QUESTIONS TO ASK LITTLE CHILDREN
If possible, set a regular time for reading "The Golden Book" with the child, taking it page by page. Use these questions to recall the previous lesson before going on to a new story.
Making the Child Think
| Who gives you "every good gift"? | [32 G.B.] |
| Tell something about the beautiful grass and flowers | [35 G.B.], [36 G.B.] |
| To whom do you say your prayers? | [40 G.B.] |
| What shines in the sky when you sleep? (See picture in front of [G.B.]) | [43 G.B.] |
| What do you know about one great star? | [245 G.B.] |
| What shines down on the flowers and the birds and the little children when they waken? | [44 G.B.] |
| How do you thank the Father in heaven for his goodness? | [47 G.B.] |
| Who is glad when the rain falls? | [48 G.B.] |
| How does God help the seeds to grow into flowers? | [51 G.B.] |
| What beautiful things does God bring to us in the summer? | [52 G.B.] |
| Tell some good and beautiful things which you thank God for in the autumn. | [55 G.B.] |
| Why do you like the cool winter days? How does God keep the flowers warm? The animals? | [59 G.B.] |
| What can you do beside the big ocean? | [63 G.B.] |
| Why do the beautiful hills and mountains make you think of God? | [68 G.B.] |
| Tell some things you can do to make the Father in heaven glad. | [81 G.B.] |
| How many things can you do that God wants done? | [82 G.B.] |
| Why do you thank God every day? | [85 G.B.] |
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| Why did Jesus' friends love him? | [86 G.B.] |
| Did Jesus have any home? | [89 G.B.] |
| To whose home did Jesus love to go? (Look at picture, page [260 G.B.], also page [218 L.J.]) | [90 G.B.] |
| What did Jesus do when the people came to see him? (Look at pictures on pages [114 L.J.] and [132 L.J.]) | [93 G.B.] |
| Tell a little story about the Sea of Galilee. (Look at picture, page [108 G.B.].) | [94 G.B.] |
| When Jesus was a boy, how many things did he do that you do? (Read page [73 G.B.] and look at picture on page [56 L.J.]) | [97 G.B.] |
| Do you know why Jesus was called the Great Physician? (Look at pictures pages [104 G.B.] and [200 G.B.].) | [98 G.B.] |
| Why do you like to talk to your Father in heaven? (Look at the picture on page [192 T.J.] and see how people in the East sometimes prayed.) | [101 G.B.] |
| Tell how a good father is like the Father in heaven. | [105 G.B.] |
| What did Jesus say about birds and flowers? | [106 G.B.] |
| Did you know that there are good trees and bad trees? Tell what Jesus said about them. (Look at pictures pages [460 H.T.] and [102 H.T.]) | [109 G.B.] |
| How was Jesus very kind to Jairus, whose little girl was sick? | [110 G.B.] |
| What baby was hid in a basket and afterward grew up to be a great man? (Look at page [140 H.T.], for one of the wonders of the country where this baby was born. Look on page [90 H.T.] and see how a great artist represents him as a man.) | [117 G.B.] |
| Tell how the churches in the Bible lands were different from our churches. Where did they get the songs they sang? | [121 G.B.] |
| Can you tell one of the stories that Jesus told? | [126 G.B.] |
| How many of the important things that Jesus taught the people can you remember? | [130 G.B.] |
| What was the name of the little boy who came when he was called? How was his mother unselfish? What do you think made him a great man? (Look at picture, [page 45] .) | [132 G.B.] |
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| Tell about the shepherd life that made David a strong, brave boy. How did he use his strength and bravery when his country needed him? (Look at pictures, pages [384 H.T.] and [388 H.T.]) | [139 G.B.] |
| What did David do for the great King Saul and how did Saul treat David in return? (Look on page [404 H.T.] and see the place where David hid from Saul.) | [151 G.B.] |
| How did Jonathan show his friendship for David? | [156 G.B.] |
| Tell what three brave soldiers did to show their friendship for David. | [163 G.B.] |
| Tell the name of a wicked son of David and what happened to him. | [167 G.B.] |
| Who was called the "wisest king," and what was the greatest thing he ever did? (Look at picture on page [454 H.T.]) | [170 G.B.] |
| Tell the name and the story of the little boy who was put in a pit by his brothers. (Look at picture on page [94 H.T.] to see how the little boy traveled to Egypt.) | [177 G.B.] |
| How did this little slave boy become a great ruler in Egypt? | [181 G.B.] |
| Tell how, as a great ruler, he did a kind thing to the brothers who had been unkind to him. (See picture in [front of H.T.]) | [185 G.B.] |
| Tell about the woman who did a good deed to the prophet Elijah and how she was richly rewarded. | [193 G.B.] |
| When Jesus refused to be king in Palestine and told the people that he was king over a greater kingdom than they had, what did he mean? By what stories did Jesus explain what he meant? | [201 G.B.] |
| Tell what the little captive girl did to bring health to the great general Naaman. (Look at picture, page [150 T.J.]) | [205 G.B.] |
| Tell all you know about the Jordan river. (Look at pictures, pages [284 H.T.] and [340 H.T.]) | [224 G.B.] |
| What is the strangest lake in the world? Why would you dislike to live near it? (Look at picture on page [228 G.B.], also on page [34 H.T.]) | [226 G.B.] |
PART II
CHARACTER AND LIVING
For Growth in Knowledge and Character
"Written in the East, these characters live forever in the West; written in one province, they pervade the world; penned in rude times, they are prized more and more as civilization advances; product of antiquity, they come home to the bosoms of the folk of modern days."
--Robert Louis Stevenson.