The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-10-03

Our Sunday-schoOls are now again in full
| operation The matter of education is upper
| most in conversation as TO the young.
The Interior suggests the following outline oil
| books most useful for mental culture. 1t is =
good feature of this outline that the books noted
| are in fact bound In one volume, and are oil
generally easy access:
For defective tsste-Christ's Sermon on the
Mount, st. Paul's address to Agrippn, and the
| Epistle OF ST. James.
For imagination-The descriptive passages
in job, and generally the Apocalypse of Saint
| John.
For reasoning-Christs refutaton of the
Sadducees, and generally the Epistle to the Ro-
| mans.
For judgment and good sense-Solomou's
| Proverbs.
| For sensibility-The last chapters of any OF
| the four Gospels; the Book of Ruth.
For political knowledge Study the Consii-
| tuition of the jewish Common wealth before the
establishment of tho kingdom.
For patriotism-I'he life of David; the rcsIO-
ration after tho Babylonish captivity.
For cultivation of the conscience you eau
scarcely 90 amiss-St. Peters Epstles, st.
Johns ST. James's and, above all, the words of
Christ.
This is no al captd,,dnn suggestion. The
Scriptures furnish the best models aud the
most suggestive materials to be found in the
English language.
Outline Of he Book of Jadges.
/. When written? Il. &. 100.
2. Where written? Jerusalem.
>. Author? 9 Pet. 1:21.
4. Amanuensis? Samuel.
3. Data? Current events.
g. Class of book l!terariy? Historical,
Z. Language? Hebrew.
g. Time covered? About 323 years.
9. Meaning of name Jndgos? Saviors.
10. Nc. OF chapters2 II.
ii. No. of verses. 6iS
i. Middle verse; TO-: ID.
Is. No. OF words?
II. No of letters?
Is. Time of translation into English? 1G: II.
l6. Grand divisions? Three.
II. New Testament references? Mono.
i8. Order of the Book of Judges in the Bible?
Seventh.
IS. Principal mals characters? Abimelech.
Barak Gideon. Jabin, Jephthah, Manoah
Samson, Sisers.
20 Principal female characters? Deborah
Jael, daughter of Jophthah, wife of Ma
81. Practical lessons? See below.
Notes on Outline.
Judges is the second Old Testament histori-
cal book
The authorship Of the book is uncertain. but
The word Judges means not so much officers
OF the criminal law, as Saviors or DELIVERIES
The book covers the history from b. c. 14i3
to 1920
81. Paul tActs -: 2Oy makes the hook cover
130 years. bnt he folIoycd the chronology of
the 5eptuagnt.
We may make three grand divisions of this
book
a. Chapters l to 81 Condition of Israelites
after the death OF Joshua
b. 3: 3 to is. Expressions and dcliverances
of the Israelites.
C. 1921. Appendix.
The ~ Judges were :. OIhniel, Ehud Sham |
gar, Deborah, Barak, Gideon, Abimelech, lola, |
Jar, Jephihah, Ibzan, lEIon, ALBION, Samson. |
The Judges Eli and Samuel are not included |
in the book of Judges. We notice one of the |
judges was n woman
In the time between Deborah and Gideon. |
Minus founded the Kingdom of Assyria and |
married Semiramis
Prot. ". S. Tyler wrote:
The age of the Judges was not an age of
Many sqck of wild OATS in
iced. were sown in the yonth OF Israel, bat it
la7 left us gems of literature and records of
icTosm and faith, though the men who showed
hem were far from perfection.
Inc great lesson of that age is that dis
,bediehce TO the divine law is the cause of all
National calamities, and that there is no Ma
ionai prosperity but in doing right. 1t was
peculiar history of peculiar people. They
ire so now. and must ever have been So Their
mission was to teach mankind religion; as it
Vas That OF Greece to teach art, and of Rome
o teach law. 1t required a special training.
MIRACLES seem not 10 have surprised them.
Aud 1t IS the same working of God. whether it
'e by natural law or by miracle. So wise men
rave held in all ages. The human soul in
demands miracles in the early his
DRY OF ancient nations. And they were a suit
'6ie means of education for nation designed
o so peculiar a work for all surrounding ma
iors, and for all coming times"
The ANGEL AT BoCHIM.
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