HOUSES IN THE LANDS OF THE BIBLE
The people in Bible lands did not have houses like those we live in to-day. You would not like to live in their houses. They were low, and small, and dark. Some were built of stone, but many were built of a sun-dried brick. They had flat roofs, where the people often went and where they slept in warm weather. A stair led up to the roof from the outside. Those that were made of the sun-dried brick were not very durable. Thieves could easily "break through and steal." The house which the man "built upon the sand" crumbled into mud and was swept away when "the winds blew and the floods came" and "great was the fall of it."
Of course the king lived in a beautiful palace and rich people had fine houses, but the houses of the poor people were only huts.
CHILDREN OF NAZARETH
From a photograph taken by Mrs. Fontaine Meriwether. and used by her kind permission.
