chapter:

Judges 16. 13; Deuteronomy 24. 6; Matthew 24. 41.

2. Read Proverbs 31. 10-31 for another picture of daily life in an
ancient Hebrew home. What is said in this chapter about the making of
beautiful as well as necessary things, and about the doing of kindly
deeds?




CHAPTER X

MORAL VICTORIES IN CANAAN


On the whole, Canaan was a good school for the Hebrew shepherds. New
arts to learn, new crops to raise, new kinds of cloth to spin and
weave, new kinds of food to cook--all this helped to make life more
interesting and worth while. But there were other lessons which
newcomers might learn which were not so wholesome.

Wine drinking, for example, was a habit which the wisest of the
Hebrews always feared. The wine which they made in those foaming
wine-presses was, of course, mild and harmless as compared with the
distilled liquors of modern times. But even Canaanitish wine could
deaden men's consciences and make them more like beasts than men.
"Wine is a mocker," said one of the sages who wrote the book of
Proverbs, "strong drink is raging, and he that is deceived thereby is