Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-23
THE QUARTERLY REVIEW.
DR.. JOHN HALLS HINTS TO TEACH
ERS ON THE LESSONS.

Sunday, Sept. 26-LessOns-GOlden Text:
"I Have GIOrified Thee On the Earth,
1 Have Finished the Work Which
Thou Gavest Me To Do"
From the nature of the lessons of this quar-
ter, review cannot take the shape given to
it in ordinary narrative, but it may be made
full of interest throughout if the reviewer
can only fix plan in his own mind and lead
into it the minds of the scholars.
The first great point to be impressed is
that, all through we have to do with Jesus
Christ. Whatever passes under notice in
this exercise concerns him. He is first and
last in it.
The second step which the mind may take
in moving onward is to classification of the
ways in which he has come under our notice.
All through he is working or speaking. The
line of distinction, of course, is not sharp, for
he explains as he works; but it is sufficient
for our ends
l. In Lessons 1, III, ", he is opening
blind eyes and raising the dead, while in V
he is by his acts proclaiming his peace and
kingdom and in VII he is washing the disci-
pies feet. This rough division recalls him as
presented in five of the quarters lessons.
What do they each mean? How do they
affect us? How did they affect the people
then?
2. When we come to classify the lessons in
which we hear his voice, we have seven in
number. Their order is the following:
In Lessons II he is the "good Shepherd"
explaining his own work.
In Lesson VI he is predicting the extent of
his kingdom.
In Lesson VIII he is warning the tempted.
In Lessons TX, X, XI, he is comforting
the sorrowing, and this by QX) the thought
of their home; CX) their fruitfulness in him;
(XD their divine comforter in his stead; and
In Lesson XII he is praying for them.
What we see him do, what we hear him
say-these are the two divisions of the quar-
ter's studies.
Turning to these topics in turn, the re-
viewer will endeavor to recall the points
made and the lessons he illustrated in deeds
or in words. The questions of The Scholars
Handbook are numerous and varied, and
such as will readily occur to a mind familiar
Iou Will UuCSc SIctI luoulcS.J
To classes less familiar with doctrines, and
less easy to draw out by questions, another
order might be pursued. "Now, children"
one might say, 1--WE shall think of the striking
things we looked at" They will recall QD
the blind man healed; q thesisters mourning
Lazarus; 81 Christ iraising him; ~ Christ
riding on an ass into Jerusalem; o. Greeks
wishing to see him; (6) Christ washing the
disciples feet; "a Judas going out to betray
him. Here again are seven points incidents
round which questions, answers and re-
Elections may be gathered.
1t is a coincidence that we had aside from
the blind man seven men under our eyes.
The pupils can be asked whom they remem-
ber, and in what connections. They are Laza-
rus, Thomas, Judas the traitor, Philip, An
drew, Peter and John. The places, too, may
be suggestive of questions, e. g., the pool Of
Sloan, Bethany, Bethsaida, the temple and
Jerusalem These bring up for notice the sis
ters, the Pharisees, the Gentiles, the chief
priests, and the Jews who came to comfort
the sisters. And, finally, we have studied
one who is not a creature, but divine, namely
the Comforter. Questions may usefully bring
out the other names by which the Holy Ghost
is described, the work he is promised to do
for the disciples, and the way in which we
should look for and receive his teaching.
The difficulty will be, not to find material
for questions, but to bring under notice the
leading lines of thought in this group of les
sons, than which there can be none more in
teresting or important.