Notable Women of Olden Time

Notable Women of Olden Time is a book for the written for the American Sunday-School Union by anonymous authors. It depicts the lives and deeds about several prominent women during Biblical times. Excerpt: «The Hebrew patriarch led his flocks and herds, surrounded by his large household, from Haran to the land of the Canaanites; from thence to that of the Philistines, down into Egypt; wherever so numerous a family and such large flocks could find sustenance—water and herbage. And as he thus sojourned, many of the poor of these lands flocked to him for employment and support; and while he bought the services of the parents, the children born in his house became members of his family, were trained as his servants, and were subject to his authority as the master of the household, the prince among his people, the patriarch of his tribe.»