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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 3, 1909

Schedule for Week Ending March 13, 1909.

		Morning	Evening
Su.	Mar. 7	Deut. 3, 4	Mark 10:23-52
Mo.	“ 8	“ 5, 6, 7	“ 11:1-18
Tu.	“ 9	“ 8, 9, 10	“ 11:19-33
Wed.	“ 10	“ 11, 12, 13	“ 12:1-27
Thu.	“ 11	“ 14, 15, 16	“ 12:28-44
Fri.	“ 12	“ 17, 18, 19	“ 13:1-20
Sa.	“ 13	“ 20, 21, 22	“ 13:21-37

Suggestive Notes.

Our Old Testament lessons lie wholly in Deuteronomy, including Deuteronomy 3 to 22. Beginning with chapter 3, Moses continues to recount the experiences of Israel and the guidance of God. It is one constant, tremendous appeal to them to serve the Lord, to turn away from the sins which wrecked the other nations, and exemplify Him. Only in this would lie their greatness and continuance. Chapter 5 is a repetition of the law bringing in some additional appeals to gratitude as to why they should observe it; and the chapters which follow are wonderful developments of the precepts of the law, and the gracious promises of God. We are told in wonderfully graphic words in the ninth chapter of how Moses in righteous indignation at the transgression of the people, broke the first two tables of stone; and in the 10th chapter how he prepared new tables and God wrote upon them the words of the first tables.

Chapter 13 warns us against false prophets; even those who may work signs and wonders, and there as in other scriptures we are given the standard by which they are to be tested, the law of God. See also chapter 18. Any prophet which should lead away from that law was false. One needs to appreciate something of the conditions which surrounded Israel to see the wonderful working and superiority of these laws which God gave to Israel.

Our New Testament lessons begin with Mark 10:32 and close with chapter 13. They cover the interesting lessons of the healing of blind Bartimaeus; the triumphal entry of our Lord into Jerusalem; cursing of the fig-tree; cleansing of the temple; the lesson on faith; the efforts put forth by the enemies of our Lord to trap Him in His teaching, and their utter defeat; their own inability to answer His questions; the lesson of the widow’s mites; and the striking chapter on the destruction of Jerusalem and the end of the world. These are very important lessons and we can not give them too much thought.