IN our reading during the next few weeks, we will have a number of chapters that are devoted to long genealogies. It may not appear that it will be profitable for us to take the time to read these lists of names; but the more familiar you become with the Bible, the more interested you will be in them. You will find the names of many of these men and women elsewhere in the Bible, in connection with historical events, or as manifesting important national traits of character. While the value of this matter may not be apparent to us at the start, yet we may be sure of this one thing,—that since God's providence has placed it in the Sacred Volume, it is there for a purpose. SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 17
Read three chapters each week-day, and five on the Sabbath.