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olives flourish in this delightful district Oleanders fringe the sandy beach at 
Gennesareth, and the grass is gay with flowers of every hue. 
From a country thus rich in diversities of climate, elevation, and natural pro¬ 
ductions, the sacred writers were led to draw their supplies of imagery in the 
•composition of a world-wide volume which we cherish as the “ Book of Books,” 
and reverence as the Word of God to Man. 
Scripture Natural History. W. H. GROSER. 
SCRIPTURE SELECTIONS. 
MAY BE ARRANGED FOR A RESPONSIVE SERVICE. 
(Words in parenthesis, Revised Version.) 
GENESIS. 
I, ii. And God said, Let the earth bring 
forth the fruit tree, yielding fruit after 
his kind. 
12. And the earth brought forth the tree, 
yielding fruit whose seed was in itself 
after his kind. And God saw that it 
was good. 
29. And God said, Behold I have given 
you every tree in which is the fruit of a 
tree yielding seed; to you it shall be 
for meat. 
II, 8. And the Lord God planted a garden 
eastward in Eden, and there He put the 
man whom he had formed. 
9. 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 knowledge of 
good and evil. 
VI, 14. Make thee an oak of gopher-wood. 
XVIII, 2, 4, 5, 8. And Abraham looked, 
and lo ! three men stood by him and he 
said, “ Rest yourselves under the tree, 
and comfort ye your hearts.” And he 
set before them, and he stood by them 
while they did eat. 
XXI, 33. And Abraham planted a grove in 
. Beersheba, and called there on the 
name of the Lord, the everlasting 
God. 
XXIII, 17, 18. And the field of Ephron, 
and all the trees that were in the field, 
that were in all the borders round about 
were made sure unto Abraham for a 
possession. 
XXX, 37. And Jacob took rods of green 
poplar and of the hazel, and of the 
chestnut tree (fresh poplar, and of the 
almond, and of the plane tree). 
XLIII, 11. Israel said, take of the best 
fruits of the land in your vessels, and 
carry down the man a present, a little 
balm, and a little honey, spices, and 
myrrh, nuts and almonds. 
exodus. 
XV, 27. And they came to Elim, where 
were twelve wells (springs) of water, 
and three score and ten palm trees; and 
they encamped there by the water. 
XXV, 10. They shall make an ark of. 
(acacia) wood. 
NUMBERS. 
XXIV, 6. As gardens by the river’s side, 
as trees of lign aloes which the Lord 
hath planted, and as cedar trees beside 
the waters. 
DEUTERONOMY. 
VIII, 7, 8, 9. For the Lord thy God bring- 
eth thee into a good land ; a land of 
brooks of water, of fountains and 
depths that spring out of valle)'S and 
hills; a land of wheat, and barley, 
and vines, and fig trees, and pome¬ 
granates; a land'of oil, olive, and 
honey ; a land wherein thou shalt eat 
bread without scarceness, thou shalt 
not lack an)' thing in it; a land whose 
stones are iron, and out of whose hills 
thou mayest dig brass. 
