THE CHILDREN’S TABERNACLE

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• Claremont Tales.
• Adopted Son.
• Young Pilgrim.
• Giant-Killer, and Sequel.
• Flora; or, Self-Deception.
• The Needle and the Rat.
• Eddie Ellerslie, etc.
• Precepts and Practice.
• Christian Mirror.
• Idols of the Heart.
• Pride and his Prisoners.
• Shepherd of Bethlehem.
• The Poacher.
• The Chief’s Daughter.
• Lost Jewel.
• Stories on the Parables.
• Ned Manton.
• War and Peace.
• Rescued from Egypt.
• Triumph over Midian.
• Robber’s Cave.
• Crown of Success.
• The Rebel Reclaimed.
• The Silver Casket.
• Christian Conquests.
• Try Again.
• Cortley Hall.
• Good for Evil.
• Christian’s Panoply.
• Exiles in Babylon.
• Giles Oldham.
• Nutshell of Knowledge.
• Sunday Chaplet.
• Holiday Chaplet.
• Children’s Treasury.
• The Lake of the Woods.
• Sheer Off.
• On the Way.
• House Beautiful.
• John Carey.
• A Braid of Cords.
• Guy Dalesford.
• Cyril Ashley.
• Claudia.
• Lady of Provence.
• Children’s Tabernacle.

FRONTISPIECE.

Children’s Tabernacle.

PREFACE.

WHILE I was engaged in writing the following brief work, again and again the question arose in my mind, “Can I make subjects so deep and difficult really interesting and intelligible to the young? The importance of reading Old Testament types in the light thrown on them by the Gospel cannot, indeed, be overrated, especially in these perilous times; but can a child be taught thus to read them?”

The attempt thus to teach is made in the following pages; and I would earnestly request parents and teachers not merely to place the little volume in the hands of children as a prettily-illustrated story-book, but to read it with them, prepared to answer questions and to solve difficulties. Sunday books should supplement, not take the place of, oral instruction. A writer may give earnest thought and labor to the endeavor to make religious subjects interesting to the young; but what influence has the silent page compared with that of a father expressing his own settled convictions, or that of a mother who has the power to speak at once to the head and the heart?

A. L. O. E.

CONTENTS.