This large place we live in is called the world.

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It is very beautiful. If we look up we see the blue sky; if we look down we see the green grass. sky is like a curtain spread over our heads, the grass like a carpet under our feet, and the bright sun is like a candle to give us light. It was very kind of God to make such a beautiful world, and allow us to live in it.

How did God make the world? By speaking. First of all, He made the light. No one can make things by speaking but God; He made things of nothing. He only spoke, and the light came.

Then He made the air. You cannot see the air, but you can feel it; it is everywhere. You can sometimes hear the noise it makes, for you hear the wind blow, and the wind is air in motion.

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Next, God put some water up very high. clouds are made of water, and sometimes it comes down

in showers, and we call it rain.

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He then made a large deep place, and filled it with water. God spoke to the water, and it rushed into the deep place. This water is called the sea.

The sea is very large, and it is always moving up and down and tossing itself; but it cannot get out of that hollow place in which God has put it; for God said, "Stay there." When the wind blows hard, the sea makes a loud noise and roars.

But God made the dry land for us to walk upon; we call it ground. We could not walk upon the sea, nor build houses upon it; but the ground is hard, and firm, and dry.

THE WORLD.-PART II.

Peep of Day.

When God made the dry land, there was nothing on it; it was bare. So God spake, and things grew out of the ground.

Trees came out of it; they were covered with green leaves of different shapes. Some were called oak-trees, and some were called elm-trees, and some beech-trees. And some trees bore nice fruit, such as plum-trees, apple-trees, orange-trees, and fig-trees. Vegetables grew out of the earth: potatoes and cabbages, beans and peas are called vegetables.

Corn also came out of it. Some corn is called wheat, and some corn is called barley, and some is called oats. The ears of corn bend down when they are ripe, and look yellow like gold.

God made the soft green grass to spring up, and flowers to grow among the grass; flowers of all colours, and of the sweetest smell. The yellow buttercup, the white lily, the blue violet, and the rose, the most beautiful of all flowers. We have now heard of five sorts of things that grew out of the earth; trees, vegetables, corn, grass, and flowers. The world looked very beautiful when it was covered with grass and trees.

Afterwards God made the sun and the moon, and placed them in the sky; the sun to give light by day, and the moon by night, and He covered the sky with bright stars.

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You never saw anything so bright as the sun. is very large indeed, only it appears small, because it is a great way off.

The moon does not shine so brightly as the sun, for God lets it be dark at night, that we may rest, and sleep soundly.

The sun is sometimes called the king of day, and the moon, the queen of night.

When we

Who could count the stars? No one but God. He knows their names and their number too. look at the moon and stars, let us think "how great God is. Yet He cares for the little birds, and loves little children."

Put Thy hands upon my head,
Let me in Thine arms be staid,
Let me lean upon Thy breast;
Lull me there, O Lord, to rest.

Fain I would be as Thou art,
Give me Thy obedient heart;
Thou art pitiful and kind,
Let me have Thy loving mind.

Meek and lowly may I be;
Thou art all humility;
Let me to my betters bow,
Subject to Thy parents Thou.

Let me above all fulfil.

God, my Heav'nly Father's will;
Never His good spirit grieve,
Only to His glory live.

C. Wesley.

God had made a great many things; but none of these things were alive. At last He made some living things. He spoke, and the water was filled with fishes, more than could be counted.