Bible stories, English -- Juvenile literature; Christian education -- Textbooks for children; Christian life -- Juvenile literature
Once Jesus to a marriage went;
The numerous guests surround the board,
When lo! they find the wine is spent;—
This—Mary hears, and tells the Lord.
Before the guests’ astonished eyes
Christ makes his heavenly glory shine;
The thing desired he soon supplies.
And changes water into wine.
How ready does our Lord appear
Our fond desires to satisfy!
And all that we can wish for here
He is well able to supply.
LESSON XX.
SEVERAL MIRACLES.
LUKE, vi. 11-16.
AFTER Jesus had turned the water into wine, he did a great many
wonders. He made blind people see, and deaf people hear, and dumb
people speak, and lame people walk.
When Jesus came to a place, all the sick people crowded round him.
Jesus did not send them away because they disturbed him, but he cured
them all—yes—every one.
This was the way in which he cured one blind man. He said, See! and the
man could see that moment.
This was the way in which he cured a man who was deaf and dumb. Jesus
put his fingers into his ears, and touched his tongue, and looked up to
his Father in heaven, and said, Be opened! and immediately the string
of his tongue was loosed, and he could speak plainly.
Once Jesus saw a poor sick man lying on a bed, and Jesus said to him,
Should you like to be made well? The poor man said he wished very much
to be made well. Then Jesus said, Get up, carry your bed, and walk. The
man tried to get up, and he found that he could; for Jesus gave him
strength.
One day Jesus was in a place like a church; he was preaching; when he
saw a poor woman whose back was bent, so that she could not lift up her
head. Jesus said, Woman, I have made you well; and then Jesus touched
her with his hands, and her back grew straight, and she began to praise
God.
Sometimes Jesus made dead people alive again. That was more wonderful
than making sick people well.
Once Jesus was walking on the road. A great many people were walking
after him, for people liked to see him do wonders, and to hear him
talk. They met some men carrying a dead man to put him in the ground.
A poor old woman came after, crying very much. She was the mother of
the dead man. He was her only son. Jesus was very sorry to see her cry.
He came up to her and said, Do not cry, and then he touched the coffin.
There was no top to it; the dead man was lying in it.
Jesus said, Get up, young man. He sat up and began to speak. Then Jesus
said to his mother, Here is your son.
All the people were surprised, and said, This must be the Son of God.
He can make dead people live again.
LESSON XXI.
THE SINNER AND SIMON.
LUKE, vii. 36 to end.
WHY did Jesus come into the world?—To save us from hell.
But why did God say that people must go to hell?—Because everybody was
naughty.
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