all the babes in Bethlehem. Do you think God would let Herod\nkill his Son? No. God knew what Herod meant to do. God sent one of his\nbright angels to speak to Joseph when he was asleep.\n\nThe angel said, A wicked king wants to kill the baby. Get up, Joseph;\ntake Mary and the baby a great way off. So Joseph got up quickly; he\ntook his ass, he put Mary on it, and she held the baby. It was dark\nwhen they set off. Nobody saw them go.\n\nThe next morning some men came with swords. Herod had sent them. They\nwere come to kill all the babies. They opened every door, and said,\nIs there a baby here? Then they snatched it from its mother, and\nkilled it, and the poor mother cried bitterly. Had you walked down the\nstreets, you would have heard nothing but women weeping and crying\nout, My pretty babe is dead; I shall never see it more!\n\nWas Jesus killed?\n\nNo: he was gone far away. His Father, God, had sent him away. Herod\ncould not kill him, for God would not let him die so soon.\n\nAt last King Herod died. Then God sent an angel to speak to Joseph when\nhe was asleep. The angel said, Joseph, go back to your own country;\nHerod is dead. So Joseph took the ass, and Mary, and the sweet child,\nJesus, and they all came back to their own country.\n\nJoseph was a carpenter. Jesus lived with Joseph and Mary, and minded\nall they said. He was a wise child, and loved to think of God. God his\nFather loved him, and everybody loved him, because he was so meek and\nkind. The older he grew the more they loved him.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XVII.\n\nTHE TEMPTATION.\n\nMATTHEW iv. 1-11.\n\n\nAT last Jesus grew to be a man. He knew that he must go from place to\nplace, and teach people about God.\n\nBut first he went into a place by himself\u2014called a wilderness. He had\nno house to sleep in there, no friend to speak to, no food to eat. In\nthe night it was cold, in the day very hot.\n\nThere were no men, but there were lions, wolves and bears. At night\nthey roared and howled; but Jesus trusted in his Father.\n\nHe ate nothing for forty days and forty nights, God kept him alive.\nWhen Jesus was alone, then he spoke in his heart to his dear Father.\n\nAt last someone came and spoke to him.\n\nWho was it?\n\nNot a man, not a bright angel, not God; it was Satan. I do not know how\nhe looked. He was come to tempt Jesus to do wickedly, and not to mind\nGod his Father. Satan knew that Jesus was hungry. He said to him, Turn\nthese stones into bread! but Jesus would not, for God had promised to\nfeed him himself.\n\nAfter that, Satan took Jesus to the top of a great building, that was\nmuch higher than a church. It is dreadful to be on the top of a very\nhigh place; it makes one tremble to look down from the top.\n\nSatan said to Jesus, Throw yourself down from this place; your Father\nwill send his angels to keep you from being hurt, for you know that he\nhas promised to take care of you.\n\nWould Jesus have done right had he thrown himself down? No: Jesus knew\nthat his Father would be displeased if he threw himself down; and Jesus\nalways did the things that pleased his Father.\n\nThen Satan took him to the top of a very high hill. He showed him the\nmost beautiful things in the world, gardens and houses, ships and\ncarriages, and fine clothes and feasts. He said, Look at these fine\nthings. I will give them all to you. You shall have all the world for\nyour own; only kneel down and call me God.\n\nBut Jesus said, I will pray to my Father, and not to you.\n\nJesus loved his Father better than all the things in the world.\n\nAdam and Eve minded Satan, and disobeyed God; but Jesus did all his\nFather had told him. Adam was disobedient, Jesus was obedient.\n\nThen Satan went away, and angels came from heaven and fed Jesus.\n\nSatan goes about, trying to make children naughty. A lion could only\neat your body, but Satan wants to have your soul and body in hell.\nSatan hates you. He is your enemy. But God is stronger than Satan. Say\nto God, Keep me from minding Satan, and God will keep you.\n\n    Upon that mountain\u2019s height\n      Two mighty princes stand;\n    Jesus the Prince of Light,\n      Satan at his right hand.\n    Below them lies the prospect fair\n    Of all earth holds of rich or rare.\n\n    Tables are seen around,\n      Spread with delicious meats;\n    Gardens where fruits abound,\n      And thousand tempting sweets:\n    Silver and gold and precious stones,\n    Chariots and palaces and thrones.\n\n    Satan did once prevail\n      On Eve to disobey:\n    And now why should he fail\n      To tempt the Lord astray?\n    For Eve abundant food possess\u2019d,\n    While Christ with hunger is distress\u2019d.\n\n    In vain the tempter tries\n      The Saviour to deceive,\n    For Jesus left the skies\n      Our misery to relieve:\n    His Father dear he sought to please,\n    Nor wish\u2019d for earthly joy and ease.\n\n    He had seen brighter things,\n      And sweeter joys had known,\n    Where angels touch the strings\n      Around his Father\u2019s throne.\n    And shall he from that throne descend\n    Before the evil one to bend?\n\n    No! He will hunger bear,\n      And suffer sharpest pain,\n    Till God shall hear his prayer,\n      And his weak life sustain.\n    And lo! ashamed the tempter flies,\n    And angels feed him from the skies.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XVIII.\n\nTHE TWELVE DISCIPLES.\n\nMARK, i. 16-20.\n\n\nWHEN Jesus was a man, he began to teach people about his Father. Jesus\nused to preach.\n\nWhere did he preach?\n\nSometimes he preached to people in a place like a church; sometimes\nhe preached in the fields; sometimes he sat on the top of a hill and\npreached; and sometimes he sat in a ship, and the people stood by the\nedge of the water to hear him. Jesus did not always live in the same\nplace: he used to walk about from one place to another.\n\nDid Jesus walk about alone? No; he had twelve friends always with him.\nHe called them his twelve disciples.\n\nHow many are twelve? Let us count the little children in this room.\nHere are twelve. Jesus had just so many disciples.\n\nOne was called Peter, and another John, and another James, and another\nThomas. I will not tell you the names of all, lest you should forget\nthem.\n\nPeter was a fisherman. He had a little ship, and he used to catch fish\nin the day and in the night. James and John had another little ship,\nand they used to catch fish.\n\nOne day Jesus passed by their ships, and Jesus saw Peter and his\nbrother Andrew throwing a net into the sea to catch fish, and Jesus\nsaid to them, Come with me. And Peter and Andrew left their nets, and\ntheir ships, and went with Jesus.\n\nAnd Jesus went a little further, and he saw James and John sitting in\ntheir ship, mending the holes in their nets, and Jesus said to them,\nCome with me; and they left their nets and went with Jesus.\n\nJesus called what people he pleased to come with him.\n\nShall I tell you why Jesus chose to have twelve friends always with\nhim? What do you think was the reason?\n\nJesus wished to teach them about God his Father, that they might teach\nother people about him. They liked being with him, and listening to his\nwords. Would you have liked to be always with Jesus?\n\nWhen Jesus was alone with his disciples, he used to tell them secrets\nabout God and heaven. They loved him very much indeed; they called him\nMaster, and Lord. Jesus loved them still more than they loved him, and\nhe called them his friends.\n\nJesus used to give them part of his things. But Jesus had no house to\nlive in, and he had very little money. Sometimes Jesus and his friends\nwere very much tired with walking far, and sometimes they were very\nhungry and thirsty. But kind people often asked them to come into their\nhouses, and gave them food. Other people laughed at Jesus, and called\nhim names.\n\nWere the disciples good?\u2014They were bad like us; but Jesus put his\nSpirit into them, and made them better. The disciples were not quite\ngood like Jesus; they often quarreled with each other, and sometimes\nthey were unkind to poor people.\n\n    How happy they who shared the bread\n      Of Jesus here below!\n    From place to place he traveled,\n      And they with him did go.\n\n    What though they never had a place\n      Where safely to abide,\n    They saw their loving Master\u2019s face,\n      And followed by his side.\n\n    They heard him preach from hills and ships\n      Of things to men unknown;\n    But sweeter words dropped from his lips\n      When they were all alone;\n\n    For then he would the things explain\n      They could not understand,\n    That heav\u2019nly wisdom they might gain,\n      And teach it through the land.\n\n    CHILD.\n\n    \u2019Tis true I can not here below\n      With thee, my Saviour, dwell;\n    To heaven I one day hope to go,\n      And there to know thee well.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XIX.\n\nTHE FIRST MIRACLE.\n\nJOHN, ii. 1-11.\n\n\nI TOLD you that some people used to ask Jesus to come into their\nhouses. I shall now tell you of a man who did ask Jesus. This man gave\na feast, and Jesus came to the feast. Mary, the mother of Jesus, came;\nand the disciples came. There were a great many more people besides at\nthe feast.\n\nThere was some wine for the people to drink: but there was so little,\nthat very soon it was all gone.\n\nJesus knew that the wine was gone. Could not Jesus give the people more\nwine?\u2014Yes; for he made the world and all things in it.\n\nThere were some large stone jars in the room. Jesus said to the\nservants, Fill the jars with water, and they filled them quite full.\n\nThen Jesus said, Take some, and give it to the master to drink. The\nservants did so; but Jesus had turned the water into wine.\n\nWhen the master had tasted it, he said, What nice wine this is! Where\ndid it come from?\n\nThe servants told him how Jesus had told them to fill the jars with\nwater. Then all the people at the feast knew that Jesus had turned the\nwater into wine.\n\nThis was the first wonder that Jesus did; it was called a miracle.\n\nWhy did Jesus do miracles? To show people that he was the Son of God.\n\nThe disciples now felt quite sure that Jesus was the Son of God.\n\n    Once Jesus to a marriage went;\n      The numerous guests surround the board,\n    When lo! they find the wine is spent;\u2014\n      This\u2014Mary hears, and tells the Lord.\n\n    Before the guests\u2019 astonished eyes\n      Christ makes his heavenly glory shine;\n    The thing desired he soon supplies.\n      And changes water into wine.\n\n    How ready does our Lord appear\n      Our fond desires to satisfy!\n    And all that we can wish for here\n      He is well able to supply.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XX.\n\nSEVERAL MIRACLES.\n\nLUKE, vi. 11-16.\n\n\nAFTER Jesus had turned the water into wine, he did a great many\nwonders. He made blind people see, and deaf people hear, and dumb\npeople speak, and lame people walk.\n\nWhen Jesus came to a place, all the sick people crowded round him.\n\nJesus did not send them away because they disturbed him, but he cured\nthem all\u2014yes\u2014every one.\n\nThis was the way in which he cured one blind man. He said, See! and the\nman could see that moment.\n\nThis was the way in which he cured a man who was deaf and dumb. Jesus\nput his fingers into his ears, and touched his tongue, and looked up to\nhis Father in heaven, and said, Be opened! and immediately the string\nof his tongue was loosed, and he could speak plainly.\n\nOnce Jesus saw a poor sick man lying on a bed, and Jesus said to him,\nShould you like to be made well? The poor man said he wished very much\nto be made well. Then Jesus said, Get up, carry your bed, and walk. The\nman tried to get up, and he found that he could; for Jesus gave him\nstrength.\n\nOne day Jesus was in a place like a church; he was preaching; when he\nsaw a poor woman whose back was bent, so that she could not lift up her\nhead. Jesus said, Woman, I have made you well; and then Jesus touched\nher with his hands, and her back grew straight, and she began to praise\nGod.\n\nSometimes Jesus made dead people alive again. That was more wonderful\nthan making sick people well.\n\nOnce Jesus was walking on the road. A great many people were walking\nafter him, for people liked to see him do wonders, and to hear him\ntalk. They met some men carrying a dead man to put him in the ground.\n\nA poor old woman came after, crying very much. She was the mother of\nthe dead man. He was her only son. Jesus was very sorry to see her cry.\nHe came up to her and said, Do not cry, and then he touched the coffin.\nThere was no top to it; the dead man was lying in it.\n\nJesus said, Get up, young man. He sat up and began to speak. Then Jesus\nsaid to his mother, Here is your son.\n\nAll the people were surprised, and said, This must be the Son of God.\nHe can make dead people live again.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XXI.\n\nTHE SINNER AND SIMON.\n\nLUKE, vii. 36 to end.\n\n\nWHY did Jesus come into the world?\u2014To save us from hell.\n\nBut why did God say that people must go to hell?\u2014Because everybody was\nnaughty.\n\nJesus can forgive people their naughtiness, and make them good. But\nJesus will not forgive people who are not sorry. I will tell you of a\nproud man who was not sorry, and of a poor woman who was sorry.\n\nA rich proud man asked Jesus to come and dine with him. Why did he ask\nJesus? he did not love him;\u2014he only asked him, that he might hear him\ntalk: but Jesus said he would come.\n\nThe proud man treated Jesus very unkindly. He gave him no water to wash\nhis feet, put no sweet ointment upon them, gave him no kiss.\n\nA poor woman, who had been very naughty, saw Jesus go into the rich\nman\u2019s house. She came up behind Jesus, and began to cry for all her\nnaughtiness. She knew Jesus could forgive her, and she loved Jesus.\n\nShe had brought a box of ointment with her: she stooped down, and her\ntears fell upon Jesus\u2019 feet, and with her tears she washed them: she\nwiped them with her long hair, and then poured the sweet ointment upon\nthem, and kissed them.\n\n[Illustration: JESUS AND THE DOCTORS.]\n\nThe rich man looked at the woman very angrily; he knew she had been\nvery naughty, and he was angry at seeing Jesus so kind to her.\n\nBut Jesus said to the proud man, This woman has been very naughty: but\nI have forgiven her, and she loves me very much. She loves me a great\ndeal more than you do. You gave me no water for my feet; but she has\nwashed my feet with her tears. You gave me no kiss; but she has kissed\nmy feet ever since I came in. You gave me no ointment; but she has\npoured very sweet ointment upon my feet.\n\nThen Jesus spoke kindly to the woman, and said to her, Your sins are\nforgiven.\n\nSo Jesus comforted this poor woman, but the proud man and his friends\ngrew still more angry.