The Children's Tabernacle

A. L. O. E.'s The Children's Tabernacle is a gentle devotional story that uses a family's everyday life to make the Old Testament vivid for young readers. Framed as a book to be read with parents or teachers, it blends narrative with religious instruction, guiding children through the tabernacle, sacrifice, priesthood, leprosy, faith, and the deeper meaning of biblical symbols. The story opens in the Temple household, where illness, idleness, and a childish quarrel become the starting point for a lesson on useful labor and devotion. Mrs. Temple leads her children from their own frustrations to the Israelites in the wilderness, showing how the making of the Tabernacle gave God's people holy work and transformed offerings of gold, jewels, and needlework into worship. As the family plans a model of the Tabernacle for both learning and charity, each child is given a role, and practical details about the altar, laver, curtains, and sacred furnishings become lessons in craftsmanship, humility, and inward piety. The book then turns to leprosy, sin, and cleansing, using the story of Naaman to deepen its themes of pride, repentance, and God's mercy. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.