in the galleries of the Vatican there are heathen inscriptions from the tombs, such as this "Farewell; farewell; forever farewell." But on the other side are Christian inscriptions from the catacombs: "In peace": "In Christ": "In hope." It is not an eternal farewell when we lay away in the cemetery the bodies of our dead; they have not passed on into a perpetual night: they have but gone on before to be with the Lord.

Christ the first fruits. "Died he, or in him did death die?" questions St. Augustine. "What a death that gave death its death-blow!"

What the Grave is. Mr. Henry Attwell recorded in The Spectator this beautiful thought of a little four-year-old girl. She was walking one day with her father through the village cemetery when she pointed to the graves and asked wonderingly, "What are these for?" "They belong to the people who have gone to heaven," her father made answer. "To the angels?" "Yes." "Then,” she remarked thoughtfully, "these are where they have left their clothes."

Resurrection Hope. Two little birds had a nest in the bushes in the back part of the garden. Amy found the nest. It had four speckled eggs in it. One day, after she had been away some time, she ran into the garden to take a peep at the speckled eggs. Instead of the beautiful eggs, there were only broken, empty shells. "Oh!" she said, picking out the pieces, "the beautiful eggs are all spoiled and broken." "No, Amy," said her brother, "they are not spoiled; the best part of them has taken wings and flown away." So it is in death; the body left behind is only an empty shell, while the soul, the better part, has taken wings, and flown away. Sunday School Chronicle.

The Soul (Spirit) lives after Death. Do you ask: "How can you show that the soul can live when it parts from the body? We only see them together." Let me try to make it clear by an illustration. When the Spaniards first came among the poor Indians, and having landed their horses rode on them, the Indians, not knowing any better, thought that the horse and his rider were one. So are there people who fancy that the body and the soul are one. But we know that the horse may be killed under a man, and he yet be perfectly free to move about where he likes. And so, though the body perishes that for a time supports the soul, the scu! may be free to move and think and will as it pleases. But, you say, you are talking of life after death. How can there be such a thing? I don't know how. I only know that you might ask a much more difficult question-How is it that the soul lives at all? Yet it does. Why, then, should it not live again? Which is more difficult, for something which has not existed before to exist now, or for something which exists now, to exist again? Now that is just what happens with the soul. There was a time when you were not in existence. God created a soul for you, he fashioned it exactly to your needs and put it into you. Well, he takes it from this world; but is it not easier to make that soul live again than to make it live at all? Do not believe that God would spend so much wisdom and power and goodness in making and fitting out a human soul merely to let it live a few years and then to put it out as a candle is put out. No, it departs from here and may go, we know not where; but he who takes care that the sun does not go out, even when it does not shine on us, will take care also that our light is not extinguished, even when it is removed from this portion of God's world. Simeon Singer, in Sermons to Children.

WORK TO BE ASSIGNED FOR THE NEXT LESSON

Assign whatever written work you wish to have brought to class as a review of the Quarter's Lessons.

Note-Book Work. Write a Biography of Isaac. On your map of the Old Testament World trace the route of Eliezer. On your map of Palestine locate Beersheba and Beerlahairoi.

LESSON XIII-MARCH 30

REVIEW-THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS

Golden Text

Our fathers trusted in thee: they trust-
ed, and thou didst deliver them. Ps. 22.4

HOME DAILY BIBLE READINGS-M. Gen. 1.1-2.3. The Creation. Gen. 2.4-25. Man the Crown of Creation. T. Gen. 3.1-12, 22-24. Man's First Sin. Gen. 4.1-15. Cain and Abel. W. Gen. 6.9-22. The Flood. Gen. 9.8-17. God's Covenant with Noah. T. Gen. 12.1-9. The Call of Abram. Gen. 13.1-12. Abram and Lot. F. Gen. 15.5-18. God's Covenant with Abraham. Gen. 19.12-17, 23-29. The Destruction of Sodom (Temperance_Lesson). S. Gen. 22.1-13. The Test of Abraham's Faith. S. Gen. 24.50-67. Isaac and Rebekah. Or (Easter Lesson), Mark 16: 1-11. The Empty Tomb.

READ Heb. 11.1-19

A REVIEW BY MEANS OF OUTLINES AND ILLUSTRATIONS These outlines may be written upon the blackboard in advance, or one at a time before the class. After calling for the main facts of a lesson, ask for a story which you told to illustrate the lesson truth, and for its application.

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Provide your pupils with paper and pencils. After reading each sentence below wait long enough for them to write the title of the lesson to which the sentence alludes, numbering each answer to correspond with the number of the sentence. Have the papers signed and take them home to mark. Return the papers next week.

