{"1": {"fulltext": "Hi\\n1\\nf iri[iiNiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiM|ini||||||[\\nHow to Underslaiid\\ng-\\nw\\nand Use the Bible.\\nJ. M. BRYAN.\\n1\\n1\\n1-\\ni\\nS-\\ni\\nt\\n1\\nB-\\ni\\nft\\nm\\\\\\nis.\\nJ^^^^i^L^i^nj^^^^nnrn,", "height": "4145", "width": "2888", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\nbSCoc\\nChap.._ Copyright No..\\nSlielf.BB-/^\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.", "height": "3816", "width": "2656", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3897", "width": "2641", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3823", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "How to Understand and\\nUse the Bible\\nV\\nBy J^Ht BRYAN\\nAUTHOR OF\\n^Whai, Why and How of Sunday-School Work.^^\\nSt. Louis\\nCHRISTIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY\\n1900", "height": "3897", "width": "2634", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "25801\\n\\\\nO\\n^.t\\n72775\\nJUL 37 i.uJ\\nAUG 3 I90U\\nr^o\\nCopyrighted, 1900, by\\nChristian Publishing Company", "height": "3823", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nTo RIGHTLY understand the Word of God and\\nskillfully use the Sword of the Spirit should be\\nthe earnest desire of every disciple of Christ. In\\nan effort to gratify this desire, the author has gath-\\nered together that which is here set down in order,\\nand presents it to the public with the hope that\\n^others may receive as much pleasure and benefit in\\njreading the book as he has had in its preparation.", "height": "3889", "width": "2640", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3823", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nCHAPTER PAGE\\nI. Vai,uk of B1B1.K Study 7\\nII. OUT1.1NK BiBi,E Studies .11\\nIII. How TO Study the Bibi.e Spirit 19\\nIV. How TO Study the Bibi.e Helps 26\\nV. How TO Study the ^yqi^^\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Methods 30\\nVI. Common Mistakes .40\\nVII. How TO Mark the Bibi,e 52\\nVIII. How TO Use the ^yq\\\\,^\u00e2\u0080\u0094 For Self 60\\nIX. How TO Use the B1BI.E\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Public\\nWork .68\\nX. How TO Use the Bibi.e In Personal\\nWork .76\\nBIBLE READINGS.\\nEoR Speciai, C1.ASSES 87\\nGenerai, 101", "height": "3889", "width": "2650", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3823", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "HOW TO UNDERSTAND AND\\nUSE THE BIBLE.\\nCHAPTER I.\\nValue of Bible Study.\\nTHE Bible is^ and is a potent factor in the affairs\\nof men. It has the largest circulation and\\nthe most influence of any book in the world. Its\\nscope is broader, dealing as it does with man s\\npresent, and telling him whence he came and\\nwhither he is going. Its principles underlie every\\nrelation of life, and its teachings affect time and\\neternity. It is so woven into the world s history,\\nand our civilization is so permeated with it, that he\\nis but an uneducated man, whatever else he may\\nknow, who is not familiar with its pages.\\nThat it ever affects the world for good, and brings\\nhappiness and prosperity and peace, is the univer-\\nsal testimony of all the great and good who have\\nobserved its power. Queen Victoria declares\\nthe Bible to be the secret of England s great-\\nness, while Andrew Jackson says it is the rock\\nupon which our republic rests. General Grant\\nexclaims, Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-\\nanchor of our liberties; write its precepts on your\\nhearts, and practice them in vour lives. To the in-\\n7", "height": "3897", "width": "2636", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "8 HOW TO UNDERSTAND\\nfluence of this book we are indebted for the prog-\\nress in true civiHzation, and to this we must look\\nas our guide in the future.\\nThomas Jefferson, looking at the individual,\\nrather than the nation, wrote: I have always said,\\nand always will say, that the studious perusal of\\nthe Sacred Volume will make better citizens, better\\nfathers and better husbands; while Theodore\\nParker believes There is not a boy nor a girl, all\\nChristendom through, but their lot is made better\\nby this great book. Indeed, a volume might\\nreadily be filled with not only opinions, but with\\nfacts, all going to show that the open Bible has\\ngiven to the nations which welcome it prosperity\\nin material things, health of body and mind, vic-\\ntory in peace and in war, security to home and\\nnation, and at the same time freed men from debas-\\ning customs, broken the chains of darkness and\\nsuperstition, opened up new fields for thought,\\ngiven higher aspirations for time and eternity, and\\npresents a character for man s imitation which is\\nat once attractive, elevating and inspiring.\\nThis book has been robbed of its power, at times,\\nby a superstitious reverence which holds that it is\\ntoo holy for ordinary men and women to read\\nand too high for them to understand. It has been\\nsaid that the devil delights to hear a man say that\\nhe does not read the book of Revelation, because\\nhe cannot understand it; for that book is the only\\none which speaks of the de\\\\dl being in chains.\\nWhen we look at God s Book of Nature, and con-", "height": "3823", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE.\\nsider that man has but recently learned his A B C s\\nand is still in the primer, after 6000 years, it should\\nsurprise no one that in God s Book of Revelation\\nthere are depths still unf athomed, heights unsealed,\\nand that the world has not fully grasped the truths\\nrevealed in all their length and breadth. God s\\nWord, as God s world, is practically inexhaustible,\\nand the inability of man to comprehend all, is but\\na proof of God s infinite wisdom. Yet the Bible\\nwas written to be read, studied and understood.\\nWe are constantly admonished in the Scriptures to\\nread the Word, and blessings are pronounced upon\\nthose who hear and heed. God requires men to\\ncome and reason with him, and in the revelation of\\nhis will he uses the words, the images and the cus-\\ntoms of every day life to make that revelation\\nplain. The message, it is true, is from heaven, but\\nit is clothed in the language of men, and was de-\\nlivered to the world through men. It is not true,\\nas some have supposed, that the Bible is composed\\nof enigmas and dark sayings, but it was given by\\ninspiration that it might be profitable for doctrine,\\nfor reproof, for correction, for instruction in right-\\neousness, that the man of God may be perfect,\\nthoroughly furnished unto every good work. It\\nis only when men harden their hearts that they do\\nnot understand.\\nIt is not only a duty and privilege to understand\\nthe Bible, but also to use it. It has been given to\\nus as the Sword of the Spirit, and as good soldiers\\nwe should be skilled in its use, both in offensive", "height": "3889", "width": "2639", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "10 HOW TO UNDERSTAND\\nand defensive warfare. There is no other weapon\\nwhich will do such effective service. Opinions of\\nmen, philosophy, the wisdom of this world have\\nall been tried, and have uniformly failed. It is\\nonly when as good soldiers we take the weapon\\nfurnished by the Captain of our salvation, and use\\nit with the skill which comes with perfect familiar-\\nity and constant practice, that we can do the best\\nwork.\\nJesus himself set the example in the use of the\\nScriptures in the very beginning of his public min-\\nistry, when he met and put to route the great Ene-\\nmy with Thus it is written.\\nAgain the Word is represented as the seed of the\\nkingdom. This seed must be sown if it ever brings\\nforth fruit, and it is given into the hands of the\\nfollowers of the Master to sow the seed. If they\\nsow carelessly, or sparingly, they will reap sparing-\\nly; while a careful, wisely-planned and abundant\\nsowing will bring an abundant reaping. It is not\\nenough to know our Bibles, but we must know how\\nto use them if we hope to achieve the greatest vic-\\ntories for Christ and his cause.\\nIt is an encouraging fact that never in the world s\\nhistory were so many earnestly endeavoring to un-\\nderstand and anxious to know how to use this\\nBlessed Book. In helping them, clouds of dark-\\nness may be dispelled, opportunities for usefulness\\ndiscovered and the gates of heaven opened.", "height": "3823", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE 11\\nCHAPTER II.\\nOutline Bible Studies.\\nIT often helps to a better understanding of a sub-\\nject to see the general outline before we study\\nthe details. Looking at the subject as a whole, we\\ncan see the parts not only as they are in themselves,\\nbut also as they are related to each other and to the\\nwhole. So with the Bible. In this chapter some\\ngeneral views or outlines will be given, which are\\ndesigned to help in the further study of the sacred\\nScriptures.\\nNames. In the Bible we find a number of names\\ngiven to itself, all indicative of its contents and\\ncharacter. Chief among them are: The Scriptures,\\nHoly Scriptures, Oracles of God, Word of God,\\nWord of the Lord, W^ord of Truth, Word of Faith,\\nWord of Life. The name Bible was given in the\\nfourth century by Chrysostom to the collection of\\nwritings recognized by the church at that time as\\nsacred. The name is from the Greek, Biblia^ and\\nindicates a collection of books. In common par-\\nlance we call a collection of books a library, and.\\nthis library of sixty-six books we call The Bible.\\nOnly when we look upon the Bible as a library,\\nmade up of different books, written by different\\nauthors, addressed to different people, can we un-\\nderstand it. At the same time, we must recognize\\nthe fact that through the whole collection there", "height": "3897", "width": "2640", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "12 HOW TO UNDERSTAND\\nruns a common purpose and a progressive revela-\\ntion of the divine will, while the Christ stands as\\nthe central figure, to which all before him points\\nforward, and all after him points backward.\\nDivisions. Literary. As our Bibles are printed,\\nwe at once recognize two general divisions, called\\nthe Old and the New Testaments. These each\\nhave relation to a covenant made between the Ivord\\nand the children of men. Under these two general\\ndivisions the various books are arranged in accord-\\nance to the subjects treated and their literary char-\\nacter. This is sometimes at variance with the\\nchronological order of the events treated, and of\\nthe composition of the books. The first group of\\nbooks in the Old Testament is called The I^aw, or\\nthe Books of Moses. It covers the period from\\ncreation until the death of the great Law-giver, and\\ncontains, besides much history, the law given\\nthrough Moses, under which the Jews lived for\\n1500 years, and which is the foundation of the\\ncommon law of nearly all civilized nations to-day.\\nTwelve books of History follow, covering, in part,\\nthe fortunes of the Israelites from the conquest of\\nCanaan to the return from the captivity of Babylon.\\nI ive books of Poetry are next, which are thrown\\ntogether without regard to author or chronology.\\nSeventeen books of prophetical writings follow,\\ndivided into Major Prophets and Minor Prophets.\\nThese contain some history and some poetry, but\\nthe most is composed of the words of the prophets,\\ncalling the nation to repentance and a better life,", "height": "3823", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE IS\\nor to foretelling the great events which were to\\ncome to pass with the advent of the Messiah.\\nTurning to the New Testament, we find an equal-\\nly orderly arrangement. The four Lives of Jesus\\nare grouped, and followed by the History of the\\ncarrying out of his Great Commission to the apos-\\ntles as given by Luke. Naturally the Letters of\\nthe Apostle Paul follow, and then the letters of\\nothers which have been preserved, giving, as they\\nall do, instructions for living a Christian life, with\\nwords of warning, encouragement and exhortation.\\nLast in the collection is a book of Prophecy, be-\\nginning with letters of comfort and warning to the\\nchurches of Asia, then opening the roll of the\\nfuture and giving a vision of the ages, closing with\\na description of the New Jerusalem coming down\\nout of heaven as a bride adorned for her hifsband.\\nThe following diagram will present to the eye what\\nwe have in words presented to the mind:\\nOl D Tkstamknt.\\nNkw Testament.\\nThe Law 5\\nHistory 12\\nPoetry 5\\nMajor Prophets 5\\nMinor Prophets 12\\nBiography 4\\nHistory 1\\nPaul s Letters 14\\nGeneral Letters 7\\nProphecy 1\\nThe Rabbis divided the Jewish Scriptures into\\nthe Law, The Psalms and The Prophets, and this\\ndivision was recognized by the Master, Luke 34: 44.", "height": "3895", "width": "2634", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "14\\nHOJV TO UNDERSTAND\\nAnother division of the New Testament is into\\nBiographical, Historical, Doctrinal and Prophetical\\nl)ooks; thus making seven parts in the whole book.\\nThe golden candlestick, with its seven lamps,\\nwhich gave the light to the Holy Place in the\\ntabernacle is a fit\\nsymbol of the Bible,\\nwhich should give to\\nthe church, typified\\nby the Holy Place, all\\nits light. These seven\\ndivisions correspond\\nto the seven lamps.\\nThe lives of Christ\\nproperly are the central\\ndivision, it being that\\naround which all the\\nothers group, and\\nwhich gives them their\\nvalue, as the central\\npost of the lamp supports and gives worth to all\\nthe rest. These divisions are indicated by the\\naccompanying figure.\\nDivisions. Historical. In striking contrast with\\nthe sacred books of other religions, composed as\\nthey are of accounts of dreams and visions and of\\nspeculations, theories, fancies and philosophisings,\\nthe Bible is made up largely of the accounts of\\nfacts. The historian finds here that which will bear\\nthe test of the most exacting rules of his science,\\nand he soon makes his outline of events, regardless", "height": "3823", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE 15\\nof the literary classification of others. Following\\nhim, we trace the important events and periods,\\nsuch as the creation and fall, the ante-diluvian and\\npost-diluvian periods, the lives of Abraham, Isaac,\\nJacob and Joseph, the deliverance from Egypt, the\\nestablishment of a nation and the giving of the\\nIvaw through Moses, the settlement in Canaan and\\nthe rule of the Judges, the establishment of the\\nkingdom with Saul as the first king, its extension\\nby David, the building of the temple by Solomon,\\nthe division of the kingdom, the carrying away\\ninto captivity, the return from Babylon, and subse-\\nquent history in the Old Testament; and in the New,\\nthe birth of John the Baptist and Jesus, the minis-\\ntry of John, the baptism and public ministry of\\nJesus, his death, burial and resurrection, the estab-\\nlishment of his kingdom in Jerusalem on Pentecost,\\nth\u00c2\u00ab spread of the gospel to Judea and Samaria, the\\nacceptance of Gentiles into the church, and its\\nextension to Asia Minor, to Europe and to Rome;\\nthe strengthening of the churches by letters, and\\nfinally the giving of the revelation to John the Be-\\nloved, which showed forth the trials and final\\ntriumph of the church and the eternal joy of the\\nsaints.\\nThe life of Christ, from the view-point of the\\nhistorian, has been divided into seven periods, as\\nfollows\\n1. Thirty Years of Preparation.\\n2. The Year of Obscurity.\\n3. The Year of Popularity.", "height": "3894", "width": "2647", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "16 HOW TO UNDERSTAND\\n4. The Year of Opposition.\\n6. The Week of the Passion.\\n6. The Day of the Crucifixion.\\n7. The Forty Days After the Resurrection.\\nThe New Testament is divided into the records of\\n1. The facts of the Gospel (Gospels).\\n2. The conversions of the Gospel (Acts).\\n3. The lyife of the converts (Letters).\\n4. The trials and triumphs of the church (Reve-\\nlation).\\nDates. ^The four thousand years of Old Testa-\\nment history may be divided into periods, so that\\nthe approximate date of any event may be known\\nto those who are at all acquainted with the history.\\nOn mountain-peaks, one thousand years apart, we\\nfind the great historical characters, Adam, Knoch,\\nAbraham, Solomon and Christ. In the valleys\\nbetween, five hundred years from these, Jared, Noah,\\nMoses and Ezra. A diagram of this is as follows:\\n40OO\\n3000 2000 1000\\nADAM\\nENOCH ABRAHAM 50L0MQN CHRIST 1\\n^.N\\nUARED\\nf \\\\mqmj^0\\nyMOSES^\\\\\\nEZRA^A\\n^5/\\n^^r^\\n-^Jvyw^\\n^it^ \\\\s!S.\\n3500\\n2500\\ni5oa\\n500\\nThe approximate date of the lives of Isaac,\\nJacob and Joseph may readily be obtained by re-\\nmembering that they lived after Abraham and be-\\nfore Moses. So between Moses and Solomon come\\nJoshua and the Judges, Samuel and Saul and David.", "height": "3823", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE 17\\nDispensations. When we turn again and look at\\nthe Bible from the view-point of religion, we find\\nthat in God s dealings w^th the children of men\\nthere have been three separate and distinct dispen-\\nsations. The first begins with Adam and ends\\nwith Moses, including Enoch, Noah, Abraham,\\nIsaac and Jacob, and is called the Patriarchal Dis-\\npensation. In this God deals Vvdth the individual\\nor the family through its head. The worship is\\nconducted by the father of the tribe, and God s\\nrevelations are made to him. The records of this\\ndispensation are found in the book of Genesis.\\nIn the second dispensation the family widens to\\nthe nation. The tribe of Levi has charge of the\\nworship, and the high priest is of the family of Aaron.\\nSpoken messages and miraculous interventions give\\nway to the more permanent plan of a written law\\nand a nation settled in its own land. The records\\nof this dispensation are from Exodus to Malachi,\\nand the time is from Moses until Christ, 1500 years.\\nIn the third dispensation, the Gospel is designed\\nfor the whole world. The forms and ceremonies,\\nwhich are types of Christ, give way, having been\\nfulfilled in him. Offerings of sacrifices cease, as he\\nhas been offered once for all, and God s revelation\\nof himself is now a life, instead of written or\\nspoken w^ords. The records are the whole of the\\nNew Testament, and the time from Christ to the\\njudgment.\\nThe Patriarchal Dispensation has been called the\\nstarlight age; the Jewish Dispensation, the moon-\\n2", "height": "3897", "width": "2599", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "18 HOJV TO UNDERSTAND\\nlight age, and the Christian Dispensation, the sun-\\nlight age. We are living in the Christian Dis-\\npensations, and while the literature of the former\\ndispensations is valuable in showing God s dealings\\nwith man, and in throwing light upon the Scriptures\\nof the Christian Dispensation, we must remember the\\nfacts we are to believe, the commands we are to\\nobey and the promises we are [to enjoy, are to be\\nfound in the New Testament Scriptures. Should a\\nman desire to beconie a Patriarch or a Jew, let him\\nsearch the Scriptures of those dispensations, but if\\na Christian, he will find explicit directions in the\\nNew Testament.