THE OLD TESTAMENTCHAPTER I. [The Beginning of Things]II. [The Great Flood]III. [Abraham—the Father of the Faithful]IV. [Isaac, the Shepherd Prince]V. [Jacob, a Prince of God]VI. [Joseph, the Castaway]VII. [Joseph, a Servant, a Prisoner and a Saint]VIII. [Joseph, the Savior of His People]IX. [The Cradle that was Rocked by a River]X. [Moses in Midian]XI. [The Rod that Troubled Egypt]XII. [Following the Cloud]XIII. [In the Borders of Canaan]XIV. [A Nation that was Born in a Day]XV. [Samson, the Strong]XVI. [Ruth]XVII. [Samuel—the Child of the Temple]XVIII. [The Making of a King]XIX. [The Shepherd Boy of Bethlehem]XX. [The Power of a Pebble]XXI. [Faithful unto Death]XXII. [David, the Outcast]XXIII. [Every Inch a King]XXIV. [David's Sin]XXV. [David's Sorrow]XXVI. [The Building of the Golden House]XXVII. [Elijah, the Great Heart of Israel]XXVIII. [The Little Chamber on the Wall]XXIX. [A Little Maid of Israel]XXX. [The Two Boy Kings]XXXI. [The Four Captive Children]XXXII. [The Master of the Magicians]XXXIII. [The Story of Jonah]XXXIV. [Esther, the Queen]THE OLD TESTAMENTI. [The Angels of the Advent]II. [Following the Star]III. [The Flight into Egypt]IV. [The Boy of Nazareth]V. [The Young Carpenter]VI. [The Voice in the Wilderness]VII. [Jesus in the Desert]VIII. [The First Disciples]IX. [The First Miracle]X. [In His Father's House]XI. [A Talk about the Breath of God]XII. [A Talk about the Water of Life]XIII. [Jesus in the Synagogue]XIV. [Among the Fishermen]XV. [The Healing Hand of Jesus]XVI. [Following Jesus]XVII. [Friends of Jesus]XVIII. [The Lord of Life]XIX. [Mary of Magdala]XX. [Stories Told by the Lake]XXI. [Stilling the Storm]XXII. [Called Back]XXIII. [Two by Two]XXIV. [Walking the Waves—The Two Kingdoms]XXV. [A Journey with Jesus]XXVI. [The Christian Sabbath—Peter's Confession of Faith]XXVII. ["And We Beheld His Glory"—A Father's Faith]XXVIII. [The Lord and the Little Ones—Leaving Galilee]XXIX. [At the House of Martha—The Good Shepherd]XXX. [The Lesson Stories of Jesus]XXXI. [The Voice that Waked the Dead—The Children of the Kingdom]XXXII. [The Young Man that Jesus Loved]XXXIII. [The Last Journey to Jerusalem]XXXIV. [The Prince of Peace]XXXV. [The Children in the Temple]XXXVI. [The Last Day in the Temple]XXXVII. [The Last Words in the Temple]XXXVIII. [An Evening on the Mount of Olives]XXXIX. [The Holy Supper]XL. [The Night of the Betrayal]XLI. [Despised and Rejected of Men]XLII. [The King of Heaven at the Bar of Pilate]XLIII. [Love and Death]XLIV. [Love and Life]XLV. [The Evening of Easter]XLVI. [The Lord's Last Days with His Disciples]XLVII. ["He Ascended into Heaven"]XLVIII. [The Promise of the Father][AN AFTERWORD]ILLUSTRATIONSTHE OLD TESTAMENT[ Moses and Zipporah at the well (color plate) . . . . . . _Frontispiece_ ][ Driven from Eden ][ The great flood ]