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There are , it is true , many children ' s books containing Bible stories told in
modern language , but the objections to Bible stories so told are manifold . No
language is so simple or so condensed as Bible language , and any paraphrase
of it ...
There are , it is true , many children ' s books containing Bible stories told in
modern language , but the objections to Bible stories so told are manifold . No
language is so simple or so condensed as Bible language , and any paraphrase
of it ...
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So much of the words of Scripture have been quoted , therefore , as told the story
, and no more . Neither the whole of Sacred History , nor the whole body of
Christian doctrine come within the scope of this little book , or can be expected to
be ...
So much of the words of Scripture have been quoted , therefore , as told the story
, and no more . Neither the whole of Sacred History , nor the whole body of
Christian doctrine come within the scope of this little book , or can be expected to
be ...
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WHEN I was a little child I used to sit in a little chair beside my mother , while she
told me stories . No stories have ever seemed since so beautiful as those ;
perhaps because , while I was still a little child , a day came after which I was to
hear ...
WHEN I was a little child I used to sit in a little chair beside my mother , while she
told me stories . No stories have ever seemed since so beautiful as those ;
perhaps because , while I was still a little child , a day came after which I was to
hear ...
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... while I told them the stories which long ago my dear mother used to tell to me ,
and at such times I have sometimes forgotten that it is I who am telling , and that I
am not listening , by my mother ' s side , a little child once more . One day the ...
... while I told them the stories which long ago my dear mother used to tell to me ,
and at such times I have sometimes forgotten that it is I who am telling , and that I
am not listening , by my mother ' s side , a little child once more . One day the ...
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And when I came to tell them , I found they could be told in no words so simple
and so beautiful , as in the words of the book which , because it is so beautiful ,
and so wise , and so beneficent , and so true , is called the BOOK OF BOOKS .
And when I came to tell them , I found they could be told in no words so simple
and so beautiful , as in the words of the book which , because it is so beautiful ,
and so wise , and so beneficent , and so true , is called the BOOK OF BOOKS .
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