\\nThe following diagram will help fix the points\\nabove, mentioned, in the mind.\\nThree Dispensations.\\nPATBIAECHAL. JEWISH. CHRISTIAN.\\n2500 years. 1500 years.\\nAdam to Moses. Moses to Christ. Christ to Judgment.\\nFamily. Nation. World.\\nSpoken Words. Written I^aws. I,ife of Jesus.\\nGenesis. Exodus to Malachi. New Testament.\\nStarlight. Moonlight. Sunlight.\\nIt is now the privilege of each to rejoice in the\\nsunlight of the Gospel, being no* longer under the\\nlaw, but under grace. Since the law has served as\\nour tutor to bring us to Christ, let us sit at his feet\\nand drink in the glorious truths which are able to\\nmake us wise unto salvation.", "height": "3823", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE 19\\nCHAPTER III.\\nHow to Study the Bible.\\nSPIRIT.\\nnnHK way to resume is to resume/ said Horace\\n1 Greeley, in regard to the resumption of specie\\npayment. The way to study the Bible is to study\\nit. If wishing to be wise, praying for light and\\nguidance and professing to love and reverence the\\nBible would take the place of study, many now\\nignorant would be well versed in heavenly wisdom.\\nTo search the Scriptures is not only the divinely\\nordained way, but the only way in which we may\\nunderstand them, and be prepared to use them.\\nAgain, the way to study the Bible is to study the\\nBible. Knowing what men have said and are say-\\ning about the Bible cannot fill the demand of study-\\ning the Bible itself, and much time which should be\\nspent in the study of the Bible is devoted to the\\nopinions of men. Our colleges have not been free\\nfrom the fault of substituting for the Bible a system\\nof theology, so that the student came out versed in\\ntheology and ignorant of the Bible. Not only so,\\nbut came out also with a bent in the direction of\\nother books.\\nWe should make the Bible the center of our oper-\\nations, using only those helps which we need to aid\\nus in its understanding. And first we should begin\\nwith what, (1) The text says: An accurate knowl-", "height": "3807", "width": "2498", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "20 HO IV TO UNDERSTAND\\nedge of the letter of the Scriptures is very much\\nneeded. Doubtful teaching and unstable profes-\\nsion are due to superficial and in many cases\\nsecond-hand acquaintance with the Word of God,\\nLet us hear what the Spirit saith^ for we may be\\nsure that the Holy Spirit makes men wise up to,\\nnever beyond, what is written. When Christ\\nopened the understanding of his disciples, it was\\nthat they might understand the Scriptures.\\nLydia s heart was opened to attend unto the things\\nspoken by Paul. Whatever is taught contrar}^ to\\nthe Word of God, or in addition to it, or less than it\\nsays, is from the spirit of darkness. Both in un-\\nderstanding and in using the Bible, we must know\\nwhat it says. This la^^s the foundation for a knowl-\\nedge of (2) What it means: The careful study of\\nthe statement of one passage and comparison with\\nparallel passages, will give, in most cases, a pretty\\nclear idea of the meaning. If it does not, we should\\nthen appeal to outside helps, using freely the best\\nto be had. Dictionaries, commentaries, etc., will\\nbe found useful, but should be used as helps; we\\nare studying the Bible!\\nHaving mastered what the text says and means, we\\nare ready to look for what (3) The text teaches: An\\ninaccurate knowledge of the statements, or a partial\\nunderstanding of the meaning of the text, or both,\\nwill give us a defective, if not a false teaching.\\nWhat the text teaches is the really important thing,\\nand no pains should be spared to ascertain it. This\\nteaching may be threefold. First, in regard to the", "height": "3823", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE, 21\\nsubject in hand; second, what example, precept or\\nprinciple which applies to our times, and third,\\nwhat lessons are there for the student himself. The\\nlast should be the end to which every lesson is\\nstudied, for these things were written aforetime\\nfor our instruction.\\nObject. The object of Bible study is not always\\nthe same, and the uses made of the knowledge\\ngained are quite various. As some one has truly\\nsaid: Some study the Bible to know more than\\nthey did, this is vanity; some to be known to\\nknow more, this is pride; some to make gain by\\ntheir knowledge, this is filthy lucre; some to edify\\nothers, this is charity; some to edify themselves,\\nthis is Christian prudence. The study which is\\ncommended of God is when we turn the words\\ninto works, and the light into life.\\nSpirit. The spirit in which we study the Bible is\\nof supreme importance. He who has tried its pre-\\ncepts and trusts its promises will approach it as the\\nmessage of love from his Heavenly Father, and re-\\nceive its teachings with full assurance of faith. He\\nwho has not thus learned to trust it, should, as a\\nwise man, go to it ready to receive whatever good\\nthere is to be found, even though he believe there\\nis in it much which is, to say the least, unprofitable.\\nThe old woman looking through her bag for bad\\nbeans, found something wrong with nearly every\\none; when she turned them all back again and\\nlooked for good ones, she was surprised to find so\\nmany which met her approval. Two men went to", "height": "3807", "width": "2498", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "22 HOW TO UNDERSTAND\\nthe same city at the same time. One saw only\\ncrime and shame and debauchery, and came away\\nwith an awful sense of the depth of the depravity\\nof the people. The other saw business integrity,\\nphilanthropy and Christianity in the great business\\ncenters, the splendid charity and educational insti-\\ntutions and beautiful churches, and virtue and\\nhappiness in its thousands of homes. Kach found\\nthat for which he was looking. The skeptic and\\ninfidel go to the Bible to find flaws, things to criti-\\ncise and reasons for disbelief, and often find them,\\nwhen the candid mind would find reasons for glori-\\nfying God. It is only fair to ask a man to come to\\nthe Bible in the same spirit he comes to every other\\nbook, ready to receive its truth and to make use of\\nall which may benefit him. If he finds some things\\nwhich he does not understand, some which seem to\\nhim unreasonable or contradictory, he should not\\ntherefore throw away the good because of the seem-\\ning bad. Again, he should remember that many\\nthings which seemed contradictory have turned\\nout upon further study not to be so, and many so-\\ncalled bad things have proved blessings. Poisons\\nhave become medicines, and the Great American\\nDesert, with the aid of irrigation, is being turned\\ninto rich farming land. The terrible ghost, upon\\nnearer approach, became a friendly guide-post.\\nUnless 3 e become as a little child ye cannot enter\\nthe kingdom of heaven. It is the child-spirit which\\ngains access everywhere. I^ord Bacon said it was\\nthe only spirit in which to successfully study", "height": "3823", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE 23\\nnature or any of the sciences. The botanist takes\\nthe little flower in his hand, and, asking it ques-\\ntions, lets it tell him of its wonders and beauties.\\nThe geologist takes a stone in his hand and lets it\\ntalk to him of the ages agone, while he sits humbly\\nand listens to the wondrous story. Then he tells\\nthe story, and men call him great. The student\\nlets the Bible tell its wondrous truths, and he\\nrepeats them, and his name is written among the\\nrevered ones.\\nBut what are the characteristics of this child-\\nspirit, which is so essential to an understanding of\\nthe Bible?\\n1. It is Inquiring. It wants to know. It asks\\nquestions. It investigates. It has a subject in\\nhand, and turns to the Bible to see what God says\\nabout it. It is the spirit w^hich prompted the\\nBereans to search the Scriptures to see if the things\\nspoken were so. It is quite the reverse of the care-\\nless, indifferent spirit so often manifested, and is\\nwell described in the words of the fourth beatitude:\\nthey *do hunger and thirst. The blessedness of\\nsuch a spirit is that those possessing it shall be\\nfilled.\\n2. It is Receptive. The little bird whose mouth\\nflies open when the parent comes with the worm, is\\na fit symbol of the child-mind, as it receives the\\nmental food brought to it. The child has both eyes\\nand ears wide open, and has not learned to close its\\nheart against the appeals of God. One of the\\ngreatest obstacles in the w^ay of older people under-", "height": "3807", "width": "2498", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "24 HOW TO UNDERSTAND\\nstanding the Bible, is the sin in their hearts. We\\nmust become like little children, free from sin, if\\nwe wish to be able to receive the truth with readi-\\nness. It is those who gladly receive the truth who\\nenter into the joys of fellowship with the Master.\\n3. It is Humble. There is no false pride about\\nit. It is ready to acknowledge its ignorance and\\nready to learn. It is not ashamed to ask questions\\nwhen it does not know, nor too proud to learn from\\nany source. The meek will he guide in judg-\\nment, the meek will he teach his way. We must\\nnot be wise in our own conceits, but trust in the\\nLord and he will direct our paths. In order to find\\nour jewels, we must reject no help, no spade nor\\nshovel, pickaxe nor trowel. When God speaks it\\nis well for us to stand reverently and listen. One\\nof the marks of advancement in knowledge is to be\\nconscious of our lack of knowledge to realize how\\nmuch we do not know. So in the study of the\\nBible, we must become humble, teachable, realiz-\\ning our need before we shall make much progress.\\n4. It is Trustful. We are constantly surprised\\nat ourselves when we think how much we receive\\non trust. The child learns his letters, the names of\\nall things, his owm parents, and a thousand other\\nthings, by faith. The scientist believes more than\\nhalf of his stock of knowledge. It is impossible\\nto make progress in any study without faith and\\ntrust. The flower and the Bible teach the same\\nlesson trust, though the scientist does not always\\nlearn the lesson. God is our Father, and we his\\nchildren. The Bible is his messasre to us. Let us", "height": "3823", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE 25\\ntrust him, and as we read, believe and obey, because\\nhe has spoken. In a thousand things which it can-\\nnot understand the child trusts its father; how\\nmuch more should we trust our Heavenly Father,\\nand hear and heed his word.\\n5. It is Without Prejudice. The importance of\\nthis characteristic cannot be over-estimated. The\\njuror who has formed his opinion of the case is dis-\\nmissed as incompetent to render a just verdict. So\\nwe are to come to the study of the Bible \\\\\\\\ith no\\ntheories, no party views, no school of thought,\\nno favorite creed nor opinion to sustain, but come\\nto see what it teaches, and all that it teaches. We\\noften get out of a passage just what we put into it,\\nour thoughts, and not God s at all. Some one says\\nthe Bible is not to be read by the blue light of\\nPresbyterianism, nor the red light of Methodism,\\nnor the violet light of Bpiscopalianism, but by the\\nlight of the Spirit of God. It is only when we\\ncome with the colorless desire to know the truth\\nthat we may hope to receive a full blessing.\\nSin upon the conscience will hinder the under-\\nstanding. Blindness of heart and alienation from\\nGod are both a cause and an eifect of darkness.\\nThere must be first a willing mind, for it is true of\\nan old saying, Convince a man against his will,\\nhe will be of the same opinion still. We must\\ncome ready to be convinced of the truth, ready to\\nhave our error corrected, ready to have our dark-\\nness lightened, ready to have our theory exploded\\nif truth demands, ready to exclaim with Paul, Let\\nGod be true, though ever}- man be proved a liar.", "height": "3807", "width": "2498", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "26 HOJV TO UNDERSTAND\\nCHAPTER IV.\\nHow to Study the Bible.\\nHKI.PS.\\nIN studying the Bible to understand it and pre-\\nparing to use it, you will need helps. The\\nChristian is, or should be, a man of one book, yet he\\nshould do all in his power to have all the streams\\nof wisdom to bring their glory and their honor into\\nit. Not many helps are needed, and only such as\\nwill assist in studying the Bible. We do not wish\\nto study the helps. In this study the first thing\\nneeded is\\nI. A Bible. Get a good one and you will take\\nbetter care of it. You want to use the same Bible,\\nfor it is like a weapon you get used to it, and can\\nuse it more effectively. When I change from an\\nOxford to a Bagster, I am quite at a loss to find pas-\\nsages which in my Oxford are quite easily found.\\nI know just where on the page they are, and what\\nthey look like. Then after I have marked my Bible,\\nI can find things very readily. Get a Bible with\\nthe print large, so it will be good to use when you\\nare old. Spend a little more and get a flexible\\nback, silk sewed, so it will last a lifetime. It will\\ngrow more precious all the time. Own your own\\nBible, even if you have to buy an inferior one; use\\nit, mark it, study it, and hope for the time when\\nyou can replace it with one of a better grade.", "height": "3823", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE 27\\nBe sure, however, you do not get a book too good\\nto mark, or you will destroy its usefulness. Get a\\nBible with references in the margin. Your best\\ncommentary on any passage will then be found in\\nthe margin. The Sunday-school Teacher s editions\\nnow have very valuable helps which add much to\\ntheir value, such as are to be found in the Bible Dic-\\ntionary, Concordance, Text Book and Atlas. These,\\nwith a studious comparison with the text, will give\\none most of the help he will need for ordinary\\nstudy.\\n2. Bible Text Book and Concordance. The Sub-\\nject Index in the Teacher s Bibles is an abridgment\\nof the first, and while very helpful in some cases,\\nis quite an aggravation because it is abridged. It\\nhas just enough to make you want the rest. The\\nsame is true of the concordances in the Bibles. A\\ncomplete concordance, such as Cruden s or Young s\\nAnalytical, will be found a source of constant pleas-\\nure as well as help, while a complete text book is\\nequally beneficial. The text book treats the Bible\\nby reference to subjects, and will be useful in find-\\ning what the Bible has to say on themes. The\\nconcordance refers you to words. They are con-\\ntrivances to find out what is in the Bible; to find\\nout what it says. It will be very convenient in\\nusing the Bible to become go familiar with your\\nbook that you can use it, and turn readily to all\\nimportant passages without the references. But in\\nthe first study, or in an exhaustive study of any\\nsubject, they will be indispensable.", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "28 HO IV TO UNDERSTAND\\n3. In studying to know what the text means,\\nyou will need a Bible Dictionary. Of course you\\nwill constantly have occasion to refer to the English\\ndictionary to get at the primary meaning of many\\nwords, which may better be understood in that way,\\nbut in studying antiquities, topics of all kinds,\\ncustoms, cities, religions of other nations, etc., etc.,\\na Bible Dictionary will be of great value. Neither\\na secular dictionary nor an encyclopedia will be of\\nthe same value, as it will treat of phases of subjects\\non which they will be silent, owing to its peculiar\\nrelation to the Bible and its teachings. Here we\\nget the results of the best scholarship, in a most\\nconvenient form for reference and study.\\n4. Commentary. The commentary is not to\\nstudy, but to help you to study the Bible. Study\\nthe Word, and when you need help on a dark pas-\\nsage or have exhausted your own resources and\\nwant to see what others have found in a passage,\\nlook at your commentar3^ You will need a com-\\nmentary to give you the best reading of a passage,\\nif there is more than one, and to give the meaning\\nof the original if the English is obscure or inade-\\nquate. It will give you light on manners and cus-\\ntoms when needed as interpreters; light from par-\\nallel passages, and will point out the connection\\nwith the context. It will also indicate the spiritual\\npurpose of the writers, and call attention to the\\nneeds of those to whom he wrote. The best sug-\\ngestive thoughts of the great thinkers will also be\\ngiven, and in some, selections from the writings of\\nthe great men of the past. It is the very folly of", "height": "3823", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE 29\\nself-conceit to refuse to use a commentary, to con-\\nsult the best thinkers of the ages.\\n5. Blank Book. To keep the results of your\\nstudy and for reviewing, you will need a blank\\nbook one in which you will be ready to put all\\nsorts of things; not too good to write suggestions\\nwhich come to you in crude shape. When these\\nsuggestions assume a finished and permanent shape,\\nit may be well to transfer them to blank leaves of\\nyoui Bible. An interleaved Bible is of value for\\nthis. A small note book for pocket use to jot down\\nthings, and a better and larger one to serve as a\\nledger are recommended by some. It is also sug-\\ngested that if you mark your Bible much, it is well\\nto have one with clean pages, not marked, to\\nexpress God s thoughts to us, and one to serv^e as a\\nday book to record our own thoughts.\\n6. Time. It is absolutely necessary to have\\ntime in which to study. Some hour, a specified\\namount of time each day, when we can give our\\nimmediate attention to our work, is best. Even if\\nthis be but half an hour a day, we w^ill be sur-\\nprised how much is accomplished. The tortoise\\nstill beats the hare in the race, and he w^ho gives a\\nfew minutes each day to the study of the Word,\\nwill accomplish more than he who occasionally\\nstudies a great deal.\\nGiven such an object, such a spirit and such helps\\nfor study, and w^e may wxU let each man use his\\nown methods. Still, that we may profit by the ex-\\nperience of others, we will treat the subject in an-\\nother chapter.", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "30 HOW TO UNDERSTAND\\nCHAPTER V.\\nHow to Study the Bible\\nMETHODS.\\nTHE possible ways of Bible study are as diverse\\nas human minds. What suits one man will\\nnot suit another. Bach man should use his own\\nmethods. One man who is systematic, will study\\n-with regularity; he who is moody, according to his\\nmoods; he who is analytical will collect and compare\\ntexts; another will read history and biography,\\nwhile still another will enjoy the poetry and\\nimagery of the book. Let each bee go where he\\ngets honey.\\nIt is well, however, for each not to confine him-\\nself to one method, as the other methods will often\\nbring him heretofore undiscovered treasure, while\\nthe drill in itself will be helpful in keeping the\\nstudent from becoming narrow and one-sided. We\\ninsist that in our study we stick to one method in\\nthe study of a subject, and not change from one to\\nanother so often that you lose the good results of\\neach. It is only by doing thorough work that we\\ncan hope to succeed. It does not matter so much\\nabout the method, if the work is thoroughly done.