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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1863 Excerpt: ... fsus among it godors. Luke ii. 41-52. "I Do not think you will be able to tell me much about this picture," said Mrs. Ross, as she took out a new one. "What is it, Ellen?" "It is a young boy, sitting among a number of old grave men." "Who will the child be?" "Is it Jesus, mamma?" "Yes; the story of this picture happened when he was twelve years old. We are told nothing about him all these years, only that when the cruel King Herod died, God sent an angel in a dream to tell Joseph that it was safe now to go back to his own country; and so they returned, and lived at Nazareth, the town where Mary was when the angel Gabriel appeared to her. I have read about Nazareth in a book of travels; it is a small place, but in a very beautiful situation among the hills; and there our dear Lord spent all his early years. There is no place in the Holy Land I should like more to visit. Should not you?" "Yes, very much. But, mamma, I should like to hear more of what Jesus did when he was a child." "So should I, hut God has not told us much. But you remember how he would be different from any other child." "He had no sin, mamma; He would never do what was wrong." "Never, Ellen; never made his mother sad, and to feel a pain in her heart." Poor Ellen looked very sad now, for the evening before she had been disobedient, and vexed her mamma very much. She did not speak, but laid her head en her mamma's knee, and began to weep; and Harry looked as if he could cry too. "Ellen," said Mrs. Ross, "we will not speak of your fault now. You asked God to forgive you for Jesus' sake, and he has promised to hear us when we do sb. You must ask his help to keep you from the same sin again." "0h, mamma, will you give me a kiss now before we go on?" "Yes, my dear child." So Mrs. Ross kissed the...
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