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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 20, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 41.

Schedule for Week Ending October 30

		Morning	Evening
Su.	Oct. 24	Jer. 3, 4, 5	1 Tim. 4
Mo.	" 25	" 6, 7, 8	" 5
Tu.	" 26	" 9, 10, 11	" 6
We.	" 27	" 12, 13, 14	2 Tim. 1
Th.	" 28	" 15, 16, 17	" 2
Fr.	" 29	" 18, 19	" 3
Sa.	" 30	" 20, 21	" 4

Suggestive Notes

Jeremiah 3 is the beginning of our morning readings, which close with Jeremiah 21. Nothing that we can say will particularly add to these prophecies or greatly help our readers. The meaning of the prophet stands out very clearly indeed in the awful denunciations against sin, and in the sorrow of heart which came to him because of his people's transgression. Most touching appeals he makes to them to return to God, and painful and strange is the utter lack of response on the part of the mass of them regarding these messages.

Our New Testament lessons begin with the fourth chapter of the first epistle to Timothy, and close with the last chapter of 2 Timothy. Both of the letters to Timothy are precious instruction to the laborer of God; warnings against lightness, foolishness, covetousness, false philosophy; tremendous appeals to him to be true to God, true to His Word.

Chapter 3 contains a striking prophecy of the last days, and states the cause of the perils which would surround the faithful. The apostle, and through him every Christian minister, is assured that the Scriptures of truth are sufficient for the man of God, and completely furnish him unto every good work; and again the young minister is exhorted to preach the Word, and warned against the time when the apostasy would take place and teachers having itching ears would be multiplied. The apostle also tells of his own death, which was soon to come, and of the satisfaction he had in knowing that he had fought a good fight, had finished the course, and had kept the faith. And this joyful closing of the apostle was written under the most distressing circumstances in his imprisonment at Rome.