"If to be fat be to be hated then
  Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved."

--Shakespeare, I Henry IV 2:3.

Picking up the Fragments. 147 L.J.
  "The immigrants that come to us ought to have
  plenty of bread to eat and enough fragments left
  over to be worth picking up, for while in the
  bread is the living, in the fragments is the
  life. To them America means economic fragments."

--Edward A. Steiner.

Pillar of Salt. 36 H.T.
  "One looks close for the glance forward in the
  eyes, which distinguishes such pillars from
  the pillars, not of flesh, but of salt, whose
  eyes are set backwards."

--Ruskin, The Cestus of Aglaia.

The Poor Ye Have Always with You. 230 L.J.
  "Yet Thy poor endure,
  And are with us yet."

--Swinburne, Christmas Antiphones.

Possess the Land 244 H.T., 278 H.T.
  "There is a loud call for courageous idealists
  and brave fighters to stand forth and summon
  other men to go forward and possess the land of
  a better social order. The giants of greed and
  the walls of difficulty cannot be allowed to
  shut us out nor to frighten us away."

--Charles Reynolds Brown.

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The Potter's Clay 301 S.A.
  "Enough to throw one's thoughts in heaps
  Of doubt and horror,--what to say
  Or think,--this awful secret sway,
  The potter's power over the clay!
  Of the same lump (it has been said).
  For honour and dishonour made,
  Two sister vessels."

--Rossetti, Jenny.

The Precious Ointment 230 L.J., 169 L.J.
  "One Mary bathes the blessed feet
    With ointment from her eyes,
  With spikenard one, and both are sweet,
    For both are sacrifice."

--Lowell, Godminster Chimes.

Prince of Peace. 278 S.A.
    "No trumpet-blast profaned
  The hour in which the Prince of Peace was born;
    No bloody streamlet stained
  Earth's silver rivers on that sacred morn."

--Bryant, Christmas in 1875.

The Print of the Nails. 306 L.J.
  "Thou also hast had the world's buffets and scorns,
  And to thy life were not denied
  The wounds in the hands and feet and side."

--Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal.

The Prodigal's Portion. 203 L.J.
  "What prodigal portion have I spent that I
  should stand to such penury?"

--Shakespeare, As You Like It 1:1.

Prodigal Son. 203 L.J.
  "Ready to meet the wanderer ere he reach
  The door he seeks, forgetful of his sin,
  Longing to clasp him in a father's arms,
  And seal his pardon with a pitying tear."

--Holmes, Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts.

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The Promised Land 268 H.T.
  "With foretaste of the Land of Promise."

--Browning, The Ring and the Book.

Put not Your Trust in Princes. 170 S.A.
     "O, how wretched
  Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors."

--Shakespeare, Henry VIII 3:2.

Render unto Caesar the Things That are Caesar's. 240 L.J.
  "A kindly rendering
  Of 'Render unto Caesar.'"

--Tennyson, Harold, Act III, Scene 2.

Repent Ye. 65 L.J.
  "Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical
  contrivances, . . . reversing the divine rule,
  and calling, not the sinners, but the righteous
  to repentance."

--Lincoln.

Return Good for Evil. 416 S.A.
  "With a piece of Scripture
  Tell them that God bids do good for evil."

--Shakespeare, Richard III 1:3.

The Scarlet Thread in the Window 282 H.T.
    "No Rahab thread,
  For blushing token of the spy's success."

--Browning, The Red Cotton Night-cap Country.

A Serpent in Eden. 19 T.J.
  "We are our own devils;
   we drive ourselves out of our Edens."

--Goethe.

Shake Off the Dust That is under Your Feet. 143 L.J.
  "So from my feet the dust
  Of the proud World I shook."

--Lowell, The Search.

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The Sheep and the Goats. 246 L.J.
  "Some great cause, God's new Messiah,
    offering each the bloom or blight,
  Parts the goats upon the left hand,
    and the sheep upon the right,
  And the choice goes by forever
    'twixt that darkness and that light."

--Lowell, The Present Crisis.

The Silver Cord. 246 S.A.
  "And here's the silver cord which--what's our word?
  Depends from the gold bowl, which loosed (not "lost")
  Lets us from heaven to hell,--one chop we're loose!"

--Browning, The Ring and the Book.

Slaughter of the Innocents. 45 L.J.
  "Whiles the mad mothers with their howls confused,
  Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry
  At Herod's bloody-hunting slaughtermen."

--Shakespeare, Henry V 3:3.

Smite the Rock 247 H.T.
    "That God would move
  And strike the hard, hard rock, and thence
  Sweet in their utmost bitterness,
  Would issue tears of penitence."

--Tennyson, Supposed Confessions.

The Snare of the Fowler. 106 S.A.
  "Twice it may be, or thrice, the fowler's aim;
  But in the sight of one whose plumes are full,
  In vain the net is spread, the arrow winged."

