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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 10, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 10.

Schedule for Week Ending March 20, 1909.

			Morning		Evening
Su.	March	14	Deut.	23, 24, 25	Mark	14: 1-26
Mo.	“	15	“	26, 27	“	14: 27-53
Tu.	“	16	“	28, 29	“	14: 54-72
We.	“	17	“	30, 31	“	15: 1-25
Th.	“	18	“	32, 33, 34	“	15: 26-47
Fr.	“	19	Josh.	1, 2, 3	“	16
Sa.	“	20	“	4, 5, 6	Luke	1: 1-20

Suggestive Notes.

Our morning lessons begin with the 23d chapter of Deuteronomy; that and the three chapters following consist of a repetition of various laws regarding duties between man and man, and between man and God. Chapters 27 and 28 present before us the curses and blessings which would follow disobedience or obedience, and the prophecy of what would come upon the Jews and which did come upon them in consequence of their disobedience. Take one, for instance, the 37th verse: “And thou shalt become an astonishment: a proverb and a byword among all the peoples whither Jehovah shall lead thee away.” How true it has been! The Romans are predicted in verses 49-57.

Chapters 29, 30, and 31 contain further precepts, solemn injunctions, blessed promises, and Moses’ final charge to the priests and to Joshua. Two beautiful poems are given us in chapters 32 and 33; 34 records the death of Moses, the man of God.

The last two days of the week give us the first six chapters of the book of Joshua. Joshua was Moses’ servant, one of the two men who proved faithful with the spies; one who had swerved not to the right hand nor to the left during the forty years of temptations and wanderings; and God chooses him to be the leader, with the strongest kind of assurances to “be strong and of good courage.” The book deals with the entering into the promised land and the conquering of the wicked nations who were possessing it; tells us of the crossing of the Jordan; the presence of Michael, the Archangel, and the armies of God, and the throwing down of the walls of Jericho by the same invincible army,—a pledge to Israel that if they had been obedient to God, the same mighty power would have given them deliverance and victory every step of the way.

Our evening lessons begin with Mark 14, and close with Luke 1:20. They cover the last hours of Jesus, His crucifixion, His resurrection, with clear, definite particulars not given by the other evangelists. On our last evening of the week we begin Luke’s narrative of the early life of our Lord. Luke was a learned physician and a good Greek scholar. He was in a part of Paul’s travels his companion. His Gospel is primarily written to Theophilus (loved or love of God), and through him to all the world, presenting Jesus as a Saviour for all, and hence tracing His genealogy back to Adam. This Gospel was probably written about A.D. 63. It narrates many things not found in the other Gospels.