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Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

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Captivating Bible Stories

Captivating Bible Stories

FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WRITTEN IN SIMPLE LANGUAGE BEGINNING AT THE CREATION OF THE WORLD IT TAKES THE READER THROUGH THE BIBLE IN FIFTY-TWO LESSONS, EACH LESSON COMPRISING THREE READINGS FOR EACH SABBATH OF THE YEAR, WHILE A SERIES OF QUESTIONS WITH EACH READING HELP TO IMPRESS UPON THE YOUNG MIND THE TRUTHS OF THE HOLY BIBLE. DESIGNED TO PROMOTE GREATER INTEREST IN THE SACRED SCRIPTURES AND A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THEIR TEACHINGS INCLUDING ALL THE IMPORTANT HISTORICAL EVENTS DESCRIBED IN THE OLD AN

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First Sunday.

First Sunday.

CREATION OF THE WORLD. FIRST READING. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."— Gen. 1:1. IN the Bible we are told God made the earth we live on. Sunday is the earth's birthday, for on the first day of the week the Creation began. The world was one mass—dark, empty, and shapeless—till God made the light by His Word, and saw the light was good. Without light we could not live: even the very trees and flowers would die. When we have been in the dark how glad we are to see light co

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Second Sunday.

Second Sunday.

HOW SIN BEGAN AND THE FLOOD CAME. FIRST READING. "The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat."— Gen. 3:13. LAST Sunday you heard how God made the world, and put a man and woman to live in it. The man was named Adam; the woman was named Eve. God gave them a beautiful garden to live in, full of trees and flowers; and they had no pain, no trouble, nothing to vex them. Only one thing God told them: there was one tree whose fruit they must not eat. They might eat the fruit of all the other trees, but not

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Third Sunday.

Third Sunday.

THE RAINBOW. FIRST READING. "I do set my Bow in the Cloud."— Genesis 9:13. THE sin that came into the world when Eve listened to the tempter had grown as men multiplied and made each other worse. The wicked people had been drowned in the Flood, and Noah, his sons and their wives, had alone been saved in the Ark. After a whole year of being shut up there, watching the earth, first drowned and then coming out of the water, they had just come out on the fresh green earth, with all the animals saved

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Fourth Sunday.

Fourth Sunday.

ABRAHAM AND LOT. FIRST READING. "Escape for thy life; look not behind thee."— Genesis 19:17. THERE was a beautiful valley, with steep hills shutting it in on all sides, and a clear swift river running through the midst and spreading into a lake. There were fine fields and rich grass, where sheep, cows, and goats could feed, and the shepherds shelter themselves under the palm trees; and on the bank of the river were five cities, with strong walls round them, and full of rich people, who bought an

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Fifth Sunday.

Fifth Sunday.

JACOB'S JOURNEY AND DREAM. FIRST READING. "Bless me, even me also, O my father."— Genesis 27:34. GOD had called Abraham from his home, and promised to give his children the land of Canaan, and that in his Seed all the nations of the earth should be blessed. This was renewing to Abraham the great promise of the Seed of the woman that had been made to Eve; and Abraham believed, and was glad. But though his children were to have the land, none of it was his; and he went up and down in it a stranger

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Sixth Sunday.

Sixth Sunday.

JOSEPH IN EGYPT. FIRST READING. "His brethren envied him."— Genesis 37:11. I TOLD you how Jacob went away from home, and how God promised to take care of him. He did take care of him: He led him to his uncle, and with him Jacob lived many years, and then came back with flocks of sheep and goats, camels and cows. And he had twelve sons. The best one of them was named Joseph. Jacob loved him very much, and gave him a striped dress of many colors, such as the son who is to be the heir wears in thos

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Seventh Sunday.

Seventh Sunday.