\\nThe best method will be a failure if we depend\\nupon the method to do our work, or if we quit be-\\nfore the work is thoroughly done. Among the\\nmany methods, I recommend that you", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE 31\\n1. Read the Bible. Read it as a whole. Read it\\nby books. Take up the Gospel of Mark and read\\nit at one sitting. Read the beautiful stories of Ruth\\nand Esther as you would read some such story in\\nanother book. Follow the fortunes of Daniel as\\nyou do those of Robinson Crusoe. Study the cam-\\npaign of Paul against the heathenism of Europe as\\nyou study the campaigns of Csesar and Napoleon.\\nLook into the laws of Moses as you would those of\\nLycurgus. Revel in the imagery of Job and the\\nbeauties of the Psalms as you do in Paradise Lost\\nand Idyls of the King. Read\\\\h!t Bible. Read\\nand re-read until its history and its teachings, its\\npoetry and its people are perfectly familiar to you.\\nThen pick up the book and linger over its choice\\npassages until they become a part of your very\\nbeing. Be like the happy man of the first Psalm,\\nMeditate night and day. Become saturated\\nwith the Bible, so that you are as a sponge if you\\nare squeezed ever so little, the truth will ooze out\\nof you. Or, as Jesus expressed it, you will be as a\\nliving well from which rivers of water will contin-\\nually flow.\\n2. Memorize. Not only read it until its truths\\nand teachings are familiar, but memorize the very\\nwords of the Book. Daniel Webster could at one\\ntime repeat the book of Job, most of the Psalms\\nand many other choice passages. It laid the foun-\\ndation for his oratory. Be able to say to the\\ntempter, It is written. Become rooted and\\ngrounded in the truth, so its very words will come", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "32 HOW TO UNDERSTAND\\nat your call, for your own consolation or the com-\\nfort of others.\\nMemorize something every day, if it is only a\\nverse. It may seem but a little thing, but 365\\npromises in a year make a bundle of wealth. A\\npillow verse will make our sleep sweeter and our\\nrising brighter.\\nThe Bible should be with us in the dark and\\nwhen our eyes are closed. When we cannot read,\\nwhen we cannot hear, when from sickness or the\\napproach of death we are too weak to think, then,\\nunbidden and unsought, promises and consolations\\nfrom God s word should come floating into the\\ndarkened chamber of thought, and, like angels of\\nlight they should minister to the sick and dying.\\nThey will not come then unless we entertain them\\nnow. We must invite them until they are wonted\\nwith us and at home; then they will not fail to min-\\nister to us when our hand forgets its cunning and\\nthe tongue cleaves to the roof of our mouth.\\nHenry S. De Forrest.\\nBiographical. Among the earliest ways of teach-\\ning is to tell a story with a moral. The child\\nearly learns to appreciate the truths thus taught,\\nand remembers it as associated with the characters.\\nIt is thus God has presented most of his truth, and\\nhas made the fullest manifestation of himself, of\\nhis character and his purposes, in the life of his\\nSon. To study the biographies of the Bible is,\\ntherefore, to study nearly all of it, and as the Bible\\nis adapted to man, it is not strange that this is a", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE 33\\nvery popular way. The study of these lives inter-\\nests nearly all, from youngest to oldest.\\nTake up the life of Joseph and trace it from his\\nbirth, by the favorite wife, until its close, with his\\nfriends and relatives around him, and the children,\\nas well as the more mature, will delight in it.\\nSuch a study may be used as a sort of serial, and\\na little at a time read at family worship. Explana-\\ntions may be offered by the reader for the benefit of\\nthe younger, questions asked and answered, and the\\nlessons enforced. Even those four or five years old\\nwill remember the story, will talk about it, and\\nvery likely incorporate it in their play. As sub-\\njects for young people s societies, these biographies\\ncannot be surpassed, and for special sermons are\\ninteresting and inspiring. Besides tracing the de-\\nvelopment of the character under the influences\\nsurrounding it as portrayed in the Bible, the side\\nlights from books concerning the Orient, as well as\\nreading such books as Geikie s Hour s With the\\nBible, or Farrar s Life of Paul cannot but\\nprove beneficial.\\nIn stud3dng the life of Christ, it will be interest-\\ning to read a Gospel through at one sitting, to\\ndivide it into periods and study the events of each\\nperiod, or take some phase of that life and trace it\\nthrough the events as they occur. Read such helps\\nas will give a proper understanding of the times,\\ncustoms, surroundings, peoples, sects and parties,\\netc. etc. Get a proper understanding of the set-\\nting of the picture, and then you can better under-\\n3", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "34 HOW TO UNDERSTAND\\nstand the picture. It will be interesting to note,\\ntoo, the growth of men under the influence of the\\ntruth, as in the case of Jacob the supplanter, to\\nIsrael the godly. If we look at the Bible in a broad\\nsense, we will find that it is but a biography of\\nJesus. In the first part it tells of his preparation, of\\nhis home, the world, the beginning of his family,\\nand the promises of his coming. Through the rest\\nof the book we trace, as the dominant note, the\\nhistory of his family, until he is crucified, and\\nthese facts are the theme of the apostles and the\\npower to win men to God. The book closes with\\nprophecies of his triumphs and invitations to all to\\ncome to him.\\nTopical. Another way to study is to take a topic\\nand find out all about it. Mr. Moody tells how he\\nstudied about love for a month, and became so\\nhe could not help loving people; fed on love until\\nanxious to do good to everybody. Take assurance\\nfor a topic. A great many can only say, I hope\\nand I think, but all through the Bible we find\\nthose who know. Study assurance for a few weeks,\\nand standing on God s promises we ^dll be able to\\nsay we know. Take the keyword of a book and\\nstudy the book from the point of view of this word.\\nFor instance, John wrote his Gospel that men\\nmight believe. Read it to see how strong are his\\nproofs that Jesus is the Son of God, and it will be-\\ncome a new book. There is nothing like going to\\nthe Bible to look for something. If we are hunt-\\ning for something we are apt to find it, but if not,", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE 35\\nit is only an accident if we do. Reading the Bible\\nto read it through does little or no good. A\\ngood many people read the Bible with a mark to\\nkeep the place. It is a good deal like the boy who\\nhoed the turnips and had a stick to keep the\\nplace, so he would know which were hoed and\\nwhich were not.\\nIn the study of tof)ics, there is an endless variety\\nof methods, yet the principle is the same in each.\\nThe object is always to see what the Bible teaches\\non the topic. The instruments needed are a Bible,\\ntext book and concordance, common sense and a\\nnote book. Suppose the topic is faith. Under the\\nvarious headings, 1. What is faith? 2. How ob-\\ntained. 3. How strengthened. 4. What accom-\\nplished by it, etc., put down the texts as found.\\nProceed until all the phases of the subject are de-\\nveloped, and from all these readings we may draw\\nour conclusions. I underscore all, because less\\nthan all will give a partial view, and sometimes\\nmakes the truth into a lie.\\nAnother analysis on topical study is: The topic\\n(1) defined in Scriiptnre, {2) proved in Scripture,\\n(3) commented and insisted wpon, (4) illustrated\\n(5) Harmonized with other themes.\\nWhen preachers go thus to the Bible, their ser-\\nmons are more original, more striking, more\\nauthoritative, more potent in their direct, practical\\nand spiritual appeal to the hearts and consciences\\nof the hearers. In this way, too, the student may\\nhave the assurance that each of the conclusions at", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "36 HO IV TO UNDERSTAND\\nwhich he has arrived, is fortified by a Thus saitk\\nthe Lord.\\nInductive. In the conduct of study by topics, we\\nare apt to allow our prejudices to bias us in the\\nselection of texts, and to get out of the study only\\nthat with which we began. The true way to study\\nthe topic is by the inductive method. This requires\\na more thorough research, for every part of evi-\\ndence must be admitted and given its full weight,\\nbefore a conclusion is to be drawn. In one case we\\ntake an opinion to the Bible to find confirmation\\nfor it. In the other, we study the Bible on the\\ntopic thoroughly, and allow the conclusion .to grow\\nout of the study. In inductive study we take not\\nonly those passages which favor our view, but those\\nwhich seem to be opposed. Suppose we are study-\\ning faith, and wish to show its importance and\\npower. We have found that we are justified by\\nfaith, and that we conquer by faith, and that we\\nplease God by faith, and we are saved by faith, and\\nare about to come to the conclusion that all that is\\nnecessary to do is to believe, when we read in\\nJames 2: 24, Ye see then how that by works a\\nman is justified, and not by faith only. This\\nbrings a new element into the investigation, and we\\nstudy on until we find that faith without works is\\ndead; that while faith is of the utmost importance,\\nand that we cannot be justified without it; that\\nfaith alone is of value which takes active form in\\nobedience to God and in good works. This method\\nis self-interpreting. The more we know, the more", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE, 3T\\npower we have of knowing. **Ivight is seen in\\nlight, and every conclusion thus reached will help\\nus to understand other things. When the induc-\\ntive method of study was introduced into the study\\nof science, a new era dawned. When it is adopted\\nas your method of the study of the Bible, it will be-\\ncome a new book, richer a thousand fold, dispelling\\nour ignorance and error and bringing in truth in\\nits fullness and beauty.\\nIndividual Books. It has been already suggested\\nthat in reading, a whole book be read at a sitting,\\nand we insist that the study of the individual books\\nas a whole, will yield results which cannot be ob-\\ntained in any other way. If we would fully under-\\nstand an author s words, we must take into consid-\\neration who the author is, the circumstances sur-\\nrounding him, the object of his writing, and the\\ncondition of the people to whom he is writing.\\nThen we must get the general drift of his argu-\\nment and see how a certain passage fits into it, be-\\nfore we can understand the force of the passage.\\nMany passages of Scripture can only be under-\\nstood when we take them in connection with the\\nargument of the book as a whole, or see them in\\nthe light of the circumstances. For instance, we\\nread in the first Corinthian letter, fifteenth chapter,\\nIf in this life only we have hope, we are of all\\nmen most miserable. Applying that statement to\\npresent conditions, we cannot see how it is true,\\nfor even in this life to-day, the Christian has de-\\ncidedly the best of it. But when we consider that", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "HO IV TO UNDERSTAND\\nit is Paul who speaks, and that for the hope of the\\nlife to come he had lost friends and wealth and\\nposition at Jerusalem, and there and elsewhere had\\nbeen persecuted, having been in stripes above\\nmeasure, in prison frequent, in deaths oft: of the\\nJews five times received I forty stripes save one.\\nThrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned,\\nthrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day have\\nI been in the deep: in journeyings often, in perils\\nof waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by my own\\ncountrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in\\nthe city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the\\nsea, in perils among false brethren: in weariness\\nand painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and\\nthirst, in fasting often, in cold and nakedness, we\\ncan understand the truth of the expression.\\nAnother instance is found in the oft-repeated\\nwords in Ecclesiastes, Vanity of vanities, all is\\nvanity. This is only true from the standpoint of\\nthe writer. He is arguing from his experience. He\\nhad made riches, knowledge, honor, etc., an end of\\nlife, each in its turn, and found that as such it was\\nunsatisfying; that a life spent for such ends was in\\nvain, and concludes with the assertion that the\\nwhole of man that for which he was designed and\\nin which he finds his real happiness, is in fearing\\nGod and keepihg his commandments. When this\\nis the end of his life, all these other things, as\\nhelps and as gifts from God, become no longer\\nvanities but ministers to his joy and good.\\nRealizing the importance of this kind of study.", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE 39\\nwe should read the book through several times until\\nwe see the outline of it, and have gotten hold of\\nthe line of thought and the steps in the argument,\\nor the main divisions of the book. We should not\\nbegrudge the time spent in reading in this way,\\nover and over again, for it is time well spent.\\nAscertain the scope and bearing of the book. Get\\nwhat information you can respecting the writer, the\\ntime and circumstances of its composition, the\\ncharacter of the reigning monarch, and special con-\\ndition of the people primarily addressed; all such\\ninformation as will make clear the teaching before\\nus. It is best to get this from the Bible itself, when\\nit can be done, as it often can. Acts of Apostles is\\nsuch an introduction to the Epistles, and the Gos-\\npels such an introduction to Acts.\\nHaving thus become acquainted in a general way\\nwith the whole, shake every bough, chapter,\\nparagraph, verse, clause. Begin with the first\\nchapter, take section by section, verse by verse,\\nword by word, searching out parallel texts in the\\nOld and New Testaments, observing how the Bible\\nin one part explains the Bible in another.", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "40 HOW TO UNDERSTAND\\nCHAPTER VI.\\nCommon Mistakes.\\n1^ is not the purpose of this chapter to give an\\nexhaustive treatment of the rules of interpre-\\ntation, but to point out a few of the mistakes into\\nwhich readers often, and students sometimes fall.\\nBy avoiding these errors and observing the sugges-\\ntions made in the chapters on How to Understand\\nthe Bible, the reader will not go far astray in his\\ninterpretations.\\n1. It is a mistake to come in willful ignorance to\\nthe interpretation of the Bible. God wants our\\nbest thought to understand his best thought.\\n2. It is a mistake to be wise above what is writ-\\nten. It is not only a mistake, but a presumptuous\\nsin. If the Bible says, By baptism ye are saved,\\nit is the part of wisdom to accept the statement as\\ntrue.\\n3. It is a mistake, because we do not understand\\nall the Bible says, to reject what we do under-\\nstand. We do not stop eating bread because we\\ncannot understand fully the process of its trans-\\nformation into hair and hide, bone and blood.\\n4. It is a mistake, because all truth is not re-\\nvealed, to reject that which is. The secrets of life\\nare not revealed, but that is no excuse for not keep-\\ning the weeds out of the corn-field. The truth re-\\nvealed is designed for use. It is by no means cer-", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE 41\\ntain that man in his present state could use the\\ntruth which is unrevealed, if he knew it.\\n5. It is a mistake to interpret Scripture in a hap-\\nhazard way, without rules, or as fancy or interest\\nshall dictate; for it is subject, as history, to the\\nrules of historic science; as literature, to the rules\\nof grammar and rhetoric, and as a revelation, to the\\nrules which govern the interpretation of a com-\\nmunication from one party to another.\\n6. It is a mistake to give to the language of the\\nBible a meaning other than that which similar\\nlanguage would have under similar circumstances.\\nIn the Bible are poetry and prose, history and para-\\nhle, plain statement and highly figurative language;\\nand in all these the meaning is to be found by ob-\\nserving the rules for interpreting similar language\\nin other books. It is, therefore, a mistake for the\\nShakers to play with toys and children s games in\\norder to enter the kingdom, instead of becoming\\nlike little children in spirit. I^uther quoted This\\nis my body, and insisted that the loaf of the\\nLord s Supper was really transubstantiated into the\\nbody of Christ. This prosaic reading of a poetic\\nsaying was a mistake, shown by the fact that\\nwhen Jesus used the words, his body and the loaf\\nwere both present and in different forms of sub-\\nstance. The letter killeth, but the spirit maketh\\nalive.\\n7. It is just as great a mistake to read into plain\\nprose statements of fact, mystical and mar\\\\^elous\\nmeanings, turning the sober statements of Biblical", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "42 HOW TO UNDERSTAND\\nprose writers into allegorical parables, symbols,\\ntypes, and finding underneath the plainest mean-\\nings, a double, triple and quadruple sense. B. g.\\nJesus, in teaching his disciples to care for them-\\nselves, says, He that hath no sword, let him sell\\nhis garment and buy one. Peter says, Here are\\ntwo. Jesus says, That is enough. This is read\\ninto authority for the temporal power of Rome over\\nthe nations, in spite of the fact that Jesus forbade\\nPeter from using the sword for his defense, within\\nthe same hour. As another illustration, the works\\nof Swedenborg may be mentioned. This is the\\nmost marked feature of them. In his Arcana\\nCoelesta, ten goodly volumes, he interprets Script-\\nure history after this style: And Rebecca arose\\nhereby is signified the elevation of the affection\\nof truth; and her damsels hereby are signified\\nsubsequent affections; and they rode upon camels\\nhereby is signified the intellectual principles ele-\\nvated above natural scientifics. The fantastic\\ndream of mystical meanings in the Bible must take\\nwings at the touch of a ripening literary judgment.\\nWhen there is figure or fancy, the language is to be\\nso interpreted; if there is not, it is to be understood\\nin the ordinary sense, and in every case in the\\nsense the writer intended.\\n8. It is a mistake to use the Bible as an oracle\\nto open it at random and to take the message as\\nthe one God has for you at the time and on the\\noccasion. This is nothing more or less than a lot-\\ntery. Besides, no passage in the Bible was written", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE 43\\ncenturies ago in regard to your private affairs. Yet\\nthis mistake has been made by thousands of peo-\\nple. Kven preachers, after prayer for guidance,\\nhave opened their Bibles at random and preached\\nfrom the passage which first met their eye. The\\nabsurdity of such a process may be seen by the fact\\nthat one preacher opened and read the words, Am\\nnot I thine ass. There is but one solution of this\\nincident, and that is in the supposition that in\\nhim was this saying fulfilled.