Boys and Girls Playing and Other Addresses to Children

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Page 47 - And he went up from thence unto Beth-el: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, "Go up, thou bald head ; go up, thou bald head ! " And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord.
Page 36 - There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise : the ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer ; the conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; the locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; the spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings
Page 68 - And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
Page 57 - I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
Page 130 - If ye love me, keep my commandments ;" " Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you...
Page 12 - Now, dear children, just as you try to please your friends, if you love them, so do those who love Jesus Christ try to please Him. They are always trying to do His will, to keep His laws, to live after His commandments, to obey His precepts. They do not think any of Christ's commands grievous; they never say that His laws are hard, strict, and disagreeable. It is their delight to walk in His paths. Dear children, no man, or woman, or child, can really love Jesus Christ, if they do not try to obey...
Page 117 - Dear children, are you as happy and as cheerful as she was ? You are not blind, you have eyes and can run about and see everything, and go where you like, and read as much as you please to yourselves. But are you as happy as this...
Page 152 - Clear Shining. A Memoir of Gertrude Mary Acklom. By her Mother. With Introduction by the Author of "Memorials of Captain Hedley Vicars.
Page 144 - Hymns for the Church on Earth. Being Three Hundred Hymns, for the most part of modern date. Selected and arranged by the Rev. JC Ryle, MA Ninth Edition.

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