4. How Can I Know the Best Bible Stories to Tell to Children? 17
5. How Can I Get My Child to Read the Bible? 19
6. How Can I Help My Child to Understand Life in Bible Times? 19
7. How Can I Get My Child to Use THE BIBLE STORY for Himself? 20
8. How Can I Interest My Child in the Great Works of Art in THE BIBLE STORY? 21
Questions to Ask Little Children, for general review of all the foregoing lessons. 26
Locating Bible Characters in the Land 105
Questions bringing out the Bible's Literary Value 116
3. Other Literary Forms Found in the Bible 119
4. The Literary Value of the Books of Prophecy 120
5. The Bible--an Inspiration to Writers 121
PAGE How the Foregoing Suggestions for the Use of THE BIBLE STORY may be Employed by the Bible School Teacher 161
2. In the Junior, Intermediate, and Senior Departments 162
Throughout this volume initials are used to indicate titles of volumes in which references are found, as follows:--
If Bible readers everywhere could return their answers what diverse and interesting points of view the replies would bring!
For instance, one perceives in the Bible record the worst and the best that men have always thought and felt; for him it is full of the universal motives of humanity. He has noticed, too, that in sketching often but the single act of a character, the Book brings the essential man or woman vividly out of the darkness and into the light for all time. As a student of men, we can imagine such a one replying that the Bible is "The Book of Human Nature."
Another knows that it has been the inspiration of countless writers, and that its sayings and teachings are woven by the hundreds and thousands through and through the texture of our English masterpieces. A student of books might well say that the Bible is the chief "Source-Book of Our Literature."
Still another would say, "The Bible is the beginning of many of our customs. Our common law is largely founded on its laws and many of our institutions are based upon those it sanctions." So a business man, a man of affairs, might very naturally call it, "The Foundation-Book of Christian Civilization."
For many the Bible is "The Book of Salvation," pointing the way into the presence of God.
Still others draw from it counsel and strength for those who depend upon them for guidance. "God could not be everywhere, so he made mothers." And in their hands the Bible becomes "The Book of Character."