Like a deer in the fright of the chase,

With a fire in his hearts, and a brand on his face,

He speeds him afar to the desert of Nod

A vagabond, smote by the vengeance of God! William Knox.

We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens. Goethe.

You are not what you ought to be, and you are not what you can be; you may rise yet, and fight a good fight yet, and be a man once more, after the likeness of God who made you, and of Christ who died for you. Charles Kingsley.

The rainbow of hope ever spans the Niagara of our earthly experience in its maddest, wildest plungings. A. B. Jack.

When God looked upon th' work of his hands an' called it good, he war sure a lookin' at this here Ozark country. Harold Bell Wright.

My Father God, thou knowest that I stand
Between two roads-the parting of the ways.
Like Lot of old, I see, before, a land

Of pleasantness. Katherine A. Hodge.

If Bible history is lit by the fires of Sodom and Gomorrah and the horrors of the siege of Jerusalem, God also wrought terrible works of judgment in the catastrophes of the Roman Empire and the French Revolution. John Watson. The life of faith ever begins as that of the Father of the Faithful began, with the solemn recognition of a divine will which separates. Alexander Maclaren. Cherish the hope that the world is travelling towards the dawn. Man's day begins with the morning and ends in night, but the day of God begins with the night and ends in the glorious dawn. Dr. F. B. Meyer.

She was a young girl, suffering from the reaction of intellectual strain, and she said that she had lost her feeling that anything is worth while. Something of her experience comes to others, now and then eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge. Youths' Companion.

At cool of day with God I walk

My garden's grateful shade:

I hear his voice among the trees,
And I am not afraid. C. A. Mason.

A REVIEW FOR LITTLE FOLKS

Copy the pictures on the next page upon your blackboard, or your large cardboard which serves as a blackboard. Cover each square with a separate piece of paper fastened at the top by paste or thumb tack. Remove one paper at a time and question your pupils about the lesson which the picture recalls, or let a pupil tell the story.

Quarter

March 30

EASY QUESTIONS FOR YOUNG PUPILS

I. Who made the world? 2. Who were the first man and woman? 3. What was the name of the place where they lived? 4. What were they told not to do? 5. When the tempter told Eve it was all right for her to eat the forbidden fruit, what did she say? What did she do. 6. How were they punished for not obeying? 7. What were the names of the sons of Adam and Eve? 8. Who was the first murderer and whom did he kill? 9. When the world became very wicked what did God send to destroy it? 10. Who were saved then? Why? 11. How do you know that Noah believed what God told him in regard to the coming of the Flood? 12. Who was told to leave his home and to live in another country? 13. What did God promise Abraham? 14. What relation was Abraham to Lot? 15. Why did Abraham and Lot have to separate? 16. How did Lot show a greedy spirit? 17. What wicked city was destroyed? Who escaped? 18. How did Abraham show that he would obey God in everything?

QUESTIONS TO TEST KNOWLEDGE OF THE BOOK

1. How many books are there in the Bible? 2. How many books are there in the Old Testament? 3. Whence come our terms, Old and New Testaments? 4. In what divisions are the Old Testament books grouped? 5. Name the books of the Pentateuch. 6. What is the Hexateuch? 7. What is the history_covered by the Hexateuch? 8. Whence comes the title of the first book? 9. Tell in a sentence what Genesis is about. 10. Give the two main divisions of Genesis and the chapters in each. II. What are the chief events recorded in Part I? 12. Who are the chief characters in Part II? 13. What chapters of Genesis tell about the first sin? 14. About the Flood? 15. With what chapter does the life of Abraham begin? 16. What are the first four words of the Bible? 17. Where in the Bible are we told about the creation? 18. Why should one not go to Genesis for scientific knowledge nor to science for theological knowledge?

QUESTIONS TO TEST KNOWLEDGE OF THE TEXT

Where is each quotation below found and what does it mean?

Why art thou wroth? And why is thy countenance fallen?

If thou doest well, shall it not be lifted up? and if thou doest not well, sin coucheth at the door; but do thou rule over it.

I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing.

Let there be no strife between me and thee.

The windows of heaven were opened.

Am I my brother's keeper?

I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

He seemed as one that mocked.

Now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me.

God created man in his own image.

The voice of thy brother's blood crieth from the ground.

QUESTIONS TO TEST HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE

I. With what Bible character does Hebrew history begin? 2. Who was ruler of Babylonia in the life of Abraham? 3. In what century did he live? 4. What do we know about great tides of emigration that early took place from the East? 5. What member of Abraham's family settled at Haran, by whom the city was afterwards called in the story of Jacob? 6. What people were living in Canaan on the arrival of Abraham? 7. Why did Abraham go down into Egypt?