vl PREFACE.

may be learned from some passages 10 Scrip-
ture History. It is not an attempt to express
all the lessons we are taught by the warlike
scenes the Bible paints ; but the desire of the
writer is to lead the young, and those who as-
sist them in studying the Holy Book, to study
it with a purpose,—with regard to every passage
of Sacred Writ to ask themselves, What may I
learn from this? That any one may be led by
perusing these pages to search the Scriptures
with more care and attention than formerly,
seems a presumptuous hope ; but “ God hath
chosen the weak things of the world to con-
found the things which are mighty,” and if it
please Him, he can make even this little work
an instrument of good. The writing of it was
undertaken with a desire to glorify Him, and it
will accomplish the purpose for which he has
permitted it to be written, whatever that pur-

pose may be.

NoveMBER 1851.