FOURTH READING BOOK.

SCRIPTURAL

AND

MISCELLANEOUS LESSONS.

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1. The Teeth of Animals 52 12. A Hymn for Family

2. The Brave Howard

55

Worship

77

3. The Blessings of the Just 59 13. Greenland Missionaries.

4. Tea.- Part I.

60

- Part II. .

78

5. Tea.- Part II.

62 14. The Pious Wish

81

6. The Owl and the Farmer 65 15. Greenland Missionaries.

7. Birds of Passage .

67

- Part III.

81

8. To some Children Listen- 16. Prayer

85

ing to a Lark

70 17. Greenland Missionaries.

9. Admiral Hopson

70

- Part IV.

86

10. November in Ettrick 18. The Reaper and the

Forest

Flowers

89

11. Greenland Missionaries. 19. Structure of the Chame-

-- Part I.

73

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a

Lesson

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80. Mechanical

Powers.

95. To a Lovely Infant, on the

Part III. .

247

Day of its Baptism · 290

81. Mechanical

Powers.-

96. The New Zealand Mis-

Part IV. .

249

sion.- Part II.

291

82. The Village Blacksmith 253 97. The New Zealand Mis-

83. Gravity .

254

sion.—Part III. 297

84. Friction.

258 98. An Ode.

301

85. Lines on a Common Field 99. The New Zealand Mis-

Daisy grown in India 261

sion.-Part IV.

303

86. Machinery

263 100. Simple Definitions in

87. The Use of Machinery.-

Astronomy

307

Part I.

266 101. Hymn for the Epiphany 309

88. The Use of Machinery.- 102. The Annual motion of the

Part II.

269

Earth.

310

89. The Use of Machinery.- 103. The Seasons

314

Part III. .

271 104. The Terrestrial Globe. 315

90. Human Frailty.

276 105. Land and Sea

319

91. Comparison and Meta- 106. Omnipotence

324

phors .

276 107. The Atmosphere

325

92. The Paper Kite

281

108. The Rainbow

330

93. Locusts

282

109. Climate . '.

331

94. The New Zealand Mis-

110. Milton on his Blindness 336

sion. - Part I.

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FOURTH READING BOOK.

PART I.

SCRIPTURAL LESSONS.

LESSON 1.

:

THE ADMISSION OF THE GENTILES.

THE BAPTISM OF CORNELIUS.-A.D. 40. ST. PETER had been the first to preach Christ to the Jews upon

the day of Pentecost. He was now commissioned to open the door of the Church to the Gentiles. For Christ had said unto him, “And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven : and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven : and whatever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” Matt. xvi. 19.

Cornelius was a Roman centurion, living at Cesarea, a man who acknowledged the true God, but did not bind himself to observe the law of Moses. But he was a devout man, and had shown his piety, by giving much alms to the poor, and by continually praying unto God.

One day, about the ninth hour, (that is, about three o'clock in the afternoon,) Cornelius was fasting and praying to God, when he saw an angel standing before him, and saying, Cornelius.'

“ And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said,