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OF JESUS CHRIST

A SYSTEMATIC ARRANGEMENT OF THE PRINCIPAL
EVENTS IN THE LIFE OF "THE GREAT NAZA-
RENE," ESPECIALLY ADAPTED TO THE
YOUTH OF THE AGE

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HARVARD

COLLEGE
LIBRARY

Copyright, 1902,
by

THE

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INTRODUCTION.

In the morning of the world, before the ruby portals of the East were opened to admit a golden dawn, there was light from the invisible throne, and refulgence from God's presence, which illumined all that He had made on the first day of His marvelous work. When the six days of Creation were ended, the sun, moon and stars poured their flood of light over the completed creation, and made the world a scene of harmony and beauty; while bird, flower and landscape joined with the first human pair in offering to the Creator a song of united praise.

The sacred writers have described how man, who was created in the image of God, brought sin into the world, and all its fearful consequences. Over the vault where spread the glory of a pleased Omnipotence, which bathed the world with splendor inconceivable, there now rolled the clouds of darkness obscuring the

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