Excerpt from The Bible Story: And Its Teaching for Children Tolstoy found this power of the Old Testament in arousing interest absolutely unique in his remarkable experiments in the schooling of peasant children: Of all the oral subjects I tried during three years, nothing so suited the understanding and mental condition of the boys as the Old Testament. The same was the case in all the schools that came under my observation. It seems to me that the book of the childhood of the race will always be the best book for the childhood of each man To alter or to abbreviate the Bible appears to me bad. All, every word, in it is right, both as revelation and as art. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.