The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-28
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.


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1s03-Quarterly Review.
| Especially Arranged from Peioubets Notes.1
GOLDEN TExT.-So then faith cometh
! by hearing, and hearing by the word
of God.-Rom. 10:17
ga great novelist in one of his stories
tells of child that wandered away
from her home. Every night when it
grew dark candle was set in the win
dow and left to burn there all night,
to show to the lost one if ever she
crept back repentant and desired to re-
! turn that there was welcome there
for her, that loves place was kept for
her within. The Bible seems to me
like G great palace standing on some
mountain top, in the center of dark
! world. 1t has thousand windows in
| it, opening on all sides, and in every
| one of them bright light shines, to
| tell earth's lost and weary ones, wan
dering in the gloom, of home where
they will find a welcome if they but
come to it's door. Rev. John r. Mil
| Ter, D. d. This quarters lessons form
one of the large bay windows of that
| palace, with eleven outloolSs from
| which to see the truth in different re-
| lations.
In order to have a profitable and an
| enjoyable review day, two things
should have previous thought and at
| tention; namely, the fixing in advance
upon some distinctive plan of review,
and it's announcement to the school at
the beginning of the quarter, so that
the various lessons can crystalline in
| the minds of the scholars and teach
ers in accordance with the plan pro-
posed. The conviction just stated has
| long been fixed one with me; and
recently happened upon some words
! by Mr.. M. G. Hazard which SO happily
emphasize what have just said about
the reason for selecting and announc-
ing the plan of review at the begin
ming of the quarter, that take pleas
ure in repeating his words. He says:
ga good quarterly review is like an
apple-it takes three months to
ripen." Again: "If one takes care
of his pennies, we are told the dollars
will take care of themselves; and so,
too, if the weekly review is properly
| taken care of, the quarterly review
will manage itself"-R. Il. Bonsall, in
| S. S. Times.
REVIEW FACTS.
| Scriptures.-The lessons extend over
the last half of the Acts, chaps. 16 to %.
Time. years. From A.
D. so, the great council at Jerusalem,
| to A. d. So, the close of the first impris-
onment of Paul at Rome.
Persons.-Paul, Barnabas, Luke,
Slas and Timothy, the missionaries,
stand in the first rank. We have also
King Agrippa, Cows. Felix, Festus
Lysias, the captain Julius, and an un-
armed sea-captain. OF women we have
Queen Bernice; Drusilla, the wife of
the governor; Priscilla, most intelli-
gent woman who trained preacher;
Lydia, pious merchant; and four
prophetesses, daughters of Philip the
evangelist. Among Paul's 'shelpers were
Agabus, Apollos, Aquila, Erastus,
Jason, Mnason, Philip, Paul's nephew,
Publius. Other persons are the jailer,
Eutychus Ananias, Scmva.
Places. - Athens, Berea, C@sarea,
Corinth, Ephesus, Europe, Italy, Jeru-
salem, Macedonia, Malta, Mediterran-
can sea, Miletus, Philippi, Rome, Thes-
salonica.
Events.-The third missionary jour
ley; the Macedonia call; the Gospel in
troduced into Europe; Paul and Silas
singing songs in the night; miraculous
deliverance; conversion of the jailer;
the noble Bereans; Paul on Mars hill;
year and half at Corinth three
years at Ephesus; the baptism of the
Holy Ghost; burning the Ephesian
books; the Ephesian mob; return to
Jerusalem; attempts at conciliation;
mob in the temple; conspiracy dis
covered; Paul at Cesarea; before Felix,
before Agrippa, the voyage to Rome;
the wreck; Paul at Rome.
| REVIEW BY THE AID OF MAP.
In Tom Brown at Oxford, the best
scholar is represented as studying his
Greek history by means of a map and
pins with large heads made of differ
emily colored sealing. wax. The red
headed pin represented one army, the
black another. And as the text de-
scribed the movements of the armies,
the pins were moved to the places
designated on the map. During the
late war several of us ministers did
the same thing with the various arm
les. When news came of any change
we marked it with the pins. This
| plan gives great vividness to the
history and assists the memory. Sup
pose now that we have a large map on
the wall. Prepare pin with a
large sealing-wax head for Paul,
and smaller ones of different colors for
the other missionaries. Take the ini-
tial letters of the principal places
printed on cardboard, so as to be seen
across the room, and with pin fasten
them in their proper places on the map
as fast as the journey is made. Some
scholar or class can tell where the next
movement is to be made, and all the
events or incidents clustering around
each place can be noted or described.
Pins with flyers of other colors may
designate the places to which Epistles