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14. Of what does it thus become an organ?

15. How impossible is it to get beyond the presence of God? 16. How does the psalmist give expression to this mysterious

truth?

17. On the other hand, how does Job show his perplexity at not being able to locate Him whose presence is everywhere?

18. Of what does reason as well as revelation assure us? 19. In view of these things, need there be any fear that God will overlook any of his creatures?

20. Whom is he likely to remember with particular care and mercy?

NATURE WORSHIPS GOD.

WHITTIER.

1. What is said of the harp that was strung at Nature's advent? 2. What song has never died away?

3. By what are prayer and praise continually offered?

4. How does ocean show a reverent attitude?

5. What is said of the devotion of its waves ?

6. How do the hills take up the song sung by the waves ?

7. Whence does earth send up incense?

8. Whence does she pour her sacred wine?

9. How do the mists rise above the morning rills?

10. What constitutes the altar-curtains of the hills?

11. Describe the worship of the winds.

12. Describe the attitudes and actions of the forest, as viewed by

the poet.

13. What is said of the temple in which all this worship is

carried on?

14. How does the poet set forth the constancy of Nature's worship?

15. Write a paraphrase of the poem.

THE SOURCE OF ALL GOOD.

JOHN MILTON SCOTT.

1. By what alone do the leaves and fruit of summer seem to be produced?

2. What is really the active agent in forming the fruits and grains, and in setting the soil of the earth in the loveliness

of the rose?

3. What invented all and is back of all?

4. What blessings result from this all-potent and ever-present activity ?

5. When man invents, what does he think of the source of his achievements?

6. By what are all these inventions and achievements suggested and carried into effect?

7. How is it that men realize God, and know it not?

8. In thus stirring men to create, how does God give them fellowship with him?

THE LOVE OF GOD.

From Esaias Tegnér, translated by H. W. Longfellow.

1. What is the root of creation?

2. For what purpose did God make the worlds?

3. When man was created from the dust of the earth, what

warmed his heart?

4. What admonition does the poet urge with reference to this flame?

5. How are love and hatred contrasted?

6. How has God manifested his exceedingly great love for mankind?

7. When did this love solemnize its triumph ?

8. By what visible signs was this triumph celebrated ?

9. With what is atonement synonymous ?

10. What should prompt our obedience ?

II. Contrast the obedience of fear with that of love.

12. How will the real love of God show itself?

13. By what figure is the unity of love illustrated?

14. What considerations does the poet present, to show why we should love all men?

15. How is forgiveness urged?

16. What attitude does the poet recommend toward the failings

of others?

17. By what allusion is this admonition enforced?

18. How is the love of mortals contrasted with that of Jesus ?

19. How does the poet set forth the offices of hope?

20. Show how the hope of the Christian transcends all other hope.

21. Into what is it transfigured?

22. Describe the offices of faith.

CHAPTER TWO.

Education, Morals, and Religion.

EXTRACTS FROM REMARKS ON EDUCATION.

WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING.

1. What attitudes are communities too apt to take toward education?

2. On this account what does the writer feel bound to do?

3. Why do great truths and important principles need to be constantly reiterated?

4. What adverse claim do some thinkers present with reference to what they regard as excessive educating on the part of parents and teachers?

5. Is such a claim wholly unfounded?

6. Is it true that parents can operate at pleasure upon the minds of their children?

7. How is their influence limited?

8. With whom must parents divide the work of educating their

offspring?

9. What would be the result if children were confined to domestic influences ?

10. How wide and various are the influences that take part in the education of a child?

11. What volumes are opened everywhere, and kept perpetually before his eyes?

12. From what does he take lessons?

13. Amidst what is he plunged?

14. How is be to make use of both these classes of influences? 15. What, after all, depends very largely upon the influence of parents and teachers?

16. What must they help him to do?

17. What important office should they perform for him?

18. What is the usual result of leaving children to the education of circumstances, without teaching, guidance, or restraint? 19. How are we to look upon the instances in which children without the aid of parents or schools have struggled into eminence?

20. Show why it is that parents need the aid of teachers and institutions of learning.

21. What are the writer's views with reference to employing cheap teachers, and of other economical measures in education?

22. What does he think of the charity that is active for distant objects, but careless of the interests of individuals within its reach?

23. What narrow views are held by many with reference to education?

24. What broader view of its offices is taken by the writer?

25. What relation exists between reading and education?

26. For what was the intellect created?

27. What, therefore, should education labor to inspire and teach ?

28. What is an essential part of a good education?

29. As far as possible, what should we cause the young to be ?

30. How are they best helped?

31. What should they be taught to do?

32. What should go hand in hand with this intellectual education

which has just been outlined ?

33. As fast as a child gains knowledge, what should he be taught with reference to it?

34. How should he study the world?

35. What kind of spirit should be breathed into him?

36. Write a review of this article.

PRACTISE AND HABIT.

JOHN LOCКЕ.

1. How does Mr. Locke show that unusual mental activities are oftener the product of repeated exercise than of natural endowment ?

2. What leads people to suppose that these gifts and proficiencies must be the effect of pure nature?

3. How are people often led into practises that may result in remarkable acquirements ?

4. What is it alone that can bring either the powers of the mind or body to perfection?

5. How does the author illustrate his point by contrasting city and country life?

6. Can the best precepts of logic or oratory make a man reason well, or speak handsomely?

7. Can the committing of rules make one proficient in anything? 8. What is the only way in which such a result can be accomplished?

9. Repeat the author's illustration.

10. Give a synopsis of the article.

BROTHERS AND A SERMON.

JEAN INGELOW.

1. What did the sultry air do?

2. What did it take out to sea besides the sweet odor of trodden grass?

3. Over what did the tones of the bell come?

4. What did the fisherman say of them?

5. Relate the conversation concerning the pastor.

6. How does the fisherman introduce his account of the shipwreck ?

7. Describe the attempt to rescue the crew.

8. Tell about the efforts made to save the two children.

9. How did the fisherman conclude his talk?

10. Describe the departure of the two young men.

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