at little more than two cents each;-15 of them well bound in a cloth case, embossed in gold, for 35 cents. The thought is this: As a Christian man or woman you have children or relatives or neighbors or friends open to your influence-perhaps, indeed, asking your counsel asking, "How do we know that there is a God?" or, "What proofs have we that the Bible is inspired?" It is no longer wise to call these silly questions, nor to ask, "Are you an infidel?” However competent you might be to prepare answers to these and a score of other questions, you may not have the needed time and opportunity to do so. How convenient then to step to your book-case, take down the proper study on the subject, and to say to the inquirer, Sit down and read that short study, and the whole matter of your question will be fully and satisfactorily settled; and if your doubts ever again arise come over and read the same afresh. Possibly you may be a member of an Epworth League or Christian Endeavor Society, or of a Baptist Young People's Union, and may be called on for an essay on some Scripture topic. How convenient to select one among these numerous studies (covering almost every topic) and to find therein the appropriate Scriptures cited. Ministers use them thus when composing special sermons and addresses. Ministers who have large libraries touching every conceivable religious topic-many volumes costing $6 to $8 per volume may not feel their need of these "Bible Studies," but to others they are almost indispensable. Indeed, in addition to the price feature, which brings them within the reach of everybody-six volumes of over 3,000 pages for $2.00-the usual price of one such volume they are written in pure, but simple English, whereas the "scholarly works" are replete with technical terms and only for the few. We invite Christian people of all denominations to join us in our work of extending these "helping hands" to the rising generation. A single friend or relative helped-rescued from doubt or unbelief-would repay the cost of these lessons a thousand times. CONTENTS. IT LIES AT THE FOUNDATION OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE FROM THE BIBLE STAND- POINT. THREE VIEWS OF THE SUBJECT, THE "ORTHODOX VIEW;" THE "HETERODOX VIEW;" THE Bible View, WHICH UNITES AND HARMONIZES BOTH.-EVOLUTION THEORY ANTAGONISTIC TO THE TRUTH ON THIS SUB- JECT. RECONCILIATION OF DIVINE JUSTICE ACCOMPLISHED.-Recon- CILIATION OF THE CHURCH IN PROGRESS.-RECONCILIATION OF THE THE ALMIGHTY, Jehovah.-THE SAVIOR OF SINNERS, THROUgh Christ.- "WORTHY IS THE LAMB."-"THE SELF-EXISTING ONE."-THE I AM.- A FALSE TRADITION.-BASED ON FORGERY. THE UNITY OF FATHER AND SON SCRIPTURALLY SHOWN. THE SCRIPTURAL USAGE OF THE Word JEHOVAH AND THE TITLE LORD.-THE WORD GOD IN THE OLD TESTA- MENT. IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. THE HARMONIOUS BIBLE TESTIMONY. -"HE THAT HATH SEEN ME HATH SEEN THE FATHER."-HE THOUGHT IT NOT ROBBERY TO BE EQUAL.-"TO US THERE IS ONE GOD, THE FAther, "WHO IS HE?"-THE LOGOS, A God.-The ONLY BEGOTTEN OF JEHOVAH. -THE BIBLE'S TESTIMONY.-"HE WHO WAS RICH."-" BEFORE ABRA- HAM WAS I AM."-"THE FIRST AND THE LAST."-"JEHOVAH POSSESSED ME IN THE BEGINNING."-THE LOGOS MADE FLESH, NOT INCARNATED.- HE HUMBLED HIMSELF.-"HE WHO WAS RICH FOR OUR SAKES BECAME POOR."-NO HYPOCRISY IN THIS TESTIMONY. OUR LORD'S CONDUCT SEEMINGLY CONFLICTING, SCRIPTURES RECONCILED. THE ROMAN CATHO- LIC DOCTRINE OF MARY'S IMMACULATE CONCEPTION NOT SUSTAINED.- THE BIRTH OF Jesus Separate from SinNERS ESSENTIAL TO THE DIVINE ARRANGEMENT. OTHERWISE NO RANSOM POSSIBLE. THE LATEst De- DUCTIONS OF SCIENCE IN RE THE UNION OF LIFE AND PROTOPLASM.- THE LOGOS MADE FLESH.-BORN OF A WOMAN Yet Undefiled. How THE IMPERFECT MOTHER COULD AND DID BRING FORTH THE UNdefiled WHO "HIS BRETHREN' ARE.- -IN WHAT the LikeneSS CONSISTED.-How HE WAS TEMPTED IN ALL POINTS-LIKE AS WE ARE TEMPTED-YET WITHOUT SIN. THE WILDERNESS TEMPTATIONS. THEIR RESEMBLANCE TO OURS-SOME OF WHICH WOULD "DECEIVE IF IT WERE POSSIBLE THE VERY ELECT."-IN WHAT Sense our Lord was MADE PERFECT THROUGH SUFFERINGS. THOUGH A SON, YET LEARNED HE OBEDIENCE.-HOW HE HOW DAVID'S SON.-JOSEPH'S GENEALOGY THROUGH SOLOMON.-MARY'S GENEALOGY THROUGH NATHAN.-ABASE THE HIGH, EXALT THE LOW.