CHAPTER IV. ANTIQUITY OF MAN RESUMED, 72; On the Antiquity of Egypt, 72; The date of Menes, its first king, and of the pyramids, 74; Unity of the human race: Were there races of pre-Adamic men, now extinct? 75; Are the present living races descendants of the same first pair? 75. CHAPTER V. THE SABBATH, 77; As old as Eden; made for man as a race. CHAPTER VI. THE EVENTS OF EDEN, 81; I. Is the description of man’s fall symbolic or historic? 81; II. The moral trial, 84; III. The temptation, 87; IV. The fall, 88; The curse; the first installment of the penalty for transgression, 89; The first promise, 90. CHAPTER VII. FROM THE FALL TO THE FLOOD, 92; 1. Notes on special passages; Gen. 4: 1, “I have gotten a man――the Lord,” 92; Gen. 4: 6, 7――words of the Lord to Cain, 92; Gen. 4: 23, 24, the song of Lamech, 92; 2. Abel’s offering and the origin of sacrifices, 93; 3. The great moral lessons of the antediluvian age, 95. CHAPTER VIII. THE FLOOD, 99; Its moral causes, 99; Its physical causes, 101; Was this flood universal? 102; As to the earth’s surface, 102 As to its population, 104; Traditions of a great deluge, 105. CHAPTER IX. FROM THE FLOOD TO THE CALL OF ABRAHAM, 107; 1. The law against murder and its death-penalty, 107; 2. The prophecy of Noah, 108; 3. The genealogy of the historic nations, 110; 4. Babel and the confusion of tongues, 112. CHAPTER X. ABRAHAM, 114; His personal history; the divine purposes in the new system inaugurated with him; Concentration of moral forces; a more definite _covenant_ between God and his people; Utilizing the family relation, 116; Developing a great example of the obedience of faith, 120; In leaving his country at God’s call, 120; In waiting long but hopefully for his one son of promise, 120; In obeying the command to offer this son a sacrifice, 120; God’s revelations to Abraham _progressive_, 122; The missionary idea in this system――blessings to all the nations, 125; The Messiah included in these promises, 126; Sodom and Gomorrah, 128; The angel of the Lord, 130. CHAPTER XI.