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WHAT MANNER OF MAN 
 IS THIS? 
 
WHAT MANNER OF MAN 
 IS THIS? 
 
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 By WILLIAM D. MURRAY 
 
 'I was hungiy, and ye gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me 
 drink; I vtras a stranger, and ye took me in; naked, and ye clothed me; I 
 was in prison, and ye came unto me.' 
 
 New York 
 
 Young Men's Christian Association Piess 
 
 1907 
 
Copyrighted, 1907, 
 
 BY 
 
 The International Committee 
 
 OF 
 
 Young Men's Christian Associations 
 
 S-0-P2987-8-07 
 
TO 
 
 MY BOY 
 
 GEORGE 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 I. He is born 1 
 
 II. When He was a boy 6 
 
 III. Baptized and tempted 12 
 
 IV. What angered Him 17 
 
 V. He cures a lame man 21 
 
 VI. He helps a lonely sick man 27 
 
 VII. He chooses His companions 30 
 
 VIII. He shows His power over nature 34 
 
 IX. He feeds more than five thousand people 37 
 
 X. The strange scene on a mountain 43 
 
 XI. Review 46 
 
 XII. A real neighbor 47 
 
 XIII. He shows His power over death 53 
 
 XIV. The first Palm Sunday 57 
 
 XV. He asks to be remembered 63 
 
 XVI. They arrest Him 67 
 
 XVII. They kill Him 72 
 
 XVIII. He comes out of the grave 77 
 
 XIX. Review 81 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Bible study which does not lead to action on the 
 part of the student is certainly nothing better than a 
 pleasant pastime. The object of the leader of a class 
 should always be to cause his scholars to do some- 
 thing which the lesson has taught. There is danger 
 that young people will look upon Jesus merely as a 
 historical person, and that they will regard the stories 
 of His deeds as ancient history. We must strive con- 
 tinually to make Christ live before them to-day; to 
 make them feel that the things He liked long ago He 
 likes now, and that the things He did long ago in 
 Galilee He wants us. His followers, to do now in our 
 towns and cities ; and, most of all, that this Jesus 
 about whom we are studying can be and wants to be 
 a personal friend of every boy as He was the per- 
 sonal friend of Mary and Martha and Lazarus and 
 others in Galilee and Judea. 
 
 With this purpose in view these studies have been 
 prepared. Moreover, the Bible ought not to be a 
 book off by itself, although it must ever be a unique 
 book. It is not a fetish, it is a heavenly Father's 
 message to His children ; we do not worship the 
 Bible, we worship the God of the Bible. Everything 
 that we can do, therefore, to make our scholars re- 
 gard this book as a real book ought to be done. 
 
 The Story. 
 
 Each of these studies is arranged in sections, the 
 first section being devoted to the story. The purpose 
 of this is to suggest the fonn in which the lesson 
 story should lie in the minds of the members of the 
 class. It will be noticed that large use has been 
 made of the constructive imagination. Patterson 
 DuBois says, "Imagination is the master key to the 
 interpretation of the Bible"; and President Hadley 
 
X. INTRODUCTION. 
 
 says, "The thing which distinguishes a man of the 
 first rank in his profession from a man of the second 
 rank is the possession of this quahty of imagination." 
 As those for whom these studies are primarily in- 
 tended are at the age when the imagination is active, 
 now is the time to cultivate the habit of using it. The 
 story as told in these studies is only suggestive and 
 illustrative ; the leader should do his utmost to get 
 his scholars into the habit of imagining the Bible 
 scene and then telling it vividly, or better still, writing 
 it out, in their own words. Make it as modern and 
 as real as possible. 
 
 Pictures. 
 
 In connection with most of the studies, through the 
 courtesy of Dr. Forbush, reference is made to the 
 stereographs used in his book, Travel Lessons on the 
 Life of Jesus. In that book special maps of Palestine 
 have been prepared, on which the place from which 
 each picture is made is indicated ; from this spot lines 
 are drawn to show how much of the scene is in the 
 range of vision. By consulting the map and looking 
 through the stereoscope at the picture indicated a 
 wonderfully real view is presented ; for the student 
 seems to be standing in the country itself, and seeing 
 what Jesus himself saw. There could be no better 
 way of creating a sense of reality in our study of the 
 life of Jesus than by using these pictures. The 
 book and pictures are made by Underwood & Under- 
 wood, 3 West 19th Street, New York City. When 
 reference is made to stereographs these are the ones 
 intended. 
 
 In each study will also be found the names of the 
 firms that publish the best reproductions of some of 
 the famous pictures representing the scene of the 
 lesson, together with each picture's catalogue number. 
 These could be used during the class hour, or better 
 still, if the pupils are writing out the story from week 
 to week in a note book, the pictures ought to be used 
 to illustrate the narrative. One of the best plans to 
 use with boys is for the leader to procure these pic- 
 
INTRODUCTION. xi. 
 
 tures and give one to each boy present at the lesson. 
 Let the leader offer a reward — not a prize — at the 
 end of the course for the best use made of the pic- 
 tures, and then see that every boy who makes some 
 effort to use the pictures gets something as a reward. 
 In references "P" stands for Perry Picture Company, 
 Maiden, Mass. ; "B" for George P. Brown, Beverly, 
 Mass., and "W" for W. A. Wilde Company, 120 
 Boylston Street, Boston. 
 
 The complete handbook of Religious Pictures, pub- 
 lished by the New York Sunday School Commission, 
 price five cents, gives an exhaustive list of the pictures 
 which can be used. They carry in stock pictures of 
 different publishers. Their address is 416 Lafayette 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 Daily Readings. 
 
 The Scripture included in each study has been put 
 in the form of Daily Readings and is a vital part of 
 each lesson. These readings will be found to be very 
 brief usually, and the questions asked on each daily 
 portion are aimed at the lesson to be brought out. 
 Every device should be used by the leader to induce 
 the scholars to follow these daily readings. 
 
 Subject for Prayer. 
 
 In connection with each study, and particularly in 
 connection with the daily readings, a subject for 
 prayer is suggested. This subject is really the lesson 
 for the week, but it is far better that it should be pre- 
 sented indirectly than that it should be boldly stated 
 as the purpose of the study. The leader in assigning 
 the new lesson should call attention to this and should 
 recommend to his class that the suggested subject of 
 prayer be kept in mind as they engage in prayer daily. 
 
 Bible Marking. 
 
 While Bible marking is not a scholarly method of 
 study, it has its uses. It has been suggested here 
 
xii. INTRODUCTION. 
 
 partly to induce the scholars to have their own Bibles, 
 and partly to impress in this indirect way the lesson 
 of the week. The terms used can be understood by 
 consulting the illustration facing page 49. This will 
 also help to make the Bible a real book. 
 
 Illustrative Readings. 
 
 To further assist in the effort to make the Bible 
 real we have suggested stories from other parts of 
 the Bible and from other books which illustrate the 
 story in the Bible. Many such books might have been 
 referred to, and can be used by the leader, but those 
 chosen here are mostly from books boys are reading 
 and enjoying. It helps to make the Bible a real book 
 to find that the same great principles influence peo- 
 ple to-day. 
 
 Drawings. 
 
 A few rude drawings have been prepared to show 
 that one who cannot draw can nevertheless make 
 helpful pictures. It would be wise if to one scholar 
 the task were assigned of putting on the blackboard, 
 some time before the next lesson hour, his picture 
 of the lesson scene. When the scholars are using 
 note books each ought to draw his picture in con- 
 nection with the written story. 
 
 Map Work. 
 
 Interest in these studies will be increased by the 
 use of relief maps made by the boys themselves, or 
 by the leader and the boys together. The use of such 
 maps is suggested in the studies to which they are 
 best adapted, but it would be even better for the 
 leader to suggest when they shall be used. A great 
 deal of information can be obtained from Dr. 
 Maltby's book, "Map Modeling in Geography." 
 
 There are three substances in general use for this 
 purpose : sand, putty and paper pulp. 
 
 For the use of sand a sand board is needed. This 
 
INTRODUCTION. xiii. 
 
 should be a shallow box. In some cases the box has 
 been made big enough to cover the top of the table 
 around which the boys have their lesson. (See 
 frontispiece.) 
 
 A box could be constructed as follows : "Use 
 good, light pine lumber, and make a table top about 
 two feet by three feet, or in that proportion. Around 
 the edge of it put a moulding which extends up about 
 an inch or an inch and a half above the board. Paint 
 all this light blue or else cover the top of it with zinc, 
 which is better. Your board is then complete. It 
 is not necessary to put legs on it. It can be used on a 
 table by elevating one end of it a few inches, so 
 that the pupils could see it easily. The sand used 
 should be moulder's sand, and may be had from any 
 foundry. It is not at all dirty to handle and should 
 be kept a little moist. This sand should be spread 
 thinly over the board and then with the hands the 
 hills and valleys can be moulded. Running a finger or 
 lead pencil through the sand will expose the paint or 
 the zinc and this will represent water. The sea can 
 be represented by simply pressing the sand back 
 from a space the right size. Little blocks of wood 
 painted white are very nice to use for houses, while 
 green twigs may be set up for trees." 
 
 For modeling in putty, the ordinary putty is used. 
 One advantage in the use of this material is that 
 different colors can be used. Any painter will pre- 
 pare it of the color desired. Green, brown, yellow and 
 buff are the usual colors. 
 
 The material most in use in Association Bible 
 classes is paper pulp. This is due to the fact that it is 
 more lasting than sand or putty. Dr. Maltby de- 
 scribes the preparation of this material as follows : — 
 
 "The paper used may be the waste sheets from pen- 
 cil tablets, or common newspaper may be made into 
 fine, serviceable pulp scarcely tinged with gray. Tear 
 the paper into small pieces not more than an inch 
 square, and fill a common water pail or jar with bits 
 of paper. Pour over this a gallon of boiling water 
 and let the paper soak four or five hours. Then drain 
 off the excess water and macerate the mass by 
 
xiv. INTRODUCTION. 
 
 thrusting a rough stick down into it again and again, 
 jabbing it until the whole is reduced to a pasty mass. 
 After about fifteen minutes of energetic work the 
 ne'er-do-well of your class will present to you the 
 best of paper pulp, very smooth and fine, taking im- 
 pressions from the very lines of the hand. More than 
 this the boy will have learned that he can do some- 
 thing well and will be the most eager to apply the 
 material to its intended use. 
 
 "When the pulp is ready for use, the material may 
 be used in the construction of relief maps of all 
 kinds. Mould these upon squares of pine board or 
 heavy pasteboard, modeling the various relief features 
 according to some good physical map. When the 
 map becomes dry, it will be found that fairy fingers 
 have been at work reducing and beautifying the 
 whole. These maps may be tinted and finished with 
 water color as perfectly as the Whatman paper." 
 
 Pulp may be bought from paper manufacturers for 
 about six cents a pound. (American Writing Paper 
 Company, Holyoke, Mass.) It is better to buy it 
 than to make it. 
 
 For class work in map modeling, glass, linoleum or 
 drawing boards can be used on which to lay and 
 shape the maps. There will also be needed a tub and 
 a number of pans about a foot square for holding 
 the pulp ; sponges for soaking up the water, crayons 
 and water colors and brushes for painting. 
 
 The sand board can be used profitably where a 
 temporary map is needed or where a section of the 
 country is needed on a larger scale. It is suggested 
 that it be used in Study VIII to outline intervening 
 events. In Study IX the hillside and the lake might 
 occupy the whole sand board. In Study II, after 
 looking at the stereograph of the relief map of 
 Palestine, it could be reproduced on the sand board 
 before attempting a pulp map. 
 
 Besides the relief maps of sand, pulp, etc., the use 
 of outline relief maps is suggested. One of the best 
 of these is the Klemm Relief Practice Map, made by 
 W. B. Harrison, 47 Broad Street, New York City, 
 costing three cents each. This is a beautiful map, 
 
INTRODUCTION. xv. 
 
 and could be used as a model in making sand or pulp 
 maps. A splendid series of outline maps are the 
 Bailey Series, published by Warren S. Kilbum, 125 
 Summer Street, Boston, Mass., and sold for twelve 
 cents a dozen. Of a similar character are the Little- 
 field Outline Practice Maps. The Slated relief map 
 of the Holy Land "shows by light and shade effects 
 the surface elevations of Palestine, and is manu- 
 factured in such a way as to have a surface which 
 can be written upon with chalk, pencil or ink, and 
 the entries can be erased with a dry cloth, or washed 
 off with water." This map is sold for one dollar. 
 There are a number of other good maps. The Sun- 
 day School Commission carry all these maps in stock. 
 They publish a "Handbook of the Best Sunday School 
 Supplies," which gives lists of maps, models, etc., 
 many of which can be used with these studies. Dr. 
 Hodge of the Union Theological Seminary, 700 Park 
 Avenue, New York City, has prepared a valuable 
 pamphlet on "Manual Methods of Sunday School 
 Teaching," which gives useful information about 
 maps of all kinds. Price, thirty cents. 
 
 To Be Made. 
 
 Suggestions will be found in each study of some- 
 thing illustrative of the lesson to be made by the 
 scholars. These ought to be kept in some place in 
 the classroom where they can accumulate as the 
 studies progress. Boys and young people like to see 
 things grow. Models of many objects connected with 
 these studies are manufactured and sold. 
 
 Suggestions to the Leaders. 
 
 In these suggestions the author has ventured to 
 put his ideas of the lessons for every-day life which 
 might profitably be drawn from these studies. They 
 are only suggestions. It is so true that classes will 
 vary in their needs that each leader ought to remem- 
 ber constantly the particular scholars he is to face, 
 and make his preparation accordingly. 
 
xvi. INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Memory work. Nothing is said in any of the 
 studies about memorizing Scripture, but, as it is the 
 memory age with those for whom these studies are 
 intended, this opportunity ought not to be lost. The 
 leader should see to it that before the course ends 
 each scholar knows a few verses and passages. The 
 following are suggested : — 
 
 Beatitudes, The Lord's Prayer, Ps. 1, 19, 23, 51, 91, 
 121; The Commandments; 1 Cor. 13; John 3:16; 
 Matt. 7:12; Mark 2:14; John 1:12; Rom. 1:16; 
 12:1; Eph. 6: 1; Eccl. 12: 1; Rev. 3:20; Josh. 1:8; 
 2 Tim. 2:15. 
 
 These are only suggestive, each leader should se- 
 lect his own. Use the memory work to add variety 
 to the opening moments of the class hour. 
 
 This book is sent forth with the prayer that to many 
 young people, and especially to boys, it will mark the 
 beginning of a deeper and a lifelong friendship, a 
 friendship with that Saviour whom Dr. John Watson, 
 "Ian Maclaren," described as the "Christ that lies 
 in no grave ; who needs no picture, who is secluded 
 in no heaven ; who revealed Himself to the disciples 
 on the way to Emmaus ; who was persecuted by Saul 
 of Tarsus ; who rose from his throne to receive the 
 martyr Stephen ; who calls upon all men to leave all 
 to follow Him; who suffers with every Christian that 
 sorrows, and toils in every Christian that serves, and 
 rejoices with every Christian that gets unto himself 
 the victory ; who still welcomes Magdalene, and 
 teaches Thomas and guides Peter, and is betrayed 
 by Judas ; who still divides human opinion, is adored 
 or misunderstood, is still Master, or sent unto the 
 cross. This is the living Christ, present, effectual, 
 eternal." 
 
 William D. Murray. 
 
 PlainHeld, N. J., June, 1907. 
 
STUDY I. 
 
 HE IS BORN. 
 
 1. The Story. 
 
 There was Hving in the little village of Nazareth, 
 in Galilee, in the year 4 B. C, a Jewish girl named 
 Mary, who was a direct descendant of David, the 
 great king of Israel. One day an angel came to her 
 and told her that she was to have a son whom she 
 was to call Jesus. She was engaged to be married to 
 a man named Joseph, and at about this time an angel 
 told Joseph that Mary was to have this child. 
 Augustus Csesar was then the ruler of the world, 
 having his capital at Rome in Italy. Quirinius was 
 the governor of Syria, a colony of Rome, as Canada 
 is of England, and under him as governor of Judea, 
 was Herod, with his capital at Jerusalem. 
 
 The king was anxious to know how many people 
 were in his kingdom, so he issued a proclamation that 
 all his citizens should go to their own cities, so that 
 a census could be taken. Joseph and Mary, being of 
 the family of David, would go to David's city, which 
 was Bethlehem, twelve miles from Jerusalem and 
 seventy-five miles from Nazareth. 
 
 Bethlehem was a small place with limited accom- 
 modation for travelers, and all about it were the open 
 fields where the shepherds kept their sheep. Natur- 
 ally the unusual gathering while the census was being 
 taken crowded the little town, and so when Joseph 
 and Mary reached Bethlehem they could not be re- 
 ceived in the inn, but were told that they might stay 
 in the stable if they chose. This was not an unusual 
 thing to do, and the two took up their quarters there 
 for the night. Some time in the night Mary's baby 
 was born. 
 
