ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks are due the following publishers and authors for permission to use extracts from their books:

D. Appleton & Co., Felix Adler, Moral Instruction of Children. J. B. Lippincott Company, S. G. Fisher, True Daniel Webster. Little, Brown & Co., J. H. Cox, Literature in the Common Schools. The Macmillan Company, Lord Bryce, American Commonwealth. Houghton Mifflin Company, Arlo Bates, Talks on the Study of Literature; H. C. Lodge, Daniel Webster.

"I will make of thee a Great Nation".
The Battle of the Four Kings with Five
The Priest of the Most High God
Abraham's Exceeding Great Reward
"Nay, but thou didst laugh'
The Curse of Sodom and Gomorrah
Why Lot's Wife became a Pillar of Salt

JACOB AND ESAU, ISAAC'S SONS

How Esau the Elder Brother despised his

Birthright

The Stolen Blessing

The Vision of Jacob's Ladder.

JACOB'S TWELVE SONS

Joseph's Dreams.

How Joseph was sold into Egypt.

How Pharaoh's Butler, and Pharaoh's Baker

The Strange Money in the Mouths of the Sacks 8
How Benjamin went down into Egypt

The Silver Cup in the Corn

"I am Joseph your Brother whom you sold

into Egypt"

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THE TEN PLAGUES OF EGYPT

The Rods of the Egyptian Magicians

The First Plague - The River of Blood

The Second Plague - The Scourge of Frogs. 116
The Third Plague - The Lice

. 118
119

The Fourth Plague — The Swarms of Flies
The Fifth Plague - The Grievous Murrain
The Sixth Plague - The Boils on Man and
Beast

The Seventh Plague

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The Eighth Plague The Locusts that cov-

121

The Blood of the Lamb that was slain

122

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131

133

The Tenth Plague — The Death of the First-
born

The Pillar of Cloud, and the Pillar of Fire.
How Pharaoh's Horses and Chariots were cast

into the Red Sea
The Song of Triumph

A Few of the Many Laws God gave Israel. 151