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Contents
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List of Lessons 4-5
List of Topics and Illustrations 6-9
Introduction
The Year's Course. In our lessons this past year we took note of the evidence given by the Old Testament writers of a need unmet, a longing unsatisfied, a promise unfulfilled In the times of the kings, the prophets and the priests of the Old Testament, the world was gradually being prepared for the coming of the Messiah: now the fulness of time has come, and the Prophet, Priest and King, to whom the Old Testament as with an indexfinger points, stands before us, lives his wondrous life and speaks his wondrous words. "The evening star was setting when Malachi foretold the glory of the Son of Righteousness that should rise with healing in his wings. Now the morning star is shining, the dayspring has come."
We begin with the prophecy of the birth of Jesus' forerunner, hear the glad news of our Saviour's birth, and learn of his growth in wisdom and stature and of his increase in favor with God and man; next we study the preparatory events of his ministry, his baptism and temptation and the call of his first disciples; and then we follow him throughout his Galilean ministry, witnessing his miracles and hearing his more marvelous words, noting his popularity with the masses and the increasing hatred of the Pharisees, and watching the expanding of his program till his ministry reaches its climax in the confession by his disciples that he is the Christ and in the revelation of his divinity to the chosen three at the Mount of Transfiguration.
The Gospels, however familiar their wording, are inexhaustible and always inspiring, their theme so amazing, their significance so deep as never to be fully grasped. "Did ye never read?" with fine irony Jesus questions the Pharisees in one of our lessons in regard to their understanding of David's eating of the sacred shewbread; though they had minutely studied their scriptures, the principle underlying the priest's permission of this sacrilege, that the ceremonial law must be subordinated to men's necessities, they had never grasped. The truths of the Gospels have met our eyes and have fallen upon our ears hundreds of times, and still we ask ourselves, "Did we never read?" as a new meaning strikes us or a new application grips us. "I presume the reason that the same passages start new trains of thought on returning to them," writes that great student of the Bible, Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, "is because it is^ new man they are talking to — ^anyhow, wonderful as it seems, it ceFtainlyls true;** - ' "
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You’ve reached the end of Teachers' Guide to International Sunday School Lessons for [Jan.-Dec.] 1912.