Bow of Faith, or, Old Testament Lessons for Children

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE RAINBOW. Genesis vm. is. Were all the people that lived on the earth drowned, except Noah, and his wife and children ? Yes; every living thing was drowned, only Noah remained alive, and them that were with him in the ark. Did the flood go all over the round world ? Wherever there were men living, there...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE RAINBOW. Genesis vm. is. Were all the people that lived on the earth drowned, except Noah, and his wife and children ? Yes; every living thing was drowned, only Noah remained alive, and them that were with him in the ark. Did the flood go all over the round world ? Wherever there were men living, there the flood went. Did God forget Noah ? No; the Bible says God remembered Noah, that he made a wind to blow over the earth, that he stopped up the fountains of the great deep, and shut up the windows of Heaven. Did the waters go away all at once ? No; as the earth was not drowned in a day, so it was not dried in a day. What was the name of the mountain upon which the ark rested ? Mount Ararat. Do you think Noah was pleased when he found the ark stood still on the ground ? Yes; for it must have been weary work to toss about on the wild sea for one hundred and fifty long days and dark nights. Was Noah so clever that he made the ark rest on Mount Ararat ? No; it was God who steered the ark to the right place before it rested. When the ark rested, what was the first thing Noah did? He looked out. What did he see? The tops of the mountains. What did he do then? He opened a window and sent forth a raven. Did the raven return to the ark ? No; the raven flew backward and forward till the earth was dry. What did the raven find to eat? We suppose he ate the dead bodies that were floating upon the water. What did Noah do next ? He sent forth a dove. Did the dove return to the ark ? Yes; she found no rest for the sole of her foot, so she returned to the ark. When Noah saw the dove come back, what did he do? He put forth his hand and pulled her in, and he knew by this that the water still covered the eart...