Wilde's Bible Picture Sets. The "Bible Picture Sets" consist of sixty (60) pictures, coated paper. They have been chosen with the greatest 6 x 8 inches in size, and beautifully printed on heavy care to most adequately and attractively illustrate the International Uniform Sunday School Lessons for 1914. Thousands of teachers weekly use them and testify as to great value in promoting good attendance and attention and in encouraging home study. ENCLOSED IN AN ATTRACTIVE PORTFOLIO, 50 CENTS, POSTPAID. W. A. WILDE COMPANY, Boston, Mass., Gentlemen: Please send me your set of Bible Pictures for 1914, for which I enclose 50 cents. LESSON I.-January 4. JESUS AND THE CHILDREN. Mark 9:30-41; 10: 13-16. PRINT Mark 9:30-37; 10: 13-16. READ Matt. 18:1-35. COMMIT Mark 10: 14, 15, 16 (beginning with "Suffer "). GOLDEN TEXT. Gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. -1 PET. 5:5. THE TEACHER AND HIS CLASS. An aged minister once offered to lend his sermons to beginners on condition that they read them aloud at least twice before they preached them. This was wise advice: and for two reasons. (1) Reading aloud for the purpose of expressing the real meaning of the passage makes the meaning clearer. (2) It enables one to impress the truth on others. The text of this lesson is so varied in form that the teacher who will read it aloud at home several times, till he is full of its spirit and he has learned the emphasis and THE TEACHER'S LIBRARY. Books concerning children are especially helpful on this lesson. There are very many of them. Patterson Du Bois' writings are very enlightening, The Natural Way in Moral Training, The Point of Contact in Teaching (used by some in training salesmen), Beckonings of Little Hands. Fiske's Boy Life and Self-Government, Antoinette Lamoreaux. Amos R. Wells' Trace on the map the journey of Jesus ury of Children, by E. S. Martin (Harpers). and his disciples from the Mount of Transfiguration to Capernaum. Describe the scenery on the route. Describe the city of Capernaum and Jesus' relations to it. THE ROUND TABLE. FOR RESEARCH AND DISCUSSION. The child and the home. The child and the Sunday school. The child and the church. THE LESSON IN LITERATURE. Mrs. Browning's "The Cry of the Children." Wordsworth's "Intimations of Immortality." Charles M. Dickinson's poem on "The Children," in Cambridge Book of Poetry, p. 187. Tennyson's "In the Children's Hospital." On "The Childlike Spirit," see Ruskin's Modern Painters, Vol. V., chap. on Peace. The reflex influence of the child on all these institu- Whittier's "The Childlike Spirit." tions. The child as an object lesson. How to bring children to Christ. What characteristics of childhood are referred to in Christ's statement that "of such is the kingdom of heaven"? PLAN OF THE LESSON. II. LESSONS OLDER PEOPLE MAY LEARN NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS. departed A remarkably good book for mothers to read to their children is Jay T. Stocking's The City That Never was Reached (Pilgrim Press). THE LESSON IN ART. Jesus and the Children. Otterlie Roederstein's picture reproduced in Burns' The Christ Face in Art (Dutton) is one of the best. So is Galvini's Christ blessing the Children, now in the Sunday school room of the South Congregational Church, Brockton, Mass. By Hofmann.* Plockhörst.* Voegel.* Rubens.* Balheim.* Von Uhde. * In Wilde's Bible pictures. STEREOSCOPIC PICTURES. 9:30. And they went forth from thence, and passed through Găl'i-lee; and he would not that any man should know t it. I. The Quiet Retreat. A Heart to Heart Talk of Jesus with His Disciples, vs. 30-32. Not long before the time of our lesson Jesus had been transfigured before the three disciples who were best able to understand its meaning, that they might see his real glorious nature,- — not a mere man, not a mere teacher however loving and wise, but a Saviour, the expected Messiah, the Son of God. Thus they would be better prepared to receive the strange, hard to believe, seemingly contradictory fact, as to the means by which he must accomplish his mission. 30, 31. And they went forth from thence, the region of Cæsarea Philippi, the scene of the transfiguration and the healing of the lunatic boy at the foot of the mountain. On the long walk from the mountain 31. 1For he taught his disciples, and said unto them, The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, after three days he shall rise the third day." up again. when 32. But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask him. 1 Matt. 17:21; Luke 9: 44. down the Jordan, the disciples conversed together, and discussed the marvelous things Jesus said and did. As they passed through Galilee on their way to Capernaum, Jesus took them to some retired retreat, and repeated the truth he had before tried to impress upon them, that, as foretold about the Son of Man, he must be delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him, but they could not destroy him and stop his work of redemption, for after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day. These truths were not only essential to his redemptive work, but it was also essential that the disciples should know the truth beforehand, or their faith and hope would have been wrecked when the event took place. "And they were exceeding sorry" (Matt.), and they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask him (v. 32). In the darkness of the night, they did not look up and see the morning star shining in the words "shall rise again,' the herald of a new day. There come periods in the history of Christianity, and in our own lives, when we feel as Luther felt when his wife asked him, "Is God dead?" when amid persecution and sickness and loss, and the smoke and noise of the battle of Right against Wrong, we forget the promises of our Father and are blind to the morning star. But the star is in heaven, and the promises are as sure as God lives. Cæsarea Philippi, near the foot of Mount Hermon. II. Lessons Older People May Learn through the Child Parallels, Vs. 33-37; Matt. 18:1-6; Luke 9:46-48. THE STORY. On the way down from Cæsarea Philippi, as the disciples were following Jesus in the traveled way, they naturally began to discuss the events that had just taken place, and the hopes and dreams of the new kingdom over which Jesus was expected to reign. Of course they felt that they, as his nearest friends, would occupy the positions nearest the king. Three of them had been selected by Jesus to go on the special trip to the Mount of Transfiguration, and some of the others may have felt they ought to have had equal honor. Judas was treasurer of the twelve, why should he not have the ambition to be Lord High Treasurer when the kingdom was established? The keys had been given to Peter. James and John may have shown a tinge of the ambition which led their mother, later, to ask Jesus for the privilege of their sitting next to Jesus when he came into his kingdom. Probably they became somewhat excited in their earnestness, and their conversation rose to disputing in loud voices. A LESSON was absolutely necessary, for with such a spirit it was not possible for |