\\n9. It is a mistake to assign to faith different\\nnames because the object is different at different\\ntimes. Faith is always faith a belief and trust in\\nor about, though the object of the faith may vary.\\n10. It is a mistake to push the interpretation of\\na parable too far. The parables of the Bible were\\ntold to illustrate certain special points, and while\\nthe drapery was true, it is not to be supposed that\\nevery point mentioned had some special signifi-\\ncance. It is quite enough to find the central truth\\nand to adapt and apply it, and not seek for hidden\\nmeanings in all the details.\\n11. It is a mistake to give a word more than one\\nmeaning in one place. The same word may, and\\noften does, have different meanings in different\\nconnections, but can only have one in a given posi-\\ntion, and that is the one the writer intended it to\\nhave. What this is, is to be determined by the\\ncontext and the use of the word.\\n12. It is a mistake to give to a word a meaning\\nwhich will not fit into the sentence as well as the", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "44 HOW TO UNDERSTAND\\nword itself. When the meaning substituted for the\\nword will not fit and make good sense, then an-\\nother meaning must be the true one.\\n13. It is a mistake not to take notice of the em-\\nphatic way of expressing thought used by the\\nBible writers, and treat the passages as such. Paul\\nsays, I was sent to preach and not to baptize.\\nThis is a way of emphasizing his work as a preach-\\ner, for that he did baptize when occasion demanded\\nis clearly shown in the next few verses.\\n14. It is a mistake to suppose the Bible is not to\\nbe understood, or to look upon it as a mass of\\nsuperstition and mysticism. It is a revelation, and\\nits purpose is to reveal truth. This end can only\\nbe accomplished when the Book is understood.\\n15. It is a mistake to disregard the circumstances\\nTinder which certain things were spoken. It was\\nthe downcast and doubting Peter who swore he\\nnever knew Jesus, but the Spirit-filled and Spirit-\\nguided Peter who announced the terms of salvation\\non Pentecost.\\n16. It is a mistake to suppose that because two\\naccounts differ in detail, they are necessarily contra-\\ndictory. In law, when two witnesses agree in every\\ndetail, there is strong suspicion of collusion. On\\nthe other hand, when they agree in the essential\\nfacts, and differ in detail, as they see the event\\nfrom different points of view, their testimony is\\ncounted to be of the strongest kind.\\n17. It is a mistake to suppose that because an\\nauthor does not state a fact, he must be ignorant of", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE 45\\nit. Bach author selects the material he uses in\\naccordance with the purpose of his book and the\\ncondition of the persons addressed. Thus the same\\nauthor, writing to different persons on the same\\nsubject, would use different arguments and illus-\\ntrate the same arguments by different facts. John\\nsays, Many other signs truly did Jesus which\\nare not written in this book, but these are written\\nthat we might believe.\\n18. It is a mistake to apply a statement of Script-\\nure to other conditions than those to which the\\nauthor applies it, and hold that it is authorized in\\nsuch a case by the Bible. The author of Kccle-\\nsiastes uses the expression, Vanity of vanities, all\\nis vanity. A study of the whole book will show\\nthat he applies it to pleasure, wealth, wisdom, etc.\\nas ends of life. As means to the true end of life, to\\nfear God and keep his commandments, they are no\\nlonger vanity, but valuable aids in man s upbuild-\\ning and God s glory.\\n19. It is a mistake to make up your theology\\nfrom proof -texts, gathered up from all parts of the\\nBible without regard to whether the words used in\\ntheir proper connection are history, poetry, hyper-\\nbole, or what not. Sometimes a text which seems\\nto teach one point, is torn from its context, without\\nregard to who said it, to whom it was said, for what\\npurpose or under what circumstances; whether his-\\ntorical, practical or highly figurative, and set side\\nby side as co-equal proofs of our dogmas. Words\\nof Solomon, David, Isaiah, Paul; deeply penitent,", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "46 HOW TO UNDERSTAND\\npessimistic, exulting or triumphant; fact, hyper-\\nbole, metaphor, are all jumbled together in a very\\nMidsummer Night s Dream fashion\\n20. It is a mistake to assume that which is not\\nstated in a text to be true, in order to uphold our\\nposition. One man has as much right to assume\\nthat in I^ydia s household there were three pairs of\\ntwins as that there were infants at all. The text\\nbeing silent on the subject, it is wrong to assume.\\n21. It is a mistake to disregard the context.\\nThis is a most common mistake. Men in making\\nup the proofs, take passages out of their connection,\\nand make them mean exactly opposite to what the\\nwriter intended. Cases are on record in which\\nclauses, or phrases, or parts of words have been\\ntorn from their connection and used to bolster up a\\ntheory. Such is the famous case of the old preach-\\ner, who, in berating the sisters for their worldliness,\\nespecially in the matter of wearing top-nots, found\\nin the sentence, Let him who is upon the house-\\ntop not come down (into the house), but flee to the\\nmountains, the proof -text, Top not come\\ndown.\\n22. It is a mistake to draw conclusions from less\\nthan all the truth upon a given subject. Ian\\nMaclaren illustrates this by the following incident:\\nFour blind men went to see an elephant. One saw\\nwith the sense of feeling in his hand, the elephant s\\nleg; the second, his side; the third, his snout, and\\nthe fourth, his ear. Each man, perfectly honest,\\nlogical and sincere, made up his estimate of the", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE 47\\nelephant from the part \\\\i^ saw^ with the following\\nstartling results. The first said the elephant is like\\nthe trunk of a tree; the second concluded it was\\nlike the side of a house; the third was sure it was\\nlike a rope, and the fourth was positive it resem-\\nbled nothing so much as a leathern bag. Had each\\nof them seen all the elephant, they would not only\\nhave been able to give a correct statement of what\\nan elephant was like, but they would have all\\nspoken the same thing.\\n23. It is a mistake to add words to the state-\\nments of the Scripture to make out our theories.\\nThe statement of the Scripture is, We are justified\\nby faith. It is a mistake to add only to it and\\nmake it read justified by faith only. This would\\nbe a mistake even if James did not say, We are\\njustified by works and not by faith only Jas. 2 :24)\\n24. It is a mistake to manufacture one uniform\\nsystem of theology as the fixed and final form of\\nthought in which religion is to live. The under-\\nstanding of the Bible, as the understanding of the\\nworld, grows. New light is constantly streaming\\nin. The best scientific knowledge of Paris, one\\nhundred years ago, gave thirty reasons why the ac-\\ncount given in Genesis of the creation could not be\\ntrue. To-day every one of the positions has been\\nabandoned. Books twenty years old on scientific\\nsubjects, are obsolete. To say that the world one\\nhundred years ago, or to-day, knew or knows all\\nthere is to be known, either of God s world or\\nword, is the height of presumption. The theology", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "48 HOW TO UNDERSTAND\\nof Calvin and Ivuther was the best men knew at\\nthat day, but it is not to be accepted as the creed of\\nthe church forevermore. It is a mistake to bind\\nupon the church the errors and ignorance of the\\npast, whether that past is twenty years or twenty\\ncenturies ago. Yet this is what creeds, confessions\\nof faith and discipUnes, accepted as authoritative\\nstatements of truth, do.\\n25. It is a mistake not to modify general state-\\nments by specific statements, made in the same\\nplace or in another place in the Bible. In teaching\\nabout prayer, w^e have the general statement, Ask\\nand we shall receive. This is modified, however,\\nby the statement that we do not receive when we\\nask in order to consume it upon our lusts.\\n26. It is a mistake not to notice who speaks^\\nwhen we read a passage in the Scripture. First, in\\nregard to the whole book, who wrote it, is a ques-\\ntion the answer of which will throw much light\\nupon what is said. And in the book, numerous\\nquotations are made, and in each case the one\\nquoted from will have much to do with the reliabil-\\nity of the statement. It is in the Bible, there is no\\nGod, but a fool is authority for the statement; and\\n**Stolen waters are sweet, but these are the senti-\\nments of a harlot. Looking through the Bible we\\nfind quotations from the devil, witches, fools,\\nwicked men, men with good intentions but mis-\\ntaken, men giving their opinions and men speaking\\nor directed by the Holy Ghost, prophets, priests,\\nangels, Christ and God, all speaking at diiferent", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE, 49\\ntimes and under different circumstances. It would\\nbe manifestly wrong to place all of these upon an\\nequal footing, nay, wrong to receive some of their\\nstatements as true at all. The Bible is true in that\\nit says the devil said so and so, but at the same time\\nthe devil lied about it. We must accept the words\\nof God and his authorized messengers to men as\\ntrue; the opinions of good men we are to take as\\nsuch; in the words of bad men we may expect error\\nand deceit, while the words of the devil and his\\nangels are most certainly false.\\n27. It is a mistake to disregard to whom the\\nwords of the Bible were spoken, and apply them\\nall, indiscriminately to ourselves. It is manifestly\\na mistake to apply the words spoken to the re-\\ndeemed, Come, ye blessed of my father, to the\\nwicked, or the w^ords addressed to the wicked,\\nDepart, ye cursed, to the redeemed. Those\\nbooks addressed to Christian disciples can only be\\napplied to sinners, as we discriminate between the\\nclasses of saint and sinner, while the commands\\ngiven for alien sinners are among the first princi-\\nples which the fellow-citizens wdth the saints are to\\nleave behind and go on to perfection. It seems\\nsimple enough that the true way is to apply the\\nwords spoken to and of the devil to devils, of\\nangels to angels, of wicked men to wicked men, of\\nsinners to sinners, of Christians to Christians; and\\nyet, as simple as this may seem, there is no more\\ncommon mistake than the indiscriminate applica-\\ntion of the words of Scripture to any and all sorts", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "50 HOW TO UNDERSTAND\\nof people. In this same connection might be men-\\ntioned the mistake of failing to discriminate be-\\ntween the Dispensations, Patriarchal, Jewish and\\nChristian. Among the consequences of this error\\nis the effort constantly made to induce Christians\\nto forsake the first day of the week, in which we\\nobserve the Lord s day, and return to the Jewish\\nSabbath, or Saturday, the seventh day of the week.\\n28. It is a mistake not to take note of when the\\nwords of Scripture were spoken. Words spoken\\nby the same person and to the same person under\\ndifferent circumstances may be quite different, and\\nmay be exactly opposite. Moses, standing before\\nthe children of Israel on the bank of the Red Sea,\\nsaid, Standstill! Soon afterwards he gave the\\nopposite order, Go forward! But the circum-\\nstances had changed. Under the Patriarchal dis-\\npensation God made the father of the tribe his\\npriest, and had him offer sacrifices for himself and\\nfamily. Under the Jewish dispensation, God said\\nto his people that only the members of the tribe of\\nLevi and the house of Aaron should offer the sacri-\\nfices, and under the Christian dispensation, Jesus,\\nour great high-priest, has made his offering once\\nfor all, while every Christian is a priest, who is to\\noffer up praise unto God. In no place, perhaps, is\\nthe need of observing when spoken more fully\\nillustrated than in the Bible direction to sinners.\\nTo those who knew not Christ, the apostles and\\nevangelists preached unto them Jesus; when\\nthey had heard, faith was demanded; when they", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE 51\\nhad heard and believed, they were called upon to\\nrepent; when, having heard and believed and re-\\npented, they said, And now why tarriest thou?\\nAjise and be baptized. Having thus become\\nbabes in Christ, they were to feed on the sincere\\nmilk of the Word, and to be faithful unto death.\\nThe element of time and consequent change of\\ncircumstances accounts for the different answers to\\nthe same question, and this must be noted to under-\\nstand the replies.\\n29. It is a common mistake to be so careless in\\nreading our Bibles that we do not note carefully\\nwhat is said. Because of this mistake, we often\\nread into the text what is not there, and thus by\\nadding to the Scripture make the truth into a lie.\\nFor instance, Paul says we are justified by faith.\\nOur lack of attention to what is said, and our high\\nappreciation of faith, make us to say we are justi-\\nfied by faith only, thus turning a truth into a lie,\\nfor James says we are justified by works, and not\\nby faith only.\\nAnother equally serious error is not to observe\\nall which is said, and so leave out or disregard a\\npart of what is taught. Thus, while it is necessary\\nfor us to recognize that God saved men, it would be\\ndisastrous for us not to note God s commands to\\nmen to believe his Word, repent of their sins, and\\nobey him in all things.\\nThe observance of these last four suggestions, to\\nnote who speaks^ to whom spoken^ when spoken and\\nwhat spoken, would obviate most of the errors into\\nwhich the students of Scripture now fall.", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "52 HOW TO UNDERSTAND\\nCHAPTER VII.\\nHow to Mark the Bible.\\nTHKRE^ is a prejudice in the minds of some peo-\\nple against marking their Bibles. Yet these\\nsame people use without scruple the references in\\nthe margins, and the headings at the beginnings of\\nthe chapters and top of the pages, not realizing\\nthat these are but markings printed, it is true but\\nmarkings just as much as that done with pen or\\npencil. Those who realize that the Bible was not\\ngiven to us to worship, but to understand and use,\\nand have experienced the help which comes from a\\nwell marked book, would not think of dispensing\\nwith so valuable an aid.\\nThere are many ways of marking a Bible, some\\nquite elaborate with fancy colored inks, and a\\nwhole system of signs, and some ways more simple\\nand practical. I prefer the simpler, with the one,\\nor possibly two colors of ink, because it will be\\nused, while the other is apt to be a fad and soon\\nplay out. Kvery person has his own or some other\\nman s system modified to suit his purposes, and in\\nthis chapter I will point out some ways of marking\\nwhich have proved helpful to me, and which I can\\nrecommend to the reader.\\n1. Mark to bring out Topics, underscoring a\\nfew words which will serve as the subject of the\\nsection. As in Matthew sixth, I marked in the", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE 53\\nfirst verse, alms; in the fifth verse, pray; in the\\nfourteenth verse, forgive; in the sixteenth verse,\\nfast; in the nineteenth verse, treasures; in the twen-\\nty-second verse, light; in the twenty-fourth verse^\\ntwo masters; in the twenty-fifth verse, take no\\nthought. At a glance I can thus find the topic I\\nwish.\\n2. Write at top of page or in margin, additional\\nwords indicating the topic treated. For Matthew\\n6 write Lord s Prayer.\\n3. Mark at the commencement of the chapter\\nthe key word to the chapter. For Hebrews 11\\nwrite, Hymn of Faith; for 1 Corinthians 13,\\nHymn of Love; 1 Corinthians 15, Resurrec-\\ntion Matthew 5 Magna Charta of our Faith.\\n4. When an outline has been made of the con-\\ntents of a book, and it has been di\\\\nded into parts,\\nsections and paragraphs, the same may be marked\\nin the margin. A convenient way to separate para-\\ngraphs is by a mark like this after the verse\\nwhich closes one paragraph and before the verse\\nwhich commences another.\\n5. Underscore wn.th a light line striking expres-\\nsions and special passages.\\n6. Set apart with a brace verses or passages to\\nbe memorized.\\n7. In the margin write the translation of the\\nRevised Version, or any translation that ^ill add to\\nclearness of passage, e. g., from Take no thought\\n(Matt. 6:25), draw light line diagonally to the\\nmargin and write, Be not anxious.", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "54 HOW TO UNDERSTAND\\n8. In the margin write reference to books which\\ntreat on the subject. B. g., opposite Matt. 6:33,\\nSeek first, etc., write Drumniond s First,\\nwhich directs you to Prof. Henry Drummond s\\nsplendid lecture to boys, called First.\\n9. Write in the margin reference to passage\\nwhich develops the subject referred to in the text.\\nB. g., Matt. 6: 9, irom heaven draw diagonal light\\nline to margin and write Rev. 21. V rora forgive in\\nverse 14, draw to margin and write Matt. 5: 23; 18:\\n15, both of which develop the same subject.\\n10. In the margin write words of others, or of\\nyour own which illustrate or enforce the teachings\\nof the text. B. g., opposite Ye can not serve\\nGod and mammon, write, When you desert\\nSatan s camp strike out for Jesus, or you will be\\nrecaptured.\\n11. In the margin write outline from the text.\\nB. g., opposite Watch ye therefore, etc., put\\nWords.\\nActions.\\nThoughts.\\nCompany.\\nHearts.\\nOpposite Bxcept a man be born of water and the\\nspirit, etc., write\\nTBody. Water. Baptism.\\nI Spirit. Spirit. My words are spirit.\\n12. In margin write peculiar meaning of a word\\nas used in the text. E. g., opposite Matt. 6: 21,", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE 55\\nheart=sensibility; opposite Ivuke5:22, heart=in-\\ntellect.\\n13. In the margin write references to those pas-\\nsages which develop the subject. Opposite Saved\\nwrite the reference which tells who saves, who may\\nbe saved, and by what means they are to be saved.\\n14. In the text by the use of figures you can\\nindicate the outline of a textual sermon. B. g.,\\nLet your light so shine, write, (3) Let (2) your\\n(1) light (5) so (4) shine. So you may develop it\\nin a sermon which brings out the thought of lyight\\nand its importance to the world; that each one has\\nlight, that we should be willing to let it shine, for\\nit will do so if we give it a chance; that shine means\\nto beam vrith a steady radiance, vs. to flicker or\\nsmoke, and close with the admonition to let your\\nlight so shine that others may see your good works\\nand glorify your Father who is in heaven. This\\ndivision having been once used and thus indicated\\nwill always be ready for use, and will in itself bring\\nback nearly the whole of the sermon.