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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/11268-0.txt b/11268-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e0a6c34 --- /dev/null +++ b/11268-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,915 @@ +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 11268 *** + +OLD TESTAMENT SCENES AND NARRATIVES. + +HISTORY OF THE FLOOD. + + + * * * * * + + +[Illustration: Noah's Sacrifice.] + + + * * * * * + + +OLD TESTAMENT SCENES AND NARRATIVES. + +BEING A SECOND SERIES OF +THE GOOD CHILD'S LIBRARY, + + +THE FLOOD. + + +PHILADELPHIA, + +HOGAN, PERKINS & CO. + + + * * * * * + + +Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by HOGAN, +PERKINS & CO., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United +States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. + + + * * * * * + + + + +PUBLISHERS' NOTICE. + + +In the advertisement prefixed to the series of volumes already +published, under the title of the "GOOD CHILD'S LIBRARY," the publishers +gave notice of their intention to issue another series, similar in +character and design, to be devoted to subjects from the Old Testament, +as the other had been to the New. In fulfilment of this notice they have +issued the present series, embellished like the Good Child's Library, +with an entire new set of Illustrations, executed in Oil Colors, in the +best manner. The additional attraction given thereby will, they trust, +obtain for it the same favor as has already been bestowed upon the +former series. + +The volumes composing the SCENES AND NARRATIVES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, +are separate and distinct from each other, having no other connection +than similarity of form and style. The following are the titles of the +different works. + +THE GARDEN OF EDEN, +THE FLOOD, +DISPERSION OF MANKIND, +DEPARTURE OF THE ISRAELITES, +HISTORY OF ABRAHAM, +HISTORY OF ISAAC, +HISTORY OF JACOB, +HISTORY OF JOSEPH, +HISTORY OF MOSES, +HISTORY OF JOSHUA, +HISTORY OF SAMUEL, +HISTORY OF DAVID. + +The above series in connection with the volumes of the "Good Child's +Library," constitute a choice and attractive Scriptural Library for +Children. + + + * * * * * + + +THE FLOOD + + + + +CONTENTS. + + I. The Wickedness of Man + II. God is provoked + III. Noah and his family + IV. Noah commanded to make an Ark + V. Noah Preaches + VI. Noah enters the Ark + VII. The windows of Heaven are opened + VIII. The fountains of the deep are broken up + IX. The floating Ark + X. The drowning World + XI. The Ark rests on Ararat + XII. Noah sends forth the Raven and the Dove + XIII. Noah comes forth from the Ark + XIV. Noah sacrifices to the Lord + XV. The Bow in the clouds + + + + + +THE FLOOD. + + + + +I. + +THE WICKEDNESS OF MAN. + + + Behold how kind and merciful + Our heavenly Father was, + To bear so long with sinful men, + Who had transgressed His laws. + + The hearts of men wax'd worse and worse, + They disobeyed the Lord; + They followed their own thoughts, nor walked + According to His word. + + And men were multiplied on earth, + They spread both far and wide; + And there were giants in those days, + Who did God's law deride. + + The Lord look'd down from Heaven to see + If there were any good; + Behold they all were turn'd aside, + Sin tainted all their blood. + + Yet still the Lord was good to them-- + He gave them sun and rain, + And every blessing, yet their hearts + Were foolish, wicked, vain. + + There is no sin so base as that + We call ingratitude, + To use those ill, with wicked hearts, + Who seek to do us good. + + And when the Great and Holy One + With kindness stoop'd to bless + The sorrows of a sinful world, + And pity their distress;-- + + 'Twas vile ingratitude in them + To act so wickedly, + And spurn the mercy of the Lord, + The great, the good, the high. + + God's goodness leads us to repent, + And give our folly o'er;-- + And if we use His kindness right, + We'll go and sin no more. + + + + +II. + +GOD IS PROVOKED. + + + But God is just as well as good, + He will not always strive; + He will assert His sovereign right, + Nor let the sinner live. + + He does not seek the death of one + Of all the sinful race, + Yet He will not forever bear + With those who slight His grace. + + His mercy is forever sure, + His justice too must stand, + And people must obedient be + To what He does command. + + So when the world so wicked proved, + And wander'd from the Lord, + And with most stubborn hearts refused + To hear His sovereign word;-- + + He bore with patience long and kind, + Their steady wickedness; + But did at last withdraw His grace, + And leave them in distress. + + He gave them up to their own hearts, + To work their own desire; + He threatened them with judgment vast, + And kindled was His ire. + + "My spirit shall not always strive"-- + Jehovah sternly said-- + A Flood I'll bring which will destroy + All things that I have made. + + "Why should they live in guilt and wo, + And all my words despise; + Their every work, and every thought, + Is loathsome to my eyes." + + When God provoked, in anger speaks, + Who can His word withstand? + His heart is full of holiness, + And strong is His right hand. + + + + +III. + +NOAH AND HIS FAMILY. + + + One righteous man was found on earth, + And him Jehovah loved; + His thoughts, his words, and all his deeds, + Were by the Lord approved. + + He kept himself away from sin, + Nor walk'd with wicked men; + He loved the God who reigns on high, + Nor did he love in vain. + + His family he train'd to know, + And love and serve the Lord; + And they were safe in keeping all + The great Jehovah's word. + + The Lord remembered Noah's walk, + And did not him condemn, + When, for the wickedness of men, + He did aloud proclaim,-- + + That He would rain upon the earth + An overwhelming flood; + But choose him and his family-- + And firm His counsel stood. + + The Lord forever shows regard + To those who love His ways, + They vindicate His righteousness + And ever show His praise. + + So He would not destroy this man + Who walk'd with Him in love, + But promised him that He would give + Protection from above. + + Then Noah's fervent heart was fill'd + With grief for sinful men; + Yet though God's judgment was severe, + He could not once complain. + + He pitied the sad state of those + Who had despised the Lord; + He saw that God would punish them, + According to His word. + + + + +IV. + +NOAH COMMANDED TO MAKE AN ARK. + + + Jehovah unto Noah said:-- + "I will destroy the earth, + For violence is in the land, + And wickedness and mirth. + + "Men's hearts are full of laughter wild, + Their lives are full of sin; + And I will send destruction swift, + And show my power divine. + + "I'll rain upon the earth a flood, + And drown men in the storm, + And they shall find no arm to save, + Amid their fearful gloom. + + "But thee I have found true and good, + A follower of my ways; + And I will save thee from the flood, + And lengthen out thy days. + + "Now therefore build thyself an ark, + According to my word; + To save thyself and family, + For ye have fear'd the Lord. + + "For every thing that now has life, + And all things that have breath, + Even for the wickedness of man, + I do devote to death. + + "I am the Lord, the mighty one, + I, even I, do speak; + The flood upon the earth I'll bring, + And nought my word shall break." + + Noah prepared to build the ark, + The tidings did him grieve; + Yet it was just, and every word + He did at once believe. + + + + +V. + +NOAH PREACHES. + + + While Noah built for six score years + The ark to ride the flood, + He preach'd unto the people round + The dreadful word of God. + + He show'd to them their heinous sins, + He told them God was just, + That He would surely punish them + Unto the uttermost. + + Not only did they break God's law + But they despised His grace; + That they had most ungrateful proved, + A hard, rebellious race. + + And though the Lord had suffer'd long, + Nor seem'd to notice them, + Yet soon He would arise in might, + And loud His wrath proclaim. + + He told them of the impending flood, + The threatening of the Lord; + And that His counsel sure would stand, + And ever true His word. + + But if they would repent, perhaps + The Lord would turn away + His anger from the earth and thus + Avert the dreadful day. + + But if they should persist in sin + And folly to the last; + Then God in wrath would visit them,-- + Their day of grace be past. + + He there fore bade them all repent, + And turn from all their sin, + And humbly to Jehovah pray, + To stay His wrath divine. + + The time wore on, the ark progress'd, + And Noah grew more bold; + And to the people day by day, + God's threatened judgment told. + + They heeded not his solemn words, + Nor mark'd his tearful eye; + But still continued in their sin + Against the Lord most high. + + They mock'd him with their taunting speech, + And call'd him foolish, vain, + To think that God would drown the earth + And men in floods of rain. + + They look'd up to the heavens above, + No threatening clouds were there; + They laugh'd, they sang, they danced in pride, + Nor thought of God, or prayer. + + All things remained the same to them, + For nearly six score years; + Why should they have distress of mind, + Or yield their soul to fears? + + Still, Noah, faithful to his trust, + His solemn warnings gave; + And patiently prepared the ark, + His family to save + + And still the people wagg'd their heads, + As they were passing by, + And look'd first on his monster ark, + Then upward to the sky;-- + + Then smiled in scorn, and went their way, + To sin and folly prone; + Not dreaming, though the skies look'd fair, + They'd soon be left alone. + + Amid the angry storms of Heaven, + And rising waves around + Overflowing all the fields of earth, + And all the highest ground. + + + + +VI. + +NOAH ENTERS THE ARK. + + + And now the ark was built; the day + Of wrath was drawing near; + Yet still no cloud was in the sky; + And in men's hearts no fear. + + No doubt they wonder'd much what now + This foolish man would do; + And thought that they would surely prove, + His prophecy untrue. + + But soon he heard Jehovah's voice;-- + These words he heard Him say,-- + "Come thou into the ark at once, + With all thy family." + + So Noah enter'd in the ark, + He and his children too, + And beasts and birds of every kind, + Did enter two by two. + + The lives of these Jehovah spared, + To fill the earth again, + When He should cause the ark to rest, + And should the flood restrain. + + And when they all were in the ark, + The just and mighty God, + Prepared to bring upon the earth + The waters of the flood. + + The day of grace was fully past, + No voice should now proclaim, + To sinful, faithless, scoffing men, + Jehovah's gracious name. + + The righteous in God's care were safe, + From every fear of harm; + But wicked men would be o'erwhelm'd + With terrible alarm. + +[Illustration: Babylon.] + + + + +VII. + +THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN ARE OPENED. + + + Ah! where shall now the sinner hide-- + what power the storm can stay? + What pleasing charm can he call up + To drive his fears away? + + Who can withstand the wrath of God! + He with a single breath, + Could vanquish all our boasted strength, + And visit us with death. + + He gathers now His angry clouds, + And thick they quickly come; + Bearing along the teeming rains + And the devouring storm. + + The beauteous sky is overcast. + And darkness fills the air; + And lightnings flash, and thunders roll; + No ray of hope is there. + + As if the clouds are not enough, + Heaven's windows open wide, + To pour upon the startled earth + The overflowing tide. + + The clouds come down almost to earth, + And seem to bend with rain; + And men look up with fearful gaze, + Nor can their fear restrain. + + Oh! fearful and majestic scene; + Jehovah's awful frown + Seems o'er the sinfulness of earth, + In anger bending down. + + No sun now cheers, no light of star + To those shall ever come, + Who by their long continued crimes, + Provoked this awful doom. + + + + +VIII. + +THE FOUNTAINS OF THE DEEP ARE BROKEN UP. + + + Not only did the clouds come up,-- + Heaven's windows open wide;-- + The fountains of the deep were stirr'd, + And raged on every side. + + The clouds pour'd down their treasures vast, + The deeps yield up their store, + The proudest trembles at the form + Of God's almighty power. + + The seas are swelling up in wrath, + And break the appointed bound-- + Their waters overflow the shore + And fiercely rage around. + + The rivers rise to fearful height, + And roll their torrents on, + Until their highest banks are lost + From sight, deep overflown. + + The fountains too and hidden springs, + Seem bursting everywhere; + Their waters flow on every side, + The common rage to share. + + Now wave meets wave, and swells the flood + In fury o'er the land, + Fulfilling all the will of God, + Obeying His command. + + O God! the power is thine alone, + To punish and create; + We would with reverence bow to Thee, + And worship might so great + + And may we never dare provoke + That high Almighty Power, + Which once awaked against our sins, + Could blast us in an hour. + + + + +IX. + +THE FLOATING ARK. + + + The waters lifted up the ark, + Majestic it did ride + Above the swelling, surging waves, + Along the rolling tide. + + The freight of life it bore along, + Secure from every harm; + And though the tempest raged without, + Their hearts knew no alarm. + + To God in humble earnest prayer, + They sent their feeble cry, + And He with power and love did look, + Down from His throne on high. + + And while the raging waves did roar, + And swift destruction bring, + Jehovah sheltered them beneath + The shadow of His wing. + + The ark Jehovah guided through + The vast unmeasured deep; + And all the life therein reposed + He did in safety keep. + + It floated o'er the valleys low, + And o'er the highest hill, + For high the waters rose, and thus + Obey'd the Almighty Will. + + How strong that hand that can protect, + When danger rages round; + The mercy of our Father God, + Doth every where abound. + + And those who put their trust in Him, + And to Him ever pray, + Will find it is the safest thing + His counsel to obey. + + + + +X. + +THE DROWNING WORLD. + + + Now let us for awhile return + And see the startled world, + With all its pride and all its sin + Swift into ruin hurl'd. + + The waters now are rising fast, + And men are in despair; + They can themselves no succur find, + No ear now hears their prayer. + + They once derided him who preached + To them the coming wo, + But now no voice cries out, Repent; + Ah! whither shall they go? + + The ark to them is firmly closed, + They cannot enter in; + They see the flood is rising round; + They perish in their sin. + + Not highest trees can shelter them, + Nor mountain caverns hide, + For caves and heights are fill'd and lost, + As onward sweeps the tide. + + Ah! would that they had heard the word + That faithful Noah preach'd; + Accepted of Jehovah's grace + Which he to them out-reach'd. + + But now, alas! it is too late; + No human power can save + A single soul from perishing, + Beneath the flooding wave. + + Oh! let us not provoke our God; + But of His grace partake; + And feel our sins are blotted out + For His own mercy's sake. + + + + +XI. + +THE ARK RESTS ON ARARAT. + + + For forty days and forty nights, + The waters of the flood + Prevail'd o'er all the face of earth, + Obedient to the word. + + Which God the great Jehovah spake, + To drown it for its sin; + His word is holy, just and right + Forever sure, divine. + + The earth was drown'd; all living things + Had perish'd from its face, + Save Noah and his family, + Protected by God's grace. + + The ark rode onward with the flood; + The hand of God did guide + The vessel with its freight of life, + O'er all the swelling tide. + + The clouds do now withdraw aside; + The deepest fountains cease, + To pour their treasures forth on earth; + The waters slow decrease. + + The ark moves on to Ararat, + And rests upon its height; + While Noah and his family, + Are fill'd with great delight. + + They long to see the earth again, + Cleansed by Jehovah's hand; + They long to see the sun, great orb, + Shine brightly o'er the land. + + They long to see the trees put forth, + And beauteous flowers spring,-- + The fields with verdure clothed, and hear + The birds of morning sing. + + + + +XII. + +NOAH SENDS FORTH THE RAVEN AND THE DOVE. + + + Then Noah sent a raven forth, + Out of a window high, + To wander here and there, until + the waters should be dry. + + And then again he sent a dove + That he might something learn, + But she could find no resting-place, + And did to him return. + + The waters still spread o'er the earth, + And slowly did abate; + For seven days more within the ark, + He patiently did wait. + +[Illustration: The River Nile by Moonlight.] + + And then he sent her forth again, + And back she came at eve, + And bearing in her mouth she brought + To him an olive-leaf. + + This token told him that the flood + Was drying fast away; + But Noah still within the ark + For seven days more did