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LESSONS Ga - d..

T n e Intern tionaI Sunday
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view OF preceding lessons OF The quarter:
a. Jesus dining with 2 Pharisee Luke
xiv, Ia. % Para BILE Of the Great sup
per, Luke xiv, 1924. 49, The lost sheer
and lost coin, Luke XIV Ito. "a Tee
prodigal son, Luke XIV, HIP. 90 The
unjust steward, Luke xvi. I-13 Co. The
rich man and Lazarus. Luke xvi, 1881.
@ The ten lepers cleansed, Luke XVII,
Ills. - Sober living, Titus H., lis. g,
Tie rich young ruler, Math., xix, 1926.
'-N Bartin1aeus healed, Mark X, 1852.
Qp Zaecheus the publican, Luke Nix,
.1-l0. (i9 Parable of The pounds, Luxe
xix, 1921
The golden text is Psalms ixy. 10:
Thou Crowneth the year with thy good
ness; ana thy paths drop faJneSS-
society of Christian En-
deavor The topic. for discus
sion is 1.-The Old and the New;
Your Purposes founded On Mat
thew xiii, 51-52, and Luke V. S6-39.
The Passing Of the year and the advent
Of a new one suggests a study Of the
part and thought concerning the future
What has my life been, and what IS my
\ life going TO be?' comes with signal force
{ now that we stand on the threshold of
new year, and, indeed, of a new cen
fury. If our lives have not been what
they ought TO have been during the clos
ing year, let US resolve 10 make the COM
ing year altogether better, and kinder
and purer-
The Epworth League. The
topic is The Old and New; Your Pur-
poses. from Luke Y, 36-39, and Matthew
xiii. 51-52 Behold I make all things
new Now is the time TO review the
past and consider The future. Can the
next year be made better? See to it
that II is made so. We shall not go tbs
way again The old gear closes. The
new year dawns. The passage is i'm
perceptible, so far as time is concerned
Other days may have been more me-
mentous in changes and crises of fate,
but there is value in the observance
Of the years end which Yields to no other
anniversary in the circle of the seasons.
And this time is of more than usual in
terest, as it makes the closing of q cen
fury. Never will you and all the hun
dreds Of millions OF living beings again
stand at the threshold of new cen
fury.
F or Bible R d Sit is sug-
Sested that new readers study the 2lst
chapter of St Luke. which has been
named the Watchers Chapter in
which signs Of the last day are dis
Cussed.
H.
Dec 81. This day is dedicated in the
Catholic calendar 70 St Sylvester. pope
OF Rome, 4. D. 335. In some countries
New Years eve is known as Sylyester's
eve In many countries watch meetings
are held by various church societies.
Jan. !. New Years Gav. a national holi-
day in all Of the states
Also the Jewish Feast Of Tebet.
Also CIRCUMCISION, TO commemorate the
Savior's obedience TO the Jewish cerenao-
NAL law. See Genesis xvii, GA.
Jan. .. This day in the Roman Catholic
calendar is set apart to commemorate
the martyrs who suffered death in the
Roman provinces in A. D. 303, by order
Of DIOCESAN, for refusing TO burn their
Bibles. 1t is known as the day of Mar
tyrs Of the Holy Scriptures.
~ IN. 5. This in the Catholic calendar
IS dedicated to the memory of St Gene
We've, patroness of Paris. She esta blished
the first convent in France, A. D 456, and
during the middle ages, if any misfortune
threatened France-plague, famine. flood
or inVasion-the people besought St Cen
evieve to intercede for them Even in
the hopeless days of 1871, when famine
was doing more deadly work than the
guns Of the Germans. the helpless. people
w t-it NibS JOil4ti EuLilG-g III q prayer
st Genevieve, thou who by thy pray
.ers didst save our city from the hordes
OF Attila, save US now from the hordes
OF his descendants.
Jan. +. In the Catholic church calendar
this day is dedicated to St Titus, a dis
ciple OF st. Paul 1t is also the birth
day of the famous Archbishop Usher, in
1880
Jan. D Dedicated TO the memory of st.
Simeon Stylites, the founder of an order
known as the Pillar Saints. OF all the
forms Of voluntary self-torture produced
r. the early Christians this was one Of
the most extraordinary. st. Simeon -four
ished in the fifth century. To DO penance
he stood up upon a pillar, and the people
-7ame to hear him preach and pray. He
wed on his pillar for thirty years. His
l. followers became numerous, one Of
whom is recorded to have lived for sixty
ears on his pillar.