seasons of the year, knowing that they have been preserved by God's mercy for our instruction, no less than for that of the Jews. One of these Sunday courses has just commenced. They may catch our at

QUESTIONS ON

ELEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER
TRINITY.

1. To whom was this parable spoken? 2. What is here meant by "certain ?" 3. What did these persons think of themselves? 4. What did they think of others? 5. What was the parable? 6. Where did what we are here told take place? 7. What did last Sunday's Gospel say the Temple was for? [8. Where in the Temple did people pray? A. In the outer court. See Psalm cxxxv. 2. 9. Which way did they look? A. To the Holy Place. Psalm xxviii. 2.] 10. What is prayer? A. Asking for something. 11. Who were the two who went to pray? 12. Of which would the Jews have thought most highly? 13. Why would they think highly of a Pharisee? A. Because he was careful to keep the Law. [14. What was the meaning of the word Pharisee? (Refer to questions on Sixth Sunday after Trinity.) 15. Why would the Jews think ill of a publican? 16. What was a publican? (Refer to questions on Third Sunday after Trinity.)] 17. How would man have judged between these two? or which would man have thought the best? 18. But how doth God look at us? 1 Sam. xvi. 7, last part of verse. 19. What did the Pharisee say? 20. What did he give thanks for? 21. What difference did he see between himself and other men? 22. How does he describe other men whom he is unlike? 23. What was extortion? A. Wringing out money. [24. Where is extortion forbidden? Exodus, xxii. 21, 22, 25, 26. 25. Who were specially accused of extortion?] 26. What was it to be unjust? A. To be unfair towards others. [27. Where is injustice forbidden? Exodus, xxiii. 6, 7.] 28. Where is adultery forbidden? 29. How did the Pharisee sum up all the faults he avoided? 30. What good deeds does he recount? [31. What were these two fasts? A. On Monday and Thursday. 32. What reason was given for keeping these fasts? A. Because Moses was said to have gone up Mount Sinai on a Thursday, and come down on a Monday. 33. Were they enjoined by the Law of God? A. No; by the elders of the Jews. 34. Was it right to observe them? St. Matt. xxiii. 2, 3, first part of verse.] 35. What were tithes? A. The tenth part of all a man's property. [36. To whom did the tithe belong? Lev. xxvii. 30-32. 37. How were the tithes to be given to the

tention less than the narrative parts of God's Word, and are less easy to be understood; but let us listen attentively with teachable hearts, and by God's help we shall not listen in vain. F. M. P.

THE GOSPELS.

Lord? A. It was divided into three parts; one part was given to the Priests and Levites, one part to the poor, one part made a feast to be eaten before the Lord. Deut. xiv. 22-29. 38. Who first gave tithes? Heb. vii. 1, 2. 39. How did the Jews after the Captivity rob God? Mal. iii. 8. 40. Was it then right to pay tithe? 41. How does our Lord speak of the Pharisee's way of paying tithes? St. Matt. xxiii. 23. 42. Who receive tithes among us? A. Our clergy. 43. Why is this right? A. Because it is like God's rule for his ancient people.]

44. We have heard what the Pharisee said for himself. How did the publican behave? 45. Why did he stand afar off? 46. What did he not dare to do? 47. Why could he not lift up his eyes? 48. What action did he use? 49. Why did he smite on his breast? 50. What was all he said? -51. What did he own himself? 52. Had he any good deeds to tell of? 53. Yet what does our Lord say of him? 54. What is being justified? A. Made just in the sight of God. 55. When are people thus made just in His sight? A. When their sin is forgiven. [Psalm xxxii. 1.] 56. Why, then, was the publican forgiven? [57. How are such as he described in Psalm xxxii. 5, 6?] 58. Had the Pharisee asked for forgiveness for his sins? 59. Did he think he had any sins? 60. Could he be right in thinking he had no sins? 61. Read the last of the sentences before the Exhortation. 62. How, then, was the Pharisee deceiving himself? 63. How is pardon here promised to those who do like the publican? [64. What warning does Solomon give against such behaviour as the Pharisee's in the Temple? Eccl. v. 1, 2.] 65. Whom was the Pharisee praising, God or himself? [66. What counsel does our Lord give those who are like him? Rev. iii. 17, 18.] 67. With what saying does our Lord end? 68. What is exalting? 69. What is abasing? 70. Who had been exalting himself? 71. Who had been humbling himself? 72. Which was the highest in God's sight? [73. Where has He taught us that He is nearest to the most humble? Isaiah, lvii. 15. 74. What is His Sacrifice? Psalm li. 17. 75. What is meant by "contrite?" A. Bruised and tender with grief. 76. Then what is the best way of coming before God?]