stay. + + He now the third time sent the dove, + Nor did he send in vain, + The waters of the flood were dry;-- + She ne'er returned again. + + She found a resting-place on earth, + Beneath a sunny sky, + And with a gladsome, joyous heart, + She round about did fly. + + Then Noah look'd forth from the ark, + And lifted up to God, + His thankfulness for keeping him, + According to His word. + + + + +XIII. + +NOAH COMES FORTH FROM THE ARK. + + + And now the Lord to Noah spake, + And bade him from the ark + Go forth, and stand upon the earth, + And all his family take. + + The waters from the earth had fled, + The ground was clean and dry, + No threatening billows form'd around, + No clouds were in the sky. + + So Noah left the ark, and came + Forth to the open air, + And all the beasts and creeping things, + And fowls, were with him there. + + He brought them out to fill the earth. + To multiply and live; + That they might magnify His name, + Who every good doth give. + + Behold the wondrous hand of God, + How matchless is His skill, + Who works in heaven and on the earth, + The counsel of His will. + + How great, how awful, and how just + Was that Almighty word, + Which, for the sinfulness of men, + Did call the dreadful flood. + + And while the world was perishing, + 'Tis pleasing to observe, + The loving-kindness of the Lord, + Who did the good preserve. + + He saved them in the ark, while fell + The overflowing rain; + And when the flood was dried away, + He brought them forth again. + + + + +XIV. + +NOAH SACRIFICES TO THE LORD. + + + When Noah came forth from the ark, + His heart was filled with praise; + He worshipp'd God with thankful voice, + For His abounding grace. + + He rear'd to God an altar there, + And offer'd sacrifice, + And kneeling with his family, + To heaven did lift his eyes. + + And God was pleased with Noah's praise, + And witnessed from above + The offering which in faith he made, + And blest him with His love. + + Jehovah said--"I will no more, + Destroy or curse the ground, + But will display my love and grace, + Wherever life is found." + + How tender, loving is the Lord, + Whose anger does not burn + Forever 'gainst the sons of men, + But calls them to return. + + He says to men--"Repent and live, + And all my law obey, + And I your strength and hope shall be, + Through all life's devious way." + + O! sacrifice to God in faith, + And all your sins confess, + And with the riches of His love, + He will your spirits bless. + + For blood of bulls, or lambs or goats, + Jehovah does not care, + But bring the offering of your hearts, + With humble earnest prayer. + + + + +XV. + +THE BOW IN THE CLOUDS. + + + Jehovah now a covenant made, + That He would bring no more + A flood of water o'er the earth, + As He had done before. + + The nations now should prove His love, + His truth and power divine; + His attributes o'er all the earth, + With glory bright do shine. + + His mercy hath no bound but truth, + And all His works do prove, + Unto the sons of men abroad, + His constant, perfect love. + + He set the beauteous Bow on high + With many colours bright, + To show His covenant with men, + Was faithful, gracious, right. + + It hung in heaven, upheld by God, + And arch'd the distant gloom, + And bent on either side to earth, + In bright and graceful form. + + This covenant Jehovah keeps, + Forever faithful, true; + For when the rains are o'er, then high + The rainbow comes in view. + + Whene'er we gaze upon its form, + And note its colours fair; + Our hearts should be inspired toward God, + With love and praise and prayer. + + He gives the sun to warm the earth; + He sends the healthful shower, + And saves us always, through His grace, + By His almighty power. + + +THE END. + + + * * * * * + + +PHILADELPHIA: + +HOGAN, PERKINS &, CO. + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Flood, by Anonymous + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 11268 *** diff --git a/11268-h.zip b/11268-h.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..fd8929a --- /dev/null +++ b/11268-h.zip diff --git a/11268-h/11268-h.htm b/11268-h/11268-h.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8731ff3 --- /dev/null +++ b/11268-h/11268-h.htm @@ -0,0 +1,1589 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> + <head> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content= + "text/html; 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Flood + +Author: Anonymous + +Release Date: February 24, 2004 [EBook #11268] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: US-ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FLOOD *** + + + + +Produced by Internet Archive; University of Florida, Christine De Ryck +and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<h1> +OLD TESTAMENT<br> +SCENES<br> +AND<br> +NARRATIVES.</h1> +<br> +<h1>HISTORY<br> +OF<br> +THE FLOOD.</h1> +<br> +<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="./img/001.gif" alt="Old Testament Scenes and Narratives. History of the Flood"></div><br> +<br> + +<hr> +<br> +<br> + +<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="./img/006.gif" alt="Noah's Sacrifice."><br> +<span class="imgcapt">Noah's Sacrifice.</span></div> +<br> +<br> + +<hr><br> + +<h1>OLD TESTAMENT<br> +SCENES<br> +AND<br> +NARRATIVES.</h1><br> +<br> +<h2>BEING A SECOND SERIES OF<br> +THE GOOD CHILD'S LIBRARY,</h2> +<br> +<br> +<h1>THE FLOOD.</h1><br> +<br> +<br> +<h3>PHILADELPHIA,</h3> +<h3>HOGAN, PERKINS & CO.</h3> + + +<hr> +<br> + +<p>Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by HOGAN, +PERKINS & CO.,</p> + +<p>in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the +Eastern District of Pennsylvania.</p> + + +<hr> + +<h2 class="chaphead">PUBLISHERS' NOTICE.</h2> + +<p>In the advertisement prefixed to the series of volumes already +published, under the title of the "GOOD CHILD'S LIBRARY," the publishers +gave notice of their intention to issue another series, similar in +character and design, to be devoted to subjects from the Old Testament, +as the other had been to the New. In fulfilment of this notice they have +issued the present series, embellished like the Good Child's Library, +with an entire new set of Illustrations, executed in Oil Colors, in the +best manner. The additional attraction given thereby will, they trust, +obtain for it the same favor as has already been bestowed upon the +former series.</p> + +<p>The volumes composing the SCENES AND NARRATIVES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, +are separate and distinct from each other, having no other connection +than similarity of form and style. The following are the titles of the +different works.</p> + +<table cellpadding="10" summary="List of Titles"> + <tr> + <td valign="top"> +THE GARDEN OF EDEN,<br> +THE FLOOD,<br> +DISPERSION OF MANKIND,<br> +DEPARTURE OF THE ISRAELITES,<br> +HISTORY OF ABRAHAM,<br> +HISTORY OF ISAAC, + + </td> + <td valign="top"> +HISTORY OF JACOB,<br> +HISTORY OF JOSEPH,<br> +HISTORY OF MOSES,<br> +HISTORY OF JOSHUA,<br> +HISTORY OF SAMUEL,<br> +HISTORY OF DAVID. + </td> + </tr> +</table><br> + +<p>The above series in connection with the volumes of the "Good Child's +Library," constitute a choice and attractive Scriptural Library for +Children.</p> + + +<hr><br> +<br> + +<h2>THE FLOOD</h2> + + +<h2 class="chaphead">CONTENTS.</h2> +<table align="center" summary="Contents"> + <tr> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#I">I.</a> + </td> + <td align="left"> + <a href="#I">The Wickedness of Man</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#II">II.</a> + </td> + <td align="left"> + <a href="#II">God is provoked</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#III">III.</a> + </td> + <td align="left"> + <a href="#III">Noah and his family</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#IV">IV.</a> + </td> + <td align="left"> + <a href="#IV">Noah commanded to make an Ark</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#V">V.</a> + </td> + <td align="left"> + <a href="#V">Noah Preaches</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#VI">VI.</a> + </td> + <td align="left"> + <a href="#VI">Noah enters the Ark</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#VII">VII.</a> + </td> + <td align="left"> + <a href="#VII">The windows of Heaven are opened</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#VIII">VIII.</a> + </td> + <td align="left"> + <a href="#VIII">The fountains of the deep are broken up</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#IX">IX.</a> + </td> + <td align="left"> + <a href="#IX">The floating Ark</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#X">X.</a> + </td> + <td align="left"> + <a href="#X">The drowning World</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#XI">XI.</a> + </td> + <td align="left"> + <a href="#XI">The Ark rests on Ararat</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#XII">XII.</a> + </td> + <td align="left"> + <a href="#XII">Noah sends forth the Raven and the Dove</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#XIII">XIII.</a> + </td> + <td align="left"> + <a href="#XIII">Noah comes forth from the Ark</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#XIV">XIV.</a> + </td> + <td align="left"> + <a href="#XIV">Noah sacrifices to the Lord</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#XV">XV.</a> + </td> + <td align="left"> + <a href="#XV">The Bow in the clouds</a> + </td> + </tr> +</table> + +<br> +<br> +<hr> +<br> +<br> +<h1>THE FLOOD.</h1> + + + +<a name="I"></a><h2 class="chaphead">I.<br><br> +THE WICKEDNESS OF MAN.</h2> + + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Behold how kind and merciful</p> +<p class="i2">Our heavenly Father was,</p> +<p>To bear so long with sinful men,</p> +<p class="i2">Who had transgressed His laws.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The hearts of men wax'd worse and worse,</p> +<p class="i2">They disobeyed the Lord;</p> +<p>They followed their own thoughts, nor walked</p> +<p class="i2">According to His word.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>And men were multiplied on earth,</p> +<p class="i2">They spread both far and wide;</p> +<p>And there were giants in those days,</p> +<p class="i2">Who did God's law deride.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The Lord look'd down from Heaven to see</p> +<p class="i2">If there were any good;</p> +<p>Behold they all were turn'd aside,</p> +<p class="i2">Sin tainted all their blood.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Yet still the Lord was good to them—</p> +<p class="i2">He gave them sun and rain,</p> +<p>And every blessing, yet their hearts</p> +<p class="i2">Were foolish, wicked, vain.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>There is no sin so base as that</p> +<p class="i2">We call ingratitude,</p> +<p>To use those ill, with wicked hearts,</p> +<p class="i2">Who seek to do us good.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>And when the Great and Holy One</p> +<p class="i2">With kindness stoop'd to bless</p> +<p>The sorrows of a sinful world,</p> +<p class="i2">And pity their distress;—</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>'Twas vile ingratitude in them</p> +<p class="i2">To act so wickedly,</p> +<p>And spurn the mercy of the Lord,</p> +<p class="i2">The great, the good, the high.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>God's goodness leads us to repent,</p> +<p class="i2">And give our folly o'er;—</p> +<p>And if we use His kindness right,</p> +<p class="i2">We'll go and sin no more.</p> +</div> +</div> + + + +<hr> +<a name="II"></a><h2 class="chaphead">II.<br> +<br> +GOD IS PROVOKED.</h2> + + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>But God is just as well as good,</p> +<p class="i2">He will not always strive;</p> +<p>He will assert His sovereign right,</p> +<p class="i2">Nor let the sinner live.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>He does not seek the death of one</p> +<p class="i2">Of all the sinful race,</p> +<p>Yet He will not forever bear</p> +<p class="i2">With those who slight His grace.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>His mercy is forever sure,</p> +<p class="i2">His justice too must stand,</p> +<p>And people must obedient be</p> +<p class="i2">To what He does command.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>So when the world so wicked proved,</p> +<p class="i2">And wander'd from the Lord,</p> +<p>And with most stubborn hearts refused</p> +<p class="i2">To hear His sovereign word;—</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>He bore with patience long and kind,</p> +<p class="i2">Their steady wickedness;</p> +<p>But did at last withdraw His grace,</p> +<p class="i2">And leave them in distress.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>He gave them up to their own hearts,</p> +<p class="i2">To work their own desire;</p> +<p>He threatened them with judgment vast,</p> +<p class="i2">And kindled was His ire.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"My spirit shall not always strive"—</p> +<p class="i2">Jehovah sternly said—</p> +<p>A Flood I'll bring which will destroy</p> +<p class="i2">All things that I have made.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"Why should they live in guilt and wo,</p> +<p class="i2">And all my words despise;</p> +<p>Their every work, and every thought,</p> +<p class="i2">Is loathsome to my eyes."</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>When God provoked, in anger speaks,</p> +<p class="i2">Who can His word withstand?</p> +<p>His heart is full of holiness,</p> +<p class="i2">And strong is His right hand.</p> +</div> +</div> + + + +<hr> +<a name="III"></a><h2 class="chaphead">III.<br> +<br> +NOAH AND HIS FAMILY.</h2> + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>One righteous man was found on earth,</p> +<p class="i2">And him Jehovah loved;</p> +<p>His thoughts, his words, and all his deeds,</p> +<p class="i2">Were by the Lord approved.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>He kept himself away from sin,</p> +<p class="i2">Nor walk'd with wicked men;</p> +<p>He loved the God who reigns on high,</p> +<p class="i2">Nor did he love in vain.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>His family he train'd to know,</p> +<p class="i2">And love and serve the Lord;</p> +<p>And they were safe in keeping all</p> +<p class="i2">The great Jehovah's word.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The Lord remembered Noah's walk,</p> +<p class="i2">And did not him condemn,</p> +<p>When, for the wickedness of men,</p> +<p class="i2">He did aloud proclaim,—</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>That He would rain upon the earth</p> +<p class="i2">An overwhelming flood;</p> +<p>But choose him and his family—</p> +<p class="i2">And firm His counsel stood.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The Lord forever shows regard</p> +<p class="i2">To those who love His ways,</p> +<p>They vindicate His righteousness</p> +<p class="i2">And ever show His praise.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>So He would not destroy this man</p> +<p class="i2">Who walk'd with Him in love,</p> +<p>But promised him that He would give</p> +<p class="i2">Protection from above.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Then Noah's fervent heart was fill'd</p> +<p class="i2">With grief for sinful men;</p> +<p>Yet though God's judgment was severe,</p> +<p class="i2">He could not once complain.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>He pitied the sad state of those</p> +<p class="i2">Who had despised the Lord;</p> +<p>He saw that God would punish them,</p> +<p class="i2">According to His word.</p> +</div> +</div> + + + +<hr> +<a name="IV"></a><h2 class="chaphead">IV.<br> +<br> +NOAH COMMANDED TO MAKE AN ARK.</h2> + + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Jehovah unto Noah said:—</p> +<p class="i2">"I will destroy the earth,</p> +<p>For violence is in the land,</p> +<p class="i2">And wickedness and mirth.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"Men's hearts are full of laughter wild,</p> +<p class="i2">Their lives are full of sin;</p> +<p>And I will send destruction swift,</p> +<p class="i2">And show my power divine.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"I'll rain upon the earth a flood,</p> +<p class="i2">And drown men in the storm,</p> +<p>And they shall find no arm to save,</p> +<p class="i2">Amid their fearful gloom.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"But thee I have found true and good,</p> +<p class="i2">A follower of my ways;</p> +<p>And I will save thee from the flood,</p> +<p class="i2">And lengthen out thy days.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"Now therefore build thyself an ark,</p> +<p class="i2">According to my word;</p> +<p>To save thyself and family,</p> +<p class="i2">For ye have fear'd the Lord.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"For every thing that now has life,</p> +<p class="i2">And all things that have breath,</p> +<p>Even for the wickedness of man,</p> +<p class="i2">I do devote to death.