 When this great event occurred an angel appeared 
 to the shepherds in the fields about Bethlehem and. 
 
2 WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 
 
 amid a strange light which frightened them, told 
 them that he brought good tidings, — that Christ, for 
 whom men were looking, had been born at Bethlehem, 
 David's city, and that they would know the babe by 
 finding Him lying in a manger. Then there appeared 
 in the sky a host of angels singing, "Glory to God in 
 the highest and on earth peace, good will to men." 
 
 The shepherds hurried into the town, found the 
 baby as the angel said they would, and then went out 
 to tell everybody about the strange event that had 
 happened. 
 
 At this same time somewhere to the east there ap- 
 peared a bright star, which attracted the attention of 
 some wise men of that country. It seemed to them to 
 lead to Jerusalem, and so they went to that city. 
 When Herod heard that these strangers were in the 
 city asking to see one who was born king of the Jews, 
 he was greatly distressed, so he got his wise men to- 
 gether and asked them to tell him where the Mes- 
 siah was to be born. They told him in Bethlehem 
 and turned to the book of Micah which we have 
 printed in our Bible, and read what is now the second 
 verse of the fifth chapter. Then Herod sent for the men 
 from the east, and pretending that he wanted to wor- 
 ship the child, sent them to Bethlehem to find where 
 He was and to bring him word. With the star lead- 
 ing the way they went to Bethlehem and found 
 Jesus in the manger. They worshipped Him and 
 gave Him the gifts, which according to oriental cus- 
 tom they had brought. But they did not go back to 
 Herod. They went home by a different route. 
 
 2. Daily Readings. 
 
 First Day. Luke 1 : 26-33. 
 Who was Jesus' mother? Where did she live? 
 What did the angel say to her? What was 
 her child to be named? 
 
 Second Day. Luke 1 : 34-38. 
 What was Mary's answer? 
 
WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 3 
 
 Third Day. Matt. 1 : 18-25. 
 
 Espoused, means nearly the same as our word en- 
 gaged. Who was Mary's husband? What did 
 the angel say to him? What was he to call 
 the child? 
 
 Fourth Day. Luke 2 : 8-14. 
 What did the angel say to the shepherds? How 
 were they to know the child? What did the 
 multitude of angels sing? 
 
 Fifth Day. Luke 2: 1-7. 
 Who was Caesar Augustus? Where did Mary and 
 Joseph go? Where was the Christ child born? 
 
 Sixth Day. Luke 2: 15-20. 
 
 What did the shepherds do? Where did they find 
 the child Jesus ? Then what did the shepherds 
 do? 
 Seventh Day. Matt. 2: 1-12. 
 
 Who came to see Jesus ? Where did they look for 
 Him? What led the way? How did Herod 
 find out where Jesus was to be bom? What 
 did the wise men call Him? What did they do 
 when they saw Him? 
 
 3. Subjects for Prayer. 
 
 That I may remember that Jesus, the Saviour of 
 the world came into this world as a helpless little 
 baby; that there was a time in His life when He 
 did not have as much power as I have now. 
 
 4. Bible Marking. 
 
 Emphasize the name Jesus; the words shepherd; 
 in a manger; Glory to God; King of the Jews. By 
 emphasise is meant making the word heavier by 
 writing over the letters with ink, using a fine steel 
 pen. See the words heart, soul, strength, mind, in 
 the illustration, p. 49. 
 
4 WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 
 
 5. To Make. 
 
 A star ; a sheepfold out of cardboard ; a manger out 
 of wood. Pictures of these can be found in many 
 books such as Peloubet's notes. 
 
 Make a sand map of Palestine. Use one of the re- 
 lief maps as a model. For a scale use the distance 
 from the northern end of the sea of Galilee to the 
 southern end of the Dead Sea, which is just one 
 hundred miles. 
 
 6. Pictures. 
 
 a. Stereographs. 
 
 Numbers two and three give two views in Bethle- 
 hem. 
 
 "That street out there in which we were standing 
 is the present, and undoubtedly was the ancient, road 
 from Jerusalem and the north into this town. So 
 now let us picture to our minds Joseph and Mary 
 coming up that street and across this very square. 
 What shelter did they seek? How was the scene in 
 the inn like this? (Crowded.) Then where did they 
 go? What was the first bed of the Child Jesus? 
 (Luke 2: 7.) What a welcome for one who was heir 
 to Israel's throne and who is King of kings forever!" 
 From Travel Lessons on the Life of Jesus, by Wil- 
 liam Byron Forbush, pp. 50, 51. 
 
 b. B. 1132, 1624, 390. 
 
 7. Thoughts for the Leader. 
 
 The story of Mary's condition as she reaches 
 Bethlehem, and the birth of her son, give us an op- 
 portunity of saying something about the way chil- 
 dren come into the world. Make it a holy oc- 
 currence. 
 
 We must become as children to enter His world, 
 as He became a child to enter ours. 
 
 The need of a childlike spirit. 
 
WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 5 
 
 A little child may be the most important person 
 in the world. 
 Some great things begin small. 
 
 8. Illustrative Reading. 
 
 The birth of Samuel, 1 Sam. 1 : 1-28. 
 The birth of Moses, Ex. 2 : 1-10. 
 
STUDY II. 
 
 WHEN HE WAS A BOY. 
 
 1. The Story. 
 
 Herod, the king, was greatly disturbed when he 
 heard that another king was born, and in order to 
 make sure that he had destroyed that kingly child he 
 had all the boy babies in Bethlehem and vicinity 
 killed. But Jesus had escaped, because God had told 
 Joseph to take the child out of Herod's territory 
 into Egypt. This was a long journey which Mary 
 and Joseph undertook with the Christ-child. In 
 Egypt they stayed until Herod died ; then they re- 
 turned to Nazareth in Galilee, their old home. What 
 a wonderful home-coming it must have been ! How 
 the people must have gathered aliout them to hear 
 the wonderful story of the birth and to see the won- 
 derful child ! 
 
 There He was to live for thirty years. 
 
 Nazareth was a little village resting in a basin on 
 a hillside, so that it could not be seen from the sur- 
 rounding country ; "but the moment you climb to the 
 edge of this basin, which is everywhere within the 
 limits of the village boys' playground, what a view 
 you have! (See stereograph 4. The man in this 
 picture is on the hill back of Nazareth looking at 
 the village and the plain of Esdraelon beyond.) 
 Esdraelon lies before you with its twenty battle 
 fields — the scene of Barak's and Gideon's victories ; 
 
 the scene of Saul's and Joshua's defeat 
 
 There is Naboth's vineyard and the place of Jehu's 
 revenge upon Jezebel : there, Shunum and the house 
 of Elisha ; there Carmel and the place of Elijah's 
 sacrifice. To the east the valley of the Jordan with 
 the long range of Gilead ; to the west the radiance 
 of the Great Sea with the ships of Tarshish and the 
 promise of the Isles. You see thirty miles in three 
 
WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 7 
 
 directions. It is a map of Old Testament history." 
 Here is where Jesus spent His boyhood. This is 
 what He looked out upon. The Mediterranean is 
 twenty-one miles west ; the sea of Galilee is seven- 
 teen miles east. At the eastern end of the village is 
 the Fountain of Mary, where Mary often came for 
 water, and where the boy Jesus, no doubt, often 
 romped with the boys and girls of Nazareth. Some 
 have thought from John 1 : 46 that the town did not 
 have a very good reputation. 
 
 The family of which Jesus was one was the or- 
 dinary Jewish family, and consisted finally of the 
 father and mother and several brothers and sisters. 
 The father was a carpenter and the boy Jesus learned 
 this trade. 
 
 Boys and girls were taught first at home (Ps. 
 44:1; Deut. 4:9; Prov. 1:8; 3:1). When very 
 young they were instructed by their mothers (2 Tim. 
 1:3; 3 : l4, 15). Most of this instruction consisted 
 in telling the Old Testament stories — Esther, Ruth, 
 etc. The boy would memorize the historical psalms 
 (78, 81, 105, etc.) and the alphabetical ones (9, 25, 
 119, etc.). Jesus knew much of the Old Testament 
 at twelve (Luke 2:47). But the people wondered 
 later where He had acquired His knowledge (Mark 
 1:27; 2:12; 6:2-6). They went to school in the 
 synagogue, "The House of the Book," as it was 
 called. They were probably taught, then as now, 
 reading and writing. 
 
 It is interesting to notice that their writing is 
 taught by tracing letters with a stick in the sand 
 (John 7:6-8), and that they read aloud, as Philip 
 heard the Eunuch reading (Acts 8:30). The book 
 used was the Old Testament, but not every family 
 had a Bible. They were too costly, written as they 
 were by hand. It seems likely that there was not an 
 entire Old Testament in Jesus' home. 
 
 The Jews of that time did not give much attention 
 to play. There was a gymnasium in Jerusalem in 
 173 A. D. and Tiberias and Jericho each had a hippo- 
 drome or race course. They did have some games, 
 however. They snared small birds ; they became 
 
8 WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 
 
 skillful in slinging (Judges 20 : 16 ; Prov. 26 : 8, 
 R. V. margin). They played games of imitation as 
 boys now play horse (Matt. 11:16, 17). What 
 seems to be a board for games with counters has 
 been found in Palestine. Then there were the moun- 
 tains over which the boys must have taken many 
 excursions, and which must have given many op- 
 portunities for developing their muscles. 
 
 Amid such scenes Jesus was a boy among the boys 
 and girls of Nazareth. 
 
 Only once do we get a glimpse of Jesus during the 
 long period of preparation ; that is when at twelve 
 years of age He is taken to Jerusalem to the Pass- 
 over. He probably went up to the Passover from year 
 to year after that, but we have no record of it. 
 
 2, Daily Readings. 
 
 First Day. Matt. 2: 13-23. 
 
 What was done with Jesus? What did Herod 
 do? From Egypt where did Joseph and 
 Mary take Jesus? 
 
 Second Day. John 1:46; 2 Tim. 1:5; 3: 14, IS. 
 What did Nathanael think of Nazareth? Find 
 it on the map. Who would be the one to 
 teach Jesus when He was a child? 
 
 Third Day. Mark 6:3; Matt. 7:3. 
 
 How many children were there in Mary's 
 family? What was Joseph's business? 
 What trade did Jesus learn? 
 
 Fourth Day. Ps. 44:1; Deut. 4:9; Prov. 1:8; 
 3: 1; 31:1; Luke 2:47. 
 Where did a boy's education begin? Who 
 taught him? What can you say about 
 Jesus' knowledge at twelve years of age? 
 
 Fifth Day. Judges 20: 16; Matt. 11: 16, 17. 
 
 Did Jewish boys in Jesus' time play games? 
 Did Jesus? 
 
WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 9 
 
 Sixth Day. Mark 1:27; 6:2-6. 
 
 What did people think of Jesus' knowledge? 
 Where do you suppose He got it? 
 
 Seventh Day. Luke 2: 39-52. 
 
 What does verse 40 tell us about the boy Jesus? 
 Where did He go at twelve? What did He 
 say to His mother in verse 49? What can 
 you tell about the boy Jesus from verses 
 51 and 52? 
 
 3. Subject for Prayer. 
 
 That I may lead such a life that my father can say 
 of me as Jesus' Father said of Him, "This is my be- 
 loved Son." 
 
 4. Bible Marking. 
 
 Emphasize the words Subject unto them, ■msdom, 
 stature, favor, God, man. 
 
 5. To Make. 
 
 Take one of the blank maps and color Galilee blue, 
 Samaria yellow, Judea red, and Perea brown. Make 
 a scroll of a book. Get a picture of one from a Bible 
 dictionary. 
 
 6, Pictures, 
 a. Stereographs. 
 
 No. 4 shows us Nazareth from the hill at the north- 
 west over the village and across the plain of 
 Esdraelon. 
 
 "Turn now to the special map of Galilee. By the 
 diverging red lines which start from Nazareth and 
 are numbered 4 on this map you can see that our 
 position will be upon the hill northwest of Nazareth, 
 and that we shall be looking in a southwesterly di- 
 rection over those nearer foothills and out upon the 
 great Plain of Esdraelon and to the Mt. Carmel 
 range beyond. As for our surroundings, you ob- 
 
10 WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 
 
 serve that the sea of Galilee will be at our left, 
 twenty miles away. Behind us will be a sea of 
 mountains, on whose southerly edge we are to be 
 standing. Before us will sweep the great triangular 
 plain of Esdraelon, breaking the great mountain back- 
 bone of Palestine clear across. The hills on which 
 Nazareth, not more than half its ancient size, is 
 built, face to the south and rise five hundred feet 
 about the town. We will now go to Nazareth. This 
 is Nazareth ! There are the foothills and beyond 
 stretches the plain of Esdraelon to the distant Mt. 
 Carmel range. Here we are in the midst of Galilee. 
 We are looking a little west of south you remember. 
 In which direction from us here is the sea of Galilee? 
 Jerusalem? the Mediterranean? 
 
 "This is the place from which Joseph and Mary 
 set out on their journey to Bethlehem before Jesus 
 was born. In which direction did they go from here? 
 Point to it. And it was to this same place they came 
 back from Egypt. From which direction did they 
 come? (Up yonder road, the entrance into Nazareth 
 from the Carmel region.) Why did they dare to 
 return? (Matt. 2: 22.) How big a boy do you sup- 
 pose Jesus was then? How old was He? (A little 
 over a year after Jesus was born Herod Archelaus 
 succeeded his father)" Travel Lessons, pp. 56, 57. 
 
 No. 5 is a picture of the fountain to which Mary 
 came for water. 
 
 "This may be a modern arch, but the fountain is 
 the only one Nazareth ever had. To this spot we 
 may be sure Mary came for water every day of Jesus' 
 boyhood. Describe from what you see the way she 
 would have carried her water pot. (You notice that 
 as the women come with their empty jars they carry 
 them on the sides, then turn them upright as they 
 take them away full. They seem very heavy, but the 
 women carry them with a light, graceful step up the 
 lanes of the town.) Do you suppose this woman in 
 front and her little boy look as Jesus and His mother 
 did? These women dress like the women of Bethle- 
 hem, except that instead of the stiff headdress you 
 saw there on each side of the face is a rouleau of 
 
WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 11 
 
 silver coins fastened to a pad which is fitted to the 
 head. It was to similar coins worn in this fashion 
 that our Saviour alluded in the parable of the lost 
 piece of silver." Travel Lessons, p. 61. 
 
 No. 7 shows us the hills and valleys of the coun- 
 try. Use this picture to help you in making sand, 
 putty or paper pulp maps. 
 
 "What a wrinkled country is Canaan as we see it 
 in bird's-eye view ! How smooth are the desert plains 
 that encroach on the east and south ! Now, as the 
 whole land is before us, we can understand some 
 things that have been said about it as we could not 
 before ; and as the Messiah goes forth to redeem it, 
 so we may start out to possess it by accurate 
 knowledge." Travel Lessons, p. 68. 
 
 b. B. 816, 92; P. 1923; W. 250. 
 
 7. Thoughts for the Leader. 
 
 Jesus was a real boy, going about as other boys 
 did and interested in their play. With it all, He 
 found time to become acquainted with the Bible, for 
 at twelve years of age we find Him asking interesting 
 questions about it in the temple at Jerusalem, and 
 answering questions asked Him. 
 
 8. Illustrative Reading. 
 
 David's boyhood, 1 Sam. 17. 
 
STUDY III. 
 
 BAPTIZED AND TEMPTED. 
 
 1. The Story, 
 
 Baptism has been defined as "A rite wherein by 
 immersion in water, the participant symbolizes and 
 signaHzes his transition from an impure to a pure 
 Hfe, his death to a past he abandons, and a new 
 birth to a future he desires." John, called the Bap- 
 tist, had come preaching repentance and was requir- 
 ing the people to be baptized, as a sign of repentance 
 and purification. To John Jesus came seeking bap- 
 tism, but John objected, knowing that Jesus did not 
 need to be purified — He was without sin. Jesus, how- 
 ever, anxious to identify Himself with His people, 
 says, "Thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteous- 
 ness," and is baptized. Then the Spirit comes upon 
 Him and His Father's voice speaks from heaven 
 saying, "Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am 
 well pleased." 
 
