THE GOOD CHILD'S LIBRARY.

TENTH BOOK.

THE PARABLES OF THE SAVIOUR,

IN EASY VERSE.

WITH BRILLIANT ILLUMINATIONS, FROM ORIGINAL DESIGNS

Cleansing the Leper.

1851.

PREFACE.

The object of the "GOOD CHILD'S LIBRARY," is to encourage a taste forScripture reading, by presenting some of the most interesting portionsof the New Testament narrative, in the attractive form of verse. Whilethe children read these verses, they will not only become acquaintedwith the principal events in the lives of our Blessed Saviour and HisApostles—their travels, their sufferings and their death,—but theywill see that the Bible is a readable book, and a book that may be readevery day, without any fear of becoming the unhappy being that somepersons suppose; and besides this, the tone which is given to theaffections, the minds, and the morals of children by such reading, is ofalmost infinite value.

In order to combine things pleasing and things useful, to the greatestpossible extent, the publishers have gotten up at a great expense,especially for this work, some of the most beautiful Scripture designsthat have ever been published. These pictures are printed in OilColours—an expensive, but a finished and highly artistical process, ofwhich the publishers are the originators in this country. Each historyis illustrated handsomely with them.

There is in all twelve books; each book being complete in itself, andcontaining a full history.

The "GOOD CHILD'S LIBRARY" is composed of the following books:

  Scenes in the Life of the Saviour.  Scenes in the Life of St. Peter.  Scenes in the Life of St. John.  Scenes in the Life of St. Paul.  Scenes in the Lives of St. Matthew,    St. Jude, and St. Simon.  Scenes in the Lives of St. Stephen,    Timothy, St. Mark, and St. Luke.  Scenes in the Lives of St. Philip, St.    Bartholomew, and St. Thomas.  Scenes in the Lives of St. Andrew,    St. James, and St. James the Less.  The Sermon on the Mount.  The Parables of the Saviour.  The Miracles of the Saviour.  Texts for Children.

The Publishers have in preparation another series, embracing Scenes inthe Lives of the Patriarchs, Prophets, and Kings, illustrative of theOld Testament Scriptures, to be gotten up in the same style as thepresent series.