\\n15. There is a system of marking called railroad-\\ning, which connects two underscored passages vdth\\nhair lines. This is often of great value; a few ex-\\namples will best show its use. Above John V, I\\nhave written, Testimony for Jesus. In verse 31\\nI bear witness of myself, is underscored and\\nconnected with John, and he bare witness, in\\nverse 33, which is connected with The works in\\nverse 36, connected mth the Father himself in\\nverse 37, connected with the Scriptures in verse", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "56 HOW TO UNDERSTAND\\n39, connected with Moses in verse 46. As we\\nread, we find that all these bear testimony for Jesus.\\nIn John 11: 11, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth, is\\nconnected with Lazarus is dead in verse 14, show-\\ning how Jesus views death. In John 6: 44, No\\nman can come to me, except the Father v/hich hath\\nsent me draw him, is connected with and ex-\\nplained by the words in verse 45, Every man\\ntherefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the\\nFather, cometh unto me.\\nIn Colossians 2, In him and With him are\\ndeveloped, and by the railroad we find those who\\nhave received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk ye in\\nhim, verse 6, are rooted and built up in him,\\nverse 7, are complete in him, verse 10, buried\\nwith him in baptism, also ye are risen with\\nhim, verse 12, are quickened together with\\nhim, verse 13, and are dead with him from\\nthe elements of the world. Continuing into the\\nthird chapter we find if we are risen with him,\\nverse 1, your life is hid with Christ in God,\\nverse 3, and that we shall also appear with him\\nin glory, verse 4.\\nIn this same chapter the things we are to put off\\nand those we are \\\\,o put on are thrown into contrast\\nby the railroad. In II. Timothy, the admonition\\nto be a good soldier in 2: 3, is connected by the\\nrailroad with Paul s own example audits results, as\\nrecorded in 4: 7, 8.\\nIn the Galatian letter the works of the flesh\\nand the fruit of the Spirit are contrasted in the", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE 57\\nsame way. In the first Corinthian letter, Paul s\\nadvice as to how to conduct religious services is\\nbrought together by connecting 14: 40, Let all\\nthings be done decently and in order, \\\\\\\\T.th 14: 26,\\nLet all things be done unto edifying, and writ-\\ning in the margin a reference to 10: 31, Let all\\nthings be done unto the glory of God.\\nAnother example of this method must suffice.\\nTurning to Matthew 19: 13, we find the well known\\npassage about Jesus receiving little children. By\\nunderscoring, we bring out the object for which the\\nchildren were brought, that he should put his\\nhands on them and pray, and again, what Jesus\\nactually did to them, he laid his hands on fchem.\\nAgain, we bring out that the kingdom of heaven is\\nnot composed of children, but of such of peo-\\nple who are like them, and last, that the children\\nthemselves are not forbidden, but in\\\\dted to come\\nunto Jesus. Happy is the man in his theology who\\nis not wise above what is written.\\nThose who have interleaved Bibles may place in\\nthem not only outlines, but whole passages which\\nthrow light upon the text, or which may be help-\\nful to the student or useful in teaching or preach-\\ning. Mr. Moody s motto in regard to marking your\\nBible is, If you hear a good thing, put it down,\\nfor if it is good for you, it will be good for others.\\nSo copious are his notes, that he has published a\\nbook of considerable size from them, giving them\\nas they appear in the margin of his book. A writer\\nin the Sunday-school Times tells how in his study", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "58 HOW TO UNDERSTAND\\nhe has used the plan of marking, until he now has\\n^N^ Bibles instead of one. The first he calls A\\nStudy Bible. It is now bound in two volumes, and\\ninterleaved and fully marked. Stories, comments,\\npoetry, outlines of talks, analyses of lessons and\\nillustrations of all sorts, go into this Bible, and\\nwhen I want any such helps in the future, I look\\nin this Bible for them. As a result I have\\na growing Bible, a Bible becoming day by day\\nricher and more valuable, and I have the results of\\nmy precious study put away and labeled. A sec-\\nond Bible is for literary study. This is bound in\\nfour volumes, interleaved. As to its use, he says:\\n**In making a study of the life of Christ, in con-\\nnection with the International I^essons a year or so\\nago, I used this book. The date and place of each\\nevent as we came to it, were written at the top of\\nthe page, the subject of each paragraph was writ-\\nten on the margin opposite the text, and any com-\\nment that was not suitable for the study Bible was\\nput on the blank pages; such, for instance, were\\nthe charts which appeared, showing how the last\\nday of Christ s life on earth was spent. Week by\\nweek, a little at a time, the valuable results of a\\nyear s work were accumulated and preserved where\\nthey can be found again. A third copy is his\\nMissionary Bible. On the blank pages in front\\nare inspiring sayings of great missionaries, as The\\nprospect is as bright as the promises of God.\\nCarey. The blank pages in the back with mission-\\nary charts, and the markings have reference to the", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE 59\\none great subject. The fourth copy is a clean, un-\\nmarked copy, in which he lets God speak to him,\\nwhile his fifth is a small Bible for the pocket. He\\ncloses his article by saying: I would not be un-\\nderstood to say that all these Bibles are necessary,\\nbut I have learned by experience that they are all\\nuseful, and in these days of rush and hurry I have\\nfound them to be time-savers.\\nMark your Bibles not just to be marking them,\\nbut that you may know what is in them, that you\\nmay understand them, and that you may be able to\\nuse them.", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "60 HOW TO UNDERSTAND\\nCHAPTER VIII.\\nHow to Use the Bible.\\nFOR SEI.F.\\nHAVING a Bible, studying it, understanding it,\\nmarking it, interpreting it, are all prepara-\\ntions for using it, and without the practical use of\\nit, all our preparation will be wasted. The purpose\\nin producing the Bible was not that it should be\\nworshiped, but that it should be used. It is the\\ntool which God has placed in our hand. It is the\\nsword of the Spirit delivered into the hands of every-\\none of God s soldiers, to be used in both offensive\\nand defensive warfare. It is the lamp which is to\\nbe used in lighting up our pathway. The work-\\nman is not only to know his tool, but to use it.\\nThe Christian workman who needeth not be\\nashamed is to be skilled in using this tool in form-\\ning Christian character, both within himself and\\nothers.\\nThe efficient soldier will not only know how his\\nweapon is made, the principles of its construction,\\nand the theory of its use, but he must be able, by\\nactual practice, to make it both his sword and\\nshield. Indeed, he may be ignorant of all else but\\nhow to use his sword and still be efficient, and he\\nmay know all but this and be inefficient. Jesus\\nsets us an example in the use of the Bible in his\\nencounter with the devil in the wilderness, in", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE. 61\\nwhich by It is written, he not only defends him-\\nself but also puts to rout his adversary.\\nIt is of first importance that we use the Bible for\\nourselves, our own growth and development, our\\nown information and inspiration, our own purifica-\\ntion and preparation for life s work. It is only\\nwhen we have taken the beam out of our own eye\\nthat we can see clearly to remove the mote from\\nour brother s eye. It is only when we have had\\nexperience in the use of the Bible for helping our-\\nselves, that we can successfully use it for helping\\nothers.\\nTherefore in the study of a passage of Scripture,\\nit is essential that I not only learn of the places,\\npersons and precepts of the text, but that the\\ntruths of the passage be so applied to my own\\nthought, purposes and actions, that my errors be\\ncorrected, my faith strengthened, and my charac-\\nter perfected. \\\\Vhat is in this passage for me?\\nshould be the ever-recurring question. And no\\nstudy of a passage is complete until that question\\nis answered, and the truth thus learned is built into\\nour lives.\\nThere are uses to which the Bible is put at times\\nwhich are wicked and sinful; other uses are un-\\nprofitable and vain; others, right and profitable.\\nIt is a profitable use at which we should constantly\\naim. To make our study most profitable it is\\nessential that we should study with definite ends in\\nview. A summary of the profitable uses to which\\nScripture may be put is given in 2 Tim. 3: 16, 17,", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "62 HOW TO UNDERSTAND\\nby the Apostle Paul to his son in the Gospel, Timo-\\nthy. He says, A11 Scripture is given by inspira-\\ntion of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for re-\\nproof, for correction, for instruction in righteous-\\nness, that the man of God may be perfect, thor-\\noughly furnished unto every good work. In thus\\nusing the Bible we will find it of great profit.\\nFor Doctrine. Do I get my doctrine from the\\nBible? Where did I get my conceptions of God\\nand the Holy Spirit and the Christ? My ideas of\\nright and wrong, of the duties I owe to God and\\nman, of the privileges which are rightly mine, of\\nthe proper constitution of the state, and the rela-\\ntions of man to man in society and the family?\\nHow many of us are wearing the cast-off intellect-\\nual clothing of our ancestors! How many of us\\nhave never learned to take our questions of doc-\\ntrine to the fountain-head for solution! Yet the\\ndoctrine of the Scriptures on all these subjects is\\nprofitable, and not only the experience of individu-\\nals, but of nations, has proved it so in all ages. So\\nlong as God s wisdom is greater than man s wisdom\\nwill it be so. The teaching or doctrine which we\\nbelieve, which we practice and which we teach\\nothers, should be obtained from the Bible. It will\\nbe found profitable\\nI. For My Own Right Thinking. However great\\nother books may be, however wise our teachers and\\ncompanions, none of them are equal to the Bible in\\ntheir authority. All human confessions of faith,\\ndisciplines and creeds are liable to err. All human", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE 63\\nconceptions of God and his relation to man are\\nmixed with superstition. All wisdom of men is\\nfoolishness compared to the wisdom of God. Only\\nas the thoughts of the world are made to conform\\nto the thoughts of God will they be found free\\nfrom error and to set forth the whole truth.\\n2. For My Growth in Grace. Doctrine and\\ndeeds are very closely related. What I do de-\\npends upon what I think. lean only become\\nChristlike by knowing Christ s doctrine and doing\\nit. Only when I think his thoughts, when I see\\nthings as he sees them, will I nay, can I feel as\\nhe feels, do as he does, be as he is. And as I make\\nhis doctrine my doctrine, will I make his deeds my\\ndeeds.\\nJ. For Use in Evangelism. The doctrines of\\nthe Bible, not the speculations of men, are power-\\nful in battering down the strongholds of sin and\\nletting the gospel light into the darkened hearts of\\nmen. The gospel is the power of God unto salva-\\ntion. The Bible has ever been the weapon of the\\ngreat reformer and evangelists, both in fighting\\nsin and winning souls to the Saviour. The minis-\\ntry, educated or uneducated, which preaches the\\nWord, is the ministry which saves souls.\\n4. For Use in Controversy. **Thus saith the\\nLord will batter down the finest and most stupend-\\nous structure human reason and ingenuity can con-\\nstruct. Versed in the Scriptures, the man of infe-\\nrior education and intellectual endowments is\\nalways more than a match for his opponent not so", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "64 HOW TO UNDERSTAND\\nversed, it matters not how well educated in other\\nmatters. The man of God who gets his doctrine\\nfrom the Bible, can successfully rout his opponent,\\nbe he theologian, skeptic, infidel or Satan himself.\\n5. Eor Our Inspiration. Read how God has\\ncrowned man with glory and honor; how he accepts\\nhim as his son; how he honors him as his co-work-\\ner; how he designs him for heaven with all its joys,\\nand as these doctrines take possession of us, how\\nthe darkness flies away and the light of hope and\\njoy and peace takes its place!\\n6, For Our Consolation. There are no other\\nteachings but those of the Bible which can wipe\\naway our tears, bind up our broken hearts and bid\\nthe despairing hope again. Verily, this doctrine\\nis profitable.\\nReproof. ^The primary meaning of this word is\\nto prove again and the Bible is the measure by\\nwhich we are to prove our thoughts, our motives\\nand our lives. It is God s measure for the church,\\nthe state, the family, the individual, and we need\\nconstantly to take our lives and all to the Bible to\\ntest them, to see if they are as they should be in\\nGod s sight. It is necessary for our spiritual health\\nand happiness, as well as for our usefulness in the\\nworld, that we keep ourselves right, for a sin in the\\nlife keeps us from knowing the truth in our hearts,\\nand a stain on the conscience is a speck in the\\neye. The Bible is God s looking-glass in which\\nwe are to look at ourselves, and it is profitable for\\nthis purpose, for it finds us at depths at which no", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "1!\\nAND USE THE BIBLE 65\\nother book does. Let no false pride or foolish no-\\ntion keep ns from constantly making use of it.\\nCorrection. ^The Bible is not only God s meas-\\nure to show us our faults, it is his guide-book to\\nshow us how the faults may be mended. The true\\nphysician knows and applies the medicines which\\nwill cure the malady, as well as detect the dis-\\nease. So a profitable use of the Bible, and one for\\nwhich it is specially adapted, is to right the wrongs\\nof the world; to correct the abuses; to dissipate its\\ndarkness with the glorious light of the gospel. In\\nour use of the Bible for ourselves, there is no more\\nprofitable way. There is no way to equal God s\\nway in getting out of difficulties, in reforming\\nabuses, in correcting evils, in righting wrongs.\\nHappy is the man who uses God s remedies for the\\nills of life; for the Scriptures are profitable for cor-\\nrection.\\nInstruction in Righteousness. Reproof and cor-\\nrection are for the negative life instruction in right-\\neousness is for the positive life. It is not enough\\nthat we should cease do evil, but we must learn to\\ndo good. And the Bible is profitable in that it in-\\nstructs us in righteousness.\\n1. It instructs us as to what is right. The\\nstandards of right, of justice and of truth which men\\nhave set up have ever been defective. It is well we\\nhave a standard which is right.\\n2. It instructs us how the right things are to be\\ndone. We may know it is right to preach the gos-\\npel, or organize a church, or do the work of an", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "w\\n66 HOW TO UNDERSTAND\\nevangelist, but still we need to be instructed as to\\nright ways to do these right things. There is no\\nmanual extant which compares with the Bible in\\nits instructions and suggestions as to right ways of\\ndoing all the right things of an active Christian\\nlife. Search and see.\\nTo Perfect Men. The purpose of the teaching,\\nthe reproving, the correcting and the instruction in\\nrighteousness, so far as the man himself is con-\\ncerned, is that he may be perfect; and the Bible is\\nprofitable in perfecting men, and each of us should\\nuse it for this purpose. Indeed, so far as we are\\nconcerned, any object less than this is unworthy of\\nus. To be like Him is the destiny of all follow-\\ners of Christ, and under God the Bible is one of the\\nchief est instruments in attaining this result. This,\\nthen, is the real purpose of Bible study for self, and\\nonly as it is attained are we successful students of\\nthe Scriptures.\\nThoroughly Furnish Unto Good Works. The use of\\nthe Bible for self does not end with perfecting self,\\nbut includes also the preparation of self to work\\nfor others. God blesses us to make us blessings,\\nand we receive that we may give. In order that\\none may be thoroughly furnished unto every good\\nwork, he must study his Bible. It goes without\\nsaying that God knows best not only what works\\nare good, but also the best ways of doing them. It\\nought to be more generally recognized that he has\\nrevealed his best ways to men, and that the Script-\\nures contain the revelation. And these Scriptures", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "H\\nAND USE THE BIBLE 67\\nshould be studied, not only that we may be good,\\nbut that we may do good. The age in which we\\nlive is, more than any which has gone before it, one\\nwhich demands skilled workmen, workmen who\\nneed not be ashamed. It is to make such that the\\ninstructions in the Bible are given. If the good\\nwork to be done is the work of an elder, or a dea-\\ncon, or an evangelist, or a preacher, or a teacher;\\nif it is to organize or govern a church, settle a dif-\\nficulty, administer the ordinances, convert sinners,\\nedify saints, reprove, rebuke, exhort, restore the\\nstraying, resist the proud, silence scoffers, rouse the\\nindifferent, comfort the broken-hearted, conduct a\\nprayer-meeting or carry on a missionary enterprise,\\nthe Scriptures, properly studied, will fit us for the\\nservice as no other book can. It will be a great\\ngain for the cause of Christ when Christians will\\nconsent to do His work in His way.", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "68 HOW TO UNDERSTAND\\nCHAPTER IX.\\nHow to Use the Bible.\\nIN PUBI^IC WORK.\\nTHE use of the Bible for self is only a prepara-\\ntion to the use of the Bible for others. We\\nlearn that we may teach, we are fed that we may\\nfeed, we are comforted that we may comfort. The\\nuse of the Bible for others may be divided into Pub-\\nlic Work, when a class or congregation is ad-\\ndressed, and Personal Work, when an individual is\\naddressed. This chapter will deal with the Public\\nWork.\\nThe value of this work can not be over-estimated;\\nit is now, judging from the practice of Christian\\nworkers, under-estimated. Much of this seeming\\nindifference, however, is due to a lack of knowl-\\nedge of the worker of the way to prepare and pre-\\nsent the Bible readings, and of a personal inexperi-\\nence in regard to the power of these when properly\\npresented. The suggestions here set down have\\nbeen tested and found helpful, and are submitted\\nas such.\\nIn teaching others we must travel over the same\\nroute which we traveled when we were taught.