What you're unwilling to receive,
Be sure you never do.
--_New England Primer_.

Politeness is to do or say
The kindest thing in the kindest way.
--_New Education Reader_.

Do all the good you can
In all the ways you can,
For all the people you can
Just as long as you can.
--_Lippincott's Beginner's Reading Book_.

Be to others kind and true,
As you'd have others be to you.
--_New Education Reader_.

[End of "VOLUME ONE: THE GOLDEN BOOK"]

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[Start of "VOLUME TWO: HERO TALES"]

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THE BIBLE STORY

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[Illustration]
Joseph, the Prime Minister, Greeting his family.

"And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went
up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen; and he
presented himself unto him, and fell on his neck,
and wept on his neck a good while."
[End illustration]

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THE BIBLE STORY

VOLUME TWO

HERO TALES

ARRANGED AND EDITED BY

REV. NEWTON MARSHALL HALL, D.D.

MINISTER OF THE NORTH CHURCH, SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS

AND

REV. IRVING FRANCIS WOOD, PH.D.

PROFESSOR OF
BIBLICAL LITERATURE AND COMPARATIVE RELIGION
AT SMITH COLLEGE

_Authors of "The Early Days of Israel" "Advanced Bible Studies" Etc_.

THE KING-RICHARDSON COMPANY

SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS

CHICAGO
CLEVELAND

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COPYRIGHT, 1906,
COPYRIGHT, 1917,

BY THE KING-RICHARDSON COMPANY,

SPRINGFIELD, MASS.

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PREFACE

This volume contains those Old Testament stories of heroic lives, which
never lose their charm. No better nor more fascinating stories were ever
written than those of Abraham, and Joseph, and Gideon, and Moses. In the
ordinary volume, however, they are scattered over many chapters and even
books, and the reader has great difficulty in piecing them together.
Here they are told as continuous narratives, with illustrations of the
famous places, which enhance their charm. We believe that the old heroic
figures will come, in this way, before the children, and older people as
well, with a vividness and reality never before realized.

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CONTENTS

PAGE

THE PATRIARCHS.

1 Abraham 21

2 Isaac 49

3 Jacob 60

4 Joseph 91

THE GREAT CAPTAINS