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The Children’s Six Minutes: Two R’s and an A
TWO R’S AND AN A Do you know what week this is? We have all sorts of weeks, don’t we! There is Sunday School week, Go to Church week, Boy Scout week, Red Cross week, Social Welfare week, Hospital week, Y.W.C.A. and Y.M.C.A. week. Sometimes we wish we could have one week all to ourselves.…
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Witness of the Stars: Summary
Summary Man has ever sought to rob Christ of His glory. He has long since done his best to obliterate His name and His work from the Revelation which had been written in the stars of light. When He humbled Himself, and came as the promised Seed of the woman, men “saw no beauty in…
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Witness of the Stars: Hydra (the Serpent), Crater (the cup), & CORVUS (The Raven)
The time has at length come for the fulfilment of the many prophecies pictured in the heavens: and in its three final constellations we see the consummation of them all in the complete destruction of the Old Serpent, and all his seed, and all his works. It is the special work of the Messiah, as…
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The Story of Doctor Dolittle Chapter 13: Red Sails and Blue Wings
Chapter 13: Red Sails and Blue Wings Sailing homeward, the Doctor’s ship had to pass the coast of Barbary. This coast is the seashore of the Great Desert. It is a wild, lonely place-all sand and stones. But it was here that the Barbary pirates lived. These pirates, a bad lot of men, used to…
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Witness of the Stars: Chapter IV. The Sign Leo (the Lion) Messiah’s Consummated Triumph
Chapter IV. The Sign LEO (The Lion)Messiah’s Consummated Triumph Here we come to the end of the circle. We began with Virgo, and we end with Leo. No one who has followed our interpretation can doubt that we have here the solving of the Riddle of the Sphinx. For its Head is Virgo and its…
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The Story of Doctor Dolittle Chapter 12: Medicine and Magic
Chapter 12: Medicine and Magic Note to Parents: Chapter modernized by Under the Home. Very, very quietly, making sure that no one should see her, Polynesia then slipped out at the back of the tree and flew across to the prison. She found Gub-Gub poking his nose through the bars of the window, trying to…
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Witness of the Stars: ARGO (The Ship)The Pilgrims safe at Home
This is the celebrated ship of the Argonauts, which Homer sung nearly ten centuries before Christ. Sir Isaac Newton puts the expedition of the Argonauts shortly after the death of Solomon (about 975 b.c.). While Dr. Blair’s chronology puts it 1236 b.c. Whatever fables have gathered round the story there can be no doubt as…
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The Story of Doctor Dolittle Chapter 11: The Black Prince
Chapter 11: The Black Prince Note to Parents: Chapter modernized by Under the Home. By the edge of the river they stopped and said farewell. This took a long time, because all those thousands of monkeys wanted to shake John Dolittle by the hand. Afterwards, when the Doctor and his pets were going on alone,…
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Witness of the Stars: URSA MAJOR (The Great Bear)
2. URSA MAJOR (The Great Bear) The Fold and the Flock. Of these it is written:— “But in Mount Zion there shall be those that escape, And it shall be holy: And the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.” (Obad. 17-19, r.v.) It is a large and important constellation, containing 87 stars, of which one…
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The Story of Doctor Dolittle Chapter 10: The Rarest Animal of All
Chapter 10: The Rarest Animal of All Pushmi-Pullyus are now extinct. That means, there aren’t any more. But long ago, when Doctor Dolittle was alive, there were some of them still left in the deepest jungles of Africa; and even then they were very, very scarce. They had no tail, but a head at each…