So also is the resurrection of the dead. in corruption; it is raised in incorruptiou:

It is sown

It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: It is sown a natura: body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is at natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

CHAPTER XXVI

TOPICS FOR EXTENDED STUDY

THE list of topics in this chapter is designed for those students whose time permits them to do work beyond the regular assignments; and also for those whose interest in the subject will not cease with the completion of this book. Some of them may be mastered in a short time and others will afford opportunity for extended investigation.

1. Indicate the elements of strength in the following passages: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth"; "There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job"; "Ye must be born again."

2. Read Job 28, Psalm 23, and 1 Corinthians 13 in the

King James Version and the Revised Version, and make a comparison between them from a literary point of view. This exercise may be extended indefinitely.

3. Make a study of Saint Paul as a philosopher, a theologian, and a man of letters.

4. Compare the picture of the early Christians drawn in Acts with that in Quo Vadis.

5. How far does Milton's Samson Agonistes follow the narrative in Judges?

6. Compare Tennyson's "Dora" with the book of Ruth. 7. Compare Milton's style in his poems in which biblical allusions are numerous with those like Comus and 11 Penseroso in which the allusions are chiefly to the Greek and Roman classics.

8. In considering man's relation to God the figure of the potter and the clay is frequently employed. Study the treatment of this theme by Saint Paul

(Romans 9. 20-23); Browning ("Rabbi Ben Ezra"); Omar Khayyam (The Rubaiyat, 8290); Milton ("Paradise Lost," Books V and X); Carlyle (“Past and Present"); Isaiah 64. 8; Jeremiah 18. 1-6; and Shakespeare (Henry VIH, 11, 2).

9. Study the topic "Unfulfilled Aspirations" as treated by Saint Paul: When I would do good, evil is présent with me; Ovid: Video et probo meliora, sed deteriora sequor; Tennyson (Mand, X, 6): And ah for a man to rise in me that the man I am might cease to be;

Tennyson:

"The Two Voices"; Browning ("Rabbi Ben Ezra"): What I aspired to be and was not comforts me;

Browning (Abt Vogler): All that we have willed, or dreamed of good shall exist; not its semblance but itself;

Browning ("Andrea del Sarto"):

"I do what many dream of all their lives.
Dream? Strive to do, and agonize to do,
And fail in doing. I could count twenty such
On twice your fingers, and not leave this town;
Chapman: Tis immortality to die aspiring,
As if a man were taken quick to heaven."

Burns (Address to the Unco Guid):

Who made the heart, 'tis he alone
Decidedly can try us,

He knows each bird-its various tone,
Each spring its various bias:
Then at the balance, let's be mute,

We never can adjust it;

What's done we partly may compute,

But know not what's resisted.

Many other topics will recur to the student whose treatment by various authors will be found interesting and profitable.

10. Read Browning's "Saul," "A Death in the Desert," and "Caliban upon Setebos," and note the au thor's departure from the biblical narratives. 11. Compare the theories of living as set forth in Ecclesiastes and the "Rubaiyat" (Fitzgerald's trans

lation).

12. Make a list of extra-biblical passages from “Paradise Lost."

13. Make a list of extra-biblical passages from “Paradise Regained.”

14. Show how the Spirit of the Bible is illustrated in "The Higher Pantheism," Enoch Arden,"

"Crossing the Bar," "Locksley Hall." Would you call Tennyson a Christian poet?

15. Read the following poems from Whittier and compare them with corresponding passages of Seripture. Make a list of the direct and indirect references.

"The Holy Land."

"Palestine."

"Ezekiel."

"The Wife of Manoah to her Husband."

"The Cities of the Plain."

"The Crucifixion."

"The Star of Bethlehem."

16. Read Longfellow's "Christus," and make a list of the scripture passages to which reference is made.

17. Make a special study of Shakespeare's use of quotations from Proverbs.

18. Make a critical comparison of Paul's Address on Mars' Hill with Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Note the similarity in length.

CHAPTER XXVII

EXAMINATION QUESTIONS

THE sets of questions in this chapter have been used by the author with good success, and they are printed as guides for those who may wish to examine students upon the course outlined in this book. The first list of twenty questions has been designated as an "intelligence test" on the assumption that the student's general intelligence ought to enable him to answer them. One's definition of "general intelligence" undergoes revision as a result of the examination.

I

Preliminary Eramination

1. What books comprise the Pentateuch?

2. What book contains the narrative of the giving of the Ten Commandments?

3. Who was Miriam? Jephthah's daughter?

4. Who said, Thou art the man?

5. Who has been mentioned as the author of Job? 6. Who were the minor prophets?

7. Which is the most popular Psalm?

8. Name two characters in the Song of Solomon.

9. What book does not mention the name of God? 10. In what book is Samson mentioned?

11. Which are the Synoptic Gospels?

12. Who wrote the book of Acts?

13. Describe briefly the conversion of Saul of Tarsus. 14. In which Gospel is the expression "Verily, verily," found?

15. Name three of Paul's Epistles.

16. Who said, What is truth?