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ON THE GOSPEL HISTORY.

I.-page 13.

What does each of the four Gospels give?

What names do the Gospels bear?
Who taught them what to write?
What had they themselves seen ?
What does the word Gospel mean?

Why may it well be called good tidings or good news?
What are the names of the four men who wrote them?
What does each of them relate?

What does the first chapter of St. Luke tell of?
What was there in the days of King Herod?
What was the name of Zacharias's wife?

What were they both?

What does it mean to be righteous before God?

What is meant by their walking in all the commandments and ordinances of God blameless?

What was it they had not?

Were they old or young?

Why was it a grief among the Jews to have no child?

What has every body?

What is the right and wise plan?

What shall we find if, like Zacharias and Elisabeth, we serve God

in earnest?

II.-page 15.

What was Zacharias doing in the Temple?

Where were the people?

What is incense?

What was it meant to express?

What were the people taught from the Priest's offering incense to God inside the temple for them, while they prayed outside?

What is an Intercessor?

Who appeared to Zacharias?

Was he afraid?

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What may happen before our prayers are granted?

Shall we still receive the things we have asked for?
What is the meaning of the name John?

What was the child promised to Zacharias to be?
Why would many rejoice at his birth?

Why did the angel say many should rejoice at the birth of this child?

Who did the people, at that time, think great, as people now think? But who was great in the sight of God?

What is meant by the child's being full of the Holy Ghost from his birth?

Why was this child forbidden to drink wine or strong drink?
What was the reason of this?

What did the angel tell Zacharias his child should do?

Who was Elias or Elijah? for these two names are one and the

same.

Did Elijah die as other men die?

What had God promised?

Who did the angel tell Zacharias his child was to be?

What was he to do?

How did John, when he grew up, prepare people for the religion of Christ?

What things are you to remember that you have just read?

III.-page 19.

What are we very apt to think?

Is this a mistake?

Did Zacharias at once believe the angel?

What answer did he make?

Did he think more about the wonder it would be for him and his wife to have a child when they were so old, than about God's power to do this wonderful thing?

Is it wise to think any thing difficult when God has said it shall be?

Is it safe to doubt his power?

How was Zacharias punished?

Zacharias had asked by what sign he should know the truth of God's promise-what sort of sign was given him?

What awful words did the angel speak?

Why could not the angel speak any thing but truth?
What must Zacharias have felt?

Why did the people who waited for Zacharias wonder?
What happened when he came out to them?

What did he do to make them understand?

When did he return to his own house?
What should we learn from his example?

What must his wife have felt when he returned?

What is most likely?

Why is it likely that Zacharias wrote down all that had happened? How did this husband and wife spend some months?

How do you know this?

Why should women who have no children not look upon this as a reproach?

What is the only real reproach?

Is it wise to wish for children if God has not given them?

In what blessed thought may every one rest?

If a woman knows that God is going to give her a child, what should she do?

Why should she love God with a more entire love?

Why had Zacharias and Elisabeth more to think of than any other parents?

IV.-page 22.

What happened six months after the angel had been sent to Zacharias?

Where is Nazareth?

Is Nazareth a larger place now than when the Virgin Mary lived there?

What is the well close to Nazareth still called?

What was Joseph ?

Of what family was he?

Was Mary of the same family?

What did the angel say to her?

What is the meaning of the word "Hail ?”

How was the Lord with her?

What was she among women ?

What did Mary feel when she saw the angel?

What is meant by the words, "cast in her mind?"

What did the angel say to comfort her?

What did the angel say should happen?

What was to be the name of her child?
Whose son was He to be?

What does the name Jesus mean?

What was promised of this child?

Was Mary surprised?

Did she disbelieve the message?
Did she ask for a sign?

What did she say ?

By what means was her child to be born?

What had God promised in the beginning of the world?

How was this promise now made true?

What did the angel tell Mary besides ?

What did Mary's answer shew?

What did she say?

Why did Mary's answer shew courage and faith as well as a gentle and obedient spirit?

In what course is there never any danger?

When the angel had given his message, what did he do?

Where did Mary go?

Who did she salute?

V.-page 25.

What did the joyful words of Elizabeth shew?

Whose words did she at once repeat, though she had not heard them?

What did she tell her besides ?

What did she call her?

Why did she say she was blessed?

When Mary heard all this, what happened?

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What did she mean when she said, My soul doth magnify the Lord"?

What did she mean by the words, "He hath regarded the low estate of his hand-maiden "?

What should she be called through all generations, that is, to the end of the world?

What is meant by the words, " from generation to generation"? To whom has God been merciful and kind since the beginning of the world?

What is meant by the words, that God "scatters the proud in the imagination of their hearts"?

What is meant by God's filling the hungry with good things and sending the rich empty away?

When and where is this hymn of praise of the Virgin Mary used? How should you try to feel when you repeat her hymn in Church? How long did Mary stay with Elizabeth, and what did she do afterwards?

How must Zacharias have felt during Mary's visit?

VI.-page 28.

How did Joseph feel when the Virgin Mary, his promised wife, returned home?

What did he mean to do?

What would have been done to Mary by the law if she had been untrue to her promised husband?

Who came to Joseph while he thought on these things?

What did the angel say ?

Why was the child's name to be Jesus?

What had the prophet Isaiah said long before?

Why were they to call his name Emmanuel?

What did Joseph do?

What should we often think of?

To whom does the name of Jesus often bring peace and comfort? Why is this?

What does the name Jesus mean ?

Are we sinners?

Of what have we need?

What will the thought of the Saviour's other name,

or God with us," shew us?

Why?

Why need we not be frightened now?

VII.-page 30.

What did Elizabeth's neighbours and cousins hear ?

What did they do?

What is circumcision?

What was circumcision a mark of?

What is it a sign of besides?

Emmanuel,

What was the custom, when a Jewish child was circumcised?

What did Zacharias's friends wish to call his son?

What did his mother say to this?

How was the question settled?

What did Zacharias write?

What happened when he had written that the child's name was John?

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