SYSTEMATIC BIBLE STUDY
By Editor
IN reading the Bible, it is well to form the habit of noting carefully the contents of chapters, and then thinking over the contents of the various books. In noting the contents of chapters, for instance, in our reading for this week, in Leviticus 19 we find, to mention just a few of the things that might be noted, that the offerings were to be "at your own will." In harvest-time the corners of the field were to be left, and no gleaning was to be done, so that the poor and the stranger might find something to eat. Particular care should be given to the deaf and the blind. We are to be no respecters of persons, be they poor or rich. The talebearer is reproved. We are to guard against holding grudges. The cuttings in the flesh for the dead, so commonly practised among some heathen nations, are reproved. Warnings are given against those who have familiar spirits. We are to pay respect to the hoary-headed, the aged. The stranger that sojourns with us is to be treated courteously, and justice in weights and righteousness in judgment are called for. When we begin in this way to note the contents of some of the chapters of the divine Book, how full of meaning and instruction they are found to be! Read a chapter in Leviticus each week-day and two on the Sabbath. Read a psalm each day. Read a chapter in Acts each week-day and two on the Sabbath.