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on the Sabbath day, and had told him to carry his mattress home. They
told the man he was doing very wrong, and they tried to kill Jesus.
But Jesus told them that His Heavenly Father was never idle, and that
He must do the same works as God. That made the Rabbis more angry than
ever. They said, 'He calls God His own Father, making Himself equal
with God.' From that time the Jews in Jerusalem made up their minds
more than ever to kill Jesus; and wherever He went they sent men to
watch Him and listen to His words, so that they might make up some
excuse for putting Him to death.

What kind of work does God do on Sunday, dear children? Why, He does
all sorts of kind and beautiful things. He makes the sun rise, and the
flowers grow, and the birds sing; and He takes care of little children
on Sunday exactly the same as he does on other days. And Jesus did the
same kind of work, He made people happy and well on the Sabbath. And
we may do _works of love_--kind, loving things for other people--on
Sunday.

Another Sabbath day, soon after that, the Lord Jesus and His disciples
were walking through a cornfield. The disciples were hungry, so they
rubbed some corn in their hands as they went along, and ate it. Some
of the Pharisees saw the disciples, and they were shocked; and they
spoke to Jesus about it. But Jesus told the Pharisees that the
disciples were doing nothing wrong. He said, 'THE SABBATH WAS MADE FOR
MAN, AND NOT MAN FOR THE SABBATH; THEREFORE THE SON OF MAN IS LORD ALSO
OF THE SABBATH DAY.' Jesus meant that God gave the Sabbath day to Adam
and his children as a beautiful present, to be the best and happiest
day of all the seven. God meant it as a rest for our souls and bodies.

CHAPTER VII

A FRIEND FOR THE SORROWFUL

One day Jesus went to a town called Nain (or Beautiful), about
twenty-five miles from Capernaum. A great crowd of people followed
Jesus and His disciples; and when they came near to the gate of the
city of Nain, they saw a funeral coming out. The dead body of a young
man was being carried out on a bier to be buried.

When Jesus saw the poor mother crying and sobbing, He felt very sorry
for her, and He said to her, 'Weep not.' And Jesus came and touched
the bier, and the men who were carrying it stood still. And Jesus
said, 'Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.' And life came back into
that dead body again. He that was dead sat up and began to speak. And
Jesus gave him ba