\n\nJesus will forgive your sins if you are sorry, and if you ask him; but\nif you think yourself good, he will not forgive you; for Jesus cannot\nbear proud people. Though you are but a little child, you have done a\ngreat many wrong things; and you do not deserve to go to heaven. Oh, I\nhope Jesus will forgive you! I hope the Holy Spirit will come into\nyour heart, and make you feel very sorry for your sins. Then Jesus will\nforgive you, and you will love him, as this poor woman did.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XXII.\n\nTHE STORM AT SEA.\n\nLUKE, viii. 22-25.\n\n\nJESUS often went into a ship with his disciples. Peter had a ship of\nhis own, and John had another ship, and they liked to lend their ships\nto Jesus.\n\nOnce they were all in a ship when the wind blew very hard and the water\nmoved up and down, and came over the ship. The disciples were afraid\nthat they should be drowned.\n\nJesus had fallen asleep, and was lying on a pillow. The noise of the\nwind and of the water had not awakened him.\n\nHis disciples ran to him and cried, O Master! do you not care for us?\nwill you let us die?\n\nThen Jesus got up and said to the wind, Wind be still! and he said\nto the water, Be still! The wind left off blowing, and the water was\nsmooth and quiet.\n\nThen Jesus said to his disciples, Why are you afraid? Why did you not\nbelieve that I would take care of you?\n\nJesus knew that they were tossed about, and he would have kept them\nsafe, though he was asleep.\n\nThe disciples said to one another, Jesus is the Son of God; even the\nwind and the water obey him.\n\n    The disciples, with Jesus their Lord,\n      At sea in a vessel were toss\u2019d;\n    The winds loudly blew, the waves roar\u2019d;\n      They fear\u2019d that they all should be lost.\n\n    The waters rush\u2019d into the ship:\n      For Jesus all eagerly look:\n    He lies on a pillow asleep\u2014\n      Had he his disciples forsook?\n\n    Not so; while he slept he still thought\n      Of them, and their bitter distress:\n    His merciful eye slumbers not,\n      But watches his children to bless.\n\n    He rises his work to perform:\n      The wind and the waters obey:\n    Soon hush\u2019d is the terrible storm,\n      The hurricane passes away.\n\n    How ready is Jesus to save!\n      How strong is his arm to protect!\n    His mercy we ever will crave;\n      And deliv\u2019rance will ever expect.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XXIII.\n\nJAIRUS\u2019 DAUGHTER.\n\nLUKE, viii. 41 to end.\n\n\nA RICH man came to Jesus and fell down at his feet and said, I have one\nlittle girl, and she is very sick; pray come and make her well. Jesus\nwent with the rich man.\n\nWhen they were near the house, some servants came out and said, The\nlittle girl is just dead; no one can make her well now.\n\nBut Jesus said, Do not be afraid; I can make her well.\n\nJesus said to the father and mother of the little girl, Come with me\ninto the house. Peter, James, and John, you may come in, but no one\nelse.\n\nSo they went up into the room where the little girl was lying in bed. A\ngreat many people were in the room, playing sad music, and singing sad\nsongs, and crying, because the child was dead. But Jesus said, Leave\noff crying. The girl is only sleeping: she is not dead. Jesus said she\nwas asleep, because he meant to make her alive so soon again. But the\npeople laughed at Jesus, and said, She is dead, and they would not\nbelieve that he could make her alive again.\n\nJesus said, These people must be put out of the room. So he sent them\nout, and shut the door; but he let the father and mother, and Peter,\nand James, and John, stay in the room. He took the little girl\u2019s hand,\nand said, Arise! At first she sat up, and then she rose up out of bed,\nand walked about the room. She was twelve years old. Jesus then said,\nBring her something to eat.\n\nThe father and mother were much surprised at what had happened.\n\n    Hark! \u2019tis a father crying,\n      And this is what he saith:\n    \u201cMy little daughter\u2019s lying\n      Just at the point of death.\u201d\n\n    The Saviour soon consented\n      To come and heal the maid;\n    Nor was he e\u2019en prevented\n      By hearing she was dead.\n\n    He found the people weeping\n      Because her breath was gone;\n    And when he said, \u201cShe\u2019s sleeping,\u201d\n      They laughed him to scorn.\n\n    The Lord no sinful mocker\n      Would suffer to remain;\n    Then by the hand he took her,\n      And bade her rise again.\n\n    Ah! see the maid arising\n      According to his word;\n    Does not the deed surprising\n      Show Jesus to be Lord?\n\n    See in their fond embraces\n      The parents clasp the maid;\n    Ashamed are now the faces\n      That mocked at what he said.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XXIV.\n\nTHE LOAVES AND FISHES.\n\nMATTHEW, xiv. 13-22.\n\n\nONCE Jesus went into the wilderness with his disciples, and a great\nmany people came after him; then Jesus preached to the people, and told\nthem about his Father, and how he himself had come down from heaven to\nsave them from Satan. They listened to him from morning till night.\n\nWhen it was getting dark, the disciples came to Jesus and said, Will\nyou not send the people home, for it is late?\n\nBut Jesus knew that the people had had nothing to eat all day, and he\ndid not like to send them home tired and hungry. So he said to his\ndisciples, Cannot you feed them?\n\nNo, said they; we have only five loaves and two small fishes, and see\nhow many people there are!\n\nBut Jesus said, Make them sit down on the grass, and bring the loaves\nand fishes to me. So the disciples made them all sit down.\n\nThere were a great many people, as many as would fill ten churches\u2014five\nthousand men, besides women and little children. How tired the little\nchildren must have been! it was time for them to have their supper and\ngo to bed. We shall hear how Jesus fed all these people.\n\nThey sat down on the green grass. Jesus took the loaves and fishes;\nfirst he lifted up his eyes to his Father, and thanked him for the\nfood, and then he took a piece of bread and gave it to Peter, and said,\nFeed all those people sitting there; and he gave another piece to John,\nand said, Feed those people; and he gave a piece of bread and fish to\neach of the disciples, and told each to feed some people.\n\nOne little piece of bread would not be enough for all the children in\nthis room; but Jesus made the bread enough for all the people. Everyone\nhad enough, and they threw upon the grass a great many little pieces.\nBut Jesus said to his disciples, Take some baskets, and pick up the\ncrumbs; and they filled twelve baskets full of little bits of bread.\nThen Jesus told the people to go home.\n\nWhat a wonder Jesus had done! Yet you know that he feeds you, my little\nchildren, and all the people in the world.\n\nHow does he feed you?\u2014He gives you bread.\n\nOf what is bread made?\u2014Of flour.\n\nOf what is flour made?\u2014Of corn.\n\nWho makes corn?\u2014God makes the corn.\n\nOf what does he make it?\u2014Of nothing. God makes things of nothing. Jesus\nis God, and makes the corn grow; so you see that Jesus feeds you. If\nhe did not make corn grow in the fields we should die. But he will not\nforget us. He even remembers the little birds. They are too silly to\nplow, or to sow corn, or to reap or to put corn into barns, yet God\ndoes not let them starve. The birds cry to God, and he hears them, and\nlets them find food. Now God loves us much better than he loves the\nlittle birds, because we have souls; so he will certainly hear us when\nwe pray to him.\n\nIf your mother had no bread in her cottage, and if she could get no\nmoney to buy some, yet God would hear her, if she loved him. He would\nnot let her starve. Will you not ask God for bread every day, and say,\nGive me this day my daily bread?\n\nWe ought to thank God for the food we eat: before we eat breakfast, or\ndinner, or supper, we should say, I thank thee, O Lord, for this nice\nfood.\n\n    Behold where on the green hill spread,\n      Close by the water-side,\n    The hungry multitudes are fed,\n      At peaceful eventide.\n\n    Upon the grass they sit at ease,\n      In rows of ten times ten,\n    Women with children on their knees,\n      Besides five thousand men.\n\n    In list\u2019ning they had spent the day;\n      Their homes far distant lie:\n    They would have fainted by the way\n      Without this kind supply.\n\n    The Lord, whose words they came to hear\n      Has pity on their need,\n    He loves the weary heart to cheer,\n      The hungry poor to feed.\n\n    He gives them of his little store\n      By his disciples\u2019 hands:\n    Though little, he can make it more,\n      For all things he commands.\n\n    \u2019Tis he provides the beasts with food,\n      To him the ravens cry:\n    He watches over us for good,\n      And does our need supply.\n\n    He once himself did hunger bear,\n      For forty days alone:\n    And still the hungry are his care;\n      He hears them when they groan.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XXV.\n\nTHE KINDNESS OF JESUS.\n\nMATTHEW, xv. 21-28. MARK, x. 13-16.\n\n\nI TOLD you that the disciples were sometimes unkind; but Jesus was\nalways kind. Once a poor woman came crying after Jesus, saying, O Lord,\nI have a little daughter who is very sick. Jesus did not answer her at\nfirst, and the disciples were unkind, and wished her to be sent away.\nShe cried so loud, they said to Jesus, Do send her away.\n\nThe poor woman fell down at Jesus\u2019 feet, and said, Lord, help me! And\nJesus had pity on the woman, and said, I will do what you wish.\n\nThe poor woman was glad to hear this, and she went home, and found that\nher daughter was quite well.\n\nAnother time the disciples were unkind to some little children. Some\npoor women brought their children to Jesus, but the disciples were\nstanding round, and they would not let the women come near. Go away,\nthey said; you must not bring the babies here to trouble us. But Jesus\nheard them speak, and was very angry with the disciples. Jesus would\nnot let the children go away.\n\nHe said to the disciples, Suffer them to come to me; do not send them\naway.\n\nThen he took the children in his arms, and put his hands upon them, and\nprayed to his Father, and blessed them.\n\nO happy little children, to be taken into the arms of Jesus.\n\nJesus loves meek and gentle children. They are Jesus\u2019 lambs. Jesus is\ntheir shepherd, and he will take them to heaven when they die.\n\n    Young children once to Jesus came,\n      His blessing to entreat;\n    And I may humbly do the same\n      Before his mercy-seat.\n\n    For when their feeble hands were spread,\n      And bent each humble knee,\n    \u201cForbid them not,\u201d the Saviour said;\n      And so he says to me.\n\n    If babes so many years ago\n      His tender pity drew,\n    He will not surely let me go\n      Without a blessing, too.\n\n    Then while his favor to implore\n      My little hands are spread,\n    Do thou thy sacred blessing pour\n      Dear Jesus, on my head.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XXVI.\n\nTHE LORD\u2019S PRAYER.\n\n\nWHEN Jesus was in the world, he loved to think of his Father in heaven.\nHe liked to be alone, that he might pray to his Father: sometimes the\ntears ran down his cheeks while he prayed. One night Jesus prayed all\nnight alone upon the top of a high hill.\n\nSometimes Jesus prayed to his Father while his disciples stood near and\nlistened.\n\nOnce when Jesus had been praying with them they said, Lord, teach us to\npray. Then Jesus taught them a little prayer.\n\nIt was this: Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed by thy name; thy\nkingdom come; thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven: give us\nthis day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive\nthem that trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but\ndeliver us from evil: for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the\nglory, forever and ever. Amen.\n\nI know, little children, that you say this prayer night and morning.\nYour mothers taught you to say it. But did you know who said it first?\nIt was Jesus, the Lord: so it is called \u201cThe Lord\u2019s Prayer.\u201d It is a\nvery beautiful prayer, for Jesus said it; but it is hard for children\nto understand it.\n\nWhat is the meaning of \u201cHallowed be thy name?\u201d Let God\u2019s name be\npraised.\n\nWhat are \u201ctrespasses?\u201d Trespasses are sins.\n\nAsk God to forgive your sins, or your trespasses.\n\nDo you ever pray to God when you are alone?\n\nYou may pray to him in any PLACE\u2014in the house or in the garden.\n\nYou may pray to him at any TIME\u2014in the night or in the middle of the\nday.\n\nYou may ask him for anything you want, just as you ask your father.\n\nWhat will you ask him for? Will you ask him to give you bread, and\nclothes, and a house to live in?\n\nYes, ask him for these things, but most of all\u2014ask him for his Holy\nSpirit.\n\nIt is better to have the Holy Spirit than to have all the toys, all the\nmoney, all the flowers, all the birds, all the beautiful things in the\nworld.\n\nWhy is it better?\n\nBecause the Holy Spirit will make you love God, as the angels do, and\nwill make you live forever and ever.\n\nWill you say this little prayer to God?\u2014\u201cO my Father, pray give me thy\nHoly Spirit, for Christ\u2019s sake.\u201d\n\n    Our Father, seated in the sky,\n      Thy holy name be praised still:\n    Be thou obeyed as King most high,\n      Let men, like angels, do thy will.\n\n    Do thou our daily bread supply:\n      Forgive our sins as we forgive:\n    Yet help us still from sin to fly:\n      Great, glorious King, forever live!\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XXVII.\n\nJESUS FORETELLS HIS DEATH.\n\nMATTHEW, xvi. 21 to end.\n\n\nJESUS knew everything that would happen, and he knew that he must soon\ndie.\n\nHe used to tell his secrets to his disciples; so he took them into\na place by themselves, and said, I soon shall leave you: the wicked\npeople will take me, and bind me with ropes, and beat me, and laugh at\nme, and nail me on a cross; but I shall soon be alive again.\n\nThe disciples could not bear to hear Jesus talk of dying, for they\nloved him very much. They all looked very sad, and Peter said, You\nshall not die; but Jesus said, I must die to save men, and to please my\nFather.\n\nThe Father had desired Jesus to die, and he would not disobey his\nFather.\n\nMost of the people who wished to kill Jesus, lived in a great town\ncalled Jerusalem.\n\nJesus used to go to Jerusalem very often, and he used to preach there.\n\nWhy did some people hate Jesus?\u2014Because he told them of their\nwickedness.\n\nHe used to say to them, You do not love God, who is my Father, but you\nare proud and vain. You wish to kill me. You tell lies. You are unkind\nto poor people. You pretend to love God, but while you are saying your\nprayers, you are thinking how good you are. Your hearts are full of\nwickedness. You are the children of the devil.