Identifier: truestoriesforli00rich (find matches)
Title: True stories for little people..
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Richmond, E. J. (from old catalog)
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good people ?What light had Enoch ?Had the people around him the same light ?What did they choose ?What is said of Enoch ?What came to him ?May we have to follow him in this ?What may we do ? 12 TRUE STOPvIES FPwOM THE BOOK. CHAPTEE IV.THE FLOOD. Water is one of the greatest blessings whichGod has given to man. Yet God used it to de-stroy men, because they loved sin. Liberty — thepower to choose — is a great blessing, but we mayabuse it as Eve did. And men did abuse it.They loved sin, and the world grew wickederevery day. There was only one man, Koah, who believedGod and obeyed Him. And when God had deter-mined to destroy all men for their great sins, Hetold Xoah, and bade him build an ark. It was agreat ship, larger than any ever builded, perhaps.Yet it is said that the ^- Great Eastern, whichsome years ago laid the Atlantic cable, was ofabout the same length and breadth as the ark.To see a great ship like this going up year afteryear, and to hear Noah tell that God was about to
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The Dove Returning. THE FLOOD. 13 bring a flood upon the earth, and destroy all flesh,was too much for the faithless people. The ark stood on dry land, and no doubt theythought it would always be there. But when theysaw all the animals, two of a kind, going into thegreat three-storied ark, ahd knew that Noah hadlaid up in it food enough of all kinds to last manymonths, they began to look grave. Then God saidto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into theark. And Noah obeyed, and with his wife, histhree sons and their wives, went into the ark.And the Lord shut him in.^^ Now they are safe,and no doubt the men who had sneered at Noahbegan to tremble. For the rain came down, andthe ark rose on the waters. Men fled to the hillsand the mountains. The rain still poured for forty days and fortynights, and the mountains were covered. Andevery living thing upon the earth, except whatwere in the ark, was dead. Then God remem-bered them, and the rain ceased, and the windsblew, and the tops of the m

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