77. When do we come before God? 78. What is our Temple? 79. Could we speak

aloud as the Pharisee did there? 80. For what does the Church give us to say? 81. How do we almost repeat the publican's words in the Confession? 82. How do we follow them in the Litany? 83. What should we think of when we call ourselves miserable offenders? 84. What do we ask for? 85. Why do we so much need His merey? 86. What is the only way to have His mercy? 87. Is it any use to cry out for Ilis mercy if we do not think about wanting it? [88. What does Isaiah say of such worship? Isa. xxix. 13.] 89. If you went to church, and instead of thinking of your faults when you said the Confession, you thought how good you were to be there, which of these men should you be like? 90. Or if you thought how badly other people behaved; if you thought some one was too smart, or someone was untidy, or someone was late, or someone was only coming for a pretence of goodness-who should you be like? 91. Should you go away with your sins forgiven? 92. What is the way to have them forgiven? [93. What is this pattern of an acceptable prayer? 94. What example of a spirit like the publican's have we in the Epistle? 25. How does St. Paul there esteem himself? 96. For what sin did he always bear in mind? 97. Yet how had he laboured? 98. But to whom does he ascribe these

abundant labours? 99. Does he take any merit from them? 100. Whom does he despise, instead of despising others? 101. So that St. Paul shows us that the having worked hard for God's service will make us humbler, instead of pleased with ourselves; and the holier we grow, the more we shall grieve over, and try to root up, the remains of sins. So that what acceptable sacrifice will a good man always bring?]

TWELFTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.

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1. WHAT place was our Lord leaving? [2. What miracle had He there performed? (See Gospel for Third Sunday in Lent.) 3. For what reason had He withdrawn to the coasts of Tyre and Sidon? (Refer to questions on Third Sunday in Lent.)] 4. What is meant by coasts? A. Borders. Whither was He returning? 6. By what way? [7. What is the meaning of Decapolis? A. The Ten Cities. 8. Where were these ten cities? A. On the further side of the Jordan. 9. Which of them are named in the New Testament? A. Damascus and Gadara. 10. What is thought to have been the reason our Lord returned to Galilee from Phoenicia by such a long way round? A. To avoid Herod's persecution, after the death of John the Baptist. 11. How does St. Matthew describe what happened on His return? St. Matt. xv. 30, 31.]

12. What one special miracle does St. Mark here describe? 13. Whom did they bring to our Lord? 14. What is an impediment? A. A hindrance. 15. What is it to have an impediment in the speech? A. To have the mouth unable to form words rightly. 16. What did they ask our Lord to do? 17. Who besought Him? 18. Why did the poor man not ask for himself? 19. What did our Lord do with the deaf man? 20. What did He do to his ears? 21. What to his tongue? 22. What was He thus showing the man and his friends? A. That it was by His own power that He was healing. 23. What did He then do? 24. What word did He say? 25. What is that word? A. It is the Syriac word for "Be opened." 26. What were opened? 27. What was loosed? 28. What could the man do? 29. What orders did He give? 30. But what did the people do? 31. What did they say of Him? 32. How had this miracle been foretold? Isaiah, xxxii. 4, last part of verse; xxxv. 6.

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33. What sign of sadness did our Saviour show at this miracle? [34. At what other miracle did He shew grief?] 35. Now, if we saw a poor deaf and dumb man (or a dead man) why might we grieve? Could we heal him? 37. But what was our Saviour going to do? 38. Then it was not grief for want of the power to help; but what do we know of His pity? Psalm ciii. 13. 39. What was He bearing for us? Isaiah, liii. 4, first part of verse. [40. What does the Epistle to the Hebrews say of His pity? Heb. v. 2.] 41. What part of the man was diseased on whom this miracle was done? 42. What other sort of deafness is there? A. When people will not hear. 43. When do children have this sort of deafness? A. When they will not listen to what is said to them. [44. How does David speak of that deafness? Psalm lviii. 4.] 45. When, again, can we have that deafness? 4. When we go to Church and do not attend. 46. What does Solomon say of hearing and not hearing? Prov. xv. 31, 32. 47. With what deaf 48.

persons was our Lord surrounded? What did He say of them? St. Matt. xiii. 15. 49. Would they let Him heal them? 50. Then might not our blessed Lord have sighed to think how many there were who would not let Him unclose the ears of their mind? 51. What shall we do not to be of those deaf for whom He sighed? 52. What was Samuel's answer to His call?