\n\nJesus wished them to turn from their wickedness. It grieved him to see\nhow they hated his Father, and that they would not turn from their\nwicked ways.\n\nThe wicked people were angry with Jesus, and said, God is not your\nFather. But Jesus said, He is my Father, and I came down from heaven,\nwhere he lives, and I shall go back to him some day.\n\nAt last the people took up stones to throw at him: but Jesus did not\nchoose to die yet, so he easily got away and went to a place where they\ncould not find him.\n\nThere he staid with his disciples a good while.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XXVIII.\n\nLAZARUS.\n\nJOHN, xi. 1-17.\n\n\nJESUS staid with his disciples in a place by himself. The wicked\npeople, who wanted to kill him, could not find him, but Jesus\u2019 friends\nknew where he was.\n\nJesus had more friends besides his disciples.\n\nOne of his friends was called Lazarus. Lazarus had two sisters; their\nnames were Martha and Mary. These three all lived together. They all\nthree loved Jesus, and Jesus loved them. Jesus used often to come and\nsee them, and sit in the house and talk to them. Martha liked to make\na fine dinner when Jesus came, but Mary liked to sit and listen to his\nsweet words.\n\nAt last Lazarus fell very sick.\n\nMartha and Mary loved their brother Lazarus very much indeed. They knew\nthat Jesus could make Lazarus well; so they sent a man to tell Jesus\nthat Lazarus was sick.\n\nThe man went a great way to look for Jesus. Lazarus grew worse and\nworse. At last he died. His friends wrapped white cloths round his\nface, and his arms and his legs, and put him in a great hole, and\nrolled a stone before it.\n\nMartha and Mary waited and longed for Jesus to come.\n\nFour days passed, and at last Jesus came. Martha and Mary did not think\nthat Jesus would make Lazarus alive again, for he had been dead so\nlong; so they sat upon the ground and cried.\n\nWhen Martha heard that Jesus was on the road a little way off, she came\nto Jesus and said, If you had been here, my brother had not died; and\neven now you could make him alive.\n\nThen Jesus said, Your brother shall rise again.\n\nYes, said Martha, I know he will rise again at the last day, when all\nthe dead people rise.\n\nMartha was afraid that Jesus would not choose to make Lazarus alive\nsoon; but she knew that he was able to do it.\n\nMartha went back to the house, and found Mary still sitting on the\nground, and a great many friends round her.\n\nMartha whispered in her ear, and told her that Jesus wanted to speak to\nher. So Martha and Mary went together, and found Jesus waiting for them\nin the road.\n\nMary\u2019s friends went with her, and they cried; and Mary cried very much\nindeed: and when she saw Jesus she fell down at his feet and said,\nLord, if you had been here, my brother had not died.\n\nJesus was very sorry to see her so unhappy, and to see so many people\ncrying: he felt very sad indeed, and he sighed very deeply. Jesus does\nnot like to see anyone in trouble, he is so kind.\n\nThen Jesus said, Where have you put Lazarus?\n\nMartha and Mary and their friends said, Come and see; and they showed\nhim the way.\n\nAs Jesus walked along, the tears rolled down his cheeks.\n\nAt last they came to the grave. It was a hole, and a very large stone\nwas before the hole.\n\nThen Jesus said, Take away the stone.\n\nMartha thought that Jesus was going to look at Lazarus lying dead; and\nshe said, Do not go in: his flesh has a bad smell by this time. He has\nbeen dead four days. But Jesus told her to believe that he could make\nhim alive.\n\nThey then rolled away the stone.\n\nThen Jesus lifted up his eyes to his Father in heaven, and thanked him\nfor helping him to do wonderful things.\n\nA great many people were standing by, looking at Jesus, and wondering\nwhat he would do.\n\nPoor Martha and Mary were longing to see Lazarus alive again.\n\nThen Jesus spoke loud and said, Lazarus, come forth.\n\nLazarus heard, though he was dead; for the dead hear the voice of\nJesus. He got up and walked to the door of the hole. His hands were\ntied with cloths, and his feet wrapped round with cloths, and a cloth\nwas over his face.\n\nBut Jesus said, Undo the cloths.\n\nHow pleased Martha and Mary must have been to see his face again! How\nthey must have thanked the Lord Jesus for his kindness!\n\nThe people who saw all this were surprised, and said, Jesus must be the\nSon of God.\n\n    Why flow the blessed Saviour\u2019s tears?\n    Is it because the cross he fears?\n    Because he knows he soon shall die,\n    And shall within the cold grave lie?\n\n    He weeps to see the sisters weep\n    Of Lazarus, who lies asleep;\n    So tender is his heart, and kind,\n    That all from him may pity find.\n\n    CHILD.\n\n    When I see others full of fears,\n    I will remember Jesus\u2019 tears;\n    And not upon my pleasures think,\n    While their sad hearts with sorrow sink.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XXIX.\n\nJESUS ENTERS JERUSALEM.\n\nMATTHEW, xxi. 1-11, 14-17.\n\n\nWHICH was the greatest miracle that Jesus ever did? It was making\nLazarus alive again; because he had been dead four days.\n\nMany of the wicked people who hated Jesus heard of it; but they only\nhated him the more. They said, We must kill him soon, or everyone will\nbelieve that he is the Son of God.\n\nJesus knew that they wanted to kill him, and so he went again and hid\nhimself in a place they did not know of. They looked for him, but they\ncould not find him.\n\nBut could Jesus always stay in that little quiet place, where he was\nhid with his disciples? No. He came down to die for us. He only waited\ntill the time came for him to die. Then he said to his disciples,\nWe must go to Jerusalem, and I shall be laughed at, and beaten, and\nkilled; but I shall come out of my grave after three days.\n\nThe disciples did not like to hear this; but they chose to go with\nJesus wherever he went.\n\nJesus walked fast along the road; at last he came near Jerusalem. Then\nhe stopped and said to his disciples, I shall ride into Jerusalem upon\nan ass. Jesus had no ass of his own; he always walked from place to\nplace. But Jesus could put it into a man\u2019s heart to lend him one.\n\nHe said to two of his disciples, Go along the road a little way, and\nyou will see an ass and a young ass tied, and a man standing near;\nbring the ass and the young one to me, for I know that the man will let\nthem come.\n\nSo the two disciples went: when they had gone a little way they saw an\nass tied up, and a young one. They began to untie the ass; but a man\nstanding near said, Why do you untie the ass?\n\nThey said, The Lord hath need of them; and then the man let them go.\n\nI suppose that man loved the Lord Jesus, and liked to lend him his\nthings.\n\nThe two disciples brought the two asses to Jesus. They took off some of\ntheir clothes, and put them on the young ass, and Jesus sat upon it.\n\nA great many people came out of Jerusalem to see Jesus, for they had\nheard of his making Lazarus alive again. The people began to praise\nJesus, and call him king. They took off some of their clothes, and laid\nthem down upon the road for the ass to tread upon; and they picked\nbranches off the trees that grew near, and laid them too on the road.\n\nSo Jesus came to the great town of Jerusalem: all the people came\ninto the streets to look at him, and even the little children began\nto praise him, and to call him King. The proud men, that hated Jesus,\nwere very angry at hearing all these praises. They did not like to hear\nJesus praised. They came to him and said, Why do you let these children\ncall you king?\n\nBut Jesus liked to hear the children sing his praise, and he would not\ntell them to be silent.\n\nJesus loved little children, and these little children loved Jesus.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XXX.\n\nTHE TEMPLE.\n\nLUKE, xix. 47, 48; xx. 19, 20; xxi. 37, 38.\n\n\nTHERE was a large place in Jerusalem, like a great church, called the\nTemple. It was white outside, and very beautiful. The doors were open\nall day, and people used to go in to pray to God. It was God\u2019s house:\nJesus used often to be there with his disciples. Poor blind and lame\npeople came to him there, and Jesus cured them all, and talked to them\nabout his Father.\n\nThe little children sang his praises in the Temple. All day long Jesus\ntaught the people about God, and they listened to what he said, and\nliked to hear him.\n\nThe wicked and proud men came to the Temple to laugh at Jesus, and to\nspeak rudely to him; but he bore all as meekly as a lamb.\n\nAt night he left the Temple, and went out of the town to a high hill,\nwhere he prayed to God alone in the dark.\n\nThe wicked men longed to catch Jesus to kill him. They said to each\nother, How can we get him? the people will not let us take hold of him\nif they see us, or we would go to the Temple to catch him. If we could\nfind him alone in the dark, then we would put ropes on him, and take\nhim to the judge. This is what the wicked people said to each other as\nthey sat together.\n\n    Within the Temple fair and grand,\n      (Where holy men are wont to pray,)\n    Behold the gentle Saviour stand,\n      Teaching sweet wisdom all the day.\n\n    And many round him fondly press,\n      The blind, the lame, the weeping poor,\n    Who suffer sickness or distress,\n      Or grace or pardon would implore.\n\n    But see, another troop is near,\n      And much his words their pride displease;\n    Like hungry lions they appear,\n      Who long a gentle lamb to seize.\n\n    The Saviour all their malice knows,\n      And how his precious life they seek;\n    But still his lips he will not close,\n      Because his Father bade him speak.\n\n    Nor does his heav\u2019nly patience fail,\n      Nor does he cease his love to show;\n    But while they mock, and jeer, and rail,\n      He strives to save their souls from woe.\n\n    CHILD.\n\n    And if, when trying to be kind,\n      I too should with unkindness meet,\n    O let me show a patient mind,\n      And ever let my words be sweet!\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XXXI.\n\nJUDAS.\n\nJOHN, xii. 6. MATTHEW, xxvi. 3, 4, 14-16.\n\n\nJESUS had twelve disciples. Did they all love him?\n\nPeter loved Jesus, and John loved him, and all the rest loved him, but\none; his name was Judas. He did not love Jesus, but only pretended to\nlove him. He was like the devil.\n\nDid Jesus know how wicked Judas was? Yes, he saw into his heart; but\nthe disciples thought Judas was good; for Judas used to kiss the Lord\nJesus, and speak kindly to him, and talk about God like the rest.\n\nBut Judas loved something; he loved money. He wanted to get a great\ndeal of money.\n\nHe was covetous, and he was a thief. The disciples had a bag, and when\nthey had money they put it in the bag; and all the disciples put their\nmoney in the same bag. But there was very little money in the bag, for\nthey were very poor. Judas used to take care of the bag, and he used to\nsteal some of the money out of it, and keep it for himself; but no one\nfound him out, or thought he was a thief, except Jesus, and he knew it\nwell.\n\nJudas was always thinking, How shall I get money?\n\nOne day, when the proud men were sitting together, Judas came in. Judas\nsaid to them, You want to find Jesus when he is alone: will you give me\nsome money, and I will show you where he goes at night?\n\nThe proud people said, Yes, we will.\n\nJudas said, How much money will you give me?\n\nThey said, Thirty pieces of silver.\n\nThen Judas said, Some night I will bring you to Jesus when he is alone.\n\nThe wicked people were very glad to hear this.\n\nNow, thought they, we shall soon catch him and kill him.\n\nJudas went back to Jesus, but he did not tell the disciples what he had\ndone. Jesus knew what he had been doing; for Jesus could see all his\nthoughts, and he knew all that Judas did, both in the day and in the\nnight. Yet Jesus did not tell Judas that he knew his wicked plans.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XXXII.\n\nTHE LAST SUPPER\u2014PART I.\n\nLUKE, xxii. 7-14. JOHN, xiii. 1-17.\n\n\nJESUS said to his disciples, I am going soon to be killed, but before I\ndie I shall eat a supper with you in Jerusalem.\n\nThen Jesus said to Peter and John, Go and get the supper ready; but\nthey said, Where shall we get it ready? For Jesus had no house in\nJerusalem: but Jesus knew how to find a room.\n\nSo Jesus said to Peter and John, Go into Jerusalem, and you will meet a\nman carrying a jug; go after him: he will go into a house. The master\nof the house will lend me a room. Tell him that I am going to die, and\nthat I want to eat a supper with my disciples.\n\nThen Peter and John went into Jerusalem.\n\nWhom did they meet? A man carrying a jug.\n\nThey followed him. He went into a house. Peter and John went in after\nhim, and they said to the master of the house, Jesus wants a room to\neat supper in with his disciples before he dies.\n\nThen the master took them up stairs, and showed them a large room, with\na table in it, and seats all round the table, and a jug, and a basin to\nwash their feet in, and a cup and dishes.\n\nThen Peter and John got some bread and wine and other things, and\nmade the supper ready; and they went back and told Jesus (who was a\nlittle way in the country) that supper was ready. So Jesus and all his\ndisciples came to the house in the evening; they went up stairs, and\nthey all sat down.\n\nJesus loved John better than all the rest, and John sat next to Jesus.\n\nAfter they had been a little while at supper, Jesus got up and took a\ntowel, and tied it round his waist; and he took a jug and poured water\ninto a basin, and he began to wash his disciples\u2019 feet, and to wipe\nthem with the towel round his waist.\n\nBut when he came to Peter, Peter said, You shall never wash my feet.\n\nPeter thought it was too kind of Jesus to wash his feet, as if he\nwere a servant; but Jesus was not proud, but loved to be kind to his\ndisciples.\n\nThen Jesus said to Peter, If I wash you not, you cannot be mine; but I\nhave made you clean already. Jesus had made Peter\u2019s heart clean.\n\nThen Peter was glad that Jesus should wash his feet.\n\nAll the disciples had clean hearts, except Judas, and his heart was\nfull of wickedness; Satan was in it. Yet Jesus washed Judas\u2019 feet. He\nwas kind even to wicked Judas, who hated him.\n\nWhen Jesus had washed all the disciples\u2019 feet he sat down again, and\nbegan to talk to them.\n\nHe said, Do you know what I have done to you? I have washed your feet,\nthough I am your Lord and Master. I wish to teach you to be as kind to\neach other as I have been to you.\n\n    When the sad hour was almost come,\n      That Jesus must depart,\n    He gathered in an upper room\n      Those dearest to his heart.\n\n    Ah! great was their astonishment\n      When, rising from his seat,\n    Upon the floor he lowly bent\n      To wash his servants\u2019 feet.