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Favell Lee Mortimer

A sequel to "Peep of day"

Paperback (RareBooksClub.com May 16, 2012)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...when He saw a blind beg-gar sitting down in the street. This beggar was a young man. He had been born blind, and had been used from a child to sit in the street and beg. His parents were still living, but they let him beg his own bread. Jesus had pity on this poor beggar. He cured him in quite a new way. He spat on the ground, and then mixed the spittle with the dust, and with this wet dust, or clay, He made a plaster for the man's eyes; and said to him," Go to the pool of Siloam and wash." There was a pond, or pool, in Jerusalem called Siloam. The blind man could find his way through the streets by himself, for he had been used to walk alone. He went to the pool with the plaster over his eyes, and washed it off, and came back able to see. Soon the neighbours saw him, and were surprised that he was no longer blind. These neighbours were people who lived near the street where the man used to beg; and they knew his face quite well. They said to each other, " Is not this the man who used to sit by the way and beg?" Some said, "He is like him." But the beggar said, " I am the man who was blind and sat by the way and begged." Then the neighbours asked him, "How were your eyes opened?" The beggar answered," A man called Jesus made clay and put it on my eyes, and told me to go to the pool of Siloam and wash; and I went and I was made to see." The neighbours said, "Where is that man?" The man said, " I do not know." The neighbours knew that the Pharisees woiild say it was wrong to make clay on the Sabbath, as well as to cure a blind man. They did not believe in Jesus, so they took the beggar to the Pharisees, as they were sitting to judge people. The Pharisees said to the man, " Ho...
ISBN
1235990796 / 9781235990793
Pages
40
Weight
3.2 oz.
Dimensions
7.4 x 0.1 in.

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