I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains: From whence shall my help come? My help cometh from the Lord, Which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved; He that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel Shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is thy keeper: The Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, Nor the moon by night. The Lord shall keep thee from all evil; He shall keep thy soul. The Lord shall keep thy going out and thy coming in, From this time forth and for evermore. The shortest song of all those in the book is a song of praise:-- O praise the Lord, all ye nations: Praise him, all ye peoples. For his merciful kindness is great toward us: And the truth of the Lord endureth for ever. Praise ye the Lord. {126} A STORY WHICH JESUS TOLD Straightway At once. Tribulation Trouble. Persecution Injury done one by an enemy. Jesus often told the people little stories when he was teaching them to be good. These little stories he called parables. Here is one of the parables:-- THE STORY OF THE SOWER And Jesus said, "Behold the sower went forth to sow; and, as he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside, and the birds came and devoured them: and others fell upon the rocky places, where they had not much earth; and straightway they sprang up, because they had no deepness of earth, and when the sun was risen, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. And others fell among the thorns; and the thorns grew up and choked them: and others fell upon the good ground, and yielded fruit, some a hundred fold, some sixty, some thirty." {127}{128} [Illustration] THRESHING IN THE LANDS OF THE BIBLE: From a photograph taken by Mrs. Louise Seymour Houghton, and used by her kind permission. What a strange company of animals we have here! A camel, two oxen, and a little white donkey! And is this not a hard way to thresh out the grain? This field, with its beasts at work, does not much resemble a great wheat field in the western states of America, with its wonderful machinery. It shows how little progress has been made in the East, to find the same methods employed now as in Bible times. [End illustration] {129}