Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1852, by the
AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
No books are published by the American Sunday-school Unionwithout the sanction of the Committee of Publication, consisting of fourteenmembers, from the following denominations of Christians, viz. Baptist,Methodist, Congregationalist, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Lutheran, andReformed Dutch. Not more than three of the members can be of the samedenomination, and no book can be published to which any member of theCommittee shall object.
Within a few centuriesafter the flood,while some who hadwitnessed the sin andthe destruction of theantediluvian worldwere still living, Jehovahsaw fit, in