 Could anything be more natural than the next event 
 in His life? He has His Father's approval. He is 
 about to enter upon His great work, when He is 
 handed over to Satan to be tested. He is standing, 
 as boys now stand, at the threshold of His career, 
 the time when the great tests are applied. The 
 Spirit, who is to rule His life from now on, leads 
 Him into the wilderness. (Stereograph 9 shows the 
 kind of country to which Jesus went.) A traveler 
 described the country as follows : "We cross the 
 Valley of the Jordan — once fertile and fruitful as the 
 garden of the Lord, but now deserted and given over 
 to briers and thorns— and reach a range of steep and 
 barren hills which varies the surface of the country 
 without changing its sterile character. Sharp, 
 rocky eminences rise all around us, and steep ascents, 
 formidable in heights, and deep declivities, perilous 
 
WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 13 
 
 to descend, fill our narrow pathway with obstacles 
 that make our journey both difficult and dangerous. 
 Dark caverns and chasms amongst the rocks yawn 
 fearfully on every side. A mysterious dread creeps 
 over us as we enter the awful wilderness of our 
 Saviour's forty days' fast, and view the scene of 
 His personal conflict with the Prince of Darkness 
 and Death." Three temptations are presented after 
 a fast of forty days. They are the same three that 
 come to every boy starting out on life to-day. First: 
 The devil tried to get Him to think of Himself first, 
 "You are hungry, use your powers to feed yourself." 
 Put yourself first, or as we say now, "Every man for 
 himself and the devil take the hindmost." But Jesus 
 could answer: Not the physical, but the spiritual, 
 first; not the "bread," but "the Word of God." 
 Second: The devil tried to get Him to accomplish 
 His purpose in the world by some means of which 
 His Father did not approve. "To seek brilliance by 
 the sacrifice of fidelity and thoroughness, to evade 
 toil and suffering by compromising a principle" — 
 "Create a sensation," the devil said, "cast yourself 
 down from a great height in the sight of the people." 
 But again Jesus met the tempter and overcame, him. 
 Lastly: The devil asks Him to go into partnership 
 with him and so win the world. This was the hardest 
 temptation of all — to use the devil to accomplish a 
 worthy purpose and then cast him out. Boys are 
 sadly tempted along this line. Jesus indignantly re- 
 bukes the tempter now, and he gives up. Having re- 
 fused the help of the lower world, Jesus received 
 help from above : "Angels came and ministered unto 
 Him." So will it be with us. (I am indebted to Dr. 
 Ross' Universality of Jesus for some of the sug- 
 gestions in this paragraph.) 
 
 2. Daily Readings. 
 
 First Day. Mark 1: 1-8. 
 
 What was John doing? Where? What did the 
 people do when they were baptized? Verse 
 5. What kind of a man was John? 
 
14 IV HAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 
 
 Second Day. Mark 1:9-11. 
 
 Jesus was thirty years old at the time. What 
 did John do to Him? What happened when 
 Jesus was baptized? 
 
 Third Day. Matt. 3: 13-17. 
 
 What did John say when Jesus came to be bap- 
 tized ? 
 
 Fourth Day. Mark 1: 12, 13. 
 
 Who sent Jesus into the wilderness? How long 
 was He there? Who and what were with 
 Him? 
 
 Fifth Day. Matt. 4: 1-3. 
 
 How long had He been without food? What 
 was the first temptation? 
 
 Sixth Day. Matt. 4:5-7. 
 
 What was the second temptation? 
 Seventh Day. Matt. 4:8-11. 
 
 What was the third temptation? Where did 
 Jesus get each answer He made to the 
 tempter? When the tempter left Him, who 
 came to help Him? 
 
 3. Subject for Prayer. 
 
 That I may resist temptations to be untrue in word, 
 deed or thought. 
 
 4. Bible Marking. 
 
 In Matt. 4, underline /; is written in verses 4, 7, 10 
 and connect the phrases with a line. In Mark 1 : 13, 
 emphasize zvild beasts and angels. 
 
 5. To Make. 
 
 Out of heavy straw board make models of loaves of 
 bread. They were like the large, round hardtack now 
 used on shiplioard. 
 
 This would be a good point at which to make a 
 
WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 15 
 
 paper pulp map of the country. Use the stereograph 
 of the Palestine Relief Map to get an idea of what 
 the formation of the country was like ; or use one 
 of the Klemm relief maps. 
 
 Draw sketches of the first two temptations like 
 this sketch of the third. 
 
 6. Pictures, 
 a. Stereographs. 
 
 No. 9 shows the nature of the country in which 
 Jesus lived. 
 
 No. 10 is a real baptism in the Jordan, where Jesus 
 was baptized by John. 
 
 No. 11 shows us "standing on the acclivity that 
 leads up to the traditional Mount of the Temptation, 
 and we are therefore getting the same view southeast- 
 ward which Jesus would see if He climbed to the 
 mountain top. Yonder to the right we have our first 
 glimpse of the Dead Sea, and to the left see the Jor- 
 dan glimmer in the sun as it rushes to its grave in 
 the Dead Sea. We must be looking over part of the 
 
16 WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 
 
 plain which John traversed in going from the desert 
 to the Jordan. Off there to our left by the Jordan is 
 the traditional spot of the baptism." Travel Lessons, 
 p. 86. 
 
 "If Jesus really climbed to the top of the mountain 
 behind us, He came here from the desert to our 
 right. From the mountain He would have looked in 
 every direction. The view reaches from Hebron to 
 Bethel and Ramah on the west, and includes the Holy 
 City. It is easy to see that a temptation suggested by 
 this mountain-top vision of all kingdoms of the 
 world would embrace Israel's history from the pas- 
 sage of the Jordan to the glory under Solomon, when 
 this height was the center and not the outpost of his 
 extended domain. It would include Abraham, and 
 Moses, and Elijah, and Elisha, and David. It would 
 consider this narrow path from the Jordan as the 
 roadway of prophets, priests, kings, crusaders and 
 armies of all nations. Through this valley once 
 moved the stately train of Cleopatra, and here passed 
 Herod's funeral." Travel Lessons, p. 88. 
 b. B. 741, 1713 ; W. 254, 45 ; P. 498. 
 
 7. Thoughts for the Leader. 
 
 Satan usually selects some little thing with which 
 to begin his temptation, something which seems un- 
 important. Here for instance, Jesus was hungry, 
 why should He not use His own power to satisfy 
 His own need? 
 
 Jesus was put in a place of prominence and then 
 tested. It is harder to live right when everybody is 
 looking at us. The leader of a team should set the 
 best example, people are watching him. 
 
 We are very apt to be, when we grow tip, what we 
 chose to be when we were young. The habits we 
 form when we are twelve, thirteen and fourteen years 
 old we keep always. 
 
 8. Illustrative Reading. 
 
 Joseph's Temptation, Gen. 39:1-23. 
 Peter's Temptation, Luke 22 : 54-62. 
 
STUDY IV. 
 
 WHAT ANGERED HIM. 
 
 1. The Story. 
 
 From the time when He was twelve years old, 
 and perhaps before that age, Jesus had been coming 
 year by year to the Passover at Jerusalem. Great 
 crowds would be about Him. They had been cele- 
 brating the night when His ancestors and theirs had 
 been brought out of Egypt. Preparation began early. 
 "Roads and bridges were repaired, sepulchres were 
 whitened anew, that they might be readily seen and 
 avoided. It was the season of the ceremonial, and 
 all other kinds of purification. In the last days the 
 household utensils were all carefully cleaned." The 
 night before the celebration the house was searched 
 and all leaven thrown out. The people came to- 
 gether in groups of from ten to twenty, and went to 
 the temple, bearing lambs. These were killed and 
 the blood dashed on the altar. The lambs themselves 
 were taken home and roasted, where they were eaten 
 at the Passover meal. Jesus was often in such a 
 company: "We may reverently conjecture our Lord's 
 meditations as He saw the lamb sacrificed, and sat 
 down to the feast. The death of the lamb was a fig- 
 ure of His own death. The feast shadowed forth 
 His feeding His people." 
 
 We must remember that before this particular visit 
 to Jerusalem — the first during His public ministry — 
 He had performed His first miracle at Cana, and 
 had gone to live in Capernaum, which became hence- 
 forth His home and was known as His own city 
 (John 2: 12). 
 
 All Jews and Proselytes had to pay the annual 
 temple tribute of about thirty cents, in exact "half 
 shekels of the Sanctuary." The money in circulation 
 throughout Palestine, besides their own silver and 
 
18 IVHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 
 
 copper coins, was Persian, Tyrian, Syrian, Egyptian, 
 Grecian and Roman. A month ahead of time the 
 money-changers set up their stalls in the country 
 towns through which the pilgrims would pass, but as 
 the pilgrims began to reach the city the money- 
 changers closed their stalls in the country and moved 
 into the city within the precincts of the temple. Here 
 also the pilgrims would find on sale whatever was 
 needed for the purification or sacrifice. At the time 
 when Jesus objected to them these temple bazaars 
 were "the property and one of the principal sources 
 of income of the family of Annas." The people in 
 general did not like this desecration of the House of 
 God, but they were controlled by the priests. Jesus, 
 no doubt, on other visits had seen and lamented this 
 use of the temple and now that He has begun his 
 public ministry He no longer restrains His anger, 
 but indignantly using a whip He has made, drives the 
 cattle out of the temple, upsets the money-changers' 
 tables and orders the dove-sellers to take them away, 
 telling every one of them that they are putting the 
 temple — His Father's house — to an improper use. It 
 was this desecration of God's house that aroused His 
 anger. 
 
 2. Daily Readings. 
 
 First Day. John 2: 13; Luke 2: 41, 42. 
 
 What caused the people to go to Jerusalem at 
 this time? 
 
 Second Day. John 2: 14. 
 
 What did Jesus find in the temple? 
 
 Third Day. John 2: 15. 
 What did Jesus do? 
 
 Fourth Day. John 2: 16, 17. 
 
 What did He call the temple? What did He 
 say these merchants should do? What 
 should they not do? 
 
WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 19 
 
 Fifth Day. John 2: 18, 19. 
 
 What did the Jews ask? What was His an- 
 
 swer 
 
 Sixth Day. John 2: 20-22. 
 
 What did they think He was talking about? 
 What was He talking about? 
 
 Seventh Day. John 2: 13-22. 
 
 3. Subject for Prayer. 
 
 That I may desire to be pure and clean. 
 
 4. Bible Marking. 
 
 Underline temple, verse 14, and my Father's house, 
 verse 16, and connect them with a line. Underline 
 verse 21. 
 
 5. To Make. 
 
 A whip such as Jesus might have used; construct 
 a simple model of the temple, showing the Court of 
 the Gentiles, Women's Court, Court of Israelites, 
 Priests' Court and the Temple itself. 
 
 Take one of the embossed relief maps and color the 
 water bodies blue ; the coast and low-lying plain 
 green ; the higher hills, orange ; the high table-lands 
 and mountains, brown, leaving the very highest moun- 
 tain-tops white ; color the parts below sea level yel- 
 low. 
 
 6. Pictures. 
 W. 52; P. 800. 
 
 7. Thoughts for the Leader. 
 
 Sometimes it is necessary to be severe. God wants 
 purity; Jesus insists that the temple was not the 
 place where business should be done ; He was not 
 
20 WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 
 
 satisfied merely to think about it; He turned out those 
 who were profaning the temple. 
 
 It is God who punishes uncleanness. Some good 
 things sometimes get into the wrong place. 
 
 8. Illustrative Reading. 
 
 Harding of St. Timothy's, Ch. V. ; also Philip 
 Ward's talk in Ch. VIII. 
 
 For the Honor of the School, p. 88. 
 Cleansing the Temple, 2 Chron. 29: 12-19. 
 
STUDY V. 
 
 HE CURES A LAME MAN. 
 
 1. The Story. 
 
 We are now in the early part of the great Galilean 
 ministry. The first year of His ministry, called the 
 Judean, during which Jesus performed His first 
 miracle, that of turning water into wine, cleansed 
 the temple, spoke with Nicodemus about the new 
 birth and told the woman at the well in Sycar that 
 He was the Christ, has closed (John 2:3 — 4:42). 
 John the Baptist has been arrested and imprisoned 
 by the wicked king, so Jesus leaves Herod's country 
 and goes into Galilee. Galilee in the days of our 
 Lord was not the sparsely settled country it is now. 
 Josephus says, "The cities lie very thick, and the 
 very many villages are everywhere so populous be- 
 cause of the richness of the soil, that the very least 
 of them contains more than fifteen thousand inhab- 
 itants." He has made one preaching and healing tour 
 through Galilee and a great deal of interest has been 
 aroused by the miracles performed. He is back in 
 Capernaum, His adopted city, and has gone into a 
 house. It may have been His own home, or Peter's. 
 A crowd was there, made up of people who had 
 heard of His wonderful work and words. His 
 spreading fame is shown by the fact that distin- 
 guished men were there, "Pharisees and doctors of 
 the law," who had come long distances to see and 
 hear Him, even from Jerusalem, seventy miles away. 
 
 Over in another part of the city lies a man help- 
 lessly sick. It is easy to imagine his friends coming 
 to see him and sympathizing with him. One would 
 tell the sick man how sorrv' he was ; another would 
 bring him some dainty, perhaps ; the next would tell 
 of some remedy he had heard of. One of his visitors 
 might even have told him of the great Physician who 
 
22 WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 
 
 was doing such wonderful things for sick people, and 
 they might have lamented together that the man was 
 so sick that he could n't get to Jesus to be cured. But 
 one day a friend comes to see him, a friend who has 
 seen Jesus and has seen some of His cures. As he 
 looks down at the sick friend, whose name might have 
 been Nathan, he says : "Nathan, you ought to go to 
 Jesus, He would soon cure you." But Nathan an- 
 swers : "How can I ? I can't even stand up." I can 
 see the visitor scratch his head and think awhile and 
 finally jump up and run out. In the street he hails 
 three friends who happen to be passing by and tells 
 them about Nathan's helplessness and Jesus' power to 
 cure. He suggests that they each take a corner of 
 the bed and carry — yes, carry — Nathan to where 
 Jesus is. At first they hesitate. One says. How 
 would it look? But finally their scruples are over- 
 come and they climb up to where Nathan lies. When 
 the plan is proposed he hesitates, but finally consents, 
 and off they go. It is a queer sight, a sick man on 
 his bed carried by his four friends through the nar- 
 row, crowded streets of the city. At length they 
 come near the house where Jesus is and as might 
 have been expected, the street is black with people. 
 They go up to the eager crowd and Nathan's enthusi- 
 astic friend says : "If you please, let us get through 
 with this sick man." But as in other crowds, the 
 man addressed says : "Don't bother me ; don't you see 
 I 'm trying to get there myself. I 've been here all 
 day waiting for a chance." It 's the same with others, 
 until one of the helpers says : "I told you so ; it was 
 foolish to undertake such a thing as this." But 
 Nathan's friend is a real friend. He says, "Just let 
 him rest here a moment, I '11 soon be back," and he 
 disappears around the corner of the street. By and 
 by back he comes and he has a piece of rope on his 
 arm. "What 's that for?" asks the man at one corner 
 of the bed. "You '11 see. Bring Nathan up here," and 
 he points to the stairway running up to the roof on 
 the outside of the house. Here they object again, 
 and even Nathan can't see what good that is going 
 to do them. But his friend, his real friend insists, 
 
WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 23 
 
 and soon they are on the roof. Tear it up, so the 
 leader calls out; and under the compulsion of his 
 leadership they go at it, and soon those inside are 
 looking up to see a man being let down on his bed 
 through a hole in the roof. Jesus looked up and 
 seeing the faith of these men who have overcome 
 every obstacle to get their friend near Him, He 
 speaks to the lame man, forgives his sins and sends 
 him home with his bed under his arm rejoicing in 
 perfect health. (See The Teacher, the Child and the 
 Book, p. 50, where Dr. Schauffler uses his imagina- 
 tion in telling this story.) 
 
 2. Daily Readings. 
 
 First Day. Matt. 14:3-5; 4:12-17. 
 What had Herod done to John? Which John 
 was this? To what city did Jesus go? 
 Where was it? 
 
 Second Day. Mark 1:32-34. 
 
 What shows that Jesus was popular at this 
 time? 
 
 Third Day. Mark 2: 1, 2; Luke 5: 17. 
 
 Where was Jesus now? Who had come to see 
 Him? Where had they come from? How 
 far was Jerusalem from where Jesus was? 
 
 Fourth Day. Mark 2:3. 
 
 What was the matter with the sick man? Who 
 brought him to Jesus? Some one has called 
 this the first Y. P. S. C. E. 
 
 Fifth Day. Mark 2:4, 5. 
 Why couldn't they get near Jesus? What did 
 they do? How would they reach the roof? 
 
 Sixth Day. Luke 5: 18, 19. 
 
 What do we learn from these verses that is not 
 told us in Mark 2:4, 5? 
 
24 li'HAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 
 
 Seventh Day. Luke 5:20. 
 
 What was it Jesus saw that led Him to help the 
 sick man? 
 
 3. Subject for Prayer. 
 
 That I may do something to help others. 
 4. Bible Marking. 
 
 Emphasize It was noised that He was in the house. 
 Mark 2:1. 
 
 Do people say this about your home? 
 
