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IV. CONCEALED PICTURES REVIEW.

This review may be used in the younger classes, and will be conducted with the aid of the beautiful series of Wilde's Pictures on the lessons for the quarter. These pictures will be tacked upon a board or pinned to a screen, and each will be hidden by a series of strips of paper, each strip bearing a question on the lesson to which the picture belongs. These questions will be very simple and clear, but pointed. The various pupils in turn will try to uncover a picture by answering all the questions, each correct answer removing a slip. To those that succeed the teacher may give the pictures on which they have worked.

V. GOLDEN-TEXT REVIEW.

This review may well be combined with some other form of review. It will be announced a week in advance, that the pupils may prepare for it. The teacher will write the golden texts of the quarter, each on a separate piece of cardboard, and will lay them, face down, on a table. The pupils will then draw the golden texts one at a time, telling to what lesson the text belongs, and giving as full an account of the lesson as possible, the teacher helping out with questions if necessary.

VI. FORTY-EVENTS REVIEW.

It will be of great value to the pupils if they can get in this review a clear outline of the main events of Christ's last weeks on earth, covered by our quarter's lessons. For that purpose the following list may be copied by the class a week in advance, or copies may be made by the teacher and given to the class. They will be studied during the week, and the members of the class will come prepared to test their knowledge by writing out the list, each giving it as fully as possible. The forty events of the quarter's lessons are as follows:

1. Healing of the man born blind. 2. Jesus the good Shepherd.

3. Jesus sends forth the Seventy. 4. Jesus in Peræa.

5. Raising of Lazarus.

6. Ten lepers healed.

7. Bartimæus healed at Jericho. 8. Jesus visits Zacchæus. 9. Jesus anointed by Mary. 10. Cursing the barren fig-tree. II. The triumphal entry. 12. Cleansing the temple.

13. Christ weeping over Jerusalem. 14. The widow's mite.

15. Greeks seek Jesus.

16. Preparations for the Passover.
17. Washing the disciples' feet.
18. The Lord's Supper.
19. The farewell discourse.
20. The farewell prayer.

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GOLDEN TEXT. And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I; send me. - ISA. 6:8.

THE TEACHER AND HIS CLASS. Dr. Guthrie, in his Autobiography, tells us how he gained his effective power in preaching. "I studied the style of the addresses which the ancient and inspired prophets delivered to the people of Israel, and saw how, differing from dry disquisitions or a naked statement of truths, they abounded in metaphors, figures, and illustrations. I turned to the gospels, and found that he who knew what was in man, what could best illuminate a subject, win the attention and move the heart, used parables or illustrations, stories, comparisons, drawn from the scene of nature and familiar life, to a large extent in his teachings, in regard to which a woman type of the masses said: The parts of the Bible I like best

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THE CALL OF GOD TO SERVICE, AND
ISAIAH'S RESPONSE, V. 8.
GOD'S MESSAGE OF WARNING, VS.
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count the more intelligent of my Sunday VI. GOD'S MESSAGE OF HOPE, vs. 13. class gave of my discourses, the style and character of those parts which had made the deepest impression, that I might cultivate it.

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. . The longer I have lived and composed I have acted more and more according to the saying of Sir Joshua Reynolds, in his lectures on 'Paintings,' that God does not give excellencies to men but as the reward of labor."

LEARN BY HEART. Isa. 67, 8; 61: 1, 2.

THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING.

Time. Isaiah prophesied from that later half of Uzziah's reign 760 B.C. till the early years of the reign of Manasseh about 694.

This event in Isaiah's life took place in the year that Uzziah died, B.C. 755. (Beecher) or 749 (Hastings.) Place. Isaiah's home was in Jerusalem.

The Kingdom of Israel was still in existence (for 33 years longer), being utterly destroyed B.C. 722-1.

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I. A GLIMPSE OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH AND HIS BOOK. Isaiah as a Man and Prophet. - I. His name means "The salvation of Jehovah."

2. His home was in Jerusalem.

3. His lineage. We only know that he was the son of Amoz (1 : 1). 4. His wife is called the prophetess. "From this we must infer," says Professor Sayce, "that she also, like her husband, was endowed with the gift of prophecy." 5. His children. Two sons are named, and both names were given as prophecies to the people; Mahershalal-hashbaz, "Hasten booty, speed spoil," in allusion to the national ruin foretold by Isaiah; and Shear-jashub, "A remnant shall return," in allusion to the prophet's great teaching that the godly portion of his people should be preserved.

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From Sargent's Frieze of the Prophets in the Boston Public Library. Isaiah.

6. His social station was high, as is shown by his intimacy with the kings, Jotham and Hezekiah. He was a man of influence, the foremost citizen of Judah during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, and Manasseh. The rabbins have a tradition that he was of royal blood.

7. Isaiah lived in troublous times. He was a Reformer striving to rescue his nation from their sins into loyal obedience to God.

8. He was the leading statesman of the times. 9. He was the greatest of the prophets.

IO. "He was an Author, the qualities of whose work place him in the highest rank in the literature of the world."

11. He was heroic, single-minded, patriotic, fearless, undaunted, a man of immense personal power and influence.

12. He was the prophet of Hope.

13. The keynote of his long life was faithfulness, and fellowship with God.

The Book of Isaiah. "Even in literary form the world has produced nothing greater than Isaiah." Prof. Moulton.

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The book falls into two great divisions, - chapters 1-39 are chiefly historical, interspersed with songs and poems. Chapters 40-66 are a collection of poems or prophecies in poetic form, and are concerned chiefly with assurances of return from the Babylonian exile. It is for this reason that probably the majority of modern scholars think there were two or more Isaiahs or authors. The strongest reason given is that in this second part Cyrus the king who granted the permission for the Jews to return is named in some of the chapters although Isaiah died almost 150 years before Cyrus gave this permission; and in some parts there is an atmosphere of return and reference to the destruction of the temple.

There is no room for a discussion of the question in our narrow limits, nor in the short hour of the Sunday School. But I wish to make two brief remarks.

One is that it is very difficult to believe that the name of the author who surpassed Isaiah in "the brilliance of his genius, the splendor of his imagination," and his

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