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Parables for children

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Macmillan and Co., 1873
  

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Page 65 - That light we see is burning in my hall. How far that little candle throws his beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Page 55 - Our whole life is a war with evil. Just after we have conquered it it sometimes attacks us when we least expect it. For example, when we have resisted the temptation to be cross and pettish or disobedient, sometimes when we are thinking, " How good we have been," comes another sudden temptation, and we are not on our guard and do not resist it. Jesus says to us. " Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.
Page 54 - GENERAL, after gaining a great victory, was encamping with his army for the night. He ordered sentinels to be stationed all round the camp as usual. One of the sentinels, as he went to his station, grumbled to himself, and said, "Why could not the General let us have a quiet night's rest for once, after beating the enemy ? I'm sure there's nothing to be afraid of.
Page 55 - The man then went to his station, and stood for some time looking about him. It was a bright night, with a harvest-moon, but, as he could see no sign of danger anywhere, he said to himself, " I am terribly tired ; I shall sleep for just five minutes, out of the moonlight, under the shadow of this tree." So he lay down. Presently he started up, dreaming that some one had pushed a lantern before his eyes, and he found that the moon was shining brightly down on him through the branches of the tree above...
Page 119 - I think nobody could read them witlunit being both the better for them himself, and being also able to see how this difficult duty of imparting a sound religious education may be effected.
Page 55 - So he lay down. Presently he started up, dreaming that some one had pushed a lantern before his eyes, and he found that the moon was shining brightly down on him through a hole in the branches of the tree above him. The next minute an arrow whizzed past his ear and the whole field before him seemed alive with soldiers in dark green coats, who sprang up from the ground, where they had been silently creeping onward, and rushed toward him. Fortunately the arrow had missed him ; so he shouted aloud to...
Page 55 - ... the branches of the tree above him. The next minute an arrow whizzed past his ear and the whole field before him seemed alive with soldiers in dark green coats, who sprang up from the ground, where they had been silently creeping onward, and rushed toward him. Fortunately the arrow had missed him ; so he shouted aloud to give the alarm and ran back to some other sentinels. The army was thus saved ; and the soldier said, " I shall never forget, as long as I live, that when one is at war one must...
Page 57 - Yes" played truant, but the one that had refused went to school. Then the father said to them in the evening, " Both of you are in the wrong ; but you that promised to go and broke your promise are the worse of the two." Our Father in heaven speaks to us every day, and says, "Do my will;" and whenever we kneel down and say "Thy will be done," we answer God and say
Page 55 - ... coats, who sprang up from the ground, where they had been silently creeping onward, and rushed toward him. Fortunately the arrow had missed him ; so he shouted aloud to give the alarm, and ran back to some other sentinels. The army to which he belonged was thus saved, and the soldier said, "I shall never forget, as long as I live, that when one is at war, one must watch.
Page 56 - WO brothers used to go to school together. One evening they thought they should like to have a holiday the next day ; so they asked their father to give them one. He said, " I cannot, because it will put you back in your studies ; so mind you go to school.

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