The Carob tree branch with separate flower, pod and two seeds.
Description of Botanical Coloring Pages: The revisers have inserted in the margin of Luke 15: 16, "the pods of the carob tree" for "husks" in the text. The husks were the pods of Ceratonia siliqua, small tree which grows in the countries bordering on the Mediterranean. The pods are from six to twelve inches long, about an inch broad, and of a shining purplish-brown color, containing several seeds, separated from each other by a fleshy pulp. From the large quantity of sweet mucilage they contain, they form a good and agreeable food for animals, and are largely exported as a feeding stuff for stock. The pods are sometimes called locust beans and St. John's bread, from the notion that they were used as food by John the Baptist; but this is an error.
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Description of Botanical Coloring Page: (R. V. Eccl. 12:5) In the remarkable description of old age (Eccl. 12:5) the revisers have put into the text "the caper-berry shall fail." and placed "desire" in the margin. The flower-bud, preserved in vinegar, is largely used as a stimulating condiment in food. The caper is an abundant shrub in parts of the Middle East, found on walls and rocks. It has ovate, smooth leaves, with two little spines at their base, showy flowers, and oval fruit.
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"Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger." Psalm 8:2
"And they said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" And Jesus said to them, "Yes, have you never read, "Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise;?" Matthew 21:16
This is a missionary story. I have often read it, and I know it is true. It happened in a little village, in an out-of-the-way corner of India, where a missionary had gone to baptize sixty or seventy men and women and to form them into a Christian church. When the service began the missionary noticed a boy about twelve years of age, sitting away back in the corner of the building, looking very much interested and listening with all his might. After he had baptized and received into the church all the grown-up men and women who had professed their faith in the Lord Jesus as their Savior, he was surprised to see this boy come forward and stand in front of the pulpit. The missionary said to him, "What, my lad, do you want to unite with the church and sit down to the Lord's Supper?" The boy said, "Yes, sir." The missionary looked at him lovingly, and said, "But you are very young, and I know nothing about you, and no one has taught you about the Christian faith, and after a while you may grow careless and indifferent. Perhaps it will be better for you to wait. I will be here again in less than a year, and if during that time you will study hard and prepare yourself, then, if you wish to unite with the church, I will receive you gladly." The boy said nothing, but turned away to his seat with a very sad heart, and the missionary saw that he was very, very much disappointed. Before the little fellow reached his seat, the missionary saw all the people standing up and they all began to talk at once. After a little while they allowed one man to speak for the rest, and he said: "Why, sir, this boy has taught us all we know about Jesus." And what he said proved to be the truth. That boy had learned the story of the Gospel at a mission school in a distant village, and had returned to his heathen home to tell the story of Jesus to his own people and to his friends. He read to them out of the New Testament until they too gave their hearts to God and were led to Jesus. So you see this little lad was really the minister of the village. Of course, I do not think that boys should preach like grown-up men, but I am sure if they love Jesus and live as He would like to have them live, kind and obedient and true, that they will be able to do more for Him than they could do, even if they were able to preach great, long, eloquent sermons. You know the Bible says, "A little child shall lead them." I want you to remember this verse for the text. I have known fathers and mothers with whom ministers and Sunday school teachers and elders and deacons seemed to have no influence, who were led to Jesus by their own little boy or girl. We sing sometimes, " Jesus wants me for a sunbeam," and I think a sunbeam is the most beautiful and most useful thing in all the world. Hugh Kerr
Sometimes God chooses the very young to speak His truth.
Description of The Coloring Page: The shepherds visit the infant Christ. Mary holds Jesus on her knees. The Ox and the Donkey wait patiently with Joseph in the barn. Nativity, Christmas and/or Advent
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Description of The Coloring Page: sculpted inside of an ancient sarcophagus, A scene depicting the great escape of the Hebrews from Egypt. Left is pharaoh in his chariot, horses and beneath them are the drowning soldiers. Right is Moses with his staff.
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Camphire or Henna. Separate flower, fruit, and seeds.
