cross

The descent from the cross

The angel of the resurrection

The walk to Emmaus

The ascension

CHILD'S STORY OF THE BIBLE

CHAPTER I.

THE BEGINNING OF THINGS.

Away back in the beginning of things God made the sky and the earth we
live upon. At first it was all dark, and the earth had no form, but
God was building a home for us, and his work went on through six long
days, until it was finished as we see it now.

On the first day God said, "Let there be light," and the black night
turned to gray, and light came. God called the light Day, and the
darkness Night, and the evening and the morning made the first day.

Then God divided the waters, so that there were clouds above and seas
below, and He called the clouds heaven. It was the second day.

Then the seas were gathered together by themselves, and the dry land
rose above them, and God saw that it was good. Then He called to the
grass, and the plants, and the trees to come out of the ground, and
they came bearing their seeds, and He called the third day good.

Then God called to the two great lights, the sun and the moon, to shine
clear in the sky, which had been first dark, and then gray, and they
rose and set to make day and night, and seasons and years, and the
stars came also, and it was the fourth day.

Then God called for all kinds of fishes that swim in the seas, and
rivers, and for all kinds of birds that fly in the air, and they came,
and it was the fifth day.

And then God called for the animals to live on the green earth, and the
cattle and the great beasts, and the creeping things came, and God
called them all good.

After this he made the first of the great family of Man. He made them
after His own likeness. He made their bodies from the earth, but their
souls He breathed into them, so that Man is a spirit, living in an
earthly body, and can understand about God and love Him. He blessed
them and told them to become many, and to rule over all the earth, with
its beasts and birds, and fishes, and it was the sixth day.

The Man's name was Adam, and the woman, who was made from a piece of
Adam's body nearest to his heart, was named Eve.

Then God's world was finished, and on the seventh day there was rest.
God was pleased with all that was made, and He made the seventh day
holy, by setting it apart from all the others. We keep the Sabbath, or
the Lord's day still, in which his children may rest and worship.

Adam