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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 16, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 39.

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LESSON FOR THE PACIFIC COAST—NOV. 2.

1. What exhortation did Solomon give to the young? Eccl. 12:1.
2. To what place does he say a man goes when the years come in which he has no pleasure? Verse 5.
3. What is the home to which a man goes when he dies? Job 17:13.
4. How long does he wait in that home? Job 14:10-12, 14.
5. By what figures does the wise man represent death? Eccl. 12:6.
6. What does he say takes place at death? Verse 7.
7. When man was created, of what was he formed? Gen. 2:7.
8. How much of "man" does the text say was formed of the dust?
9. Then when Solomon says that at death the man shall return to the earth, are we to understand that it is man himself that returns to dust? Job 34:14, 15.
10. When the dust (man) returns to the earth, in what condition is it? Eccl. 12:7.
11. Is it reasonable to suppose that the dust had a conscious existence before it was formed into man?
12. Then since it returns to the earth "as it was," what are we taught as to man's condition in death?
13. When the dust returns to the earth, what else takes place? Eccl. 12:7.
14. What was it that God gave to man after he was created? Gen. 2:7.
15. Can anything more "return" to God than that which came from him?
16. Then what must be referred to in Eccl. 12:7 by "the spirit"?
17. Where is this breath located? Gen. 2:7; Isa. 2:22.
18. What further authority can you quote for speaking of this breath as the spirit? Job 27:3, 4.
19. What positive proof can you give that when the process described in Eccl. 12:7 takes place, man has no more consciousness? Ps. 146:3, 4.
THE regular Sabbath-school lesson this week is so plain that comment seems unnecessary. The texts cited are so explicit in their statements that a multiplicity of words would only tend to obscure them. To the devout student, the plain statement of the word is sufficient, and nothing is to be gained by comment unless the meaning of the text may thereby be made more clear. We therefore gladly give the space which the lesson comments usually occupy, to the article, "The Home and the School," which was read at the camp-meeting Sabbath-school convention. We hope that its suggestions may be carried out in thousands of homes.