THE BOOK OF LIFE ARRANGED AND EDITED BY NEWTON MARSHALL HALL, A.M., D.D. PASTOR EMERITUS OF THE NORTH CHURCH, SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS AND IRVING FRANCIS WOOD, PH.D., D.D. PROFESSOR OF RELIGION AND BIBLICAL LITERATURE JOINT AUTHORS OF THE BIBLE STORY, EARLY DAYS OF ISRAEL, DAYS OF THE KINGS OF ISRAEL, VOLUME Two BIBLE HEROES, PIONEERS JOHN RUDIN & COMPANY INC. CHICAGO PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. This One 5ET3-D9Z-NO8A COPYRIGHT, 1923, 1925, 1927 BY JOHN RUDIN & COMPANY INC. CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL AND IMPERIAL COPYRIGHT SECURED ALL RIGHTS RESERVED IN ALL COUNTRIES FIRST EDITION, 1923 T PREFACE HIS volume and the following volumes con tain the language of the Bible in the King James version. These old stories are hero tales. The personal element predominates. First come those wonderful narratives of the old, old days of remote antiquity told in the black tents around the camp fire, stories of matchless dramatic interest, told often in the language of poetry, of the dealings of God with humanity in the far-off days. Then come the stories of those great pioneers, the shepherd princes of Palestine, of days of captivity in Egypt, of the escape from bondage and training in the desert under the leadership of one of the world's greatest statesmen and law-givers, of days of conflict and struggle in Canaan, a nation coming to consciousness and power. These are all stories which cannot be too well known because they have a vital bearing upon all history. The pictures of Egyptian life in the days of Joseph, from the unique collection in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, are of the greatest interest and value. The stories of Jacob and of Joseph, intensely dramatic in form, are given a dramatic setting by simply inserting the names of the characters who are speaking. V |