SUNDAY AFTERNOONS.

I. THE GARDEN OF EDEN.

IN the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth.

And God said, Let there be light; and there was light. And God called the light Day; and the Darkness He called Night. It was the first day of the week when God made the light.

God made the sky above our heads, and called the sky Heaven. It was the second day of the week when God made the sky.

God made the waters to flow together from off the dry land; and called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. God made the Earth

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to bring forth grass, and herbs, and fruittrees. And God saw that it was good. It was the third day of the week when God made the dry land, and the Sea, the grass, the herbs, and the trees.

God made the sun and the moon; and set the sun and the moon in the Heavens; the sun to give light by Day; and the moon to give light by Night. He made the stars also; and God saw that it was good. It was the fourth day of the week when God made the sun and the moon and the stars.

God made every fish; and every bird; the fish to swim in the water, and the birds to fly in the open air under the blue Heaven, And God gave His blessing to the fish and to the birds; and He commanded the fish to fill the Sea, and the birds to multiply upon the land: and God saw that it was good. You can hear a great many sounds in the World now. You can make sounds, you laugh and speak; but once there was no noise in this great World, no sound except the sweet song of the birds among the trees, and the splash of the happy

fish playing in the water. The fishes and the birds were the first living creatures which God made on the Earth. It was the fifth day of the week when God made the fishes and the birds.

God made all the cattle of the fields; and all the beasts; and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the ground and God saw that it was good. When God had made all this beautiful World, and the fishes, and the birds, and the cattle, and the beasts, and the creeping things, God said, Let us make man in our Image, after our Likeness. And God created man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and Man became a living soul. And God blessed man, and gave the beautiful World to him, and gave him power over every moving thing. God gave the herbs of the ground, and the fruit of the trees, to be man's food. God gave the green herbs also to be food to the beasts of the field, and the birds of the air, and to everything that creepeth on the ground. And God saw all that He had made, and behold it was