LESSON 25 



LIFE COMES UPON THE WORLD: 

 ROCK MAKING 



MEMORY VERSE 



O Lord, how manifold are thy works! 

 In wisdom thou hast made them all: 

 The earth is full of thy riches. 



Ps. 104:24 



The Purpose 



That every particle of the whole world, even the un- 

 seen and minute, is used in God's plans for its develop- 

 ment is the lesson to be brought out in this story. Also 

 the important fact that nothing is lost or put aside, but 

 it is used over and over again for better and better ends. 



Suggestions for the Teacher 



The lessons so far studied in this section will have 

 given the children some idea of^ the vast changes that 

 have come to our world as well as of the agencies which 

 have been at work to make them. Subsequent lessons 

 will deal wdth the strange and interesting forms of life 

 which occupied the world before man came upon it. This 

 lesson does not follow in chronological order, but goes back 

 to an indeterminate past while all the agencies were still 

 at work making the world ready for its inhabitants. 



The teacher needs to note that two separate things 

 are here to be taught: the appearance of primitive forms 

 of life in the water, and the formation of rock from s.and 



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