Psalm xviii. 49. 65. Where is the next promise written? Deut. xxxii. 43, first part of verse. 66. Where is the third promise

written? Psalm cxvii. 1. 67. Where is the fourth promise written? Isaiah, xi. 1-10. 68. Who are joined together in these promises? 69. Whom were Jew and Gentile alike to praise? 70. Then on what are the hopes of the Gentiles founded? A. On the promises spoken to the Jews. 71. What is meant by laud? A. Praise. 72. What does St. Paul here call Isaiah ? 73. Why does he change the name? A. It was the Greek way of writing it. 74. Who was Jesse? 75. Who was the Root of Jesse? 76. Why is our Lord called a Root of Jesse ? 77. How does He reign over the Gentiles? Rev. xi. 15. 78. Are we Jews or Gentiles? 79. What prophecy is fulfilled in us? Isaiah, lx. 9. 80. What is St. Paul's prayer and blessing? 81. On what is that hope and faith to be founded? A. On His Word. 82. How does the Gospel show us how firm that Word is? 83. How does to-day teach us that Christ is come among us? A. By His presence in His Holy Scripture. 84. What use do we pray that we may make of that Blessed Word? 85. What does Moses say of its nearness to us? Deut. xxx. 14. 86. To what blessing will it lead us if we do use it right?

THIRD SUNDAY IN ADVENT.

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1. By whom was this Epistle written? To whom was it written? 3. Who were the Corinthians? 4. Where was Corinth? [5. When was St. Paul at Corinth? Acts, xviii. 1. 6. What converts had he there? Verse 8. 7. How long did he stay there? Verse 11. 8. Where had he then gone? Verse 19. 9. How long was he at Ephesus? Acts, xix. 10. 10. Whom did he send back to Corinth? Acts, xix. 22. 11. What was he told about the Corinthians? 1 Cor. i. 11, last part of verse. 12. What did he therefore write to them? 13. Who brought them the letter? 1 Cor. xvi. 17. 14. To whom then are they to submit, to put an end to their divisions? Verses 15, 16. 15. How does St. Paul in the first words of the Epistle of to-day show why they were to submit to his authority and that of Stephanas?]

16. Whom does St. Paul mean by us? 17. How had St. Paul become an Apostle? Acts, xiii. 2, 3. 18. Who had chosen the Apostles? 19. What had He said to them? St. John, xx. 21. 20. How do they send on the gift? 1 Tim. iv. 14. 21. Whom have we in the place of the Apostles? 22. How do they receive the gift? (Refer to Rubric for Consecration of Bishops.) 23.

Whom do they ordain under them? Tit. i 5. 24. What do we call these elders now? A. Priests. 25. How are they ordained? (Refer to Rubric.) 26. Who are the third order? 27. Who were the first deacons? 28. How are deacons ordained? 29. How are all these to be accounted? 30. What are ministers? A. Servants. 31. Whose ministers are they? 32. Why are they Christ's ministers? A. Because they lead His service, and have His work to do. 33. What kind of servants are they? 34. What is a steward? A. An upper servant, in charge of the under servants, and of his master's goods. 35. Who are the other servants? 36. Then are we not all ministers? 37. But who are called ministers as being chief servants? 38. What are these stewards in charge of? 39. What are mysteries? A. Things not fully known. 40. What is the difference between a minister and a mystery? [41. Where does St. Paul speak of himself elsewhere as a minister of God, and steward of

His mysteries? Col. i. 25.] 42. What mystery has been made known to us Christians? 43. How do His ministers make known to us His Word? A. In their teaching and preaching. 44. How does our Lord describe their thus giving it out to us? St. Matt. xiii. 52. [45. Find St. Paul's description of the way he taught his converts as they were fit for it. 1 Cor. iii. 2. Heb. v. 13, 14. 46. How does Isaiah foretell such teaching? Isaiah, xxviii. 10.] 47. Why, then, are they stewards of His Word? A. Because they have to teach us from it such things as we can understand and practise. 48. Of what other mysteries are they stewards? A. Of the Sacraments. 49. Why are the Sacraments mysteries? 50. How were they made stewards of these mysteries? (See Rubric in Ordination Service, when the Bible is delivered to the priest.) 51. Why are they stewards of them? A. Because they give them to the persons they think fit for them. 52. How did Christ commit this stewardship to Ilis Apostles? St. Matt. xvi. 19. 53. How, then, are we to regard our clergymen? 54. How did our Lord tell us so? St. Luke, x. 16. 55. What is required of a steward? 56. How did our Lord show us this? St. Matt. xxiv. 45, &c. [57. What happens when the steward is only a hireling?] 58. But whose part is it to judge the steward's conduct? 59. Is it the part of the under servants? 60. Who does judge him? 61. Who alone can see people's true reasons for what they do? [62. Where does David tell us so? Psalm vii. 9.] 63. Therefore what does St. Paul say of man's judgment? 64. What will he not even venture to do? 65. For Who knows more of our own hearts than we do ourselves? 1 John, iii. 20. 66. What is meant by "I know nothing by my