\n\n    Beside the board again he sat,\n      And thus expressed his mind:\n    \u201cIf I, your Lord, upon you wait,\n      O should not you be kind?\n\n    \u201cO! let the love that I have shown\n      By you remembered be;\n    And by _your_ love let it be known\n      That you belong to me.\u201d\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XXXIII.\n\nTHE LAST SUPPER\u2014PART II.\n\nJOHN, xiii. 21-30.\n\n\nYOU know the wicked thing that Judas meant to do. Jesus knew that he\nwould bring the wicked people to take him and kill him. Jesus had been\nvery kind to Judas, and Jesus was sorry that he was so wicked.\n\nAs Jesus was sitting at supper, and all the twelve disciples sitting\nround, he said, One of you will give me to the wicked men to be killed!\none of you, my disciples.\n\nAll the disciples were very sorry, and Peter said, Is it I? and John\nsaid, Is it I? and each of them said, Is it I? but Jesus did not tell\nthem which.\n\nNow John was leaning his head on Jesus\u2019 bosom, and Peter whispered to\nJohn and said, Do ask the Lord which it is that will show the wicked\npeople where he is?\n\nSo John whispered and said, Which is it?\n\nAnd Jesus said, The one that dips the bread in the sop with me.\n\nFor there was a dish of sauce on the table, and Jesus dipped his bread\nin it, and as he dipped it one of the disciples put his hand in the\ndish too. Which was it?\n\nJudas: he dipped his bread in the dish with Jesus. So John knew which\nit was that was so wicked.\n\nThen Jesus said to Judas, Go, and do what you mean to do.\n\nAnd Judas got up and went out of the room.\n\nWhere did he go?\n\nHe went to the wicked people, to bring them to Jesus in the dark. But\nthe disciples thought he was going to buy something at a shop, or to\ngive money to the poor.\n\n    One night the Saviour said,\n      \u201cMy hours to live are few:\n    I soon shall be betray\u2019d,\n      My friends, by one of you.\u201d\n        \u201cLord, is it I?\u201d\n        They all do cry.\n\n    Beloved above the rest,\n      John lean\u2019d his gentle head\n    Upon the Saviour\u2019s breast,\n      And, softly whisp\u2019ring, said,\n        \u201cLord, tell me who\n        This thing shall do?\u201d\n\n    \u201cOne of this little band,\u201d\n      The Saviour, answ\u2019ring, said,\n    \u201cWill hither reach his hand,\n      And dip with me his bread.\n        Who dips with me,\n        The same is he.\u201d\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XXXIV.\n\nTHE LAST SUPPER\u2014PART III.\n\nMATTHEW, xxvi. 26-36. JOHN, xiv. 1-4; xviii. 1-3.\n\n\nAFTER supper Jesus took some bread and broke it in little bits, and\ngave a piece to each of the disciples, and said, This is my body: I am\ngoing to die: eat this, and think of me.\n\nThen Jesus poured some wine into a cup, and told them all to drink out\nof it. He said, This is my blood; I shall soon bleed and die; drink\nthis, and think of me.\n\nJesus said, I shall not eat supper with you again before I die. I am\ngoing to my Father; I must leave you, but I shall come back again.\n\nThen they all sang a hymn.\n\nAfterward Jesus got up from the table and went down stairs into the\nstreet, and the disciples followed him. It was dark; but Jesus talked\nto them as they went along. He said, I am going to die to-night, and\nyou will all leave me.\n\nBut Peter said, I will not leave you; I will go to prison with you; I\nwill die with you; but I will never leave you.\n\nJesus said to him, Yes, you will, Peter; you will say that you do not\nknow me; you will say that you are not my friend. This night, Peter,\nyou will say so, before the cock crows. (For cocks crow in the morning\nwhen it is light.)\n\nJesus talked sweetly to his disciples. He said, Do not be sorry because\nI am going away. I shall go back to my Father, and I shall soon come\nback to you. When I am in heaven, I shall get ready a place in heaven\nfor you. I command you to love one another, and I will send the Holy\nSpirit to comfort you.\n\nAt last Jesus came to a garden. He had often been to that garden with\nhis disciples, and wicked Judas knew the place.\n\nWhere was Judas now?\n\nHe was with the wicked, proud men.\n\nYou will soon hear how he came to the garden, and how he brought the\n_servants_ of the wicked men with him. For these wicked men meant to\nsend their servants to catch Jesus.\n\n    \u201cThis is my flesh,\u201d the sorrowing Saviour said,\n    And, as he spoke, he gave the broken bread:\n    \u201cThis is my blood,\u201d and then he bade all drink,\n    And of their dying Master ever think.\n\n    \u201cThis night I die: this night my body\u2019s bruised;\n    This night by wicked men my name\u2019s abused;\n    And even you, my dearest friends, shall fly,\n    And leave your Master all alone to die.\u201d\n\n    His friends in sorrow heard; then promised\n    With him they fondly loved their blood to shed;\n    And Peter loudest said, \u201cWith thee I\u2019ll die,\u201d\n    And little thought he should his Lord deny.\n\n    CHILD.\n\n    Sometimes I think I never will offend,\n    By doing wrong, my best, my heav\u2019nly Friend;\n    How soon my heart forgets! To God I\u2019ll pray\n    For grace to keep me in his holy way.\n\n[Illustration: CHRIST\u2019S ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM.]\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XXXV.\n\nTHE GARDEN.\n\nMATTHEW, xxvi. 30-57. JOHN, xviii. 1-12.\n\n\nWHEN Jesus was come to the garden, he told all his disciples to stop in\none place till he came back, except three that he took with him.\n\nWho were they?\n\nPeter, James, and John. He took them further on in the garden, and then\nsaid to them, I feel very sad indeed. I am going to pray. Do you stay\nhere. Do not go to sleep, but pray while I am praying.\n\nThen Jesus went a little way off by himself, and fell upon the ground,\nand began to pray to his Father to help him. He ended his prayer by\nsaying, O Father, do thou what thou wilt, not what I will.\n\nHe prayed very earnestly, and he felt so unhappy that the blood came\nout of his skin, and fell on the ground. Then he got up and went back\nto Peter, and James, and John, but he found them asleep. He waked them,\nand told them to pray.\n\nThen he went back and prayed again to his Father, to help him in his\ngreat sorrow; then he came back to his disciples, but they had fallen\nasleep again.\n\nThen Jesus prayed again, and his Father sent an angel from heaven to\ncomfort him. I do not know what the angel said, but I know the angel\nloved him, and could speak sweet words to him, and tell him how his\nFather loved him. The angel did not stay long; he soon went back to God.\n\nThen Jesus came again to his disciples, and found them still asleep.\nBut Jesus waked them and told them to get up; for Judas is near.\n\nWhile Jesus was saying this, a great many people were seen walking in\nthe garden. These were the servants of the proud men in Jerusalem. They\nhad swords, and sticks, and lanterns in their hands. And Judas went\nbefore them to show them where Jesus was. But Judas came up slily to\nJesus, and gave him a kiss, pretending to love him.\n\nJesus knew what Judas was doing, and he said, Friend, why do you come\nhere? and why do you kiss me?\n\nJesus did not run away, but he went up to the wicked men, and said,\nWhom are you looking for?\n\nThey said, For Jesus.\n\nHe said, I am he.\n\nWhen he said that, God made all the wicked people fall upon their backs\nupon the ground. Then Jesus could have run away; but he chose to stay,\nthat he might die for sinners.\n\nThe wicked people soon got up; God let them get up; but Jesus said to\nthem, If you want to have me, you must let my disciples go away.\n\nIt was kind of Jesus to think of them, and they were frightened and\nglad to get away; they did not wish to stay to die with Jesus.\n\nBut Peter took a sword and cut off one of the wicked men\u2019s ears. Peter\nwished to fight; but Jesus said, Put up your sword. If I were to pray\nnow to my Father, he would send thousands of angels to help me. Then\nJesus touched the man\u2019s ear, and made it well.\n\nWhy did not Jesus pray to God to send the angels?\n\nBecause he chose to die to save us. Had the angels come, and taken\nJesus back to heaven, then we should all have gone to hell.\n\nPeter and all the rest of the disciples ran away, and left Jesus quite\nalone with the wicked men. They took ropes, and tied his hands and\nfeet, and they led him away into Jerusalem; and he went along meekly as\na lamb.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XXXVI.\n\nPETER\u2019S DENIAL.\n\nMATTHEW, xxvi. 57 to end.\n\n\nTHE wicked proud men, who hated Jesus, had sat up all night. They had\nsent their servants with some soldiers to fetch Jesus. They were in\na fine house seated on seats round the room, talking together, and\nlonging for Jesus to be brought.\n\nThey said one to another, We will have him killed when he comes\u2014we will\ntake him to the judge.\n\nAt last Jesus came in with the wicked servants. The proud men were glad\nto see him. They made him stand up in the midst of the large room. Then\nthey spoke roughly. Are you the Son of God? they said.\n\nAnd Jesus said, Yes, I am; and one day you will see me coming in the\nclouds with the angels.\n\nThen the wicked men were angry.\n\nDo you hear what he says? they cried out. He calls himself the Son of\nGod! He must be taken to the judge to be killed.\n\nJesus stood meekly all this while, and hardly spoke a word.\n\nWhat was become of his disciples? They had run away.\n\nHad Peter run away? Peter said he would die with Jesus. But he ran away\ntoo.\n\nAt last Peter thought, I will go and look for Jesus; I should like to\nsee what the wicked men are doing to him.\n\nSo Peter came to Jerusalem, and into the fine house. He came into the\nhall first: the wicked servants were sitting round a fire in the hall;\na door was open, and through the door Peter could see Jesus. There he\nwas, standing before the wicked men. Peter hoped that nobody would know\nthat he was one of Jesus\u2019 disciples, lest he should be killed. But as\nPeter was sitting by the fire, warming himself, a maid said to him, You\nare one of the disciples of Jesus.\n\nThen Peter was frightened, and said, No, I am not; I do not know the\nman you speak of.\n\nThen Peter got up, and went outside the door; but another maid said to\nhim, I am sure you are one of the disciples of Jesus.\n\nPeter said, I am not. So Peter went back again to the fire, and began\ntalking with the servants.\n\nBut some of them remembered having seen Peter in the garden, and\nthey came to Peter and said, We are certain that you are one of the\ndisciples. I saw you in the garden, said one.\n\nThen Peter began to swear, and to say that he was not.\n\nWhile Peter was speaking so wickedly he heard a cock crow. Then Peter\nremembered what Jesus had said, and he looked at Jesus, and Jesus\nturned round his face and looked at Peter. It was such a look! Jesus\ndid not speak, but his look seemed to say, Is this Peter, my friend,\nwho said he would die with me? Is this his love for me? Does he say he\ndoes not know me?\n\nPeter felt very sorry; he felt as if his heart would break, and he went\nout of the house, and began to cry very much indeed. For Peter did\nreally love Jesus; only Satan had tempted him to be so wicked as to say\nhe did not know him.\n\nIf Peter had prayed in the garden instead of going to sleep, he would\nhave behaved better. But Christ had often prayed for Peter, that Satan\nmight not get his soul at last.\n\n    When Peter sat within the hall,\n    To see what should his Lord befall,\n    He said he never knew the man,\n    And e\u2019en to curse and swear began.\n    His sorrowing Master turn\u2019d his head,\n    And by his look he sweetly said,\n    \u201cDoes Peter say he knows me not?\n    Has Peter then my love forgot?\u201d\n\n    Soon Peter wept most bitterly\n    That he had dared his Lord deny.\n    His Lord is mine: I love him too,\n    Oh! may I prove to him more true!\n    But if I sin, oh! grant that I\n    May weep like Peter, bitterly;\n    And may it pierce me like a sword,\n    To think I\u2019ve griev\u2019d my dearest Lord.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XXXVII.\n\nPONTIUS PILATE.\n\nJOHN, xviii. 22 to end. MATTHEW, xxvi. 67, 68. JOHN, xix. 1-16.\n\n\nALL night long, Jesus stood in the great room; he heard all Peter said,\nand that must have grieved him. The wicked people were like lions and\ntigers, and Jesus like a lamb. They looked at him as if they hated him.\n\nOnce when he spoke, a servant slapped his face; but he bore this meekly.\n\nThe judge was not up yet, for it was night; so the wicked people were\nforced to wait till the morning.\n\nThat night the servants came round Jesus and beat him, and pushed him,\nand laughed at him, and even spat in his face.\n\nWhen the morning came, the wicked people said, Now we will bring him to\nthe judge.\n\nSo they went out of their fine house and took Jesus with them.\n\nThe judge sat upon a high seat in the hall. His name was Pontius\nPilate. The judge did not know Jesus. The judge said, What has he done?\n\nThe wicked people said, He calls himself a king.\n\nThen Pilate said to Jesus, Are you a king? And Jesus said, Yes, I am.\nBut Pilate thought that he looked very good, and he did not want to\npunish him.\n\nThen the wicked men made a great noise, and said, You must crucify him.\n\nPilate said, No, I will beat him, and that will be enough. So Pilate\ngave Jesus to some soldiers, who took him into a house and beat him\nwith knotted ropes, (this way of beating is called scourging,) and all\nthe blood ran down his back. Then the cruel soldiers laughed at him\nbecause he said he was a king. They took off his own clothes, and put\nsome fine clothes on him such as kings wear, purple and red.\n\nThen they said, We must put a crown on his head. So they took prickly\nthorns, sharp like pins, and twisted them together, and made a crown,\nand put it on his head.\n\nThey said He must have a scepter, (for kings hold something called a\nscepter in their hands), so they put a reed in his hand for a scepter;\nthen they took it from him, and beat him on the head: and they knelt\ndown to him laughing, and said, O king! O king!\n\nPilate saw the soldiers tormenting him, and he brought Jesus into the\nstreet, where the wicked people were, and he showed Jesus to them, and\nsaid, Look at your king.\n\nPilate hoped they would be sorry to see him so ill-used; blood upon his\nforehead from the thorns, and his back scourged, and dressed in fine\nclothes to mock him: but the wicked people were cruel like tigers.\n\nSaid they, Crucify him! Crucify him! All the people cried out, Crucify\nhim! though Jesus had always been so kind to them.\n\nWill you crucify your king? said Pilate.\n\nHe shall not be our king, the people said. There was a very great noise\nin the street, from the people all speaking at once.\n\nThen Pilate thought he would please the wicked people, and he said,\nTake him and crucify him. Then the people were glad. But first the\nsoldiers took the fine clothes off Jesus, and put his own clothes on\nhim again.