Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-07-13
July 18th. 1910.

Peters Confession. Matt. xvf:13-2S.
Golden Text-Thou art the Christ,
the Son of the living God. Matt
xyi:16.
Cd Verse 13-Did Jesus ask the
question for information, or to draw
them out, or for some other reason, as
to whom men said he was?
CD How much care should we have
as to what people think of US?
go What did Jesus mean when he
called himself "the son of MANI"
(4.) Verse 14-What is the view of
those who teach the transmigration
of the soul, and did these people prob
ably hold to that or some similar view?
CD Where is there any record in
the Bible of people appearing after
they were dead?
60 In what respects did Jesus re
semble either John, or Elijah, or Jere.
miah, or one of the prophets, to make
the people think as they did?
% Verses 15-16-What was Peters
opinion as to who Jesus was?
(8.) What reason is there to believe
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recognize Jesus as God himself?
co. Verse 17-How did Peter know
that Jesus was the Christ?
C10.) Is there enough evidence to
prove beyond doubt that Jesus is the
Christ, apart from such a personal
revelation as Peter had? (See l Cor.
xii:3.) Give your reasons.
11.) If the knowledge that Jesus is
the Christ comes by personal revel
alton. then is there any evidence that
the deVout heather, who have never
heard the gospel story, ever get such
a revelation, or anything like it?
(12.) Would, o could, God have re
vealed the Christ to Peter, if Peter had
not the evidence that the life and work
of Jesus afforded? @
OBJ Verses 1S-19-What, according
to Jesus, is the rock upon which God
builds his church?
04.) What is the Christian church?
Q5.) What is the chief or central
thought, or foundation stone of Chris
tianity?
G6.) Suppose we did not know, or
were to lose everything else, but the
fact of God, by his Spirit, revealing
unto US Christ as the Son of the living
God, how much vital truth should we
lack?
07.) What are the evidences that
the Christian church is the mightiest
force on the earth, and that it will
finally conquer the world? (This
question may nave to be answered in
writing by members of the cIub.)
(18.) What is the purpose of a key?
and what did the key of the kingdom
of heaven mean?
Q9.) Jesus gave Peter the keys OF
the kingdom of heaven, but what rea'
son is there to believe that every per.
son, with like spiritual insight as Peter.
also possesses these keys?
bid them to tell the people that he was
the Christ?
CD What is the difference, in the
degree CT merit, between those who
refrain from preaching Christ, when
God forbids, and those who preach
him when God bids them?
(22.) Verse 21-When did Jesus
first realize that the Jews would re
ject and put him to death?
(23.) Did Jesus offer himself to the
Jews, in good faith, hoping they would
receive him, and could they have done
so, had they been so minded? Give
your easons
(24.) Verses 1928 = Was Peters
reasoning in harmony with common
sense, and was his rebuke of Jesus
prompted by pure motives?
(25.) What was Peters real error?
(26.) What reason is there to be.
lieve that a good man may get divine
guidance on some things, and then,
unwittingly. project his own reasoning
into other things?
(27.) Verses 24-28 = Which brings
the greater good even in good things,
and why. self denial, or self ~gratifca'
ton?
(28) What is the sum total of all
things, in which are all good things,
for time and eternity?
Lesson for Sunday, July oath, 1910.
The TRANSPORTATION. Matt. Wills,
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