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suggest. But for children, the main thing is to learn to 

 understand the prophets as men, and their work in 

 Israel. The details of their books are but little under 

 stood, even by adults who have access only to the English 

 Version. But one thing is to be avoided above all the 

 fantastic eschatology, or anticipations of the future 

 history of the world, in which some take delight, but 

 which inevitably result in hopeless confusion and per 

 version of the clearest principles of Biblical study. 



