Category: Bible Stories

Let us go up today to “The city of the great king.” “Oh, this story is n’t in the beginning time,” I hear some little girl say, “because they did n’t have kings then ! ” No, the beginning time is past and a long, long way behind us. You remember little Benjamin and his […]

DANIEL AND THE KING’S OFFICER It was night in Babylon. The soldiers patrolling the walls had called the hour of midnight, and the watchmen in the towers had answered, “All is well.” Even a cock in the distance had saluted this hour of darkness with a lusty crow. It was the time to be at […]

Stories of kings are usually not very interesting, filled as they are with wars and troubles of many kinds. Soldiers, martial music, the roar of cannon, glittering spears, and shining shields in large part make up the history of kings. Velvet and ermine and golden crowns, heartaches and disappointments, instead of joy and gladness, are […]

“I wish I had a ladder that reached the sky. Then I would go up to the top and see what was there.” So said a boy whose eyes sparkled with delight after an evening’s talk and study of the stars. That was many years ago. The boy is a man now, and it may […]

It was a great day for all the family. Such stirring about as there was, getting everything ready for the guests who had been bidden to the feast. Sarah, the mother, was busy in the tent making loaves of bread. She kneaded the dough, then cut it in pieces and rolled them thin and round […]

There was once a wonderful boy whose name was David. He lived with his father and seven brothers in a country where a man’s wealth was counted by the number of sheep and cattle he possessed. David had charge of his father’s sheep and often was away from home in the fields with them for […]

What fun it is to travel and see strange sights and queer people ! There is so much bustle and stir at the station—engines puffing, bells ringing, men calling trains, while people scramble up the steep steps of the cars, holding fast to tickets which tell the conductor how far they are to go. Watching […]

If you have ever seen a military parade—soldiers marching with flags flying and drums beating—and have listened to the stirring strains of music played by the bands as they passed—the people waving and shouting at them from the house windows, roofs, and street curbs—you will feel the spirit of this story. It is a stirring […]