JOSEPH'S BROTHERS. FIRST READING. "We are verily guilty concerning our brother."— Genesis 42:21. JOSEPH did not always stay in prison, for God gave him wisdom to tell the king of Egypt that his dreams had meant that there were going to be first seven years of very fine harvests, and then seven years would come of no harvests at all. So the king took him out of prison, and made him a great lord; and he set to work to buy the corn that was over and above what people wanted to eat in the years of p

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Eighth Sunday.

Eighth Sunday.

THE CALL OF MOSES. FIRST READING. "I have surely seen the affliction of My people."— Exodus 3:7. YOU heard how Joseph brought his father and brothers and their children to live in Egypt. Their children's children went on living there for many years, till they had come to be a great people, and were called the children of Israel; but then the King of Egypt grew cruel to them. He made them work very hard to make bricks and build towns for him; and what was still worse, he ordered that whenever a l

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Ninth Sunday.

Ninth Sunday.

THE PLAGUES OF EGYPT. FIRST READING. "There is none like Me in all the earth."— Exodus 9:14. YOU remember that when God spoke to Moses out of the burning bush, it was to tell him that he should lead the children of Israel away from the people in Egypt, who were so unkind to them. But Pharaoh, the King of Egypt, said that they should not go; he could not spare them, and he did not care for God's message to him. Then God punished Pharaoh that he might let them go. Ten times God punished him, and y

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Tenth Sunday.

Tenth Sunday.

THE PASSOVER. FIRST READING. "There was not a house in which there was not one dead."— Exodus 12:30. THIS is our own gladdest Sunday in all the year, and we read of the Israelites being glad too—glad upon the very Sunday that answered to this, thousands of years ago. On this Sunday, of all those thousands of years, there has been joy and gladness and thanking God. And why? It was because all the troubles in Egypt were over, and God brought the Israelites out safe. There was one thing they had to

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Eleventh Sunday.

Eleventh Sunday.

THE GAINSAYING OF KORAH. FIRST READING. "The Lord will show who are His and who is holy."— Numbers 16:5. WHEN the Israelites came out of Egypt they had a long journey to go, through a dreary, lonely wilderness. Moses and his brother Aaron led them; and God took care of them, and fed them, and kept them safe. But there were some wicked men, named Dathan and Abiram, who were tired of the wilderness, and were angry at having Moses for their leader and master, though God had made him lead them, and

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Twelfth Sunday.

Twelfth Sunday.

ISRAEL IN THE WILDERNESS. FIRST READING. "Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God."— Deut. 6:16. I TOLD you what sort of place a desert is, and how full it is of stones, and rocks, and sand, and with no water in it. Do you remember how thirsty Ishmael was in the desert, and how God heard the voice of the lad, and sent an angel to lead his mother to a well of water? When the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, they were in a terrible wilderness. Mount Sinai stood up in the midst, and all r

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Thirteenth Sunday.

Thirteenth Sunday.

BALAAM AND BALAK. FIRST READING. "Thou shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed."— Numbers 22:12. THERE was a prophet called Balaam. A prophet means a man to whom God made His will known, and who was thus much wiser than other men. This prophet one day saw some rich great men come to his house. They brought him a message, that a king named Balak wanted him to come with them, and would give him great rewards for coming. Balaam said he must wait for one night, and God would make known to h

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Fourteenth Sunday.

Fourteenth Sunday.

THE GIVING OF THE LAW. FIRST READING. "Thou heardest His words out of the midst of the fire."— Deut. 4:36. WHEN the children of Israel had come out of Egypt, God had told Moses to lead them to the foot of Mount Sinai. This was a high steep rocky mountain in the wilderness. And God told Moses to set bounds round the mountain, so that nobody should come and touch it; and the people were to pray, and wait round it for the holy and awful thing that was to happen. Then there came on the hill-top a de

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Fifteenth Sunday.

Fifteenth Sunday.

