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em to live. This world was a ruined lace, where land, water and every– Ing else, was all mixed up and great rkness was over all. God decided to ake it beautiful and put people to Hve in it. God said to the darkness, 'Let there be Light." At once, the Hght shined out; God said it was good, &nd divided the light from the dark– ness, calling the light "day," and the darkness "night." That was the First day. The Second day, God made the clouds from the water, and' put them above the world. The Third day, God gathered the wa– ters into oceans, seas, lakes, ponds, creeks and rivers, so the dry land ap– peared in continents, islands, with mountains, valleys, and plains. He told the earth to bring forth grass, herbs, and trees of all sorts, which it did: God saw that it was good. The Fourth day, God made the sun to shine in the day, the moon and stars to shine at night. The Fifth day, God told the waters to bring forth all kinds of fishes, and He made all sorts of birds and fowls. The Sixth day was the greatest of all. All kinds of beasts and cattle and creeping things were made. All of them good. Then God said, "Let us make man in our image and likeness, male and female, to rule over the earth." God made man's body out of dust, and then breathed into the body His life, so man had a soul and a pirit. Man's body may die, but his soul d spirit never will. His soul makes an know the things around him; his pirit helps him to worship .God, and know God. God called the man 'Adam", letting him give names to ~rything living,-beasts, animals and rds.
Adam was to take care of this earth, so God gave him a helper. He put Adam to sleep, and while sleeping, God took a rib from his side and made a woman. When Adam awoke he .found her there and loved her. God made a beautiful garden for them to live in, full of flowers and fine fr.uit trees. They might eat of any tree but one, "The tree of the knowl– edge of good and evil''. They would die if they ate the fruit of that tree. It was all good in God's sight. God's work was all finished on the Seventh day, so God rested that day, setting that day apart as a day for Adam and all the earth to worship Him and God blessed that day. How won– derfully good God showed Himself, to make everything so perfect for man. Memory Verse. Psalm 100. (Have the children understand that God did all this so we might have a beautiful place in which to live, while being made r eady to dwell with Him in Heaven.) DANIEL NOT GOOD EATING It was Mr. Spurgeon, we believe, who discovered a new and extra-Scrip– tural reason for the safety of Daniel while temporarily abiding in the den of lions. According to his conclusions it was absolutely impossible for the lions to eat Daniel because "the most of him was backbone and the rest grit."
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