prayers and supplications? 61. For what should we thank Him? 62. Is there anything that we should think too small to lay before Him? 63. Then, when we have told Him our troubles, how should we feel? A. Sure that He will attend. 64. And what should our minds then be free for? A. The joy of His coming. 65. And if the glad are moderate and restrained in their mirth, and the sorrowful are full of trust, leaning upon their God, what blessed gift will keep the hearts and minds of both? 66. What does He say of that peace of

God? 67. Why is it said to pass man's understanding? A. Because none who have not felt it can guess how sweet and good it is. 68. Where was it promised? Psalm xxix. 10. 69. Who is Prince of Peace? 70. What is the Angels' Song? 71. What did He leave with His Church? St. John, xiv. 27. 72. When do we receive this blessing? 73. What, then, should we carry about with us? 74. What are the two ways in which we might spoil that heavenly peace, and break our Christmas joy?

PART V.

OUR BELIEF.

SECTION XXVI. THE RESURRECTION.

1. REPEAT the Eleventh Article. 2. What is the Resurrection? 3. Rising from what? 4. What was the punishment to Adam's body? 5. What becomes of the body of each of us? 6. Who has come back from the grave? 7. What did He then become? 8. What shall all those do who lie in their graves? Ez. xxxvii. 10. [9. Who, in the Old Testament, had a vision of the Resurrection? 10. How did Job prophesy of the Resurrection? Job, xix. 25, 26.] 11. When shall this be? 12. What shall then rise? 13. What shall the sea give up? 14. What will be joined together again? 15. What will they rise for? 16. What will become of those that have done evil? 17. What will happen to those who have done well? 18. How long will they last when they are risen again? 19. How must we keep our bodies, since they are to last for ever? 20. What is the only real and lasting stain upon them? 21. What change will come over them? 22. Will there be any end to the torments of Hell? 23. Will there be any drawback to the happiness of Heaven? [24. What difference will there be in our bodies? 1 Cor. xv. 42, 43, 44.] 25. Whom will it be made like? [26. What did our Lord say of Himself? St. John, xi. 25.]

SECTION XXVII.-THE LIFE
EVERLASTING.

1. WHAT is the Twelfth and last Article of the Creed? 2. What life is this? 3. Who brought us this life? [4. What did He say of this? St. John, x. 10. last part of verse. 5. What is the death of the soul? A. Sin. 6. When did the life of the soul

begin in us? A. At Baptism. 7. What does this new life consist in? A. Living to God. 8. How is this spiritual life carried on? 9. Are we living this life when we are trying only to please ourselves? 10. What alone can save us from death? 11. How is this spiritual life sustained? A. By the Bread of Life. [12. What is our spiritual food and sustenance? 4. In the Holy Communion. 13. Can this life be understood? Col. iii. 3.] 14. Will this spiritual life ever end? 15. Does the death of our body end it? 16. If so, what will death do for us? 17. What land will it take us to? 18. What will the Day of Judgment do for them? 19. What do we know of this happiness? 20. In Whose

Presence shall we be? 21. What is found in His Presence? 22. What is the mean. ing of the word Amen? A. Verily, or indeed. 23. What do we mean when we say it at the end of a Creed? A. So it is.

SECTION XXVIII.-SUMMARY OF THE CREED.

1. WHAT dost thou chiefly learn in these Articles of thy Belief? 2. What do you mean by these Articles of thy Belief? What is the first thing you learn? 4. What did God the Father do for you? 5. What did He make besides you? 6. What do you mean by "all the world ?" 7. How is it expressed in the Creed that He made all the world? 8. What is the second thing you learn? 9. Who is God the Son? 10. What did God the Son do for you? 11. Whom did He redeem besides you? 12. What do you mean by "all mankind?" 13. What is the meaning of redeeming? 14. How could a slave or a captive be redeemed? 15. Whose slaves were all mankind? 16. How had they become slaves of Satan? 17. What price was paid to set mankind free from Satan? 18.