Description of Botanical Coloring Page: Camphire, the Hebrew copher, is mentioned in the Song of Solomon (1: 14), "My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of En-gedi; " also in 4:13. Camphire is an old form of the word camphor. The revisers have substituted "henna" in those texts. Henna (Lawso- nia alba) is a shrub found in Northern Africa, and in Asia from Syria to India. It bears numerous small, white, sweet-smelling flowers in large clusters. But the plant has been from remote antiquity famous as a cosmetic, being used to give a reddish-orange stain to the nails, tips of the fingers, palms of the hand, and soles of the feet. The young stems and leaves are reduced to a powder, and when used, are made into a paste with hot water, and applied for a night to the parts to be stained. The stain of the henna has been detected on Egyptian mummies.
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Description of Botanical Coloring Page: Calamus was a chief spice used as an ingredient in the holy anointing oil (Exodus 30:25). It was imported into the Holy Land, and sold in the markets of Tyre (Ezekiel 27:19). If Vedan and Javan, from which it seems to have been brought, were, as is usually supposed, islands of the Mediterranean, it may have been the sweet sedge (Acorus calamus), which was probably introduced very early into Europe from India. Its underground stem is fragrant, and enters into many compounds of the perfumer. The calamus may, however, have been one of the sweet-scented lemon-grasses of India. These grasses have a strong aromatic odor. The base of the stem and roots are at the present day made into fans, or woven into screens or mats, and mush used in India and elsewhere, because they give off for a long time the fragrance of the plant.
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Description of Botanical Coloring Page: Cassia is one of the ingredients of the holy anointing oil (Exodus 30: 24), and not the same as cinnamon, which was another ingredient. Some, however, hold that cassia was obtained from another species of cinnamon, and that the barks of both Cinnamomum zeylanicum and C. cassia were used in making the holy oil. It is more probable that the revisers are right when they suggest in the margin that the plant is costus. This is obtained from an Indian composite plant called Aplotaxis lappa, which grows on the mountains of the Cashmere Valley, where the aromatic root is largely dug up in the autumn, and is exported to China to be used as an ingredient in the incense in the temples. It is specified as one of the articles of Syrian commerce (Ezekiel 27:19). The cassia of Psalms 45: 8 is the translation of another Hebrew word, but most probably it refers to the same plant.
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Separate staminal flower with one petal, and below separate pistil with one petal.
Description of Botanical Coloring Page: The chestnut tree in the R. V. this is translated plane-tree, and there is little doubt that the Oriental plane is the tree meant. It is tall and majestic tree, growing near water in Palestine. From the globular form of the flowers and fruits it is often called button-tree.
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Description of Botanical Coloring Page: Coriander is only referred to in the description of the manna (Exodus. 10: 31, and Numbers 11: 7), as a familiar object which the manna resembled. The coriander is very common in grain fields in the Middle East. It was cultivated in Egypt to give a flavor to bread, and was probably used for this purpose also by the Jews. The plant is cultivated for its aromatic seeds (or rather fruits), which are used for flavoring curries, etc.
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Description of the Botanical Coloring Page: Cumin is the aromatic fruit of an umbelliferous plant, used as a condiment. The leaves are somewhat like fennel, and the fruits have several ridges covered with prickly hairs. The volatile oil is contained in six channels. The fruits (popularly seeds) were separated from the plant by being "beaten with a rod" (Isaiah 28: 25, 27). The Savior charged the scribes and Pharisees with punctiliously tithing the cummin (Matthew 23: 23), which was only inferentialy included in the Levitical law, while they omitted the weightier matters of the law.
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Description of Botanical Coloring Page: Cinnamon is a very aromatic bark obtained from a tree which is native of Ceylon India,and Malaya. It was one of the ingredients in the holy anointing oil (Exodus 30: 23), and was used to perfume beds (Proverbs 7: 17). The tree grows to a height of thirty feet, and has oval leaves and numerous small flowers. An essential oil is obtained from the leaves and bark by distillation. The trees are pollarded so as to produce numerous erect shoots, from which the bark is peeled.
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