stances in it, mentally to form announcements, and audibly to give lessons for themselves. By this means any part of the word of God will soon be read and studied, even by mere children, in a manner wholly new, and unspeakably pleasant and profitable.

6. The Application of the Lessons, or of some of them, will be very useful and desirable. It is done by supposing cases in ordinary life, where the Lessons may be usefully applied. Of this a variety of examples, drawn from experience, will be found in the "Effects of the Lesson System," to which we refer.

7. For the genealogies, and some other passages, with which it is not perhaps so important for children, in the first instance, to be very critically versant, there have no exercises been provided in the Help. On the propriety and expediency of this, we scarcely think there will be any difference of opinion. If there should, we shall be sorry for the circumstance, but must, in that case, throw ourselves upon the candour and charity of those who differ from us. It is lawful, certainly, in a work of this kind, to chuse one book of Scripture on which to construct a Help, in preference to another; and if so, it is equally lawful, (and we ask no more,) to make an election of chapters, or even of verses, for the same purpose.-Every chapter, and every -verse, are, no doubt, equally inspired; but every one is not, and was never designed to be, equally useful.

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BOOK OF GENESIS

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SECTION I.

Of the Creation of the World.Gen. i. 1-19.

N the (1) beginning God (2) created the (3) heaven and the

I) earth.

1. Commencement of time.-2. Brought into existence.-3. Sky, and all that is in it.-4. World, and all that is in it and upon it.

1. What were created? When were the heaven and the earth created? By whom were all things created? What was done in the beginning to the heaven and the earth?

2. And the (1) earth was without (2) form, and (3) void; and dark. ness was upon the (4) face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the (4) face of the waters.

1. World.-2. Shape.-3. Empty.-4. Surface.

2. What was without form and void? What was the earth without? What is said of the earth besides its being without form? What was on the face of the deep? Where was the darkness? What did the Spirit of God do? Upon what did the Spirit of God move? What moved upon the face of the waters? 3. And God said, Let there be light; and there was light.

3. What did God say? What was the first thing that God made? What happened when God said Let there be light? When was there light?

4. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God (1) divided the light from the darkness.

1. Separated.

4. What did God see? Who saw the light? Whai did God see about the light which he had made? What was good? What did God divide? From what was the light divided? Who divided the light from the darkness?

5. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening aud the morning were the first day.

5. What did God call the light? What was called day? Who called the light day? What did God call the darkness? What was called night? When was the light separated from the darkness? What did

God do on the first day?

6. And God said, Let there be a (1) firmament in the (2) midst of the waters, and let it (3) divide the waters from the waters.

1. Sky, or open space.-2. Middle.-3. Separate.

6. What did God say? What was there to be? Where was the firmament to be? What was to be in the midst of the waters? What was the firmament to do? What was to divide the waters from the waters? What were to be divided from the waters?

7. And God made the (1) firmument, and (2) divided the waters which were (3) under the firmament, from the waters which were (4) above the firmament: and it was so.

1. Sky, or open space.-2. Separated.-3. Below.-4. Higher than.

7. What did God make? Who made the firmament? What did God divide? From what did God divide the waters which were under the firmanent? What did God do to the waters which were above the firmament? What was so?

8. And God called the (1) firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

1. Sky, or open space all round about the earth.

8. What did God do? What did God call the firmament? What was called heaven? Who called the firmament heaven? When was the firmament made, and the waters above and below divided? What was the second day? What did God do on the second day?

9. And God said, Let the waters (1) under the heaven be (2) gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land (3) appear: and it was so

1. That are below the heaven, upon the surface of the earth-2. Col lected.-3. Rise above the waters.

9. What did God say? What was to be done to the waters under the heaven? What were to be gathered together? Where were the waters to be gathered together? What were to be gathered together unto one place? What waters were to be gathered unto one place? What was to appear 2 When was the dry land to appear? What was so?

10- And God called the dry land Earth; and the (1) gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. 1. Collection.

10. What did God do? What did God call the dry land? What was called earth? What land was called earth? What was the gathering together of the waters called? What was called seas? Who called the waters seas? What did God see? What was good? (1. And God said, Let the earth (1) bring forth grass, the (2) herb yeilling seed, and the fruit-tree (3) yeilding fruit, (4) after his And, whose seed (5) is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

1. Produce.-2. Plant.-3. Producing.-4. Each according to its nature.-5. Grows.

11. What did God say? What was the earth to bring forth? What was to bring forth grass? Who bid the earth bring forth grass? What was the earth to bring forth besides grass? What was the herb to yield? What was to yield fruit? After what? Where is the seed of plants? Upon what? What was so?

12. And the earth (1) brought forth grass, and herb (2) yeilding seed after his kind, and the tree (2) yeilding fruit, whose seed (3) was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

1. Produced.-2 Producing.-3. Grew.

12. What brought forth grass? What did the earth bring forth? What does the herb yield? What kind of seed does the herbs yield? What were the trees to yield? What was in itself? What kind of seed was in the fruit trees? What did God see? What did God see was good?

13. And the evening and the morning were the third day.

13. What day of creation was this? What was the third day? What did God do on the third day? When were the herbs and trees made?

14. And God said, Let there be lights in the (1) firmament of the heaven, to (2) divide the day from the night; and let them be for (3) signs, and for (4) seasons, and for days, and years:

1. Sky.-2. Separate.-3. Marks, or tokens.-4. Distinguishing the different times of the year.

14. What did God say? What were there to be in the firmament? Where were the lights to be? In what firmament were the lights to be? What were the lights in the firmament to do? What were to be divided? What was to divide the day from the night? For what were the lights in the firmament to be? What were to be for signs, seasons, days, and years?

15. And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

15. What were to be for lights in the firmament of heaven? Where were they to be for lights? To what were they to give light? What were to give light to the earth? What was so?

16. And God made (1) two great lights; the (2) greater light to rule the day, and the (3) lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

1. The sun and the moon.-2. Sun.-3. Moon.

16. What did God make? How many great lights did God make? What was the greater light to do? What was to rule the day? What was the greater light to do to the day? What was to be the use of the lesser light? What was to rule the night? What was the lesser light to rule? What in the heavens did God on this day make, besides the two great lights? When did God make the stars?

17. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light up. on the earth.

17. Who set them? Where did God set them? What did God set in the firmament of the heaven ? In what firmament were the great lights and the stars set? For what purpose were the lights placed in the