The Chosen People: A Compendium of Sacred and Church History for School-Children

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Yonge Charlotte Mary. The Chosen People: A Compendium of Sacred and Church History for School-Children

LESSON I. THE PROMISE

LESSON II. THE PATRIARCHS

LESSON III. EGYPT

LESSON IV. THE WILDERNESS

LESSON V. ISRAEL IN CANAAN

LESSON VI. THE KINGDOM OF ALL ISRAEL

LESSON VII. THE KINGDOM OP JUDAH

LESSON VIII. THE KINGDOM OF SAMARIA

LESSON IX. NINEVEH

LESSON X. THE CAPTIVITY

LESSON XI. BABYLON

LESSON XII. CYRUS

LESSON XIII. THE REBUILDING OF THE TEMPLE

LESSON XIV. THE WALL REBUILT

LESSON XV. ALEXANDER

LESSON XVI. THE GREEK KINGS OF EGYPT

LESSON XVII. THE SYRIAN PERSECUTION

LESSON XVIII. THE MACCABEES

LESSON XIX. THE ROMAN POWER

LESSON XX. THE GOSPEL

LESSON XXI. THE FOUNDATION OF THE CHURCH

LESSON XXII. THE APOSTLE OF THE GENTILES

LESSON XXIII. THE FALL OF JERUSALEM

LESSON XXIV. THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH

LESSON XXV. THE PERSECUTIONS

LESSON XXVI. THE CONVERSION OF CONSTANTINE

LESSON XXVI. THEODOSIUS

LESSON XXVIII. THE TEUTON NATIONS

LESSON XXIX. MAHOMET

LESSON XXX. THE FIRST SCHISM

LESSON XXXI. THE MIDDLE AGES

LESSON XXXII. THE REFORMATION

LESSON XXXIII. COLONIZATION

LESSON XXXIV. THE SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL

QUESTIONS

LESSON I

LESSON II

LESSON III

LESSON IV

LESSON V

LESSON VI

LESSON VII

LESSON VIII

LESSON IX

LESSON X

LESSON XI

LESSON XII

LESSON XIII

LESSON XIV

LESSON XV

LESSON XVI

LESSON XVII

LESSON XVIII

LESSON XIX

LESSON XX

LESSON XXI

LESSON XXII

LESSON XXIII

LESSON XXIV

LESSON XXV

LESSON XXVI

LESSON XXVII

LESSON XXVIII

LESSON XXIX

LESSON XXX

LESSON XXXI

LESSON XXXII

LESSON XXXIII

LESSON XXXIV

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"The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham."—Acts, vii. 2.

Among the sons of Shem (called Hebrews after his descendant Heber, who dwelt in Mesopotamia) was Abram, the good and faithful man, whom God chose out to be the father of the people in whom He was going to set His Light. In the year 1921, He tried Abram's faith by calling on him to leave his home, and go into a land which he knew not, but which should belong to his children after him—Abram, who had no child at all.

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When Abraham bought the Cave of Machpelah for a, burial-place, it was in the full certainty that though he was now a stranger in the land, it would be his children's home; and it was there that he and the other patriarchs were buried after their long and faithful pilgrimage.

Isaac's wife, Rebekah, was fetched from Abraham's former home, in Mesopotamia, that he might not be corrupted by marrying a Canaanite. Between his two sons, Esau and Jacob, there was again a choice; for God had prophesied that the elder should serve the younger, and Esau did not value the birthright which would have made him heir to no lands that would enrich himself, and to a far-off honour that he did not understand. So despising the promises of God, he made his right over to his brother for a little food, when he was hungry, and though he repented with tears when it was too late, he could not win back what he had once thrown away.

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