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Oct. 1. The World's Need of the Bible 1. The Anointing in Bethany

8. The Bible God's Word

8. The Passover.

15. Prevailing Prayer

15. The Lord's Supper.

22. The Bible Superior to Nature.. 22. The Agony in the Garden

29. The Preservation of the Bible.. 29. Jesus Betrayed and Taken Nov. 5. The Bible Designed for All.

5. Jesus Before the Council.. 12. Reverence Due to the Bible.. 12. Jesus Before Pilate

19. The Bible-its Study a Duty 19. Jesus Mocked and Crucified.. 26. The Bible our Rule of Life.. 26. Jesus' Death on the Cross

Dec. 3. Influence of the Bible 3. After His Death

10. Bible Promises...

10. Resurrection of Christ

17. A Bible Prophecy

17. After the Resurrection

24. Christ the Substance of the Bible

24. Glad Tidings

31. The Past Remembered

31. Review of the Quarter's Lessons

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The LIST OF SCRIPTURE LESSONS for the entire year is published at 18. per 100, and will also be found in the "Sunday School Illustrated Almanack," price One Penny.

The great work of religious instruction will be materially assisted by teachers inducing the parents of Sunday scholars to post up in their dwellings, where it may conveniently and continually be seen, a copy of the List of Lessons or the Sunday School Illustrated Almanack.

THE WORLD'S NEED OF THE BIBLE.

GOLDEN TEXT.

The world by wisdom knew not God.-1 CORINTHIANS i. 21.

PSALM cxv. 1-14.

Nor unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.

Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?

But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:

They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:

They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through

their throat.

They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.

O Israel, trust thou in the Lord: he is their help. and their shield.

O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord: he is their help and their shield.

Ÿe that fear the Lord, trust in the Lord: he is their help and their shield.

The Lord hath been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.

He will bless them that fear the Lord, both small and great.

The Lord shall increase you more and more, you and your children.

THE ANOINTING IN BETHANY.

GOLDEN TEXT.

She hath done what she could.-VERSE 8.

MARK xiv. 3-11.

AND being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.

And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?

For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.

For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.

She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.

Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.

And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to betray him unto them.

And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.

THE BIBLE GOD'S WORD.

GOLDEN TEXT.

Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.-2 PETER i. 21.

2 PETER. i. 5-7; 16-21..

AND beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.

We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

THE PASSOVER.

GOLDEN TEXT.

Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.-1 CORINTHIANS V. 7.

MARK xiv. 12-21.

AND the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?

And he sendeth forth two of his disciples, and saith unto them, Go ye into the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water: follow him.

And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the goodman of the house, The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?

And he will shew you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us.

And his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.

And in the evening he cometh with the twelve. And as they sat and did eat, Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, One of you which eateth with me shall betray me.

And they began to be sorrowful, and to say unto him one by one, Is it I? and another said, Is it I? And he answered and said unto them, It is one of the twelve, that dippeth with me in the dish.

The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had never been born.