What sort of language does a drunkard use? To what level does a drunkard reduce himself? How does a drunkard treat the advice and warning of his friends? Why is the case of an intemperate person generally more hopeless than that of other wicked persons? Is there any hope for the drunkard's soul if he do not repent and leave off the wicked practice of drinking? 1 Cor. vi. 10. How many in the United States die every year by reason of intemperance? With what sort of people are the jails, prisons, and alms-houses filled? When men are wasteful, slothful, quarrelsome, diseased, and weak-minded, what is their influence upon neighbourhoods and families, and society at large? Do all these evils arise from the intemperate use of liquor? Is not this intemperate use brought on by temperate drinking, as it is called? Will every temperate drinker become intemperate ? If he do not himself, what is his influence upon his weaker neighbours? What is written in Rom. xiv. 21 ? What directions does the Bible give on this point? Prov. xxiii. 31? Does not bad company often lead to intemperance? Repeat Prov. iv. 14, 15. Can it be pleasing in the sight of God for any one to encourage in any possible way that which his word condemns? At the last great day, who will be sorry, those who denied themselves to save their fellow creatures from ruin, or those who would please themselves, and ruin others? SCRIPTURE LESSONS. LESSON L The Creation.-Genesis i. 1-13. IN the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding 2 And the earth was with- seed after his kind, and the tree out form, and void; and dark-yielding fruit, whose seed was ness was upon the face of the in itself, after his kind: and deep. And the Spirit of God God saw that it was good. moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said, let there be light and there was light. 4. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 13 And the evening and the morning were the third day. LESSON II. The Creation.-(Continued.) 14 AND God said, Let there 5 And God called the light be lights in the firmament of Day, and the darkness he called the heaven to divide the day Night. And the evening and from the night; and let them the morning were the first day. he for signs, and for seasons, 6 And God said, Let there and for days, and years: be a firmament in the midst of 15 And let them be for lights the waters, and let it divide in the firmament of the heaven the waters from the waters. to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters 16 And God made two great which were under the firma- lights; the greater light to rule ment from the waters which the day, and the lesser light to were above the firmament: and rule the night: he made the it was so. stars also. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 18 And to rule over the day 9 And God said, Let the wa- and over the night, and to diters under the heaven be gather-vide the light from the darkness: ed together unto one place, and and God saw that it was good. let the dry land appear: and it! was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas and God saw that it was good. 19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. 20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmainent of heaven. 11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the 21 And God created great herb yielding seed, and the whales, and every living crea K 145 146 SCRIPTURE LESSONS. ક્રમ. ture that moveth, which the earth were finished, and all the waters brought forth abundant-host of them. ly, after their kind, and every 2 And on the seventh day winged fowl after his kind: God ended his work which he and God saw that it was good. had made; and he rested on 22 And God blessed them, the seventh day from all his saying, Be fruitful, and multi-work which he had made. ply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. 24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. 3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. 7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. 8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom 25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon he had formed. the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in kis own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. ** 15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 31 And God saw every thing 17 But of the tree of the that he had made, and, behold, knowledge of good and evil, it was very good. And the eve-thou shalt not eat of it: for in ning and the morning were the the day that thou eatest theresixth day. of thou shalt surely die. LESSON III. * * * 21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof: 22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought | sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons. her unto the man. 23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. LESSON IV. The Fall of Man. NOW the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said,. Ye shall not cat of every tree of the garden? 2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. 6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. 7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they 8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. 9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? 10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. 11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? 12 And the man said, "The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. 13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. 14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: 15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her sced; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. LESSON V. The Murder of Abel. Gen. iv. 1-16. AND Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have). 3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. 4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: 13- And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is great, er than I can bear. 14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay ine. 15 And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold And 5 But unto Cain and to his the LORD set a mark upon Cain, offering he had not respect. lest any finding him should kill And Cain was very wroth, and him. lus countenance fell 16 And Cain went out from 6 And the LORD said unto the presence of the Lord, and Cain. Why art thou wroth? dwelt in the land of Nod, on and why is thy countenance the east of Eden. fallen? 7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thon doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shait rule over him. LESSON VI. The Deluge Foretold, &c. Gen. vi. 5-22. * 5 AND God saw that the 8 And Cain talked with Abel wickedness of man was great his brother and it came to in the earth, and that every pass, when they were in the imagination of the thoughts of field, that Cain rose up against his heart was only evil conAbel his brother, and slew him.tinually. 9 And the LORD said unto 6 And it repented the LORD Cain, Where is Abel thy bro-that he had made man on the ther? And he said, I know not: earth, and it grieved him at his Am I my brother's keeper? heart. 10 And he said, What hast thon done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. 11 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand; 12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thon be in the earth. 7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth: both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. 8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. 9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. |