through the book of Proverbs, especially chapters 10 and
following, looking for teachings on the following subjects; enter the
references opposite (_a_), (_b_), etc., below.

(_a_) Diligence in work.
(_b_) Temperance in use of wine.
(_c_) Honesty in business.
(_d_) Compassion toward the poor.
(_e_) Self-control in anger.

2. Read Ecclesiastes 11, for a taste of another "wisdom" book.

3. Find if you can a Bible with the Apocrypha between the Old and New
Testaments, and read a chapter or two in Ecclesiasticus, or the wisdom
of the Son of Sira.

FOOTNOTES:

[5] Part of these pages taken from the author's earlier book, The
Story of Our Bible. Copyright, 1914, 1915, by Charles Scribner's Sons.
Used by permission.

CHAPTER XXVIII

BOOK LEARNING AMONG THE JEWS

If we could have visited the home of some sincerely religious Jew
about the time when the law of Deuteronomy was adopted by King Josiah
and the people we might have seen the beginning of a new kind of
education--the regular study of books, and especially of the Bible.
They had for their Bible at that time the law of Deuteronomy, which
they had accepted as God's will for all Jews. And if this was God's
will for them, it was plain that it must be taught to everybody,
beginning with the children.

TEACHING THE LAW AT HOME

Let us imagine ourselves, then, visiting the house of some good Jewish
friend in Jerusalem under Josiah. As we enter the door we notice
letters roughly carved or painted on the wooden door. "You ask what
are those words," replies our host to our question. "They are from our
law. They are for the children to see, as they go in and out the door.
This is the way the inscription reads:

="'Hear, O Israel: Jehovah thy God is one and thou shalt love
Jehovah thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,
and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.'=

"The priest wrote them for us and both I myself and the children have
been learning to read them," says our friend. "And every Sabbath we
study them, and I teach the children to repeat after me as much of the
rest of Jehovah's law as I can remember. Sometimes the children ask me
questions. They say, 'What mean these laws and these statutes which
you say Jehovah our God commanded?' Then I answer, 'We were Pharaoh's
slaves in the land of Egypt. And Jehovah brought us up out of Egypt
... to give us this land. And Jehovah commanded us to do all these