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Title: The Bible in its Making
The most Wonderful Book in the World

Author: Mildred Duff
Noel Hope

Illustrator: Noel Hope

Release Date: January 9, 2010 [EBook #30908]

Language: English

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THE BIBLE IN ITS MAKING

The most Wonderful Book in the World

BY

MILDRED DUFF AND NOEL HOPE

COMPANION VOLUME TO

'_Where Moses went to School,_'
'_When Moses learnt to Rule,_'
'_Esther the Queen,_'
_'Daniel the Prophet,' and_
'_Hezekiah the King._'

ILLUSTRATED BY NOEL HOPE

With Sketches of the Original Monuments and Stone Pictures

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Where Moses went to School
Where Moses learnt to Rule
Esther the Queen
Daniel the Prophet
Hezekiah the King

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FOREWORD

One great universal law runs through the realm of nature. Our Saviour
gave it in a sentence: 'First the blade, then the ear, after that the
full corn in the ear.'

It is with the desire to show that the same law rules in another of
God's creations--The Bible--that this little volume has been prepared.

The Bible has as literally 'grown' as has an oak tree; and probably
there is no more likeness between the Bible as we know it to-day and
its earliest beginning, than we find between the mighty tree, and the
acorn from which it sprang.

The subject is so vast that we have not attempted anything beyond the
briefest outline. Our purpose has been merely to give some idea of the
origin of the Bible books, up to the measure of our present light upon
the subject, and also to show the purpose for which they were written.

But if our readers, by seeing something of the wonder and glory of the
Holy Scriptures, are able to catch a glimpse of the Creator's mi