THE GIVING OF THE LAW. FIRST READING. "I prayed therefore unto the Lord, and said, O Lord God, destroy not Thy people and Thine inheritance."— Deut. 9:26. LAST Sunday you heard how sadly the people of Israel sinned by making the golden calf, while Moses was up in the mountain, and how he punished them. Then he said he would go and pray to God to forgive them, and try them again. So up he went over the rough rocks of Mount Sinai, and into the cloud again, where he had spoken with God before. And

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Sixteenth Sunday.

Sixteenth Sunday.

THE DEATH OF MOSES. FIRST READING. "They angered Him also at the waters of strife."— Psalm 106:32. AFTER all the forty years in the wilderness, the children of Israel were quite close to their home in the promised land. There was only the river Jordan between them and the hills and valleys there. But Moses was not to go with them. Once when the people were crying out for more water, and God told him to command the stream to come out of the rock, Moses was so hot with anger that he did not attend

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Seventeenth Sunday.

Seventeenth Sunday.

ISRAEL IN BATTLE. FIRST READING. "Ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the Lord your God giveth you."— Deut. 12:10. AFTER the children of Israel had been forty years living in the wilderness, God led them into the beautiful land He had promised them. But before they could come in they had to get across a river—a deep river, with rocks on each side, and a stony bottom to it, and the water running very fast indeed. The name of the river was Jordan. There was no bridges to go over, and no

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Eighteenth Sunday.

Eighteenth Sunday.

THE JUDGES OF ISRAEL. FIRST READING. "The journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honor."— Judges 4:9. WHEN the Israelites had come to live in the beautiful land that God had promised them, they ought to have loved and served Him, and thanked Him for all His goodness. But no! They liked worshipping false gods; and they made idols to pray to, cut out of wood and stone; and they learnt wicked ways. Then God was angry with them; and He punished them by sending cruel nations to conquer them,

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Nineteenth Sunday.

Nineteenth Sunday.

SAMUEL. FIRST READING. "Samuel ministered before the Lord, being a child."— 1 Sam. 2:18. YOUNG SAMUEL BROUGHT TO ELI. T HERE was a very good woman named Hannah, and she grieved because she had no children. Whenever she came with her husband to God's holy place, she used to kneel, and pray with all her heart to God that He would let her have a son; and she promised that if she had one, she would lend him to the Lord all the days of his life. At last God granted her prayer, and gave her a little s

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Twentieth Sunday.

Twentieth Sunday.

KING SAUL. FIRST READING. "Behold, the Lord hath set a king over you."— 1 Samuel 12:13. THERE was a young man named Saul, who was very tall and strong. His father kept a number of asses; for, in the land of Israel, people rode on asses instead of horses. One day all the asses were lost, and Saul and one of the servants went out to look for them. They went a long, long way, and never found the asses; and at night they came to a city, and there they found Samuel. Samuel was an old man now, and gre

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Twenty-first Sunday.

Twenty-first Sunday.

THE REIGN OF SAUL. FIRST READING. "Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, He hath also rejected thee from being king.— 1 Samuel 15:23. L AST Sunday you heard how God chose Saul to be king of Israel, and promised to help him if he would obey in all that God commanded him. Now, there were some cruel robbers that lived in the mountains, and used to fall upon peaceful people and kill them; and take their cows and sheep and camels and asses, and gold and silver, and all they had. So God sen

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Twenty-second Sunday.

Twenty-second Sunday.

KING DAVID REIGNING. FIRST READING. "How are the mighty fallen!"— 2 Samuel 1:19. THE last thing that has to be told about Saul is very sad. You know he would not do as God bade him, but chose to go his own way. Then God forsook him, and left him to grow worse and worse. Then his enemies, the Philistines, came up against him, and his army came together on the hills to meet them. But God was not with Saul, so his men could not fight, and he was beaten back step by step up into his own hills, close

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Twenty-third Sunday.

Twenty-third Sunday.

PREPARING FOR THE TEMPLE. FIRST READING. "Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price."— 2 Samuel 24:24. WHEN David was king his people did wrong again; and there came a plague upon them, so that a great number of them died all through the land of Israel. David and his priests, and all the good men, fasted and prayed, and entreated that God would turn His anger away. And while they were praying, David saw the Destroying Angel standing with his drawn sword over Jerusalem; but the plague had

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Twenty-fourth Sunday.

