{"id":"01KFXVB3MP1NJQS27400ZA4RQP","cid":"bafkreidcjjdfwgpahiuvohor32j2psvgdsf34wgwox2ae7zchmakzdcmeq","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":192,"extracted_at":"2026-01-26T19:08:58.227Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 2","source_file":"01KFXVA454RTKCJEQJMP0QKNKY","start_line":152,"text":"   111\tFirst, they let free the beasts, birds, and creeping things out of their pens and stalls in the ark. What a scene of frisking, gambolling, and tail-whisking there must have been, as the animals regained their freedom, and scattered over the earth!\n   112\t\n   113\tFathers, mothers, and children, led by Noah, hastened at once to thank God. The way to do this in early ages was to build an altar of stones, and with fire and clean animals laid on it to send up a costly smoke to heaven. So worshipped all the ancient nations when the world was young.\n   114\t\n   115\tHigh up on the mountain’s crest,\n\n<!-- [Page 22](arke:01KFXV099FVMG1VYRJNRMTHRW6) -->\n   116\t8\n   117\t\n   118\twhence they could look off on range upon range of hills and peaks, and upon the water in the valleys, they halted. Quickly they laid the stones in shape. Fire was very hard to get in those days; but besides plenty of drift-wood laying around the ark, they had dry pieces which they rubbed together. Soon a smoke, and then a spark, appeared. By blowing the spark, flame burst forth, and kindled the fuel.\n   119\t\n   120\tLonely places on the mountain-tops are very windy. The stiff breeze blew the loose hair of the men in front of their foreheads, turned the flame sideways, and swept the smoke towards the eastern sky. All in reverent expectation waited for some sign of the divine favor, while they watched anxiously the cloud-covered heavens.\n   121\t\n   122\tStill dark and gloomy was the weather, still black the sky. Why does not God speak as in the olive leaf sent by the dove?\n   123\t\n   124\tSuddenly the west wind rends the clouds, and the afternoon glory of the sun\n\n<!-- [Page 23](arke:01KFXV093VJN8KK37RK75N5DAP) -->\n   125\t9\n   126\t\n   127\tburst forth. How green and tender seem the grass and flowers. Even the snow-tipped mountain-range in the far distance becomes rosy.\n   128\t\n   129\tMore glorious than all, see the rainbow—\"a blazing band of dazzling dyes.\" All except the patriarch fall on their knees. They bow to the earth, while Noah lifts up hands and voice in prayer.\n   130\t\n   131\tPleased with his children's faith in Him, pleased with their gratitude, the Heavenly Father makes the bow the sign of his promise of continued favor and help. Soon a second bow of seven glorious colors—violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red—delights their eyes, and the clouds wear the double smile of God. To Noah and his children it meant that the flood should no more destroy man and beast from off the earth.\n   132\t\n   133\tEven to-day there are those whose hearts \"leap up, when they behold a rainbow in the sky;\" for, as of old, it is a sure proof of the Heavenly Father's unceasing love and care.\n\n<!-- [Page 24](arke:01KFXV09RGSVASCWWQHX96M1B0) -->\n   134\t.\n\n<!-- [Page 25](arke:01KFXV09PBZZ9KBCKNAWT429QM) -->\n   135\tAn Ancient Courtship\n   136\t\n   137\tBy\n   138\tHagelani\n   139\tBrooks.\n\n<!-- [Page 26](arke:01KFXV086W051555F67W95DNCX) -->\n   140\t.\n","title":"Chunk 2"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KFXVAZGKDQBGMYV0KRYVH3HS","peer_label":"# THE SACRIFICE OF NOAH","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KFXT0KM64XT6K8W52TDEE0YS","peer_label":"More Classics","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":1,"created_at":"2026-01-26T19:08:58.495Z","ts":"2026-01-26T19:08:58.495Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}