p. 2 | Schedule for Week Ending December 24

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 13, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 49.

Schedule for Week Ending December 24

Sunday: December 18 — James 1-5 Monday: December 19 — 1 Peter 1-4 Tuesday: December 20 — 1 Peter 5; 2 Peter 1-3 Wednesday: December 21 — 1 John 1-4 Thursday: December 22 — 1 John 5; 2 John 1; 3 John 1; Jude 1 Friday: December 23 — Psalms 120-131 Sabbath: December 24 — Psalms 132-138

IN this week the general epistles of James, Peter, John, and Jude are covered. These are not written to any special class, but to the people of God who are scattered abroad. The author of the epistle of James is evidently the brother of our Lord, as James the brother of John was early slain by Herod, according to Acts 12.

THE epistles of Peter were written by the apostle, and those of John by John the evangelist, the beloved disciple, the brother of James. The epistle of Jude is written by one who calls himself the servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. The writer seems to have been a brother of James, the one who wrote the epistle of James. There is a striking parallelism between that and the second epistle of Peter. There are two things in it which belong to this epistle alone; one is the conversation between Michael the Archangel, and Satan; and the other, the quotation from Enoch.

THE first epistle of John is general to all the children of God, showing us just what the love of God is, and what our love ought to be toward Him, issuing in faithful obedience to His commandments; the second, to some Christian lady, supposed to typify the church; and the third, to a beloved friend and disciple Gaius. All of them abound with exhortations to love; and all of them show that love is not mere sentimentality, but faithful devotion and obedience to God. Psalms 120-138 conclude the week.