Twenty-fourth Sunday.

SOLOMON IN ALL HIS GLORY. FIRST READING. "Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty."— 1 Chron. 29:11. Solomon. T HE last thing King David did was to have his son, young Solomon, anointed to reign, and then to show him to the people, and charge them to help him build the Temple for the Lord God. For he said Solomon was still very young, and the work was very great; so he begged the people of the tribes to bring their offerings; and so they di

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Twenty-fifth Sunday.

Twenty-fifth Sunday.

SOLOMON'S FALL. FIRST READING. "All the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart."— 1 Kings 10:24. KING Solomon was the greatest king in wisdom and riches who ever lived. He had an ivory throne with golden lions standing on the steps, and a beautiful house lined with sweet cedar-wood. He sent ships which brought home gold and silver, and apes and peacocks; and it was said that gold was as common as silver generally is, and silver as common as stones! All people

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Twenty-sixth Sunday.

Twenty-sixth Sunday.

THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL. FIRST READING. "This thing became a sin."— 1 Kings 12:30. SOLOMON'S son was named Rehoboam. He was foolish and hasty; and when his father's wise old men gave him good advice he would not listen to them, but only cared for his young friends, who were as foolish as himself. So when the Israelites came to him to ask him not to be hard upon them, and make them bring him so much corn and so many sheep, the old men told him to answer them kindly and gently, but the young men sai

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Twenty-seventh Sunday.

Twenty-seventh Sunday.

ELIJAH AND AHAB. FIRST READING. "The Lord, He is the God; the Lord, He is the God."— 1 Kings 18:39. YOU heard last Sunday how sadly the Israelites were behaving when they prayed to a golden calf. They had a still worse idol afterwards. His name was Baal; and they wanted to worship him instead of the true God. To-day there is a beautiful chapter that I hardly like to put into my own poor words. Listen to it well in church, and you will hear how wonderful it is. There were four hundred prophets, a

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Twenty-eighth Sunday.

Twenty-eighth Sunday.

ELIJAH AND ELISHA. FIRST READING. "A certain man drew a bow at a venture."— 1 Kings 22:34. W HEN Ahab had let Naboth be stoned that he might get his vineyard, the Prophet Elijah said that Ahab would be greatly punished, and that where the dogs licked up Naboth's blood there they would lick up Ahab's; and that cruel Jezebel should be eaten up by dogs, so that no one could say, This is Jezebel. Some time after, Ahab went out to fight a battle. He was afraid, because his conscience troubled him, an

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Twenty-ninth Sunday.

Twenty-ninth Sunday.

ELISHA'S MIRACLES. FIRST READING. "Wash and be clean."— 2 Kings 5:13. THERE was a poor little girl who was stolen away from her own home in Israel by Syrian soldiers, and carried far from her mother and friends, to be a slave. It must have been very sad and lonely; but God lets nothing happen but for good, and so this poor little captive maid did great good. Her master was named Naaman. He was the captain of the army—brave and strong; but he fell ill of a disease that no doctor could cure, and w

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Thirtieth Sunday.

Thirtieth Sunday.

THE RUIN OF AHAB'S HOUSE. FIRST READING. "What hast thou to do with peace."— 2 Kings 9:18. THE Sunday before last you heard how King Ahab was killed in battle, though he had fancied that he could hide from God. His wife, Queen Jezebel, was left; and she had always been worse than he was, and she had brought up her son Joram to be very wicked too. When Joram had reigned as king for twelve years, God told His Prophet Elijah to send a young man to anoint a captain called Jehu to be king instead of

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Thirty-first Sunday.

Thirty-first Sunday.