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"I am the Lord, the mighty one,</p> +<p class="i2">I, even I, do speak;</p> +<p>The flood upon the earth I'll bring,</p> +<p class="i2">And nought my word shall break."</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Noah prepared to build the ark,</p> +<p class="i1">The tidings did him grieve;</p> +<p>Yet it was just, and every word</p> +<p class="i2">He did at once believe.</p> +</div> +</div> + + + +<hr> +<a name="V"></a><h2 class="chaphead">V.<br> +<br> +NOAH PREACHES.</h2> + + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>While Noah built for six score years</p> +<p class="i2">The ark to ride the flood,</p> +<p>He preach'd unto the people round</p> +<p class="i2">The dreadful word of God.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>He show'd to them their heinous sins,</p> +<p class="i2">He told them God was just,</p> +<p>That He would surely punish them</p> +<p class="i2">Unto the uttermost.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Not only did they break God's law</p> +<p class="i2">But they despised His grace;</p> +<p>That they had most ungrateful proved,</p> +<p class="i2">A hard, rebellious race.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>And though the Lord had suffer'd long,</p> +<p class="i2">Nor seem'd to notice them,</p> +<p>Yet soon He would arise in might,</p> +<p class="i2">And loud His wrath proclaim.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>He told them of the impending flood,</p> +<p class="i2">The threatening of the Lord;</p> +<p>And that His counsel sure would stand,</p> +<p class="i2">And ever true His word.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>But if they would repent, perhaps</p> +<p class="i2">The Lord would turn away</p> +<p>His anger from the earth and thus</p> +<p class="i2">Avert the dreadful day.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>But if they should persist in sin</p> +<p class="i2">And folly to the last;</p> +<p>Then God in wrath would visit them,—</p> +<p class="i2">Their day of grace be past.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>He there fore bade them all repent,</p> +<p class="i2">And turn from all their sin,</p> +<p>And humbly to Jehovah pray,</p> +<p class="i2">To stay His wrath divine.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The time wore on, the ark progress'd,</p> +<p class="i2">And Noah grew more bold;</p> +<p>And to the people day by day,</p> +<p class="i2">God's threatened judgment told.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>They heeded not his solemn words,</p> +<p class="i2">Nor mark'd his tearful eye;</p> +<p>But still continued in their sin</p> +<p class="i2">Against the Lord most high.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>They mock'd him with their taunting speech,</p> +<p class="i2">And call'd him foolish, vain,</p> +<p>To think that God would drown the earth</p> +<p class="i2">And men in floods of rain.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>They look'd up to the heavens above,</p> +<p class="i2">No threatening clouds were there;</p> +<p>They laugh'd, they sang, they danced in pride,</p> +<p class="i2">Nor thought of God, or prayer.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>All things remained the same to them,</p> +<p class="i2">For nearly six score years;</p> +<p>Why should they have distress of mind,</p> +<p class="i2">Or yield their soul to fears?</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Still, Noah, faithful to his trust,</p> +<p class="i2">His solemn warnings gave;</p> +<p>And patiently prepared the ark,</p> +<p class="i2">His family to save</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>And still the people wagg'd their heads,</p> +<p class="i2">As they were passing by,</p> +<p>And look'd first on his monster ark,</p> +<p class="i2">Then upward to the sky;—</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Then smiled in scorn, and went their way,</p> +<p class="i2">To sin and folly prone;</p> +<p>Not dreaming, though the skies look'd fair,</p> +<p class="i2">They'd soon be left alone.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Amid the angry storms of Heaven,</p> +<p class="i2">And rising waves around</p> +<p>Overflowing all the fields of earth,</p> +<p class="i2">And all the highest ground.</p> +</div> +</div> + + + +<hr> +<a name="VI"></a><h2 class="chaphead">VI.<br> +<br> +NOAH ENTERS THE ARK.</h2> + + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>And now the ark was built; the day</p> +<p class="i2">Of wrath was drawing near;</p> +<p>Yet still no cloud was in the sky;</p> +<p class="i2">And in men's hearts no fear.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>No doubt they wonder'd much what now</p> +<p class="i2">This foolish man would do;</p> +<p>And thought that they would surely prove,</p> +<p class="i2">His prophecy untrue.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>But soon he heard Jehovah's voice;—</p> +<p class="i2">These words he heard Him say,—</p> +<p>"Come thou into the ark at once,</p> +<p class="i2">With all thy family."</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>So Noah enter'd in the ark,</p> +<p class="i2">He and his children too,</p> +<p>And beasts and birds of every kind,</p> +<p class="i2">Did enter two by two.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The lives of these Jehovah spared,</p> +<p class="i2">To fill the earth again,</p> +<p>When He should cause the ark to rest,</p> +<p class="i2">And should the flood restrain.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>And when they all were in the ark,</p> +<p class="i2">The just and mighty God,</p> +<p>Prepared to bring upon the earth</p> +<p class="i2">The waters of the flood.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The day of grace was fully past,</p> +<p class="i2">No voice should now proclaim,</p> +<p>To sinful, faithless, scoffing men,</p> +<p class="i2">Jehovah's gracious name.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The righteous in God's care were safe,</p> +<p class="i2">From every fear of harm;</p> +<p>But wicked men would be o'erwhelm'd</p> +<p class="i2">With terrible alarm.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="./img/038.gif" alt="Babylon."><br> +<span class="imgcapt">Babylon.</span></div> + + + +<hr> +<a name="VII"></a><h2 class="chaphead">VII.<br> +<br> +THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN ARE OPENED.</h2> + + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Ah! where shall now the sinner hide—</p> +<p class="i2">what power the storm can stay?</p> +<p>What pleasing charm can he call up</p> +<p class="i2">To drive his fears away?</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Who can withstand the wrath of God!</p> +<p class="i2">He with a single breath,</p> +<p>Could vanquish all our boasted strength,</p> +<p class="i2">And visit us with death.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>He gathers now His angry clouds,</p> +<p class="i2">And thick they quickly come;</p> +<p>Bearing along the teeming rains</p> +<p class="i2">And the devouring storm.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The beauteous sky is overcast.</p> +<p class="i2">And darkness fills the air;</p> +<p>And lightnings flash, and thunders roll;</p> +<p class="i2">No ray of hope is there.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>As if the clouds are not enough,</p> +<p class="i2">Heaven's windows open wide,</p> +<p>To pour upon the startled earth</p> +<p class="i2">The overflowing tide.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The clouds come down almost to earth,</p> +<p class="i2">And seem to bend with rain;</p> +<p>And men look up with fearful gaze,</p> +<p class="i2">Nor can their fear restrain.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Oh! fearful and majestic scene;</p> +<p class="i2">Jehovah's awful frown</p> +<p>Seems o'er the sinfulness of earth,</p> +<p class="i2">In anger bending down.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>No sun now cheers, no light of star</p> +<p class="i2">To those shall ever come,</p> +<p>Who by their long continued crimes,</p> +<p class="i2">Provoked this awful doom.</p> +</div> +</div> + + + +<hr> +<a name="VIII"></a><h2 class="chaphead">VIII.<br> +<br> +THE FOUNTAINS OF THE DEEP ARE BROKEN UP.</h2> + + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Not only did the clouds come up,—</p> +<p class="i2">Heaven's windows open wide;—</p> +<p>The fountains of the deep were stirr'd,</p> +<p class="i2">And raged on every side.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The clouds pour'd down their treasures vast,</p> +<p class="i2">The deeps yield up their store,</p> +<p>The proudest trembles at the form</p> +<p class="i2">Of God's almighty power.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The seas are swelling up in wrath,</p> +<p class="i2">And break the appointed bound—</p> +<p>Their waters overflow the shore</p> +<p class="i2">And fiercely rage around.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The rivers rise to fearful height,</p> +<p class="i2">And roll their torrents on,</p> +<p>Until their highest banks are lost</p> +<p class="i2">From sight, deep overflown.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The fountains too and hidden springs,</p> +<p class="i2">Seem bursting everywhere;</p> +<p>Their waters flow on every side,</p> +<p class="i2">The common rage to share.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Now wave meets wave, and swells the flood</p> +<p class="i2">In fury o'er the land,</p> +<p>Fulfilling all the will of God,</p> +<p class="i2">Obeying His command.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>O God! the power is thine alone,</p> +<p class="i2">To punish and create;</p> +<p>We would with reverence bow to Thee,</p> +<p class="i2">And worship might so great</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>And may we never dare provoke</p> +<p class="i2">That high Almighty Power,</p> +<p>Which once awaked against our sins,</p> +<p class="i2">Could blast us in an hour.</p> +</div> +</div> + + + +<hr> +<a name="IX"></a><h2 class="chaphead">IX.<br> +<br> +THE FLOATING ARK.</h2> + + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>The waters lifted up the ark,</p> +<p class="i2">Majestic it did ride</p> +<p>Above the swelling, surging waves,</p> +<p class="i2">Along the rolling tide.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The freight of life it bore along,</p> +<p class="i2">Secure from every harm;</p> +<p>And though the tempest raged without,</p> +<p class="i2">Their hearts knew no alarm.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>To God in humble earnest prayer,</p> +<p class="i2">They sent their feeble cry,</p> +<p>And He with power and love did look,</p> +<p class="i2">Down from His throne on high.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>And while the raging waves did roar,</p> +<p class="i2">And swift destruction bring,</p> +<p>Jehovah sheltered them beneath</p> +<p class="i2">The shadow of His wing.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The ark Jehovah guided through</p> +<p class="i2">The vast unmeasured deep;</p> +<p>And all the life therein reposed</p> +<p class="i2">He did in safety keep.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>It floated o'er the valleys low,</p> +<p class="i2">And o'er the highest hill,</p> +<p>For high the waters rose, and thus</p> +<p class="i2">Obey'd the Almighty Will.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>How strong that hand that can protect,</p> +<p class="i2">When danger rages round;</p> +<p>The mercy of our Father God,</p> +<p class="i2">Doth every where abound.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>And those who put their trust in Him,</p> +<p class="i2">And to Him ever pray,</p> +<p>Will find it is the safest thing</p> +<p class="i2">His counsel to obey.</p> +</div> +</div> + + + +<hr> +<a name="X"></a><h2 class="chaphead">X.<br> +<br> +THE DROWNING WORLD.</h2> + + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Now let us for awhile return</p> +<p class="i2">And see the startled world,</p> +<p>With all its pride and all its sin</p> +<p class="i2">Swift into ruin hurl'd.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The waters now are rising fast,</p> +<p class="i2">And men are in despair;</p> +<p>They can themselves no succur find,</p> +<p class="i2">No ear now hears their prayer.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>They once derided him who preached</p> +<p class="i2">To them the coming wo,</p> +<p>But now no voice cries out, Repent;</p> +<p class="i2">Ah! whither shall they go?</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The ark to them is firmly closed,</p> +<p class="i2">They cannot enter in;</p> +<p>They see the flood is rising round;</p> +<p class="i2">They perish in their sin.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Not highest trees can shelter them,</p> +<p class="i2">Nor mountain caverns hide,</p> +<p>For caves and heights are fill'd and lost,</p> +<p class="i2">As onward sweeps the tide.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Ah! would that they had heard the word</p> +<p class="i2">That faithful Noah preach'd;</p> +<p>Accepted of Jehovah's grace</p> +<p class="i2">Which he to them out-reach'd.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>But now, alas! it is too late;</p> +<p class="i2">No human power can save</p> +<p>A single soul from perishing,</p> +<p class="i2">Beneath the flooding wave.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Oh! let us not provoke our God;</p> +<p class="i2">But of His grace partake;</p> +<p>And feel our sins are blotted out</p> +<p class="i2">For His own mercy's sake.</p> +</div> +</div> + + + +<hr> +<a name="XI"></a><h2 class="chaphead">XI.<br> +<br> +THE ARK RESTS ON ARARAT.</h2> + + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>For forty days and forty nights,</p> +<p class="i2">The waters of the flood</p> +<p>Prevail'd o'er all the face of earth,</p> +<p class="i2">Obedient to the word.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Which God the great Jehovah spake,</p> +<p class="i2">To drown it for its sin;</p> +<p>His word is holy, just and right</p> +<p class="i2">Forever sure, divine.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The earth was drown'd; all living things</p> +<p class="i2">Had perish'd from its face,</p> +<p>Save Noah and his family,</p> +<p class="i2">Protected by God's grace.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The ark rode onward with the flood;</p> +<p class="i2">The hand of God did guide</p> +<p>The vessel with its freight of life,</p> +<p class="i2">O'er all the swelling tide.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The clouds do now withdraw aside;</p> +<p class="i2">The deepest fountains cease,</p> +<p>To pour their treasures forth on earth;</p> +<p class="i2">The waters slow decrease.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The ark moves on to Ararat,</p> +<p class="i2">And rests upon its height;</p> +<p>While Noah and his family,</p> +<p class="i2">Are fill'd with great delight.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>They long to see the earth again,</p> +<p class="i2">Cleansed by Jehovah's hand;</p> +<p>They long to see the sun, great orb,</p> +<p class="i2">Shine brightly o'er the land.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>They long to see the trees put forth,</p> +<p class="i2">And beauteous flowers spring,—</p> +<p>The fields with verdure clothed, and hear</p> +<p class="i2">The birds of morning sing.</p> +</div> +</div> + + + +<hr> +<a name="XII"></a><h2 class="chaphead">XII.<br> +<br> +NOAH SENDS FORTH THE RAVEN AND THE DOVE.</h2> + + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Then Noah sent a raven forth,</p> +<p class="i2">Out of a window high,</p> +<p>To wander here and there, until</p> +<p class="i2">the waters should be dry.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>And then again he sent a dove</p> +<p class="i2">That he might something learn,</p> +<p>But she could find no resting-place,</p> +<p class="i2">And did to him return.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The waters still spread o'er the earth,</p> +<p class="i2">And slowly did abate;</p> +<p>For seven days more within the ark,</p> +<p class="i2">He patiently did wait.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="./img/055.gif" alt="The River Nile by Moonlight."><br> +<span class="imgcapt">The River Nile by Moonlight.</span></div> + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>And then he sent her forth again,</p> +<p class="i2">And back she came at eve,</p> +<p>And bearing in her mouth she brought</p> +<p class="i2">To him an olive-leaf.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>This token told him that the flood</p> +<p class="i2">Was drying fast away;</p> +<p>But Noah still within the ark</p> +<p class="i2">For seven days more did stay.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>He now the third time sent the dove,</p> +<p class="i2">Nor did he send in vain,</p> +<p>The waters of the flood were dry;—</p> +<p class="i2">She ne'er returned again.