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7th Reading

Readings for Special Days

And for the precious things put forth by the moon,

And for the chief things of the ancient mountains,

And for the precious things of the everlasting hills,

And for the precious things of the earth and its fullness. Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord;

Praise ye the Lord.

Seventh Reading
Missions

Isa. 60. 1-4, 8, 9, 11, 13; 2. 2, 3.

Arise, shine; for thy light is come, And the glory of the Lord is risen. upon thee.

For behold darkness shall cover the earth,

And gross darkness the peoples. But upon thee shall the Lord arise, And his glory shall be seen upon thee.

And nations shall come to thy light,

And kings to the brightness of thy rising.

Lift up thine eyes round about, and

see.

They all gather themselves together, they come to thee.

Who are these that fly as a cloud, And as doves to their windows? Surely the isles shall wait for me And the ships of Tarshish first,

To bring thy sons from far, Their silver and gold with them, Unto the name of the Lord thy God, And to the Holy One of Israel, For he hath glorified thee.

Thy gates also shall be open continually,

They shall not be shut day nor night;

8th Reading

That men may bring unto thee the wealth of the nations

And their kings led with them.

The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee,

The fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together,

To beautify the place of my sanctuary, And that I may make the place of my feet glorious.

In the latter days it shall come to pass

That the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains,

And it shall be exalted above the
hills.

And peoples shall flow to it,
And many nations shall go and say:

Come and let us go up to the
mountain of the Lord

And to the house of the God of
Jacob:

And he will teach us his ways,
And we will walk in his paths.

Eighth Reading Education

Job. 28. 1-3, 9-16; Prov. 8. 1-3, 10, 11; 9. 10.

Surely there is a mine for silver
And a place for gold which they refine.

Iron is taken out of the earth, And brass is molten out of the stone.

Man setteth an end to darkness And searcheth out to the furthest bound

The stones of thick darkness, and of the shadow of death:

He putteth forth his hand upon the flinty rock;

He overturneth the mountains by the roots.

He cutteth out channels among the rocks;

And his eye seeth every precious thing. He bindeth the streams that they trickle not;

And the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.

But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?

Man knoweth not the price thereof;

Neither is it found in the land
of the living.

The deep saith, It is not in me;
And the sea saith, It is not with me.

It cannot be gotten for gold,
Neither shall silver be weighed
for the price thereof.

It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir,

With the precious onyx or sapphire. Whence then cometh wisdom?

And where is the place of understanding?

Doth not wisdom cry,
And understanding put forth
her voice?

In the top of high places by the way,
Where the paths meet, she standeth;
Beside the gates, at the entry of
the city,

At the coming in of the doors, she crieth aloud:

Receive instruction, and not silver, And knowledge rather than choice gold.

For wisdom is better than rubies;

And all things that may be desired are not to be compared unto her.

Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom,

And to depart from evil is understanding.

Ninth Reading

Temperance and Moral Reform Prov. 23. 29-35; 20. 1; 23. 20; 31. 4, 5; Isa. 5. 11, 22, 23; Hab. 2. 15; 2. 12; Isa. 10. 1, 2; Psa. 12. 8; 94. 20; Hab. 2. 9-11; Matt. 27. 6; Gen. 4. 10; 42. 21.

Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

They that tarry long at the wine; They that go to seek mixed wine.

Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.

At the last it biteth like a serpent,

And stingeth like an adder. Thine eyes shall behold strange

women,

And thine heart shall utter perverse things.

Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; They have beaten me, and I felt it not:

When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:

Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!

Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!

Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;

To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?

Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil! Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.

For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.

And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.

And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would. not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.

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