\n\nHow wicked it was of Pilate to let him be crucified! Pilate thought\nJesus was good, yet he let him be killed to please the people.\n\n    What! is there none to take _his_ part\n      Who silent, trembling, bleeding, stands?\n    Not one to cheer his broken heart,\n      Or snatch him from those cruel hands?\n\n    A thousand voices lifted high\n      Now fill with horrid shouts the air\u2014\n    \u201cAway with him and crucify!\u201d\n      Nor does _one_ friend for him appear.\n\n    Behold how men his love reward!\n      His tender flesh the scourge has torn,\n    His gentle hands are bound with cord,\n      His head is crown\u2019d with prickly thorn.\n\n    But why did God the Father let\n      His only son be treated thus?\u2014\n    He sent his Son to pay our debt,\n      And suffer all this pain for us.\n\n    \u2019Twas I deserved, O dearest Lord,\n      My flesh should be with scourging torn,\n    My little hands be bound with cord,\n      _My_ head be crown\u2019d with prickly thorn.\n\n    And now what can I do for him\n      Who suffer\u2019d all this pain for me?\n    Whene\u2019er I feel or hear of sin,\n      I\u2019ll think, O dearest Lord, of thee.\n\n    Nor shall my hand in anger strike,\n      When thy dear hands for me were bound;\n    Nor shall my head with passion shake,\n      When thine with prickly thorns was crown\u2019d.\n\n    And when I hear one smiling tell,\n      Of sinful things that men have done,\n    I will not smile, but sorrow feel,\n      Because sin bruis\u2019d God\u2019s only Son.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XXXVIII.\n\nDEATH OF JUDAS.\n\nMATTHEW, xxvii. 3-5.\n\n\nWHERE was Judas all this while? The wicked people had given him the\nmoney, thirty pieces of silver: but Judas could not be happy.\n\nAh! thought he, I have killed my good Master! what a wicked thing I\nhave done!\n\nJudas felt that he could not like the money: he could not bear to keep\nit, because he had done such a wicked thing to get it. So Judas went\nto look for the wicked men. They had been sitting up all night talking\nagainst Jesus: but now they were in God\u2019s house\u2014the Temple.\n\nJudas brought the thirty pieces of silver in his hands, and threw them\ndown on the floor near the wicked men. Judas said, I have done a very\nwicked thing.\n\nBut the men did not care for _that_: all they wanted was to get Jesus\nkilled.\n\nThey picked up the pieces of silver from the floor, and went and bought\na field with the money.\n\nAnd where did Judas go?\n\nHe went out to the field to kill himself. He did not go and ask Jesus\nto forgive him, but went and hanged himself. I suppose he tied a rope\naround his neck, and fastened the rope to a tree. Afterward he fell\ndown from the tree, and his body burst, and his blood was poured out on\nthe ground. O what a horrible sight it must have been! But it was more\nhorrible to think where Judas\u2019 soul was gone. It was gone to hell\u2014to\nSatan.\n\nIt was very wicked of Judas to hang himself, instead of praying to God\nto forgive him.\n\nJudas is in the wicked place now; and Jesus will judge him at the last\nday, and say, Depart, you cursed!\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XXXIX.\n\nTHE CROSS\u2014PART I.\n\nLUKE, xxiii. 26-34.\n\n\nTHE wicked people were very glad when Pilate said Jesus was to be\ncrucified. They made a cross of two great pieces of wood like boards,\nand made Jesus carry it. They took him out of Jerusalem into the\ncountry. The wicked people came with him.\n\nJesus was so weak that he could hardly walk, and the cross was so heavy\nthat he could not carry it. He would have dropped down on the way, if a\nman had not helped him to carry the cross.\n\nThere were a few people who were sorry for the Lord Jesus.\n\nSome women, who loved him very much, came crying after him. Jesus heard\nthem crying, and he turned round and spoke very kindly to them.\n\nHe said, Do not cry for me; cry for yourselves, and for your children.\nWhy did Jesus tell them to cry for themselves? Ah! Jesus knew how God\nwould one day punish the people in Jerusalem for their wickedness.\n\nAt last Jesus came to the top of a hill. Then the soldiers made Jesus\nlie upon his cross, and they put nails in his hands, and nails in his\nfeet. So they nailed him to the cross. Then the soldiers made a hole in\nthe ground, and stuck the cross in it.\n\nThey had taken off Jesus\u2019 clothes; and when he was on the cross four\nsoldiers tore the clothes in four pieces, and each took a piece: but\nwhen they looked at his coat they said, We will not tear it, because\nthere is no seam in it; then one of the soldiers took it for his own.\nSo the wicked people took everything away from Jesus.\n\nWas Jesus very angry with them?\n\nNo, he was meek as a lamb. He prayed to his Father while he was upon\nthe cross; he could not lift up his hands, but he could speak to God.\nHe prayed for these wicked people, and said, Father, forgive them; for\nthey know not what they do.\n\n    \u201cFather, forgive,\u201d the sufferer cries,\n      \u201cBecause they know not what they do.\u201d\n    To Heaven he lifts his dying eyes:\n      Was such a prayer e\u2019er heard below?\n\n    Tell me for whom the Saviour prays?\n      For those who bear him deadly hate,\n    Who spat upon his lovely face,\n      And pierced his blessed hands and feet,\n\n    And does the Saviour pray for these?\n      Ah! then I see that I should pray\n    For all who hurt me, vex, or tease,\n      By spiteful things they do or say.\n\n    Alas! I feel my heart\u2019s inclin\u2019d\n      To do to them as they to me,\n    And by my words and deeds unkind\n      To let all such my anger see.\n\n    Yet _I_ have sinn\u2019d against my God,\n      And disobey\u2019d ten thousand times:\n    Am I prepar\u2019d to feel his rod\n      Avenging my ten thousand crimes?\n\n    And thus he says he\u2019ll deal with me\n      If I\u2019m unwilling to forgive;\n    For only those _like_ Christ shall see\n      The glorious place where angels live.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XL.\n\nTHE CROSS\u2014PART II.\n\nLUKE, xxiii. 35-43.\n\n\nPONTIUS PILATE wrote these words on the top of Jesus\u2019 cross: This is\nthe King of the Jews.\n\nWho were the Jews?\n\nThe people who lived in Jerusalem were called Jews.\n\nAll the wicked people laughed when they read these words; they shook\ntheir heads, and pouted their lips at Jesus, and said, If you are the\nSon of God, come down from the cross.\n\nCould Jesus have come down?\n\nHe could do everything; but he chose to stay to die for sinners.\n\nThe wicked people said, If God loved him, he would not leave him to die\non the cross.\n\nBut his Father let him die to save us.\n\nThere was a cross on each side of Jesus, and a thief nailed upon each\ncross. One of these thieves laughed at Jesus; he said, Why do you not\nsave us, if you are the son of God?\n\nThe other thief was sorry for his sins, and he loved Jesus.\n\nThe thief who was sorry said to the other thief, We have been naughty,\nwe deserve to be crucified; but Jesus is quite good. Then he spoke to\nJesus, and said, Remember me when you come to be king.\n\nAnd Jesus said, You shall be with me in heaven to-day. So Christ heard\nthe poor thief\u2019s prayer; for Jesus died that he might save all who\nbelieved that he was the Son of God.\n\nIf you go to heaven you will see that poor thief.\n\n    Upon the hill where Jesus died\n    A thief was plac\u2019d on either side,\n      Each nail\u2019d upon a tree.\n    The one revil\u2019d Christ\u2019s name in death,\n    The other cried, with dying breath,\n      \u201cO Lord! remember me.\u201d\n\n    The Saviour heard the poor thief\u2019s prayer,\n    And promis\u2019d he would take him where\n      Our God and angels dwell.\n    Alas! his life was spent in sin:\n    What joy a heaven at last to win\n      And to escape from hell!\n\n    And oh! for him what glad surprise\n    When heavenly glories met his eyes,\n      And Christ array\u2019d in light!\n    He just had seen the dying pains,\n    That had releas\u2019d his soul from chains\n      And everlasting night.\n\n    Ah! sure of all the hosts that sing\n    The praises of their heav\u2019nly King,\n      His voice will loudest sound:\n    For when just trembling on the brink\n    And just about in hell to sink,\n      Pardon and grace he found.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XLI.\n\nTHE CROSS\u2014PART III.\n\nJOHN, xix. 25-30. MATTHEW, xxvii. 45-54.\n\n\nJESUS\u2019 mother, Mary, stood near the cross. She came to see her son die.\nShe was very sorry; she felt her heart full of pain at the sight.\n\nShe loved her dear, good son, who had been kind to her ever since he\nwas a baby, and had never done one thing wrong, and she knew he was the\nSon of God. Jesus was sorry to see his mother\u2019s grief.\n\nJohn had come to the cross, and he was standing near Mary. Jesus wished\nJohn to take care of his mother, now that he was going to leave her. So\nhe said to his mother, Behold thy son. And he said to John, Behold thy\nmother. John knew what Jesus meant, and he took Mary to be his mother,\nand made her live with him. Jesus loved his mother, and thought of her\nwhen he was dying.\n\nJesus was full of pain, and it was very hot. He said, I thirst! and the\nsoldiers took a sponge, and dipped it in vinegar, and put it on a reed\nand gave it to Jesus.\n\nJesus just tasted the vinegar, and said, It is finished! and then he\ndied. His spirit went to his Father, but his body hung upon the cross.\n\nIt was three o\u2019clock in the afternoon when Jesus died. He had been\nnailed to the cross all the day. Before Jesus died, God had made it\nvery dark, to show he was angry with the wicked people. And God made\nthe earth shake, and the people were frightened; and when Jesus was\ndead, some of them said, This must have been the Son of God.\n\n    Mary beholds one dying there,\n    Whom in her arms she once did bear,\n      And to her bosom press.\n    On her he casts his pitying eye,\n    For who should now _his_ place supply,\n      And cheer her loneliness?\n\n    The loving John shall be her son,\n    And cherish her till life is done,\n      Within his humble home:\n    And oft together they shall speak\n    Of him who, once despis\u2019d and weak,\n      At last in clouds shall come.\n\n    Oh! gentle Lord, how great the love\n    Which made thy tender pity move,\n      E\u2019en in the hour of death!\n    O let me show my parents dear\n    The same kind love and thoughtful care,\n      Until their latest breath.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XLII.\n\nTHE SOLDIERS.\n\nJOHN, xix. 32-37.\n\n\nAT last the soldiers came to see if Jesus and the two thieves were\ndead, that they might bury them before night. The soldiers looked at\none thief, and they saw that he was not dead; so they broke his legs,\nand that killed him. Then they looked at the other thief, and they saw\nhe was not dead; so they broke his legs. Then they looked at Jesus,\nand they saw he was dead, so they did not break his legs: but one of\nthe soldiers took a long stick with a sharp point at the end, called a\nspear, and put it in his side; and out of his side blood and water came\nflowing upon the ground. John was standing near, and he saw the blood\npoured out. Do you remember how Jesus, at supper the night before, had\npoured wine in a cup, and said, This is my blood, which is shed for\nsinners?\n\nNow his blood was poured out.\n\nThe spear made a hole in Jesus\u2019 side. There was a hole in his side,\nand a hole in each hand, and a hole in each foot; and his forehead was\npricked with thorns, and his eyes had shed many tears, and blood had\ncome from his skin. All this he suffered for us, that God might forgive\nus our sins.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XLIII.\n\nTHE GRAVE.\n\nJOHN, xix. 38 to end. LUKE, xxiii. 55, 56. MATTHEW, xxvii. 60.\n\n\nTHERE was one rich man who loved Jesus; his name was Joseph (not Mary\u2019s\nhusband, this was another Joseph); he had a garden, and in the garden\nhe had made a grave: perhaps he meant to be buried there himself when\nhe came to die.\n\nBut now Joseph thought, I should like to put the Lord Jesus in my\ngrave. It was a very nice grave, and no one had ever been put there yet.\n\nSo Joseph went to Pontius Pilate, and said, I want the dead body of\nJesus: may I take it down from the cross, and keep it myself?\n\nAnd Pilate said, Yes, you may have it.\n\nThen Joseph was glad. He bought some nice white clean linen. What do\nyou think that was for? To wrap Jesus in. And he bought some spices\n(sweet-smelling things that grow out of the ground), and he brought\nsome men with him, and they took the nails out of Jesus\u2019 hands and\nfeet, and, took his body down from the cross. Then Joseph wrapped a\ncloth round his head, and another cloth round his waist, and he put\nsweet spices on him; and then some men carried him along to Joseph\u2019s\ngarden.\n\nIn the garden there was a high place called a rock, and a hole in the\nrock, like a hole in a wall; and they walked into this large dark hole,\nand they laid Jesus down quite alone. Now he was at rest; he felt no\npain, no sorrow: the wicked people were not near; and there lay the\nLord in his quiet grave. The men took a very large stone and stopped up\nthe hole, so that nobody could get in. No beast, no bird, could touch\nthe Lord Jesus. There were trees and flowers near him in this sweet\ngarden, and there were angels there watching over him, though no one\ncould see them.\n\nWhere were the poor women who loved Jesus?\n\nThey had been looking at him on the cross. How they must have cried\nwhen they saw him bleed, and heard him cry out to God!\n\nThe poor women had seen the men take him down from the cross. They had\nfollowed the men into the garden; they had seen him put so carefully in\nhis grave.\n\nThey said to each other, Let us get more spices, and make sweet\nointment to put on the Lord Jesus.\n\nJoseph had put some spices, but they wanted to put more. So they went\nhome and made nice ointment.\n\n    In the cold grave the Saviour is sleeping,\n      While angels bright are watching near;\n    At home his loving friends are weeping,\n      For they have lost their Master dear.\n\n    His painful suff\u2019rings now are ended;\n      His wounded body is at rest;\n    His soul, from ev\u2019ry ill defended,\n      Reposes on his Fathers breast.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XLIV.\n\nTHE RESURRECTION.\n\nMARK, xvi. 1-6. LUKE, xxiv. 3-10. MATTHEW, xxviii. 9, 10.\n\n\nONE morning very early, when Jesus had been dead only two days, the\npoor women came into the garden. It was not quite light yet, for the\nsun was just rising.\n\nAs the women walked along with their ointment they said to each other,\nHow shall we get into the grave? The men put a large stone before it;\nthe stone is so big, we cannot roll it away. The women did not know\nwhat to do.