ON THE INTERNATIONAL SABBATH SCHOOL LESSONS FOR 1877. Explanatory, Illustrative, and Practical. WITH MAPS AND TABLE OF THE SIGNIFICATION AND PRONUNCIA. C BOSTON: THE design of this book is to aid both teachers and scholars in the thorough preparation of their Sabbath School lessons. First, to learn the exact meaning of the Word; then to make it vivid and impressive by illustration from fact and history; and last, but chiefest, to bring its truths to bear upon the heart and the life. The need of some such selection as this will be conceded as soon as we see that the lessons for 1877 have been selected by the International Committee from eight different books of the Bible, and very few teachers or scholars would be able to obtain even ordinary commentaries on them all. In this volume the choice words of nearly two hundred and fifty writers throw light upon the lessons. They have been selected with great care, and though they have been gone over again and again in order that they might be condensed into as small a space as possible, and every unnecessary sentence struck out, sometimes to the cutting out of one third of what was originally prepared, yet the book is considerably larger than the former volumes. There have been a number of improvements over the former years: 1. Still greater care in selecting from a larger range of authors, and obtaining help from the largest and best libraries in the country. 2. A short summary of time, place, rulers, and often of contemporary writers, and other circumstances is given at the head of each lesson. 3. The matter is set forth more distinctly under separate headings,the connection, explanatory, illustrative, and practical; the last two in particular are more full than in former years. 4. These notes are not sectarian. 5. They include the lessons for the whole year. 6. Three maps, two of Palestine at different eras, and a third, of the countries visited by the Apostle Paul. 7. Parallel passages and references are taken from the Bagster Bible. 8. A table of the pronunciation and meaning of the Scripture and proper names occurring in the notes. 9. A larger volume, at the same moderate cost, so as to be within the reach of the largest number. THE AUTHORS. COPYRIGHT BY HENRY HOYT, A. D. 1876. STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY ALFRED MUDGE & SON, 34 SCHOOL STREET, Boston. Luprited in ANDOVER ARVARD THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY CAMBRIDGE, MASS. |