Line Upon Line

This Christian volume is from 1905 and is a "second series of the earliest religion instruction the infant mind is capable of receiving" and contains stories from the Old Testament.

From the book's Preface:
The design of this little work is to lead children
to understand and delight in the Scriptures.

If adults meet with difficulties in the sacred text,
which commentaries often remove, children must
necessarily meet with many more, some of which
this little book may clear up. Since it is evident
that commentaries would not suit the volatile minds
of children, however simply they might be written,
some other kind of help ought to be provided for
them. The best assistance would no doubt be af-
forded by the parent's voice: for no book can so
forcibly arrest the attention, or touch the heart, as
the remarks of a tender parent. But where chil-
dren do not enjoy this advantage, a book may in
some measure supply its place; and where they do
possess it, may recall to mind parental instruction.

Many interesting histories have been omitted, be-
cause the writer feared to swell the size of the work,
and judged it better to relate the principal events in
detail than to give an abridged account of all.

But these omissions may be supplied, by God' s
help in another work.

Contents:

1. The Creation

2. The Sin of Adam

3. Cain and Abel

4. The Flood

5. Abraham, or the Promised Land

6. Abraham, or the Promised Child

7. Abraham, or the Trial of Love

8. Jacob, or the Heavenly Dream

9. Jacob, or the Long Journey

10. Jacob, or the Meeting

11. Joseph, or the Pit

12. Joseph, or the Slave

13. Joseph, or the Prisoner

14. Joseph, or the Butler and the Baker

15. Joseph, or the Release

16. Joseph, or the Lord of Egypt

17. Joseph, or the Feast

18. Joseph, or the Forgiving Brother

19. Joseph, or the Long-lost Son

20. Moses, or the Basket of Bulrushes

21. Moses, or the Pious Choice

22. Moses, or the Burning Bush

23. Moses, or the First Plagues

24. Moses, or the Last Plagues

25. Moses, or the Red Sea

26. Moses, or the Manna and the Rock

27. Moses, or Mount Sinai

28. Moses, or the Golden Calf

29. Moses, or the Tabernacle

30. Moses, or the Priests

31. Moses, or the Journey of the Israelites

32. Moses, or the Twelve Spies

33. Moses, or the Sin of Moses and Aaron

34. Moses, or the Serpent of Brass

35. The Death of Moses

36. Joshua, or Rahab

37. Joshua, or the River Jordan

38. Joshua, or the Walls of Jericho

39- Joshua, his Death