72. 80. A. The ears of the understanding. 24. | easily carries it off. Who are meant by Who had heard the parable? 25. Who the rock covered with thin mould? 62. cared to know its meaning? 26. Then How do they listen? 63. They like to be which had the ears to hear? 27. What taught, they understand readily, and think did the disciples ask? 28. Why did He they will be very good; but what have say He spoke in parables? 29. Why were they not? [64. How had the Jews once the disciples allowed to know more? A. listened to Ezekiel? Chap. xxxiii. 32.] Because they cared to know. [30. Who 65. What proved the shallowness of the are those whom God teaches? St. John, vii. earth on the rock? 66. What is like the 17. 31. How had Isaiah described the scorching of the sun? A. Temptation. Jewish people? Is. vi. 9. 32. How did 67. How is this put in St. Matthew? 68. they treat all our Lord said? A. They Why does not such a person bear the heat heard, but would not listen, or only turned of temptation? A. Because he has no it against Him. 33. So how did He speak root in himself. 69. If the seed had had a to them? 34. Why did He speak to them good root, would the plant have been better in parables? A. Because they blasphemed or worse for the sun? 70. Would the if He spake openly. 35. So that it was in person be the better or the worse for the His Mercy that He veiled the truth in resisted temptation? [71. What does St. parables, so as not to let them bring greater James say of this? James, i. 2, 3. punishment on themselves. When did What is the way to get this depth? * A. He tell the Apostles to keep holy things To resist each little trial as it comes. 73. back from profane men? St. Matt. vii. 6. If not, what becomes of the good seed? 36. To whom did He make His mysteries 74. What will be the end of those that known? 37. Which soil were the disciples hear, if they will not do? 75. Then, if we like? 38. Which were the other Jews like religious lessons, and easily understand like?] 39. What was meant by the seed? them, what should we take care of? A. 40. Who is the sower? A. Whoever To do as well as feel. 76. What are St. gives us instruction in holy things. [41. James's words of warning? James, i. How does Solomon speak of such sowing? 22. 77. First, the careless sort, and then Eccl. xi. 6. 42. What is the blessing on the shallow unsteady ones, are describedsuch sowing of the Word? Ps. cxxvi. 6, 7. what next? 78. What are the thorns? 43. How does St. Paul speak of his teach- 79. When did care and labour begin? ing and its fruit? 1 Cor. iii. 6.] 44. What do care, and riches, and pleasures, When is the seed sown? A. Whenever do to the Word? 81. How do they choke we are taught what is good. 45. Tell me it? A. They take up the heart, and leave some of these seed-times. A. At church, no room for good thoughts. 82. So what reading the Bible or good books, being befalls the seed? [83. What did our Lord taught holy things, or having good advice. elsewhere say against care? St. Matt. vi. 25. 46. What is meant by the ground? 84. What does He say of the danger of 47. How many wrong ways of receiving riches? St. Mark, x. 24. 85. What is the seed are there? 48. What was the the root of all evil? 1 Tim, vi. 10. 86. first of these? 49. How is the way-side What does St. Paul say of pleasure 2 1 explained? 50. What had hardened the Tim. v. 6.] 87. Which of these thorns is footpath? 51. What hardens the heart? the danger of children? 88. If pleasures A. Becoming a thoroughfare of idle vain choke the seed in childhood, what will thoughts. 52. If we hear holy lessons choke it afterwards? A. Cares. 89. with our ears, and don't attend, but think What is the one thing to put first? 90. of other things all the time, does the What is the good ground? 91. It is not teaching get into us? 53. How is this put always so quick and rapid to seem to learn in the other version of the parable? 54. as the ground on the rock; but what kind When are we in danger of being like the of heart is it? 92. What does it put way-side? A. When we only think holy forth? A. Its best. 93. When it has things dull, and will not open our minds to heard the Word, what does it do? them, but try to pass away the time. [55. Of whom were we told that she kept the What does Malachi blame the Jews for sayWord? 95. What does it bring forth? ing? Mal. i. 13. first part.] 56. What was 96. How much? 97. What is the fruit? meant by the fowls of the air? 57. Then 98. What is needed in bringing forth the what has become of the good Word with fruit? 99. Can we be as good as we such people? 58. What are we apt to call should wish all at once? 100. How that? A. Forgetting. 59. Where are the must we learn goodness? A. By trying good lessons gone that we forget? 