53. What is the right use to make of our tongue? 54. Why, in the daily service, do we ask to have our lips opened? 55. But when do we make a bad use of our speech? [56. How does St. James show the wickedness of this? James, iii. 9, 10, 11.] 57. What sins of the tongue does the duty to our neighbour forbid? 58. Would it not

be better to stammer than so to use our tongue? 59. What is the reward of such a tongue? Psalm cxx. 3. 60. What is the right rule for our tongue? Prov. xxxi. 26. 61. What is the best thing our tongues can do here? 62. If they praise God, and speak kindly to men here, how shall they be used hereafter?

[63. What outward signs did our Lord use in healing? 64. At what other time are we told of His using this sign? St. John, ix. 6. 65. What did He apply it with? 66. Of what is this a sign? A. Of His human nature, joined with His Divine Power, bringing healing to us. 67. What is to us the Finger of God? A. The Spirit of God. 68. He healed by visible signs. By what visible signs is Salvation brought to us?

[69. Of what did the Epistle speak? 70. Who were unable to hear the true meaning of their Law? 71. Who hath opened our ears to the meaning of the Law? 72. But who would not listen to its meaning? 73. Who are still deaf to it?]

74. What is the thanksgiving of the Collect? 75. Could the poor man truly desire hearing before he knew what sound was? 76. Then what did our Lord give him? 77. And, in like manner, the more our understandings are opened, the more we shall enter into good things; we can no more fancy now, than the deaf man could fancy sound before he had heard it. But what is it that we must do? A. Not make ourselves deaf.

THIRTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.

[1. WHAT had just taken place before what we here read? St. Luke, x. 17. 2. For what had our Lord given thanks? Verse 21. 3. What seems to be the great lesson of the discourse? A. That love is

better than spiritual power. 4. Where does St. Paul bring home that lesson? 1 Cor. xiii. 1, 2, 3.] 5. To whom did our Lord say these words? (Look at the verse in the Testament.) 6. What were the things the disciples saw? 7. Who had desired to see such things? [8. How is this elsewhere expressed? St. Matt. xiii. 16, 17.] 9. Who were the prophets? 10. Who were the kings? 11. For what were they always hoping? 12. How did they know He was coming? [13. How does St. Peter describe their desire to understand their own prophecies? 1 Peter, i. 10, 11, 12. 14. In what chapter is their state of looking forward described? Heb. xi.

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How does it sum up their history? Heb. xi. 39, 40. 16. What was that better thing? 17. What had Isaiah foretold they would say when it came? Isaiah, xxv. 9.] 18. What did Simeon say when he did see our

Lord? 19. Does this blessing belong to us? 20. For though we are not living in sight of our Lord like the Apostles, why are we better off than those of old? 21. What have we to explain the Old Testament? 22. What holy Presence have we among us? [23. What blessing has our Lord left us? St. John, xx. 29. 24. How did our Lord show that as Christians we are better off, not only than the old prophets, but than His own forerunner? St. Luke, vii. 28.] 25. Then is it not worse in us to go wrong, than of the Israelites of old? 26. Who stood up? 27. What was a lawyer? A. One who copied and explained the Law. 28. What Law? 29. What is meant by tempting? A. Trying. 30. What was the lawyer trying to make Him do? A. To say something contrary to the Law. 31. What was the lawyer's question? 32. What was our Lord's reply? 33. Who had to find the answer? 34. What was the answer? [35. Whence was it taken? Deut. vi. 4, 5. Lev. xix. 18, last part of verse.] 36. Where do we repeat it in the Catechism? 37. What does it

sum up? 38. What is the one word in which St. Paul sums up the whole? Rom. xiii. 10. [39. On what occasions did our Lord Himself make this answer? St. Mark, xii. 28.] 40. What then is the whole teaching of the Law? 41. What did our Lord say to the lawyer? A. "This do." 42. What was he to do? 43. What does it say the lawyer wished to do? 44. The meaning seems to be that as he had been made to answer his own question for himself, he wished to make it seem that he was in earnest, and had a difficulty; for what did he ask? 45. What had he said was his duty to his neighbour? 46. Then what did the question mean? A. That he did not know whom he was to love as himself. 47. How did our Lord reply? 48. Which way was the traveller going? 49. Where is Jericho? [50. Why is the word "down" used? A. Because Jerusalem is on a hill, and Jericho on very low ground, so that the way is all down hill. 51. What sort of road is it? 4. Between hills and rocks, where robbers still lurk.] 52. What befell him? 53. What did the thieves do to him? 54. In what state did they leave him? 55. Who came that way? 56. What was a priest? 57. What did the priest do at sight of the wounded man? 58. Why would a person be in haste to get on in that place? 59. Who next came by? 60. What was a Levite? 61. What did the Levite do? 62. For whose safety did the priest and Levite care? 63. Whom then did they love? 64. What is putting ourselves foremost called? A. Selfishness. 65. Who came by next? 66. Who were Samaritans? 67. How did this Samaritan feel at the sight? 68. What did he do?

