KEY TO SOCIAL HOURS HISTORY; Sacred. OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT THINGS. HOME GUSTURE OLD TESTAMENT THINGS. 1. The deliverance of Israel by Moses The destruction of Jericho by marching around it, David conquering Goliath with a sling and stone. 2. Fear God and keep his commandments 3. The Syrian army at Dothan 4. Twenty-four thousand Ex. iii. 11. Josh. vi. 20. Judges vii. 7-22. 1 Sam. xvii. 50. . Eccl. xii. 13. 2 Kings vi. 18. Num. xxv. 9. . Isa. xvi. 6. . Lev. xxvi. 16. Deut. xxi. 15. Deut. xxviii. 37. Num. xvii. 8. 2 Kings ii. 13. Sam. xii. 16, 18. James v. 17, 18. Gen. xi. 6, 9. 2 Kings vii. 6, 7. . Neh. x. 32. Lev. ix. 24. Lev. xxv. 10. Luke v. 21; Isa. xliii. 25. 1 Kings iv. 32. 1 Kings iv. 32. Gen. iii. 24. 21. "The glory is departed." By Phinehas' wife, at the birth of her son whom she named Ichabod 1 Sam. iv. 21. 22. Pillar of cloud by day; pillar of fire by night 23. Death of the first-born 24. Two. Sailors with Jonah and Christ. Ex. xiii. 21. Jonah i. 5; Luke viii. 24. 25. Six hundred and sixty-six talents valued at $56,900 each, or a When Hezekiah prayed that it should be turned back ten 2 Kings xx. 11. 28. Seven times. (1) for the detection of Achan, Josh. vii. 16; (2) in 30. Two or three 31. Two 32. About three thousand Acts i. 26. Lev. xxiv. 16. 36. Two. The fables of "the trees" and the "thistle." Judges xvi. 27. Dan. v. 1. Judges xv. 15. 39. Six hundred chosen chariots beside "all the chariots of Egypt." 41. By not being able to pronounce the "h" in the word "Shibboleth " Judges xii. 6. 42. Three times. First, at the crossing of the Israelites under Joshua, Josh. iii. 14. Second, by Elijah, 2 Kings ii. 8. Third, by Elisha 43. Ten thousand talents of silver, or $11,800,000 2 Kings ii. 14. Esther iii. 9. 44. Because the Prince of Tyre had set himself up as God, and lifted up his heart in pride. Ezek. xxviii. 2. 45. On the occasion of giving names to the animal creation Gen. ii. 19. 46. "David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he Baptist in the spirit and power of Elijah, Malachi iv. 5. the emblem of the Son of Righteousness, Malachi iv. 2. The destruction of Jerusalem, under the emblem of a burning oven, consuming everything cast into it 51. Those that did not keep the commandments Malachi iv. 1. Lev. xxvi. 16. 11. "My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?" 1 Cor. iii. 21, 23. Luke xix. 4-6. . Psalm xxii. 1. Matt. iv. 17. . 1 Cor. xii. 31. Mark vi. 41; viii. 5. John iii. 3; Titus iii. 5. John xxi. 11. 1 Thes. v. 21. 2 Tim i. 13. 19. Felix . 20. The deaf and dumb man by the word "Ephphatha" 21. To Daniel in his vision To the Virgin Mary 22. He cannot sin, nor lie, nor deny himself 23. Saints, believers, disciples and brethren. 24. FROM EVIDENCE WITHIN ITSELF-All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, 2 Tim. iii. 16. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost, 2 Peter i. 21. FROM TRADITIONARY EVIDENCE-It claims to be, and establishes the claim beyond all reasonable dispute. The Jews preserved it as such; the Church has held it as such; and its own teachings, and especially its predictions, so clearly fulfilled, prove it to be the word of God. FROM PRESUMPTIVE EVIDENCE-It being admitted that there is a Creator, then creation implies government-and government implies law-man created a moral agent, it is presumed his Creator would give him a revelation, or some law or rule of action, and from its adaptedness to man as a sinful, moral being. FROM POSITIVE EVIDENCE-External-The antiquity of the Scriptures, as proven by the persons who were the immediate instruments of these revelations, being contemporaneous with the events of which they wrote, also the concurring dates of the books containing the doctrines. The testimony of ancient authors, (Strabo, Justin, Pliny, Tacitus, Josephus, &c.) The uncorrupted preservation of the books of Scripture, as proven by the Septuagint and Josephus the Jewish historian. The credibility of the testimony of the sacred writers; they were in circumstances to know the truth and had no interest in making a good story; their interest lay in another direction. From miracles, as those of Moses in the passage of the Red Sea, &c., and those of Christ, the greatest of which was His resurrection. From prophecies and their fulfillment, such as the prediction to Adam of the serpent and the seed of the woman; the apostasies, punishments and restoration of the Jewish nation, and upwards of 100 distinct predictions concerning the birth, life, suf ferings, death and resurrection of Christ. The unity that pervades the different books of the Bible, though written by different men of different ages and in different languages. Internal-The character and attributes of God. The divine government. The moral and beneficial tendency of the Scriptures. The style and manner of the sacred writers. The influence of the Holy Spirit. The gospel plan of salvation. The faithful promises of God as exemplified in the life and character of believers. FROM COLLATERAL EVIDENCE-The marvellous diffusion of Christianity, especially during the first three centuries of the Christian era, when it became the established religion of the Roman Empire. The actual effect produced upon mankind. FROM CORROBORATIVE EVIDENCE-Modern discoveries among the ruins of ancient Nineveh and other cities of Bible antiquity. 25. About a hundred pounds, the gift of Nicodemus John xix. 39. |