60. patiently to grow better. 101. How is our Why does the Devil snatch them away? 61. These people are the dull and hard, who have never taken home the Word at all, but have let it lie on the top of a heart hardened by sin and vanity, so that Satan 94. *Space is wanting to trace the analogy; but as vegetable mould is formed of the débris of weeds destroyed, so surely the shallow may win depth on the groundwork of temptations conquered, so as to gain a root-hold against the searching glow of persecution. patience to be shown? A. By never getting tired of trying to do right. [102. Tell me St. James's encouragement to patience. James, v. 7, 8.] 103. Who will help our endeavours to bring forth fruit? 104. Who gives the increase? [105. How does Jeremiah bid us prepare our hearts? Jer. iv. 3.] 106. The good ground has had to have the thorns of cares and riches pulled out, and to be softened and opened to receive, and to be deepened by little trials overcome, or else the seed would not grow. What are the three dangers here mentioned? 107. If all, or either of these, prevent our bearing fruit, what will be said at last? Jer. viii. 20. 108. When is the harvest? 109. What shall we have to account for? 110. What example of abundant fruit have we in the Epistle? QUINQUAGESIMA. [1. WHEN did the events related here take place? A. At the beginning of our Lord's last journey. 2. Why does this Gospel 10. suit the present season? A. Because the time of the Passion is coming on. 3. How are we about to prepare for keeping it? 4. By the fast of Lent.] 4. Whom did our Lord take apart? 5. Who were the twelve? 6. What did He say to them? 7. Why did persons go to Jerusalem at that time? 8. What feast was coming on ?* 9. What would be accomplished? What is it to accomplish? A. To finish or complete. 11. How are prophecies accomplished? A. When what is foretold comes to pass. 12. What does our Lord here call Himself? [13. What reason may we suppose for His so calling Himself here? 4. Because He had come in His Human Nature to suffer and die for us.] 14. What were these prophecies that should be accomplished? 15. How was His being delivered to the Gentiles foretold? Ps. ii. 1, 2. 16. To what Gentiles was He delivered up? 17. How was the mocking and spiteful treatment foretold? Ps. xxii. 7. 18. How the spitting? Is. 1. 6. 19. How the Scourging? Is. liii. 5. 20. How the putting to death? Is. liii. 8. 21. How the rising again? Ps. xvi. 10. 22. How that it should be on the third day? Hos. vi. 2. 23. Why did not our Blessed Lord turn back when He knew that this pain and death was before Him? 24. Why was He willing to save us at such a cost? 25. If He so loved us, how ought we to treat one another? 26. What lesson of love have we to-day? 27. What is our prayer for love in the Collect? 28. How did the Here if the scholars be forgetful, it might be best to recur to questions on First Sunday after Epiphany, on going up to Jerusalem. disciples receive what He said? [29. How had they always expected the Messiah to come?] 30. What was the saying that was hid from them? 31. When did they come to an understanding? 32. What city was He approaching? [33. Who have likewise given an account of this miracle? St. Matt. xx. 30-34; St. Mark, x. 46-52. 34. What does St. Mark say was the blind man's name? 35. How many blind men does St. Matthew speak of on this occasion? 36. When does St. Luke say the blind man first called on Him? 37. When do St. Matthew and St. Mark say the miracle was worked? Thus it is made out that Bartimæus must have first begged to be healed as our Lord came into Jericho, and afterwards, with another blind man, waited for Him by the wayside as He went out, when the miracle was performed.] 38. Who was sitting by the wayside? 39. What did the blind man hear? 40. How came there to be a multitude? A. Because people came out in crowds to see and hear our Lord. 41. What was He told was the 42. What did the people call our Lord? reason of the crowd whose steps He heard? us? 43. What did the blind man call Him? 44. Why the Son of David? [45. How was this a confession of faith? A. Because the Messiah was to be the Son of David. 46. How was this foretold? Is. xi. 1.] 47. What was the blind man's cry? 48. What did the people try to do? 49. What did he do when they tried to stop him? 50. What example is thus set A. Of being earnest in prayer, and not soon daunted. 51. Why is the answer to prayer sometimes delayed? A. To draw out people's faith, and teach them to persevere. 52. What did our Lord do at the blind man's cry? 53. What did He command? 54. What did He ask? 55. What was the blind man's wish? 56. How was His prayer granted? 57. For what did our Lord give him praise? 