Line Upon Line; Or, a Second Series of the Earliest Religious Instruction the Infant Mind Is Capable of Receiving, with Verses Illustrative of the Subjects - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1873 Excerpt: ... PREFACE, The design of this little work is to lead children to understand, and to delight in the Scriptures. If adults meet with difficulties in the sacred text, which commentaries often remove, children must necessarily meet with many more, Bome of which this little book may clear up. Since it is evident that commentaries would not suit the volatile minds of children, however simply they might be written, some other kind of help ought to be provided for them. The best assistance would no doubt be afford ed by the parent's voice: for no book can so forcibly arrest the attention, or touch the heart, as the remarks of a tender parent. But where children do not enjoy this advantage, a book may in some measure supply its place; and where they do possess it, may recall to mind parental instructions. Many interesting histories have been omitted because the writer feared to swell the size of the work, and judged it better to relate the principal events in detail than to give an abridged account of all. But it is intended that these omissioni should be supplied, (if the Lord will,) and that shortly the history of Job should be published, and subsequently that of the Judges, and of the kings of Israel and Judah. LINE UPON LINE. CHAPTER I. THE CREATION. Gen. i. My dear children,--I know that you have heard that God made the world. Could a man have made the world? No; a man could not make such a world as this. Men can make many things, such as boxes and baskets. Perhaps you know a man who can make a box. Suppose you were to shut him up in a room which was quite empty, and you were to say to him, "You shall not come out till you have made a box,"--would the man ever come out? No--never. A man could not make a box, except he had something to make it of. He must nave som...

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