REVIEW OF THE QUARTER'S LESSONS. GOLDEN TEXT.' His word was with power.-LUKE iv. 32. I HAVE not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.— Matthew viii. 10. Even the winds and the sea obey Him.-Matthew viii. 27. The Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins.Matthew ix. 6. According to your faith be it unto you.-Matthew ix. 29. Freely ye have received, freely give.-Matthew x. 8. Whosoever therefore shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father which is in heaven.-Matthew x. 32. He was a burning and a shining light.-John v. 35. Mercy and truth are met together.—Psalm lxxxv. 10. It is lawful to do well on the Sabbath days.-Matthew xii. 12. The seed is the Word of God.-Luke viii. 11. The harvest is the end of the world.-Matthew xiii. 39. Whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom.-Daniel vii. 27. His word was with power.-Luke iv. 32. + BEARING ON THE UNIFORM LESSON. And their connection with the International System. 1. That the Scholars may be examined in what they have been taught during the preceding three months, one afternoon in each quarter is set apart for a Review Lesson. 2. The Golden Text is designed to be a Motto or Key Text, embodying the leading truth, and therefore especially suited for learning by heart. Together with the Golden Text the scholar should be encouraged to learn3. The Lesson Verse for each Sunday morning and afternoon. It consists of four, six, or eight lines of poetry (mostly the verse of a hymn), teaching the great truth of the Lesson. 4. Notes on the Lessons (New Series) are issued monthly (a month in advance). These provide, for each morning and afternoon, explanatory, expository, and practical observations on the appointed subjects, with brief Hints on the Infant Class Texts. 5. A Pocket Lesson Book is issued quarterly, containing for each Sunday morning and afternoon the Subject, Golden Text, and Lesson Verse, with, in connection with the Afternoon Lessons, a portion of Bible reading for every day in the week, such portion having a bearing on the next Sunday's Lesson. 6. Pictorial Lesson Papers-intended to be distributed to the Scholars a week in advance. They contain (for Afternoon) the Golden Text, Lesson Verse, Home Readings, Home Questions, Brief Explanations, and a Pictorial Illustration. They are designed to promote Bible Study at home. 7. The Advanced Lesson Leaflets for Senior Scholars and Bible Class. The great success of the Pictorial Lesson Papers for Junior Classes, together with the need felt by many Senior Class Teachers for a similar series adapted to the requirements of Elder Scholars, have led to the issue of a series especially designed to meet the case. These Leaflets are printed on tinted paper, and contain the Text of the Lessons, the References for Home Readings, the Golden Text and Lesson Verses, besides explanatory matter and questions thereupon. 8. Scripture Lesson Book for Elementary Classes, published quarterly. A selection from the reading portion for each Morning and Afternoon. 9. Scripture Texts for Infant Classes. Very Large Type. Monthly. Consisting of two Scripture Texts, chosen for each Sunday, always relating to the appointed subjects for the day. 10. The Teacher's Pocket Book and Sunday School Teacher's Diary; valuable for Notes, Memoranda, and for the continuous gathering of daily anecdote and illustration-of Biblical and general information, &c. &c., all designed to aid the weekly preparation of teachers for the efficient instruction and training of their respective classes. 11. The Sunday School Teacher's Class Register, published annually, containing a Calendar, List of Scripture Lessons for the entire year, Ruled Pages for the Weekly Attendance of the Scholars, and of the cash received from them for Books, &c.; together with several useful Tables, Jewish Weights and Measures, Jewish Calendar, &c. The Smaller Class Register contains a List of Lessons and Ruled Pages for the Weekly Attendance of Scholars. 12. The International Daily Text Book for 1887. A handy little book for Teachers and Scholars, containing the Reference for Home Readings for each Day in the Year, a Daily Text for the Year, and each Sunday's Golden Text from the International Lessons. 13. The International Golden Text, issued quarterly, 13 in a packet, printed in very large type, for hanging on the walls of schools from week to week. THE SABBATH SCHOOL TEACHER'S HANDBOOK; OR, THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF TEACHING. WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE SABBATH SCHOOL, THOMAS BY MORRISON, M.A., LL.D., Principal, Free Church Training College, Glasgow. Post 8vo, 192 pages, price 2s. LONDON: SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION, 56, OLD BAILEY, E.C. EDINBURGH: OLIPHANT, ANDERSON, & FERRIER. NOW READY. THE VOICE WITH FOR THE SUNDAY OF PRAISE: TUNES, SCHOOL AND HOME. Containing 600 Hymns. Original and Selected. OLD NOTATION & TONIC SOL-FA TOGETHER. WORDS ONLY. Demy 16mo, cloth, printed covers. Price 4d. (A Specimen Copy sent post free for 4d. in stamps.) Cloth Boards sewn on Tapes, Sixpence. A DESK COPY OF THE VOICE OF PRAISE. Imperial 16mo. Cloth Boards. Price 1s. : LONDON SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION, 56, OLD BAILEY, E.C, FOR CHRISTIAN BANDS. CHRISTIAN DISCIPLESHIP. Words to Young Disciples. BY MRS. DYSON. ROYAL 18mo. PRICE ONE SHILLING. "Clear and practical, these words of exhortation will be helpful to those commencing the Christian life."-Christian Commonwealth. "We think this book has a mission."-Christian Leader. 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"The author has here provided a most invaluable book for a superintendent to place in the hands of young teachers."-The Press. "This little book should be every teacher's vade mecum. The careful study of it would work a beneficent revolution in many a Sunday School."-Literary World. BY R. A. REDFORD, M.A., LL.B., Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics at New College, London. Price 1s. paper; cloth boards, 1s. 6d. "Professor Redford's universally recognised qualifications for undertaking the preparation of such a work as this are a sufficient guarantee that it will be well done. The book is one of an admirable series of 'Normal Studies for Sunday School Teachers.' A teacher will be well furnished who masters this lucid argument as to the true claims of Christianity."-Literary World. FROM CHRIST TO CONSTANTINE. Price 18. 6d. paper; cloth boards, 2s. "Is an admirable condensation of the history of the external course of Christianity during the first three centuries.' Many Sunday School teachers cannot be expected to have access to the larger works which set forth that history in all amplitude of detail; it is crowded with facts of which they might make very effective use in their work.". Baptist Magazine. BIBLE STUDIES: For Normal Students and Sunday School Teachers. BY REV. A. E. DUNNING, D.D., oF BOSTON, U.S.A. Price 1s. paper; cloth boards, 1s. 6d. SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION, 56, OLD BAILEY, LONDON, E.C. FOR ELEMENTARY CLASSES FOR EVERY SUNDAY MORNING AND AFTERNOON. JANUARY-MARCH, 1888. SELECTED FROM THE SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION The Lessons for the Afternoon form the International Series, which are now used simultaneously in America, on the Continent of Europe, in Great Britain, and the Colonies. LONDON: SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION, 56, OLD BAILEY, E.C. PART 1. ONE PENNY. |