58. In how many ways had he shown faith? 59. that Jesus of Nazareth was the promised What was the first way? A. By knowing Son of David, and so could heal him. 60. What was the other way? A. By his trustful perseverance in praying, though he did not seem to be attended to. Christian graces upheld him? A. Faith and hope. 62. What did he hope for? 63. In our troubles what should strengthen our prayers? 64. How did the blind man act when he had received his sight? 65. How is He an example there? 66. What should we do after any blessing? 67. How can we follow Christ? 68. How can we 61. What glorify God? 69. What did all the people do? 70. How should we return thanks for any great blessing to ourselves or others? 71. How do we repeat the blind man's cry in the Litany? FIRST SUNDAY IN LENT. 20. [1. WHERE is this history repeated? St. Luke, iv.] 2. When did this happen? 3. What was done after our Lord's Baptism? 4. Who led Him? 5. How had the Holy Spirit visibly come on Him? 6. Where was He led? 7. What was the wilderness? A. One of the wild rocky places among the hills. [But this whole history is so full of mystery beyond all human powers, that we cannot attempt to fix the place.] 8. What was there to befall Him? [9. How does St. Mark describe this time? Chap. i. 13.] 10. What is it to fast? A. To go without some of the usual food. 11. What does St. Luke say of our Lord's fast? Chap. iv. 2. 12. How long was He without eating? 13. What other personshave kept such a fast? 14. When did Moses thus fast? 15. When did Elijah thus fast? 16. Where were they both? 17. What would happen to an ordinary person eating nothing for forty days? [18. How was Moses prepared for his fast? Er. xxiv. 11. 19. How was Elijah prepared? 1 Kings, xix. 6, 7, 8.] What sustained our Lord? A. His own Almighty Power. 21. Yet though it was not His will to die, what came upon Him as a man? 22. Who came to Him in His hunger? 23. Who is the tempter? 24. How did the devil ask Him to satisfy His hunger? 25. How would making the stones into bread have shown him to be the Son of God? [26. When did He ever provide bread in the wilderness?] 27. What was His answer? 28. Where was this written? Deut. viii. 3. 29. What had been given to Israel instead of bread? 30. What word had proceeded out of the Mouth of God? A. The command to the manna to rain down. 31. What may we understand by this saying? A. That it is God, not our food (or the means of life) that keeps us alive. (See Matt. vi. 25.) 32. Where did the devil next take Him? 33. What is the Holy City? 34. What is a pinnacle? A. A very high point. 35. It is thought that the place here meant was the top of the Temple wall, very high, and overhanging a deep precipice below. What did Satan here say? 36. How did he imitate our Lord in this speech? 37. Where was it written? Ps. xci. 11, 12. 38. But what words did Satan leave out? 39. Where do they promise that Angels shall keep the foot? 40. Would leaping down the height have been in His ways or those of man? 41. What would have proved Him to be the Son of God? 42. What was the answer? 43. Where was this written? Deut. vi. 16. 44. Who had tempted the Lord? 45. How had they tempted Him? 46. How would casting Himself down have tempted the Lord? A. Because it is presumption to run into needless danger to try if God will be merciful. 47. Where did the devil then take Him? 48. What did he display? 49. What promise did he make? 50. How did Satan say he came to have them? St. Luke, iv. 6. 51. How came he to have power over this world? 52. What is he therefore called? 53. What was the condition on which he would give those things? 54. How did our Lord reply? 55. Where was this written? Deut. vi. 13. 56. What did the devil then do? 57. Who came to cheer our Lord? [58. What prophecy here began to be fulfilled? Gen. iii. 15. 59. How was the serpent bruised? 60. Why did our Lord undergo this battle? A. To conquer Satan for us. 61. What is He therefore called? Heb. ii. 10. 62. How in the Litany do we plead this confict? 63. What further reason does St. Paul give for His temptation? Heb. ii. 18. 64. How does He thus know our trials? A. By His own expe rience. 65. Therefore what has He for us? A. A fellow-feeling as of one who hath borne the same. 66. How does St. Paul speak of this sympathy? Heb. iv. 15. 67. In all points tempted as we are: what are our three great classes of temptation? 68. Refer to St. John's description of them. 1 John, ii. 16. 69. Who first fell under these? 70. By whom do we see them conquered? 71. Is our lot with Eve or with Christ? A. It will be according as we resist these temptations or fall under them. 72. How did the flesh tempt Eve? 73. How did the flesh tempt Christ? 74. Was Eve in want when she took the fruit? 