Young Folks' Bible in Words of Easy Reading: The Sweet Stories of God's Word in the Language of ChildhoodPollard, Josephine
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Young Folks' Bible in Words of Easy Reading: The Sweet Stories of God's Word in the Language of Childhood
Pollard, Josephine
Bible -- Paraphrases, English; Bible stories, English -- Juvenile literature; Christian life -- Juvenile literature
I see, with my mind's eye, a garden, large, fair, with great trees and
beautiful walks, pure, clear streams with lovely flowers, with animals
playing about, with two trees that were set apart from the rest, one
called the Tree of Life and the other the Tree of the Knowledge of Good
and Evil. I see a man in this garden, and animals passing before him and
hear him giving them names. Now I see a city with twelve gates, each
gate a pearl. The city has walls made of twelve kinds of jewels, and the
streets are of pure gold, and there is no temple in the city and no sun,
but it is very glorious and wonderful. I see a beautiful River and a
glorious Sea, and a great multitude of shining ones with harps in their
hands, and I see a throne and One that sits thereon, more lovely and
beautiful and mighty and glorious than any words can say.
The little three-year-old boy before he can read, loves to take his
picture book and see things that are to him very wonderful, and when he
gets a little older he loves to take a box of paints and a brush and
color the pictures in some of his books. The first book I ever colored
was full of Bible pictures. There was the picture of a man on the top of
a hill with his son laid on a heap of stones. The father's face was sad,
and the old man was lifting a knife in his hand; and there was a sheep
caught in a bush near by; and there was the figure of an angel in the
sky. Then there was the picture of a young man lying on the ground, with
stones under his head for a pillow, and a stairway or ladder reaching up
to the heavens above, with angels going up and down. There was the
picture of a boy whose father gave him a coat of many colors, and how I
liked to daub on the red and yellow and blue paint, and I am afraid I
took a pin and punched out the eyes in the pictures of the brothers of
this boy--those brothers who, as you remember, cast him into a dry well
and afterward sold him as a slave. There was a picture of a little boy
lying in a little boat which was among the tall grasses of a river.
There was the picture of a great tent in the desert, with altars on
which fire was burning, and a great pillar of cloud resting down on it
in the midst of the tent. And then far over in the book was the picture
of the best Man who ever lived, taking little children in His arms,
putting His hands on them and blessing them.
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