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December 8, igog. . surance, He had dwelt on the the Christ and insisted upon articles of faith for the purp intelligent basis of confldenc truth upon character, and si when based upon truth. Akin to this is the fact tha to sound faith. This epistle tnat tney might know that th< that they might believe with and more assured faith "on th Such would be the value c and clear intelligence of vital ilege of believers to live In anything according to his w: fr?m this passage as from mi hears and answers prayer. | Sunday RE\ Decembe GOLDEN TEXT.?"I have ished my course, I have kept t DAILY HOM M?Acts 21:27-39; 22:22-29. T.?Acts 24:1-22. W.?Acts 25:19-32. S?2 Tim. SHORTER Q. 86. What is faith in Jt A. Faith in Jesus Christ is ceive and rest upon him alon tin in f Vift (YAonAl tu UO 1U kUO guo pet. SAUL OF TARSUS?PAUL The eleven lessons passed nearing its close have invite acts and letters of Paul, a si Christ. * The period from his conver D. 67), 30 years, (the record and the book of Acts), holds of his life. The previous po furnished an open field for tl and for gatherers of traditioi writers to exercise their gift! has not been pleased to great incidents of minute personal i >ii j o iitts ever ueeu reuuzeu irurn. what God has been pleased tc worthy of a place In God's i time of one's full and final de Captain of our salvation. An unwarranted attempt wj Apostles to fill the vacancy c suicide of Judas Iscarlot. Thi supposed authorized them to so the name of Matthias wai cariot. But Prophets and Ap< by man. Jesus, with his owi agency of any other, without dalned His Apostles. He, wit Saul of Tarsus, to fill the va Judas Iscarlot. Matthias did of as an Apostle, after his ek self in defending his Apostolh ly affirms: 'For I make kno' ing the gospel which was pres man. For neither did I recelv it, but it came to me throuf "But when it was the good p His Son in me that I might I . . . . I conferred not wltl up to Jerusalem to them tfc THE PRESBYTERI/ supreme doctrine that Jesus is its fundamental position in the ose of affording a rational and e. Such Is the bearing of all ich is the quality of character t sound intelligence is essential was written to believers, first ey had eternal life and secondly l a firmer, more discriminating e name of the Son of God." if this sound doctrinal teaching truth, that it would be the privthe confidence that "if we ask ill he heareth us." It is clear my others that Christ, the Son, r School | riEW. r 19, 1909. fought a good fight, I have finhe faith."?2 Tim. 4:7. E READINGS. Th.?Acts 27:27-44. F.?Acts 28:11-31. S.?2 Cor. 11:21-33. 4:1-18. CATECHISM. 58us Christ? a saving grace, whereby we ree for salvation, as he is offered . THE APOSTLE. REVIEW. over during the quarter now d us to a careful study of the srvant and an Apostle of Jesus Bion (A. D. 37) to his death (A. of which we have In his letters for us all that we really know rtion, probably about 32 years, tie imagination of early writers n and for semi-reliable profane 9. For reasons of His own God tly indulge our appetite for the biography and but little profit the attempts of men to supply > omit. The life that Is deemed record usually begins with the cision to take service under the is made by Peter and the other reated in the Apostolate by the ey round a scripture which they proceed to fill the vacancy and a written in place of Judas Isastles are not made of man nor a words, without the mediatlve voting or lottery, called and orh bis own voice called the man, cancy, created by the death of not fill it, nor is he ever heard ictlon by the eleven. Paul him : authority and privileges stoutwn unto you brethren as toucniched by me, that it is not after e it from man, nor was I taught ?h revelation of Jesus Christ." Ieasure of God ... .to reveal >reach Him among the Gentiles 1 flesh and blood neither went I iat were Apostles before me." * w * 9 4 IN OF THE SOUTH. "They I say who were of repi (Read the letter to the Galatiai not a whit behind the very chic rne eleven lessons that we fc lng events in the life of this A office out of the usual time?la other Apostles. They also giv his character. Leaving the student to recall shall be the efTort of this discu prominent features in the life o source whence they came and bility and worth of such a chart So many of the graces of CI and appeared to make in him "full orbed manhood" that one another trait of character as i an orator, as a thinker, as a lc linquist, the strategic place to w he did the Jewish and Greek have received ample treatment writers. Attention has also be* rendered by him in the growth trine In his preaching and let mention of all. There are two to me, shine more strongly in and that cast their brightness c powers of his life. 1. He was sincere. The sir by the light of the sun, lighting it, is found to be pure. The su pose its passage through. "B rfinl 1-90* "T " X *.-v/, X oa; LUC LIU III science bearing witness with n 9:1). There are various degr? heart is a nesting place for i cleansed only by the blood of ( a great deliverance from all du estimate the power of such a lil 2. He was consistent. This pace with his talk and his w hardness as a good soldier of . enduring hardness. If he sai brethren, by the mercies of Goc ing sacrifice, holy, acceptable t< body?he "poured himself out" i These two elements of chara< go together and render any life, bodily ndowments, great and en How came it that Paul attain of sincerity and consistency? 1 brilliant men, Just as eloquent, in natural gifts. The world has him in simple sincerity of innei conduct. Why? Because and c himself to the Lord Jesus, reti himself. Occasionally the Holy accordancy in a life as to show any man, if surrendered to God. Lord Jesus." wnat or tDe investment of 01 hands of the Lord Jesus? Wll perishable. There is little to b< it pay? "The fruit of the Splri fering, meekness, gentleness, j "Henceforth there is laid up for which the Lord the righteous day." Fayetteville, Ark. SINCEF Few things shake our confide find out that he is insincere. 1 him and we do not know how t trust him, and we must stand < dealing with him. He Is an \ dealings with and we avoid him *3 ite Imparted nothing to me." as). "For I reckon that I am ifest Apostles." Lave studied give us the leadLpostle, born to the Apostolic ter than the natal day of the e us the prominent points in or re-read these incidents, it ssion to mention some of the f Paul, to try to ascertain the measure, if we can, the duraicter. irist met in the Apostle Paul such an effort to produce a can not readily select one or iredominant. His abilities as gician, his acquirements as a rhich he was born, touching as and Roman world?all these at the hands of many analytic en called to the great service or maturity of Christian doc ters. Space does not permit homely graces that, it seems his character than all others iver and through all the other tcere is that which examined ; upon it and passing through nlight finds no element to opehold, before God I lie not" In Christ, I lie not, my conle In the Holy Spirit." (Rom. ;es of sincerity. The human deceit and lying. It can be Christ. God promoted Paul to plicity. It is difficult to over!e. means that his life kept even riting. If he wrote "Endure iesus Christ," he was himself d, "I beseech vou therefore* I to present your bodies a llv5 God," he presented his own is an offering. :ter are bases of power. They however stinted in mental or during. led so greatly in these graces There have been many just as just as learned, just as great seen few if any that equalled character and consistency of inly because Paul surrendered lining no part of himself for Spirit secures such complete what He can do with a man? Paul was a "prisoner of the ie's all, thus placing it in the 11 it pay? Such a life is imb burned up as rubbish. Will t is love, joy, peace, long-sufgoodness, self-control, faith." me a crown of righteousness judge shall give me at that R. B. Willis. 1ITY. nee in a person more than to iVe do not know how to take o speak to him. We can not an guard all the time we are unpleasant man to have any as much as possible.