 5. To Make. 
 
 Take one of the outline maps of Palestine. 
 Imagine the city you are in to be Jerusalem. From 
 an old time table or other source cut out the name of 
 your city and paste it over Jerusalem. Find out the 
 distance of Jerusalem from Capernaum, find some 
 city the same distance from your city as Jerusalem 
 was from Capernaum, cut out the name of that city 
 and paste it over Capernaum ; draw a straight line 
 between the two cities. Do the same with Bethlehem, 
 Nazareth, Jericho, Mount Hermon, Bethany, and 
 other places. 
 
 Make a bed; a model of a house. 
 
 6. Pictures. 
 
 a. Stereographs. 
 
 No. 17 shows us a sight which must often have 
 met Jesus' eyes, the lepers, who kept crying: "Un- 
 clean 1 Unclean !" 
 
 No. 18. A village house. 
 
 "Would Jesus' house in Capernaum be like this? 
 (Very likely, though it may have been only a one- 
 story house like those in Nazareth.) Notice the 
 substantial masonry and arches with their carven 
 emblems. The typical house here is a sort of castle, 
 forbidding and windowless without, but with plenty 
 of social life in this inner court, where the family 
 
WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 25 
 
 lives most of the time in fair weather. The roof is 
 flat and covers an upper room (Mark 14: 15; Acts 
 1 : 13 ; 9:37), probably approached by a stairway on 
 the outside. The goats (Lev. 16:7-27) who furnish 
 milk and meat and whose skins were made into 
 receptacles for wine, share the sociability within. 
 Where do they sleep? (With the cattle in the first 
 story under the archways.) Is that a small manger 
 or cradle by the left-hand door? See the omni- 
 present dog. How many women are here ? How 
 many children? Try to puzzle out the family rela- 
 tionships. Note that one woman is grinding at the 
 mill (Matt. 24:41) and has her kneading trough 
 nearby, and two others seem to be washing clothes 
 with an extremely frugal amount of water. The 
 earthenware is dilapidated and the water-pot is a re- 
 minder of those in which, here at Cana, the water 
 was turned into wine. Apparently there is in this 
 group as of old, more interest in washings (Heb. 
 9:10) than in bathing. Read and notice how the 
 scene illustrates the following parables of Jesus : 
 The Householder (Matt. 13:33) (Where is the 
 householder here?) ; the Leaven (Matt. 13:33) (to 
 be stirred into the flour in the pan) ; the Unmerciful 
 Servant (Matt. 18) (Which are servants here?) ; 
 and the Pieces of Money (Luke 15: 8-10) (in strings 
 in the head dresses of the women)." Travel Lessons, 
 p. 115, 116. 
 
 No. 5 shows the flat roof of the houses. 
 
 No. 34 also shows the flat roofs and the tiles which 
 were broken up. 
 
 b. B. 458. 
 
 7. Thoughts for the Leader. 
 
 There was at least one man in Capernaum who was 
 not satisfied with knowing that Jesus could help sick 
 people ; he saw to it that his sick friend got to Jesus. 
 And Jesus was glad to see such a man. 
 
 The many interruptions that Jesus suflfered all 
 through His life, as in this story, show how unselfish 
 He was. It is so hard to put up with interruptions ! 
 
26 WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 
 
 Jesus saw that the real trouble was on the inside, 
 so He said to the man, "Thy sins be forgiven thee." 
 
 8. Illustrative Reading. 
 
 Baby Elton Quarterback, Ch. XIV. 
 The lepers in 2 Kings 7: 3-15. 
 
STUDY VI. 
 
 HE HELPS A LONELY SICK MAN. 
 
 1. The Story. 
 
 The heartlessness of the world without Christianity 
 is abundantly proved. Multitudes of babies were 
 thrown into the Ganges by Indian mothers, cruel and 
 inhuman treatment was accorded sick people in China 
 and Africa. Palestine did not differ from the other 
 countries. There we have found the insane either 
 bound with chains like wild animals or turned out to 
 shift for themselves like the wild dogs of that coun- 
 try, making their homes among the unclean tombs. 
 
 There has recently been discovered in Jerusalem 
 the Pool of Bethesda. "It is forty-five feet long from 
 east to west and measures twelve and a half feet in 
 breadth. A flight of twenty-four steps leads down 
 into the pool from the eastern scarp of rock. A 
 sister pool sixty feet long and of the same breadth 
 lies beside it. The first pool was arched in by five 
 arches, while five corresponding porches ran along the 
 side of the pool." 
 
 By this pool the poor invalids used to lie waiting 
 for the water to bubble up, stirred up as they sup- 
 posed by an angel. Then whoever got into the water 
 first was healed. Great crowds used to gather here, 
 and there must have been great scrambling when the 
 right time came. The crowd was heartless, each in- 
 tent on getting into the water and caring nothing for 
 any one else. One poor fellow had been there thirty- 
 eight years and with no one to assist him he had failed 
 every time he tried to get down to the water. One 
 Sabbath Jesus came that way. He asked about this 
 man, and found he was the most friendless man in 
 the crowd. Going up to him He put to the invalid 
 what must have seemed to him a foolish question : 
 "Do you want to be cured ?" Imagine the look on that 
 
28 WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 
 
 man's face when he heard such a question and gave 
 his pitiful answer: "Sir, I have nobody to help me, 
 I 'm all alone here." Our Lord was different from the 
 crowd ; He at once stepped into the place of the 
 "nobody" and became the sick man's friend. "Don't 
 wait for the water to be troubled," Jesus said. "Get 
 up now ; take up your bed and go home." Can't you 
 see him as he grabs up what is left of the old worn- 
 out bed and goes rejoicing to his home — if he has 
 one? 
 
 2. Daily Readings. 
 
 First Day. Mark 5 : 1-5. 
 After reading these verses describe the condition 
 of this poor man. 
 
 Second Day. John 5:1, 2. 
 Where was Jesus now? What was the name of 
 this pool? 
 
 Third Day. John 5:3, 4. 
 
 What kind of people were about the pool ? Were 
 there many? What were they waiting for? 
 
 Fourth Day. John 5 : 5. 
 
 How long had this man been sick? If he were 
 there in 1907, and had been there thirty-eight 
 years, in what year would he have been there 
 first ? 
 
 Fifth Day. John 5 : 6, 7. 
 What did Jesus know about him? What did Jesus 
 ask him? What did the man say? Why 
 didn't some of the crowd (5: 3) help him? 
 
 Sixth Day. John 5 : 8, 9. 
 What did Jesus say to him? What did the man 
 do? 
 
 Seventh Day. John 5 : 1-9. 
 Could n't some one have helped this man into the 
 pool? Did Jesus put him into the pool? How 
 did Jesus cure him? 
 
IVHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 29 
 
 3. Subject for Prayer. 
 
 That I may help some of the boys for whom no 
 one cares. 
 
 4. Bible Marking. 
 
 Emphasize the words no man, rise, take, walk. 
 
 5. To Make. 
 
 Draw a map of your own state and then alongside 
 of it draw a map of Palestine on the same scale. 
 
 6. Pictures. 
 
 W. 546, 62. 
 
 7. Thoughts for the Leader. 
 
 Here was a whole city, full of acquaintances and 
 friends, neglecting a poor cripple ; but the first time 
 Jesus sees him He helps him ! There never was 
 any one so unselfish as Jesus. He was always glad 
 to help those whom nobody else cared for. 
 
 8. Illustrative Reading. 
 
 Harding of St. Timothy's, Ch. II. 
 Baby Elton Quarterback, Ch. XIII. 
 The little girl in 2 Kings 5 : 1-14. 
 
STUDY VII. 
 
 HE CHOOSES HIS COMPANIONS. 
 
 1. The Story. 
 
 We must not think of Jesus going about the coun- 
 try all alone. From the very beginning the people 
 followed Him. He probably appeared alone when 
 He came to John seeking baptism, but from that 
 hour men began to acknowledge Him as Master and 
 Leader. Luke tells us that there were men other than 
 the apostles, who were constantly with Him. "The 
 men that have companied with us all the time that 
 the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning 
 from the baptism of John unto the day that He was 
 received up." And there were also women who were 
 always with Him, performing, no doubt, those gen- 
 tler duties which men seem to be incapable of, who 
 supplied some of his needs (Luke 8: 1-3). These 
 were the disciples, those who sought to learn from 
 Him, as a scholar learns from a teacher; for that is 
 what the word disciple means, learner. But now, 
 when His fame was at its height, when crowds fol- 
 low Him everywhere. He feels the need of closer 
 friends, He sees, looming up before Him, His death 
 at Jerusalem; He realizes the shortness of the time 
 before Him, and the necessity of training certain se- 
 lect men to carry on this work after His departure. 
 As was His custom when some great decision was at 
 hand. He now spends an entire night alone in a quiet 
 place in prayer, and in the morning, calling the 
 crowd to come near Him, He selects the twelve best 
 fitted for His purpose and gives them a new name — 
 "Apostles-Missionaries." Some of these had had a 
 more or less intimate relation with Him. Five or six 
 had joined Him upon His return from the wilderness 
 where He was tempted. Peter was one of this com- 
 pany. They did not remain with Him at that time, 
 
WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 31 
 
 for later He found James and John, Peter and An- 
 drew, two pairs of brothers, engaged in their trade as 
 fishermen and invited them to become His disciples. 
 Then He found Matthew. But now the final selection 
 is made as He designates the twelve who are to en- 
 joy forever the distinction of having been in the 
 original apostolic band. 
 
 Having chosen them He speaks to them what we 
 call the "Sermon on the Mount," a sort of inaugural 
 charge to this sacred college. 
 
 2. Daily Readings. 
 
 First Day. Luke 8: 1-3. Acts 1 : 21, 22. 
 
 Who went with Jesus besides His apostles? Were 
 they always with Him? What did these peo- 
 ple do for Him? 
 
 Second Day. Mark 3 : 7-10. 
 
 How many people were with Him now? Where 
 had they come from ? Mark these places on 
 one of the maps you have made. 
 
 Third Day. Luke 6 : 12. 
 
 Before choosing His apostles how did He spend 
 the night? Where? 
 
 Fourth Day. John 1 : 35-42. 
 
 This passage refers to the very beginning of His 
 public life ? What disciples became acquainted 
 with Him now? 
 
 Fifth Day. Matt. 4 : 18-22 ; 9 : 9. 
 
 Which disciples did He meet, according to these 
 two passages? What were they doing? 
 
 Sixth Day. Luke 6: 13-19. 
 
 What had these men been called ? What were 
 they called now? Write out the list of the 
 twelve. 
 
32 IVHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 
 
 Seventh Day. Mark 3 : 13-19. 
 What does verse 14 tell us about why Jesus called 
 these men out of the crowd ? Mention one or 
 two reasons why Jesus wanted to have a select 
 company about Him. 
 
 3. Subject for Prayer. 
 That I may select my companions very carefully. 
 
 4. Bible Marking. 
 
 Emphasize in John 1 the names of the disciples 
 and the seven names by which Jesus is called. 
 
 5. To Make. 
 
 Four lists of the Twelve from Matt. 10 ; Mark 3 ; 
 Luke 6 and Acts 1. Notice who is always first and 
 who always last. Arrange each twelve in three 
 groups of four each ; notice the leader of each group 
 is always the same and the same men are always in 
 the same group, but in a different order. 
 
 6. Pictures. 
 
 a. Stereographs. 
 
 No. 20. Find the location of this picture on the 
 map in Travel Lessons. 
 
 "This gorge before us marks the road that Jesus 
 took so often from Nazareth to Capernaum. It was 
 part of the highway from the south to Damascus. It 
 was in Jesus' boyhood a famous nest of robbers. Can 
 you see a road leading over that more level tract be- 
 yond ? That steep cleft still farther away is called 
 the Valley of the Pigeons, because of the multitude 
 of pigeons that make their nests in its walls. Just 
 beyond it is Magdala. As we are looking to the 
 northeast the level place beyond on the northwestern 
 shore of Galilee is the plain of Gennesaret. Some- 
 v.'here on that curve of shore lay Capernaum, long 
 
WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 33 
 
 vanished and lost. Nearly all the scenes of the minis- 
 try in Galilee are visible from this spot. Now, try 
 to imagine this hilltop bright with flowers and the 
 many-colored garments of the throng, the pathway 
 below filled with an approaching multitude, swarming 
 up here from the populous shores of the Sea of Gali- 
 lee and the sections round about, and Jesus sitting 
 here, announcing the names of the Twelve, and then 
 speaking the gracious Beatitudes." Travel Les- 
 sons, 124. 
 
 b. B. 230, 649. 
 
 7. Thoughts for the Leader. 
 
 Jesus felt the need of friends, and He was careful 
 in selecting them. He traveled with these men for 
 nearly a year before He made them His bosom 
 friends. He saw that He would need companions of 
 the right kind. He asked God to help Him select 
 the right ones. 
 
STUDY VIII. 
 
 HE SHOWS HIS POWER OVER NATURE. 
 
 1. The Story. 
 
 The Sea of Galilee, thirteen by seven miles, was 
 one of the central points in the geography of our 
 Lord's life. Jesus crossed it again and again. "This 
 little sea fills the largest place in the life of Jesus, 
 for on its waves and around its shores most of His 
 mighty works were done ; and it will always fill a 
 large place in the minds and hearts of all who love 
 His name." The Rabbis said, "Jehovah hath created 
 seven seas, but the sea of Gennesaret is His delight." 
 To Capernaum on its shores He often returned as to 
 a home. He must have been thoroughly familiar with 
 this lake, as a man would be who lived on the shores 
 of Lake George to-day. "Where there are now no 
 trees, there were [in Jesus' day] great woods; where 
 there are marshes, were noble gardens ; where there 
 is but a boat or two, there were fleets ; where there 
 is one town, there were nine or ten. We know this 
 from Josephus, who fully describes the province he 
 governed and fought over only thirty-four years 
 after our Lord's ministry — too short a time for the 
 country to have changed." 
 
 Situated as it was, among the surrounding moun- 
 tains, exposed to a burning sun by day, it was subject 
 to just such fickle winds as we experience on similar 
 lakes to-day. Consequently it was subject to sud- 
 den storms. 
 
 At the close of a busy day, seeking rest from the 
 tiresome crowd, Jesus said to His disciples, "Let us 
 cross the lake to a quieter place on the other shore." 
 As they sailed He fell asleep, worn out no doubt by 
 the work and worry of the day. For Jesus was very 
 human, although He was God. He knew what it was 
 to be hungry and thirsty, He was sometimes weary, 
 
WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 35 
 
 and so now tired nature asserts herself and He sleeps, 
 although the storm rages around the little boat. It 
 seemed to His disciples as if the boat would be 
 swamped, and in amazement at His seeming indiffer- 
 ence to their welfare, they awake Him. Then with a 
 majestic calmness which still further astonished them 
 and wrung from them the cry, "What manner of 
 man is this?" He speaks to the angry waters: 
 "Peace, be still," and there was peace ; the waves 
 were still. 
 
 2. Daily Readings. 
 
 First Day. Luke 5:1; Mark 1 : 16 ; John 6:1. 
 What names are given to this lake? Draw it and 
 indicate where Capernaum was. 
 
 Second Day. Mark 4:35; Luke 8:22. 
 
 Notice how Jesus was often on the Sea of Galilee. 
 Third Day. Mark 4 : 36-38. 
 
 What kind of a day had Jesus had? How did He 
 feel? What was done with Him? 
 
 Fourth Day. Mark 4 : 39-41. 
 
 What happened? What was Jesus doing? What 
 did Jesus do? How did the disciples feel then? 
 
 Fifth Day. Luke 8 : 23-25. 
 
 What did they say to Jesus? Were they afraid? 
 Sixth Day. Matt. 8 : 23-27. 
 
 Was there much of a storm ? What did the disci- 
 ples say about Jesus? 
 
 Seventh Day. Mark 4: 35-41. 
 What in this story shows us that Jesus was hu- 
 man? What did His disciples think of Him 
 after this event? 
 
 3. Subject for Prayer. 
 
 That this Jesus who had such power may be my 
 helper. 
 
36 WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 
 
 4. Bible Marking, 
 Emphasize asleep, fearful, the wind ceased. 
 
 5. To Make. 
 
 A boat. Make a sand map showing the scene of 
 intervening events. 
 
 6. Pictures. 
 
 a. Stereographs. 
 
 No. 22. The Sea of GaHlee. 
 
