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Title: With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Stall, Sylvanus, 1847-1915
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Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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String of Pearls.
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Diving for Pearls. 131 132 PEARLS. There are pearls to-day worth two and three hundred thousanddollars, and possibly more. The pearl in this parable is the symbol of salvation. Now,salvation has cost more, and is worth more than all the farms, andhouses, and stores, and wealth of all this nation, and all the nationsof all the globe, and all the created universe about us. It cost thelife of the Son of God, and it is desirable, therefore, that you andI should obtain it, because of the many blessings it secures to us,both in this world and in the world to come. For two thousand years men from all the largest nations ofthe earth have gone to the island of Ceylon, seeking pearls. It isa barren and deserted island, but during the months of February,March and April, every night at ten oclock, many boats sail outabout ten miles, to the place where men, with large leaden weightsat their feet, dive down through the water until they come to thebanks where the large pearl oyster has his home. The

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