\n\nAt last they came to the grave, but the stone was rolled away. The\nwomen were quite surprised. Then they were afraid some wicked people\nhad rolled it away, and stolen the body of Jesus. This made them very\nsad; they looked into the grave, and saw that Jesus was not there. Soon\nthey saw two beautiful angels standing by them. Their faces were bright\nlike the sun, their clothes whiter than snow.\n\nThe women trembled when they saw the angels; but the angels spoke\nsweetly and kindly to them, saying, Do not be afraid; we know that you\nare looking for Jesus. He is not here now; he is alive. Do you not\nremember how he said he would come to life again, after he had been\ncrucified?\n\nCome, said the angels, and look at the place where Jesus lay. Run\nquickly, and tell his disciples that Jesus is alive, and that they\nshall see him very soon.\n\nThe women were very glad indeed; they ran as quickly as they could to\ntell the disciples. But as they were running, whom do you think they\nsaw? Jesus himself! He did not look as he once had looked; no tears\nwere on his cheeks; they were all wiped away. He was not weak and faint\nas when he had carried his cross. He never could be sick any more; nor\ncould he ever die again.\n\nHow much pleased the women were to see him! They knelt down on the\nground, and held his feet that he might not go away, and they called\nhim their Lord and their God. Yet still they felt a little afraid; but\nJesus told them not to be afraid. Jesus said: Go, tell my brothers that\nI shall soon see them again.\n\nWhom did Jesus call his brothers?\n\nHis disciples. He had forgiven them for having run away when the wicked\nmen took him.\n\nThe poor women ran, as Jesus had told them, to the disciples, and said,\nWe have seen angels; we have seen the Lord Jesus! He is walking about,\nand you will see him soon. But the disciples would not believe the\nwomen.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XLV.\n\nMARY MAGDALENE.\n\nJOHN, xx. 1-19.\n\n\nI HAVE told you of two Marys; Mary the mother of Jesus, and another\nMary, the sister of Lazarus. But there was another still, called Mary\nMagdalene. She came very early to the grave, before the other women\ncame. She looked into the grave, but saw no angels; so she came running\nback, and told Peter and John that Jesus was not in his grave. I am\nafraid, said Mary Magdalene, that some wicked people have taken him\naway, and that we shall not be able to find him.\n\nSo Peter and John began to run as fast as they could, but John ran the\nfastest, and he came first to the grave. He stooped down and peeped in,\nand he saw the clothes lying in the grave.\n\nSoon after Peter came, and he went down into the grave, and he saw the\nclothes neatly folded, and the cloth that was round Jesus\u2019 head lying\nin a place by itself. Then John went in, too; and John thought of what\nJesus had said about being alive again.\n\nIt is all true, thought John; he is alive, and has left his grave.\n\nThen Peter and John came out of the grave, and went to their own house;\nbut they saw no angels, nor did they see Jesus.\n\nWhere was Mary Magdalene all this time?\n\nShe was standing crying outside the grave: she was quite alone; for\nPeter and John were gone home.\n\nAt last she stooped down and looked into the grave, and she saw a\nbeautiful sight\u2014two angels, one sitting where Jesus\u2019 head had been, and\none where his feet had been!\n\nThe angels said to Mary, Why do you cry? but still she went on crying,\nand said, Some people have taken away the Lord Jesus, and I cannot find\nhim!\n\nWhen she had said this, she heard a man behind her saying, Why do you\ncry?\n\nShe did not know who it was that spoke; she thought perhaps it was the\ngardener. If you have taken him, said she, tell me where you have put\nhim, and I will take him away.\n\nThe man said, Mary! She knew that voice, and turning round she looked,\nand saw that it was Jesus. How glad she was to see her Lord and Master,\nwhom she loved! But Jesus could not stay with her. He told her to go\nand tell his dear disciples that he was alive. I am soon going up to my\nFather in heaven; but I shall see my disciples first.\n\nMary Magdalene came and told the disciples. They were all crying, but\nthey would not believe what Mary said.\n\nMary was glad that she had gone to look for Jesus. She was the first of\nall the people who saw Jesus after he was alive again.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XLVI.\n\nTHE TWO FRIENDS.\n\nLUKE, xxiv. 13-48.\n\n\nIT was early in the morning that the women went to look for Jesus. In\nthe evening two good men were taking a walk together in the country.\nAs they walked they talked about Jesus. They had not seen him since he\nwas alive again: they did not know he was alive. They talked about his\ndying on the cross. It made them very sad to speak about it. At last\na man came and spoke to them; they thought he was a stranger, yet he\nseemed to be a kind man.\n\nHe said, Why do you cry? I see you are talking of something very sad.\n\nYes, said these good men, we are talking of something sad. Did you\nnever hear of Jesus? What wonderful things he did, how he cured the\nblind, and dumb, and sick; and how he taught people about God? And all\nthe people loved him; but at last he was crucified. We thought he had\nbeen the Son of God: but now we are afraid he was not, for he is dead,\nand we are afraid that we shall never see him again.\n\nThe kind stranger was sorry to see these good men cry. He began to talk\nto them, and to tell them that Jesus was the Son of God, and that he\nhad been crucified to save men, and that he would rise again, and go\nback to his Father.\n\nThis kind stranger said a great deal more. He knew all the verses in\nthe Bible, and told these men a great many things they did not know.\nThey liked to listen to the stranger, they did not feel so sad while he\nwas talking.\n\nAt last these men came to their own house: it was in the country. The\nstranger seemed as if he was going on: but the good men said to him,\nPray stay at our house; it is getting dark. Come and sup with us, and\nsleep here: pray, pray come in.\n\nThen the stranger said he would come in.\n\nThe men went into a room where there was a supper. They all three sat\ndown together around the table. The stranger took some bread and broke\nit, and began to pray to God; and then the two men found out who the\nstranger was.\n\nIt is the Lord! they cried; and so it was. They looked towards him, but\nthey could see him no more. He opened not the door, but yet he was gone.\n\nThen the men thought of all that Jesus had said. How sweetly he talked\nto us! they said; did we not feel our hearts quite warm, while he\ntalked to us? they said; did we not feel our hearts quite warm, while\nhe was speaking about the Bible, and telling us the meaning?\n\nDo you think these men went to bed that night? O no! they could not\nsleep. Let us go, said they, and tell the disciples about our seeing\nJesus. So they left the supper, and set out in the night. They walked\nquickly, and soon came to Jerusalem.\n\nThe disciples were all shut up in a room together. They had locked the\ndoors to prevent the wicked people getting in: but they let these good\nmen come in. The disciples were at supper.\n\nWe have seen Jesus! said these good men. He has walked with us, and\ntalked with us; but we did not know him till he sat down with us at\nsupper, and broke some bread, and gave thanks to his Father. The\ndisciples said, Some women have seen him, and Peter has seen him.\n\nBut while they were eating supper and talking about Jesus, they looked\nand saw Jesus standing in the middle of the room. Though the door was\nlocked, yet he had come in.\n\nHow do you think the disciples felt? They were frightened: they could\nnot believe that it was indeed Jesus himself.\n\nJesus spoke kindly to them. Why are you afraid? he said. Look at my\nhands and feet. It is I myself. Then Jesus showed his disciples the\nmarks that the nails had made in his hands and feet, and the hole that\nthe spear had made in his side.\n\nThen the disciples saw that it was their own dear Master. They were\nglad, very glad, to see him: they had been crying ever since they had\nlost him. They saw that he had forgiven them for having run away. He\nsaid nothing to them about it: he had even forgiven Peter. He knew that\nPeter loved him, and that he was very sorry.\n\nThe disciples were so much surprised to see Jesus, that they could\nhardly believe that he was alive. Jesus knew that they did not quite\nbelieve; so he said, Have you anything to eat? Then the disciples gave\nhim a piece of fish and some honey from their supper; and Jesus took\nthem and began to eat, that the disciples might see that he was really\nalive.\n\nThen afterward he talked to them, and told them why he had died, and\nthat he was going back to his Father to pray for them.\n\nThat was a pleasant night for the poor disciples. It was not like that\nsad night when Jesus was so sorrowful in the garden. His sorrows were\nover, and he never would feel pain any more.\n\n    There are but three around that table met:\n    \u2019Tis their last meal, for now the sun has set,\n    One breaks the bread. I know that lovely face,\n    That voice\u2014but lo! he\u2019s vanished from the place.\n\n    \u201cWas it an angel? No, it was the Lord.\n    He lives again\u2014he is to us restor\u2019d.\u201d\n    What joy now fills these hearts that late were fill\u2019d\n    With fears! Ah, now forever\u2014ever still\u2019d!\n\n    \u201cWell might our hearts burn in us by the way\n    While Jesus spake,\u201d the fond disciples say;\n    \u201cHow sweet was his discourse! we little thought\n    That it was he. How strange we knew him not!\n\n    \u201cBut stranger far that we did not believe\n    That he would rise again! Could _he_ deceive?\n    O no, he is the faithful and the true,\n    And what he says he evermore will do.\u201d\n\n    Were these their thoughts? And such too will be mine.\n    When I in glory see my Saviour shine.\n    For though I know he ever lives to save,\n    I sometimes doubt his word, and fear the grave.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XLVII.\n\nTHOMAS.\n\nJOHN, xx. 24 to end.\n\n\nYOU have heard how the disciples saw Jesus in the evening. One of the\ndisciples was not there when Jesus came. His name was Thomas. I do not\nknow why he was not there.\n\nWhen the disciples saw Thomas next, they said to him, We have seen\nJesus. On Sunday night we saw him. He came into the room as we were\nsitting together, and he spoke to us. We are sure it was Jesus himself,\nbecause he showed us the marks of the nails in his hands and feet, and\nthe hole in his side where the spear went in.\n\nBut Thomas would not believe the disciples. He said, I do not think you\nsaw Jesus himself. He died upon the cross. I never will believe, except\nI put my fingers into the marks of the nails, and put my hand into the\nhole in his side.\n\nIt was very wrong of Thomas to speak in this way. He should have\nremembered that Jesus had promised to be alive again.\n\nJesus heard Thomas speak, though Thomas could not see him. But Jesus\nwas always with the disciples and heard all they said, because he is\nGod.\n\nNext Sunday evening the disciples were in a room together. Thomas was\nthere too. The doors were locked to keep the wicked people out; but the\ndisciples knew that Jesus could come in. And he did come. They saw him\nstanding in the middle of the room. He spoke kindly to them, and said,\nPeace be unto you!\n\nThen he spoke to Thomas. Come, said he to Thomas, here are my hands;\nput your finger in the marks: and here is the hole in my side; put your\nhand in it.\n\nNow Thomas knew that Jesus had heard him speak so naughtily, and he\nfelt ashamed and sorry. He saw it was Jesus himself, and he cried out,\nMy Lord and my God!\n\nThen Jesus said to Thomas, Now you have seen, you believe. Blessed are\nthey who have not seen, and yet have believed.\n\nJesus quite forgave Thomas for what he had said, because Thomas really\nloved Jesus.\n\n    And can the Lord be risen?\n      The doubting Thomas said;\n    And has he broke the prison\n      Where lately he was laid?\n    Unless I feel, unless I see,\n      I never can believe \u2019tis he.\n\n    Come, feel these wounded places,\n      To Thomas Jesus said;\n    Come see the certain traces\n      Of blood that I have shed.\n    Behold, I stand before your eye,\n    Oh! do you now believe \u2019tis I?\n\n    My Lord, thou art living,\n      And cloth\u2019d in white array,\n    The Holy Spirit giving\n      To all who humbly pray:\n    And though I neither feel nor see,\n    I still believe that thou art he.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XLVIII.\n\nTHE DINNER.\n\nJOHN, xxi. 1-19.\n\n\nJESUS told his disciples to go a great way into the country, and he\nsaid, I will come and see you again. So the disciples went away from\nJerusalem, and they went into the country. They came to the place where\nthey had once lived, by the water side. They had some ships on the\nwater, and they used to catch fish when they were in the ships.\n\nOne night Peter said to the disciples, I shall go and fish; and the\ndisciples said, We will go with you. So they got into a ship, and all\nnight long they tried to catch fish, but they could not catch any.\n\nIn the morning they were tired and hungry. They looked up, and saw a\nman standing near the water side. They did not know who the man was.\n\nThe man called out to them and said, Children, have you anything to eat?\n\nThe poor disciples said, No; for they had caught no fish all night.\n\nThe man said, Let down your net on the right side of the ship, and you\nshall find some fish.\n\nThey did as the man told them, and they caught such a number of fishes\nin the net, that they could hardly lift it out of the water.\n\nNow John found out who the man was: he said to Peter, It is the Lord.\n\nPeter was very glad, and he jumped into the water, and swam first\nto Jesus. The other disciples came soon after in their little ship,\nwith their nets and their fishes. Jesus knew that they were tired and\nhungry. By the water side there was a fire, and some fish on the fire,\nand some bread. How kind it was of Jesus to give some food to his poor\nhungry disciples!\n\nJesus said to them, Bring some of the fishes that you have caught. So\nPeter went and took up the net and found it full of great fishes: one\nhundred and fifty-three.\n\nThis was a great miracle that Jesus had done. Then said Jesus to the\ndisciples, Come and dine. So they all sat down to dine together. Then\nJesus took the bread, and gave some to each; and he took the fish, and\ngave some of it to each.\n\nNow the disciples were quite sure that it was Jesus who was feeding\nthem. This was the way they used to dine together before Jesus had\ndied. Now he was alive, they dined together again: but they knew he was\nnot going to stay long with them.\n\nWhen they had all finished eating, Jesus said to Peter, Do you love me?\n\nPeter said, Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.