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>She found a resting-place on earth,</p> +<p class="i2">Beneath a sunny sky,</p> +<p>And with a gladsome, joyous heart,</p> +<p class="i2">She round about did fly.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Then Noah look'd forth from the ark,</p> +<p class="i2">And lifted up to God,</p> +<p>His thankfulness for keeping him,</p> +<p class="i2">According to His word.</p> +</div> +</div> + + + +<hr> +<a name="XIII"></a><h2 class="chaphead">XIII.<br> +<br> +NOAH COMES FORTH FROM THE ARK.</h2> + + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>And now the Lord to Noah spake,</p> +<p class="i2">And bade him from the ark</p> +<p>Go forth, and stand upon the earth,</p> +<p class="i2">And all his family take.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The waters from the earth had fled,</p> +<p class="i2">The ground was clean and dry,</p> +<p>No threatening billows form'd around,</p> +<p class="i2">No clouds were in the sky.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>So Noah left the ark, and came</p> +<p class="i2">Forth to the open air,</p> +<p>And all the beasts and creeping things,</p> +<p class="i2">And fowls, were with him there.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>He brought them out to fill the earth.</p> +<p class="i2">To multiply and live;</p> +<p>That they might magnify His name,</p> +<p class="i2">Who every good doth give.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Behold the wondrous hand of God,</p> +<p class="i2">How matchless is His skill,</p> +<p>Who works in heaven and on the earth,</p> +<p class="i2">The counsel of His will.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>How great, how awful, and how just</p> +<p class="i2">Was that Almighty word,</p> +<p>Which, for the sinfulness of men,</p> +<p class="i2">Did call the dreadful flood.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>And while the world was perishing,</p> +<p class="i2">'Tis pleasing to observe,</p> +<p>The loving-kindness of the Lord,</p> +<p class="i2">Who did the good preserve.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>He saved them in the ark, while fell</p> +<p class="i2">The overflowing rain;</p> +<p>And when the flood was dried away,</p> +<p class="i2">He brought them forth again.</p> +</div> +</div> + + + +<hr> +<a name="XIV"></a><h2 class="chaphead">XIV.<br> +<br> +NOAH SACRIFICES TO THE LORD.</h2> + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>When Noah came forth from the ark,</p> +<p class="i2">His heart was filled with praise;</p> +<p>He worshipp'd God with thankful voice,</p> +<p class="i2">For His abounding grace.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>He rear'd to God an altar there,</p> +<p class="i2">And offer'd sacrifice,</p> +<p>And kneeling with his family,</p> +<p class="i2">To heaven did lift his eyes.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>And God was pleased with Noah's praise,</p> +<p class="i2">And witnessed from above</p> +<p>The offering which in faith he made,</p> +<p class="i2">And blest him with His love.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Jehovah said—"I will no more,</p> +<p class="i2">Destroy or curse the ground,</p> +<p>But will display my love and grace,</p> +<p class="i2">Wherever life is found."</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>How tender, loving is the Lord,</p> +<p class="i2">Whose anger does not burn</p> +<p>Forever 'gainst the sons of men,</p> +<p class="i2">But calls them to return.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>He says to men—"Repent and live,</p> +<p class="i2">And all my law obey,</p> +<p>And I your strength and hope shall be,</p> +<p class="i2">Through all life's devious way."</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>O! sacrifice to God in faith,</p> +<p class="i2">And all your sins confess,</p> +<p>And with the riches of His love,</p> +<p class="i2">He will your spirits bless.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>For blood of bulls, or lambs or goats,</p> +<p class="i2">Jehovah does not care,</p> +<p>But bring the offering of your hearts,</p> +<p class="i2">With humble earnest prayer.</p> +</div> +</div> + + + +<hr> +<a name="XV"></a><h2 class="chaphead">XV.<br> +<br> +THE BOW IN THE CLOUDS.</h2> + + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Jehovah now a covenant made,</p> +<p class="i2">That He would bring no more</p> +<p>A flood of water o'er the earth,</p> +<p class="i2">As He had done before.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The nations now should prove His love,</p> +<p class="i2">His truth and power divine;</p> +<p>His attributes o'er all the earth,</p> +<p class="i2">With glory bright do shine.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>His mercy hath no bound but truth,</p> +<p class="i2">And all His works do prove,</p> +<p>Unto the sons of men abroad,</p> +<p class="i2">His constant, perfect love.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>He set the beauteous Bow on high</p> +<p class="i2">With many colours bright,</p> +<p>To show His covenant with men,</p> +<p class="i2">Was faithful, gracious, right.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>It hung in heaven, upheld by God,</p> +<p class="i2">And arch'd the distant gloom,</p> +<p>And bent on either side to earth,</p> +<p class="i2">In bright and graceful form.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>This covenant Jehovah keeps,</p> +<p class="i2">Forever faithful, true;</p> +<p>For when the rains are o'er, then high</p> +<p class="i2">The rainbow comes in view.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Whene'er we gaze upon its form,</p> +<p class="i2">And note its colours fair;</p> +<p>Our hearts should be inspired toward God,</p> +<p class="i2">With love and praise and prayer.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>He gives the sun to warm the earth;</p> +<p class="i2">He sends the healthful shower,</p> +<p>And saves us always, through His grace,</p> +<p class="i2">By His almighty power.</p> +</div> +</div> +<br> +<br> +<p>THE END.</p> +<br> + + +<hr> + +<p>PHILADELPHIA:</p> +<br> +<p>HOGAN, PERKINS &, CO.</p> +<br> +<br> +<br> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Flood, by Anonymous + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FLOOD *** + +***** This file should be named 11268-h.htm or 11268-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/1/1/2/6/11268/ + +Produced by Internet 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Flood + +Author: Anonymous + +Release Date: February 24, 2004 [EBook #11268] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: US-ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FLOOD *** + + + + +Produced by Internet Archive; University of Florida, Christine De Ryck +and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. + + + + + + + + + + + +OLD TESTAMENT SCENES AND NARRATIVES. + +HISTORY OF THE FLOOD. + + + * * * * * + + +[Illustration: Noah's Sacrifice.] + + + * * * * * + + +OLD TESTAMENT SCENES AND NARRATIVES. + +BEING A SECOND SERIES OF +THE GOOD CHILD'S LIBRARY, + + +THE FLOOD. + + +PHILADELPHIA, + +HOGAN, PERKINS & CO. + + + * * * * * + + +Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by HOGAN, +PERKINS & CO., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United +States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. + + + * * * * * + + + + +PUBLISHERS' NOTICE. + + +In the advertisement prefixed to the series of volumes already +published, under the title of the "GOOD CHILD'S LIBRARY," the publishers +gave notice of their intention to issue another series, similar in +character and design, to be devoted to subjects from the Old Testament, +as the other had been to the New. In fulfilment of this notice they have +issued the present series, embellished like the Good Child's Library, +with an entire new set of Illustrations, executed in Oil Colors, in the +best manner. The additional attraction given thereby will, they trust, +obtain for it the same favor as has already been bestowed upon the +former series. + +The volumes composing the SCENES AND NARRATIVES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, +are separate and distinct from each other, having no other connection +than similarity of form and style. The following are the titles of the +different works. + +THE GARDEN OF EDEN, +THE FLOOD, +DISPERSION OF MANKIND, +DEPARTURE OF THE ISRAELITES, +HISTORY OF ABRAHAM, +HISTORY OF ISAAC, +HISTORY OF JACOB, +HISTORY OF JOSEPH, +HISTORY OF MOSES, +HISTORY OF JOSHUA, +HISTORY OF SAMUEL, +HISTORY OF DAVID. + +The above series in connection with the volumes of the "Good Child's +Library," constitute a choice and attractive Scriptural Library for +Children. + + + * * * * * + + +THE FLOOD + + + + +CONTENTS. + + I. The Wickedness of Man + II. God is provoked + III. Noah and his family + IV. Noah commanded to make an Ark + V. Noah Preaches + VI. Noah enters the Ark + VII. The windows of Heaven are opened + VIII. The fountains of the deep are broken up + IX. The floating Ark + X. The drowning World + XI. The Ark rests on Ararat + XII. Noah sends forth the Raven and the Dove + XIII. Noah comes forth from the Ark + XIV. Noah sacrifices to the Lord + XV. The Bow in the clouds + + + + + +THE FLOOD. + + + + +I. + +THE WICKEDNESS OF MAN. + + + Behold how kind and merciful + Our heavenly Father was, + To bear so long with sinful men, + Who had transgressed His laws. + + The hearts of men wax'd worse and worse, + They disobeyed the Lord; + They followed their own thoughts, nor walked + According to His word. + + And men were multiplied on earth, + They spread both far and wide; + And there were giants in those days, + Who did God's law deride. + + The Lord look'd down from Heaven to see + If there were any good; + Behold they all were turn'd aside, + Sin tainted all their blood. + + Yet still the Lord was good to them-- + He gave them sun and rain, + And every blessing, yet their hearts + Were foolish, wicked, vain. + + There is no sin so base as that + We call ingratitude, + To use those ill, with wicked hearts, + Who seek to do us good. + + And when the Great and Holy One + With kindness stoop'd to bless + The sorrows of a sinful world, + And pity their distress;-- + + 'Twas vile ingratitude in them + To act so wickedly, + And spurn the mercy of the Lord, + The great, the good, the high. + + God's goodness leads us to repent, + And give our folly o'er;-- + And if we use His kindness right, + We'll go and sin no more. + + + + +II. + +GOD IS PROVOKED. + + + But God is just as well as good, + He will not always strive; + He will assert His sovereign right, + Nor let the sinner live. + + He does not seek the death of one + Of all the sinful race, + Yet He will not forever bear + With those who slight His grace. + + His mercy is forever sure, + His justice too must stand, + And people must obedient be + To what He does command. + + So when the world so wicked proved, + And wander'd from the Lord, + And with most stubborn hearts refused + To hear His sovereign word;-- + + He bore with patience long and kind, + Their steady wickedness; + But did at last withdraw His grace, + And leave them in distress. + + He gave them up to their own hearts, + To work their own desire; + He threatened them with judgment vast, + And kindled was His ire. + + "My spirit shall not always strive"-- + Jehovah sternly said-- + A Flood I'll bring which will destroy + All things that I have made. + + "Why should they live in guilt and wo, + And all my words despise; + Their every work, and every thought, + Is loathsome to my eyes." + + When God provoked, in anger speaks, + Who can His word withstand? + His heart is full of holiness, + And strong is His right hand. + + + + +III. + +NOAH AND HIS FAMILY. + + + One righteous man was found on earth, + And him Jehovah loved; + His thoughts, his words, and all his deeds, + Were by the Lord approved. + + He kept himself away from sin, + Nor walk'd with wicked men; + He loved the God who reigns on high, + Nor did he love in vain. + + His family he train'd to know, + And love and serve the Lord; + And they were safe in keeping all + The great Jehovah's word. + + The Lord remembered Noah's walk, + And did not him condemn, + When, for the wickedness of men, + He did aloud proclaim,-- + + That He would rain upon the earth + An overwhelming flood; + But choose him and his family-- + And firm His counsel stood. + + The Lord forever shows regard + To those who love His ways, + They vindicate His righteousness + And ever show His praise. + + So He would not destroy this man + Who walk'd with Him in love, + But promised him that He would give + Protection from above. + + Then Noah's fervent heart was fill'd + With grief for sinful men; + Yet though God's judgment was severe, + He could not once complain. + + He pitied the sad state of those + Who had despised the Lord; + He saw that God would punish them, + According to His word. + + + + +IV. + +NOAH COMMANDED TO MAKE AN ARK. + + + Jehovah unto Noah said:-- + "I will destroy the earth, + For violence is in the land, + And wickedness and mirth. + + "Men's hearts are full of laughter wild, + Their lives are full of sin; + And I will send destruction swift, + And show my power divine. + + "I'll rain upon the earth a flood, + And drown men in the storm, + And they shall find no arm to save, + Amid their fearful gloom. + + "But thee I have found true and good, + A follower of my ways; + And I will save thee from the flood, + And lengthen out thy days. + + "Now therefore build thyself an ark, + According to my word; + To save thyself and family, + For ye have fear'd the Lord. + + "For every thing that now has life, + And all things that have breath, + Even for the wickedness of man, + I do devote to death. + + "I am the Lord, the mighty one, + I, even I, do speak; + The flood upon the earth I'll bring, + And nought my word shall break." + + Noah prepared to build the ark, + The tidings did him grieve; + Yet it was just, and every word + He did at once believe. + + + + +V. + +NOAH PREACHES. + + + While Noah built for six score years + The ark to ride the flood, + He preach'd unto the people round + The dreadful word of God. + + He show'd to them their heinous sins, + He told them God was just, + That He would surely punish them + Unto the uttermost. + + Not only did they break God's law + But they despised His grace; + That they had most ungrateful proved, + A hard, rebellious race. + + And though the Lord had suffer'd long, + Nor seem'd to notice them, + Yet soon He would arise in might, + And loud His wrath proclaim. + + He told them of the impending flood, + The threatening of the Lord; + And that His counsel sure would stand, + And ever true His word. + + But if they would repent, perhaps + The Lord would turn away + His anger from the earth and thus + Avert the dreadful day. + + But if they should persist in sin + And folly to the last; + Then God in wrath would visit them,-- + Their day of grace be past. + + He there fore bade them all repent, + And turn from all their sin, + And humbly to Jehovah pray, + To stay His wrath divine. + + The time wore on, the ark progress'd, + And Noah grew more bold; + And to the people day by day, + God's threatened judgment told. + + They heeded not his solemn words, + Nor mark'd his tearful eye; + But still continued in their sin + Against the Lord most high. + + They mock'd him with their taunting speech, + And call'd him foolish, vain, + To think that God would drown the earth + And men in floods of rain. + + They look'd up to the heavens above, + No threatening clouds were there; + They laugh'd, they sang, they danced in pride, + Nor thought of God, or prayer. + + All things remained the same to them, + For nearly six score years; + Why should they have distress of mind, + Or yield their soul to fears? + + Still, Noah, faithful to his trust, + His solemn warnings gave; + And patiently prepared the ark, + His family to save + + And still the people wagg'd their heads, + As they were passing by, + And look'd first on his monster ark, + Then upward to the sky;-- + + Then smiled in scorn, and went their way, + To sin and folly prone; + Not dreaming, though the skies look'd fair, + They'd soon be left alone. + + Amid the angry storms of Heaven, + And rising waves around + Overflowing all the fields of earth, + And all the highest ground. + + + + +VI. + +NOAH ENTERS THE ARK. + + + And now the ark was built; the day + Of wrath was drawing near; + Yet still no cloud was in the sky; + And in men's hearts no fear. + + No doubt they wonder'd much what now + This foolish man would do; + And thought that they would surely prove, + His prophecy untrue. + + But soon he heard Jehovah's voice;-- + These words he heard Him say,-- + "Come thou into the ark at once, + With all thy family." + + So Noah enter'd in the ark, + He and his children too, + And beasts and birds of every kind, + Did enter two by two. + + The lives of these Jehovah spared, + To fill the earth again, + When He should cause the ark to rest, + And should the flood