\\nTherefore all the suggestions heretofore given re-\\ngarding how to understand the Bible will be helpful\\nin assisting us to make others understand it. In\\nthe same way, what is profitable in our use of the", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE 69\\nBible for self, will be profitable in our use of it for\\nothers. The only change is in that where before we\\nwere led, now we are to lead, and as this is a part\\nof every Christian s work, he should have two\\npairs of eyes, one to see for self, and one for others;\\nhe should have four ears, two for himself and two\\nfor others. If a thing has helped you, make a\\nnote of it, for it will help some one else. The very\\nfact that the worker uses the Bible gives him\\npower. The same truths may be presented, and\\neven presented with more vigor and earnestness\\nwithout the Bible, still the man with Bible in hand\\nhas the decided advantage. Moody carries his\\nBible under his arm on the way to his meetings\\nand thus preaches a sermon five miles long,\\nmore or less. The best results in a revival are\\ngained when the Bible is most freely used. We\\nneed, many times, to get out a search warrant for\\nthe Bibles in a community, and bring them from\\nobscurity. Indeed, he who would successfully,\\nwisely and intelligently lead souls to Christ, and\\nprofitably do Christian work, must draw from the\\nBible, rather than from his own experience or the\\nthe wisdom of men. It is a fountain of living\\nwater of which the world does not tire; our lives\\nare at best but cisterns.\\nThe most common uses of the Bible in public\\nare: Its reading from the pulpit, its teaching in\\nthe Sunday-school, and the Scripture readings in\\nmid-week and young people s prayer-meeting.\\nAnother use is becoming to be known as Bible Read-", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "70 HOW TO UNDERSTAND\\nings, conducted under the direction of a leader,\\nand participated in by all or part of the class or\\ncongregation. Bach of these deserves attention.\\nPulpit, The public reading of the Word from\\nthe pulpit is often a matter of form. The minister,\\non the other hand, should consider it one of the\\nmost important parts of the service the part in\\nwhich he brings the v7ords of God to the people.\\nIn many places the congregation is supplied with\\nBibles, to follow or join the minister in the reading.\\nIn this, each is to pay attention to what is read,\\nrather than strive to keep with the rest. The read-\\ning of the leader should be distinct and impressive,\\nso all may understand. A short invocation before\\nopening Bibles is impressive and secures God s\\nblessing upon the study.\\nTeacher. The teacher who uses the Bible in\\nteaching rather than the quarterly, has a great ad-\\nvantage. If it is necessary to have notes, write\\nthem on slips and put them in the Bible so they\\nwill not be seen. The frequent use of the Bible in\\nconfirming or throwing light upon a truth by refer-\\nring to other passages has a splendid effect. The\\nideal class is the one in which teacher and pupils\\nbring their Bibles and leave their quarterlies at\\nhome. It will be well, at times, for the superin-\\ntendent to turn the whole Sunday-school into a\\nBible reading meeting while some special subject\\nis treated.\\nPrayer- Meetings. One of the greatest needs of\\nthe social meetings of the church is the open Bible.", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE 71\\nThe Christian Endeavor movement has been a\\ngreat blessing in bringing the Bible into use, but\\nthere is still much room for improvement.\\nHome. The Bible is used effectively in the home.\\nAt the usual family devotions the reading may be\\nvaried from the chapter by the father, to Bible\\nreadings of various kinds, in which the members\\nall take part, either in responsive readings or in\\nselected verses. Parlor Bible readings, in which\\nfriends and neighbors join in song and the study\\nof the Scripture, are often helpful and interesting.\\nBible Readings. This term has become almost a\\ntechnical one, referring to a meeting of the church\\nor the people in general, in which the special fea-\\nture is a Bible reading, the study of a topic or a\\nbook, by means of reading and commenting upon\\ncertain passages in the Bible. The term is also ap-\\nplied to shorter studies, preceding the regular dis-\\ncourse.\\nKINDS OF BIBI,K READINGS.\\nPraise Meeting. In this service the passages of\\nthe Bible are used to express the feelings of the\\npersons taking part, and are read one after another,\\nwith or without comment. The reading is inter-\\nspersed with prayers and songs.\\nPromise Meeting. In this service the subject\\nconsidered is God s promises. The whole subject\\nmay be considered, or those promises relating to\\none class. Promises to the penitent, the faithful,", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "72 HOW TO UNDERSTAND\\nthe overcomers, those who win souls, etc., are\\namong the topics used.\\nBible Experience Meetings. In these each per-\\nson gives his experience in Bible language.\\nExpositoiy. The minister in the morning service\\nmay use the preaching time in expounding a pas-\\nsage of Scripture. At the prayer-meeting the same\\nmay be done. Or the study may take the form of\\na conversation, the leader reading verse by verse,\\nand all have an opportunity to speak or ask ques-\\ntions.\\nElliptical, In this all sit down with Bible in hand.\\nThe leader asks the questions and the others read\\nthe answers from the book, sometimes a verse, and\\nsometimes only a word. An example of this,\\ngiven by J. H. Vincent, is on Phil. 1. The first two\\nverses are read and the leader says: Two persons\\nare named here. The congregation reads: Paul\\nand Timotheus. L. They are called? C. The\\nservants of Jesus Christ. I^. They address this\\nletter to. C. Saints. L. To what saints? C. To\\nall the saints which are at Philippi, etc.\\nComparative. In this the accounts of a given\\nevent, miracle, parable or teaching given by two\\nwriters is compared. In the course of the reading,\\nnote how they supplement each other; harmonize\\nthem, and note how different minds look at the\\nsame event.\\nTopical. This is one of the most popular forms\\nof Bible reading. Some topic is announced, and\\nthen passages bearing upon the topic are read and", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE 73.\\ncommented upon by the leader or reader, and a\\nsumming up at the close by the leader. The read-\\nings are often interspersed mth song and prayer.\\nThe blackboard is often used with good effect to\\nbring before the eye the results of the readings, to\\ndrill upon them or to review.\\nHOW PREPARED.\\nIn the preparation of the Bible readings, three\\nthings should be aimed at: First, they should be\\ninteresting, otherwise people will not pay attention\\nnow nor come again; second, they should be in-\\nstructive, teaching something worthy to know; and\\nthird, they should be profitable, containing such\\ntruths as will minister to the upbuilding of the\\nsaint and the conversion of the sinner.\\nThe success of the meeting will depend upon the\\npreparation made. Just how to prepare will depend\\nupon the kind of a reading to be given. In Promise,\\nPraise and Bible Bxperience Meetings, the congre-\\ngation has to prepare each his passage and com-\\nment. In Expository, Elliptical and Comparative,\\nthe leader must specially prepare by acquiring a\\ngeneral knowledge of the passage, and planning\\nhis comments and questions. When Topical read-\\nings are allowed to be treated at random by the\\ncongregation, there is not much special preparation\\nto make. If the Bible reading however, comes\\nstrictly under the technical meaning of the term,\\nthe following preparation will be necessary.", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "74 HOW TO UNDERSTAND\\nThe Topic. Select some doctrine or exhortation\\nas to Christian living, which exalts Christ or is\\npractical in its application, such as: Faith, Hope,\\nI/Ove, Grace, Prayer, Sanctification, New Birth,\\nJustification, The New Man, Work, Warfare, etc.\\nConcordance. With your concordance find all the\\npassages bearing on the subject. This may be done\\nby looking up the passages in which the word it-\\nself occurs, or those in which kindred words are\\nfound. For instance, if prayer is the subject, the\\nwords to be looked up will be pray, praying, prayer,\\nask, receive, answered, seek, find, petition, etc.\\nHeadings. These passages are to be divided ac-\\ncording to natural and logical divisions, and placed\\neach under its appropriate heading, instead of\\nbringing them in in a jumble.\\nDevelopment. A study of the passage will show\\nthat there is a central thought to be presented.\\nThis selected, such passages as will be helpful in\\nthe development of the thought should be retained\\nand placed in order. This done, the whole is to be\\nreviewed, the line of thought fully grasped, and\\nthe method of presentation decided upon. Care\\nshould be taken not to use two many passages.\\nOne strong passage, teaching clearly a truth, is\\nbetter than half a dozen, except when the purpose\\nis to corroborate the statement of an author.\\nHOW PRESE^NTED.\\nThe method of presenting a Bible reading should\\nvary with the audience, the character of the study^", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE. 75\\nthe circumstances and the surroundings. In large\\naudiences, the leader should read the passages him-\\nself, clearly, slowly, impressively, so all may hear\\nand understand. Proper emphasis is often a good\\ninterpretation of the text. Or the audience may\\nread responsively or in concert with the leader.\\nTime should always be given so all can turn to the\\nplace.\\nIn a small audience, the references may be given\\nout from the stand, volunteers repeating the refer-\\nence and reading the passage when called for. Or\\nthe references may be written on slips, and these\\ndistributed in the audience before the exercise com-\\nmences. This plan may be used to select good\\nreaders, or to enlist the backward and timid.\\nThe leader should explain what is to be done with\\nthe slips, and if the holder is unwilling to comply,\\nthe slip should be passed back or given to some one\\nwho will. After calling for a passage twice without\\na response, the leader should read the passage him-\\nself and not wait for those who have lost their\\nplace or are not prepared. In commenting upon\\nthe passages, simply call attention to the obvious\\ntruth each presents, and its place and connection in\\nthe subject being developed. Let the Word stand\\nout clear and speak for itself. Put in as little opin-\\nion as possible, and then fortify it with Scripture.\\nDo not seek to be a teacher, but to make the Word\\ndo the teaching, remembering that the less of our\\nthoughts and our ideas in the reading, the better\\nfor all concerned.", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "76 HOW TO UNDERSTAND\\nCHAPTER X.\\nHow to Use the Bible.\\nIN PKRSONAI, WORK.\\nJUST as we have been faithful in using the Bible\\nfor self, just so will we be proficient in using\\nit for others. While it is, in some respects, more\\ndifficult to use the Bible in the hand to hand con-\\nflict with the individual than in public work, yet\\nthe advantage is the same which the attendant\\nphysician, treating a specific disease, has over the\\nBoard of Health, treating a whole city full of peo-\\nple at once.\\nPersonal work with individuals is often not done\\nbecause of a lack of appreciation of its value and\\neffectiveness, sometimes because it is work^ some-\\ntimes because of timidity on the part of the worker,\\nsometimes because of a prejudice against speaking\\nprivately about men s spiritual condition, and\\nmany times because the one zealous to save souls\\nhas not been instructed nor trained in doing the\\nwork. But when the work is done by earnest,\\nhumble men of God, even when not specially\\nequipped, it is greatly blessed of God in the con-\\nversion of sinners and the edification of saints.\\nConditions of Success. The conditions of success\\nare not to be found so much in the person worked\\nwith as the worker himself, for the gospel is the\\npower of God unto salvation unto every one who", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE 77\\nhelievethy The worker who can, therefore, get\\nmen to believe the gospel with all their hearts, is a\\nsuccess. The worker, therefore, should himself be\\na man of strong faith in God s word, and one willing\\nto obey it implicitly.\\n1. Faith. If we are to bring the message with\\npower to others, we must believe that message our-\\nselves. We must believe all the message, for infi-\\ndelity at heart mil destroy our power. Our suc-\\ncess grows as our faith grows in the Thus saith\\nthe Lord of Scripture. We can not afford to\\nmake any concessions to infidelity, for when we do,\\nit is a concession to the devil, it is dishonoring to\\nour Master, and it makes God a liar. When we are\\nfull of faith, we have confidence in our weapon,\\nour cause and our Captain, and can wield the truth\\nwith all our strength.\\n2, Love for Souls. If we do not love souls, we\\ncannot be much interested in their salvation. If\\nwe have not that love, we must get it. To do this,\\nwe will need to consider the value of souls, so pre-\\ncious that Jesus died for them; second, the lost con-\\ndition of souls without Christ, and the agony in\\nstore for them; third, commune with Jesus about\\nthem, for he loves them, and will help us to love\\nthem; fourth, think of our own lost condition and\\nwhat Jesus did for us.\\nJ. Working Knowledge of the Bible. It is not\\npresumed any one will ever know the Bible fully,\\nbut almost any Christian knows, or can know with\\na little study, enough for him to be able to use the", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "HOW TO UNDERSTAND\\nBible in winning souls for Christ. What we are to\\nbe able to do is, 1. To show men their need of a\\nSaviour. This is done by showing them that they\\nare sinners, and under the curse of the law. 2.\\nWe are to show men that Jesus is the Saviour they\\nneed. This can be done by showing that he is the\\nLamb of God which taketh away the sins of the\\nworld. 3. We are to show them how to make the\\nSaviour their Saviour. This is done by leading them\\nto fulfill the divinely-appointed conditions of adop-\\ntion into the family of God. 4. We are to meet\\nthe difficulties which stand in their way. This can\\nbe done by using an appropriate Scripture, for there\\nis an It is written to meet every wile of the\\nwicked one and every doubt of the darkened soul.\\n5. We are to show men how to hold out faithful,\\nand induce the converts to convert others. In so\\ndoing we gain a double joy, we win a double\\ncrown.\\n4, Prayer. ^To succeed we need to pray much.\\nPray that we may be filled with faith and the Holy\\nSpirit; that we may be led to the right person, that\\nwe may be guided in what we shall say, that God\\nwill bless the message which we bear, and the per-\\nson to whom it is borne, and that he will carry on\\nthe work which we have been permitted to help in.\\n5. Preparation. Besides these general condi-\\ntions, there should be special preparation for the\\nwork. In this we will find the Bible to be God s\\narsenal from which we are to get our ammunition.\\nSo far as the knowledge of the Bible is concerned, it", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE 79\\nis well for us, after classifying the truths which the\\nsinner will need, to select such texts as will fit the\\ncase, jotting them down upon slips of paper.\\nThese passages and their position in the Bible,\\nshould be made very familiar to the worker. It\\nwill be well, perhaps, to mark the passages in such\\na manner that they may be readily referred to and\\nknown at a glance. A classification which is sug-\\ngested by a prominent Bible worker is as follows;\\n1. Requirements of God s Law.\\n2. Failure of man to keep the Law.\\n3. Condition of man condemned by the Law.\\n4. Sin of man s rejection of Jesus.\\n5. Christ as substitute under the Law.\\n6. Forgiveness through Christ.\\n7. Illustrations of conversions.\\n8. Answer to Difficulties.\\nProcess. In nearly every case we will find the\\nway prepared for us. It may be we will have to\\nwait for an opportunity, but if we watch for it, it\\nwill surely come in God s time. In most cases a\\nsimple question about their spiritual condition will\\ngive the desired opportunity, and one of the re-\\nmarkable things in the work is how seldom does\\nthe consecrated worker meet with rebuff.\\nThe worker is not to wait until others come, but\\nhe is to **Go, and to seek for open doors. It is\\nwell to select some one person, and lay plans to win\\nhim to Christ. Fish for him. Persons of the same\\nsex and about the same age, are preferable ones to\\ndeal with.", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "80 HOW TO UNDERSTAND\\nIn successfully dealing with them it is necessary\\nto determine {i) Where the person stands. Diag-\\nnose the case, and treat it accordingly. For in-\\nstance, a person who believes God s word and ac-\\ncepts it as authority, needs nothing in the way of\\nevidences. He who believes in Jesus as the Son of\\nGod and his Saviour, needs not to be told of faith.\\nThe penitent needs not to be told to sorrow for his\\nsins. Do not try to do over what has already been\\ndone, but take the next step and Lead him\\ndirectly to Christ. Deal with all his difficulties\\nonly as they stand between him and Christ. His\\nfear, his love of sin, his old companions and habits,\\netc. will all take care of themselves when the man\\nonce unconditionally accepts Jesus as his Saviour\\nand Ivord. Having gotten him to thus surrender\\nhis will and trust in his Lord, show him how he is\\nto turn away from sin (repent), to confess Jesus\\nwith the mouth before men, and obey him in all\\nthings he has commanded, beginning with Chris-\\ntian baptism, and teach him that in thus believing,\\nrepenting, confessing and obeying his Master, he\\nhas the remission of sins, the gift of the Holy Spirit\\nand eternal life. (3) Having led the man thus to\\nobey the Saviour, it will be necessary in order that\\nhe may hold out faithful, to lead him into active\\nservice for the Master, and to active participation\\nin his church duties and worship.\\nHandling Texts. After being prepared with your\\nknowledge of your Bible and plan of treating dif-\\nferent cases, it is important that the texts be used", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE 81\\nin the most effective manner. An illustration of\\nthe use of one or two may be helpful. If in an-\\nswer to your question, Are you a Christian? the\\nperson says No, and to your question, Why\\nnot? he replies, I am too great a sinner, turn to\\n1. Tim. 1: 15, and have him read, *This is a faith-\\nful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ\\nJesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom\\nI am chief. Ask him whom Jesus came to save,\\nHe will reply sinners. If you, then, are a sin-\\nner, to whom does this verse apply? It applies\\nto me. If, then, Jesus came to save you, will you\\nnot trust him and accept him? If he thinks it too\\ngood to believe, insist that this is God s word and\\nurge him to believe it. This will remove his objec-\\ntion and likely lead him to Christ. If, on the other\\nhand, he is self-righteous, show him by Rom. 3: 23,\\nthat all have sinned and come short of the glory of\\nGod, and keep at him until he acknowledges that\\nhe has sinned and come short of the glory of God.