 No. 23. "In the distance you see the mountains of 
 GaHlee. That great rent through the nearer moun- 
 tain is the Valley of the Pigeons, and through that 
 valley we can see the traditional Mount of Beatitudes, 
 upon which we stood (No. 20) and looked down to 
 this shore. Get these points by the relief map. 
 Jesus' boyhood home, Nazareth, lies about twenty- 
 five miles away, a little to the right, beyond those 
 mountains directly before us. Capernaum, the place 
 where Jesus came to make His home for a whole 
 year, the second year of His ministry, was probably 
 on the shore behind us. Chorazin was located up in 
 the hills in our rear. What prophecy of Jesus has 
 since then been fulfilled? (Matt. 11:20-24.) The 
 multitudes from the hill country around Nazareth 
 are to be_ imagined coming toward us near the shore." 
 Travel Lessons, 139. 
 
 No. 36 gives us another view of the Sea of Galilee. 
 
 b. W. 78. 
 
 7. Thoughts for the Leader. 
 
 Exhausted and anxious to rest, Jesus responded at 
 once to the call of His frightened apostles and helped 
 them in their distress. We find it hard to give up 
 our own ease for the sake of some one else. 
 
 He who had power over the wind and waves is 
 willing to use that power in my behalf. 
 
STUDY IX. 
 
 HE FEEDS MORE THAN FIVE THOUSAND 
 PEOPLE. 
 
 1. The Story. 
 
 The disciples were slowly learning that it was im- 
 possible to put Jesus in a position to which He was 
 not equal. He had met and vanquished the great 
 enemy, Satan ; He had not been afraid to interfere 
 with the vested rights of those who were dese- 
 crating the temple ; disease of all kind disappeared at 
 His touch ; even the elements — the winds and waves 
 — obeyed His voice as if a master were speaking to 
 them. They were to learn now that He could supply 
 another kind of need. 
 
 He had sent His disciples out into the country to 
 teach and to heal, while He was doing the same 
 things elsewhere. Great crowds were attracted to 
 Him, for it was the Passover season and multitudes 
 would be moving along towards Jerusalem. 
 
 Just now Herod killed John, whom he had had in 
 prison for some time, and when Jesus heard it He 
 went across the lake out of Herod's country to 
 Bethsaida. The apostles had returned from their 
 tour and were anxiously telling their Master about 
 their success. They needed rest, they had hardly 
 time to eat, He wished to confer with them, and 
 so as He is about to leave Galilee He invites these 
 men, who are being trained for their work, to go 
 with Him into the sparsely settled country for rest. 
 But the crowd is not so easily disposed of. They 
 had seen some miracles and wanted to see some more. 
 Divining His intention, when they see the little boat- 
 load put out from the shore, they run around on foot, 
 and arrive before the boat. But though His plans 
 
38 WHAT MANNER OP MAN IS THIS? 
 
 were frustrated He "had compassion on them," He 
 welcomed them, and laying aside His own comfort 
 He spent the day in teaching them and healing their 
 sick folk. As it drew towards evening His disciples, 
 who no doubt had been restless all day long, and 
 perhaps displeased that His time was given to the 
 crowd and not to them, suggested to Him that the 
 people ought to be sent home, for there was nothing 
 to eat there. But Jesus said : "No, they need not go 
 away ; you feed them." The astonished disciples, in 
 that matter-of-fact way so characteristic of them, 
 exclaimed, "Shall we go and buy food?" Then An- 
 drew, who has been called the Scotsman of the apos- 
 tles, ventured to' say that a little boy was there with 
 five flat barley loaves or crackers, and two fishes. 
 Notwithstanding all they had seen, and all they them- 
 selves had done on their recent tour, they wondered 
 how such a small supply could do any good among 
 five thousand men, besides the women and children. 
 But Jesus, who is becoming accustomed to their 
 strange lack of faith, replies : "Bring them to me" ; 
 and the little fellow whose mother perhaps had given 
 him this little basket of food for his lunch when he 
 left home that morning quietly surrenders all he has 
 at Jesus' word, and becomes forever famous. Then 
 follows the careful arrangement in companies of 
 fifty and a hundred. Jesus thanks His heavenly 
 Father for the food thus given and hands it to the 
 disciples to distribute. To every one's amazement 
 all have enough and to spare, and each of the doubt- 
 ful disciples gathers up a big basketful at the end of 
 the meal. The people were convinced that this was 
 the sort of a ruler they wanted, one who could supply 
 their bodily wants; and they strove to make Him 
 their earthly king. 
 
 2. Daily Readings. 
 
 First Day. Mark 6:22-29. 
 Who was the ruler? What had he just done to 
 John? 
 
WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 39 
 
 Second Day. Mark 6 : 7, 12, 13. 
 Jesus sends His disciples out to do what He has 
 been doing. Were they successful? 
 
 Third Day. Mark 6 : 30-33. 
 What did He say to His disciples? Why? Were 
 they very busy? Where did they go? 
 
 Fourth Day. Matt. 14 : 14 ; Mark 6 : 34. 
 
 When Jesus saw the crowd how did He feel? 
 Fifth Day. Mark 6 : 35-37 ; John 6 : 8, 9. 
 What time of the day was it? What did the disci- 
 ples suggest? What did Andrew tell Jesus? 
 What did Jesus tell His disciples? 
 
 Sixth Day. Mark 6 : 38-46. 
 
 How many people were there? How were they 
 
 arranged? What did Jesus do before breaking 
 
 the bread ? Did every one get enough ? After 
 
 the people were sent away what did Jesus do? 
 
 Seventh Day. Matt. 14:20, 21. 
 How many disciples were there? What did they 
 do? How much of the bread and fishes did 
 each of them get? How much had each of the 
 people had? Who got the most? 
 
 3. Subject for Prayer. 
 
 That this Jesus, who could help so many with so 
 little, will help me. 
 
 4. Bible Marking. 
 
 Emphasize, Give ye them to eat in Mark 6. In 
 Matt. 14: 17-20 imderline five loaves and two fishes, 
 blessed, brake, gave, twelve baskets full, and then 
 connect them with diagonal lines. 
 
 5. To Make. 
 
 On the sand map make the Sea of Galilee and the 
 surrounding country. Use a piece of looking glass 
 
40 WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 
 
 for the sea ; moss can be used for grass. Make a 
 small boat to show how Jesus crossed the sea ; show 
 where the people ran round the end of the lake. 
 
 6. Pictures. 
 
 a. Stereographs. 
 
 No. 23. "The feeding of the five thousand was 
 upon such a strand and hillside as this, a few miles 
 behind us, near the entrance of the Jordan into the 
 lake, probably near Bethsaida Julias. (See map.) 
 We catch here the situation and the view which 
 Jesus had in looking along the shore from the moun- 
 tain where He spent that night in prayer; we are 
 looking upon the shore not far from where Jesus and 
 His disciples landed the next morning." Travel 
 Lessons, p. 139. 
 
 No. IS. Locate this picture on the map. 
 
 "What a magnificent prospect ! There is Mount 
 Gerizim rising off there to our right, as our study of 
 the map led us to expect. As we remember we are 
 standing here near the center of Palestine looking 
 south, Galilee and most of Samaria are behind us. 
 Before us we look over the tableland of Judea as far 
 south as Shiloh, and even Bethel. That road stretch- 
 ing away in the distance is the road to Jerusalem. 
 How far away before us is Jerusalem? Down that 
 path wandered Abraham, the father of the Hebrew 
 people, when he first passed southward seeking a 
 home. He camped here in this valley, he may have 
 climbed one of these mountains to reconnoitre, and 
 he tarried at Bethel before he moved south to 
 Hebron. Jacob, his grandson, passed through here 
 when he was driven from his home in Hebron by the 
 anger of his brother Isaac, and many years later 
 when he was rich in servants and cattle, he dug a 
 well here in this valley full of springs, which he cap- 
 tured from the native Amorites (Gen. 33: 18-20). 
 It is in that enclosure down at our left beyond those 
 orchards. The Greek monks have built a wall around 
 it. Here, to the center of the land, the Israelites 
 came when they marched in from Egypt, and here, 
 
WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 41 
 
 beneath that white-domed building down at our ex- 
 treme left, is the tomb which they made for their dis- 
 tinguished prince, Joseph, Jacob's son (Josh. 24: 32). 
 A little to the right where the mountain walls came 
 nearer together, Joshua, their leader, gathered them 
 in two bands and declared from Gerizim the blessings 
 and from the mountain on which we stand the curses. 
 Joshua himself was buried later on the mountain 
 slopes behind us. This region was the scene of many 
 other notable events in Israel's history, but after the 
 exile it was settled by a mixed population, Jews who 
 had intermarried with their conquerors and with the 
 native races. They still continued the worship of 
 Jehovah and built a temple for Him on Mount 
 Gerizim, which they declared was the Mount Moriah 
 where Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac." Travel 
 Lessons, pp. 106, 107. 
 
 b. W. 83 ; P. 684. 
 
 7. Thoughts for the Leader. 
 
 The size of the task ought not to discourage us. 
 
 The little boy had one small basket of food ; each of 
 the five thousand got one meal ; but each of the dis- 
 ciples who helped Jesus in His work got a big basket 
 full — enough for many meals. 
 
 The only person in the story who got nothing was 
 Jesus ; He gave it all away. 
 
 The disciples did not keep feeding the front row 
 over and over, they distributed the bread among all. 
 Those far away were not neglected. 
 
 8. Illustrative Reading. 
 
 The people fed in 2 Kings 4 : 42-44. 
 
STUDY X. 
 
 THE STRANGE SCENE ON A MOUNTAIN. 
 
 1. The Story. 
 
 A few times during His earthly life our Lord seems 
 to wish to make it plain that He is more than human. 
 Such a time was what we call "The transfiguration," 
 that strange scene on the mountain. His great Gali- 
 lean ministry is about over. He is nearing the end 
 of His earthly life, and no doubt is thinking of that 
 great sacrifice which He is soon to make. He feels 
 the need of prayer. A crisis has arrived and as on 
 other such occasions He goes aside for prayer. Leav- 
 ing most of the disciples on the plain below, taking 
 His three closest friends, Peter, James and John, He 
 goes up into Mount Hermon to pray. As He prays 
 a wonderful light comes upon Him ; His face shines 
 as bright as the sun and even His clothes become 
 beautifully white. Moses and Elijah appear, repre- 
 senting the law and the prophets. They talk with 
 Him about His death soon to take place at Jeru- 
 salem. 
 
 While this is going on in the heights, down at the 
 foot of the mountain the disciples seem to have been 
 disputing with the scribes. Their power has been 
 withdrawn, for they are unable to heal a sick boy 
 who has been brought to them. 
 
 Even those who had been privileged to be close to 
 Jesus during this wonderful scene did not realize 
 what it was to be, nor were they ready when it came. 
 As on another memorable occasion "they were heavy 
 with sleep." But when they awoke and saw the 
 beauty of the scene, the transfigured Christ, the two 
 heavenly visitors, Peter the impetuous, not knowing 
 what to say, declares it would be good if they could 
 always stay there, and suggests the building of little 
 houses or tents for the three leaders — Jesus, Moses 
 
44 WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 
 
 and Elijah. But suddenly Moses and Elijah go away 
 in a cloud, and God speaks, saying: "This is my be- 
 loved Son ; hear him." Filled with fear they fall 
 upon their faces, until Jesus reassures them. Look- 
 ing up they find themselves alone with Jesus, who 
 hurries them down to the foot of the mountain, 
 where the other disciples were struggling without 
 success to heal the poor sick boy. 
 
 2. Daily Readings. 
 
 First Day. Matt. 17: 1, 2. 
 
 Mount Hermon is supposed to have been the moun- 
 tain referred to. Locate it on one of the maps 
 you have made. Whom did He take with 
 Him? Describe what happened. 
 
 Second Day. Mark 9:2, 3. 
 What does Mark say happened? 
 
 Third Day. Luke 9 : 28, 29. 
 What did He go into the mountain for? What 
 was He doing when the change came? 
 
 Fourth Day. Matt. 17:3; Luke 9 : 30, 31. 
 Who talked with Him? Had these men been dead 
 long? What did they talk about? 
 
 Fifth Day. Luke 9:32, 33. 
 What was the matter with the disciples? What 
 did Peter say? What did he mean by "taber- 
 nacles"? 
 
 Sixth Day. Mark 9 : 4-8. 
 How did the disciples feel? What made Peter 
 say what he did? 
 
 Seventh Day. Matt. 17:4-8. 
 What did the voice from heaven say? How did it 
 affect the disciples? Who came to them? 
 When they looked up, whom did they see? 
 
WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 45 
 
 3. Subject for Prayer. 
 
 That I may go to my heavenly Father, as Jesus 
 went to Him, in prayer. 
 
 4. Bible Marking. 
 
 In Matt. 17 underHne Peter, James, John, Moses, 
 Elijah, no man save Jesus only, and connect them 
 with a diagonal line. Emphasize This is my beloved 
 Son. 
 
 5. To Make, 
 
 Three tents or tabernacles such as Peter sug- 
 gested. 
 
 6. Pictures. 
 
 a. Stereographs. 
 
 No. 25. Old gate to Cassarea Philippi at the foot 
 of Mount Hermon, which may have been the scene 
 of the transfiguration. 
 
 No. 19. Here we see the booth or tabernacle such 
 as Peter suggested should be built. 
 
 b. W. 89 ; P. 39. 
 
 7. Thoughts for the Leader. 
 
 Jesus always sought help in prayer. 
 The thing Jesus thought about most was His death. 
 When we talk with God, men will know by our 
 looks that something wonderful has taken place. 
 
 8. Illustrative Reading. 
 
 Moses on the mountain, Ex. 19: 3-13. 
 
STUDY XL 
 
 REVIEW. 
 
 Show how the lessons show Jesus the mighty 
 worker. Born as a helpless baby, growing up as an 
 ordinary boy grows, quietly working as a carpenter 
 until He is thirty years old. Then He is tested, 
 after receiving His Father's approval, and begins His 
 great career. He cures the lame, helps the lonely, 
 chooses His friends and shows His power over na- 
 ture by stilling the storm and multiplying the bread 
 and fishes. Then came that wonderful day on the 
 mountain when, as at the beginning. His Father 
 spoke to Him from heaven. 
 
 Daily Readings. 
 
 First Day. Luke 2: 1-7. 
 
 Second Day. Luke 2:41-50. 
 
 Third Day. Matt. 4:l-n. 
 
 Fourth Day. Matt. 21 : 12-17. 
 
 Fifth Day. Luke 5 : 17-26. 
 
 Sixth Day. John 5:1-8; Mark 6 : 30-46. 
 
 Seventh Day. Luke 9 : 2-13. 
 
STUDY XII. 
 
 A REAL NEIGHBOR. 
 
 1. The Story. 
 
 In the house where Jesus lived as a boy, most of 
 the teaching was in the form of stories and no doubt 
 He would Hsten attentively to His father or to the 
 old grandfather telling his evening story when work 
 was done. It may have been that Jesus learned to 
 tell stories in just this way, by hearing them. He 
 was a wonderful teller of stories and a wonderful 
 teacher. This story of the good Samaritan is one of 
 His best. 
 
 The occurrence was interesting. A lawyer, not in 
 our sense, but a man who had studied the Old Testa- 
 ment, came to Jesus just as a boy would go to his 
 teacher now, when he has a hard problem in arith- 
 metic. He called Jesus teacher. He had a trouble- 
 some question: "What shall I do to inherit eternal 
 life?" and he brought it to this great Teacher. Like 
 a good teacher Jesus asked him some questions about 
 the lessons he had been studying and the man an- 
 swered very well, even quoting the lessons he had 
 learned word for word. He had evidently learned 
 them by heart, and Jesus told him his answers were 
 correct. But the man was not entirely satisfied, so 
 he asked Jesus another question : "Who is my neigh- 
 bor?" Jesus seemed to feel that the best way to 
 answer him now was to tell him the story, so He 
 began: "You know that dangerous road that goes 
 down from Jerusalem to Jericho? Well, a man, a 
 Jew was going down there once, and some of the 
 robbers who infested the place jumped out upon him 
 from a secluded spot. They beat him and robbed 
 him of everything he had, even his clothes, and left 
 
48 IVHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 
 
 him more dead than alive. It so happened that one 
 of the priests, having finished his vv^ork in the tem- 
 ple at Jerusalem was going home that day by that 
 same road. He had plenty of time, for he would n't 
 have to be in the temple again for some weeks. He 
 saw the poor fellow lying there — he could n't help 
 seeing him — but strange to say he just walked right 
 past him, keeping on the other side of the road. 
 By and by a Levite came along the road. He, too, 
 was coming from the temple and was going home to 
 rest. He not only saw the poor wounded man, but 
 he came up and looked at him, and then he, too, 
 turned and went on his way unconcerned. But pretty 
 soon a Samaritan business man came riding along 
 on horseback. You know how the Jews hate 
 Samaritans? Well, strange as it may seem, as soon 
 as this Samaritan saw that half-dead Jew he felt 
 so sorry for him that he did n't seem to care about 
 the delay, or the inconvenience, or any such thing, 
 but he got right down from his horse, took out some 
 linen he had with him, and kept pouring oil and 
 wine on his wounds, while he bound them up as best 
 he could. And when the man recovered conscious- 
 ness he lifted him up on the horse he had been riding 
 and walked along leading the horse until he came to 
 a hotel. There he did everything for him himself 
 as long as he could stay. And the next day, when 
 he had to go on to attend to his business, he gave the 
 hotel keeper some money to pay for the penniless 
 Jew and told him to take good care of him, and if it 
 cost any more he would make it all right when he 
 came back." Then Jesus said, "Can you tell me 
 which of those three men, the priest, the Levite or 
 the Samaritan, was that poor fellow's real neighbor?" 
 The proud lawyer would not say the hateful word, 
 Samaritan, for he was a Jew, so he answered, "The 
 one that had pity on him." "Yes," said Jesus, "that 's 
 right. Now you go and do as he did to the poor, 
 helpless people wherever you find them and whoever 
 they may be." 
 
WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 49 
 
 Tlieparatieof ST. LUKE. 
 
 15 And tlion, Capernaum, which art ex- 
 alted to heaven, shall be thrust down to 
 helL 
 
 16 He that hearcth you heareth me; 
 and he that despiscth you despieeth me ; 
 and he that despiscth me despiseth him 
 that sent me. 
 
 17 1 jVjid the serenty rettinied again 
 with joy, saying. Lord, even the devils 
 are subject nntoTis tlirough thy name. 
 
 18 And he said unto them, I beheld 
 Batan as lightning fall from heaven. 
 
 19 Behold, I give unto you power to 
 tread on serpents and scorpions, and over 
 all the power of the enemy; and nothing 
 shall by any means hurt you. 
 
 20 Notwithstanding, in this rejoice not, 
 that the spirits are subject unto you; 
 but rather rejoice, because your names 
 are written in heaveiL 
 
 31 ^ In that hour Jesus rejoiced in opiT' 
 it, and said, I thank thee, O Father, tord 
 of heaven and eartb, that thou hast hid 
 these things from the wise and prudent, 
 and hast revealed them unto babes: even 
 Bo, Father; for so it seemed good In thy 
 sight. 
 
 ^ AD filings are delivered to me of my 
 Father: and no man knoweth who the 
 Bon is, but the Father; and who the Fa- 
 ther is, but the Son, and he to whom the 
 Son will reveal Am. 
 
 23 T[ And he turned him unto hia disd- 
 ples, and said privately. Blessed are the 
 eyes which sec the things that ye see; 
 
 24 For I tell you, that many prophets 
 and kings have desired to see those things 
 which ye see, and have not seen them; 
 and to Lear those things which ye hear, 
 and have not heard thmi. 
 
 25 ^AJid,behold,acertain lawyer stood 
 up, and. tempted him, saying, Master, 
 what shall I ao to inherit eternal life ? 
 
 23 He saM unto him, What is written 
 In the lawithow readest thou? 
 
 27 And he\ answering said, Thon shalt 
 love the Loid thy God with all thy Ii«ut 
 and with all thy Soul, and with all thy 
 Str^gtli, and with all thylnlDd; and tl^ 
 neighbour asUhyself. 
 
 lid unto him, Thou hast an- 
 swered right : this do, and thou shalt live. 
 
 29 But he, willing^to justify himself, 
 said tmto Jesus, And Vho is my neigh- 
 bour? \ 
 
 30 And Jesoa answering said, A certain 
 
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 iKe good Samaritaty 
 
 tf-ift 
 
 3.S But i certain Sam «j<t«dt , as he jour- 
 neyed, fame where he was ; and when 
 he saw him, he had compassion on him, 
 
 34 And went to him, 9nd bound up hia 
 wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set 
 him on his own beast, and brought him 
 to an inn, and tools care of liim. 
 
 85 And on the mdrrow when ho depart- 
 ed, he took otit twfe pence, and gave Oiem 
 to the host, and iaid unto him. Take care 
 of him : and vrhatsoever thou spendest 
 more, when ]f coma. again, 1 will repay 
 Ihoe. / 
 
 86 Which/now of these three, thinkest 
 thou, way nei^bbour unto him that fell 
 among tpe thieves? 
 
 87 And he said, He that shewed mercy 
 on hic^. Then said Jesus unto him, Mk 
 and jfo jfaeu. tikewis*. 
 
 88 1 Now it came to pass, as Ihejrwent, 
 that he entered into a certain village : 
 and a certain woman named Martha re- 
 ceived him into her house. 
 
 89 And she had a sister called Mary, 
 which also sat at Jesus' feet, and heard 
 his word. 
 
 40 But Martha -was cumbered about 
 much serving, and came to him, and said, 
 Lord, dost thou not care that my sister 
 hath left me to serve alone f bid her 
 therefore that she help me. 
 
 41 And Jesus answered and said unto 
 her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful 
 and troubled about many things; 
 
 42 But one thing is needful; and Marv 
 hath chosen that good part, which shall 
 not be taken away from her. 
 
 CHAPTER XI 
 
 1 OirM teaeheiA to prav, and OvU injtanay .* II <i 
 turing thai Ood <o uriU Jtve uj coc-i ttiUtos. U h , 
 eatUnQ oni a dumb dfvu, rfb\ikt,Ui U\>> blatphemuut 
 
 outward ihew QfHoiinAU in ttie FnarUeea, tcribc*, 
 and bjwyeri. 
 
 AND it came to pass, that, as he was 
 
 J\. praying in a certain place, when he 
 
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so WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 
 
 2. Daily Readings. 
 
 First Day. John 4 : 9. 
 
 What did the Jews think of the Samaritans? 
 
 Second Day. Luke 10 : 25-27. 
 
 The lawyer was a man who studied the law in the 
 Old Testament. What was his question? 
 What did Jesus say? 
 
 Third Day. Luke 10:28-31. 
 
 What question did the lawyer now ask? What 
 did Jesus tell him about the man in verse 30? 
 Why did Jesus say "down from Jerusalem"? 
 Who saw the poor man first? What did he 
 do? 
 
 Fourth Day. Luke 10 : 32. 
 
 What was a Levite? What did he do more than 
 the priest? 
 
 Fifth Day. Luke 10 : 33-35. 
 
 Remember that the poor man and both the priest 
 and Levite were Jews. Who came along now? 
 What was he doing? How was he affected 
 when he saw the man ? What did he do ? 
 Mention the six things he did. What did he 
 tell the hotel keeper ? 
 
 Sixth Day. Luke 10 : 36. 
 
 What did Jesus ask the lawyer? 
 
 Seventh Day. Luke 10 : 27. 
 
 What was the lawyer's answer? Which man did 
 he mean ? Why did Jesus say : "Go and do 
 thou likewise"? 
 
 3. Subject for Prayer. 
 
 That I may show my love by doing things. 
 
H^HAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 51 
 
 4. Bible Marking. 
 
 Emphasize the words do in verses 25, 28 and 37, 
 and connect them with diagonal lines ; underline 
 heart, soul, strength and mind in verse 27 ; under- 
 line neighbor in verses 27, 29 and 36, and connect 
 them; Go do likewise. Emphasize priest, Levite, 
 Samaritan, and connect them ; underline he passed 
 by, verse 31, passed by, verse 32, and came where he 
 was, verse 33, and connect them. 
 
 5. To Make, 
 
 Imitation of the money used ; a phylactery such as 
 the priest might have worn. This was a box contain- 
 ing verses from the Bible written on parchment ; the 
 box was tied on the forehead or arm. Would it do 
 any good? 
 
 6. Pictures. 
 
 a. Stereographs. 
 
 No. 26. On the road to Jericho. 
 
 "Our present outlook is on this very Jericho road 
 and I have no doubt that one or more of the actors 
 we see are actually robbers, because the distinction 
 between a guide and a robber in this vicinity is still 
 usually that of the same man when in and out of 
 employment. With the substitution of donkeys for 
 horses, we have in costumes, faces and even in the 
 leathern wine bottle the impression to the eye which 
 Jesus gave to the mind when He told this story." 
 Travel Lessons, p. 155. 
 
 b. W. 100, 101 ; P. 583. 
 
 7. Thoughts for the Leader. 
 
 It is sometimes hard to do things just when the 
 opportunity comes. Here was a man, going on a 
 business trip, but he puts up with a good deal of 
 delay and inconvenience and loss of money when a 
 chance comes to help a stranger, who hated him. 
 
52 IV HAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 
 
 It 's as if a boy should stop on his way to a circus, 
 and miss half of it, besides spending some of his 
 pocket money, just because he happened to meet 
 some poor old woman who needed to be guided to a 
 distant part of the town. 
 
 8. Illustrative Reading. 
 
 Tom Brown at Rugby, Ch. I. and II. in Part II. 
 Harding of St. Timothy's, Ch. I. and II. 
 Ruth 2: 1-13. 
 
STUDY XIII. 
 
 HE SHOWS HIS POWER OVER DEATH. 
 
 1. The Story. 
 
 This incident shows us our Lord exercising His 
 power to overcome the great enemy, death itself ; it 
 brings Him before us as a friend of the family m 
 Bethany, interested in their welfare, wilhng to face 
 even death itself to help them. 
 
 Jesus is in Perea, where He had gone probably tor 
 rest and to get away from His enemies, who were 
 now becoming more and more insistent on His death. 
 In Bethany is a home where He has always been a 
 welcome guest. It was a home where a brother 
 cared for his two sisters who were wrapped up in 
 him. , 
 
 The brother is taken sick and immediately the sis- 
 ters wish that Jesus was near to help them, for both 
 are sure that if He were with them all would be well. 
 So they send to Him, and He, although loving the 
 sisters and brother very much, stays where He is for 
 several days. When He suggests that they go into 
 Judea, the part of the country where Bethany is, His 
 disciples, remembering the treatment He had lately 
 received there, tell Him how dangerous it is, that the 
 old enemies will try to kill Him; but when He insists 
 on going they ofifer to go with Him. They talk to- 
 gether about this young man, Lazarus, and start for 
 Bethany. When they get near the village, Jesus 
 learns that Lazarus has been dead several days^ 
 Some of their friends had come to sympathize with 
 Mary and Martha and were in the home when word 
 came that Jesus was on His way there. Martha, 
 who had been looking anxiously for Him, could wait 
 no longer, but ran out of the house and down the 
 street to the edge of the village and rushing up to 
 Him exclaimed: "O Master, if only you had been 
 
54 WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 
 
 here ! But I know that even now God will do any- 
 thing you ask Him to do." Jesus knew what she 
 wanted and said, "Your brother shall be alive again." 
 After some further conversation in which Jesus asked 
 where Mary was, Martha went and quietly told her 
 sister that Jesus was asking for her. Mary responded 
 so quickly that the friends thought she was going 
 out to the grave again. Jesus was greatly moved 
 when He saw Mary and heard her say just what 
 Martha had said. He talked with them about 
 Lazarus and finally burst into tears. The friends who 
 stood near said, "He must have loved Lazarus very 
 much, but why do you suppose He let him die?" 
 Then all went out to the tomb hewn in the rock and 
 Jesus told the people to roll back the stone that was 
 over the opening, and when they had done this Jesus 
 prayed. Then He called out with a loud voice, 
 "Lazarus, come here." Immediately Lazarus came 
 out of the grave with the winding sheet about him. 
 "Take off the bandages," Jesus said, "and let him 
 go." They obeyed and there stood Lazarus alive and 
 well. 
 
 2. Daily Readings. 
 
 First Day. John 11 : 1, 2; Mark 11 : IL 
 Where was Bethany? How far from Jerusalem? 
 John 11 : 18. Who lived there? What was the 
 trouble? John 11:1-17. 
 
 Second Day. John 10:40, 41. 
 Where was Jesus at the time? What did He think 
 of these people? Verses 3, 5, 36. What did 
 they think of Him? Verses 21, 33. As no 
 father or mother are mentioned, what would 
 you say might have been the brother's part in 
 the family life? 
 
 Third Day. John 11:8: 10:31. 
 
 What did the Jews think of Jesus? What did 
 Jesus' disciples think would happen to Him? 
 11 : 16. What made Him go to Bethany? 
 
WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 55 
 
 Fourth Day. John 11 : 1-16. 
 Were there many people in the home when Jesus 
 got there? Try to imagine the little group 
 walking along with Jesus. 
 
 Fifth Day. John 11 : 17-29. 
 Which sister sought Jesus first? What did she say 
 to Jesus ? She then went quietly and told her 
 sister that Jesus had been asking for her. 
 What did her sister do? 
 
 Sixth Day. John 11:30-35. 
 Where was Jesus when the sisters met him? How 
 did Jesus feel? What did this show? 
 
 Seventh Day. John 11 : 36-45. 
 Where did Jesus find Lazarus? Did the people 
 think Jesus could do anything? What did 
 Jesus do in verses 41, 42? How did He 
 awaken Lazarus? What happened? What 
 did Jesus say to the people, verse 44? 
 
 3. Subjects for Prayer. 
 
 For love one to another ; to be brave and helpful ; 
 to be unselfish. 
 
 4. Bible Marking. 
 
 Emphasize, Take ye away the stone, verse 39 ; 
 Loose him, verse 44; The Master is come and calleth 
 for thee, verse 28. 
 
 5. To Make. 
 
 The sand board could be made up to show the 
 part of the country including Bethany, in which the 
 family lived. The tomb could be built out of small 
 stones with a stone over the mouth. Have a road 
 approaching Bethany along which Jesus and His 
 disciples are moving towards Bethany. Let Martha 
 meet them outside the village, leave them and get 
 Mary and bring her out to where Jesus was. Let 
 the whole party then approach the house. 
 
56 WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 
 
 6. Pictures. 
 
 a. Stereographs. 
 No. 27. Bethany. 
 
 Locate this picture on the map. 
 
 "Bethany, hke Bethlehem and Nazareth, is, you 
 see, on a hill-slope. Unlike them, it is surrounded 
 by terraced walls. It is now a wretched, squalid 
 place. 
 
 "We are standing, you remember, on a spur on the 
 eastern side of Olivet, looking south. The main 
 ridge of Olivet lies to our right running practically 
 parallel to our range of vision. Jerusalem lies to 
 our right over the ridge. Two roads come here from 
 Jerusalem, as we pointed out from position 12; the 
 one running around tlie southern end of Olivet, off 
 to our right, makes almost a complete circuit of this 
 village. You can trace its course running between 
 walls as it comes down on our right beyond the vil- 
 lage. We catch glimpses of its white roadbed be- 
 tween the trees as it extends to the left. Then mak- 
 ing a sharp turn, it comes toward us as we see down 
 at our left. A short distance farther to our left than 
 we can see this road divides, one branch going to 
 Jericho and the other right over Olivet to Jerusalem. 
 Up the road from Jericho Jesus comes now to visit 
 His Bethany friends. Naturally the largest ruin in 
 the town — the two ruined towers at the right — is 
 pointed out to travelers to-day as the house of Simon 
 the leper, and the open ruin behind the man nearest 
 us is said to be the house of Mary and Martha. 
 Lazarus' tomb is pointed out in the middle of the 
 village, but the ancient rock tombs are farther east, 
 beside the road." Travel Lessons, pp. 156, 157. 
 
 b. W. 120. 
 
 7. Thoughts for the Leader. 
 
 A boy will do something to show that he is a real 
 friend. It is all right to have kind thoughts about 
 our friends, but it is the things we do for them that 
 lets them know we love them. 
 
STUDY XIV. 
 
 THE FIRST PALM SUNDAY. 
 
 1. The Story. 
 
 Hundreds of years before Jesus was born prophets 
 had told the people of Jerusalem that one day their 
 king would come to them riding upon an ass. This 
 was not the way they would expect to see a king 
 arrive in the capital city. And now that day has 
 arrived. Jesus has been at Bethany with the family 
 He loved, whose house was really the only home He 
 had. During this visit Mary had poured out her 
 precious ointment on His feet in loving gratitude 
 and they had had a party for Him, to which some of 
 their mutual friends had been invited. Jesus stayed 
 with Mary and Martha and Lazarus during the Jew- 
 ish Sabbath, our Saturday. What a day that must 
 have been ! His last Sabbath before His death 1 
 How He must have explained wonderful things to 
 them ! The time had come for the Passover, March, 
 A. D. 27, and as usual great crowds had come up to 
 Jerusalem from all over the land. They were won- 
 dering whether Jesus would come, for it had become 
 known that an order had been issued that any one 
 finding Him must report the fact, so that He could 
 be arrested. But Jesus was never a coward. So 
 when the Sabbath was over and the first day of the 
 week, our Sunday, had come He and His disciples 
 leave Bethany to walk to the city, six miles away. 
 When they reach the village of Bethpage, near the 
 Mount of Olives, from which they could look down 
 upon Jerusalem, Jesus sends two of His disciples to 
 get an ass with her colt, which they were to find in 
 a certain place. When they found the ass and colt 
 and were untying the halter some one asked them 
 what they were doing, and, as Jesus had instructed 
 them, they said : "The Lord needs them." Then the 
 
58 WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 
 
 men made no objection, but let them go. As soon 
 as they had brought the animals to Jesus they made 
 a sort of saddle for the colt by putting their coats on 
 his back. After Jesus had gotten on the colt's back 
 they began their march again, and as they began to 
 go down the side of the hill towards the city, a lot 
 of the people, hearing that Jesus was really coming, 
 took the branches of the palm trees that grew along 
 the road and went out to meet Him, waving them and 
 singing the great one hundred and eighteenth Psalm, 
 which was sung by the people at the Passover. When 
 Jesus came where the people were, they threw the 
 branches down for Him to ride over, and some in 
 their enthusiasm even threw their clothing down in 
 the same way. 
 
