Use your own copy of the pupil’s book, and let the children talk over the lesson on the Building of the Ark freely and informally. If you should find that any one of the class has been dwelling in thought upon the people outside of the ark, and wondering why it was necessary that all of them should be destroyed, have them read Genesis 6: 11, and help them to see that people who choose to live in sin cannot be saved from its consequences. “Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him” (Psalm 140: 11. See also Galatians 6: 7, 8).

People were sowing violence and reaping violence. Human life was not respected. God’s laws were scorned and ignored. There had to be a new beginning for the world, if there were to be any people left in it.

Do not refer to this side of the question unless the children speak of it. If they do, emphasize the patience of God and the warnings that were given through Noah’s preaching and the added force that his words would have because of the actual building of the ark going on daily before their eyes.

Give the children this name drill, telling them not to answer any question that cannot be answered by a name. Who lived in the Garden of Eden? Who was told to build an ark? We had a story about two brothers: what was the name of the older one? The younger? How many people went into the ark? (This should not be answered because it cannot be answered by a name.) Who is said to have been the first to make musical instruments? Who is called the father of all who live in tents? What is the name of the book in which our lessons are found?

Who is said to have been the first man to think about making weapons and tools out of metal? What is the name of the first story in the Bible? In that story what did God make first? What did God call the light? What name was given to the darkness? What was the gathering together of the waters called? What is the light that rules the day? What is the lesser light that rules the night? What other lights are there in the sky at night?

LESSON 7
The Flood and the Rainbow

Teaching Material.—Genesis 7: 6 to 8: 22; 9: 12-17.

Pupil’s Reading.—Genesis 8: 6-20; 9: 12-17.

Memory Text.—I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. Genesis 9: 13.