THE BIBLE IN ITS MAKING

The most Wonderful Book in the World

BY

MILDRED DUFF AND NOEL HOPE

COMPANION VOLUME TO

'Where Moses went to School,'
'When Moses learnt to Rule,'
'Esther the Queen,'
'Daniel the Prophet,' and
'Hezekiah the King.'

ILLUSTRATED BY NOEL HOPE

With Sketches of the Original Monuments and Stone Pictures

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Where Moses went to School
Where Moses learnt to Rule
Esther the Queen
Daniel the Prophet
Hezekiah the King

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FOREWORD

One great universal law runs through the realm of nature. Our Saviourgave it in a sentence: 'First the blade, then the ear, after that thefull corn in the ear.'

It is with the desire to show that the same law rules in another ofGod's creations—The Bible—that this little volume has been prepared.

The Bible has as literally 'grown' as has an oak tree; and probablythere is no more likeness between the Bible as we know it to-day andits earliest beginning, than we find between the mighty tree, and theacorn from which it sprang.

The subject is so vast that we have not attempted anything beyond thebriefest outline. Our purpose has been merely to give some idea of theorigin of the Bible books, up to the measure of our present light uponthe subject, and also to show the purpose for which they were written.

But if our readers, by seeing something of the wonder and glory of theHoly Scriptures, are able to catch a glimpse of the Creator's mindbehind the whole, our work will not have been in vain.

MILDRED DUFF.

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