What is His Death called?

19. Why is it called the Redemption? [20. How was this promised by the mouth of Hosea? Hosen, xiii. 14. 21. How does the Church confess that Christ hath done this? Rev. v. 9.] 22. What is our Lord therefore called? A. Our Redeemer. 23. To Whom, "then, do we belong? 24. Why do we belong to Him? A. Because He has bought us 25. What is the third thing you learn to believe? 26. What is it to Sanctify? A. To make holy. 27. When did God the Holy Ghost sanctify you? A. At my baptism. 28. How does He go on to sanctify you? 29. How long will He continue to sanctify you? 30. Whom does He sanctify besides you? 31. What is the meaning of elect? A. The Chosen. 32. Who are the Chosen? 33. From whom were they chosen? A. Out of the world. 34. What were they chosen to be? 35. What were they chosen to do? 36. How are they enabled to do this? 37. Are you one of these? 38. How do you know? A. Because I have been baptized. 39. What have you now to do? 40. How? 41. Who are the Three Holy Persons in Whom the Creed teaches you to believe? 42. What are these Three? 43. What is each Person by Himself? 44. What is this called? A. The most Holy Trinity in Unity. 45. What does this mean? 46. Can we understand how this is? 47. Why not? 48. What must we do? 49. What else have we to believe? [50. What do we pray in the Collect for Trinity Sunday? 51. Which Creed especially teaches the doctrine of the Holy Trinity? what parts of the Church Service do we adore the glory of the Holy Trinity?]

PART VI. OBEDIENCE.

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SECTION 1.-THE COVENANT OF THE

LAW.

1. WHAT is the third part of your Baptismal Vow? A. Obedience. 2. Obedience to Whom? 3. You said that your Godfathers and Godmothers did, &c. 4. When did you say this? 5. When did they promise this for you? 6. How many Commandments are there? 7. Which be they? 8. What do you mean by saying, "The same which," &c.? 9. Where are the Commandments to be found? 10. What is the Book of Exodus ? 11. Who spake the Commandments? 12. Who heard Him speak them? 13. Who were the children of Israel? 14. For whose sake were they chosen? 15. What were they chosen to be? [16. What blessings did God promise them? Exodus, xix. 5, 6.] . 17. What did God promise to give to them? 18. What did God require of them on their part?

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19. What is the word that me ditional promise made by two pa Where did God make His cove the children of Israel? 21. Wh Mount Sinai? 22. How did God m His presence known on Mount Sinai ? 25. What did all the people do? 24. What did they hear? 25. What words did they hear the Voice of God speak? 26. When they heard this awful Voice, what did they entreat? A. That God would not speak to them Himself, lest they should die. 27. To whom did they entreat Him to speak? 28. What is Moses therefore called? Mediator. 29. What is a mediator? One who goes between two parties. 30. Where did God call Moses? 31. What did God give to Moses there? 32. How were they written? 33. What were these Commandments called? A. The Law. Where were these two Holy Tables to be kept? 35. What was this chest to be made of? A. Shittim wood. 36. What was it to be covered with? 4. With gold. 37. What was to be on the top of it? A. Figures of Cherubim, or angels, in gold. 38. What was this chest called? A. The Ark of the Covenant. 39. Who alone might touch it? A. The Priests. What did the people promise to keep? [41. How was the engagement made? (See Exodus, xxiv.) 42. How were all the children of these Israelites admitted into the covenant? A. By circumcision. 43. What were the terms of the covenant? A. That, on condition of their keeping the Law, they should be God's peculiar people, and enjoy the Land of Promise. 44. Was it possible for man to keep this Law? A. No, for the Law was perfect, and man was sinful. 45. What does St. Paul therefore call the Law? A. The ministration of condemnation. Why does he call it the ministration of death? A. Because death was the punishment for breaking it, and man had no power to keep it. 47. "Wherefore then serveth the Law?" A. "It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made." (Gal. iii. 19.) 48. Since there was no power to keep the Law, why was it given? A. It was to teach men to know their own sinfulness, and so to perceive the need of our Saviour's sacrifice. 49. What did the Law for them? A. "The Law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ." Gal. iii. 24.]

SECTION II.-THE CHRISTIAN COVENANT.