HEZEKIAH AND JOSIAH. FIRST READING. "He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord."— 2 Kings 18:3. YOU have heard of many bad kings. There is a good king to tell you of at last—good King Hezekiah. He cared for nothing so much as to please God. He would not have any idols, but he cleared them all away, and had the holy Temple all set to rights, and made beautiful as God had commanded; and he had all the services at the Temple at the right times, and used to go and pray there himself const

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Thirty-second Sunday.

Thirty-second Sunday.

JEHOIAKIM'S CRUELTY. FIRST READING. "I speak unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear."— Jer. 22:21. JOSIAH was the last good king. In his time God called Jeremiah, when he was only a young boy about twelve years old, to be His prophet; and all the time Josiah reigned Jeremiah was teaching the people God's will, while Josiah was doing all he could to help them to do right and serve the Lord. But the Jews did not heed either the king or the prophet—they only longed after thei

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Thirty-third Sunday.

Thirty-third Sunday.

JEREMIAH'S PROPHECIES. FIRST READING. "He reserveth to us the appointed weeks of the harvest."— Jer. 5:24. THE chapter to-day is one where God is putting us in mind, by His Prophet Jeremiah, whom he sent to speak to the wicked kings, that we ought to remember Him and be thankful to Him. Two of His great mercies are spoken of here. If you go and stand on the sea-shore, you see the great wide sea of waters heaving and moving all over. Then a long wave comes rising up; it runs on and on, and rises

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Thirty-fourth Sunday.

Thirty-fourth Sunday.

THE TAKING OF JERUSALEM. FIRST READING. "Behold, I am against you, saith the Lord God."— Ezekiel 13:8. W HEN King Jehoiakim was dead, and his son Jehoiachin carried away to Babylon, another king began to reign, named Zedekiah. He was Jehoiachin's uncle; he was Jehoiakim's brother; and he was son to good Josiah. The king of Babylon said that Zedekiah should reign as long as he would be obedient to him, and pay some money every year, so as to show that he owned the king of Babylon for his master.

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Thirty-fifth Sunday.

Thirty-fifth Sunday.

THE FALL OF JERUSALEM. FIRST READING. "Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions."— Ezekiel 18:30. VERY sad things were going on among the Jews. A great many of them were carried away out of their beautiful hilly land of Canaan, to live among the flat wet marshes round Babylon, and only a few were left with their king Zedekiah at Jerusalem. Jeremiah was speaking God's words to the people of Jerusalem; Ezekiel was speaking God's words to the people who were captives by the river si

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Thirty-sixth Sunday.

Thirty-sixth Sunday.

THE JEWS AT BABYLON. FIRST READING. "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion."— Psalm 137:1. W HEN the Jews came to Babylon, some were made to live in the city, where they worked at trades, and kept shops. Others lived in the country and worked in the fields. These were not like the fields at home. The goodly land at home was full of hills and valleys, with sloping pastures for the flocks, and vineyards on the sides of the hills; but the land round Baby

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Thirty-seventh Sunday.

Thirty-seventh Sunday.

DANIEL AT BABYLON. FIRST READING. "Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace."— Daniel 3:17. YOU remember that the Jews had been so wicked, that God had let them be conquered by their enemies, and taken quite away from home to the great city of Babylon. The king of Babylon worshipped idols; and he set up a great golden idol, much higher than this room, and commanded that as soon as his music played, everyone should fall down and worship the image; or if anyone wo

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Thirty-eighth Sunday.

Thirty-eighth Sunday.

THE RETURN FROM BABYLON. FIRST READING. "The Lord is in His holy Temple: let all the earth keep silence before Him."— Hab. 2:20. T HE Jews had gone back to their old city of Jerusalem, but they found it looking very sad and ruinous. The walls were broken down, and the pleasant houses were heaps of ruins, and grass and brambles had come up in the courts, and there were heaps of stone blackened with the fire and smoke that had burnt down the city. The first thing they did was to clear the place wh

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Thirty-ninth Sunday.

Thirty-ninth Sunday.