restrain. + + And when they all were in the ark, + The just and mighty God, + Prepared to bring upon the earth + The waters of the flood. + + The day of grace was fully past, + No voice should now proclaim, + To sinful, faithless, scoffing men, + Jehovah's gracious name. + + The righteous in God's care were safe, + From every fear of harm; + But wicked men would be o'erwhelm'd + With terrible alarm. + +[Illustration: Babylon.] + + + + +VII. + +THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN ARE OPENED. + + + Ah! where shall now the sinner hide-- + what power the storm can stay? + What pleasing charm can he call up + To drive his fears away? + + Who can withstand the wrath of God! + He with a single breath, + Could vanquish all our boasted strength, + And visit us with death. + + He gathers now His angry clouds, + And thick they quickly come; + Bearing along the teeming rains + And the devouring storm. + + The beauteous sky is overcast. + And darkness fills the air; + And lightnings flash, and thunders roll; + No ray of hope is there. + + As if the clouds are not enough, + Heaven's windows open wide, + To pour upon the startled earth + The overflowing tide. + + The clouds come down almost to earth, + And seem to bend with rain; + And men look up with fearful gaze, + Nor can their fear restrain. + + Oh! fearful and majestic scene; + Jehovah's awful frown + Seems o'er the sinfulness of earth, + In anger bending down. + + No sun now cheers, no light of star + To those shall ever come, + Who by their long continued crimes, + Provoked this awful doom. + + + + +VIII. + +THE FOUNTAINS OF THE DEEP ARE BROKEN UP. + + + Not only did the clouds come up,-- + Heaven's windows open wide;-- + The fountains of the deep were stirr'd, + And raged on every side. + + The clouds pour'd down their treasures vast, + The deeps yield up their store, + The proudest trembles at the form + Of God's almighty power. + + The seas are swelling up in wrath, + And break the appointed bound-- + Their waters overflow the shore + And fiercely rage around. + + The rivers rise to fearful height, + And roll their torrents on, + Until their highest banks are lost + From sight, deep overflown. + + The fountains too and hidden springs, + Seem bursting everywhere; + Their waters flow on every side, + The common rage to share. + + Now wave meets wave, and swells the flood + In fury o'er the land, + Fulfilling all the will of God, + Obeying His command. + + O God! the power is thine alone, + To punish and create; + We would with reverence bow to Thee, + And worship might so great + + And may we never dare provoke + That high Almighty Power, + Which once awaked against our sins, + Could blast us in an hour. + + + + +IX. + +THE FLOATING ARK. + + + The waters lifted up the ark, + Majestic it did ride + Above the swelling, surging waves, + Along the rolling tide. + + The freight of life it bore along, + Secure from every harm; + And though the tempest raged without, + Their hearts knew no alarm. + + To God in humble earnest prayer, + They sent their feeble cry, + And He with power and love did look, + Down from His throne on high. + + And while the raging waves did roar, + And swift destruction bring, + Jehovah sheltered them beneath + The shadow of His wing. + + The ark Jehovah guided through + The vast unmeasured deep; + And all the life therein reposed + He did in safety keep. + + It floated o'er the valleys low, + And o'er the highest hill, + For high the waters rose, and thus + Obey'd the Almighty Will. + + How strong that hand that can protect, + When danger rages round; + The mercy of our Father God, + Doth every where abound. + + And those who put their trust in Him, + And to Him ever pray, + Will find it is the safest thing + His counsel to obey. + + + + +X. + +THE DROWNING WORLD. + + + Now let us for awhile return + And see the startled world, + With all its pride and all its sin + Swift into ruin hurl'd. + + The waters now are rising fast, + And men are in despair; + They can themselves no succur find, + No ear now hears their prayer. + + They once derided him who preached + To them the coming wo, + But now no voice cries out, Repent; + Ah! whither shall they go? + + The ark to them is firmly closed, + They cannot enter in; + They see the flood is rising round; + They perish in their sin. + + Not highest trees can shelter them, + Nor mountain caverns hide, + For caves and heights are fill'd and lost, + As onward sweeps the tide. + + Ah! would that they had heard the word + That faithful Noah preach'd; + Accepted of Jehovah's grace + Which he to them out-reach'd. + + But now, alas! it is too late; + No human power can save + A single soul from perishing, + Beneath the flooding wave. + + Oh! let us not provoke our God; + But of His grace partake; + And feel our sins are blotted out + For His own mercy's sake. + + + + +XI. + +THE ARK RESTS ON ARARAT. + + + For forty days and forty nights, + The waters of the flood + Prevail'd o'er all the face of earth, + Obedient to the word. + + Which God the great Jehovah spake, + To drown it for its sin; + His word is holy, just and right + Forever sure, divine. + + The earth was drown'd; all living things + Had perish'd from its face, + Save Noah and his family, + Protected by God's grace. + + The ark rode onward with the flood; + The hand of God did guide + The vessel with its freight of life, + O'er all the swelling tide. + + The clouds do now withdraw aside; + The deepest fountains cease, + To pour their treasures forth on earth; + The waters slow decrease. + + The ark moves on to Ararat, + And rests upon its height; + While Noah and his family, + Are fill'd with great delight. + + They long to see the earth again, + Cleansed by Jehovah's hand; + They long to see the sun, great orb, + Shine brightly o'er the land. + + They long to see the trees put forth, + And beauteous flowers spring,-- + The fields with verdure clothed, and hear + The birds of morning sing. + + + + +XII. + +NOAH SENDS FORTH THE RAVEN AND THE DOVE. + + + Then Noah sent a raven forth, + Out of a window high, + To wander here and there, until + the waters should be dry. + + And then again he sent a dove + That he might something learn, + But she could find no resting-place, + And did to him return. + + The waters still spread o'er the earth, + And slowly did abate; + For seven days more within the ark, + He patiently did wait. + +[Illustration: The River Nile by Moonlight.] + + And then he sent her forth again, + And back she came at eve, + And bearing in her mouth she brought + To him an olive-leaf. + + This token told him that the flood + Was drying fast away; + But Noah still within the ark + For seven days more did stay. + + He now the third time sent the dove, + Nor did he send in vain, + The waters of the flood were dry;-- + She ne'er returned again. + + She found a resting-place on earth, + Beneath a sunny sky, + And with a gladsome, joyous heart, + She round about did fly. + + Then Noah look'd forth from the ark, + And lifted up to God, + His thankfulness for keeping him, + According to His word. + + + + +XIII. + +NOAH COMES FORTH FROM THE ARK. + + + And now the Lord to Noah spake, + And bade him from the ark + Go forth, and stand upon the earth, + And all his family take. + + The waters from the earth had fled, + The ground was clean and dry, + No threatening billows form'd around, + No clouds were in the sky. + + So Noah left the ark, and came + Forth to the open air, + And all the beasts and creeping things, + And fowls, were with him there. + + He brought them out to fill the earth. + To multiply and live; + That they might magnify His name, + Who every good doth give. + + Behold the wondrous hand of God, + How matchless is His skill, + Who works in heaven and on the earth, + The counsel of His will. + + How great, how awful, and how just + Was that Almighty word, + Which, for the sinfulness of men, + Did call the dreadful flood. + + And while the world was perishing, + 'Tis pleasing to observe, + The loving-kindness of the Lord, + Who did the good preserve. + + He saved them in the ark, while fell + The overflowing rain; + And when the flood was dried away, + He brought them forth again. + + + + +XIV. + +NOAH SACRIFICES TO THE LORD. + + + When Noah came forth from the ark, + His heart was filled with praise; + He worshipp'd God with thankful voice, + For His abounding grace. + + He rear'd to God an altar there, + And offer'd sacrifice, + And kneeling with his family, + To heaven did lift his eyes. + + And God was pleased with Noah's praise, + And witnessed from above + The offering which in faith he made, + And blest him with His love. + + Jehovah said--"I will no more, + Destroy or curse the ground, + But will display my love and grace, + Wherever life is found." + + How tender, loving is the Lord, + Whose anger does not burn + Forever 'gainst the sons of men, + But calls them to return. + + He says to men--"Repent and live, + And all my law obey, + And I your strength and hope shall be, + Through all life's devious way." + + O! sacrifice to God in faith, + And all your sins confess, + And with the riches of His love, + He will your spirits bless. + + For blood of bulls, or lambs or goats, + Jehovah does not care, + But bring the offering of your hearts, + With humble earnest prayer. + + + + +XV. + +THE BOW IN THE CLOUDS. + + + Jehovah now a covenant made, + That He would bring no more + A flood of water o'er the earth, + As He had done before. + + The nations now should prove His love, + His truth and power divine; + His attributes o'er all the earth, + With glory bright do shine. + + His mercy hath no bound but truth, + And all His works do prove, + Unto the sons of men abroad, + His constant, perfect love. + + He set the beauteous Bow on high + With many colours bright, + To show His covenant with men, + Was faithful, gracious, right. + + It hung in heaven, upheld by God, + And arch'd the distant gloom, + And bent on either side to earth, + In bright and graceful form. + + This covenant Jehovah keeps, + Forever faithful, true; + For when the rains are o'er, then high + The rainbow comes in view. + + Whene'er we gaze upon its form, + And note its colours fair; + Our hearts should be inspired toward God, + With love and praise and prayer. + + He gives the sun to warm the earth; + He sends the healthful shower, + And saves us always, through His grace, + By His almighty power. + + +THE END. + + + * * * * * + + +PHILADELPHIA: + +HOGAN, PERKINS &, CO. + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Flood, by Anonymous + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FLOOD *** + +***** This file should be named 11268.txt or 11268.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/1/1/2/6/11268/ + +Produced by Internet Archive; 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Flood + +Author: Anonymous + +Release Date: February 24, 2004 [EBook #11268] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: US-ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FLOOD *** + + + + +Produced by Internet Archive; University of Florida, Christine De Ryck +and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<h1> +OLD TESTAMENT<br> +SCENES<br> +AND<br> +NARRATIVES.</h1> +<br> +<h1>HISTORY<br> +OF<br> +THE FLOOD.</h1> +<br> +<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="./img/001.gif" alt="Old Testament Scenes and Narratives. History of the Flood"></div><br> +<br> + +<hr> +<br> +<br> + +<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="./img/006.gif" alt="Noah's Sacrifice."><br> +<span class="imgcapt">Noah's Sacrifice.</span></div> +<br> +<br> + +<hr><br> + +<h1>OLD TESTAMENT<br> +SCENES<br> +AND<br> +NARRATIVES.</h1><br> +<br> +<h2>BEING A SECOND SERIES OF<br> +THE GOOD CHILD'S LIBRARY,</h2> +<br> +<br> +<h1>THE FLOOD.</h1><br> +<br> +<br> +<h3>PHILADELPHIA,</h3> +<h3>HOGAN, PERKINS & CO.</h3> + + +<hr> +<br> + +<p>Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by HOGAN, +PERKINS & CO.,</p> + +<p>in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the +Eastern District of Pennsylvania.</p> + + +<hr> + +<h2 class="chaphead">PUBLISHERS' NOTICE.</h2> + +<p>In the advertisement prefixed to the series of volumes already +published, under the title of the "GOOD CHILD'S LIBRARY," the publishers +gave notice of their intention to issue another series, similar in +character and design, to be devoted to subjects from the Old Testament, +as the other had been to the New. In fulfilment of this notice they have +issued the present series, embellished like the Good Child's Library, +with an entire new set of Illustrations, executed in Oil Colors, in the +best manner. The additional attraction given thereby will, they trust, +obtain for it the same favor as has already been bestowed upon the +former series.</p> + +<p>The volumes composing the SCENES AND NARRATIVES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, +are separate and distinct from each other, having no other connection +than similarity of form and style. The following are the titles of the +different works.</p> + +<table cellpadding="10" summary="List of Titles"> + <tr> + <td valign="top"> +THE GARDEN OF EDEN,<br> +THE FLOOD,<br> +DISPERSION OF MANKIND,<br> +DEPARTURE OF THE ISRAELITES,<br> +HISTORY OF ABRAHAM,<br> +HISTORY OF ISAAC, + + </td> + <td valign="top"> +HISTORY OF JACOB,<br> +HISTORY OF JOSEPH,<br> +HISTORY OF MOSES,<br> +HISTORY OF JOSHUA,<br> +HISTORY OF SAMUEL,<br> +HISTORY OF DAVID. + </td> + </tr> +</table><br> + +<p>The above series in connection with the volumes of the "Good Child's +Library," constitute a choice and attractive Scriptural Library for +Children.</p> + + +<hr><br> +<br> + +<h2>THE FLOOD</h2> + + +<h2 class="chaphead">CONTENTS.</h2> +<table align="center" summary="Contents"> + <tr> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#I">I.</a> + </td> + <td align="left"> + <a href="#I">The Wickedness of Man</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#II">II.</a> + </td> + <td align="left"> + <a href="#II">God is provoked</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#III">III.</a> + </td> + <td align="left"> + <a href="#III">Noah and his family</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#IV">IV.</a> + </td> + <td align="left"> + <a href="#IV">Noah commanded to make an Ark</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#V">V.</a> + </td> + <td align="left"> + <a href="#V">Noah Preaches</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#VI">VI.</a> + </td> + <td align="left"> + <a href="#VI">Noah enters the Ark</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#VII">VII.</a> + </td> + <td align="left"> + <a href="#VII">The windows of Heaven are opened</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#VIII">VIII.</a> + </td> + <td align="left"> + <a href="#VIII">The fountains of the deep are broken up</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#IX">IX.</a> + </td> + <td align="left"> + <a href="#IX">The floating Ark</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#X">X.</a> + </td> + <td align="left"> + <a href="#X">The drowning World</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#XI">XI.</a> + </td> + <td align="left"> + <a href="#XI">The Ark rests on Ararat</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#XII">XII.</a> + </td> + <td align="left"> + <a href="#XII">Noah sends forth the Raven and the Dove</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#XIII">XIII.</a> + </td> + <td align="left"> + <a href="#XIII">Noah comes forth from the Ark</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#XIV">XIV.</a> + </td> + <td align="left"> + <a href="#XIV">Noah sacrifices to the Lord</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td align="right"> + <a href="#XV">XV.</a> + </td> + <td align="left"> + <a href="#XV">The Bow in the clouds</a> + </td> + </tr> +</table> + +<br> +<br> +<hr> +<br> +<br> +<h1>THE FLOOD.</h1> + + + +<a name="I"></a><h2 class="chaphead">I.<br><br> +THE WICKEDNESS OF MAN.</h2> + + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Behold how kind and merciful</p> +<p class="i2">Our heavenly Father was,</p> +<p>To bear so long with sinful men,</p> +<p class="i2">Who had transgressed His laws.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The hearts of men wax'd worse and worse,</p> +<p class="i2">They disobeyed the Lord;</p> +<p>They followed their own thoughts, nor walked</p> +<p class="i2">According to His word.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>And men were multiplied on earth,</p> +<p class="i2">They spread both far and wide;</p> +<p>And there were giants in those days,</p> +<p class="i2">Who did God's law deride.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The Lord look'd down from Heaven to see</p> +<p class="i2">If there were any good;</p> +<p>Behold they all were turn'd aside,</p> +<p class="i2">Sin tainted all their blood.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Yet still the Lord was good to them—</p> +<p class="i2">He gave them sun and rain,</p> +<p>And every blessing, yet their hearts</p> +<p class="i2">Were foolish, wicked, vain.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>There is no sin so base as that</p> +<p class="i2">We call ingratitude,</p> +<p>To use those ill, with wicked hearts,</p> +<p class="i2">Who seek to do us good.