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1. WHAT Covenant has been made with us? A. The Baptismal Covenant. 2. What are the conditions of that covenant? A. We must renounce, believe, and obey; and God makes us members of Christ, children

of God, and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven. 3. Who is the Mediator of our covenant? 4. What has passed on from the old Covenant to the new one? A. The Commandments. [5. What is the difference? A. The Law of Moses gave no power to keep the Commandments, and no atonement for those who should break them. In the Christian Covenant the Holy Spirit will help us to obey, and we have our Lord's Atonement to trust in. 6. How do you know that the Law continues? Matt. v. 18. 7. What is meant by the Law? A. All the directions given by God to Moses for the children of Israel. 8. Do we observe all these now? 9. What did our Lord say? Matt. v. 17. 10. What were the three branches of the Law given to Moses? A. The political law, the ceremonial law, and the moral law. 11. Which is the political law? A. That which taught how the Israelites were to be governed as a nation. 12. Why is this no more observed? A. Because they are no longer a nation with God instead of any visible king. 13. What was the ceremonial law? A. That which relates to the observances of the Jewish religion. 14. What was the meaning of the ceremonies of the Law? They were shadows beforehand of the Great Atonement. 15. Give an instance. 4. The Scape Goat, which had all the sins of all the people laid upon its head. 16. How did our Lord fulfil the ceremonial law? A. By obediently keeping it; and chiefly because He Himself made the Atonement, of which the ceremonies were types. 17. So what became of the ceremonial law? A. Being fulfilled, it passed away. 18. Which is the moral law? A. That which teaches right and wrong. 19. How did our Lord fulfil the moral law? | A. By keeping it perfectly. 20. How then did not any part of the Law fail? A. Because He fulfilled all that the types promised, and perfectly observed the moral law. 21. Who are bound to keep the moral law? A. We Christians. 22. What help have we to do so? A. The help of the Holy Spirit. 23. What will our Lord do for us? A. He will fill up our shortcomings with His own infinite merits. 24. Therefore what is our covenant? 4. The ministration of righteousness.}

SECTION III.-ISRAEL OUR LIKENESS.

1. WHAT is the sentence that comes before the Commandments? 2. What does this sentence declare? 4. It declares by what authority this Law is given. 3. Who is the Giver of the Law? [4. What is the great Hebrew word, called "the Lord" in our translation of the Bible? 4. Jehovah. 5. What is the meaning of Jehovah? A. I Am That I Am. 6. To whom did God

first make Himself known by that Name? A. To Moses. 7. Why is it so seldom used? A. Because it is so great and holy.] 8. What does the Lord declare Himself to be? 9. Why is it said, "thy God?" A. Because Israel was His people, and He their God. 10. Then by what authority was this Law given? 11. What does God tell the Israelites He had done for them? 12. How did they come into Egypt? 13. How long had the Israelites been in Egypt? 14. What had Egypt been to them? 15. What is a house of bondage? 16. What slavery had they suffered? 17. Who had made them slaves? 18. Who had been sent to lead them out of Egypt? 19. How had the Egyptians been made to let them go? 20. What sea did the Israelites pass through? 21. What became of Pharaoh and his host? 09 Where were the Israelites when the Law was given? 23. How were they supported there? 24. What did He give them to drink ? 25. How did God show His Presence amongst them? 26. What did God promise them? 27. When God was doing all this for them, what did He require of them? 28. Does the Lord speak to us, when He says, "I am the Lord, Who brought thee out of the land of Egypt?" A. Yes, He does. 29. What was the house of bondage to us? A. The slavery of sin. 30. To whom were we in bondage? A. To Satan. 31. What was the work Satan gave? A. Iniquity. 32. Who came to lead us out? A. Our blessed Saviour. 33. Through what waters did He lead us? A. Through the waters of Baptism. 34. What became of our original sin in those waters? A. It was washed away. 35. What was the wilderness to us? Å. This life. 36. What is to us as the manna and the water from the rock? A. The Holy Communion. 37. What is the hope that is set before us? A. The hope of Heaven. 38. Who is present with us as the Pillar of the Cloud was with the Israelites? A. The Holy Spirit. 39. As our God, through Christ, has led us out from the bondage of sin, like as He led Israel from Egypt by Moses, what does He require of us? A. To keep His Law. [40. Where does St. Paul explain this? A. In 1 Cor. x. 1-11. 41. What warning are we to take from the history of Israel in the wilderness? A. Not to fall into the like sins. 42. How are we daily reminded not to fall into the sins of the Israelites? A. "Today if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts: as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness.” 43. If we will not hear the voice of our God, our Leader, and our Guide, what will be the consequence? 4. We shall never enter into His rest.]