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most gifted artists, in connection with subjects of the 

 most thrilling interest to mankind. 



We may name the picture, particularizing when nec- 

 essary its several parts, and then repeat the Scripture 

 which is illustrated. 



Take, for example, Adam and Eve in Paradise; the 

 luxuriant foliage, the lion, the ox, the horse, the birds, 

 and alas! the subtle serpent. 



" In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 



u And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our like- 

 ness ; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over 

 the fowls of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and 

 over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 



"So God created man in his own image; in the image of God 

 created he him ; male and female created he them. 



" And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden ; and 

 there he put the man whom he had formed." Gen. 1 : 1, 26, 27; 

 2: 8. 



Or take the scene where Joseph presents his father 

 to Pharaoh. Mark the postures of each, and consider 

 the manners of the times. 



" And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before 

 Pharaoh ; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. And Pharaoh said unto 

 Jacob, How old art thou? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The 

 days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years : 

 few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have 

 not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in 

 the days of their pilgrimage. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and 

 went out from before Pharaoh." Gen. 47: 7, 8, 9, 10. 



Thus Scripture, to any desired extent, may be readily 

 selected appropriate to any Bible picture, from Adam 

 and Eve in Eden to St. John's vision of the Celestial City. 

 So the exhibitor has ample material at hand for shaping 

 an effective and charming discourse, suited to any series 

 of Bible pictures which he may have to show. 



