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Bible Animals and the Lessons Taught by Them (sermons).
Bible Animals and the Lessons Taught by Them - sermons Author:Richard Newton General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1889 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: IV. THE HORSE. " Ifast than given the horse strength t" -- Job xxxix. 19. The horse is the next of the Bible animals that we wish to consider. What a noble-looking creature the horse is! With its strong and well- proportioned limbs, its arched neck, its intelligent head, its fine long tail, it presents a very pleasing and grace ful appearance. And the horse is a very sensible creature. Here is an incident which illustrates very well this point of the horse's character. We may call it -- THE GOOD SENSE OF A HORSE. A gentleman named Mr. Andrews, residing in California, had a span of bright little horses, to which he was very much attached. He never separated them. In the stable, the field, and the harness, they were always together. This caused a strong attachment to grow between the horses. On one occasion he took some friends, in his carriage drawn by these horses, to a lake, not very far from his dwelling, on a fishing excursion. Taking the horses out of the carriage, he led them to the border of the lake, and tied them to two trees, a few rods apart, that they might feed on the grass that grew around them. Then he went into a shantee near by, and sat down to wait for the return of his friends, who were fishing. He had not been waiting long, before he heard the sound of a horse's feet approaching the shantee. The next moment he saw one of his horses, standing at the door. The animal put his head in and gave a loud neigh, and then turned round and galloped back towards the spot where his master had left him and his companion fastened safely to the trees. Surprised at finding his horse loose, a...« less