The Adventures of Lot, the Nephew of Abraham by William Andrus Alcott
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THE ADVENTURES OF LOT, THE NEPHEW OF ABRAHAM
BY WM. A. ALCOTT
Author of the "First Foreign Mission," the "Second Foreign Mission," the "Happy Family," the "Story of Ruth the Moabitess," the "Life of Peter," and the "Story of the Prodigal."
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Written for the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society,
and revised by the Committee of Publication.
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BOSTON: MASSACHUSETTS SABBATH SCHOOL SOCIETY.
Depository, No. 25, Cornhill.
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1836.
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Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1836,
BY CHRISTOPHER C. DEAN,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.
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MERRICK AND BARTLETT, PRINT.--WORCESTER.
INTRODUCTION
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Why is it that the Bible contains the lives of so many bad men? is a question which is often asked, and as often answered. And yet the inquiry continues to be made by every successive generation, with as much earnestness as if nobody had ever thought of it before.
The very Bible itself settles the question. Paul says, in the tenth chapter of his first Epistle to the Corinthians, that all these things "are written for our admonition." Do we not require to be admonished, day by day, every one of us? Is it not useful to us to see, in the lives of such men as Cain, and Saul, and Ahab, and Judas, the dreadful sight, and only tell us of their excellences? Why, some of the very men just named, had many faults, as is now well known; probably all of them. But these are generally kept out of sight, and we are shown only the bright side of things.
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