\n\nThen Jesus said, Feed my lambs, (that is, Teach other people to love\nme. Go and tell people about my dying for them).\n\nYou, my little children, are Christ\u2019s lambs, and I feed you when I talk\nto you about Christ. I feed your souls, and the food is the love of\nJesus.\n\nPeter did love Jesus, and Jesus knew he did. Yet Jesus said again, Do\nyou love me? Peter said again, Lord, you know I love you. Then Jesus\nsaid, Feed my sheep.\n\nJesus asked Peter once more the same thing, Do you love me?\n\nPeter was afraid Jesus did not believe him, and this made him sorry. He\nsaid, Lord, you know everything. You know that I love you.\n\nJesus said again, Feed my sheep.\n\nIf Peter loved Jesus he would do what Jesus bade him, and go and teach\npeople.\n\nDo you love Jesus, my little children? What would you answer if Jesus\nsaid to you, Do you love me? Could you say to Jesus, Look into my\nheart, and you will see that I love you? If you do really love him, you\nwill hate lies and passions, and you will try to be kind and gentle,\nand to please Jesus all the day.\n\nWhy did Jesus ask Peter so often whether he loved him? Why did he ask\nhim three times over?\n\nPeter had said he did not know Jesus three times over. So Jesus wanted\nto hear him say he loved him three times over.\n\nThen Jesus told Peter what would happen to him when he was old. Jesus\nsaid to Peter, When you were young, you walked about where you liked;\nbut when you are old some men will take you, and stretch out your\nhands, and carry you where you do not like to go.\n\nJesus meant that Peter would be crucified; men would stretch out his\nhands on a cross, and nail him as they had done Jesus. Wicked people\nwould crucify Peter because he loved Jesus; but Peter would never say\nagain that he did not know Jesus.\n\nPeter was not proud now as he used to be. And Peter would pray to God\nto keep him from sin.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON XLIX.\n\nTHE ASCENSION.\n\nMATTHEW, xxviii. 16 to end. LUKE, xxiv. 46 to end. ACTS, i. 4-14.\n\n\nJESUS used to come and see his disciples after he was made alive again;\nbut he did not live always with them, as he once had done.\n\nHe told them he was soon going up to his Father. When I am gone, you\nmust tell people about me. You must tell the people who crucified me,\nthat I will forgive them if they are sorry. The Holy Spirit will come\ndown from heaven, for my Father has promised to send him down soon:\nWait at Jerusalem till he come. I will always be with you, though you\ndo not see me. Some day I shall come back again.\n\nThe disciples asked Jesus when he would come back; but Jesus would not\ntell them when.\n\nOne day Jesus and his disciples walked together to the top of a hill.\nJesus began to pray with his disciples, and he lifted up his hands and\nblessed them. While he was doing this he was taken up to heaven, and\na cloud hid him at last from the eyes of his disciples. They still\nlooked up, and saw the cloud go higher and higher till they could\nsee it no more. But still they went on looking. Then they heard some\npersons speaking to them; they looked to see who it was, and they saw\ntwo angels standing by them. The angels were dressed in white shining\nclothes. They said, Why do you look so long at the sky? Jesus will come\nsome day again. So the disciples went back to Jerusalem, to wait for\nthe Holy Spirit.\n\nPerhaps you think they were very unhappy, now Jesus was gone? No, they\nwere not. They knew he was gone to get a place in heaven ready for\nthem, and that they should live with him forever; and this made them\nglad.\n\n    Blessed Lord, I see thee praying,\n      While thy friends around thee stand,\n    Clouds I see thy form conveying\n      To thy Fathers own right hand.\n    Angels now thy friends are cheering\n      With bright hopes of thy return:\n    Looking for thy sweet appearing,\n      Why should they thine absence mourn?\n\n\n    CHILD.\n\n    Art thou, Lord, for me preparing\n      In thy Fathers house a place?\n    Thy sweet prayers I would be sharing,\n      Lest I should forsake thy ways.\n    Saviour dear, I long to see thee\n      On the clouds in glory ride,\n    From all sorrow come to free me,\n      And to place me by thy side.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON L.\n\nPETER IN PRISON.\n\nACTS, ii. xii. 1-23.\n\n\nWHAT had Jesus promised to send when he was gone back to his Father?\n\nThe Holy Spirit.\n\nAnd he did send the Holy Spirit, as he had promised. Then the disciples\nbegan to speak of Jesus to all the wicked people.\n\nThey said to them, You have crucified the Son of God. He is alive, and\nis gone up to sit on his Fathers throne; but he will forgive you, and\ngive you the Holy Spirit.\n\nSome of the wicked people were sorry for what they had done to Jesus,\nand begged God to forgive them; and some of the wicked people were not\nsorry, but tried to kill the disciples.\n\nA wicked king cut off the head of James with a sword, and then shut up\nPeter in prison, meaning to kill him soon.\n\nDid you ever see a prison?\n\nIt is a dark place with great doors, and bars, and walls all round.\n\nSome soldiers took Peter, and put chains on his hands, and chains on\nhis feet, and they locked the door of the prison. Men sat at the door,\nthat no one might get in.\n\nPeters friends were very unhappy because he was in prison; but they\ncould not take him out. Yet there was one thing they could do; they\ncould pray to God to save Peter, and so they did. Peter\u2019s friends sat\nup at night and prayed to God.\n\nThe wicked king said, To-morrow I shall have Peter killed. But God\nwould not let Peter be killed. So God told one of his beautiful angels\nto go and let Peter out of the prison. The angel could go into the\nprison without opening the doors.\n\nIt was night when the angel came. Peter was asleep. On each side of him\nthere was a soldier, and Peter was chained to them both. You would not\nlike to sleep in a prison with soldiers near you, and chains on your\nhands; but Peter knew that God loved him, and that he was safe.\n\nSo the angel came. It was dark in the prison.\n\nCould Peter see the angel?\n\nYes; for the angel was bright like the sun, and made the prison light.\n\nThe angel touched Peter on the side, and lifted him up, and the chains\nfell off Peter\u2019s hands.\n\nHe told Peter to put on his clothes; and Peter did so. Then the angel\nsaid, Follow me. So the angel walked first, and Peter followed him.\nThey went through the prison; but the men at the doors did not see\nPeter go out, for God made them sleep. Peter was quite surprised; he\nthought he was dreaming, and that he did not see a real angel.\n\nAt last Peter came to a great iron gate. It was fast locked; but the\nangel took no key to open it. It opened of itself, and let Peter and\nthe angel go through.\n\nNow they were in the street. Still the angel went on, and Peter came\nafter him; but they did not speak a word.\n\nAll the people were asleep, and did not know that a bright angel was\nwalking in the street. The angel only walked down one street, and then\nhe went back to heaven, and left Peter standing alone in the street, in\nthe dark.\n\nPeter stood some time thinking to himself, What a wonderful thing has\nhappened! I was shut up in prison; but God has sent his angel to let me\nout. The king meant to kill me to-morrow, but now I shall not be killed.\n\nI know that Peter thanked God for his kindness. Peter did not stay all\nnight in the street. He went to the house of a good woman whom he knew,\nand he knocked at the door.\n\nWere the people in the house asleep?\n\nNo, they were all awake, though it was night.\n\nWhy were they not in bed?\n\nThis good woman had heard how the king would kill Peter to-morrow; so\nshe and her friends were praying for Peter, and while they were praying\nthey heard a knock: it was a strange thing to hear a knock in the\nnight; but they never guessed who it was.\n\nA maid named Rhoda went to the door, but she was afraid to open it,\nlest it should be some of the wicked people come to kill the poor woman\nand her friends; so she stopped at the door without opening it, to hear\nwho it was: but when she heard Peter speak, how much pleased she was!\nshe knew his voice. She did not say, Are you Peter? She was sure it\nwas Peter. She was so much surprised that she forgot to open the door;\nbut ran back to her mistress and the rest of the disciples, and said,\nPeter is standing before the gate; but they said, No, it cannot be\nPeter; he is shut up in prison.\n\nThe maid said, It is Peter; I am sure it is. While they were talking,\nPeter was standing outside, and he went on knocking, because nobody\nopened the door. Soon his friends ran and opened the door, and when\nthey saw Peter they were quite surprised.\n\nHow did you get out of prison? they said.\n\nThen Peter made a sign with his hand to make them all quiet, that he\nmight tell them how he got out of prison.\n\nGod sent an angel, said Peter, who brought me out of the prison. Go and\ntell all my friends what has happened, for I must go away. So Peter\nwent and hid himself in a place where the wicked king could not find\nhim.\n\nWhat do you think the soldiers said when they could not find Peter in\nthe morning?\n\nThey were much frightened: they saw his chains, but not Peter. They\nfound the gates locked; they could not think how Peter got out of\nprison.\n\nSo the king sent for Peter. This was the day when Peter was to be\nkilled. All the wicked people in Jerusalem were expecting to see him.\nThe king\u2019s servants said, Where is Peter? Bring him out.\n\nThe soldiers answered, We cannot tell where Peter is: he is gone.\n\nThe servants went and told the king that Peter was not in prison. The\nking was very angry; he said, Bring the soldiers to me. They must have\nfallen asleep.\n\nWhen the soldiers came, they could not tell the king how Peter had got\naway. For God had made them sleep when the angel fetched Peter. The\nking was in a great rage, and said, The soldiers must be killed.\n\nWhat a wicked king this was! He loved to do wickedness. He was very\nproud, and hated God and God\u2019s people. He fell into passions, and only\ncared to please himself. At last God sent an angel to kill him, and\nworms ate up his flesh until he died.\n\nGod sends angels to punish the wicked, and to help people who love him\nas Peter did.\n\n    \u201cAwake,\u201d the angel cries; and from the hands\n    Of wondering Peter fall the iron bands;\n    The gates fly open of their own accord,\n    And Peter is to liberty restor\u2019d.\n\n    His guide he follows through the gloom of night\n    (Where angels are there needs no other light);\n    The angel\u2019s gone, and Peter, left alone,\n    Sees and admires the love his God has shown.\n\n    At yonder gate he knocks; thence prayer ascends,\n    On this sad night, from Peter\u2019s sorrowing friends:\n    With glad surprise the maiden hears his voice;\n    All round him flock and with one heart rejoice.\n\n\nCHILD.\n\n    So, when my body dies, shall angels guide\n    My happy soul to my dear Father\u2019s side:\n    To meet me at the gate shall angels throng,\n    With joy shall tune their harps and raise their song.\n\n\n\n\nLESSON LI.\n\nJOHN.\n\nREV. i. 9-19; iv. 1-5; xxii.\n\n\nALMOST all the twelve disciples were killed by wicked men at last. When\nPeter was old, some wicked men crucified him, because he loved Jesus.\nNow he is in heaven with Jesus, clothed in a white robe, and all his\ntears wiped away. His dear Lord Jesus is always near him, and this\nmakes him happy.\n\nJohn lived till he was very, very old, indeed. A wicked king caught\nhim, and put him into a country far away from his friends: there was\nwater all round, so that he could not get away.\n\nWas John unhappy there?\n\nNo; God was with him, and John loved to think of the Father, and of his\nSon Jesus.\n\nIt was Sunday, and John was thinking of God, when he heard a voice\nbehind him, like the noise of a trumpet, very loud indeed. He turned\nround to see who it was; and whom do you think he saw?\n\nThe Lord Jesus come down from heaven, all glorious and shining! When\nJohn saw him, he could not speak or stand; he was afraid, and he fell\ndown on the ground, as if he were dead. But Jesus touched him with his\nhand and said, Fear not; I am he that liveth and was dead, and behold,\nI am alive for evermore. Then Jesus took John up into heaven, and an\nangel showed him most beautiful things.\n\nJohn saw a throne on which God sat. There was a rainbow round the\nthrone. There were a great many seats, and men sitting on them, clothed\nin white, with crowns of gold on their heads. The men took off their\ncrowns, and threw them down before the throne and praised Jesus, the\nLamb of God.\n\nJohn saw a great many angels, more than he could count, standing round\nthe throne, singing praises to the Lamb.\n\nBut of all the things John saw in heaven, there was nothing so glorious\nas God himself.\n\nIn heaven there is no sun, nor moon, nor candle, nor lamp. Yet it is\nalways light, because God shines more brightly than the sun. The music\nof harps and sweet singing are always to be heard; for all the angels\ncan sing the praises of God.\n\nJohn wondered at the things he saw and heard; and he fell down at the\nfeet of the angel who had shown them to him.\n\nBut the angel said, You must not worship me; I am only a servant of\nGod: you must worship God.\n\nThen the angel went on speaking and said, Jesus will soon come down\nfrom heaven to judge the world. He will open the gates of heaven to let\nthose people in who mind God\u2019s word; but those who tell lies, and do\nwicked things, shall be shut out.\n\nAll people who love Jesus wish him to come again in the clouds.\n\nDo you wish to see Jesus, my little children?\n\nThen you may answer, Even so; come, Lord Jesus.\n\nI hope that when you die your spirit will go to Jesus, and that when\nJesus comes again, he will bring you with him.\n\nJohn wrote down in a book the things he had seen in heaven. All that\nJohn wrote is in the Bible. At last John died, and his soul went to\nGod. He is with Jesus now in heaven. He is now playing on a golden\nharp, and singing with the angels. But when Jesus comes again in the\nclouds, John will come with him.\n\n    When John was by the angel led\n      To the bright world on high,\n    He saw what joys await the dead\n      When up to heaven they fly.\n\n    He saw them round the Father\u2019s throne,\n      Gazing upon his face,\n    Singing to harps of sweetest tone\n      The praises of his grace.\n\n    He saw them clothed in robes of white,\n      Such as the angels wear,\n    Shining like stars of morning bright,\n      And like the angels fair.\n\n    He saw the city where they dwelt;\n      (Whose praises can\u2019t be told);\n    The walls of precious stones were built,\n      The streets were purest gold.\n\n    He saw the Lamb whose blood was spill\u2019d,\n      To give his people rest:\n    With his bright beams the place was filled,\n      And every heart was blest.