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69. What danger did he run by stopping? 70. Did he put his own danger first? 71. What did he think of instead of himself? 72. What did he do for the poor man? 73. Why would he have oil and wine with him? A. As provision for his journey. 74. What use did he make of them? 75. What was that for? A. It was thought to be healing. 76. What more did the Samaritan do for the sufferer? 77. Whither did he take him? 78. What did he do for him at night? 79. What on the morrow? 80. How much was two pence? 81. What farther promise did he make? 82. What did our Lord now ask? 83. What did the lawyer answer? 84. By whom did our Lord bid him take pattern? 85. Of which of these three persons would the lawyer naturally have thought most highly? 86. Of which most meanly? 87. Why was he forced to give the preference to the Samaritan? 88. What had moved the Samaritan thus to act? A. Love. 89. What is the one great lesson of the Law? 90. Why had the lawyer failed to understand the meaning of the Law, though he could repeat it? A. For want of love. 91. What would love have taught him? A. To be a neighbour to everyone in trouble. What would doing like the Samaritan teach him? A. Where to find his neighbour. 93. How can we go and do likewise? 4. Are we likely to find wounded men by the side of the road? 95. But how can we do like the Samaritan? 96. How did the Samaritan show boldness? 97. How can we do like him in this? A. By not being afraid to help others. 98. How did he show kindness? 99. What did he deny himself that he might help the sufferer? 4. His own food. 100. What fatigue did he undergo to help the wounded man? 101. Can we ever do like him in this? 102. What further charity did he show? 103. When can we in any way do likewise? 104. What shall we then be trying to fulfil? James, ii. 8. 105. How did the Samaritan show that his love was too strong to wait to consider whether the man was of his own way of thinking? 106. What were the feelings of the Jews to the Samaritans ? 107. What rule of our Lord did the Samaritan obey? St. Matt. v. 44. [108. What was wanting to the Jews' understanding of their Law? does St. Paul say in the last verse but one of the Epistle? 110. So the Law was perfect; but could the Jews keep it? 111. Who alone gave the power to keep it? 112. Who brought out the true meaning of it? 113. What is the one quality that will last into eternal life?

109. What

[114. What is the inner meaning of the parable? A. Christ helping mankind. 115. What does Jerusalem stand for? A. A holy state. 116. What does Jericho stand

for? A. For a fallen state. 117. Who are the thieves? 118. How do the devils treat mankind? 119. Who do the Priest and Levite stand for? A. For the Law of Moses. 120. Could that alone relieve mankind? 121. Who does the Samaritan stand for? 122. Why a Samaritan? A. Because He was despised. 123. And to whose relief did He come? who made Him as a stranger. 124. What was the taking him out of the desert? A. From the power of Satan. 125. Where was the Inn? 4. The Church. 126. What was His departure? 127. What two great gifts did He leave the Church? 128. When will He come again?]

A. To those

129. Who will repay us for whatever we spend on our poor brethren? 130. Whom has He left in our charge? 131. In what proportion will He repay whatever we spend on others? 132. Is it only money that we should spend? 133. What can we give? 134. What must prompt all that we do? 135. What shall we thus fulfil?

NOTE. It may be better to keep younger children's attention confined to the simple parablefrom 48 to 88, and from 94 to 104. The questions from 114 to 128, are only for the most advanced.

FOURTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.

1. Ir is not clear at what-time this miracle

took place, but it is thought that the journey here spoken of may have been when our Lord was quitting Galilee for the last time, and beginning His last journey. Where was He going? 2. Which way did He go? 3. Who met Him? 4. What are lepers? 5. What was the leprosy? A. A disease that began in the skin, and ate its way into the flesh and bones, so that the fingers would sometimes drop off. 6. How long did it last? A. For many years. 7. Was there any cure? A. No. 8. What was to be done with a leprous person? Lev. xiii. 45, 46. 9. What might not an unclean person do? A. He might not come into the Temple, nor into a synagogue, nor be present at a sacrifice, nor sit down to eat with others. 10. What befell a person who touched one that was unclean? A. He became unclean too. [11. Why was Miriam struck with leprosy ? 12. Why was Gehazi struck with leprosy? 13. Why was Uzziah struck with leprosy ? 2 Chron. xxvi. 19, 20. 14. Thus, how was leprosy regarded? A. As the special punishment of sin.] 15. Why did it cause

more defilement than other sicknesses? A.

Because it is so like our disease of sin. 16. How does it begin? A. With one spot. 17. How does sin begin? 18. What will happen if the spot of disease spreads? 19. What if the one sin goes on being committed? 20. How do both leprosy and sin end? 21. Who inherited Gehazi's leprosy ?