- WHENCE CHRIST'S TITLE TO BE DAVID'S LORD.-How HE WAS BOTH ROOT AND BRANCH OF DAVID.-MEANING OF HIS TITLE, "THE EVER- LASTING FATHer."-How Secured and HOW TO BE APPLICABLE. WHO WHAT THIS TITLE DOES NOT MEAN.-WHAT IT DOES MEAN.-ITS HONORS- INDISPUTABLE. CAN BE CLAIMED BY NONE OTHER. THE SON OF MAN AS SEEN BY The World.-PILATE'S VIEW, ROUSSEAU'S VIEW, NAPOLEON'S VIEW. SIGNIFICANCE OF STATEMENTS, "NO BEAUTY IN HIM THAT WE SHOULD DESIRE HIM;" AND "HIS VISAGE WAS SO MARred.”—“ STUDY VIII. THE OPERATION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT-NOW AND IN THE MILLENNIUM. VARIOUS DESCRIPTIVE NAMES OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, "Spirit of Love,' "SPIRIT OF TRUTH," ETC.-IN CONTRAST, THE UNHOLY SPIRIT, "SPIRIT OF ERROR," "SPIRIT OF FEAR," ETC.-PERSONAL PRONOUNS APPLIED. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WORD SPIRIT.-"GOD IS A SPIRIT."—"THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS NOT YET GIVEN."-GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT. THE TRANS- FORMING POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. THE SPIRIT BY MEASURE AND WITHOUT MEASURE. "THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD," ANTICHRIST.— THE BATTLE BETWEEN THIS AND THE HOLY SPIRIT.-SPIRIT FIGHTINGS WITHOUT AND WITHIN THE SAINTS.-THE SPIRIT THAT LUSTETH TO ENVY.-TAUGHT OF THE SPIRIT. THE PARAKLEtos, the Comforter.— HE SHALL GUIDE YOU INTO ALL TRUTH AND INTO FULL ATONEMENT. THE SPIRIT'S SUPERVISION NONE THE LESS SINCE THE MIRACULOUS GIFTA SPIRIT BAPTISM, ONE ONLY-IN THREE PARTS. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS BAPTISM.-"THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN."-ANOTHER BAPTISM OF THE SPIRIT PROMISED "UPON ALL FLESH."-ITS SIGNIFI- CANCE. PRAYER for the SPIRIT. THE WITNESS OF THE SPIRIT.-ITS IMPORTANCE. NO PEACE WITH GOD WITHOUT IT. FEW KNOW WHETHER THEY HAVE IT OR NOT."TIS A POINT I LONG TO KNOW."How To RECOGNIZE THE SPIRIT'S WItness. DiffeRENCES OF ADMINISTRATION. -THE SPIRIT'S TESTIMONY." SANCTIFIED BY THE SPIRIT."-" FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT." THE SEAL OF THE SPIRIT. THE SPIRIT OF A SOUND MIND. THE SPIRIT OF GOD IN HIS PEOPLE CASTS OUT THE SPIRIT OF FEAR.MANKIND IN GENERAL UNSOUND MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY.-THE SENSE IN WHICH THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE SPIRIT OF A SOUND MIND. THE OPERATIONS PRODUCING THIS RESULT. THE EVIDENCES OF THE SPIRIT OF A SOUND MIND. 249 STUDY XI. THE HOLY SPIRIT OF AT-ONE-MENT. SUPPOSED OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED. APPARENTLY CONTRADICTORY SCRIPTURES EXAMINED.-QUENCH NOT THE SPIRIT. GRIEVE NOT THE HOLY SPIRIT. THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH.-THE COMFORTER. FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT. LYING TO THE HOLY SPIRIT.-TEMPTING THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD.-SIN AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT." FORBIDDEN OF THE HOLY GHOST."-"THE HOLY GHOST WITNESSETH.' ""THE HOLY GHOST HATH MADE YOU OVERSEERS.' THE HOLY SPIRIT A TEACHER."AN UNCTION FROM THE HOLY ONE.' THE SPIRIT MAKETH INTERCESSIONS WITH GROANINGS.-How THE SPIRIT REPROVES THE WORLD. "HEREBY KNOW YE THE SPIRIT OF GOD" FROM "THE SPIRIT OF ANTICHRIST.' STUDY XII. 263 THE SUBJECT OF THE ATONEMENT-MAN. WHAT IS MAN? THE "ORTHODOX" ANSWER. THE SCIENTIFIC ANSWER. -THE BIBLE ANSWER. MAN'S BODY.-THE SPIRIT OF MAN. The HUMAN SOUL.-CONFUSION THROUGH MISTRANSLATION. THE PROPAGATION OF SOULS.-WHAT IS "SHEOL," "HADES," TO WHICH ALL SOULS Go, IN THE INTERIM BETWeen Death and ResurrecTION? -THE SCRIPTURAL STATEMENTS SEVERALLY CONSidered. 301 STUDY XIII. HOPES FOR LIFE EVERLASTING AND IMMORTALITY SECURED BY THE ATONEMENT. THE EARNEST EXPECTATIONS OR HOPES OF THE GROANING CREATION.ARE NOT PROOFS. THE PROMISES AND THE OUTWORKING OF ATONEMENT, AS PROOFS. A DISTINCTION AND A DIFFERENCE IS THE HUMAN SOUL IMMORTAL, OR HAS IT A HOPE OF BECOMING IMMORTAL?—ARE ANGELS IMMORTAL IS SATAN IMMORTAL? THE LIFE AND IMMORTALITY BROUGHT TO LIGHT THROUGH THE GOSPEL. THE GREEK WORDS RENDERED IMMORTAL AND IMMORTALITY IN THE SCRIPTURES. WHEREIN THE HOPE OF THE CHURCH AND THE HOPE FOR THE SAVED WORLD DIFFER. 383 |