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s, especially concerning Mary, of which plans neither of the sisters knew until revealed to her by an angel from God. We think of them as faithful to Him, and ready for any service to which He might call them, in the fis

s of Jesus. This family connection may have had something to do with their years of close intimacy; bu

d shells, and dug in the sand, and sailed on Gennesaret, and helped with His little hands to drag the ne

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Jesus treated His little mates, and how they treated Him-the best boy in Nazareth? Did the cousins talk together of what their mothers had taught them from the Scriptures, especially of The Great One whom

t with them to gather daisies, crocuses, poppies, tulips, marigolds, mignonette and lilies, which grow so profusely around the village. Did they ramble among the scarlet pomegranates, the green oaks, the dark green palms, the cypresses and olives that grew in

ger with a carpenter's tool, and running to His mother to have it bound up. Did John witness any

us to think of Jesus as a boy, like other boys. James and John thought

a second cousin of whom we shall know more. John was to have a deep interest in both of

by a Rabbi. Some attention was paid to arithmetic, the history of their nation, and natural history. But, as at their homes, the chief study was the Scriptures. They were taught especially about One-"Of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write." Let us remember those words for we shall hear them again. That One was calle

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