Part 1 — QUESTIONS TO ASK LITTLE CHILDREN
Reading edition
If possible, set a regular time for reading "The Golden Book" with the child, taking it page by page. Use these questions to recall the previous lesson before going on to a new story.
Making the Child Think
Who gives you "every good gift"? 32 G.B.
Tell something about the beautiful grass and flowers 35 G.B., 36 G.B.
To whom do you say your prayers? 40 G.B.
What shines in the sky when you sleep? (See picture in front of G.B.) 43 G.B.
What do you know about one great star? 245 G.B.
What shines down on the flowers and the birds and the little children when they waken? 44 G.B.
How do you thank the Father in heaven for his goodness? 47 G.B.
Who is glad when the rain falls?48 G.B.
How does God help the seeds to grow into flowers? 51 G.B.
What beautiful things does God bring to us in the summer? 52 G.B.
Tell some good and beautiful things which you thank God for in the autumn. 55 G.B.
Why do you like the cool winter days? How does God keep the flowers warm? The animals? 59 G.B.
What can you do beside the big ocean? 63 G.B.
Why do the beautiful hills and mountains make you think of God? 68 G.B.
Tell some things you can do to make the Father in heaven glad. 81 G.B.
How many things can you do that God wants done? 82 G.B.
Why do you thank God every day? 85 G.B.
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Why did Jesus' friends love him? 86 G.B.
Did Jesus have any home? 89 G.B.
To whose home did Jesus love to go? (Look at picture, page 260 G.B., also page 218 L.J.) 90 G.B.
What did Jesus do when the people came to see him? (Look at pictures on pages 114 L.J. and 132 L.J.) 93 G.B.
Tell a little story about the Sea of Galilee. (Look at picture, page 108 G.B..) 94 G.B.
When Jesus was a boy, how many things did he do that you do? (Read page 73 G.B. and look at picture on page 56 L.J.) 97 G.B.
Do you know why Jesus was called the Great Physician? (Look at pictures pages 104 G.B. and 200 G.B..) 98 G.B.
Why do you like to talk to your Father in heaven? (Look at the picture on page 192 T.J. and see how people in the East sometimes prayed.) 101 G.B.
Tell how a good father is like the Father in heaven. 105 G.B.
What did Jesus say about birds and flowers? 106 G.B.
Did you know that there are good trees and bad trees? Tell what Jesus said about them. (Look at pictures pages 460 H.T. and 102 H.T.) 109 G.B.
How was Jesus very kind to Jairus, whose little girl was sick? 110 G.B.
What baby was hid in a basket and afterward grew up to be a great man? (Look at page 140 H.T., for one of the wonders of the country where this baby was born. Look on page 90 H.T. and see how a great artist represents him as a man.) 117 G.B.
Tell how the churches in the Bible lands were different from our churches. Where did they get the songs they sang? 121 G.B.
Can you tell one of the stories that Jesus told? 126 G.B.
How many of the important things that Jesus taught the people can you remember? 130 G.B.
What was the name of the little boy who came when he was called? How was his mother unselfish? What do you think made him a great man? (Look at picture, page 45 .)132 G.B.
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Tell about the shepherd life that made David a strong, brave boy. How did he use his strength and bravery when his country needed him? (Look at pictures, pages 384 H.T. and 388 H.T.) 139 G.B.
What did David do for the great King Saul and how did Saul treat David in return? (Look on page 404 H.T. and see the place where David hid from Saul.) 151 G.B.
How did Jonathan show his friendship for David? 156 G.B.
Tell what three brave soldiers did to show their friendship for David. 163 G.B.
Tell the name of a wicked son of David and what happened to him. 167 G.B.
Who was called the "wisest king," and what was the greatest thing he ever did? (Look at picture on page 454 H.T.) 170 G.B.
Tell the name and the story of the little boy who was put in a pit by his brothers. (Look at picture on page 94 H.T. to see how the little boy traveled to Egypt.) 177 G.B.
How did this little slave boy become a great ruler in Egypt? 181 G.B.
Tell how, as a great ruler, he did a kind thing to the brothers who had been unkind to him. (See picture in front of H.T.) 185 G.B.
Tell about the woman who did a good deed to the prophet Elijah and how she was richly rewarded. 193 G.B.
When Jesus refused to be king in Palestine and told the people that he was king over a greater kingdom than they had, what did he mean? By what stories did Jesus explain what he meant? 201 G.B.
Tell what the little captive girl did to bring health to the great general Naaman. (Look at picture, page 150 T.J.) 205 G.B.
Tell all you know about the Jordan river. (Look at pictures, pages 284 H.T. and 340 H.T.) 224 G.B.
What is the strangest lake in the world? Why would you dislike to live near it? (Look at picture on page 228 G.B., also on page 34 H.T.) 226 G.B.
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