It you could have any thing else that can be desired, would it be worth as much to you as piety towards God?

What is in her right hand?

What are her ways?

What in her left?

Which would you think the better to walk in, the ways of pleasantness, or the ways of destruction and misery ? What are all her paths?

How does piety or true wisdom give us peace towards God? Ro. 5: 1.

How does it give us peace with man? Ja. 3: 17.

How will it affect our happiness, to be at peace both with God and man?

What is wisdom to them that lay hold upon her?

How is true wisdom a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her? Ro. 6: 22, 23.

If we do not lay hold upon her, will she do us any good? What is every one that retaineth her?

How does love make you feel?

How do Christians feel, when the love of God is shed abroad in their hearts? 1 Pe. 1: 8.

How do Christians feel towards one another? 1 Jn. 4: 7. How do you feel when you are with those that you love? How do Christians feel in times of danger? Ps. 112: 7. What influence will it have upon our happiness, to be able to face danger without fear?

How do Christians feel in time of trouble? Ha. 3: 17, 18. 2 Co. 12: 10.

What prospect have they beyond the grave? 2 Co. 4: 17, 18. 5: 1.

How do they feel when they think about dying? 2 Co 5: 6-8.

Which do you think are the happier, those who serve the Lord, or those who seek their own pleasure?

LESSON XLVIII.

Death terrible to the wicked, but welcome to the righteous. Ps. XXXVII. 35-40.

35 I have seen the wicked in | great power, and spreading himself like a green bay-tree.

36 Yet he passed away, and lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

38 But the transgressors shall be

destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.

39 But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.

40 And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trus in him.

WHO wrote this Psalm? (See title.)

By whom was he directed what to write? 2 Pe. 1: 21.
In what had he seen the wicked?
What had he seen him doing?

Yet, what became of him? v. 36.

v. 35.

What could he not do, when ne sought him?

When the wicked pass away, where do they go? Job

18: 18.

What will be the end of them? Is. 50: 11.

How does death appear to those who have such a pros pect before them?

How will they feel, when it comes upon them? Ps. 73: 19. Whom does David tell us to mark? v. 37.

Whom does he tell us to behold?

What is the end of that man?

What makes him die in peace? Pr. 14: 32, 1. c.

What support has he in the trying hour of death? Ps. 23: 4. Is. 43: 2.

Need we fear death, if God be with us?

What hope have Christians after death? 2 Co. 4: 17.
How do you think a person would die, with such a hopel
What will become of the transgressors? v. 38.
How will they be destroyed? Pr. 29: 1.

What shall their end be?

After they are cut off, what will be done with them? Mat. 13: 30.

What do you think of such an end?

But of whom is the salvation of the righteous? v. 39.
What is he to them, in time of trouble?

When the terrors of death come upon you, what would
you give to have the Lord for your strength?
What shall the Lord do for the righteous? v. 40.
What will you reed, in the trying hour of death?

What makes death terrible to the wicked? 1 Co. 15: 56. Why is not death terrible to the righteous? 1 Jn. 3: 5. 1 Co. 15: 57.

Why does God deliver and save the righteous, in the hour of trial? v. 40, l. c.

Is it not reasonable that you should trust in him, if you wish to be delivered by him?

Can death be peaceful and happy to any who do not trust in him?

Would there be any hope in death, if Christ had not died? How then ought we to feel towards him?

What will be the everlasting song of the righteous in heaven? Re. 5: 9.

LESSON XLIX.

The Resurrection.

1 TH. IV. 13-18.

13 But I would not have you to bo ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not

prevent them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord himself shall
descend from heaven with a shout,
with the voice of the archangel,
and with the trump of God: and
the dead in Christ shall rise first:

17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

18 Wherefore, comfort one ano ther with these words.

WHO said these things? ch. 1: 1.

In whose name did he say them? 2 Pe. 3: 15, 16.
To whom did he write them? ch. 1: 1.

Concerning whom would he not have them ignorant? Who are meant by them which are asleep? v. 14. Jn. 11: 11, 13, 14.

Why is the death of Christians called sleep? Re. 14: 13. Do the wicked rest, when they die? Lu. 16: 22, 23.

How would he not have them sorrow, concerning those which sleep? v. 13, 1. c.

What comfort have Christians, when their Christian friends die? v. 14. 2 Sa. 12: 23, 1. c.

What do we believe concerning Jesus?

After Jesus rose from the dead, where did he go? Ac. 1: 9.

How was he taken up? Will he come again? Ac. 1:11 How will he come? Re. 1: 7, f. c.

Who shall see him? Re. 1: 7, sec. c.

Whom will God bring with him? v. 14.

Who, besides the saints, will come with him? Mat. 25: 31. By what does Paul say this unto them? v. 15.

What shall not they do. who are alive at the coming of the Lord?

What is meant by prevent? ANS. Go before.

With what shall the Lord himself descend from heaven? How did the people feel, when the Lord descended in this manner upon mount Sinai? Ex. 19: 16. He. 12:21. Why will not the saints feel so, when this awful trumpet shall sound again, at the last day? He. 12: 18-24. How will sinners feel, in that awful day? Is. 2; 19. Lu 23: 30.

Who shall rise first? v. 16, 1. c.

What shall take place in relation to the saints which are alive, in that day? v. 17. 1 Co. 15: 51-53.

Where will they meet the Lord?

How long will they be with him?

What will become of death then? 1 Co. 15: 54, 1. c. What song of triumph will the saints sing? 1 Co. 15: 55. What does Paul tell them to do to one another, with these words? v. 18

Will these words bring any comfort to the wicked?
Will sinners rise too? Re. 20: 12, 13.

To what will they rise? Da. 12: 2, 1. c.

Will death lose its sting with the wicked? 1 Co. 15: 56. When the righteous sing their song of triumph, what wili be heard among the wicked? Mat. 13: 42, 1. c.

LESSON L.
The Judgment.

RE. XX. 11-13.

11 And I saw a great white drone, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.

12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is he book of life and the dead

were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

WHO wrote the book of Revelation? ch. 1: 4.

From whom did he receive this Revelation? ch. 1: 1. 22: 16.

What did John see? v. 11.

Who will sit on this great white throne? Mat. 25: 31.
What will flee away from before his face?

How will the heavens pass away? 2 Pe. 3: 10.

What will become of the earth and the things that are

therein? 2 Pe. 3: 10, 1. c.

What was there found?

Who will stand before God, in that awful day? v. 12 What were opened?

Does God keep an account of what we do in this life

Mat. 12: 36.

Shall you and I be there? 2 Co. 5: 10, f. c.

What other book was opened?

Whose names are written in the book of life? ch. 21: 27