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Title: Notable Women of Olden Time

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: May 5, 2006 [EBook #18316]

Language: English

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NOTABLE WOMEN

OF

OLDEN TIME.

WRITTEN FOR THE AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION.

PHILADELPHIA:
AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION,
1122 CHESTNUT STREET.

_Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1852, by the
AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District
of Pennsylvania._

_No books are published by the AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION without the
sanction of the Committee of Publication, consisting of fourteen
members, from the following denominations of Christians, viz. Baptist,
Methodist, Congregationalist, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Lutheran, and
Reformed Dutch. Not more than three of the members can be of the same
denomination, and no book can be published to which any member of the
Committee shall object._

CONTENTS.

PAGES

THE WIFE--(SARAH) 7

THE WIFE UNLOVED--(HAGAR) 35

THE PARTIAL AND INTRIGUING MOTHER--(REBEKAH) 63

THE RIVAL SISTERS--(LEAH AND RACHEL) 89

THE AFFECTIONATE SISTER--(MIRIAM) 119

THE PROPHETESS--(DEBORAH) 171

THE ARTFUL WOMAN--(JEZEBEL) 187

THE AMBITIOUS WOMAN--(ATHALIAH) 205

THE ORPHAN QUEEN--(ESTHER) 231

THE WIFE--SARAH.

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Within a few centuries after the flood, while some who had witnessed the
sin and the destruction of the antediluvian world were still living,
Jehovah saw fit, in accordance with his designs of eternal wisdom, to
separate Abraham from his brethren, calling upon him to leave the land
of his birth and go out into a strange land, to dwell in a