. Sweet stories of God; in the language of childhood and the beautiful delineations of sacred art . h him two ofeach kind of bird and of beast, and of bug, and ofthings that crept, and to take care of them in the arkso long as the flood should be on the earth; for allthat were not in the ark would be sure to be drowned. So No-ah set out at once to build the ark; andit took him a great while to build it. When not atwork on the ark, he would talk of God, and of hisplan to send a flood to wash sin out of the world, andwould urge the folks to give up their sins, and leadgood lives. But they paid n
. Sweet stories of God; in the language of childhood and the beautiful delineations of sacred art . h him two ofeach kind of bird and of beast, and of bug, and ofthings that crept, and to take care of them in the arkso long as the flood should be on the earth; for allthat were not in the ark would be sure to be drowned. So No-ah set out at once to build the ark; andit took him a great while to build it. When not atwork on the ark, he would talk of God, and of hisplan to send a flood to wash sin out of the world, andwould urge the folks to give up their sins, and leadgood lives. But they paid no heed to his words,and went from bad to worse all the time that No-ahwas at work on the ark. When it was done God told No-ah to come in-tothe ark, for he saw he was a good man who haddone his best to serve him, and to bring the birdsand beasts with him. For in a few days he wouldsend the rain on the earth, and all that was left on itwould be drowned. So No-ah did as God told him. And when heand his wife, and his three sons and their wives, andthe birds and the beasts, both small and great, had. ?,-. 48 History of the Old Testament. passed through the great door of the ark, God shutthem in. At the end of a week the rain set in, and did notstop for more than a month. The rain seemed topour out of the sky, and all the springs, the large andsmall streams, and the great seas, rose up and sweptthrough the length and breadth of the land. Theycame to where the ark was, and went round andround it, and rose so high that the ark was bornefrom its place and set a-float on the great wide sea. Then those who had paid no heed to No-ah, buthad kept on in their sins, were in a sad plight. Theflood had come, and they knew now that all that hehad told them was true. How glad they wouldhave been to go with him in the ark. But it was toolate. They ran in wild haste to the tops of the hillsin hopes to find there a safe place. But still thefloods rose and rose till there was no place for themto
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