their understandings employed as well as their memories. I hope the brief notes I have given will afford some assistance to the scholars; and that teachers will add such further explanations as they may find needful. I recommend that the marginal references be diligently consulted by the teachers; and for this purpose advise them to procure the Pocket Paragraph Bible of the Religious Tract Society, price 4s. boards, or 5s. bound. After the lesson is committed to memory, the learners should be re-examined as to its meaning, including the Notes; and the subject be closely applied to their hearts, consciences, and conduct. The use of this little book will tend to prevent the wear and careless treatment of the Bible. W. F. L. N.B. A First Series is published, price ld.; averaging about three verses each. A Second Series is published, price 2d., averaging about six verses. A Fourth Series is published, price 2d., averaging about six verses. SCRIPTURE SELECTIONS. SUBJECT I. The conduct of a child.—The ear and eye. Even a child is known by his doings, Whether his work be pure, and whether it be right. The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, The LORD hath made even both of them.*Prov. xx. 11, 12. *Therefore both are to be devoted to his service: the ear and the eye are the great inlets of knowledge to the young. II. Parable of the mustard seed. The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: which indeed is the least † of all *The kingdom Christ was to establish on the earth. That is, of the seeds which produce plants with woody stems and branches. Many plants grow much larger in the east than in our cold climate. seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.-Matt. xiii. 31, 32. III. Waiting on the Lord.-Youth. The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.*-Lam. iii. 25—27. Early discipline and early habits are of great Importance. Early affliction, too, is often a spiritual blessing. See Matt. xi. 28-30. IV. Praise.-Human weakness. Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul. While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being. Put not your trust in princes, Nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that very day his thoughts* perish.-Psa. cxlvi. 1-4. *Literally, his glitterings. All his devices and false glory. V. God the source of happiness. Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, Whose hope is in the LORD his God: Which made heaven, and earth, The sea, and all that therein is: Which keepeth truth for ever: Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: Which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners.—Psa. cxlvi, 5-7. VI. The blessings God bestows. The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: The LORD loveth the righteous: The LORD preserveth the strangers; He relieveth the fatherless and widow: But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down. The LORD shall reign for ever, Even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. VII. Christ crucified. The Jews require a sign,* and the Greeks † seek after wisdom: but we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.— 1 Cor. i. 22-25. "A sign from heaven to introduce a Messiah, who shall establish a temporal kingdom."--Doddridge. The gospel agreed not with the vain philosophy which was the boast of the Greeks. + That which foolish men consider it to be. VIII. Human glory abased. Ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: but God hath |