 Jesus, Himself, was in quite a different frame of 
 mind. When He caught sight of the great crowded 
 citv, crowded with people who had come up for a 
 religious festival, He stopped, looked over the city, 
 and cried, and foretold her destruction, knowing as 
 He did what those people were going to do to Him. 
 Then the journey was resumed. They would cross 
 the bridge over the Kedron brook, go through the 
 gate in the city wall, now called St. Steven's gate, 
 through the narrow streets, decorated for the feast 
 of the Passover, while from every window, no doubt, 
 interested faces looked down at them. So they go 
 on. Jesus enters the courts of the temple, looks 
 round upon the scenes of disorder, thinks, no doubt, 
 of that former visit when he drove the merchants 
 out, and at evening He turns sadly back to Bethany 
 for the night. 
 
 2. Daily Readings. 
 
 First Day. Isa. 62: 11 ; Zech. 9:9. 
 
 What did those old prophets say? They wrote hun- 
 dreds of years before Christ was born. 
 
 Second Day. John 12: 1-8. 
 Who lived in Bethany? What did Mary do to 
 Jesus at this time? Who objected? Why? 
 
WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 59 
 
 Third Day. John 11:55-57. 
 
 Were there many people in Jerusalem at this time? 
 What did they think about the coming of 
 Jesus? What had the chief priests determined 
 to do with Him? 
 
 Fourth Day. Matt. 21 : 1-7. 
 
 Find these places on the map. Who were the two 
 disciples? John 12: 14. What were they to 
 do? As they approached what did the people 
 do? 
 
 Fifth Day. Luke 19 : 37-40. 
 What did the people sing as Jesus came near? 
 When the Pharisees objected what did Jesus 
 answer? 
 
 Sixth Day. Ps. 118:24-29. 
 Read this great Psalm and hear what the people 
 sang. 
 
 Seventh Day. Luke 19:41-44. 
 
 When He saw the city, how did it aflfect Him? 
 Later these things happened to the city. 
 
 3. Subject for Prayer. 
 
 That I may rejoice in being one of Jesus' disciples. 
 
 4. Bible Marking. 
 
 Emphasize, Behold thy King cometh, Matt. 21 : 5 ; 
 The Lord hath need of him, Mark 11 : 3, and the 
 words Go, loose, bring, Mark 11:2. 
 
 5. To Make. 
 
 Miniature palm trees ; have some palm leaves. 
 
 6. Pictures. 
 
 a. Stereographs. 
 
 No. 30. Jerusalem. "Standing here, then, we get 
 
60 WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 
 
 part of the very same view that met the eyes of 
 Jesus. He, too, looked down upon this valley of the 
 Kedron and across it to the temple in that enclosure 
 just beyond the wall. The throngs are not here, but 
 we are to go down into the valley now where we 
 can study in a cosmopolitan holy-feast throng of 
 to-day the varied elements of the procession that 
 followed Jesus." Travel Lessons, p. 171. 
 
 No. 31. "This scene, which is at the very site 
 occupied bv the throng which awaited the procession 
 of Jesus into the city, needs no description, but is 
 worth a half hour's scrutiny as an opportunity for 
 character study. Consider how many types of na- 
 tionality and character, how many grades of social 
 rank, how many kinds of business, what ages, needs 
 and longings are here, and were there presented. 
 What differences were there of knowledge, of conse- 
 quent responsibility, of loyalty or fickleness or enmity 
 in the Passover throngs of the year 27 A. D. ? 
 
 "The Passover throng of that day did not look very 
 different from this festal throng of to-day. It was 
 just as varied and cosmopolitan." Travel Lessons, 
 p. 172. 
 
 No. 32. "We are standing on the flat roof of a 
 large building, a hospice for religious pilgrims. It 
 gives us an excellent view down into the ancient city 
 itself, in whose narrow streets Jesus walked for 
 these last few days on earth. 
 
 "You discover, of course, the Church of the Holy 
 Sepulchre, the large dome in front of us and to the 
 left, built on the site which Constantine believed to 
 be that of the tomb of Jesus ; and the modern Church 
 of St. John off to the right, where it was believed 
 St. John lived, to which place he took Mary after 
 the crucifixion and where were the headquarters of 
 the Knights of St. John in the Crusades. In the dis- 
 tance we can see the three paths that climb the 
 Mount of Olives. Over the left one of these David 
 made his way when he went over the Brook Kedron 
 in flight from his son Absalom (2 Sam. 15:23-30). 
 It was down a path farther to the right that his 
 greater Son rode on Sunday of Passion Week. 
 
IVHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 61 
 
 Bethany lies, you remember, just beyond that hill, 
 hardly a mile away. Over which of these roads did 
 Jesus go most often those nights of the week when 
 He went to Bethany to catch a brief rest with His 
 best fritn^«, in His foster-home? And where on 
 tl.is mount do you suppose was delivered His mystic 
 discourse about the last things ?" Travel Lessons, 
 pp. 178, 179. 
 
 b. B. 403, 821 ; P. 3254. 
 
 7. Thoughts for the Leader. 
 
 This incident occurred on the first Palm Sunday. 
 It might be taught appropriately in a room decorated 
 with palms. 
 
STUDY XV. 
 
 HE ASKS TO BE REMEMBERED. 
 
 1. The Story. 
 
 Jesus has had a busy time. It is now Thursday, 
 next to the last day of His hfe, and it seems a long 
 time since He rode into the city amid the singing 
 multitudes on Sunday. Each day, except maybe 
 Wednesday, has been spent in Jerusalem ; each night, 
 with His friends at Bethany. On Monday, the feel- 
 ing which had taken possession of Him on Sunday 
 moved Him to action ; and once more He drove the 
 merchants out of the temple ; Tuesday was a hard 
 day. He had come up to the city in the morning and 
 all day He had been disputing with the religious 
 leaders. 
 
 The evening finds him back at His beloved 
 Bethany. Wednesday has been called the day of 
 retirement because no mention is made of anything 
 that He did that day. I have thought it was a day 
 spent in prayer, for on Thursday He says to Peter, 
 "I have prayed for thee." There is no record of any 
 such prayer and it may well have been on this 
 Wednesday. 
 
 The day when the Passover lamb was to be sacri- 
 ficed has arrived. The little company is coming 
 towards Jerusalem for the last time. Jesus will 
 never rest on earth again ; those lovely evenings with 
 His friends at Bethany are forever ended. Jesus is 
 homeless. His disciples do not even know where 
 they are to eat the Passover. They ask Him. He 
 tells them that when they enter Jerusalem they will 
 see a man, instead of a woman as was customary, 
 carrying a pitcher of water on his head ; they were to 
 follow him and were to go into the house which he 
 
64 WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 
 
 entered. There they were to tell the owner that Jesus 
 wished to use his guest room. The Lord of all had 
 to borrow a room ! Some have thought that this 
 owner was Mark, who wrote the Gospel, or Joseph of 
 Arimathea, but the Bible does not say who he was. 
 
 With perfect trust the two disciples go on ahead, 
 while Jesus and the little company seem to have 
 rested awhile. The two soon see the man with the 
 water pitcher. They follow him. He goes into a 
 house. They follow, and meeting the owner they tell 
 him what Jesus has said. He at once tums over to 
 them a large room up-stairs, where they get things 
 ready for the Passover supper. They would first 
 look it over and remove anything that was leavened. 
 The owner had probably made some preparation 
 himself — the wine and the unleavened bread would 
 be there. Then the two disciples would see to the 
 Paschal Lamb and anything else required for the 
 supper. Their task, no doubt, was simple, and soon 
 the room is ready. They go back and tell Jesus, and 
 when evening has come He and the twelve come into 
 the city and go at once to this room. All over the 
 city the people were gathered in the same way, in 
 little groups, for this their great feast. 
 
 The table would be oblong and on three sides would 
 be divans or couches ; on these Jesus and the disci- 
 ples reclined with their heads toward the table. John 
 seems to have been on one side of Jesus and Judas on 
 the other. Even in this solemn place these disciples 
 continued to quarrel among themselves as to who was 
 the greatest. The scene is one to be thought over. 
 Sometime during the meal Jesus washes the disciples' 
 feet and tells them that He was setting them an ex- 
 ample of being servants. Judas is told to do his hate- 
 ful deed quickly and goes out to arrange with his 
 new masters. Then Jesus took a cup of wine, blessed 
 it and gave it to the disciples, telling them it was His 
 blood poured out for them ; and the bread He broke, 
 giving it to them, telling them in like manner that it 
 was His body broken for them. He asked them to do 
 this in remembrance of Him. After supper they sang 
 a hymn and went out to the Mount of Olives. 
 
WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 65 
 
 2. Daily Readings. 
 
 First Day. Luke 21 : 37, 38. 
 What was He doing during the daytime? Where 
 did He spend the nights? See Mark 11 . ly. 
 Were the people anxious to hear Him .'' 
 
 Second Day. Luke 19 : 45-47. 
 When had He done this thing before? What did 
 He say God's house should be? How did the 
 people regard Him? How the chief priests? 
 
 Third Day. Mark 14: 12-15. 
 
 The Passover was to commemorate the deliver- 
 ance from Egypt. Which disciples did He 
 send' (Luke 22: 8) How were they to know 
 the house? What were they to say to the 
 owner? What reply would the owner make.'' 
 
 Fourth Day. Mark 14 : 16, 17. 
 What did the two disciples do? When did Jesus 
 come into Jerusalem? 
 
 Fifth Day. Luke 22 : 24-30. 
 
 What did the disciples do at the supper? What 
 were they quarreling about? What did Jesus 
 say was His position among them? 
 
 Sixth Day. John 13: 4-11. 
 
 Describe what Jesus did? What did this show? 
 
 Seventh Day. Mark 14:22-26. 
 What did Jesus do with the bread? What did He 
 do with the wine? What did He say these 
 were? What did He say to them m Luke 
 22:19? 
 
 3. Subjects for Prayer. 
 
 That I may not at any time forget what Jesus has 
 done for me; that I may observe the simple supper, 
 which He asked me to do in remembrance of Him. 
 
66 WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 
 
 4. Bible Marking. 
 
 Emphasize, The Master saith, Mark 14 : 14 ; re- 
 member that this might be a motto for your Bible. 
 Underline, / am among yon as he that serveth, Luke 
 22:27; emphasize. This do in remembrance of me, in 
 Luke 22 : 19. 
 
 5. To Make. 
 
 A sandal ; a table and couches like those used at 
 this supper. 
 
 6. Pictures. 
 
 W. 130, 131 ; P. 280. 
 
 7. Thoughts for the Leader. 
 
 One of our secretaries who went to China, once 
 said to me : "We don't dread being away from home 
 and friends and missing the comforts of America; 
 but we do dread being forgotten." Everybody loves 
 to be remembered. 
 
 As soon after this lesson as possible let the mem- 
 bers of the class attend a communion service. It 
 would be nice if they could go together, but if this 
 would detract from the solemnity of the occasion let 
 each go by himself, and to his own church. 
 
STUDY XVI. 
 
 THEY ARREST HIM. 
 
 1, The Story. 
 
 Just outside Jerusalem, over the Kedron brook, 
 there was, as there is now, a garden called Geth- 
 semane, a quiet, retired spot to which Jesus often had 
 gone with His disciples. Leaving the house where 
 they had eaten the supper, Jesus with the eleven, 
 went down the hill, across the brook into this garden; 
 Judas had already gone out. 
 
 Before they had eaten the Passover, possibly on the 
 Tuesday of that week, the Sanhedrim had gotten 
 together to discuss how they might quietly arrest 
 Jesus, for they were afraid of arousing the people. 
 To them Judas goes and asks how much it is worth 
 to have Jesus delivered to them quietly. They offered 
 Judas the price of an ordinary slave and he accepted 
 the offer, thirty pieces of silver. He probably told 
 them how Jesus often went to the quiet garden and 
 that there he would point Him out to them by going 
 up to Him and kissing Him. 
 
 You will remember that Judas left the others while 
 they were eating the supper. It may be he had heard 
 Jesus making arrangements for going to the garden 
 and went to tell the chief priests that now was the 
 time. 
 
 Reaching the garden, Jesus asked most of the dis- 
 ciples to sit down and pray while He, with Peter, 
 James and John, went a little further into the garden. 
 Then He asked these three to stay where they were 
 and watch while He went still further into the garden 
 to be alone. There He prayed most earnestly, falling 
 on His face and sweating blood. It is a strange 
 prayer, so hard for us to understand ; that the cup, 
 as He called it, might be taken from Him, with this 
 added, however, "Not what I will but what thou 
 
68 IVHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 
 
 wilt." Three times He prayed thus, and each time 
 returned to the disciples whom He had asked to 
 watch with Him, each time finding them asleep. The 
 wear and tear of the week had been too much for 
 them. He tells them that Judas has come to betray 
 Him and they start forward. Judas comes leading a 
 band of Roman soldiers which had been furnished 
 by the chief priests. Judas had no idea that Jesus 
 would bravely walk out into full view ; he supposed 
 it would be necessary to point Him out to the sol- 
 diers. That was why he had agreed upon the sign 
 of a kiss. But Jesus, brave to the last, brave in the 
 face of such gross treachery, did not hide Himself, 
 but stood forth before them all. Judas stepped up 
 and saluted his Lord with the joyous salutation, "Be 
 glad. Master." In his excitement, he kissed Him 
 again and again. Peter, as usual was impetuous, and 
 whipping out his sword struck at the first man he 
 could reach. The blow, aimed at his head, glanced 
 and the man's ear was cut off. Jesus, the coolest one 
 in the crowd, reached over and healed him, telling 
 His disciples He could easily get help from His 
 heavenly Father if He thought that was the right 
 thing to do. Jesus is seized and bound and led to 
 the high priest's house. When this occurs every 
 one of His disciples, including even the valiant Peter, 
 runs away and leaves Him to His fate. 
 
 2. Daily Readings. 
 
 First Day. Luke 20 : 19 ; Matt. 26 : 1-4. 
 What were the chief priests trying to do to Him? 
 
 Second Day. Matt. 26: 14-16. 
 What did Judas do? How much did they offer? 
 What was Judas doing after that? 
 
 Third Day. Luke 22 : 39, 40. 
 Where did Jesus go after the supper? What does 
 As He was wont mean? What did He go 
 there for ? Matt. 26 : 36. 
 
WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 69 
 
 Fourth Day. Mark 14 : 33-42. 
 What did He do with Peter, James and John? 
 What did He ask them to do? What did He 
 do? What did they do? 
 
 Fifth Day. Matt. 26 : 47-50. 
 Who did Judas bring with Him? What sign had 
 he arranged with them? What did he do? 
 What did Jesus call him? 
 
 Sixth Day. Matt. 26 : 51-56. 
 What did Peter do? What did Jesus say in verse 
 53? What did the disciples do? 
 
 Seventh Day. John 18 : 12. 
 What did they do with Jesus? 
 
 3. Subjects for Prayer. 
 
 That I may never be ashamed of being a Christian, 
 or of having people know that I am. 
 
 4. Bible Marking. 
 
 Underline, For this ointment might have been sold 
 for much. Matt. 26:9, and What will ye give me, 
 verse 15, and connect them with a diagonal line. 
 
 5. To Make. 
 
 A sword, a lantern, soldiers' pikes. 
 
 6. Pictures. 
 
 a. Stereographs. 
 
 No. 12. Garden of Gethsemane. "Here we can 
 see how very deep is this gorge, or valley, of Kedron, 
 which runs along this east side of Jerusalem. Yon- 
 der across the valley is the Mount of Olives. Be- 
 yond that hill lie Jericho and the Jordan, from which 
 we have come. The road farthest to the left leads 
 
70 PVHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 
 
 to Jericho and the two roads running off to the right 
 lead to Bethany, which lies just over the hill in that 
 direction. The upper one of these roads running over 
 the hill is believed to be the one over which Christ 
 came from Bethany at the time of His triumphal 
 entry into Jerusalem. That small enclosure, con- 
 taining the tall, dark cypress trees, down there where 
 the several roads meet is the garden of Gethsemane, 
 where only four days later than that entry Jesus 
 spent His last night of awful suffering." Travel 
 Lessons, p. 90. 
 
