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His goodness; -and the third about sin, and its wages. Then come strange pictures of a state of things in which the death penalty is not inflicted and everyone seems to do as he Hikes. All of them are lessons such as would be need ed for preparing debased and ignorant people to live manly and upright lives. These lessons, seven in number, are followed by extracts from the early records of the I sraelites, showing the high and noble place they were to fill in the world, and how, through their race, all nations of the earth were to be blessed; and showing also how, in spite of evil doings and judgments there on, God sgood hand had been over tne race, shielding, help ing, providing and ever leading them on to the fulfilment of their high destiny. Thus to understand the aim and method of the Book we have only to picture to ourselves what nracejaf si a VPS, down trodden and despondent like the Israelites in Egypt needed for their uplifting and encouragement. They had to be taught the nobility of man and yljff frinrin AgQ nf fi- te spir it of the race had to be aroused by the knowledge of the place they were meant to fill in God splans in the world; the people urged to live worthy of their high calling, and enabled to do so Jby being set free from the grass errors begotten of bondage. Slaves, in daily dread of the taskmaker slash, dream of a time when punishment and restraint will cease to exist and each will he free to do as he likes; and they had to be taught that guch a state of things could only be in a sinless world; that the wretchedness of life and labor comes from sin, and the ahence of punishment and restraint would but mean a wild out break of wickedness and violence, bringing greater misery than ever; and that the only way to have law and order was to have them enforced with penalties. One thimg very noticeable throughout all these lessons is the sacred
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