--Dante, Divine Comedy.

Son of Man. 246 L.J.
    "That claimest with a cunning face
  Those rights the true, true Son of man doth own
  By Love's authority."

--Sidney Lanier, Remonstrance.

Sparks Which Fly Upward. 186 S.A.
  "But the troubles which he is born to are as
  sparks which fly upward, not as flames burning
  to the nethermost Hell."

--Ruskin, Notes.

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Star of Bethlehem. 41 L.J.
  "Some astronomers believe that they have found
  the great star around which the whole universe
  of stars revolves: whether that be true or not,
  it is undoubtedly true that the Star of
  Bethlehem is the center of this world's
  spiritual astronomy."

--Theodore L. Cuyler.

The Stars Fought in Their Courses. 58 T.J.
  "Promptings from heaven and hell, as if the stars
  Fought in their courses for a fate to be."

--Browning, The Ring and the Book.

A Still Small Voice. 124 T.J.
  "A still small voice spake unto me."

--Tennyson, The Two Voices.

The Stirring of the Waters. 167 L.J.
  "To-day a golden pinion stirred
    The world's Bethesda pool,
  And I believed the song I heard
    Nor put my heart to school;
  And through the rainbows of the dream
    I saw the gates of Eden gleam."

--Alfred Noyes, The Hill Flower.

The Stone Rolled Away. 297 L.J.
  "Pitiless walls of gray,
    Gathered around us, a growing tomb
    From which it seemed not death or doom
  Could roll the stone away."

--Alfred Noyes, The Enchanted Island.

Tables of Stone 207 H.T., 212 H.T.
    "Heard the voice
  Of him who met the Highest in the mount,
  And brought them tables, graven with His hand."

--Holmes, Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts.

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The Talent Hid in the Earth. 245 L.J.
  "When I consider how my light is spent
  Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
  And that one talent which is death to hide
  Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent
  To serve therewith my Maker, and present
  My true account, lest He returning chide."

--Milton, Sonnet to His Blindness.

Temperate in All Things. 438 S.A.
  "'Tis to thy rules, O Temperance, that we owe
  All pleasures that from health and strength can flow;
  Vigor of body, purity of mind,
  Unclouded reason, sentiment refined."

--Chandler.

There the Wicked Cease from Troubling and the Weary are at Rest. 184 S.A.
  "To lie within the light of God,
    as I lie upon your breast--
  And the wicked cease from troubling
    and the weary are at rest."

--Tennyson, The May Queen.

Threescore Years and Ten. 104 S.A.
  "Worn to a thread by threescore years and ten."

--Browning The Ring and the Book.

To Eat Husks. 203 L.J.
  "You would think that I had a hundred and fifty
  tattered prodigals lately come from swine
  keeping, from eating draft and husks."

--Shakespeare, I Henry IV 4:2.

To Everything There is a Season. 243 S.A.
  "There is a time for all things."

--Shakespeare. Comedy of Errors 2:2.

To Touch His Garments. 140 L.J.
  "The world sits at the feet of Christ,
  Unknowing, blind and unconsoled.
  It yet shall touch his garment's fold
  And feel the heavenly alchemist
  Transform its very dust to gold."

--Anonymous.

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Treading the Winepress. 476 S.A.
  "But ye that have seen how the ages have shrunk
  from my rod, And how red is the winepress
  wherein at my bidding they trod."

--The Paradox.

The Tree of Knowledge. 19 T.J.
  "Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit
  Of that forbidden tree, whose Mortal taste
  Brought death into the World and all our woe
  . . .
  Sing Heavenly Muse."

--Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I.

Truth Endureth Forever. 139 S.A.
  "It fortifies my soul to know
  That, though I perish, Truth is so:
  That, howsoe'er I stray and range,
  Whate'er I do Thou dost not change.
  I steadier step when I recall
  That, if I slip, Thou dost not fall."

--Arthur Hugh Clough, Ambarvalia.

The Unknown God. 407 L.J.
  "Greece, Egypt, Rome,--did any god
  Before whose feet men knelt unshod
  Deem that in this unblest abode
  Another scarce more unknown god
  Should house with him, from Nineveh?"

--Rossetti, The Burden of Nineveh.

Unto Seventy Times Seven. 186 L.J.
  "We poor ill-tempered mortals--must forgive,
  Though seven times sinning threescore times and ten."

--Holmes, Manhood.

The Valley of the Shadow. 35 S.A.
  "Drew to the valley
  Named of the shadow."

--Tennyson, Merlin and the Gleam.

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Vine and Fig Tree 456 H.T., 369 S.A.
  "You may see as thorough patriarchs as Abraham
  was any day, and as carefully visited by angels,
  sitting under their vine and fig tree."

--Ruskin, Notes.