 No. 33. "You know just where you are, for you 
 can see the Golden Gate and the Dome of the Rock 
 just across the Kedron. You are probably looking 
 at the spot where the ancient pathways entered the 
 city and the temple at its Beautiful Gate. Just where 
 we stand is said to be the spot where Judas betrayed 
 his Master with a kiss. 
 
 "This enclosure, only 150 by 160 feet, is just over 
 the bridge that crosses Kedron and at the crossing of 
 the roads that lead up to Olivet. We have looked 
 down upon it before (from position 12) and know 
 that in addition to its eight gnarled and hoary olives, 
 which date back to the seventh century, it contains 
 some mournful cypresses. Apparently, the garden 
 once extended much farther up the valley, since it 
 would seem that Jesus would have sought a more 
 secluded spot for prayer. We are in its nearer and 
 lower corner. The Romans are known to have cut 
 down all the trees when they besieged the city, using 
 many, perhaps some of the olives of Gethsemane, for 
 crosses for the stubborn Jews, but these are probably 
 direct descendants and by only one removed from 
 those which gave the garden the name of olive press. 
 This enclosure is now tenderly cared for by the Latin 
 Church and Franciscan friars, who, as you can see, 
 cover every foot with flourishing blossoms and 
 shrubs." Travel Lessons, p. 181. 
 
 b. B. 1744; W. 138. 
 
WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 71 
 
 7. Thoughts for the Leader. 
 
 There is nothing we hate quite so much as a 
 traitor. Benedict Arnold will always be reinembered 
 with scorn. The boy who would sell a game or 
 tell on a companion is a boy we want to have noth- 
 ing to do with. Yet every traitor is a human being 
 and every human being has in him the possibility of 
 being a traitor. Benedict Arnold was once a pure 
 sweet boy at his mother's side. So was Judas. 
 
 One leader made this lesson effective by placing on 
 the wall a large picture of Christ in Gethsemane. 
 This was illuminated by a bicycle lamp, the light of 
 which falling on the picture was the only light in 
 the room. In the solemn presence of this illuminated 
 portrait the lessons of that wonderful time were 
 brought home. 
 
STUDY XVII. 
 
 THEY KILL HIM. 
 
 1. The Story. 
 
 In the days of Christ's earthly Hfe, politically, 
 Judea was a Roman province, governed by Herod, 
 who represented the Roman Emperor. The Jews 
 were permitted to have their own court which was 
 called the Sanhedrim. This Jewish court could not 
 condemn any one to death, but it could try one who 
 was brought before it. So after His arrest in the 
 garden Jesus was hurried that very night, instead of 
 the following morning, to the house of the presiding 
 justice, Annas, where members of the Sanhedrim had 
 come together illegally. They, of course, find Him 
 guilty, after an irregular and illegal trial, for they 
 were determined before they began the trial that He 
 should be killed. In order to have the sentence ap- 
 proved by the government, they take Jesus at day- 
 break on the first Good Friday, to the house of the 
 Roman judge, Pilate. Here they have great trou- 
 ble, but finally, against his better judgment Pilate 
 yields and condemns Jesus to death by crucifixion. 
 A company of soldiers under a Centurion is detailed 
 to carry out the sentence. Two robbers have been 
 condemned to death at the same time. The prepara- 
 tions are soon made. The crosses are prepared, the 
 hammer and nails are ready and the little procession, 
 each of the condemned men bearing his own cross, 
 quietly walks through the city gate to a place called 
 Golgotha, outside the walls. The crowd would grow 
 as they moved along, and morbid curiosity would 
 lead the people to go with them to watch the execu- 
 tion. Jesus had not eaten since the supper with His 
 disciples, nor had He had any rest ; He had under- 
 gone humiliating indignities, He had worn the crown 
 of thorns. As He walked up what has been called 
 
WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 73 
 
 the Via Dolorosa, "The way of sorrow," His blood- 
 stained face and weary steps moved the women of 
 the city to tears, and a legend says that one of them 
 offered Him a towel, on which, as He wiped His 
 perspiring face, His photograph was impressed. By 
 and by He can stand the heavy load no longer, His 
 strength gives out and he sinks under the weight of 
 the cross. An African named Simon happened to be 
 coming along and the soldiers seize him and com- 
 pel him to carry the cross for Jesus. This man, be- 
 cause he rendered this service to Jesus, no matter 
 how many other wonderful things he may have done 
 in his lifetime, bv this deed has become immortal. 
 
 They reached Golgotha at nine o'clock in the morn- 
 ing. The upright pieces of the crosses were planted 
 in the ground, then the crosspieces were placed on 
 the ground, the condemned men's arms were 
 stretched along them, tied fast and a nail driven 
 through each hand. Then, by ropes or ladders the 
 poor fellows, with Jesus in the middle, were drawn 
 up on the upright piece, so that their feet were not 
 over two or three feet from the ground, and the 
 crosspiece was either tied or nailed to the upright 
 and the feet were nailed fast. Above the cross upon 
 which Jesus was crucified was written by Pilate, 
 "This is Jesus the King of the Jews." He was 
 offered a drink which would dull the pain, but He 
 refused it. He spoke little. Once He prayed for 
 those who did the wrong; He received into His 
 kingdom one of the thieves beside Him; and He 
 commended His mother to the care of John, His 
 beloved disciple. At last, crying out, "It is finished," 
 He commended Himself to His heavenly Father and 
 died, having hung there three hours. It is now noon, 
 but a darkness lasting all the afternoon settles down 
 over the earth, while over in the city the great veil 
 which hung in the temple between the Holy Place 
 and the Holy of Holies was torn from top to bot- 
 tom. The earth itself shook and some of those who 
 were dead came out of their graves. 
 
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 2. Daily Readings. 
 
 First Day. John 18: 12, 13; 19-24. 
 It was now night. To whom was Jesus taken? 
 Where did he send Him? 
 
 Second Day. Mark 15:1. 
 What did they do when morning came? What did 
 they do with Jesus? To whom did they send 
 Him? 
 
 Third Day. Matt. 27: 11-14. 
 What did Pilate ask Him? Did He say yes or no? 
 
 Fourth Day. John 18 : 28-32. 
 What did Pilate ask the people? What did Pilate 
 tell them to do? Why did they say they 
 could n't? 
 
 Fifth Day. John 18 : 33-38. 
 What did Jesus say to Pilate in verse 37? What 
 was Pilate's verdict? 
 
 Sixth Day. Luke 23: 13-16, 21. 
 What did Pilate say he would do with Him? 
 What did the people say should be done with 
 Him? 
 
 Seventh Day. Luke 23 : 22-46. 
 What did Pilate do with Jesus? Who was made 
 to carry the cross? Who followed? What 
 did Jesus say to them? What did the people 
 do with Him? What did they write over 
 Him? Who were on either side of Him? 
 What were His last words? 
 
 3. Subject for Prayer. 
 
 That I may remember that Jesus died that I might 
 live. 
 
WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 75 
 
 4. Bible Marking. 
 
 On the verses in Mark 15 which tell of the cruci- 
 fixion outline a cross in red ink. Emphasize, He 
 saved others. 
 
 5, To Make. 
 
 A cross ; a thorn crown. 
 
 6. Pictures. 
 
 a. Stereographs. 
 
 No. 34. Calvary. "It is with somewhat of a shock 
 that we turn from this family party seated at their 
 pipes and coffee on the roof of their inn, that 
 touches here the edge of Jerusalem's northern wall, 
 and find ourselves face to face with the bare, skull- 
 like mound which has come of recent years to be 
 accepted by a growing number as the true site of the 
 cross. The resemblance of the hill to a human skull 
 is the most picturesque, though not the most con- 
 vincing reason for calling this Golgotha, the place of 
 the skull. See the two holes, like eye-sockets, near 
 the center of the cliff (Luke 23:33; John 19:17). 
 It may have been its use as a burial place rather 
 than its shape that gave it its name. There are, as 
 you observe, graves upon its summit, and the large 
 opening at the right marks the so-called Tomb of 
 Jeremiah. The Jewish law (Lev. 1:10, 11) placed 
 the burial place north of the city. The early Jewish 
 writings tell us that this hill had long been a place 
 for the execution of criminals, and received the name. 
 Place of Stoning. A reputable Christian guide told 
 Dr. Hurlbut that the place has long been especially 
 hateful to the Jews of the city, who always utter a 
 curse when they pass it, though they know not why, 
 and that their words translated are. Cursed be the 
 man who ruined our nation by calling himself its 
 king. This place is also, as we know Calvary was 
 once, a garden outside the city and beside a public 
 way, the Damascus road. Beside that road beyond 
 the hill on the left, sleeps the Queen Helena, the 
 
Id WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 
 
 mother of Constantine, who beHeved that she discov- 
 ered in Jerusalem the true cross and our Lord's 
 sepulchre. Whether that or this be the true site or 
 not, we must acknowledge that this presents to the 
 eye a wonderfully vivid conception of the scene of 
 our Lord's passion." Travel Lessons, pp. 185, 186. 
 
 b. W. 148; B. 1549; P. 3266, 797, 735. 
 
 7. Thoughts for the Leader, 
 
 It is said that if all of Jesus' life were recorded 
 with the same fullness as these last days it would 
 take eighty Bibles the size of the one we now have 
 to contain the record. The evangelists evidently con- 
 sidered this the important part of His life. 
 
 8, Illustrative Reading. 
 Esther, Ch. 4. 
 
STUDY XVIII. 
 
 HE COMES OUT OF THE GRAVE. 
 
 1. The Story. 
 
 It seems almost incredible that the friends of 
 Jesus had forgotten that He had said that He would 
 come out of the grave, while His enemies remem- 
 bered it ; yet that is the fact. The chief priests even 
 went to Pilate and reminded him of this fact and 
 asked that the stone over the entrance to the sepul- 
 chre cut in the rock where He had been buried 
 might be made secure. Pilate told them that they 
 could use their own guard and they did so, putting 
 also a seal on the stone. 
 
 The next day, early in the morning of that first 
 Easter Sunday, Mary Magdalene and some of the 
 other women came to the tomb, not to see if Jesus 
 had really risen, but with material to anoint His 
 body, as was usually done with the dead in those 
 days. As they came towards the grave they asked 
 themselves how they could get the heavy stone away 
 from the mouth of the tomb. What was their sur- 
 prise when they reached the place to find that the 
 stone had been already rolled away. As they looked 
 into the tomb they saw a yovmg man, at least that is 
 what they took him to be, sitting on a ledge of rock. 
 He at once tells them, in their amazement, that 
 Jesus is not there, but has risen. They run to tell 
 the disciples and Peter and John respond to their 
 call. John, the younger man, runs faster than Peter 
 and reaches the tomb first. He stays there looking 
 into the open sepulchre, when Peter at length comes 
 up and, impulsiye as always, goes at once through 
 the opening into the tomb itself. While Mary stands 
 there, weeping. Jesus stands beside her. She does 
 not recognize Him, mistaking Him for the gardener. 
 She even asks Him if He has taken the body away 
 
78 WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 
 
 and begs to be told where it has been placed. Jesus 
 speaks to her, calls her by her name and she recog- 
 nizes Him. She runs back to where the disciples 
 were and tells them that she has really seen their 
 Lord. 
 
 In the meantime the guards, who had been terribly 
 frightened when the angel had rolled away the stone 
 from the tomb, went to the rulers and told them what 
 had happened. They got the members of the Sanhe- 
 drim together and bribed the soldiers to say that 
 Jesus' disciples had come in the night while the 
 guards were asleep and had taken the dead body 
 away. They also promised the guard that if the 
 governor should hear about their having been asleep 
 while on duty they would see that no harm came to 
 them. So the guard took the bribe and the story be- 
 came common that Jesus had not really risen from 
 the grave, but that His disciples had stolen the body. 
 For a long time this story was repeated among the 
 Jews. 
 
 Jesus appeared a number of times to His disciples 
 during the forty days following that first Sunday. 
 At the end of that time, standing with them on the 
 Mount of Olives "He was taken up and a cloud re- 
 ceived Him out of their sight." 
 
 2. Daily Readings. 
 
 First Day. Matt. 27 : 62-66 ; John 20 : 24, 25. 
 How did the chief priests make sure Jesus would 
 not rise? Did the disciples think He would 
 live again? 
 
 Second Day. Mark 16: 1-4. 
 What did the women come to the tomb for? What 
 obstacle did they expect to find? What did 
 they find? 
 
 Third Day. Mark 16 : 5-8. 
 
 How did the sight affect them? What did the 
 angel say? 
 
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 Fourth Day. John 20 : 2-10. 
 Which disciples did Mary tell? What did they do? 
 Who got there first? Who went in first? 
 
 Fifth Day. John 20:11-18. 
 What did the angel say to Mary? Did she think 
 Jesus was alive? What did she say to the 
 man she thought was the gardener? What 
 did He say to her? 
 
 Sixth Day. Matt. 28: 11-15. 
 What did the Jews do to the watchmen? What 
 did they ask them to report about the empty 
 tomb? 
 
 Seventh Day. Acts 1 : 1-11. 
 Was this Jesus' last meeting with His disciples? 
 What occurred in verse 9? What did the 
 angel say about Him in verse 11? 
 
 3. Subject for Prayer. 
 
 That I may be glad that Jesus came out of the 
 grave to live forever. 
 
 4. Bible Marking. 
 Emphasize, He is risen, Mark 16: 16. 
 
 5. To Make. 
 
 A tomb in which a candle can be placed and 
 lighted, so that the light will shine through the door- 
 way. 
 
 6. Pictures, 
 a. Stereographs. 
 
 No. 35. The tomb. "A little northwest of this 
 spot is a vast system of caves which were used as 
 tombs. There at the opening of one of them may 
 still be seen a great round flat stone and the groove 
 below in which it has been rolled when the sepul- 
 
80 WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? 
 
 chre was closed. The stone is very heavy. When it 
 rolls forward it goes down an incline and drops into 
 a niche. To roll it in its channel, and especially to 
 roll it away from the tomb entrance, would require 
 the strength of two men. When shut the tomb could 
 be easily sealed, as the Lord's tomb entrance was 
 sealed by the soldiers when the watch was set. 
 
 "Standing here within a few rods of the place where 
 Jesus was crucified, and looking into such a new- 
 made tomb as that in which Joseph laid Jesus, if 
 not the very one, can we realize the feelings of Mary 
 and the women, of John and Peter, as they came 
 hastily through the garden that Easter dawn and 
 wondered at the unsealed and open tomb, and then 
 turned in grief and went away, to find, each in his 
 own time, the risen Lord?" Travel Lessons, p. 189. 
 
 b. B. 824, 813, 868. 
 
 7. Thoughts for the Leader. 
 
 The resurrection of Jesus has been called the best 
 established fact in history. If He had power to come 
 out of the grave after death. He must have been 
 able to do anything else. 
 
 He has never died since then and therefore He 
 must still be alive. 
 
 If He was interested in men long ago He is in- 
 terested in them now. 
 
STUDY XIX. 
 
 REVIEW. 
 
 A review should be varied. It should not be a 
 mere going over what has been learned in a parrot- 
 like way. The following methods are suggested : — 
 
 Question review. 
 
 Give one or two questions to each scholar to be 
 answered in writing at the next session of the class. 
 Announce that on the review you will let each 
 scholar ask you the hardest question he can find 
 bearing on any part of the material studied ; or, better 
 still on a certain lesson, a different lesson being as- 
 signed to each scholar. 
 
 Picture review. 
 
 All the pictures, including the stereographs, should 
 be brought together and the story told from the pic- 
 tures. 
 
 Map review. 
 
 Use one of the pulp maps, or make up a sand map 
 of Palestine and review the geography of Christ's 
 life, and more particularly a few of the lessons hav- 
 ing a geographical setting, e. g., the feeding of the 
 five thousand, the triumphal entry, and others. 
 
 Story review. 
 
 If the scholars have kept note books, have them 
 read in class the stories written by them. 
 
 Memory work. 
 
 Review the passages and verses memorized. 
 
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 Illustrative review. 
 
 Get the scholars to tell some things they have tried 
 to do because they have become better acquainted 
 w^ith their Lord. 
 
 Object review. 
 
 Gather together the models, etc., which the scholars 
 have made and let different ones tell what is sug- 
 gested by them. 
 
 Daily Readings, 
 
 First Day. Luke 10 : 25-37. 
 
 Second Day. John 11: 17-44. 
 
 Third Day. Matt. 21 : 1-7. 
 
 Fourth Day. 1 Cor. 11:23-27. 
 
 Fifth Day. John 18: 1-11. 
 
 Sixth Day. John 19 : 16-30. 
 
 Seventh Day. 1 Cor. 15. . 
 
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