“And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
“And the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
“And out of the ground the Lord God made every beast of the field and every fowl of the air and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.”
There was silence when the story was finished. This God of whom the Hebrew was telling was wise and mighty enough to make the world, yet he was thoughtful and kind. He allowed man to be a helper. There was only one God. They liked the story so well that they began to tell it also and soon the beautiful story was known all through the land of Canaan. Little by little it drove out the other stories and became the most loved one.
And when the old Hebrews saw the power of the story that told of the one great God rather than the many false 118 Gods, they just took many of the old stories and made them good and wholesome for their own little children to hear.
So great were the stories that the old Hebrews told that you will find many of them living still. You can read them in your own Bible in the book of Genesis.
Ever since that day years and years ago, men have been asking that same old question, “Who made the world?” The greatest men of science and history have tried to answer it, but none of them have found a more beautiful answer to the question than this one which the old sheik told in the days of the long ago and which you will find in the second chapter of Genesis in your Bible.