SPELLING.

These words are to be pronounced and explained by the teacher and parent one Sunday ahead. The spelling and meaning are to be studied by the scholar before he reads the Story over.

A Wicked Plan.-As men journeyed from the east they found a plain in the land of Shinar. And they dwelt there. The soil was mostly clay, and the people soon learned to make bricks and to use them for

building houses. After a while they said to one another, "Let us make brick and burn them well. Let us build a city, and a tower whose top shall reach up to heaven. And let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the face of the whole earth."

The Tower. So they made bricks and used them instead of stone, and used slime instead of mortar. And they began to build a city, and a tower that they thought should reach to the sky.

God Displeased.-But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which they were building. He was displeased at what they were doing and said, “Behold, the people is one, and they all have one language; let us confound their language so that they may not understand one another's speech."

The Confusion of Tongues.-Then the Lord confounded their language, so that one could not understand what the other said. And they had to stop building. Then the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

Babel. The name of that place was called Babel, because the Lord there confused the tongues of men; for the word Babel means Confusion.

FOR THE THIRTY-SECOND SUNDAY.

God Calls Abraham.

In thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

QUESTIONS.

The Answers to these Questions are in the words of

Holy Scripture as found in Genesis 12 and 18: 1-15 and are to be Committed

I.

2.

TO MEMORY AT HOME.

What command did God give to Abram?

Get thee out of thy country, unto a land that I will show thee.

What did God promise Abram, if he would obey Him?

I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee.

3. Into what land did Abram and Lot go?

They went forth to go into the land of Canaan.

4. What promise did God give Abram when He appeared to him later? I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward.

5. What did Abram reply?

Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless?

6. When did God appear to Abram again?

When Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram.

7. Where did God then appear to Abraham ?

The Lord appeared to him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

8. What did Abraham see as he sat there?

Lo, three men stood by him.

9. With what words did Abraham receive the men?

IO.

My Lord, if now I have found favor in thy sight, pass not away from thy servant.

What did the Lord promise to Abraham?

I will certainly return unto thee, and Sarah thy wife shall have a son.

WHAT WE LEARN FROM THIS LESSON.

HOW blessed it is to believe God's promises.

SPELLING.

These words are to be pronounced and explained by the teacher and parent one Sunday ahead. The spelling and meaning are to be studied by the scholar

before he reads the Story over.

A'-bram.-A man's name. (It means | Ha ́-ran. —Name of a place.

High Father.)

I'-saac.-Son of Abraham.

A/-bra-ham.-Abram's new name. Kin'-dred.—Relatives.

(It means Father of a great mul- Num'-ber.-Count.

titude.) Prop'-er-ty.-What one owns. Ca'-naan (k'ay-nun).-Name of a Sa'-rah.-Abraham's wife. country, the Holy Land. Cov/-e-nant.—An agreement.

Seed.-Children. Descendants.

THE LESSON STORY.

The Call.-Abram lived in Haran with his father. One day the Lord said to Abram, "Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee. And I will bless thee, and make of thee a great nation; and I will make thy name great. And in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.”

The Covenant. So Abram departed, as the Lord had told him to do. Lot his brother's son went with him. And Abram took his wife and Lot and all his property, and came into the land of Canaan. There he built an altar unto the Lord and called upon His name. And the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, and said, "Fear not, Abram." And He brought him out, and said, "Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them." And He said unto him,