\\nThen show him by Rom. 6 23 that the wages of\\nsin is death, and that he has earned those wages.\\nThis will likely make him feel his need of a Saviour.\\nThen lead him to see that Jesus came to save sin-\\nners, and that by trusting in him comes salvation.\\nThe many passages in the chapter on Bible readings\\nfor special classes will be found helpful. It is\\nnot advisable to use very many at once. Often one\\ntext, used over and over again, will prove more ef-\\nfective than to use many. If he is not willing to\\naccept one, he will not likely accept many, and too\\n6", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "82 HOW TO UNDERSTAND\\nmany are apt to confuse. Keep to one text until\\nits truth is fully accepted.\\nBible vs. Experiences. Among the chief diffi-\\nculties in the way of the personal worker, so far as\\nthe person to be dealt with is concerned, is the mis-\\nconception many have in regard to the place re-\\nligious experience has in coming to and serving\\nChrist. The testimony of so prominent a Bible\\nworker as Major Whitter will be both interesting\\nand helpful. He says, The sinner has a concep-\\ntion of what a religious experience ought to be,\\nand waits for it to come to him. He tries to work\\nup his feelings by thinking of his sins, and by\\nthinking of the sufferings of Christ, with the idea\\nthat when he has produced feeling enough, that\\nwill be conversion, while he has not really laid hold\\nof Christ at all with a saving faith. By the use of\\nthe Word, we present Christ to the sinner as the\\nobject of faith, and the Scriptures revealing Christ\\nas the ground of faith. God s promises in the gos-\\npel are like so many hands held out to the sinner\\nto draw him to Jesus. He tells of a woman who\\nfor forty j^ears had been a follower of Jesus, but\\nhad no assurance, because she had no feeling.\\nWhen she was shown by the Word that she was jus-\\ntified, not by her feelings but by her faith and\\nobedience, she was happy. He further adds: It\\nis of the enemy of souls to lead the convicted sin-\\nner to look for the experience of feeling and the\\nresults of believing before he believes. He is told,\\nand truly so, that all the steps of his conversion", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE 83\\nmust be the work of the Holy Spirit; that he must\\nbe drawn by the Spirit, quickened by the Spirit,\\nand that when he is born again the Spirit will bear\\nwitness with his spirit that he is a child of God\\nall of which is most blessedly true ^but all of which\\nthe anxious soul will invariably misapply. We are\\nto show him that the Holy Spirit does all this\\nthrough the Word, as presenting Christ. That he\\nis drawn by the gospel invitations (Matt. 11:28);\\nthat he is quickened when he believes; that Christ\\nwas delivered for our sins and raised again for our\\njustification (Rom. 4: 25); and his attention should\\nbe especially directed to the testimony that the\\nsinner can know nothing of the indwelling and\\nthe witness of the Holy Spirit until after he be-\\nlieves. See John 1: 12; 7: 38, 39; 1 John 5: 10, 13;\\nKph. 11: 13 and Rom. 8: 16, in connection with\\nRom. 5: land 8:1.\\nIn every Scripture, belief and obedience pre-\\ncede Holy Spirit. We must lift up Jesus, Jesus\\nonly, as revealed in his Word. Tell the message of\\na finished and complete salvation, and insist that\\nthe sinner without reference to his excuses, his\\nplea of inability or his desire for delay obey im-\\nmediately, his duty being to surrender his will to\\nGod s will, in believing in Jesus. Insist that his\\nwill to be saved, and his obedience to God s com-\\nmands is all he wants. Show him he is permitted\\nto take salvation; that he is invited to take it, that\\nhe is entreated to take it, that he is commanded to\\ntake it, that your warrant for urging him is Christ s", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "84 HOW TO UNDERSTAND\\ncommand to compel them to come in, and that\\nChrist said they are lost because they will not\\ncome/\\nSUNDRY SUGGKSTIONS.\\nBe natural, kind, courteous, interested.\\nDon t argue. Show the teaching of the Word,\\nand let the truth do its work.\\nOur work is to make men know the gospel, and\\nthe whole of it.\\nThe Sword of the Spirit is our weapon; use it,\\ndon t argue about it.\\nTeach the verities of the Bible, not those things\\nabout which men may speculate.\\nDon t suppose you must use all your ammunition\\non one man. One verse containing the truth de-\\nsired to be taught, will be more effective than half\\na dozen, for in using so many we often confuse.\\nDon t make a set speech. Use tact.\\nIn most cases those who object to the Bible are\\nnot seeking for light, but to establish themselves in\\ndarkness.\\nTreat disbelief as a sin to be repented of. If one\\nsay, I can not believe the Bible, answer, **It is\\ntrue, nevertheless, and if you don t believe it you\\nare lost. If he says, I cannot believe Jesus is\\nthe Christ, answer, **Heisthe Christ, neverthe-\\nless, and if you do not believe it, you will be\\ndamned.\\nIf compelled to leave an inquirer before he is\\nbrought to surrender to Christ, leave him with his", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "AND USE THE BIBLE, 85\\nfinger on a text, admonishing him to trust in that\\nand not in his feelings or his goodness, nor any-\\nthing but God and his Word.\\nLead the sinner to look away from himself and\\nunto Jesus for his salvation.", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "Bible Readings*^\\nFOR SPECIAL CLASSES.\\nI donH care anything about salvation. lam\\nnot interested in the matter.\\nAll have sinned. Rom. 3: 23.\\nAll have gone astray. Isa. 53: 6.\\nCursed if keep not all the law. Gal. 3: 10.\\nWages of sin is death. Rom. 6 23.\\nConsequences of sin. Jno. 3: 36; 2 Thess. 1: 7-9;\\nJohn 8: 24.\\nThe greatest commandment broken. Matt. 22:\\n37, 38.\\nRejecting Jesus damns. Heb. 10: 28, 29; John\\n16:9.\\nJesus bruised for our iniquities. Isa. 53: 5, 6.\\nGod gave his Son for me. John 3: 16.\\nWhat Jesus suffered for us. 1 Pet. 2: 24; 1 Pet.\\n1:18; Ivukel7:24.\\nAll men die and then the judgment. Heb. 9: 27.\\n2, lam too great a sinner. I ayn lost.\\nJesus came to save sinners. 1 Tim. 1: 15.\\nJesus came to save the lost. I^uke 19: 10.\\nWhile yet sinners, Jesus died for us. Rom. 5: 8.\\nJesus came to call sinners. Matt. 9: 12, 13.\\nFor suggestions on how to use, see chapters on How to\\nUse the Bible\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In Public\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In Private.\\n87", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "BIBLE READINGS\\nWhosoever calleth on the Ivord shall be saved.\\nRom. 10:13.\\nWhosoever believeth hath remission of sins.\\nActs 10: 43.\\nJesus saves to the uttermost those who come.\\nHeb. 7: 25.\\nThough your sins be as scarlet, be white. Isa. 1\\n18.\\nJ. I cannot hold out.\\nChrist able to keep you from falling. Jude 24.\\nChrist keep what intrasted to him. 2 Tim. 1: 12.\\nChrist not allow to be tempted above what\\nable. 1 Cor. 10: 13.\\nWe kept by power of God. 1 Pet. 1:5; John 10:\\n28, 29.\\n4, I am too weak.\\nGod knows our weakness and will help. 1 Cor.\\n10: 13.\\nWe can do all things through Christ. Phil. 4: 13.\\nChrist s strength perfected in our weakness. 2\\nCor. 12: 9, 10.\\nGod is present help in trouble. Psa. 46: 1.\\n5, God wont receive ine. I am afraid I am not\\none of the elect.\\nGod will have all men to be saved. 1 Tim. 2: 4.\\nGod not willing any should perish. 1 Pet. 3:9.\\nWhosoever will, may take of water of life. Rev.\\n22:17.\\nWhosoever calleth on Lord, saved. Rom. 10: 13.\\nThose who come will not be cast out. John 6: 37.\\n6, Waiting for a call.", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "BIBLE READINGS 89\\nThe Spirit and the bride say come. Rev. 22: 17.\\nJesus says, Come unto me. Matt. 11: 28.\\nJesus says, Come, for all things are now ready.\\nLuke 14: 17.\\nIf not hear these calls, not hear one from dead.\\nLuke 16: 30, 31.\\ncannot give up my evil ways.\\nYou must or perish. Gal. 6: 7, 8.\\nYou can w^th Christ s help. Phil. 4: 13.\\nTrust in Christ, for in him is all power. Matt.\\n28: 18.\\nTrust risen Christ for power. 1 Cor. 15: 3, 4.\\n8. Seeking but cannot fifid.\\nIf seek with whole heart shall find. Jer. 29 13.\\nBlessing found in obedience. Acts 2: 28.\\nNote. in most cases of failure, persons looking\\nfor something not promised, or else seeking in\\nman s way and not God s.\\np. have no feeling.\\nTo make them feel that they are sinners, use\\ntexts under Indifferent.\\nFeeling needed is desire of salvation. Isa. 55: V.\\nRev. 22: 17.\\nNot feeling, but faith needed. Acts 16: 31.\\nGod no place in the Bible requires feeling, but\\nfaith, repentance and obedience.\\nThe feeling that the Holy Spirit has come is only\\nexperienced after obedience. Acts 5: 32; 2: 38.\\n10. I am afraid of companions.\\nTrust in God, not in men. Prov. 29: 25.\\nResult of holding to evil companions. Prov. 13:20.", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "90 BIBLE READINGS\\nBlCvSsed in giving up evil companions. Psa. 1:1.\\nBetter companions gained in Christ. 1 John 1:3.\\n11. I will be persecuted.\\nPersecution is the path to glory. 2 Tim. 2: 12;\\n3:12.\\nJesus gives joy even in persecution. Matt. 5:\\n10-12.\\nSuffering now less than glory then. Rom. 8: 18.\\nLook for victory in persecution. Heb. 12: 3, 4.\\n12. Too much to give up.\\nlyose all rather than soul. Mark 8 36.\\nWhat lose is less than gain. Phil. 3:7, 8.\\nNot asked to give up any good thing. Rom. 8 32.\\nThings must give up worthless. Ivuke 12: 16-21;\\n1 John 2: 17.\\n13. Christian life too hard.\\nThe way of the transgressor hard. Prov. 13: 15.\\nThe way of the righteous blessed. Matt. 11 28-\\n30.\\nChristian blessed even in persecution. Matt. 5\\n10-12.\\nGod s commands are not grievous. 1 John 5: 3.\\n14. It will hurt my business.\\nWhat profit if gain all and lose soul? Mark 8: 38.\\nSeek kingdom first, and all necessary things\\nadded. Matt. 6:32, 33.\\n75-. It is too late.\\nGod s time is now. 2 Cor. 6: 2.\\nMay come, even at last hour. lyuke 23: 39-43.\\nGod delajn-ug judgment that you may come. 2\\nPet. 3: 9.", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "BIBLE READINGS 91\\nBven in latter days, turn, and God be merciful.\\nDeut. 4: 30, 31.\\nIf willing, not too late. Rev. 22: 17.\\ni6. Self-righteous. am not such a great sin-\\nTier I do the best I can. I have never done\\nanything so very bad.\\nIf trust in own works, are under the law and\\ntherefore under curse for not keeping it. Gal. 3: 10.\\nIf offended in one point of law, guilty of all.\\nJas. 2: 10.\\nBy deeds of law no man be justified. Gal. 2: 16;\\nRom. 3: 19, 20.\\nBroken the greatest commandment. Matt. 22:\\n37, 38.\\nImpossible to please God without faith. Heb.\\n11:6.\\nThe greatest sin is to reject Jesus. Johr 16: 9.\\nEternal life depends solely on accepting Jesus.\\nJohn 3: 16.\\nGreatest punishment for those who reject Jesus.\\nHeb. 10: 28, 29.\\nI J. God is too good to damn any one.\\nWe know nothing of God*s goodness but what\\nthe Bible reveals.\\nPurpose of God s goodness is to lead men to re-\\npentance. To trample on goodness is to treasure up\\nwrath. Rom. 2: 2, 4, 5.\\nGod will reject those who reject his Son. John\\n8:21, 24; 3: 36.\\nMen damn themselves in spite of God. John 5:\\n40; 2 Pet. 3: 9-11; Kzek. 33: 11.", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "92 BIBLE READINGS\\nLife freely offered hut ye will not come. John 5:\\n40.\\nGod spared not angels who persisted in sin, and\\nwill not you. 2 Pet. 2: 4-6, 9.\\nExcept ye repent, ye shall perish. Luke 13: 3.\\ni8. I am trying to be a Christian.\\nThis is not what Jesus requires.\\nWe are to receive Jesus as Saviour. John 1: 12.\\nNot to try but to trust. Acts 16 31.\\nWe are justified by his grace. Rom. 3: 23-25.\\nig. I feel I aTU going to heaven. I feel I\\nam saved.\\nIf not believe on Son shall not see life. John 3:\\n36.\\nIt is not faith that rests upon feelings, but faith\\nthat rests upon the Word of God that saves.\\nThe Pharisee felt he was all right, but was all\\nwrong. Luke 18 9-14.\\nSaul felt he was right when he persecuted the\\nchurch. Acts 26: 9, 10.\\nThere is a way which seemeth right to a man,\\nthe end of which is death. Prov. 14: 12.\\n20. Sinner, yes, but will he saved.\\nThe unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom.\\n1 Cor. 6: 9, 10.\\nIf living in sin not overcome world, and if so not\\nbom of God. 1 John 5:4,5.\\n21. I lack assurance.\\nWe may know we have eternal life. 1 John 5 13.\\nIf we have received Jesus, sons of God. John 1\\n12.", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "BIBLE READINGS 93\\nIf keep commandments, right to tree of life.\\nRev. 22:14.\\nIf fulfilled requirements, saved. Mark 16: 15, 16;\\nActs 2: 38.\\nIf we believe not witnesses of Word, make God\\na liar. 1 John 5: 10.\\nSin confessed and repented of gives assurance.\\nJohn 8: 12; 1 John 1:9.\\n22. Backsliders.\\nWhat iniquity have you found in the Lord. Jer.\\n2:5.\\nIt is an evil thing and a bitter to forsake God.\\nJer. 2:19.\\nSin brings a man down to level of brutes. Luke\\n15:13-17.\\nIf acknowledge sin, repent, lyord will receive.\\nJer. 3: 12, 13, 22.\\nGod loves and will receive again. 1 John 1:9.\\nProdigal returned. Note steps in. Luke 15: 11-\\n24.\\n2^. I will wait. Not to-night. Sotne other\\ntime.\\nSeek Lord when may be found (now). Isa. 55: 6.\\nAfter often reproved, suddenly destroyed. Risk)\\nProv. 29: 1.\\nThose ready, went in, those not, shut out. Matt.\\n25:10-12.\\nTo-night thy soul may be required. I#uke 12:\\n19, 20.\\n24. Must fix my business first.\\nSeek first the kingdom. Matt. 6 33.", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": ":94 BIBLE READINGS\\n2j. I am waiting God s time.\\nWill you accept Christ in God s time?\\n*Now is the time. 2 Cor. 6:2.\\nTo-day, harden not hearts. Heb. 3: 15.\\n26. I am, too young.\\nIn days of youth time to seek God. Eccl. 12: 1.\\nIf can hear, believe, repent, obey Gospel, not too\\nyoung.\\n^7. Hypocrites in the church,\\nKach one give an account of himself. Rom. 14:\\n12.\\nInexcusable, when do not obey gospel. Rom. 2:1.\\nWhat is that to thee? Follow thou me. John 21\\n21, 22.\\nNoTK. Counterfeit shows value of true. Will\\nyou live in church with hypocrites a few years, or\\nwith them in hell for eternity?\\n28, Christians mistreated m.e\\nBut what iniquity found in Ivord? Jer. 2: 5.\\nNote. It is not right to mistreat God, because\\nsome man mistreated you.\\nNecessity of forgiving. Matt. 6: 14, 15; 18: 23-\\n35; Eph. 4: 30-32.\\n2g, Dont like God s way.\\nNote. if men are really in earnest about being\\nsaved, the manner will not stand in the way.\\nUse texts for Indifferent.\\nSin of replying against God. Rom. 9: 20.\\nMay not know just why God s way is this. Rom.\\n11:33.\\nJO. God is unjust to create and then damn.", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "BIBLE READINGS 95\\nGod hath no pleasure in death of wicked. Kzek.\\n33: 11.\\nGod not willing any should perish. 2 Pet. 3:9.\\nGod wills all men to be saved. 1 Tim. 2:3, 4.\\nThe whole cause of man s damnation his re-\\nfusal to come to Christ and be saved. John 5 40\\nMatt. 23: 37; John 3: 36; John 3: 16.\\nj7. The Bible is full of contradictions,\\nNoTK. Hand the Bible to the objector and ask\\nhim to find one. He will usually be put to shame.\\nSeeming contradictions are not necessarily contra-\\ndictions, and our failure to know is the cause of\\nseeming contradictions.\\nFoolishness to unsaved is power of God. 1 Cor.\\n1:18.\\nGospel hid to them lost. 2 Cor. 4: 3, 4.\\nPleasure in unrighteousness makes us believe lie.\\n2 Thess. 2: 10-12.\\nIf really wish to know the doctrine, do his will.\\nJohn 7: 17.\\nWhen we come as children, we know truth.\\nMatt. 11:25.\\n^2. The Bible is foolishness to me.\\nBecause you are unsaved. 1 Cor. 1 18.\\nBecause blinded by god of this world. 2 Cor. 4:\\n3,4.\\nBecause it is spiritually discerned. 1 Cor. 2: 14.\\nBecause ye seek not the honor which comes from\\nGod. John 5: 44.\\njj. I don t think there is a God,\\nSin is the source of this unbelief. Psa. 14: 1-3.", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "96 BIBLE READINGS\\nThe works of God s hands testify of him. Psa.\\n19: 1, 2.\\nUnbeliever without excuse. Rom. 1: 19-21.\\nj^. don t know about future existence.\\nDeath must come before life. 1 Cor. 15: 35, 36.\\nJesus says the dead shall rise. John 5: 28, 29.\\nJ5. am an honest doubter.\\nIf any man will do his will, he shall know doc-\\ntrine whether it be of God. John 7: 17.\\nNote. if honest, and believes there is a God,\\nthen is willing to do his will. If not believe there\\nis a God, will want to do right. In either case\\nwill be willing to follow the right as rapidly as they\\nfind it. Lead them to pray to God to show them\\nthe right, and to promise to do God s will as soon\\nas they know it. If not willing to do so, shows\\nthey are not ho7iest doubters, but sinners in love\\nwith sin.\\nj6. donH believe in future punishment.\\nWho have part in lake of fire. Rev. 21: 8.\\nThose who in lake of fire are alive. Rev. 19 20.\\nThe lake of fire did not destroy life. Rev. 20: 10.\\nThose not in I^amb s book of life in lake. Rev.\\n13:7, 8.\\nDestruction of soul and body different. Matt.\\n10: 28.\\nAfter body killed, soul may be punished in hell.\\nLuke 12: 5.\\nWicked dead think, remember, feel, talk. Luke\\n16: 23-26.\\nInhabitants are reserved alive. 2 Pet. 2: 4; Jude6.", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "BIBLE READINGS 97\\nBetter never been born than go to hell. Mark\\n14: 21.\\nSorer punishment than death. Heb. 10: 28, 29.\\nWHAT MUST I DO TO BK SAVED?\\nThe proper answer to this question will depend\\nupon who asks it. If a sinner, certain things will\\nbe required which will not be required of a saint.\\nThe answers belovv are those given by Christ and\\nhis apostles, first to sinners, then to saints.\\nChrist* s Commission. Go ye into all the world\\nand preach the gospel to every creature. He that\\nbelieveth and is baptized shall be saved. Mark 16\\n15, 16,\\nThus it behooved Christ to suffer and to rise\\nagain from the dead the third day, and that repenU\\nance and remission of sins should be preached\\namong all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And\\nye are witnesses of these things. Luke 24: 46-48.\\nUnder this commission the apostles demanded the\\nfollowing things of the sinner, viz.\\nPaul to Philippian Jailer. The jailer, frightened\\nbecause of earthquakes, etc., fell down at the feet\\nof Paul and Silas and cried, Sirs, what shall I do\\nto be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord\\nJesus Christy and thou shalt be saved, and thy\\nhouse. And they spake unto him the word of the\\nLord^ and to all that were in his house. And he\\ntook them the saline hour of the nighty and washed\\ntheir stripes; and was baptized, he and his, straight-\\nway. And when he had brought them into his\\n7", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "98 BIBLE READINGS\\nhouse, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, be-\\nlieving in God with all his house, Acts 16: 31-34.