OUR BIBLE BAND

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 18, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 32.

Schedule for the Week Ending Aug. 28, 1909.

Day	Date	Morning	Evening
Su.	Aug. 22	Ps. 110 to 112	1 Cor. 5
Mo.	Aug. 23	113 to 115	6
Tu.	Aug. 24	116 to 118	7:1-19
We.	Aug. 25	119:1-88	7:20-40
Th.	Aug. 26	119:89-176	8
Fr.	Aug. 27	120 to 122	9
Sa.	Aug. 28	123 to 125	10:1-18

Suggestive Notes.

Our morning readings include Psalms 110 to 125. It is utterly impossible, as it has been all the way through, in one little note to give any adequate synopsis of the truths contained in these morning readings. This is especially true of the inspired songs of Zion. Many of them are so full, so expressive of the human needs, human longings, human insufficiency, and the all-sufficiency of God. Some of them are prophetic, like the 110th Psalm, of our Lord Jesus Christ. Some of them honor God's law and show its immutability and perpetuity, as Psalms 111 and 119. Some of them contrast the true God as the Maker of the heavens and the earth with the false gods who have no power, as Psalm 115. Others are songs of thanksgiving and praise for deliverance, as Psalm 116. All of them are uplifting and inspiring. Psalm 119 was probably written by Daniel. One knowing his history can not read the psalm without seeing his experiences manifest in almost every verse of it.

Our evening readings begin with 1 Corinthians 5 and close with the eighteenth verse of the 10th chapter. The 5th chapter reproves the Corinthian church for horrible and detestable sins which are cherished among them, over which they have no sorrow of heart. This thought is carried on into the 6th chapter. Their former condition is pointed out and the wonderful goodness of God in saving them from that. Chapter 7 carries the thought of consecration before God into the married life, a thing especially needed then because of the customs of the heathen on every side, and needed now because of the tendency to looseness on all moral questions. The climax on the matter of true physical consecration is shown in the illustration of the race, in chapter 9. A warning against turning back to the things of the flesh is strongly given in the first part of chapter 10, in the recalling of some striking incidents in the history of Israel.