Part III of this volume will furnish the teacher of adults with the lesson setting, both by picture and by map. {166} {167} PART VI PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY {168} "The knowledge of words is a gate to scholarship." --_Wilson_. {169}-{179} KEY Marked letters are pronounced as in the following words. Vowels found in unaccented syllables are unmarked and are given the natural, or long, sound. [Illustration: Eleven pages of word pronunciation.] [End of "HOW TO USE THE BIBLE STORY"] ------------------------------------------------------- [Start of "VOLUME ONE: THE GOLDEN BOOK"] {1} {2} {3} THE BIBLE STORY {6} [Illustration: Magi following the Star of Bethlehem.] {7} THE BIBLE STORY VOLUME ONE THE GOLDEN BOOK ARRANGED AND EDITED BY REV. NEWTON MARSHALL HALL, D.D. MINISTER OF THE NORTH CHURCH, SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS AND REV. IRVING FRANCIS WOOD, PH.D. PROFESSOR OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE AND COMPARATIVE RELIGION AT SMITH COLLEGE Authors of _"The Early Days of Israel"_ _"Advanced Bible Studies" Etc._ THE KING-RICHARDSON COMPANY SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS CHICAGO, CLEVELAND {8} COPYRIGHT, 1906, COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY THE KING-RICHARDSON COMPANY, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. {9} INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES The editors of this series believe that no task can be more important than that of winning the interest of children to their precious heritage, the Bible. The stories of the old Greek and Roman mythologies, the folk and fairy tales, have been given the child in beautiful form, suitably graded and arranged, with significant illustrations. The editors of this series attempt to do the same thing for the Bible: to take the matchless prose and poetry of the Bible and put it in the form which will make it most attractive to the child, to give the Bible an equal chance in the child's library with the "King Arthur Stories" and the tales of mythology. Every parent desires to have the children of the home gain an acquaintance with the best that is in the Bible. Heretofore no text has been prepared which exactly met this need, giving appropriate passages for children of various ages. These volumes are especially designed to make "Sunday afternoon" reading attractive to children, putting the fascinating stories of the Bible in the same dress and on the same footing with the secular classics which have {10} always charmed. With such an arrangement it is believed that the child will read the Bible as freely as any book.