\\nPeter and the Pentecostians. Peter preached,\\n^Therefore let all the house of Israel know as-\\nsuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom\\nye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. Now\\nwhen they heard this, they were pricked in their\\nhea^d^ and said unto Peter and to the rest of the\\napostles. Men and brethren, what shall we do?\\nThen Peter said unto them, Repent^ and be bap-\\ntized every one of you iri the name of Jesus Christ\\nfor the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the\\ngift of the Holy Ghost. Then they that gladly re-\\nceived his word were baptized. Acts 2: 36-38, 41.\\nPhilip and the Samaritans. Philip went down\\nto the city of Samaria, and proclaimed unto thetn\\nChrist. And the multitude gave heed with one\\naccord unto the things that were spoken by Philip\\nwhen they heard and saw the signs they did.\\nBut when they believed Philip preaching good tid-\\nings concerning the kingdom of God and the name\\nof Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and\\nwomen. Acts 8: 4-6, 12.\\nPhilip and the Eunuch. The eunuch asked Philip\\nfor an explanation of Isa. 53: 7, 8. Then Philip\\nopened his mouth, and began at the same script-\\nure, and preached unto him Jesus. And as they\\nwent on their way, they came unto a certain water:\\nand the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth\\nhinder me to be baptized? And Philip said. If thou\\nbelievest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "BIBLE READINGS 99\\nanswered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the\\nSon of God. And he commanded the chariot to\\nstand still: and they went down both into the water\\nboth Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized hiva.\\nAnd when they were come up out of the water, the\\nSpirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the\\neunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way\\nrejoicing y Acts 8: 35-39.\\nPeter and Cornelius. The angel told Cornelius to\\nsend for Peter, Who shall tell thee words where-\\nby thou and all thy house shall be saved. Acts\\n11: 14, Peter came and spoke to them of Jesus.\\nWhile Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost\\nfell on all them which heard the word. And they\\nof the circumcision w^hich believed were astonished,\\nas many as came with Peter, because that on the\\nGentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy\\nGhost. For they heard them speak with tongues^\\nand magnify God. Then answered Peter, Can any\\nman forbid water, that these should not be bap-\\ntized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well\\nas we? And he commanded them to be baptized in\\nthe name of the Lord. Acts 10: 44-48.\\nAnanias and Saul of Tarsus. Saul, on his way to\\nDamascus to destroy the Christians, sees Jesus, and\\nSaul said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord\\nsaid unto him, Arise, and go into Damascus; and\\nthere it shall be told thee of all things which are\\nappointed for thee to do. Acts 22: 10. And he\\nwas three days without sight, and neither did eat\\nnor drink, Acts 9: 9. Then Ananias came, put\\nLi OTCt", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "100 BIBLE READINGS\\nhis hands on his eyes, opened them, told him of\\nGod*s purpose to make him his mtness to the Gen-\\ntiles, and said, And now why tarriest thou? arise y\\nand be baptized^ and wash away thy sins, calling on\\nthe na^ne of the Lord.^^ Acts 22: 16.\\nWhat MEN did in these cases may be summar-\\nized as follows: The evangelist, or apostles preached\\nthe gospel of Jesus Christ; those to whom it was\\npreached, heard, gave heed, believed, gladly re~\\nceived their word; they repented of their sins and\\nturned to serve the living God; and without delay,\\nin the same hour of the night in one case, were\\nbaptized in the name of Jesus, calling on the name\\nof the Lord, and then went on their way rejoicing.\\nIn doing these things they were saved, received the\\nremission of their sins and the gift of the Holy\\nGhost.\\nGo THOU AND DO WKEWISE.", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "Bible Readings^\\nGENERAL.\\nFAITH.\\nPaith necessary to please God. Heb. 11: 6.\\nFaith comes by hearing. Rom. 10: 17.\\nDivinely revealed confession of faith. Matt. 16:\\n16, 17.\\nConfession of faith and salvation. Rom. 10: 8-10.\\nWhat written to give faith. John 20: 30, 31.\\nWhat to believe to have salvation. Rom. 1 16,\\n17.\\nFaith makes wise nnto salvation. 2 Tim. 3: 14-16.\\nBorn of God, through faith in Christ. 1 John 5:1.\\nFacts of Gospel to believe. 1 Cor. 15: 1-5\\nCan faith alone justify. Jas. 2: 24.\\nFaith perfected by works. Jas. 2: 21, 22.\\nHe that believeth on the Son:\\nHath everlasting life. John 3: 36.\\nShall never thirst. John 6: 35.\\nIs not condemned. John 3: 18.\\nShall not be confounded. 1 Pet. 2:6.\\nThough he were dead, yet shall he live. John\\n11:25.\\nShall never die. John 11: 26.\\nShall not abide in darkness. John 12: 46.\\nShall not perish. John 3: 15.\\nShall receive remission of sins. Acts 10: 43.\\n101", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "102 BIBLE READINGS\\nShall not be ashamed. Rom. 9: 33.\\nHe that belie veth not:\\nIs condemned already. John 3: 18.\\nGod hath made him a liar. 1 John 5 10.\\nShall be condemned. Mark 16: 16.\\nShall not see life. John 3: 36.\\nREPKNTANCK.\\nRepentance and remission of sins to be preached,\\nlyuke 24: 4\\nGodly sorrow worketh repentance. 2 Cor. 7: 9,\\n10.\\nSinner called to repentance. I/uke 5: 31, 32.\\nAll men called to repentance. Acts 17: 29, 30.\\nAll need repentance, all sinners. Rom. 3: 10-12.\\nGod wishes all to come to repentance. 2 Pet. 3: 9.\\nRepent or perish. Luke 13: 1-5.\\nBelievers to repent. Acts 2: 36-38.\\nPenitent believers to be baptized. Acts 2: 38.\\nJoy in heaven when sinner repents. Luke 15: 7.\\nBAPTISM.\\nI. Authority for.\\nJesus was baptized. Matt. 3: 13-16.\\nJohn s baptism from God. Matt. 21: 25.\\nFather, Son and Holy Spirit approve it. Matt.\\n3: 13-16.\\nJesus commands baptism in commission. Matt.\\n28: 19.\\nJesus commands baptism in commission. Mark\\n16:16.\\nPeter commands it in obeying commission. Acts\\n2:38.", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "BIBLE READINGS 103\\nPhilip baptized Samaritans. Acts 8: 12.\\nPhilip baptized eunuch. Acts 8: 36-38.\\nAnanias baptized Saul. Acts 9: 18.\\nPeter baptized Cornelius, Gentile. Acts 10: 47.\\nPaul baptized lyvdia. Acts 16: 15.\\nPaul baptized Philippian jailer. Acts 16: 33.\\nPaul baptized Corinthians. Acts 18: 8.\\nPaul re-baptized those baptized with John s bap-\\ntism. Acts 19: 1-5.\\n2. Element.\\nJesus baptized in Holy Spirit. Matt. 3: 11; Acts\\n2:33; 11:15,16.\\nJohn the Baptist baptized in the Jordan. Matt.\\n3:6.\\nPhilip baptized in water. Acts 8: 36-38.\\nPeter baptized in water. Acts 10: 47, 48.\\n3. Administrator.\\nJohn the Baptist. Mark 1 4.\\nJesus disciples. John 4: 1, 2.\\nPhilip, the deacon. Acts 8.: 38.\\nPaul, the apostle. 1 Cor. 1: 16.\\nPaul s associates. 1 Cor. 1: 15, 16.\\nAnanias, of Damascus. Acts 9: 18.\\n4. Who to be baptized\\nThose taught. Matt. 28: 19.\\nThose who believe the gospel. Mark 16: 15, 16.\\nThose who repent. Acts 2: 38.\\nThose who gladly receive the word. Acts 2: 41\\nMen and women. Acts 8: 12.\\nThose who believed with all the heart. Acts 8\\n37.", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "104 BIBLE READINGS\\nThose who believed Jesus, the Christ. Acts 8: 37.\\nThose on whom the Spirit had been miraculously\\npoured out and who spake with tongues. Acts 10:\\n47.\\nJews. Acts 2: 5, 41.\\nGentiles, jailer, Corinthians, etc. Acts 10: 47; 16:\\n33; 18: 8.\\nMoral man, Cornelius. Acts 10: 47.\\nWicked man, jailer. Acts 16: 33.\\nNote. in household baptisms nothing to in-\\ndicate that there were any who differed in any re-\\nspect from head of house; for instance, in the ac-\\ncount of jailer s household (Acts 16), we find that\\nthey all heard the word of the Lord (v. 32) that\\nthey all believed the word (v. 34) and that they\\nwere all baptized (v. 33).\\n5. Manner of baptizing.\\nJesus went to the water. Matt. 3: 13.\\nBoth Philip and the eunuch went down into the\\nwater. Acts 8: 38.\\nWhen Paul baptized people, he buried them.\\nRom. 6:4.\\nWhen Paul baptized people he planted them.\\nRom. 6:5.\\nWhen Paul baptized people he washed their bod-\\nies. Heb. 10: 22.\\nWhen Paul baptized people he raised them up,\\nRom. 6: 4.\\nBoth Philip and the eunuch came up out of the\\nwater. Acts 8: 39.", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "BIBLE READINGS 105\\nJesus Vent up straightway out of the water.\\nMatt. 3:16.\\n6. Effects of baptism.\\nSaved. Mark 16: 16.\\nReceived remission of sins. Acts 2: 38.\\nReceived gift of Holy Ghost. Acts 2: 38.\\nWashed away sins. Acts 22: 16.\\nBaptized into Christ. Rom. 6 3.\\nPut on Christ. Gal. 3: 27.\\nFulfilled righteousness. Matt. 3: 15.\\nInto.\\nNoah entered into the ark. Gen. 7: 13.\\nJoseph was cast into the pit. Gen. 37: 24.\\nThe Hebrew children were cast into the fiery\\nfurnace. Dan. 3: 23.\\nDaniel was cast into the den of lions. Dan. 6: 16.\\nWicked cast into hell. Mark 9: 47.\\nRighteous go into heaven. Acts 1: 11.\\nPhilip and the eunuch went down into the water.\\nActs 8: 38.\\nOut of.\\nAdam driven out of the garden. Gen. 3: 24.\\nNoah went out of the ark. Gen. 8: 19.\\nL/Ot went out of Sodom. Gen. 19: 14.\\nJoseph was taken out of the dungeon. Gen. 41:\\n14.\\nDaniel was taken up out of the den of lions.\\nDan. 6: 23.\\nPhilip and the eunuch came up out of the water.\\nActs .8: 39.", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "106 BIBLE READINGS\\nJustification.\\nIt brings\\nPeace for the past. Rom. 5: 1.\\nGrace for the present. Rom. 5: 2.\\nGlory for the future. Rom. 5:3.\\nIt is attained\\nBy faith. Rom. 5: 1.\\nBy works, and not by faith only. Jas. 2: 24.\\nBy the blood of Christ. Rom. 5: 8, 9.\\nBy the resurrection of Christ. Rom. 4: 25.\\nBy the Lord. Rom. 8: 33.\\nHenceforth\\nWalk not as other Gentiles. Bph. 4: 17.\\nNot serve sin. Rom. 6:6.\\nNot to live to selves, but to Him. 2 Cor. 5: 15.\\nNot to be children, but men. Eph. 4: 14.\\nCalled not servants, but friends. John 15: 15.\\nCrown of Righteousness laid up for me. 2 Tim.\\n4:8.\\nGod Works\\nFor us. John 17: 4.\\nIn us. Heb. 13: 21 and Phil. 2: 13.\\nBy us. 2 Cor. 3: 20.\\nWith us. Mark 16: 20.\\nFour Faithful Sayings.\\nChrist came to save sinners. 1 Tim. 1: 15.\\nGodliness is profitable. 1 Tim. 4: 8, 9.\\nIf we suffer we shall reign. 2 Tim. 2: 11-13.\\nAccording to His mercy we are saved. Titus 3:\\n5-8.", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "BIBLE READINGS 107\\nPaul s Experience.\\nA. D. 59. Least of apostles. 1 Cor. 15: 9.\\nA. D. 64. Less than least of saints. Bph. 3: 8.\\nA. D. 65. Chief of sinners. ITim. 1: 15.\\nChurch Services.\\n1 Cor. 14: 40. Let all things be done decently\\nand in order.\\n1 Cor. 14: 26. Let all things be done unto edify-\\ning.\\n1 Cor. 10: 31. Whatsoever ye do, do all to the\\nglory of God.\\nThe Spirit in Galatians V.\\nWalk in the Spirit (v. 16).\\nLed by the Spirit (v. 18).\\nLive in the Spirit (v. 25).\\nGod s Riches.\\nRiches of his goodness. Rom. 2: 4.\\nRiches of his grace. Eph. 2:7.\\nRiches of his glory. Rom. 9: 23.\\nSaved.\\nBy grace. Bph. 2: 5.\\nBy Jesus Christ. Matt. 1: 21; Luke 19: 10.\\nBy the Gospel. Rom. 1: 16; 1 Cor. 15: 1-5.\\nBy faith. Acts 16: 31.\\nBy repentance. Luke 13: 1-5; 2 Pet. 3: 9.\\nBy confessing Christ. Matt. 10: 32; Rom. 10: 9.\\nBy calling on his name. Acts 22: 16; Rom. 10: 13.\\nBy baptism. Mark 16: 15, 16; 1 Pet. 3: 20, 21.\\nBy works. Phil. 2: 12; Jas. 2: 24.", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "108\\nBIBLE READINGS\\nThreefold Gospel.\\nFacts.\\nA\\nCom;\\nmands.\\nDeath\\n1 Cor. 15:15.\\nBelieve.\\nMk. 16:16.\\nBurial\\n1 Cor. 15:15.\\nRepent.\\nActs 2:38.\\nResurrection.\\n1\\nBe baptized. Mark\\nCor.\\n15: 15.\\n/jESUs\\\\\\nTHE \\\\V\\nCHRIST\\n16: 16.\\nPromises.\\nRemission of Sins. Acts 2: 38.\\nGift of Holy Ghost. Acts 2: 38.\\nGift of eternal life. Rom. 6: 23.\\nFacts are to be believed.\\nCommands to be obeyed.\\nPromises to be enjoyed.", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "BIBLE READINGS 109\\nAll Thine Heart.\\nROM. IO:iO.Believe[MATT.22:37. Love^\\nMARK 2 8 Reason/ \\\\R0M.9:2.Sorrowl\\nINTELLECl/ XfEEtilNG.\\nEC0R.9: 7 Purpose.\\nHeb.4:12. Intenr\\nWILL\\nThe whole heart not only Ivoves and Hates, thus\\nincluding the Feelings, but it Believes and Reasons,\\nthus including the Intellect; and Purposes and has\\nIntentions, thus including the Will. To change\\nthe whole heart, therefore, is to change the Intel-\\nlect, Feelings and Will.\\nAll the Heart.\\nServe God with. Josh. 22: 5.\\nLove God with. Matt. 22: 37.\\nTurn to God with. Deut. 30: 2.", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "110 BIBLE READINGS\\nWalk before God with. 1 Kings 2: 4.\\nFollow God with. 1 Kings 14: 8.\\nSeek God with. 2 Chr. 15: 12,\\nPraise God with. Psa. 86: 12.\\nTrust God with. Prov. 3: 5.\\nBeHeve God with. Acts 8: 37.\\nObey God with. Deut. 26: 16.\\nRejoice with. Zeph. 3: 14.\\nPreach the Word.\\n1. It is life. Phil. 2: 16.\\n2. It is light. Psa. 119:105.\\n3. It is power. Rom. 1: 16.\\n4. It is pure. Psa. 119: 140.\\n5. It is unchanging. Psa. 119: 86.\\n6. It searches. Heb. 4: 12.\\n7. It judges. John 12: 48.\\nThe Bible.\\nIt tells the sinner of a Saviour. Matt. 1: 21.\\nIt promises the slave freedom. John 8: 32.\\nIt proclaims to the rebel pardon. Isa. 55: 6, 7.\\nIt guides the lost to heaven. John 14: 6.\\nIt tells the dead of life. Bph. 2: 1-8.\\nIt points the exile to a home. 2 Sam. 14: 14.\\nIt offers the weary rest. Matt. 11: 28-30.\\nWord of God.\\nIt is quick (alive) and powerful. Heb. 4: 12.\\nIt is the power of God unto salvation. Rom. 1: 16.\\nWe are born again of Word. 1 Pet. 1: 23.\\nWe grow thereby. 1 Pet. 2: 2.", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "BIBLE READINGS 111\\nWe are cleansed by it. John 15: 3.\\nWe are sanctified by it. John 17: 7.\\nWe are thoroughly furnished. 2 Tim. 3: 16, 17.\\nWe are defended, sword of Spirit. Eph. 6: 17.\\nWe are judged b}^ it. John 12: 48.\\nBetter Things of the New Covenant.\\nHeb.\\n7:\\n9.\\nBetter hope.\\nHeb.\\n7:\\n22.\\nBetter testament.\\nHeb.\\n8:\\n6.\\nBetter covenant.\\nHeb.\\n8:\\n6.\\nBetter promises.\\nHeb.\\n9:\\n23.\\nBetter sacrifices.\\nHeb.\\n10:\\n34.\\nBetter substance.\\nHeb.\\n11:\\n35.\\nBetter resurrection,\\nHeb.\\n11:\\n16.\\n^Better country.\\nHeb,\\n12:\\n24.\\nBetter things.\\nPower and Duty of Choice.\\nGen. 3: 6. Adam and Eve, before the fall, like\\nGod.\\nGen. 4: 7. Cain, after fall, still able to choose.\\nDeut. 30: 19. Moses calls on Israel to choose\\ngood.\\nJosh. 24: 15. Joshua calls on Israel to choose\\nGod or idols.\\nPsa. 119: 30. David chooses way of truth.\\nProv. 1: 28, 30. They choose the way of evil.\\nLuke 10: 42. Mary chooses good part.\\n1 Pet. 3: 9. God not willing that any should\\nperish.\\nRev. 22: 17. Whosoever will, may come.", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "112 BIBLE READINGS\\nFulfilling the Scriptures.\\nMatt. 2: 5. Direct prophecy.\\nMatt. 2: 15. Fulfilling conditions.\\nMatt. 2: 23. Fulfilling character.\\nCrucifixion in Galatians.\\nI am crucified with Christ. 2: 20.\\nChrist crucified for me. 3:1.\\nThe flesh crucified in me. 5: 24.\\nThe world crucified unto me. 6: 14.\\nI am crucified unto the world. 6: 14.\\nWhat Constrains Us.\\nThe fear of punishment. Heb. 10: 28, 29.\\nThe hope of reward. Rev. 2: 10.\\nThe love of Christ. 2 Cor. 5: 14.\\nFor Us Romans 8.\\nSpirit for us. V. 26.\\nGod for us. V. 31.\\nChrist for us. V. 34.\\nThe Gospel.\\nDoctrine, for the head.\\nExperience for the heart.\\nWork for the hands.\\nMatt. 8\\nMatt. 8\\nMatt. 8\\nMatt. 8\\nFour Typical Miracles.\\n2. Ivcprosy, typifying guilt.\\n6. Palsy, typifying impotence.\\n14. Fever, typifying passion.\\n16. Demoniacy, typifying slavery of sin.", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "BIBLE READINGS 113\\nThree Kinds of Servants.\\n1. Slaves who serve through fear.\\n2. Hirelings who serve for w^ages.\\n3. Sons who serve from love.\\nJesus, Shepherd.\\nJohn 1: 14. Good shepherd, because lay down\\nlife.\\nHeb. 13: 20. Great shepherd, because rose from\\ndead.\\n1 Pet. 5: 4. Chief shepherd, because coming\\nagain.\\nChurch Trouble Settled.\\nActs 6: 1-7.\\nComplaint. V. 1.\\nConference. V. 2.\\nConfidence. V. 3.\\nCo- work. V. 4.\\nCompliance. Vs. 5, 6.\\nConquest. V. 7.\\nUnity.\\nJesus prayer for union. John 17: 20, 21.\\nThe conversion of world depend upon. John 17:\\n21.\\nSin of Division. 1 Cor. 1: 10-13.\\nUnity of Spirit. One. Eph. 4: 1-6.\\nThe body is one. 1 Cor. 12: 12-20.\\nDivisions, classed with w^orst sins. Gal. 5: 19-24.\\nIf hate brother no Christian. 1 John 4: 20, 21.\\n8", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "114 BIBLE READINGS\\nThree Essentials.\\nHeb. 9:22. Without shedding of blood, no re-\\nmission.\\nHeb. 11 6. Without faith, impossible to please\\nGod.\\nHeb. 12: 14. Without holiness, no seeing God.\\nPrecious Blood.\\nIt brings us nigh. Eph. 2: 13.\\nIt redeems us. 1 Pet. 1: 19.\\nIt blots out our sins. Rev. 1: 5.\\nIt cleanses from all sin. 1 John 1: 7.\\nIt justifies. Rom. 5:9.\\nIt brings peace. Col. 1: 20.\\nIt brings victory. Rev. 12: 11.\\nCome.\\nGod says come. Gen. 7: 1.\\nJesus says come. Matt. 11: 28.\\nThe Spirit says come. Rev. 21: 17.\\nGood Works in Titus.\\nTo every good work reprobate. 1: 16.\\nA pattern of good works. 2: 7.\\nZealous of good works. 2: 14.\\nReady to every good work. 3: 1, 5.\\nCareful to maintain good works. 3: 8.\\nI^arn to maintain good works. 3: 14.\\nGrace and Glory.\\nGrace hath appeared. Titus 2: 11.\\nGlory shall appear. Titus 2: 13.", "height": "3809", "width": "2537", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "BIBLE READINGS 115\\nJesus Says\\nCome unto me for rest of soul. Matt. 11: 28.\\nFollow me for growi:li in grace. John 21: 19.\\nAbide in me for power to save. John 14: 4.\\nSeven Walks in Ephesians.\\n2: 2. In trespass and sins, in times past.\\n2: 10. In good works.\\n4: 1. Worthy of vocation wherewith called\\n4: 17. Not as other Gentiles\\n5: 2. In love.\\n5:8. As children of light.\\n5: 16. Circumspectly.\\nTrue Basis of Christian Union.\\nEph. 4: 3-6.\\nUnity of headship one Lord.\\nUnity of belief one faith.\\nUnity of obedience one baptism.\\nUnity of hope one hope of our calling.\\nUnity of organization one body.\\nUnity of spirit in the bond of peace.\\nSeven Reasons for Coming to the Lord s Supper.\\n1. An act of obedience. Matt. 26: 26.\\n2. An act of remembrance. Luke 22: 19.\\n3. An act of testimony to His death. 1 Cor. 11:\\n26; 5: 7.\\n4. An act of confession, that salvation is through\\nHis blood. Matt. 26: 28.\\n5. An act of fellowship. 1 Cor. 10: 16, 17.", "height": "3800", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "howtounderstandu00brya_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "116 BIBLE READINGS\\n6. An act of praise and thanksgiving. lyuke 22:\\n19; 1 Cor. 10: 26; 11: 22.\\n7. An act proclaiming second coming of Christ.\\n1 Cor. 11: 26.\\nPhilippians.\\nIn the Lord,\\n1. Trust in the Lord. 2: 19, 24.\\n2. Rejoice in the Lord. 3: 1; 4: 4, 10.\\n3. 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