TROUBLES OF THE JEWS. FIRST READING. "Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird."— Prov. 1:17. T HERE was a gentle Jewish girl, named Esther, who had been left an orphan very young, and was brought up by her kind relation, Mordecai, who was one of the Jews who had not gone back to Jerusalem, but still lived in Persia. One day there came a messenger from the king, to carry away poor Esther from home. The king wanted all the maidens in his land to be brought together, that he might

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Fortieth Sunday.

Fortieth Sunday.

THE COMING OF THE LORD. FIRST READING. "The fulness of the time was come."— Gal. 4:14. SHEPHERD T HERE was a long time after the Jews came home during which we do not know much about them. Only they had quite left off worshipping idols, and stood out bravely when a bad king wanted to make them do so. But they were not good in other ways. They quarrelled among themselves a great deal. One set, who were called Pharisees, were very proud and hard-hearted; and another set, who were called the Sadduc

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Forty-first Sunday.

Forty-first Sunday.

THE CHILDHOOD OF OUR LORD. FIRST READING. "We have seen His star in the east and are come to worship Him."— Matt. 2:2. THE shepherds were not the only people who came to see the blessed Lord Jesus when He was a little Infant. Far away in the East, God showed a bright, beautiful star to some wise men, and taught their hearts that it was the sign that the great King was born. They set out on their journey to Judea, to see and honor Him; and when they came, they asked, "Where is He that is born Kin

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Forty-second Sunday.

Forty-second Sunday.

THE PREPARATION FOR THE MINISTRY. FIRST READING. "Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."— Matt. 3:2. THE blessed Lord Jesus lived at Nazareth, and worked there as a carpenter until He was thirty years old, so that He has felt how we live here, and knows what our feelings and ways are by trying them. When it was nearly time for Him to begin to set up His kingdom, a holy man was sent to make ready for Him. This man's name was John, and he lived out in the rocky and bushy country on the

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Forty-third Sunday.

Forty-third Sunday.

THE CALLING OF THE DISCIPLES. FIRST READING. "Behold the Lamb of God."— John 1:36. NOW that John the Baptist knew that Jesus was, indeed, the Son of God, whom he had been sent to proclaim, he began to point Him out, saying, "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." There were two poor fishermen, who had come out to listen to John, who heard, and who went to Jesus and asked, "Master, where dwellest Thou?" He said, "Come and see." Their names were Andrew and another John. T

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Forty-fourth Sunday.

Forty-fourth Sunday.

THE MINISTRY. FIRST READING. "He went about doing good."— Acts 10:38 . SIMON PETER had a house at Capernaum, which is one of the towns that stand upon the shore of the Lake of Galilee. There our Lord cured the mother of Peter's wife of a bad fever by His mighty power in one moment, and there He generally lived when He was in those parts; but He never stayed long there, for He went about doing good. In every town or village that he came to, He used to go and teach in the synagogue. A synagogue wa

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Forty-fifth Sunday.

Forty-fifth Sunday.

WONDERS OF OUR LORD'S WORKING. FIRST READING. "Young man, I say unto thee arise."— Luke 7:14. NO one can think how good and kind our blessed Lord Jesus was. Once, when He was going with His disciples into a village called Nain, He met a funeral coming out. People are not carried to the grave in their coffins in the East; but they are laid on a sort of bed called a bier, with all their best clothes on, and a wreath of flowers round the head. The person who was now to be buried was quite a young m

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Forty-sixth Sunday.

Forty-sixth Sunday.

GOING UP TO JERUSALEM. FIRST READING. "Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou son of David."— Matt. 20:30. FOR three years our blessed Lord went about doing good and teaching, generally in Galilee, in the towns or on the hills, where the people came out to hear Him; and at the feasts, when people ought to worship at Jerusalem, He used to go up and speak to them in the outer court of the Temple. But there was a wicked high priest named Caiaphas, who had been set up by the Romans, and he and the Pharisees

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Forty-seventh Sunday.

