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Title: Stories of old or Bible narratives ..
Year: 1863 (1860s)
Authors: Hadley, Caroline. (from old catalog)
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d by the sea-shore. One day the skybecame very dark, and the large blackclouds burst over his house in torrents ofrain. The wind roared loud, and beat hardupon the house, and it fell, and great wasthe fall of it. Why ? Because its founda-tion was weak, shifting sand. The foundation, or that on which thehouse is built, must be firm and strong, orthe house will not stand. It does not mat-ter how strongly the house is built, if thefoundation on which it rests is weak. Thehouse then will be sure to fall. Jesus said, that those that heard whatHe said and did not obey Him, were likethe foolish man who built upon the sand. Children, if you do right out of love toChirst, you will not do right to be seen byothers, nor will you yield to others whenthey tempt you to wrong. Your reasonfor doing right is built upon the rock—Christ. But if you do right to be praised by men,or if you know what you ought to do, butdo it not, then you are like the foolish man—your goodness is without a foundation.
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20. m* Mm tf I<« ft^K«0 tit* p$w Mark ii, 1-12. Luke v., 17-26. YOU may be sure that the Phariseesdid not like such sermons as thosethat Jesus preached. They did not likethat He should see through their outsidecovering of goodness, into the wicked self-ishness of their hearts, They showed their dislike by acting asspies upon all He did and said, and werealways trying to find fault with Him. They said that he made himself equalwith God, and pretended to have morepower than He really had. I will tell you how it was that they saidHe made Himself greater that He reallywas. Jesus had been away from His house inCapernaum for a few days, into the townsand villages near, to preach to the people 90 NEW TESTAMENT STORIES. there. When he returned home again, agreat many people came to His house.Some were sick people who came to be madewell; some were people in trouble whocame to be comforted; some came to betaught, some came out of curiosity, andsome came to find fault. Altogether therewere

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