\n\n    Charm\u2019d with the sight, John bent his knee\n      Before that angel fair,\n    Who said, \u201cThou must not worship me;\n      To God address thy prayer.\u201d\n\n\n\n\nLESSON LII.\n\nTHE JUDGMENT DAY.\n\nI. THESS. iv. 15-17. REV. xx. 11 to end.\n\n\nYOU know that Jesus will come again in the clouds?\n\nLittle children, do you know when he will come? Shall I tell you when\nJesus will come? You would like to know; but I cannot tell you when: I\ndo not know. The angels do not know what day it will be. No one knows\nbut God. There will be many wicked people in the world then, and some\ngood people. An angel will blow a great trumpet, and Jesus will say to\nthe people who are dead, Come out of your graves.\n\nThe bodies of all the dead people will come out of their graves. Those\nwho love Christ will be like the angels, and will fly up into the air.\nIf you are alive when Jesus comes, he will catch you up in the air to\nmeet him.\n\nAs soon as you see Jesus you will be like him, all shining and\nglorious. Jesus will be king over the whole world, and make all people\nhappy.\n\nAt last Jesus will sit upon a white throne, and everybody will stand\nround his throne. He will open some books, in which he has written down\nall the naughty things people have done. God has seen all the naughty\nthings you have done. He can see in the dark as well as in the light,\nand knows all your naughty thoughts. He will read everything out of his\nbooks before the angels that stand around. Yet God will forgive some\npeople, because Christ died upon the cross.\n\nWhom will he forgive?\n\nThose who love Jesus with all their hearts. He has written down their\nnames in another book, called The Book of Life. He will forgive their\nsins, wipe away their tears, and let them live with him forever.\n\nDo you hope that Jesus has written down your name in his book?\n\nAsk him to give you his Holy Spirit. Then you will love Jesus, and hate\nto do wickedly.\n\nThis is what God will do to those who do not love him\u2014God will bind\nthem in chains, and put them in a lake of fire. There they will gnash\ntheir teeth, and weep and wail forever.\n\nGod will put Satan in the same place, and all the devils. Satan is\nthe father of the wicked, and he and his children shall be tormented\nforever. They shall not have one drop of water to cool their burning\ntongues. Many people in hell will say, How I wish I had listened to the\nwords of my teachers! But I would not mind; and now it is too late. I\nnever can come out of this dreadful place. How foolish I have been!\nOnce God would have heard my prayers, but now I weep and wail in vain.\n\nI hope, my dear children, that none of you will ever speak such sad\nwords.\n\nRemember Satan goes about as a cunning serpent, trying to make you\ndisobey God; but Christ will keep you from wickedness, if you pray to\nhim.\n\nOne day God will burn up this world we live in. It is dreadful to see a\nhouse on fire. Did you ever see one? But how dreadful it will be to see\nthis great world and all the houses and trees burning! The noise will\nbe terrible: the heat will be very great. The wicked will not be able\nto get away. They will be cast into the lake of fire. The world will\nnot burn forever; God will make another world, much better than this.\n\nIf you are God\u2019s child, you will not be frightened when the world is\nburning, for you will be safe with Jesus, praising him for having loved\nand saved you.\n\n            How oft behind yon hill\n              The sun has hid his face!\n            How oft return\u2019d to fill\n              With joyful light the place!\n    And shall the sun forever thus return?\n    Shall morn succeed to eve, and eve to morn?\n\n            Oh no! the day shall come,\n              (And who can tell how soon!)\n            When dark shall be that sun,\n              And red the silver moon:\n    When sun or moon shall never more return,\n    But God on clouds shall come the world to burn.\n\n            Oh! say shall I be there,\n              To see the dreadful glare,\n            The dreadful sound to hear,\n              The dreadful heat to bear,\n    Of falling crags and rocks, of roaring seas,\n    Of smoking hills, and flaming earth and skies?\n\n            Oh! yes, I shall be there;\n              The graves shall open\u2019d be;\n            _All_ shall the trumpet hear,\n              The Judge\u2019s face shall see:\n    In vain shall some upon the mountains call,\n    To hide their heads from him who judges all.\n\n            The books shall then be read,\n              In which our God has wrote\n            All that we ever said,\n              Or ever did or thought;\n    And many cheeks with burning shame shall glow,\n    And many souls be plunged in deepest woe.\n\n            And how shall I escape\n              From endless misery?\n            My sins, a mighty heap,\n              Show I deserve to die.\n    And yet to think upon that burning lake\n    Makes my flesh tremble, and my bones to shake.\n\n            Lord! by the blood he shed\n              Who hung upon the tree,\n            Before the books are read,\n              May my sins pardon\u2019d be!\n    And then my tears shall all be wiped away,\n    And I shall dwell in everlasting day.\n\n    THE END.\n\n\n\n\nALTEMUS\u2019 NEW ILLUSTRATED\n\nYoung People\u2019s Library\n\n    A new series of choice literature for children,\n    selected from the best and most popular works.\n    Handsomely printed on fine paper from large type,\n    with numerous colored illustrations and black and\n    white engravings, by the most famous artists, making\n    the handsomest and most attractive series of juvenile\n    classics before the public.\n\nFine English cloth, handsome new original designs, 50 cents each.\n\n\n    THE ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE. 70 illustrations.\n\n    ALICE\u2019S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. 42 illustrations.\n\n    THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE.\n      50 illustrations.\n\n    BUNYAN\u2019S PILGRIM\u2019S PROGRESS. 46 illustrations.\n\n    A CHILD\u2019S STORY OF THE BIBLE. 72 illustrations.\n\n    A CHILD\u2019S LIFE OF CHRIST. 49 illustrations.\n\n    \u00c6SOP\u2019S FABLES. 62 illustrations.\n\n    SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON. 50 illustrations.\n\n    EXPLORATION AND ADVENTURE IN AFRICA. 80 illustrations.\n\n    GULLIVER\u2019S TRAVELS. 50 illustrations.\n\n    MOTHER GOOSE\u2019S RHYMES, JINGLES AND FAIRY TALES. 234\n      illustrations.\n\n    THE STORY OF THE FROZEN SEAS. 70 illustrations.\n\n    WOOD\u2019S NATURAL HISTORY. 80 illustrations.\n\n    BLACK BEAUTY. 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IRVING HANCOCK\n\nThis series of stories, based on the actual doings of grammar school\nboys, comes near to the heart of the average American boy.\n\n    1 THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL BOYS OF GRIDLEY; Or, Dick & Co.\n      Start Things Moving.\n\n    2 THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL BOYS SNOWBOUND; Or, Dick & Co. at\n      Winter Sports.\n\n    3 THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL BOYS IN THE WOODS; Or, Dick & Co.\n      Trail Fun and Knowledge.\n\n    4 THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL BOYS IN SUMMER ATHLETICS; Or, Dick\n      & Co. Make Their Fame Secure.\n\n    Cloth, Illustrated      Price, per Volume, 50c.\n\n\nHigh School Boys\u2019 Vacation Series\n\nBy H. IRVING HANCOCK\n\n\u201cGive us more Dick Prescott books!\u201d\n\nThis has been the burden of the cry from young readers of the country\nover. Almost numberless letters have been received by the publishers,\nmaking this eager demand; for Dick Prescott, Dave Darrin, Tom Reade,\nand the other members of Dick & Co. are the most popular high school\nboys in the land. Boys will alternately thrill and chuckle when reading\nthese splendid narratives.\n\n    1 THE HIGH SCHOOL BOYS\u2019 CANOE CLUB; Or, Dick & Co.\u2019s\n      Rivals on Lake Pleasant.\n\n    2 THE HIGH SCHOOL BOYS IN SUMMER CAMP; Or, The Dick\n      Prescott Six Training for the Gridley Eleven.\n\n    3 THE HIGH SCHOOL BOYS\u2019 FISHING TRIP; Or, Dick & Co. in\n      the Wilderness.\n\n    4 THE HIGH SCHOOL BOYS\u2019 TRAINING HIKE; Or, Dick & Co.\n      Making Themselves \u201cHard as Nails.\u201d\n\n    Cloth, Illustrated      Price, per Volume, 50c.\n\n\nWest Point Series\n\nBy H. IRVING HANCOCK\n\nThe principal characters in these narratives are manly, young Americans\nwhose doings will inspire all boy readers.\n\n    1 DICK PRESCOTT\u2019S FIRST YEAR AT WEST POINT; Or, Two\n      Chums in the Cadet Gray.\n\n    2 DICK PRESCOTT\u2019S SECOND YEAR AT WEST POINT; Or,\n      Finding the Glory of the Soldier\u2019s Life.\n\n    3 DICK PRESCOTT\u2019S THIRD YEAR AT WEST POINT; Or,\n      Standing Firm for Flag and Honor.\n\n    4 DICK PRESCOTT\u2019S FOURTH YEAR AT WEST POINT; Or, Ready\n      to Drop the Gray for Shoulder Straps.\n\n    Cloth, Illustrated      Price, per Volume, 50c.\n\n\nAnnapolis Series\n\nBy H. IRVING HANCOCK\n\nThe Spirit of the new Navy is delightfully and truthfully depicted in\nthese volumes.\n\n    1 DAVE DARRIN\u2019S FIRST YEAR AT ANNAPOLIS; Or, Two Plebe\n      Midshipmen at the U. S. Naval Academy.\n\n    2 DAVE DARRIN\u2019S SECOND YEAR AT ANNAPOLIS; Or, Two\n      Midshipmen as Naval Academy \u201cYoungsters.\u201d\n\n    3 DAVE DARRIN\u2019S THIRD YEAR AT ANNAPOLIS; Or, Leaders of\n      the Second Class Midshipmen.\n\n    4 DAVE DARRIN\u2019S FOURTH YEAR AT ANNAPOLIS; Or, Headed\n      for Graduation and the Big Cruise.\n\n    Cloth, Illustrated      Price, per Volume, 50c.\n\n\nThe Young Engineers Series\n\nBy H. IRVING HANCOCK\n\nThe heroes of these stories are known to readers of the High School\nBoys Series. In this new series Tom Reade and Harry Hazelton prove\nworthy of all the traditions of Dick & Co.\n\n    1 THE YOUNG ENGINEERS IN COLORADO; Or, At Railroad\n      Building in Earnest.\n\n    2 THE YOUNG ENGINEERS IN ARIZONA; Or, Laying Tracks on\n      the \u201cMan-Killer\u201d Quicksand.\n\n    3 THE YOUNG ENGINEERS IN NEVADA; Or, Seeking Fortune on\n      the Turn of a Pick.\n\n    4 THE YOUNG ENGINEERS IN MEXICO; Or, Fighting the Mine\n      Swindlers.\n\n    Cloth, Illustrated      Price, per Volume, 50c.\n\n\nBoys of the Army Series\n\nBy H. IRVING HANCOCK\n\nThese books breathe the life and spirit of the United States Army of\nto-day, and the life, just as it is, is described by a master pen.\n\n    1 UNCLE SAM\u2019S BOYS IN THE RANKS; Or, Two Recruits in\n      the United States Army.\n\n    2 UNCLE SAM\u2019S BOYS ON FIELD DUTY; Or, Winning\n      Corporal\u2019s Chevrons.\n\n    3 UNCLE SAM\u2019S BOYS AS SERGEANTS; Or, Handling Their\n      First Real Commands.\n\n    4 UNCLE SAM\u2019S BOYS IN THE PHILIPPINES; Or, Following\n      the Flag Against the Moros.\n\n(_Other volumes to follow rapidly._)\n\n    Cloth, Illustrated      Price, per Volume, 50c.\n\n\nBattleship Boys Series\n\nBy FRANK GEE PATCHIN\n\nThese stories throb with the life of young Americans on to-day\u2019s huge\ndrab Dreadnaughts.\n\n    1 THE BATTLESHIP BOYS AT SEA; Or, Two Apprentices in\n      Uncle Sam\u2019s Navy.\n\n    2 THE BATTLESHIP BOYS FIRST STEP UPWARD; Or, Winning\n      Their Grades as Petty Officers.\n\n    3 THE BATTLESHIP BOYS IN FOREIGN SERVICE; Or, Earning\n      New Ratings in European Seas.\n\n    4 THE BATTLESHIP BOYS IN THE TROPICS; Or, Upholding the\n      American Flag in a Honduras Revolution.\n\n(_Other volumes to follow rapidly._)\n\n    Cloth, Illustrated      Price, per Volume, 50c.\n\n\nThe Meadow-Brook Girls Series\n\nBy JANET ALDRIDGE\n\nReal live stories pulsing with the vibrant atmosphere of outdoor life.\n\n    1 THE MEADOW-BROOK GIRLS UNDER CANVAS.\n    2 THE MEADOW-BROOK GIRLS ACROSS COUNTRY.\n    3 THE MEADOW-BROOK GIRLS AFLOAT.\n    4 THE MEADOW-BROOK GIRLS IN THE HILLS.\n    5 THE MEADOW-BROOK GIRLS BY THE SEA.\n    6 THE MEADOW-BROOK GIRLS ON THE TENNIS COURTS.\n\n    Cloth, Illustrated      Price, per Volume, 50c.\n\n\nThe Circus Boys Series\n\nBy EDGAR B. P. DARLINGTON\n\nMr, Darlington\u2019s books breathe forth every phase of an intensely\ninteresting and exciting life.\n\n    1 THE CIRCUS BOYS ON THE FLYING RINGS; Or, Making the\n      Start in the Sawdust Life.\n\n    2 THE CIRCUS BOYS ACROSS THE CONTINENT; Or, Winning New\n      Laurels on the Tanbark.\n\n    3 THE CIRCUS BOYS IN DIXIE LAND; Or, Winning the\n      Plaudits of the Sunny South.\n\n    4 THE CIRCUS BOYS ON THE MISSISSIPPI; Or, Afloat with\n      the Big Show on the Big River.\n\n    Cloth, Illustrated      Price, per Volume, 50c.\n\n\nThe High School Girls Series\n\nBy JESSIE GRAHAM FLOWER, A. M.\n\nThese breezy stories of the American High School Girl take the reader\nfairly by storm.\n\n    1 GRACE HARLOWE\u2019S PLEBE YEAR AT HIGH SCHOOL; Or, The\n      Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshman Girls,\n\n    2 GRACE HARLOWE\u2019S SOPHOMORE YEAR AT HIGH SCHOOL; Or,\n      The Record of the Girl Chums in Work and Athletics.\n\n    3 GRACE HARLOWE\u2019S JUNIOR YEAR AT HIGH SCHOOL; Or, Fast\n      Friends in the Sororities.\n\n    4 GRACE HARLOWE\u2019S SENIOR YEAR AT HIGH SCHOOL; Or, The\n      Parting of the Ways.\n\n    Cloth, Illustrated      Price, per Volume, 50c.\n\n\nThe Automobile Girls Series\n\nBy LAURA DENT CRANE\n\nNo girl\u2019s library\u2014no family book-case can be considered at all complete\nunless it contains these sparkling twentieth-century books.\n\n    1 THE AUTOMOBILE GIRLS AT NEWPORT; Or, Watching\n    the Summer Parade.\u20142 THE AUTOMOBILE GIRLS IN THE\n    BERKSHIRES; Or, The Ghost of Lost Man\u2019s Trail.\u20143 THE\n    AUTOMOBILE GIRLS ALONG THE HUDSON; Or, Fighting Fire\n    in Sleepy Hollow.\u20144 THE AUTOMOBILE GIRLS AT CHICAGO;\n    Or, Winning Out Against Heavy Odds.\u20145 THE AUTOMOBILE\n    GIRLS AT PALM BEACH; Or, Proving Their Mettle Under\n    Southern Skies\u20146 THE AUTOMOBILE GIRLS AT WASHINGTON;\n    Or, Checkmating the Plots of Foreign Spies.\n\n    Cloth, Illustrated      Price, per Volume, 50c.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTranscriber\u2019s Notes:\n\nObvious punctuation errors repaired.\n\nPage 15, \u201ccanot\u201d changed to \u201ccannot\u201d (cannot think of God)\n\nPage 49, \u201cdressinig\u201d changed to \u201cdressing\u201d (babe a-dressing)\n\nPage 64, repeated word \u201cbeen\u201d removed from text (has been very naughty)\n\nPage 69, \u201carisinig\u201d changed to \u201carising\u201d (the maid arising)\n\nPage 88, \u201cwil\u201d changed to \u201cwill\u201d (I will show you where)\n\nPage 119, \u201cthe\u201d changed to \u201cthey\u201d (they saw the angels)\n\nPage 124, \u201ccrucifid\u201d changed to \u201ccrucified\u201d (crucified to save men)\n\nPage 145, repeated word \u201cto\u201d removed from text (Singing to harps of)\n\nPage 148, \u201cprasing\u201d changed to \u201cpraising\u201d (praising him for having)","title":"The Peep of Day","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":32876}