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>And when the Great and Holy One</p> +<p class="i2">With kindness stoop'd to bless</p> +<p>The sorrows of a sinful world,</p> +<p class="i2">And pity their distress;—</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>'Twas vile ingratitude in them</p> +<p class="i2">To act so wickedly,</p> +<p>And spurn the mercy of the Lord,</p> +<p class="i2">The great, the good, the high.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>God's goodness leads us to repent,</p> +<p class="i2">And give our folly o'er;—</p> +<p>And if we use His kindness right,</p> +<p class="i2">We'll go and sin no more.</p> +</div> +</div> + + + +<hr> +<a name="II"></a><h2 class="chaphead">II.<br> +<br> +GOD IS PROVOKED.</h2> + + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>But God is just as well as good,</p> +<p class="i2">He will not always strive;</p> +<p>He will assert His sovereign right,</p> +<p class="i2">Nor let the sinner live.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>He does not seek the death of one</p> +<p class="i2">Of all the sinful race,</p> +<p>Yet He will not forever bear</p> +<p class="i2">With those who slight His grace.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>His mercy is forever sure,</p> +<p class="i2">His justice too must stand,</p> +<p>And people must obedient be</p> +<p class="i2">To what He does command.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>So when the world so wicked proved,</p> +<p class="i2">And wander'd from the Lord,</p> +<p>And with most stubborn hearts refused</p> +<p class="i2">To hear His sovereign word;—</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>He bore with patience long and kind,</p> +<p class="i2">Their steady wickedness;</p> +<p>But did at last withdraw His grace,</p> +<p class="i2">And leave them in distress.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>He gave them up to their own hearts,</p> +<p class="i2">To work their own desire;</p> +<p>He threatened them with judgment vast,</p> +<p class="i2">And kindled was His ire.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"My spirit shall not always strive"—</p> +<p class="i2">Jehovah sternly said—</p> +<p>A Flood I'll bring which will destroy</p> +<p class="i2">All things that I have made.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"Why should they live in guilt and wo,</p> +<p class="i2">And all my words despise;</p> +<p>Their every work, and every thought,</p> +<p class="i2">Is loathsome to my eyes."</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>When God provoked, in anger speaks,</p> +<p class="i2">Who can His word withstand?</p> +<p>His heart is full of holiness,</p> +<p class="i2">And strong is His right hand.</p> +</div> +</div> + + + +<hr> +<a name="III"></a><h2 class="chaphead">III.<br> +<br> +NOAH AND HIS FAMILY.</h2> + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>One righteous man was found on earth,</p> +<p class="i2">And him Jehovah loved;</p> +<p>His thoughts, his words, and all his deeds,</p> +<p class="i2">Were by the Lord approved.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>He kept himself away from sin,</p> +<p class="i2">Nor walk'd with wicked men;</p> +<p>He loved the God who reigns on high,</p> +<p class="i2">Nor did he love in vain.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>His family he train'd to know,</p> +<p class="i2">And love and serve the Lord;</p> +<p>And they were safe in keeping all</p> +<p class="i2">The great Jehovah's word.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The Lord remembered Noah's walk,</p> +<p class="i2">And did not him condemn,</p> +<p>When, for the wickedness of men,</p> +<p class="i2">He did aloud proclaim,—</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>That He would rain upon the earth</p> +<p class="i2">An overwhelming flood;</p> +<p>But choose him and his family—</p> +<p class="i2">And firm His counsel stood.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The Lord forever shows regard</p> +<p class="i2">To those who love His ways,</p> +<p>They vindicate His righteousness</p> +<p class="i2">And ever show His praise.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>So He would not destroy this man</p> +<p class="i2">Who walk'd with Him in love,</p> +<p>But promised him that He would give</p> +<p class="i2">Protection from above.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Then Noah's fervent heart was fill'd</p> +<p class="i2">With grief for sinful men;</p> +<p>Yet though God's judgment was severe,</p> +<p class="i2">He could not once complain.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>He pitied the sad state of those</p> +<p class="i2">Who had despised the Lord;</p> +<p>He saw that God would punish them,</p> +<p class="i2">According to His word.</p> +</div> +</div> + + + +<hr> +<a name="IV"></a><h2 class="chaphead">IV.<br> +<br> +NOAH COMMANDED TO MAKE AN ARK.</h2> + + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Jehovah unto Noah said:—</p> +<p class="i2">"I will destroy the earth,</p> +<p>For violence is in the land,</p> +<p class="i2">And wickedness and mirth.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"Men's hearts are full of laughter wild,</p> +<p class="i2">Their lives are full of sin;</p> +<p>And I will send destruction swift,</p> +<p class="i2">And show my power divine.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"I'll rain upon the earth a flood,</p> +<p class="i2">And drown men in the storm,</p> +<p>And they shall find no arm to save,</p> +<p class="i2">Amid their fearful gloom.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"But thee I have found true and good,</p> +<p class="i2">A follower of my ways;</p> +<p>And I will save thee from the flood,</p> +<p class="i2">And lengthen out thy days.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"Now therefore build thyself an ark,</p> +<p class="i2">According to my word;</p> +<p>To save thyself and family,</p> +<p class="i2">For ye have fear'd the Lord.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"For every thing that now has life,</p> +<p class="i2">And all things that have breath,</p> +<p>Even for the wickedness of man,</p> +<p class="i2">I do devote to death.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>"I am the Lord, the mighty one,</p> +<p class="i2">I, even I, do speak;</p> +<p>The flood upon the earth I'll bring,</p> +<p class="i2">And nought my word shall break."</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Noah prepared to build the ark,</p> +<p class="i1">The tidings did him grieve;</p> +<p>Yet it was just, and every word</p> +<p class="i2">He did at once believe.</p> +</div> +</div> + + + +<hr> +<a name="V"></a><h2 class="chaphead">V.<br> +<br> +NOAH PREACHES.</h2> + + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>While Noah built for six score years</p> +<p class="i2">The ark to ride the flood,</p> +<p>He preach'd unto the people round</p> +<p class="i2">The dreadful word of God.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>He show'd to them their heinous sins,</p> +<p class="i2">He told them God was just,</p> +<p>That He would surely punish them</p> +<p class="i2">Unto the uttermost.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Not only did they break God's law</p> +<p class="i2">But they despised His grace;</p> +<p>That they had most ungrateful proved,</p> +<p class="i2">A hard, rebellious race.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>And though the Lord had suffer'd long,</p> +<p class="i2">Nor seem'd to notice them,</p> +<p>Yet soon He would arise in might,</p> +<p class="i2">And loud His wrath proclaim.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>He told them of the impending flood,</p> +<p class="i2">The threatening of the Lord;</p> +<p>And that His counsel sure would stand,</p> +<p class="i2">And ever true His word.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>But if they would repent, perhaps</p> +<p class="i2">The Lord would turn away</p> +<p>His anger from the earth and thus</p> +<p class="i2">Avert the dreadful day.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>But if they should persist in sin</p> +<p class="i2">And folly to the last;</p> +<p>Then God in wrath would visit them,—</p> +<p class="i2">Their day of grace be past.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>He there fore bade them all repent,</p> +<p class="i2">And turn from all their sin,</p> +<p>And humbly to Jehovah pray,</p> +<p class="i2">To stay His wrath divine.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The time wore on, the ark progress'd,</p> +<p class="i2">And Noah grew more bold;</p> +<p>And to the people day by day,</p> +<p class="i2">God's threatened judgment told.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>They heeded not his solemn words,</p> +<p class="i2">Nor mark'd his tearful eye;</p> +<p>But still continued in their sin</p> +<p class="i2">Against the Lord most high.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>They mock'd him with their taunting speech,</p> +<p class="i2">And call'd him foolish, vain,</p> +<p>To think that God would drown the earth</p> +<p class="i2">And men in floods of rain.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>They look'd up to the heavens above,</p> +<p class="i2">No threatening clouds were there;</p> +<p>They laugh'd, they sang, they danced in pride,</p> +<p class="i2">Nor thought of God, or prayer.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>All things remained the same to them,</p> +<p class="i2">For nearly six score years;</p> +<p>Why should they have distress of mind,</p> +<p class="i2">Or yield their soul to fears?</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Still, Noah, faithful to his trust,</p> +<p class="i2">His solemn warnings gave;</p> +<p>And patiently prepared the ark,</p> +<p class="i2">His family to save</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>And still the people wagg'd their heads,</p> +<p class="i2">As they were passing by,</p> +<p>And look'd first on his monster ark,</p> +<p class="i2">Then upward to the sky;—</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Then smiled in scorn, and went their way,</p> +<p class="i2">To sin and folly prone;</p> +<p>Not dreaming, though the skies look'd fair,</p> +<p class="i2">They'd soon be left alone.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Amid the angry storms of Heaven,</p> +<p class="i2">And rising waves around</p> +<p>Overflowing all the fields of earth,</p> +<p class="i2">And all the highest ground.</p> +</div> +</div> + + + +<hr> +<a name="VI"></a><h2 class="chaphead">VI.<br> +<br> +NOAH ENTERS THE ARK.</h2> + + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>And now the ark was built; the day</p> +<p class="i2">Of wrath was drawing near;</p> +<p>Yet still no cloud was in the sky;</p> +<p class="i2">And in men's hearts no fear.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>No doubt they wonder'd much what now</p> +<p class="i2">This foolish man would do;</p> +<p>And thought that they would surely prove,</p> +<p class="i2">His prophecy untrue.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>But soon he heard Jehovah's voice;—</p> +<p class="i2">These words he heard Him say,—</p> +<p>"Come thou into the ark at once,</p> +<p class="i2">With all thy family."</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>So Noah enter'd in the ark,</p> +<p class="i2">He and his children too,</p> +<p>And beasts and birds of every kind,</p> +<p class="i2">Did enter two by two.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The lives of these Jehovah spared,</p> +<p class="i2">To fill the earth again,</p> +<p>When He should cause the ark to rest,</p> +<p class="i2">And should the flood restrain.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>And when they all were in the ark,</p> +<p class="i2">The just and mighty God,</p> +<p>Prepared to bring upon the earth</p> +<p class="i2">The waters of the flood.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The day of grace was fully past,</p> +<p class="i2">No voice should now proclaim,</p> +<p>To sinful, faithless, scoffing men,</p> +<p class="i2">Jehovah's gracious name.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The righteous in God's care were safe,</p> +<p class="i2">From every fear of harm;</p> +<p>But wicked men would be o'erwhelm'd</p> +<p class="i2">With terrible alarm.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="./img/038.gif" alt="Babylon."><br> +<span class="imgcapt">Babylon.</span></div> + + + +<hr> +<a name="VII"></a><h2 class="chaphead">VII.<br> +<br> +THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN ARE OPENED.</h2> + + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Ah! where shall now the sinner hide—</p> +<p class="i2">what power the storm can stay?</p> +<p>What pleasing charm can he call up</p> +<p class="i2">To drive his fears away?</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Who can withstand the wrath of God!</p> +<p class="i2">He with a single breath,</p> +<p>Could vanquish all our boasted strength,</p> +<p class="i2">And visit us with death.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>He gathers now His angry clouds,</p> +<p class="i2">And thick they quickly come;</p> +<p>Bearing along the teeming rains</p> +<p class="i2">And the devouring storm.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The beauteous sky is overcast.</p> +<p class="i2">And darkness fills the air;</p> +<p>And lightnings flash, and thunders roll;</p> +<p class="i2">No ray of hope is there.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>As if the clouds are not enough,</p> +<p class="i2">Heaven's windows open wide,</p> +<p>To pour upon the startled earth</p> +<p class="i2">The overflowing tide.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The clouds come down almost to earth,</p> +<p class="i2">And seem to bend with rain;</p> +<p>And men look up with fearful gaze,</p> +<p class="i2">Nor can their fear restrain.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Oh! fearful and majestic scene;</p> +<p class="i2">Jehovah's awful frown</p> +<p>Seems o'er the sinfulness of earth,</p> +<p class="i2">In anger bending down.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>No sun now cheers, no light of star</p> +<p class="i2">To those shall ever come,</p> +<p>Who by their long continued crimes,</p> +<p class="i2">Provoked this awful doom.</p> +</div> +</div> + + + +<hr> +<a name="VIII"></a><h2 class="chaphead">VIII.<br> +<br> +THE FOUNTAINS OF THE DEEP ARE BROKEN UP.</h2> + + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Not only did the clouds come up,—</p> +<p class="i2">Heaven's windows open wide;—</p> +<p>The fountains of the deep were stirr'd,</p> +<p class="i2">And raged on every side.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The clouds pour'd down their treasures vast,</p> +<p class="i2">The deeps yield up their store,</p> +<p>The proudest trembles at the form</p> +<p class="i2">Of God's almighty power.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The seas are swelling up in wrath,</p> +<p class="i2">And break the appointed bound—</p> +<p>Their waters overflow the shore</p> +<p class="i2">And fiercely rage around.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The rivers rise to fearful height,</p> +<p class="i2">And roll their torrents on,</p> +<p>Until their highest banks are lost</p> +<p class="i2">From sight, deep overflown.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The fountains too and hidden springs,</p> +<p class="i2">Seem bursting everywhere;</p> +<p>Their waters flow on every side,</p> +<p class="i2">The common rage to share.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Now wave meets wave, and swells the flood</p> +<p class="i2">In fury o'er the land,</p> +<p>Fulfilling all the will of God,</p> +<p class="i2">Obeying His command.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>O God! the power is thine alone,</p> +<p class="i2">To punish and create;</p> +<p>We would with reverence bow to Thee,</p> +<p class="i2">And worship might so great</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>And may we never dare provoke</p> +<p class="i2">That high Almighty Power,</p> +<p>Which once awaked against our sins,</p> +<p class="i2">Could blast us in an hour.</p> +</div> +</div> + + + +<hr> +<a name="IX"></a><h2 class="chaphead">IX.<br> +<br> +THE FLOATING ARK.</h2> + + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>The waters lifted up the ark,</p> +<p class="i2">Majestic it did ride</p> +<p>Above the swelling, surging waves,</p> +<p class="i2">Along the rolling tide.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The freight of life it bore along,</p> +<p class="i2">Secure from every harm;</p> +<p>And though the tempest raged without,</p> +<p class="i2">Their hearts knew no alarm.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>To God in humble earnest prayer,</p> +<p class="i2">They sent their feeble cry,</p> +<p>And He with power and love did look,</p> +<p class="i2">Down from His throne on high.