75. But how was it with our Lord when He resisted the offer of bread? 76. What did He then conquer for us? 77. How did Eve yield to the lust of the eye? 78. How did Christ resist the lust of the eye? 79. What did He then reject? A. The vain pomp and glory of the world. 80. How was Eve led astray by the pride of life? 81. How did our Lord refuse the pride of life? 82. What did she wish to become like? 83. How did our Lord refuse to manifest His Godhead? 84. How were all the temptations answered? 85. What does St. Paul call the Scripture? Eph. vi. 17. 86. Why was it better for us that our Lord should foil Satan with the Scriptures, than by His divine strength? 87. What weapon have we in our hands? 88. What did He do for us by His resistance? A. He set us the example how to resist. 89. What have we all to undergo? 90. When did our Lord's temptation come? 91. When does our temptation come? 92. What are our chief temptations from? 93. When have we anything like the temptation to make the stones bread? 94. If people are in great distress and hunger, what does Satan tempt them to do? 95. What may they remember that may comfort them? A. That our Lord Himself has felt how sad hunger is, and how hard it is not to do wrong to secure our bread. 96. How may His words help them? A. They show that God can keep us alive and well without our wrong doing. 97. How can we fit ourselves for meeting so sore a trial? A. By always keeping our appetite in order. 98. If we do what is not right to please our taste, (or our body,) with whom do we take part, with our Lord or with Eve? 99. When do we meet with something of the temptation of winning all the world and its glory? A. If we are tempted to go against our con- science for the sake of being finer or better off. 100. What have we renounced? 101. Who is allowed to give away this worldly pomp and glory when people sin to get them? 102. To what master then do we pay homage by doing wrong for the sake of them? 103. Whom then do we take for our god? 104. How does our Lord's example help us here? A. It shows that nothing is worth turning aside from God for. 105. How shall we train ourselves for this temptation? A. By never wanting any- thing fine or "pleasant to the eyes" that we are not sure is right for us. 106. What commandment will thus be kept? 107. What trial like that on the pinnacle of the Temple have we? A. Trials of pride and showing off. 108. If we wilfully put our- selves into danger or temptation, can we hope to be defended? 109. When are we in most danger of falling? 110. Who loves to make us think we stand? 111. When does this temptation come? A. When we have stood against those of the flesh and the world. 112. With what words did our Lord show us how to meet it? 4. He said, “Get thee hence, Satan.” 113. | And from whom may we be sure that any high thought of ourselves comes? 114. So with what answer should we meet it? 115. What encouragement have we in these trials? Is. lxiii. 9. 116. What will make Satan flee from us? James, iv. 7. 117. What will God always do for us in tempta- tion? 1 Cor. x. 13. 118. How should we, like Christ, use the Sword of the Spirit? A. We should call up some verse of Scrip- ture that suits the occasion. 119. By whose strength can the victory be gained? 120. Where in the Litany do we pray for those fighting this battle? 121. What is promised to us if we win the victory? 122. How does the Epistle describe the way we 123. What season is observed in remem- brance of our Lord's fast? 124. How long does Lent last? 125. How should we try we do so? A. Of our Lord being hungry forty days for our sake. 127. What is the prayer of the Collect? 128. When are we most ready to do right-when we are indul- ging ourselves, or denying ourselves? NOTE. The teacher is advised to overlook these questions, especially those after 58, and select such a section of the subject as may best suit the pupils 1. REFER to the other version of this miracle. Mark, vii. 24-30. 2. Whence was our Lord coming? 3. Where did this event take place? 4. What is meant by the coasts? A. The borders. 5. What were Tyre and Zidon? [6. For what were they famous? 7. What were the inhabi- tants called? 8. Where does St. Mark say our Lord went? 9. It seems as if the stern rebukes that He had been giving the Pharisees had stirred up persecution, and that our Lord retired to the borders of the land to avoid it, and His coming was to be a secret; but what is said of Him?] Who heard of His coming? 11. Of what nation was she? [12. What does St. Mark call her? Greek here means Gentile, (as in the margin.) The Phoenicians were of the old Canaanites, and Syria was the Roman province, including both Phoenicia and Judæa, therefore she was at once Canaanite and Syrophoenician.] 