The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-10
Bible Study
BY MRS. C. F. MENNINGER
Published every Saturday evening in
Topeka State Journal
LESSON VII.
A Review and Summary for the Book
of Genesis. Chapters $50.

A Review and Summary for the Book
of Genesis. Chapters 1-5O.
History is philosophy teaching by
example,
Rou call: A verse from Genesis.
At the close of each book of the
Ola Testament we will go over the
fo1iovrina order of facts, and l would
suggest that this outline be kept for
reference for all the books to come
later in the year:
l. Name of the book.
2, Meaning of the name.
8. The author.
cred. -
5. The prominent character.
9. The main thought or key word.
Z. A key verse.
8. A best verse.
9. The Messianic element.
10. The prominent word.
IL. The types.
12. The prophecies.
13. The prayers.
IA. The promises.
10, The miracles or parallels.
16 The central chapter.
II. A New Testament lesson.
IS. other points not suggested in
the outline.
Tell the chapter, and who or what
for the following questions. Find as
many of the answers as you can from
the Genesis Chart.
l. He left his home and his kim
dred because of his faith in Prom
ised Land?
2. They were driven from their
home on account of their SIM
8. He never tasted death, because
God took him?
4. A floating house containing
eight people who had no where else
S. Himself with all household
ratified the covenant with God?
g. A lonely place where two strove
all night for the championship?
Z. According to the word of one
prisoner, within three days two 9TH
ers were released from prison?
g. The best plea ever made by one
| human being for another?
9. Where one man and his house
/ hold were stronger than nine kings
with their armies?
| 10. A king who was kind to two
foreigners, both of whom lied to
him?
IL. A way from earth to heaven
! trodden only by the angels?
| 10. The one verse in the Bible
used in public more than any other
i yet not understood by half who speak
10. It cost 400 shekels of silver
and was only a hole in a pile Of
stones?
IA. II covered the earth and de-
stroyed all the people?
Is. over and over he did some
thing for those who took no thought
for themselves?
16. There were ten of them to go
| for food and they found a ruler who
called them spies?
II. They thought to go to heaven
! but God scattered them thru the earth
| instead?
1s. He would not fight; he never
travelled; he always waited peacefully
for his wife?
10. Who fulfilled the adage, "A
very little place one family will do
but there never was one place big
enough for two?"
20. Every time the sun shines thru
the clouds it recalls a story of some
| thing in the Book of Genesis?
81. 1t says the most we know about
| God, yet there is nothing any man
can really explain?
%. A family of four. all deceltful
air plotting to get ahead of the 9TH
| ers?
23. He grew rich thru craft, and
won the property that belonged to an
| other?
"a. On a subject most popular fol
those who love to gossip about the
affairs of others, and the Longest
chapter in the Bible?
25. 1t tells something OF the future
of each of the twelve sons of Jacob
| %. Because of his wisdom and his
discretion he was made to be next to
and almost the king in power, in the
country in which he lived?
27. The difference from the time
they went before, was that Benjamin
was with them?
! %. Clearly named and located bu
no one has ever found It?
20. They went out together; they
set up their affairs together; they sac
rificed together but one never re-
turned?
80. She was only a slave, but she
! was a woman whose mother hear
saved her son from death and pow
erty?