WITH MAPS, AND TABLE OF THE SIGNIFICATION AND PRONUNCIA
TION OF PROPER NAMES.

PREFACE.

THERE is no attempt at originality in this volume. No one author gives
so complete and varied an elucidation of the Scriptures as can be obtained
by bringing together in one volume the best thoughts and suggestions of
many writers.
This book consists almost entirely of such selections,
laboriously collected, directly or from the collections of others, from more
than one hundred and seventy-five different writers.

The necessity of some such selections is obvious when we remember that
the lessons for 1876 are drawn from eight different books of the Bible,
several of them being those on which the fewest commentaries have been
written of any books in the Bible.

The advantages sought are,

1. Notes explanatory and illustrative; especial attention being given
to leave no point unexplained, particularly the more difficult passages.
2. The practical lessons are inserted in their appropriate places, and
not left as an appendix at the end of the lesson.

3. The notes include the lessons for the whole year.

4. They are from a wide range of the best authors.

5. They are non-sectarian.

6. Parallel passages and references are taken from the famous Bagster
Bible.

7. The dates of the events in each lesson are given also from the Bag-
ster Bible.

8. Three maps, two of Palestine at different eras, and a third of the
countries visited by the Apostles as recorded in the Acts.

9. A table of the pronunciation and meaning of the Scripture proper
names occurring in the notes.

10. The notes are much more complete and full than those for 1875.
11. And all at a moderate cost, so as to be within the reach of the
largest number.

THE AUTHORS.

COPYRIGHT: HENRY HOYT, A. D. 1875.

STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY ALFRED MUDGE & SON, 34 SCHOOL STREET, Boston.

LIST OF AUTHORS

QUOTED (DIRECTLY OR THROUGH OTHERS) IN THIS VOLUME