The Bible is one of the two or three oldest books in the world, but unlike most of the
ancient books, it is found not only in great libraries, but in almost every home of the
civilized world; and it is not only studied by learned scholars, but read by the common
people; and its many stories grasp and hold the attention of little children. Happy is that
child who has heard, over and over again, the Bible stories until they have become fixed
in his mind and memory, to become the foundations of a noble life.
It is with the desire of aiding parents and teachers in telling these stories, and aiding
children to understand them, also in the hope that they may be read in many schools, that
a few among the many interesting stories in the Bible have been chosen, brought together
and as far as necessary simplified to meet the minds of the young.