13. Why is her nation so strongly marked? A. To show that she was not Jewish. 14. Why did she seek our Lord? 15. What was meant by having a devil? A. At that time the devils sometimes took possession of people's bodies. 16. What was the effect? A. They spoke the devil's words instead of their own, they threw themselves about, and seemed as if they were mad. [17. Where did such things happen? A. Always in heathen or wild places, never at Jerusalem. 18. Where had our Lord lately wrought a miracle on persons thus possessed? St. Matt. viii. 28. 19. What was the woman's cry? 20. What did she confess by saying Son of David? 21. How was her entreaty received? 22. What did the disciples say? 23. What is the mean- ing of besought? 24. Why did they dislike her crying after them? A. Because they did not want to be noticed. 25. What was our Lord's answer? 26. Who were the lost sheep of the House of Israel? [27. How had His seeking these lost sheep been foretold? Ezekiel, xxxiv. 11, 12. 28. To whom was our Lord's own special mission? 29. What does St. Paul call Him? Rom. xv. 8.] 30. How did she still persevere ? 31. How did our Lord reply? 32. Who were the children? 33. What was their bread? A. The blessings of His presence. What was her answer? 37. What did she mean? A. She asked for a little out of the fulness that the Jews had. 38. How was she answered? 39. How was this great faith shown? 40. What is meant by "even as thou wilt?" 41. What did she wish? 42. What happened to her daughter? 43. What did she find when she went home? [44. How did our Lord refer to other crumbs of grace won by Gentiles of old? St. Luke, iv. 25, 26, 27. 45. When were the Gentiles received to grace?] 46. How was the daughter's recovery won? Why did she not ask for herself? Who prayed for her? 49. What does this show us that we should do for our friends? 50. When cannot they pray for themselves? 51. When will they not pray for them- selves? 52. What are we told of prayer? A. When we the patience of this woman tried? 59. How should we be like her if our prayers are not fulfilled at once? 60. In what parables did our Lord teach us to persevere in prayer? St. Luke, xi. 5-9; xviii. 2-7. 61. Why did He scem unwilling to attend to this woman? A. To draw out her faith. 62. If we wait long for what we wish for, how do we feel when it comes at last? 63. What does this woman teach us? [64. What is she a type of? A. Of the Church. 65. For whom does the Church cry out in prayer? 66. What is the unclean spirit a type of? 67. What are the prayers of the Church trying to win for her sinful chil- dren?] 68. Though a devil may not openly possess us, what do we admit to our hearts if we sin? 69. What kind of devil pos- sessed the daughter? 70. Against what sin THE BAPTISMAL VOW. SECTION V.-THE VOW OF 1. WHAT is the third condition of the Baptismal Covenant? 2. What is obedi- ence? 3. Whose service did you enter at your baptism? 4. Therefore whom are you to obey? 5. In what words did your sponsors promise obedience? 6. What do you mean by keeping the Commandments? 7. What do you mean by God's Holy Will? 8. What are His Commandments? 9. How do we know what is God's Will? 10. Where has He made His Will known to us? 11. How long are you to do His Will? 12. In what words do you say that you ought always to do His Will? 13. What will you walk in? 14. What do you mean by walking in them? [15. In what ways do you promise to walk? Psalm exix. 32. 16. What are we set at liberty from? A. Satan's service. 17. Why are we especially bound to obedience?" A. As purchased by Christ.] 18. Repeat the three things your Godfathers and God- mothers promised for you. 19. What did SECTION 1.-HOW THE VOW IS MADE. 1. WHAT do you express in the third an- bound? 4. What are you obliged to do? 5. As who have promised for you? 6. What promise do you mean? 7. What did they promise you should believe? they promise you should do? 9. Who is to keep the promises your sponsors made? 10. What do you mean by verily? 11. What do you promise that you will do? 12. In what words do you say that you will keep the promises? 13. What will enable you to keep them? 14. Why do you require God's help? 15. How can you obtain His help? [16. Will this enable you to keep your vow? 2 Cor. xii. 9.] 17. When shall you make the vow for yourself? 18. What will the Bishop then ask you? 19. What shall you answer? 20. What will the Bishop do? 21. What great blessing will thus be given to you? 22. What will the additional grace thus given you enable you to do? 23. To what does Confirmation admit you? 24. Are you to begin keeping your promises only when you are confirmed? 25. If you do not try to keep them now, shall you be |