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>And while the raging waves did roar,</p> +<p class="i2">And swift destruction bring,</p> +<p>Jehovah sheltered them beneath</p> +<p class="i2">The shadow of His wing.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The ark Jehovah guided through</p> +<p class="i2">The vast unmeasured deep;</p> +<p>And all the life therein reposed</p> +<p class="i2">He did in safety keep.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>It floated o'er the valleys low,</p> +<p class="i2">And o'er the highest hill,</p> +<p>For high the waters rose, and thus</p> +<p class="i2">Obey'd the Almighty Will.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>How strong that hand that can protect,</p> +<p class="i2">When danger rages round;</p> +<p>The mercy of our Father God,</p> +<p class="i2">Doth every where abound.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>And those who put their trust in Him,</p> +<p class="i2">And to Him ever pray,</p> +<p>Will find it is the safest thing</p> +<p class="i2">His counsel to obey.</p> +</div> +</div> + + + +<hr> +<a name="X"></a><h2 class="chaphead">X.<br> +<br> +THE DROWNING WORLD.</h2> + + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Now let us for awhile return</p> +<p class="i2">And see the startled world,</p> +<p>With all its pride and all its sin</p> +<p class="i2">Swift into ruin hurl'd.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The waters now are rising fast,</p> +<p class="i2">And men are in despair;</p> +<p>They can themselves no succur find,</p> +<p class="i2">No ear now hears their prayer.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>They once derided him who preached</p> +<p class="i2">To them the coming wo,</p> +<p>But now no voice cries out, Repent;</p> +<p class="i2">Ah! whither shall they go?</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The ark to them is firmly closed,</p> +<p class="i2">They cannot enter in;</p> +<p>They see the flood is rising round;</p> +<p class="i2">They perish in their sin.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Not highest trees can shelter them,</p> +<p class="i2">Nor mountain caverns hide,</p> +<p>For caves and heights are fill'd and lost,</p> +<p class="i2">As onward sweeps the tide.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Ah! would that they had heard the word</p> +<p class="i2">That faithful Noah preach'd;</p> +<p>Accepted of Jehovah's grace</p> +<p class="i2">Which he to them out-reach'd.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>But now, alas! it is too late;</p> +<p class="i2">No human power can save</p> +<p>A single soul from perishing,</p> +<p class="i2">Beneath the flooding wave.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Oh! let us not provoke our God;</p> +<p class="i2">But of His grace partake;</p> +<p>And feel our sins are blotted out</p> +<p class="i2">For His own mercy's sake.</p> +</div> +</div> + + + +<hr> +<a name="XI"></a><h2 class="chaphead">XI.<br> +<br> +THE ARK RESTS ON ARARAT.</h2> + + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>For forty days and forty nights,</p> +<p class="i2">The waters of the flood</p> +<p>Prevail'd o'er all the face of earth,</p> +<p class="i2">Obedient to the word.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Which God the great Jehovah spake,</p> +<p class="i2">To drown it for its sin;</p> +<p>His word is holy, just and right</p> +<p class="i2">Forever sure, divine.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The earth was drown'd; all living things</p> +<p class="i2">Had perish'd from its face,</p> +<p>Save Noah and his family,</p> +<p class="i2">Protected by God's grace.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The ark rode onward with the flood;</p> +<p class="i2">The hand of God did guide</p> +<p>The vessel with its freight of life,</p> +<p class="i2">O'er all the swelling tide.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The clouds do now withdraw aside;</p> +<p class="i2">The deepest fountains cease,</p> +<p>To pour their treasures forth on earth;</p> +<p class="i2">The waters slow decrease.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The ark moves on to Ararat,</p> +<p class="i2">And rests upon its height;</p> +<p>While Noah and his family,</p> +<p class="i2">Are fill'd with great delight.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>They long to see the earth again,</p> +<p class="i2">Cleansed by Jehovah's hand;</p> +<p>They long to see the sun, great orb,</p> +<p class="i2">Shine brightly o'er the land.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>They long to see the trees put forth,</p> +<p class="i2">And beauteous flowers spring,—</p> +<p>The fields with verdure clothed, and hear</p> +<p class="i2">The birds of morning sing.</p> +</div> +</div> + + + +<hr> +<a name="XII"></a><h2 class="chaphead">XII.<br> +<br> +NOAH SENDS FORTH THE RAVEN AND THE DOVE.</h2> + + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Then Noah sent a raven forth,</p> +<p class="i2">Out of a window high,</p> +<p>To wander here and there, until</p> +<p class="i2">the waters should be dry.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>And then again he sent a dove</p> +<p class="i2">That he might something learn,</p> +<p>But she could find no resting-place,</p> +<p class="i2">And did to him return.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The waters still spread o'er the earth,</p> +<p class="i2">And slowly did abate;</p> +<p>For seven days more within the ark,</p> +<p class="i2">He patiently did wait.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="./img/055.gif" alt="The River Nile by Moonlight."><br> +<span class="imgcapt">The River Nile by Moonlight.</span></div> + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>And then he sent her forth again,</p> +<p class="i2">And back she came at eve,</p> +<p>And bearing in her mouth she brought</p> +<p class="i2">To him an olive-leaf.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>This token told him that the flood</p> +<p class="i2">Was drying fast away;</p> +<p>But Noah still within the ark</p> +<p class="i2">For seven days more did stay.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>He now the third time sent the dove,</p> +<p class="i2">Nor did he send in vain,</p> +<p>The waters of the flood were dry;—</p> +<p class="i2">She ne'er returned again.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>She found a resting-place on earth,</p> +<p class="i2">Beneath a sunny sky,</p> +<p>And with a gladsome, joyous heart,</p> +<p class="i2">She round about did fly.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Then Noah look'd forth from the ark,</p> +<p class="i2">And lifted up to God,</p> +<p>His thankfulness for keeping him,</p> +<p class="i2">According to His word.</p> +</div> +</div> + + + +<hr> +<a name="XIII"></a><h2 class="chaphead">XIII.<br> +<br> +NOAH COMES FORTH FROM THE ARK.</h2> + + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>And now the Lord to Noah spake,</p> +<p class="i2">And bade him from the ark</p> +<p>Go forth, and stand upon the earth,</p> +<p class="i2">And all his family take.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The waters from the earth had fled,</p> +<p class="i2">The ground was clean and dry,</p> +<p>No threatening billows form'd around,</p> +<p class="i2">No clouds were in the sky.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>So Noah left the ark, and came</p> +<p class="i2">Forth to the open air,</p> +<p>And all the beasts and creeping things,</p> +<p class="i2">And fowls, were with him there.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>He brought them out to fill the earth.</p> +<p class="i2">To multiply and live;</p> +<p>That they might magnify His name,</p> +<p class="i2">Who every good doth give.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Behold the wondrous hand of God,</p> +<p class="i2">How matchless is His skill,</p> +<p>Who works in heaven and on the earth,</p> +<p class="i2">The counsel of His will.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>How great, how awful, and how just</p> +<p class="i2">Was that Almighty word,</p> +<p>Which, for the sinfulness of men,</p> +<p class="i2">Did call the dreadful flood.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>And while the world was perishing,</p> +<p class="i2">'Tis pleasing to observe,</p> +<p>The loving-kindness of the Lord,</p> +<p class="i2">Who did the good preserve.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>He saved them in the ark, while fell</p> +<p class="i2">The overflowing rain;</p> +<p>And when the flood was dried away,</p> +<p class="i2">He brought them forth again.</p> +</div> +</div> + + + +<hr> +<a name="XIV"></a><h2 class="chaphead">XIV.<br> +<br> +NOAH SACRIFICES TO THE LORD.</h2> + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>When Noah came forth from the ark,</p> +<p class="i2">His heart was filled with praise;</p> +<p>He worshipp'd God with thankful voice,</p> +<p class="i2">For His abounding grace.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>He rear'd to God an altar there,</p> +<p class="i2">And offer'd sacrifice,</p> +<p>And kneeling with his family,</p> +<p class="i2">To heaven did lift his eyes.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>And God was pleased with Noah's praise,</p> +<p class="i2">And witnessed from above</p> +<p>The offering which in faith he made,</p> +<p class="i2">And blest him with His love.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Jehovah said—"I will no more,</p> +<p class="i2">Destroy or curse the ground,</p> +<p>But will display my love and grace,</p> +<p class="i2">Wherever life is found."</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>How tender, loving is the Lord,</p> +<p class="i2">Whose anger does not burn</p> +<p>Forever 'gainst the sons of men,</p> +<p class="i2">But calls them to return.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>He says to men—"Repent and live,</p> +<p class="i2">And all my law obey,</p> +<p>And I your strength and hope shall be,</p> +<p class="i2">Through all life's devious way."</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>O! sacrifice to God in faith,</p> +<p class="i2">And all your sins confess,</p> +<p>And with the riches of His love,</p> +<p class="i2">He will your spirits bless.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>For blood of bulls, or lambs or goats,</p> +<p class="i2">Jehovah does not care,</p> +<p>But bring the offering of your hearts,</p> +<p class="i2">With humble earnest prayer.</p> +</div> +</div> + + + +<hr> +<a name="XV"></a><h2 class="chaphead">XV.<br> +<br> +THE BOW IN THE CLOUDS.</h2> + + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>Jehovah now a covenant made,</p> +<p class="i2">That He would bring no more</p> +<p>A flood of water o'er the earth,</p> +<p class="i2">As He had done before.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>The nations now should prove His love,</p> +<p class="i2">His truth and power divine;</p> +<p>His attributes o'er all the earth,</p> +<p class="i2">With glory bright do shine.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>His mercy hath no bound but truth,</p> +<p class="i2">And all His works do prove,</p> +<p>Unto the sons of men abroad,</p> +<p class="i2">His constant, perfect love.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>He set the beauteous Bow on high</p> +<p class="i2">With many colours bright,</p> +<p>To show His covenant with men,</p> +<p class="i2">Was faithful, gracious, right.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>It hung in heaven, upheld by God,</p> +<p class="i2">And arch'd the distant gloom,</p> +<p>And bent on either side to earth,</p> +<p class="i2">In bright and graceful form.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>This covenant Jehovah keeps,</p> +<p class="i2">Forever faithful, true;</p> +<p>For when the rains are o'er, then high</p> +<p class="i2">The rainbow comes in view.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>Whene'er we gaze upon its form,</p> +<p class="i2">And note its colours fair;</p> +<p>Our hearts should be inspired toward God,</p> +<p class="i2">With love and praise and prayer.</p> +</div> <div class="stanza"> +<p>He gives the sun to warm the earth;</p> +<p class="i2">He sends the healthful shower,</p> +<p>And saves us always, through His grace,</p> +<p class="i2">By His almighty power.</p> +</div> +</div> +<br> +<br> +<p>THE END.</p> +<br> + + +<hr> + +<p>PHILADELPHIA:</p> +<br> +<p>HOGAN, PERKINS &, CO.</p> +<br> +<br> +<br> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Flood, by Anonymous + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FLOOD *** + +***** This file should be named 11268-h.htm or 11268-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/1/1/2/6/11268/ + +Produced by Internet 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Flood + +Author: Anonymous + +Release Date: February 24, 2004 [EBook #11268] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: US-ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FLOOD *** + + + + +Produced by Internet Archive; University of Florida, Christine De Ryck +and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. + + + + + + + + + + + +OLD TESTAMENT SCENES AND NARRATIVES. + +HISTORY OF THE FLOOD. + + + * * * * * + + +[Illustration: Noah's Sacrifice.] + + + * * * * * + + +OLD TESTAMENT SCENES AND NARRATIVES. + +BEING A SECOND SERIES OF +THE GOOD CHILD'S LIBRARY, + + +THE FLOOD. + + +PHILADELPHIA, + +HOGAN, PERKINS & CO. + + + * * * * * + + +Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by HOGAN, +PERKINS & CO., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United +States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. + + + * * * * * + + + + +PUBLISHERS' NOTICE. + + +In the advertisement prefixed to the series of volumes already +published, under the title of the "GOOD CHILD'S LIBRARY," the publishers +gave notice of their intention to issue another series, similar in +character and design, to be devoted to subjects from the Old Testament, +as the other had been to the New. In fulfilment of this notice they have +issued the present series, embellished like the Good Child's Library, +with an entire new set of Illustrations, executed in Oil Colors, in the +best manner. The additional attraction given thereby will, they trust, +obtain for it the same favor as has already been bestowed upon the +former series. + +The volumes composing the SCENES AND NARRATIVES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, +are separate and distinct from each other, having no other connection +than similarity of form and style. The following are the titles of the +different works. + +THE GARDEN OF EDEN, +THE FLOOD, +DISPERSION OF MANKIND, +DEPARTURE OF THE ISRAELITES, +HISTORY OF ABRAHAM, +HISTORY OF ISAAC, +HISTORY OF JACOB, +HISTORY OF JOSEPH, +HISTORY OF MOSES, +HISTORY OF JOSHUA, +HISTORY OF SAMUEL, +HISTORY OF DAVID. + +The above series in connection with the volumes of the "Good Child's +Library," constitute a choice and attractive Scriptural Library for +Children. + + + * * * * * + + +THE FLOOD + + + + +CONTENTS. + + I. The Wickedness of Man + II. God is provoked + III. Noah and his family + IV. Noah commanded to make an Ark + V. Noah Preaches + VI. Noah enters the Ark + VII. The windows of Heaven are opened + VIII. The fountains of the deep are broken up + IX. The floating Ark + X. The drowning World + XI. The Ark rests on Ararat + XII. Noah sends forth the Raven and the Dove + XIII. Noah comes forth from the Ark + XIV. Noah sacrifices to the Lord + XV. The Bow in the clouds + + + + + +THE FLOOD. + + + + +I. + +THE WICKEDNESS OF MAN. + + + Behold how kind and merciful + Our heavenly Father was, + To bear so long with sinful men, + Who had transgressed His laws. + + The hearts of men wax'd worse and worse, + They disobeyed the Lord; + They followed their own thoughts, nor walked + According to His word. + + And men were multiplied on earth, + They spread both far and wide; + And there were giants in those days, + Who did God's law deride. + + The Lord look'd down from Heaven to see + If there were any good; + Behold they all were turn'd aside, + Sin tainted all their blood. + + Yet still the Lord was good to them-- + He gave them sun and rain, + And every blessing, yet their hearts + Were foolish, wicked, vain. + + There is no sin so base as that + We call ingratitude, + To use those ill, with wicked hearts, + Who seek to do us good. + + And when the Great and Holy One + With kindness stoop'd to bless + The sorrows of a sinful world, + And pity their distress;-- + + 'Twas vile ingratitude in them + To act so wickedly, + And spurn the mercy of the Lord, + The great, the good, the high. + + God's goodness leads us to repent, + And give our folly o'er;-- + And if we use His kindness right, + We'll go and sin no more. + + + + +II. + +GOD IS PROVOKED. + + + But God is just as well as good, + He will not always strive; + He will assert His sovereign right, + Nor let the sinner