Tell what three brave soldiers did to show their friendship for David. 163 G.B. Tell the name of a wicked son of David and what happened to him. 167 G.B. Who was called the "wisest king," and what was the greatest thing he ever did? (Look at picture on page 454 H. T.) 170 G.B. Tell the name and the story of the little boy who was put in a pit by his brothers. (Look at picture on page 94 H.T. to see how the little boy traveled to Egypt.) 177 G.B. How did this little slave boy become a great ruler in Egypt? 181 G.B. Tell how, as a great ruler, he did a kind thing to the brothers who had been unkind to him. (See picture in front of H.T.) 185 G.B. Tell about the woman who did a good deed to the prophet Elijah and how she was richly rewarded. 193 G.B. When Jesus refused to be king in Palestine and told the people that he was king over a greater kingdom than they had, what did he mean? By what stories did Jesus explain what he meant? 201 G.B. Tell what the little captive girl did to bring health to the great general Naaman. (Look at picture, page 150 T.J.) 205 G.B. Tell all you know about the Jordan river. (Look at pictures, pages 284 and 340 H.T.) 224 G.B. What is the strangest lake in the world? Why would you dislike to live near it? (Look at picture on page 228 G.B., also on page 34 H.T.) 226 G.B. {29} PART II CHARACTER AND LIVING _For Growth in Knowledge and Character_ {30} "Written in the East, these characters live forever in the West; written in one province, they pervade the world; penned in rude times, they are prized more and more as civilization advances; product of antiquity, they come home to the bosoms of the folk of modern days." --_Robert Louis Stevenson_. {31} CHARACTER AND LIVING MAKE THE BIBLE HEROES YOUR FRIENDS We ever demand a person for an ideal instead of a principle. By living a year with a masterful character one would gain more than from a dozen years of moral precept. President King of Oberlin College says, "Character is not taught, but caught." Since character is contagious, mere teaching of the bare and unadorned moral principle is almost always vain. But a hero personifies virtue, commands admiration, becomes an ideal. This explains the power of stories in creating character. The heroes of the Bible fire us with enthusiasm we could never feel for impersonal virtue. To make them our friends is to be influenced by the noblest associates. When Jesus wished to build up character in His disciples He told them a story, or parable, to supply their lack.