Forty-seventh Sunday.

THE EVENING OF THE BETRAYAL. FIRST READING. " Jesus knew that his hour was come."— John 13:1. THE chief priests grew more fierce and bitter when they saw how all men listened to the Lord Jesus. They could do nothing to Him by day, because the people would have risen up to defend Him; so they tried how to find Him alone and at night, to take Him secretly. Now, one of the twelve apostles, named Judas Iscariot, was too fond of money, and used to take for himself what was trusted to him to take care

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Forty-eighth Sunday.

Forty-eighth Sunday.

THE TRIAL AND CONDEMNATION. FIRST READING. "Betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss?"— Luke 22:48. JUST as our Lord had wakened His three apostles for the last time, there came a tread of soldiers, and lanterns gleamed through the olive trees. For Judas Iscariot, the traitor, knew that his Master was apt to go to the olive garden to pray at night, and he was leading them, and he said to them, "Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is He: hold Him fast." And he came up first to Jesus , and said, "

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Forty-ninth Sunday.

Forty-ninth Sunday.

THE CRUCIFIXION. FIRST READING. "They pierced my hands and my feet."— Ps. 22:16. WHEN the judgment was over, Pilate gave up our Lord to the four soldiers who were to crucify Him. His cross, a heavy beam of wood, with another fastened across it, was laid on His shoulders, that He might carry it to the place where He was to suffer—a place named Calvary, outside the walls of Jerusalem. He was so weak and worn out after the long sad night, the being taken from one judge to another, and the beating a

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Fiftieth Sunday.

Fiftieth Sunday.

THE RESURRECTION. FIRST READING. "Now is Christ risen from the dead."— 1 Cor. 16:20. As it began to dawn. T HE holy women waited all the Sabbath day in sorrow; and our Lord Jesus lay in His grave. But, on the night after, He rose up from His grave, and came forth again, for He is alive for evermore. There was a great earthquake, and an angel came from heaven, and rolled away the stone from the door of the cave, and sat upon it; and for fear of him the keepers did shake, and were as dead men. Ver

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Fifty-first Sunday.

Fifty-first Sunday.

THE ASCENSION. FIRST READING. "Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed."— John 20:29. then said Jesus unto them be not afraid O UR blessed Lord Jesus did not stay with His apostles as He did before His death and rising. They did not see Him after that first day for a whole week; and they could not make Thomas, who had not been there when He came, believe that it was true that any man could come again from the grave. He said He should never believe that it was the Lord Himself,

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Fifty-second Sunday.

Fifty-second Sunday.

THE WAITING-TIME. FIRST READING. "I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever."— John 14:16. O UR Lord had told the apostles that though He was going to heaven, He would send them another Comforter, who would be with them for ever, and in whom He Himself should be present with them—even God the Holy Ghost, who is One with God the Father and God the Son. Ten days after He had ascended up to heaven, on the great day of the feast of weeks (or,

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Healing the Sick.

Healing the Sick.

THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT St. Matthew 5:5-7. St. Luke 6:20-49....

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The Woman with an Infirmity.

The Woman with an Infirmity.

FINDING OF THE LOST SHEEP. St. Matthew 18.12-14; St. Luke 15.3-7...

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The Man Born Blind.

The Man Born Blind.

RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON. St. Luke 15.15-32...

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The Widow's Mites.

The Widow's Mites.

THE WISE AND FOOLISH VIRGINS. St. Matthew 25:1-13...

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Pilate's Wife's Dream.

Pilate's Wife's Dream.

THE CRUCIFIXION St. Matthew 27:35-38; St. Mark 15:24-28; St. Luke 23:33, 34; St. John 19:18-24...

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Women at the Tomb.

Women at the Tomb.

"THEY CAST THE NET ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE SHIP AND WERE NOT ABLE TO DRAW IT FOR THE MULTITUDE OF FISHES." St. John 21. 6...

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