From the Author: “to Every person who reads this book; Since the publication of ‘The Story of the Bible’ good people have read and approved of it. But some few have found fault with it. They say that they do not think the words of the Bible ought to be changed as they are in this book. Especially they object to any change where the words are spoken words.To show you what I mean:  On the first page, in the account of the creation, we read that God said, ’Let there be light.’ In this place there is no change. These are the exact words that we read in the bible. But on page 429, where we are told how God sent the prophet Ezekiel to speak to the captive Jews, we read that God said to him, ‘ I sent thee to them because they are a disobedient people; both they and their fathers will hear, or whether they will not hear; In this place the words are changed.”