Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1907 — QUARTERLY REVIEW [ARTICLE]

QUARTERLY REVIEW

Sunday School Lesson lor Dec. 29,1947 Specialty Arranged for This Paper

LESSON TEXT.—Psalm 98. GOLDEN TEXT.—‘Thou crownest the year with thy goodness.”4-Paalm 66:11. Bcope of the Year’s Lessons. The Period.—From the creation of man to the close of the era of the judges. Divisions. — 1. Creation to the Deluge. 2. Deluge to the Exodus. Beginning of selected race for religious training. / # The Patriarchs. Joseph. The Egyptian Bondage. The Exodus. 8. The Training In the Wilderness. The making of a nation. God’s wonderful deliverance of hia people. The methods of training; By great men, by miraculous food, by divine guidance, by a code of 1 '< laws, by a religious home and services, by rewards and punishments. 4. The Republic of God. Joshua and the Judges. The conquest. The settlement The judges. Note what was done by Shamger, Barak, Deborah, Gideon, Samson, Jephthah, Eli, Samuel. The discipline of prosperity and adversity according as the people obey or disobeyed God’s law. * The gradual development of the nation. 5. The Kingdom. Geography.—Draw a map of the countries known in early times, or note the places referred to in the early history on your map. Name each oountry. Give its modern name and condition. Name the principal nations. And the ©Kief cities. -- State which of these nations and cities were the greatest and most influential, and what their Influence has been upon the world. /The Great Men. —Name the 12 men whom you regard as the most noted and influential of all those who have been brought before us during the year. State one or more things which are especially notable In the life of each one. The Great Women. —Name the principal women whom we have met during our year’s studies, with something characteristic of each one. The Great Events.—Make a list of 12 greatest events belonging to the period we have been studying. An Anthology.—A collection of the flowers and gems of the Biblical literature we have been studying. Tell where each of the following may be found and the circumstances In which they were spoken: “Let there be light, and there was light.” “Am I my brother’s keeper?” “For dust thou art and unto dust thou shalt return.” “There were giants ln-thoMis days." “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands 6f Esau.” "Unstable as water, thou shalt not excell.” “A land flowing with milk and honey.” "Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his.” “Man doth not live by bread only." “Showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.” * “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” “What doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk iu all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with, all thy heart, and with all thy soul.” “He kept him as the apple of his eye.” “As thy Says, so shalt thy strength be.” “The stars in their courses fought against Sisera.” “Quit yourselves like men.” Moral and Religious ” Teachings.— What are the greatest and most important truths you can ’learn from the events of this period? What from the teachings? What from the examples?