The following illustrated alphabet ( u is missing) is from "The Child's Colored Scripture Book," 1866. The plates have been restored by Kathy Grimm for teachers and parents to reprint freely.
Aaron, the High Priest of the Jews, within the Temple pray'd, And offer'd sacrifices, which were on the altar laid. |
Balaam the Prophet, on an ass, a visit went to pay To Balak; but an Angel stood to meet him on the way. |
Cain, the first son of Adam, full of jealousy and pride, Fiercely kill'd his brother Abel, and was wretched till he died. |
Daniel, faithful, brave, and pious, was shut in the lion's den, By the heathen King Darius, but came safely out again; For God, who made the lions, watches over righteous men. |
Elijah, when he hid himself, had nothing left to eat, But the Lord's ravens daily brought the Prophet bread and meat. |
Finding the infant Moses; who, left at the river's side, Was lying in a little ark, with fresh bulrushed tied; Great Pharoah's daughter pitied as the child looked up and cried. |
Goliath, of the Philistines the leader and the pride, Came forth and laugh'd while all the host of Israel he defied; But David, with a sling and stone, so smote him that he died. |
Hagar and Ishmael, her son, out to the desert fled, With water in a bottle, and a little loaf of bread: But, when they both had called to God, in safety they were led. |
Job suffer'd many sorrows, but was patient to the end; Knowing, in all his troubles, that the Lord was still his friend. |
King David, once a shepherd boy, to Israel's throne was raised, And, singing to his harp, in sweetest Psalms he pray'd and praised. |
Lot, with his wife and daughters, left the Cities of the Plain, Which, for their wickedness, God smote with storms of fiery rain; But Lot's wife was destroy'd, because she would look back again. |
Miriam, the Prophetess, was Aaron's sister: she Led forth the Jewish women, who escaped from the Red Sea, And danced and sang for joy that all her nation was set free. |
Noah alone, of all the people, hated evil and loved good, And when the earth was drown'd, by rain from heaven, in a flood, God taught him how to build a ship, or ark, of gopher-wood. |
Obadiah sought, from wicked men, Elijah's life to save; It was he who fed, and hid, a hundred prophets in a cave. |
Pharaoah, the King of Egypt, |
Queen of Sheba. You have heard how she from her own country came, And brought rich gifts to Solomon, whose wisdom, skill and fame, Caused Kings and Princes to bow down in homage to his name. |
Ruth was the youthful widow, of the tender, loving heart, Who refused, in spite of poverty, from Naomi to part. |
Samson, the man of mighty strength, who blind and captive lay Within a house, in which his foes had come to drink and play, Pull'd down the pillars, and the house fell on them all that day. |
Tubal-Cain was first of workmen, who for useful metals sought, And brass and iron into shape, at the smith's anvil wrought. |
Vashti, the Queen, refused to go at her proud King's command, And so was sent away, while Esther sat at his right hand. |
Widowed, and poor, and hungry, the woman was who fed Elijah, Prophet of the Lord, with a small cake of bread; But God returned a hundred-fold, and kept her table spread. |
Xis the letter which is used, to show is the number ten, And Ten Commandments Moses gave, from God to sinful men. |
Young Joash, when a little child, was hidden from the sight Of those who sought to slay him, and was kept, both day and night, Till priests and captains claimed for him his own true kingly right. |
Zedekiah, King of Judah, lived to see his sons both slain, Then blind and captive went away, never to see again: For he led an evil life, which brings both misery and pain |
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