The Infant System eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 434 pages of information about The Infant System.

The Infant System eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 434 pages of information about The Infant System.
to call a nurse for?  A. To nurse the child.  Q. What did Pharaoh’s daughter say?  A. Go.  Q. Who did the maid fetch?  A. The child’s mother.  Q. When she came what did Pharaoh’s daughter say to her?  A. Take this child away and nurse it for me.  Q. And what did she say she would give her?  A. Her wages.  Q. Did the woman take the child?  A. Yes; and nursed it.  Q. What became of the child?  A. It grew, and she brought it unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and it became her son.  Q. What name did she give him?  A. She called his name Moses.  Q. What for?  A. Because she drew hum out of the water.  Q. Look at this picture, what is the girl holding over Pharaoh’s daughter’s head?  A. A sort of umbrella.  Q. What is she holding it up for?  A. To keep away the heat of the sun.  Q. Were there slaves in those days?  A. Yes.  Q. Is the little girl holding the umbrella meant to represent a slave?  A. Yes.  Q. Do you know what a slave is?  A. A person who is taken from his home and made to work for nothing and against his wills.

Christ with the doctors in the temple, forms, when given as explained, a good gallery lesson—­thus: 

“And it came to pass that after those days she found him in the temple sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them and asking them questions; and all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.  And when they saw him they were amazed, and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us?  Behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.  And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me?  Wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business.  And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.  And he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them; but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart:  and Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.”—­Luke ii. 46-52.

Q. Where did they find him?  A. In the temple.  Q. Sitting in the midst of whom?  A. Of the doctors.  Q. What was he doing there?  A. Hearing and asking them questions.  Q. And they were astonished at his, what?  A. Understanding and answers.  Q. What did Jesus’ mother say unto him?  A. Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us?  Q. What more did she say?  A. Thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.  Q. What did Jesus say unto her?  A. He said, how is it that ye sought me?  Q. Did he say anything more?  A. Yes; wist ye not that I must be about my father’s business.  Q. What is the meaning of wist ye not?  A. Know ye not.  Q. When Jesus went with them, where did they come to?  A. To Nazareth?  Q. What is Nazareth?  A. A town in Asia.  Q. His mother kept those sayings, where?  A. In her heart.  Q. In what did Jesus increase?  A. In wisdom and stature.  Q. What do you mean by increasing in stature?  A. Growing larger.

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