What a Young Boy Ought to Know (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1897. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CYLINDER II. The Creation of Plants, Animals, and Man, Each after His Kind.--How God Created Adam and Eve.--The Bible Account.--Reproductive Power Ordained of God.--God Would Not Make a Law that Had Impurity in It.--If We Do Not Blush at the Manner in Which God Created Adam and Eve, Neither Should We at the Manner in Which He Created Cain and Abel.--Thinking God's Pure Thoughts after Him.--Reproductive Resembles Creative Power. My Dear Friend Harry: I want to talk to you to-night about how in the beginning God created Adam and Eve, and ordained that the life of plants, animals, and man should be perpetuated Now if we turn again to the first chapter of Genesis, we find that on the third day God created the grass and herbs, " Each yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself." On the fifth day He created the fishes and birds, " and God blessed them saying, Be fruitful, and multiply." And on the sixth day He created " Cattle and creeping things, and beasts of the earth, after his kind." And last of all, in the work of creation, God also created man. Now if we take the different verses from the first and second chapters of Genesis, and bring them together in a continuous account, the history of man's creation in God's own words will read: "God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed. And the Lor...