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  1. 201. the people The Jews had books written by wise men called prophets; the people wanted to read these books they had a law which God gave them to obey; they wanted to read that also; so instead of having the taw and prophets, which are a part of the Bible that we use printed, as we now have them; they had them written, and instead of printers, as we have, they had scribe, to write the " law aftd tory burch shoes prophets," for the people torad .In the twentyfifth chapter of St. Matthew is a Parable called the Ten Virgin.Ten virgins went out to meet a man who was to be married. Five of these virgins were wise, and tory burch flats five were foolish. It was evening, and they wanted lamps to light them on the way.The wise virgins knew that they might.be kept waiting to a late hour; they could not tell how long, so they took lamps filled with oil, and they took some other oil besides, that if the oil in the lamps burned out, they might have more oil to use. 'The careless foolish virgins, thought not at all about the time they might be obliged to wit; they only took oil in their lamps. Iey were obliged to wait a long time for the bridegroom ; he did not come; and these thoughtless young women, all fell asleep. At midnight they were awaked; some one came to tell them, that the bridegroom was coming, and that they must go out to meet him.At this moment, they all discovered that their lights were going out. .The foolish virgins had no ofi for their lamps; they begged some of the wise virgins j they had none to spare; they wanted what they had for their own lamps, but they advised the foolish virgins to buy some oil.The foolish virgins went out to buy oil, but they could find none. People do not sell in thq night. They were gone so long upon their foolish errand, that the bridegroom came, and the virgins who were prepared to receive him, went into the house with him to the wedding.The door was then shut fast, and when the foolish virgins teturned, and knocked, the people in the house did not know tory burch sale their voices; for they said, " Open to us," but they wre shut out.This story was told to sliow that people who would avoid niuph inconvenience, and mortification, must provide for th future.Parables A parable tory burch outlet is sometimes called a comparison;it shows one thing, or circumstance, to Resemble some other.Virginsunmarried womenbridegrooma man who is just going to be married, or who has lately been married.
  2. 201. The first four books The first four books of the New Testament are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. These books are sometimes called Gospels. They are four histories of Jesus Christ; they were written by four good men, who loved Christ. The names of the books are taken from the names of the men who wrote them. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. They are sometimes called Saint Matthew, Saint Mark, &c. Saint means a holy, or pious person.Besides these Gospels, the New Testament contains the Epistles, and the Revelations.Children see Romans, Corinthians, Ephesians, written over the top of the pages of tie New Testament. They see Jude, Feter, Titus, &c.Romans, Corinthians, and Ephesians, mean the letters of Saint Paul tory burch sale to the people who lived at Rome, at" Corinth, and at Ephesus. Jude, Peter, James, mean letters, written tory burch outlet by Jude, Peter, and James.Children cannot understand any thing about the Bevelations.We read in the New Testament, of the Temple, the Synagogue, Scribes and Pharisees; young children do not know what these words mean.The Temple was a very great and beautiful church; it was built by king tory burch shoes Solomon.Synagogues were smaller churches, where the ministers taught the people.There are at this time different sorts or sectsiof Christians; there are Quakers, Roman Catholics, Baptists, &e. There were different sects of Jews. The Pharisees were one sect of Jews. The Pharisees pretended to be better than other people; they pretended to be better than they were. This is to be t tory burch flats hypocrite.Jesus Christ did not love the Pharisees, he called them w hypocrites."Scribes. It has been written in another place, that printed books have not been used more than three hundred years. Before printed books were used, people had no other books than those which were written with a pen. The people who wrote aB the books were called scribes, or writers.
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    The story The story is nearly as follows: A man was idkr ing a journey from Jerusalem to Jericho, a city at some distance from Jerusalem. On his way, the man was overtaken by some thieves, who stripped off his clothes, and hurt him very much; so that when they went away, he was almost dead. Soon after the thieves MBT Shoes Sale were gone, a man who was a priest, that is, a minister, as we call them came by; he saw the poor man, but he went oa the other side tory burch outlet of the way, and did not offer to help him.Soon after the priest went by, another priest, called a Levite, came that way; bat he also passed along, and did not relieve the wounded man. Tb next person who came along, was MBT Shoes a Samaritan; he itopped, for he felt pity for the man, and bemad up his. wounds, and gave him wine, to make hhn feel better, and put oil on his bruises, and set him on his horse, and carried him to an inn, where he took care of him.The next day, the Samaritan weut away; but he told the man who kept the inn, that he would pay him for his care of the sick man, besides paying him money then, for what he had done.When Jesus Christ had shown this Jew, how kind and good the Samaritan was, he asked him, " Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour to him who fell among the thieves ?"The man answered, " I think he that showed mercy to the man, was his neighbour."Then Jesus said to the man who had asked him, what he should do, " Go thou, and do likewise." Go, and do like this Samaritan; do tory burch shoes alHhou canst to relieve people MBT Trainers in distress, and to make others happy.The Bible is divided into the Old Testament, and the MBT New Testament, Testament means wilt These Testaments contain God's wilL What God chooses his creatures should do. The first part of the Bible is called the Old Testament, because it was written first. The New Testament is called new, because it was written last. The Bible was written by different tory burch flats people, at different times.The Old Testament was written in the Hebrew language. tory burch sale It is the history of the people once called Hebrews; they have since been called Jews.The New Testament was mostly written in the Greek language.
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