live. + + He does not seek the death of one + Of all the sinful race, + Yet He will not forever bear + With those who slight His grace. + + His mercy is forever sure, + His justice too must stand, + And people must obedient be + To what He does command. + + So when the world so wicked proved, + And wander'd from the Lord, + And with most stubborn hearts refused + To hear His sovereign word;-- + + He bore with patience long and kind, + Their steady wickedness; + But did at last withdraw His grace, + And leave them in distress. + + He gave them up to their own hearts, + To work their own desire; + He threatened them with judgment vast, + And kindled was His ire. + + "My spirit shall not always strive"-- + Jehovah sternly said-- + A Flood I'll bring which will destroy + All things that I have made. + + "Why should they live in guilt and wo, + And all my words despise; + Their every work, and every thought, + Is loathsome to my eyes." + + When God provoked, in anger speaks, + Who can His word withstand? + His heart is full of holiness, + And strong is His right hand. + + + + +III. + +NOAH AND HIS FAMILY. + + + One righteous man was found on earth, + And him Jehovah loved; + His thoughts, his words, and all his deeds, + Were by the Lord approved. + + He kept himself away from sin, + Nor walk'd with wicked men; + He loved the God who reigns on high, + Nor did he love in vain. + + His family he train'd to know, + And love and serve the Lord; + And they were safe in keeping all + The great Jehovah's word. + + The Lord remembered Noah's walk, + And did not him condemn, + When, for the wickedness of men, + He did aloud proclaim,-- + + That He would rain upon the earth + An overwhelming flood; + But choose him and his family-- + And firm His counsel stood. + + The Lord forever shows regard + To those who love His ways, + They vindicate His righteousness + And ever show His praise. + + So He would not destroy this man + Who walk'd with Him in love, + But promised him that He would give + Protection from above. + + Then Noah's fervent heart was fill'd + With grief for sinful men; + Yet though God's judgment was severe, + He could not once complain. + + He pitied the sad state of those + Who had despised the Lord; + He saw that God would punish them, + According to His word. + + + + +IV. + +NOAH COMMANDED TO MAKE AN ARK. + + + Jehovah unto Noah said:-- + "I will destroy the earth, + For violence is in the land, + And wickedness and mirth. + + "Men's hearts are full of laughter wild, + Their lives are full of sin; + And I will send destruction swift, + And show my power divine. + + "I'll rain upon the earth a flood, + And drown men in the storm, + And they shall find no arm to save, + Amid their fearful gloom. + + "But thee I have found true and good, + A follower of my ways; + And I will save thee from the flood, + And lengthen out thy days. + + "Now therefore build thyself an ark, + According to my word; + To save thyself and family, + For ye have fear'd the Lord. + + "For every thing that now has life, + And all things that have breath, + Even for the wickedness of man, + I do devote to death. + + "I am the Lord, the mighty one, + I, even I, do speak; + The flood upon the earth I'll bring, + And nought my word shall break." + + Noah prepared to build the ark, + The tidings did him grieve; + Yet it was just, and every word + He did at once believe. + + + + +V. + +NOAH PREACHES. + + + While Noah built for six score years + The ark to ride the flood, + He preach'd unto the people round + The dreadful word of God. + + He show'd to them their heinous sins, + He told them God was just, + That He would surely punish them + Unto the uttermost. + + Not only did they break God's law + But they despised His grace; + That they had most ungrateful proved, + A hard, rebellious race. + + And though the Lord had suffer'd long, + Nor seem'd to notice them, + Yet soon He would arise in might, + And loud His wrath proclaim. + + He told them of the impending flood, + The threatening of the Lord; + And that His counsel sure would stand, + And ever true His word. + + But if they would repent, perhaps + The Lord would turn away + His anger from the earth and thus + Avert the dreadful day. + + But if they should persist in sin + And folly to the last; + Then God in wrath would visit them,-- + Their day of grace be past. + + He there fore bade them all repent, + And turn from all their sin, + And humbly to Jehovah pray, + To stay His wrath divine. + + The time wore on, the ark progress'd, + And Noah grew more bold; + And to the people day by day, + God's threatened judgment told. + + They heeded not his solemn words, + Nor mark'd his tearful eye; + But still continued in their sin + Against the Lord most high. + + They mock'd him with their taunting speech, + And call'd him foolish, vain, + To think that God would drown the earth + And men in floods of rain. + + They look'd up to the heavens above, + No threatening clouds were there; + They laugh'd, they sang, they danced in pride, + Nor thought of God, or prayer. + + All things remained the same to them, + For nearly six score years; + Why should they have distress of mind, + Or yield their soul to fears? + + Still, Noah, faithful to his trust, + His solemn warnings gave; + And patiently prepared the ark, + His family to save + + And still the people wagg'd their heads, + As they were passing by, + And look'd first on his monster ark, + Then upward to the sky;-- + + Then smiled in scorn, and went their way, + To sin and folly prone; + Not dreaming, though the skies look'd fair, + They'd soon be left alone. + + Amid the angry storms of Heaven, + And rising waves around + Overflowing all the fields of earth, + And all the highest ground. + + + + +VI. + +NOAH ENTERS THE ARK. + + + And now the ark was built; the day + Of wrath was drawing near; + Yet still no cloud was in the sky; + And in men's hearts no fear. + + No doubt they wonder'd much what now + This foolish man would do; + And thought that they would surely prove, + His prophecy untrue. + + But soon he heard Jehovah's voice;-- + These words he heard Him say,-- + "Come thou into the ark at once, + With all thy family." + + So Noah enter'd in the ark, + He and his children too, + And beasts and birds of every kind, + Did enter two by two. + + The lives of these Jehovah spared, + To fill the earth again, + When He should cause the ark to rest, + And should the flood restrain. + + And when they all were in the ark, + The just and mighty God, + Prepared to bring upon the earth + The waters of the flood. + + The day of grace was fully past, + No voice should now proclaim, + To sinful, faithless, scoffing men, + Jehovah's gracious name. + + The righteous in God's care were safe, + From every fear of harm; + But wicked men would be o'erwhelm'd + With terrible alarm. + +[Illustration: Babylon.] + + + + +VII. + +THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN ARE OPENED. + + + Ah! where shall now the sinner hide-- + what power the storm can stay? + What pleasing charm can he call up + To drive his fears away? + + Who can withstand the wrath of God! + He with a single breath, + Could vanquish all our boasted strength, + And visit us with death. + + He gathers now His angry clouds, + And thick they quickly come; + Bearing along the teeming rains + And the devouring storm. + + The beauteous sky is overcast. + And darkness fills the air; + And lightnings flash, and thunders roll; + No ray of hope is there. + + As if the clouds are not enough, + Heaven's windows open wide, + To pour upon the startled earth + The overflowing tide. + + The clouds come down almost to earth, + And seem to bend with rain; + And men look up with fearful gaze, + Nor can their fear restrain. + + Oh! fearful and majestic scene; + Jehovah's awful frown + Seems o'er the sinfulness of earth, + In anger bending down. + + No sun now cheers, no light of star + To those shall ever come, + Who by their long continued crimes, + Provoked this awful doom. + + + + +VIII. + +THE FOUNTAINS OF THE DEEP ARE BROKEN UP. + + + Not only did the clouds come up,-- + Heaven's windows open wide;-- + The fountains of the deep were stirr'd, + And raged on every side. + + The clouds pour'd down their treasures vast, + The deeps yield up their store, + The proudest trembles at the form + Of God's almighty power. + + The seas are swelling up in wrath, + And break the appointed bound-- + Their waters overflow the shore + And fiercely rage around. + + The rivers rise to fearful height, + And roll their torrents on, + Until their highest banks are lost + From sight, deep overflown. + + The fountains too and hidden springs, + Seem bursting everywhere; + Their waters flow on every side, + The common rage to share. + + Now wave meets wave, and swells the flood + In fury o'er the land, + Fulfilling all the will of God, + Obeying His command. + + O God! the power is thine alone, + To punish and create; + We would with reverence bow to Thee, + And worship might so great + + And may we never dare provoke + That high Almighty Power, + Which once awaked against our sins, + Could blast us in an hour. + + + + +IX. + +THE FLOATING ARK. + + + The waters lifted up the ark, + Majestic it did ride + Above the swelling, surging waves, + Along the rolling tide. + + The freight of life it bore along, + Secure from every harm; + And though the tempest raged without, + Their hearts knew no alarm. + + To God in humble earnest prayer, + They sent their feeble cry, + And He with power and love did look, + Down from His throne on high. + + And while the raging waves did roar, + And swift destruction bring, + Jehovah sheltered them beneath + The shadow of His wing. + + The ark Jehovah guided through + The vast unmeasured deep; + And all the life therein reposed + He did in safety keep. + + It floated o'er the valleys low, + And o'er the highest hill, + For high the waters rose, and thus + Obey'd the Almighty Will. + + How strong that hand that can protect, + When danger rages round; + The mercy of our Father God, + Doth every where abound. + + And those who put their trust in Him, + And to Him ever pray, + Will find it is the safest thing + His counsel to obey. + + + + +X. + +THE DROWNING WORLD. + + + Now let us for awhile return + And see the startled world, + With all its pride and all its sin + Swift into ruin hurl'd. + + The waters now are rising fast, + And men are in despair; + They can themselves no succur find, + No ear now hears their prayer. + + They once derided him who preached + To them the coming wo, + But now no voice cries out, Repent; + Ah! whither shall they go? + + The ark to them is firmly closed, + They cannot enter in; + They see the flood is rising round; + They perish in their sin. + + Not highest trees can shelter them, + Nor mountain caverns hide, + For caves and heights are fill'd and lost, + As onward sweeps the tide. + + Ah! would that they had heard the word + That faithful Noah preach'd; + Accepted of Jehovah's grace + Which he to them out-reach'd. + + But now, alas! it is too late; + No human power can save + A single soul from perishing, + Beneath the flooding wave. + + Oh! let us not provoke our God; + But of His grace partake; + And feel our sins are blotted out + For His own mercy's sake. + + + + +XI. + +THE ARK RESTS ON ARARAT. + + + For forty days and forty nights, + The waters of the flood + Prevail'd o'er all the face of earth, + Obedient to the word. + + Which God the great Jehovah spake, + To drown it for its sin; + His word is holy, just and right + Forever sure, divine. + + The earth was drown'd; all living things + Had perish'd from its face, + Save Noah and his family, + Protected by God's grace. + + The ark rode onward with the flood; + The hand of God did guide + The vessel with its freight of life, + O'er all the swelling tide. + + The clouds do now withdraw aside; + The deepest fountains cease, + To pour their treasures forth on earth; + The waters slow decrease. + + The ark moves on to Ararat, + And rests upon its height; + While Noah and his family, + Are fill'd with great delight. + + They long to see the earth again, + Cleansed by Jehovah's hand; + They long to see the sun, great orb, + Shine brightly o'er the land. + + They long to see the trees put forth, + And beauteous flowers spring,-- + The fields with verdure clothed, and hear + The birds of morning sing. + + + + +XII. + +NOAH SENDS FORTH THE RAVEN AND THE DOVE. + + + Then Noah sent a raven forth, + Out of a window high, + To wander here and there, until + the waters should be dry. + + And then again he sent a dove + That he might something learn, + But she could find no resting-place, + And did to him return. + + The waters still spread o'er the earth, + And slowly did abate; + For seven days more within the ark, + He patiently did wait. + +[Illustration: The River Nile by Moonlight.] + + And then he sent her forth again, + And back she came at eve, + And bearing in her mouth she brought + To him an olive-leaf. + + This token told him that the flood + Was drying fast away; + But Noah still within the ark + For seven days more did stay. + + He now the third time sent the dove, + Nor did he send in vain, + The waters of the flood were dry;-- + She ne'er returned again. + + She found a resting-place on earth, + Beneath a sunny sky, + And with a gladsome, joyous heart, + She round about did fly. + + Then Noah look'd forth from the ark, + And lifted up to God, + His thankfulness for keeping him, + According to His word. + + + + +XIII. + +NOAH COMES FORTH FROM THE ARK. + + + And now the Lord to Noah spake, + And bade him from the ark + Go forth, and stand upon the earth, + And all his family take. + + The waters from the earth had fled, + The ground was clean and dry, + No threatening billows form'd around, + No clouds were in the sky. + + So Noah left the ark, and came + Forth to the open air, + And all the beasts and creeping things, + And fowls, were with him there. + + He brought them out to fill the earth. + To multiply and live; + That they might magnify His name, + Who every good doth give. + + Behold the wondrous hand of God, + How matchless is His skill, + Who works in heaven and on the earth, + The counsel of His will. + + How great, how awful, and how just + Was that Almighty word, + Which, for the sinfulness of men, + Did call the dreadful flood. + + And while the world was perishing, + 'Tis pleasing to observe, + The loving-kindness of the Lord, + Who did the good preserve. + + He saved them in the ark, while fell + The overflowing rain; + And when the flood was dried away, + He brought them forth again. + + + + +XIV. + +NOAH SACRIFICES TO THE LORD. + + + When Noah came forth from the ark, + His heart was filled with praise; + He worshipp'd God with thankful voice, + For His abounding grace. + + He rear'd to God an altar there, + And offer'd sacrifice, + And kneeling with his family, + To heaven did lift his eyes. + + And God was pleased with Noah's praise, + And witnessed from above + The offering which in faith he made, + And blest him with His love. + + Jehovah said--"I will no more, + Destroy or curse the ground, + But will display my love and grace, + Wherever life is found." + + How tender, loving is the Lord, + Whose anger does not burn + Forever 'gainst the sons of men, + But calls them to return. + + He says to men--"Repent and live, + And all my law obey, + And I your strength and hope shall be, + Through all life's devious way." + + O! sacrifice to God in faith, + And all your sins confess, + And with the riches of His love, + He will your spirits bless. + + For blood of bulls, or lambs or goats, + Jehovah does not care, + But bring the offering of your hearts, + With humble earnest prayer. + + + + +XV. + +THE BOW IN THE CLOUDS. + + + Jehovah now a covenant made, + That He would bring no more + A flood of water o'er the earth, + As He had done before. + + The nations now should prove His love, + His truth and power divine; + His attributes o'er all the earth, + With glory bright do shine. + + His mercy hath no bound but truth, + And all His works do prove, + Unto the sons of men abroad, + His constant, perfect love. + + He set the beauteous Bow on high + With many colours bright, + To show His covenant with men, + Was faithful, gracious, right. + + It hung in heaven, upheld by God, + And arch'd the distant gloom, + And bent on either side to earth, + In bright and graceful form. + + This covenant Jehovah keeps, + Forever faithful, true; + For when the rains are o'er, then high + The rainbow comes in view. + + Whene'er we gaze upon its form, + And note its colours fair; + Our hearts should be inspired toward God, + With love and praise and prayer. + + He gives the sun to warm the earth; + He sends the healthful shower, + And saves us always, through His grace, + By His almighty power. + + +THE END. + + + * * * * * + + +PHILADELPHIA: + +HOGAN, PERKINS &, CO. + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Flood, by Anonymous + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FLOOD *** + +***** This file should be named 11268.txt or 11268.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/1/1/2/6/11268/ + +Produced by Internet Archive; 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