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Title: The Good Shepherd
A Life of Christ for Children

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: June 11, 2006 [EBook #18558]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: "I am the good shepherd. . ."]

THE GOOD SHEPHERD

A LIFE OF CHRIST FOR CHILDREN

FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY

NEW YORK : : CHICAGO : : TORONTO

Publishers of Evangelical Literature

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. WHY JESUS CAME TO THIS WORLD
II. JESUS IS BORN IN BETHLEHEM
III. THE BOYHOOD OF JESUS
IV. JOHN THE BAPTIST
V. JESUS BEGINS HIS WORK
VI. SOME WORDS AND WORKS OF JESUS
VII. A FRIEND FOR THE SORROWFUL
VIII. MORE WONDERFUL WORKS AND WORDS
IX. THE MAN BORN BLIND, AND LAZARUS
X. THE PRODIGAL SON, AND OTHER STORIES
XI. THE LAST DAYS IN JERUSALEM
XII. THE CRUCIFIXION AND THE RESURRECTION
XX SELECTED SONGS, PSALMS, AND PRAYERS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"I am the good shepherd . . ." . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

Map of Palestine at the time of Christ

The shepherd's care

Bethlehem

Nazareth, from hill above

Jewish women grinding corn

The River Jordan

Jericho, from plains above

A modern Jew's wedding party in Galilee

Jacob's well

Ruins of Capernaum

The good Samaritan

Bethany

Child at prayer

The shepherd's care (2nd version)

The shepherd's care (3rd version)

The Jordan near Bethabara

Mount of Olives and Jerusalem

Gethsemane

Calvary

The empty tomb

The Sea of Galilee

The Mount of Olives

CHAPTER I

WHY JESUS CAME TO THIS WORLD

In the beginning, before the world was made, the Lord Jesus lived in
heaven. He lived in that happy place with God. Then God made the
world. He told the hills to come up out of the earth, and the seas to
run down into the deep places which He had made for them. He made the
grass, the trees, and all the pretty flowers. He put the sun, the
moon, and the stars in the sky. He filled the water with swimming
fish, the