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INTRODUCTION, p. 1.
THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN, 49; Two main questions: 1. Is the human family older than Adam? 49; The argument for man's high antiquity, From traces of his skeleton, 50; From his tools and works, 51; From the traditions and chronologies of the old nations, 59.
HEBREW CHRONOLOGY, 60; 2. How far back was Adam? 60; From birth of Christ back to the founding of Solomon's Temple, 60; First disputed period--that of the Judges, 60; Second disputed period--that of the sojourn in Egypt, 62; Third disputed period--between Terah and Abraham, 64; Fourth disputed period--from the creation to the flood, 66; Fifth disputed period--from the flood to the call of Abraham, 68.
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.
THE SABBATH, 77; As old as Eden; made for man as a race.
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.
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.
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.
THE PATRIARCHS, ISAAC, JACOB, JOSEPH, 132; Isaac, 132; Jacob, 133; At Bethel, 133; At Mahanaim, 137; The struggle of prayer; The points and grounds of this conflict; The law of prevailing prayer, 140; Jacob and Joseph, 143; Developments of personal character, 144; Joseph in Egypt, 146; The hand of God in this history: Seen in the sufferings of the innocent, 155; Seen in overruling sin for good, 158; The purposes of God in locating Israel in Egypt, 160; Ancient Egyptian history and life confirms Moses, 162; Special passages considered: Going down into Sheol, Gen. 37: 35, 166; Jacob's benedictions upon his sons, Gen. 49, 168; The Scepter of Judah, Gen. 49: 10, 169; The less readable portions of Genesis, 171; Close of Genesis, 172.
EXODUS 173; The oppression, 173; Moses, 175; His great mission, 179; The ten plagues, 185: These plagues supernatural, 187; Several of them specially adapted to Egypt, 189; The case of the magicians, 190; The shape of the demand upon Pharaoh to let the people go, 193; The hardening of Pharaoh's heart, 194; History of the case, 194; What is said of God's purpose in it, 203; Light on this case from God's revealed character, 204.
THE PASSOVER, 205; Consecration of all first-born, 207; The long route to Canaan, 209; The march and the pursuit, 210; The guiding pillar of cloud and of fire, 211; The locality of the Red Sea crossing, 215.
THE HISTORIC CONNECTIONS OF MOSES WITH PHARAOH AND EGYPT, 216.
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