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THE MISSION OF THE SEVENTY. ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^.jjg comfort of self. Their
Golden Text.—It is not ye that benediction would be full of power.
"The Adventures of Reddy Fox." "This Year's Book for Children."
speak, but the Spirit of your Father if "a son of peace," one to whom
Bed Room Story Book Series. Board covers. Forty-five subjects ^^^^ ^ j^^^j^ ^^ o^ Matt 10:20. Peace rightly belonged, was there,
We can conceive of nothing in the tieated. Profusely illustrated. By six ' ' ' ,., their benediction would bring bless-
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way cf books that will charm children authors. t r„u ,r- • r fhe ^^S to him. If not, it would not be
more than this series of bed-time The illustrations are very fine, in Exposition^!. The Mission ol ^^^^^ ^^^ .^ ^^^,^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^,^
,, , , Seventy, 1-11. Jesus' ministry was ^ ^^^^^ them. The true ambassastories.
Reddy Fox is pictured as a tints of red, green, yellow, lavendar, ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ .^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^.^^ .^ ^ messenger, a bringmichievous
iellow Avho, like some pink, and broAvn, brown and pmk pre- ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^ p^^^^_ ^^ ^^^ ^^^.^ ^^^ p^^^^
boys we know, cannot keep out of dominating. The poems and stories , ,, , ^ ^ , that the seventy were to impart. They
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trouble. He has a wise old grandmoth- are suited to boys and girls from to go ^ before Him and prepare the must ^^le first not house squander at time which in they going put from up.
everything a little fox should know, birds, insects, plants, fairies and 1
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sion, to go before Jesus into the were not to be looking for finefare.
as he should be, and so he is not stantly journeying as the pictures . Thev need not feel that they were
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only made to suffer himself, but ^j-e presented, from the land of sun, beggars; for they were worthy of
forces his generous old grandmother ^^^^ ^^^ ^'^^.^ .^^^^ ^j^^ ^^pg ol *° °°''- " "'''^* ^^"^ ''^®'' ^ ^ their hire. They were to heal the
to worry more than is good lor her, mountains and trees, through woods comfort to these men, if they had ^^^y. ^nd announce the kingdom of
and he also comes to grief himself. ^^^ valleys over iplains and rivers, any just sense of their own limita- God (cf. ch. 9:1, 2). The representa-
Llke all good grandmothers, she ^^^_^ .^^^ ' ^^^ ^^^^^ ^j rabbits, tions to think that Jesus Himself tive of Jesus Christ has a commlsthmks
only about how much he needs ^^j^^ ^^^ badgers, and all through ,,.as coming after them. They went sion for the body as well as the
her care and support. fairyland, teaching the nature habits .^ ^^ constant "°'''- ^^^ '^"'P^' °^ ^^"'' '' ^ ^°^'
The action of Sammy Jay, Peter ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ thoughts of the various ' ° ^ ' constant ^^^ ^^^ ^.^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ „^^^ Kingdom
Rabbit, Jimmy Skunk, the Parmer's creatures in the language familiar to