Voice Crying in the Wilderness. 65 L.J.
  "In this bleak wilderness I hear
  A John the Baptist crying."

--Lowell, An Interview with Miles Standish.

Walking on the Waters. 148 L.J.
  "So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high
  Through the dear might of Him that walked the waves."

--Milton, Lycidas, line 172.

The Water of Life. 508 L.J.
  "The natural thirst ne'er quenched but from the well
  Whereof the woman of Samaria craved."

--Dante, Divine Comedy.

Weaver's Beam. 386 H.T.
  "Then for her spear she might have a weaver's beam."

--Ruskin, Crown of Wild Olive.

Weighed in the Balance. 206 T.J.
  "Their errors have been weighed and found to
  have been dust in the balance."

--Shelley, A Defence of Poetry.

We Spend Our Years as a Tale That is Told. 104 S.A.
  "Ay! when life seems scattered apart,
    Darkens, ends as a tale that is told,
  One, we are one, O heart of my heart,
    One, still one, while the world grows old."

--Alfred Noyes, Unity.

What is Man That Thou art Mindful of Him? 22 S.A.
  "A man is but a little thing among the objects
  of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating
  from his countenance, he may abolish all
  considerations of magnitude, and in his manners
  equal the majesty of the world."

--Emerson, Essay on Manners.

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When the Morning Stars Sang Together. 222 S.A.
  "Look how the floor of heaven
  Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold;
  There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st
  But in his motion like an angel sings."

--Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice 5:1.

The Wind Fulfills His Word. 173 S.A.
  "The snow, the vapour and the stormy wind
  fulfill his word."

--Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture.

Wisdom, Crying in the Streets. 249 S.A.
  "Wisdom cries out in the streets and no man regards it."

--Shakespeare, I Henry IV 1:2.

Wisdom shall Die with You. 194 S.A.
  "A man of superior sagacity may be pardoned for
  thinking with the friends of Job, that Wisdom
  will die with him."

--Ruskin.

Wrestling Jacob. 80 H.T.
  "Like that strange angel which of old,
  Until the breaking of the light
  Wrestled with wandering Israel."

--Tennyson, To--.

Ye Cannot Serve God and Mammon. 205 L.J.
  "We mean by war all that war ever meant,
  Destruction's ministers, Death's freemen, Lust's
  Exponents, daily like a blood-red dawn
  In flames and crimson seas we shall advance
  Against the ancient immaterial reign
  Of Spirit, and our watchword shall be still,
  Get thee behind me, God,--I follow Mammon."

--John Davidson, Mammon and His Message.

Yoke of Bondage. 507 H.T.
  "Judah was a captive by the waters of Babylon
  and the sons of Jacob were in bondage to our
  kings . . . from the remnant that dwells in Judea
  under the yoke of Rome neither star nor sceptre
  shall arise."

--Henry Van Dyke, The Other Wise Man.

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Zeal That Consumes. 151 S.A.
  "The zeal for truth and righteousness and
  goodness anywhere, in politics, or in
  literature, or in education, does not seize hold
  of men with the vigor which may be described, in
  the Bible phrase, as a zeal that eats one up."

--Samuel Valentine Cole.

Zion 470 H.T.
  "Why should we fly? Nay, why not rather stay
  And rear again our Zion's crumbled walls."

--Lowell, A Glance behind the Curtain.

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PART V

THE BIBLE AND THE TEACHER

For the Bible School Teacher

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"Talk about the questions of the time: There is but one question:--How to bring the truths of God's Word into vital contact with the minds and hearts of all classes of the people."

--William E. Gladstone.

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THE BIBLE AND THE TEACHER

FOR THE BIBLE SCHOOL TEACHER

The two greatest needs of the Bible School teacher are thorough preparation of the lesson, and enthusiasm in presenting it. These needs are effectively and abundantly met in THE BIBLE STORY. This volume is so arranged that the teacher in any department may find what is best adapted to a particular age. The following definite suggestions as to how THE BIBLE STORY may be used in the Bible School will be found interesting and helpful for teachers in the accomplishment of their great aims of imparting knowledge, developing character, and leading the pupil on to service.

1. In the Primary Department:--

Supplementary Work

Many primary teachers use a few minutes of the Bible School hour for supplementary work, in which they follow any desired line of teaching regardless of the prescribed lesson. For this supplementary work the following suggestions in this volume may be used:--

Memorizing Bible Verses, page 15.
Teaching God's Relation to the World, page 16.
Understanding Life in Bible Times, page 19.

Story Telling

"Of all the things that a teacher should know how to do," says a great educator, "the most important, without any exception, is telling a story." The most beautiful Bible stories, especially suited to little children, are listed on pages 17, 18, and 19 of this volume, and teachers will find those referring to "The Golden Book" (G.B.) very attractively told for children. The stories are graded from the very simple to the more difficult and so may be adapted to the different classes.