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Show Sun for a Blotter. It is only within recent years that we have been able to obtain any reliable reli-able information regarding the social, political and reUious conditions that surrounded lha great founder of the Hebrew race wuile he dwe'A In Ur. Here he married i?arah anr. here he was surrounded by his friends and relatives, including Lot, his nephew, who was his companion in his later journeyings. Here he was surrounded surround-ed by a ieathen population worshiping worship-ing Bel vBaal) and Beltis, his consort, and other gods. Here he must frequently fre-quently have seen the splendor of Babylonian royalty and the idolatrous worship of heathen gods. Here also he must have been conversant with Babylonian literature and familiar with the wedge-shaped cuneiform writing writ-ing in which all business and official correspondence was then conducted. , These writings werg done with a stylus sty-lus of hard wood or metal with a square end. This was pressed on the soft clay, which was then hardened hard-ened either by sun-drying or baking. These tablets were the standard writing writ-ing materials the stationery of that far-off age. Christian Herald. |