| › Preface - The object of these pages is simple, clear, holy. It is to arouse attention to the blessed truth, that Christ pervades all Scripture, as salt all wate ...read |
| › 1 - Light - "God said, Let there be light: and there was light." Genesis 1:3
The speaker is God. The time is before time was. The word is omnipotence. The res ...read |
| › 2 - Adam - "The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground." Genesis 2:7
The life of Adam is but a brief page. But each line supplies a volume larger than ...read |
| › 3 - The Heavenly Bridegroom - "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh." Genesis 2:23
Our Bible is a very Paradise of each sweet flower and each regaling fruit. But ...read |
| › 4 - The Seed of the Woman - "I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel." Genesis ...read |
| › 5 - The Serpent's Head Bruised - "I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel." Genesis ...read |
| › 6 - The Guilty Clothed - "The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them." Genesis 3:21
There is one God and one access to His smile. There is o ...read |
| › 7 - The More Excellent Sacrifice - "But Abel brought fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering." Genesis 4:4
A long c ...read |
| › 8 - The Consolation - "He will comfort us." Genesis 5:29
Thus speaks the patriarch Lamech. Such is his voice of joy, when he receives his first-born Noah. He was tillin ...read |
| › 9 - The Ark - The Lord then said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and your whole family." Genesis 7:1
The story of the ark has been familiar to us from memory's b ...read |
| › 10 - The Altar - "Noah built an altar unto the Lord." Genesis 7:20
To know the sanctifying power of grace, we must trace its actings in holy men. A machine of many ...read |
| › 11 - The Sweet Savor - "The Lord smelled a sweet savor." Genesis 8:21
Reader! do not you desire that your soul may prosper at the throne of grace? Perhaps you reply, "Su ...read |
| › 12 - The Rainbow in the Clouds - "I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth." Genesis 9:13
In the rainbow there is a ch ...read |
| › 13 - The Blessing - "In you shall all families of the earth be blessed." Genesis 12:3
Our Heavenly Father is love. The proof is the gift of His Son. Jesus is love. Th ...read |
| › 14 - Melchizedek - "Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought forth bread and wine, and he was the priest of the most high God." Genesis 14:18
The first war, which darkens ...read |
| › 15 - The Shield - "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield." Genesis 15:1
Abraham had heard the terrible clang of war. He had been in perils of fight. Thus he kne ...read |
| › 16 - The Exceeding Great Reward - "I am your shield, and your exceeding great reward." Genesis 15:1
It is a grand truth, that pleasantness and peace hold constant court in the beli ...read |
| › 17 - The Covenant - "I will establish My Covenant between Me and you, and your seed after you, in their generations, for an everlasting Covenant." Genesis 17:7
Reader ...read |
| › 18 - Jehovah-Jireh - "Abraham called the name of that Place Jehovah-Jireh." Genesis 22:14
Faith is the brightest star in the firmament of grace. High is its origin--fo ...read |
| › 19 - The Ladder - "Jacob had a dream in which he saw a ladder resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descendin ...read |
| › 20 - Peniel - Jacob named the place Peniel--"face of God"--for he said, "I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been spared." Genesis 32:30
The happiest ...read |
| › 21 - Numbered with the Transgressors - "Joseph's master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined." Genesis 39:20
Prison is a place of humiliati ...read |
| › 22 - The Storehouses Opened - "So with severe famine everywhere in the land, Joseph opened up all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians." Genesis 41:56
He has much to ...read |
| › 23 - Shiloh - "The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh comes; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be ...read |
| › 24 - Salvation - "I have waited for Your Salvation, O Lord." Genesis 49:18
Salvation! Blessed be God, that our fallen earth has heard the joyful sound! It is unhea ...read |
