LESSON TWENTY-FOUR

International Tract and Missionary Society · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 1889

LESSON TWENTY-FOUR.

[References same as last lesson.]

1. WHAT title have the National Reformers bestowed upon Christ? — p. 60.

2. What resolution did the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union pass on this point in 1888? — p. 61.

3. Should this resolution be adopted as the rule of this Government, what would be the duty of the courts? — Idem.

4. What Christian rule is found in Luke 17:3, 4?

5. If such a rule should obtain in civil affairs, what would be the duty of the court toward a repentant thief? — p. 62.

6. How many times would the court be obliged to do that way?

7. What would such a system do for any civil government? — Idem.

8. Then what is the difference between Christianity and the civil government?

9. How is the moral government maintained?

10. What is Christianity for? Ans. — The salvation of sinners.

11. But what is civil government for? Ans. — To preserve order.

12. If a man is guilty of stealing, whose prerogative is it to forgive him?

13. But does that preserve him against punishment for the crime by civil government?