The Transfiguration. Our Lord's subsequent discourse with the three Disciples-Region of Cesarea Philippi. The healing of a Demoniac, whom the Disciples could not heal-Region of Cesarea Philippi. Jesus again foretells his own death and resurrection-Galilee. Jesus in Jerusalem at the Festival of The raising of Lazarus-Bethany. The Tribute-money miraculously pro- Jesus, beyond Jordan, is followed by vided-Capernaum. multitudes. The healing of the in The Disciples contend who should be greatest. Jesus exhorts to humility, firm woman on the Sabbath-Valley of Jordan; Perea. forbearance, and brotherly love Our Lord goes teaching and journeying Capernaum. The Seventy instructed and sent out Capernaum. Jesus goes up to the Festival of Tabernacles. His final departure from Galilee. Incidents in Samaria. Ten Lepers cleansed-Samaria. The Festival of Tabernacles, and the subsequent transactions until our Lord's arrival at Bethany, six days before the Fourth Passover. TIME: Six months less one week. Jesus at the Festival of Tabernacles. His public teaching-Jerusalem. The Woman taken in Adultery-Jerusalem. Further public teaching of our Lord. He reproves the unbelieving Jews, and escapes from their hands-Jerusalem. A Lawyer instructed. Love to our neighbour defined. Parable of the good Samaritan-Near Jerusalem. Jesus in the house of Martha and Mary -Bethany. towards Jerusalem. He is warned against Herod-Perea. Our Lord dines with a chief Pharisee on the Sabbath. Incidents-Perea. What is required of true disciplesPerea. Parable of the Lost Sheep, &c. Parable the Rich Man and Lazarus-Perea. Jesus inculcates forbearance, faith, humility-Perea. Christ's coming will be sudden-Pe rea. Parables: The Importunate Widow. The Pharisee and Publican-Perea. Precepts respecting divorce-Perea. Jesus receives and blesses little children -Perea. The Rich Young Man. Parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard-Perea. Jesus a third time foretells his death and resurrection-Perea. James and John prefer their ambitious request-Perea. The Disciples again taught how to pray The healing of two Blind Men near -Near Jerusalem. The Seventy return-Jerusalem? A man born blind is healed on the Sabbath. Our Lord's subsequent discourses-Jerusalem. Jericho. The visit to Zaccheus. Parable of the ten Minæ-Jericho. Jesus arrives at Bethany, six days before the Passover-Bethany. Parable of the Marriage of the King's The Passover Meal. Contention among Son-Jerusalem. Insidious question of the Pharisees : Tribute to Cæsar-Jerusalem. Insidious question of the Sadducees: The Resurrection—Jerusalem. A Lawyer questions Jesus. The two great Commandments-Jerusalem. How is Christ the Son of David?-Jerusalem. Warnings against the evil example of the Scribes and Pharisees-Jerusalem. Woes against the Scribes and Pharisees. Lamentation over Jerusalem-Jerusalem. The Widow's mite-Jerusalem. the Twelve-Jerusalem. Jesus washes the feet of his DisciplesJerusalem. Jesus points out the Traitor. Judas withdraws-Jerusalem. Jesus foretells the fall of Peter, and the dispersion of the Twelve-Jerusalem. The Lord's Supper-Jerusalem. Jesus comforts his Disciples. The Holy Spirit promised-Jerusalem. Christ the true Vine. His Disciples hated by the World-Jerusalem. Persecution foretold. Further promise of the Holy Spirit. Prayer in the name of Christ-Jerusalem. Christ's last prayer with his Disciples -Jerusalem. Reflections upon the unbelief of the The agony in Gethsemane-Mount of Jews-Jerusalem. Jesus, on taking leave of the Temple, foretells its destruction and the persecution of his Disciples-Jerusalem; Mount of Olives, The signs of Christ's coming to destroy Jerusalem, and put an end to the Transition to Christ's final coming at the Day of Judgment. Exhortation Olives. Jesus betrayed, and made prisonerMount of Olives. Jesus before Caiaphas. Peter thrice denies him-Jerusalem. Jesus before Caiaphas and the Sanhedrim. He declares himself to be the Christ; is condemned and mockedJerusalem. The Sanhedrim lead Jesus away to Pilate-Jerusalem. Jesus before Herod-Jerusalem. is scourged and mocked-Jerusalem. Pilate again seeks to release Jesus Jerusalem. Judas repents and hangs himself—Jerusalem. Jesus appears in the midst of the Jesus appears in the midst of the The Apostles go away into Galilee. Jesus is led away to be crucified-Jeru- Jesus meets the Apostles and above salem. The Crucifixion-Jerusalem. The Jews mock at Jesus on the Cross. Darkness prevails. Christ expires on the Cross-Jerusalem. The veil of the Temple rent, and graves opened. Judgment of the Centurion. The Women at the Cross-Jerusalem. five hundred brethren on a mountain in Galilee-Galilee. Our Lord is seen of James; then of all the Apostles-Jerusalem. The Ascension-Bethany. SOME DIRECTIONS TO BACK SLIDERS. 1. Set apart special times to humble yourself before God by fasting and prayer. The taking down from the Cross. The Extraordinary cases require the use of army was coming against Jehoshaphat, it is said, he feared, and set himself to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah." But the loss of a soul is of more account to you, than the temporal overthrow of a counWhen Judah for his under the frowns of God in Babylon, and had been so for about seventy years, Daniel says, " I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplication, with fast The Morning of the Resurrection-try was to him. The Women return to the City. Jesus ing and sackcloth and ashes." The Our Lord is seen by Mary Magdalene apostle Paul plainly intimates, that there are times wherein we are required to give ourselves to fasting and prayer. And surely there can be no times in which these means are more necessary than when we have got out of the way, and desire to recover it. There is much meaning in the words, "He set himself to seek the Lord," and success. comforts should be succeeded by conflicts. We know it was so in several cases recorded in the Scriptures. Im rock at Rephidim, Israel was called to fight with Amalek. Paul's thorn in the flesh succeeded to extraordinary revelations. Our Lord himself went up from Jordan into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. "I set my face unto the Lord God." They denote something more than the extraordinary exercises of prayer; even a special fixedness of the thoughts, pur-mediately after drinking at the smitten poses, and desires, to particular objects; and God has usually honoured those extraordinary approaches to him, when influenced by a pure motive, with It is true, we may attend to duty in a superstitious or self-righteous spirit, resting in it as an end, instead of using it as a means; but this is not "setting our face unto the Lord God," or "seeking him." A day devoted to God in humiliation, fasting, and prayer, occasionally occupied with reading suitable parts of the Holy Scriptures, may, by the blessing of the Holy Spirit, con-racter. tribute more to the subduing of sin, and the recovery of a right mind, than years spent in a sort of half-hearted exercise. 3. In your approaches to the Saviour, let it be under the character in which you first applied to him for mercy, that of a sinner. If you attempt to approach the throne of grace as a good man who has backslidden from God, you may find it impossible to support that chaThe reality of your conversion may be doubtful, not only in your apprehension, but in itself. Your approach, therefore, must not be as one that is "washed, and needed not, save to wash his feet;" but as one who is defiled throughout, whose hands and cleansed. Do not employ yourself in raking over the rubbish of your past life in search of evidence that you are a Christian. You will not be able in that question; nor would it be of any service to you if you could decide it. One thing is certain, you are a sinner 2. To prayer it is necessary to add watchfulness. Our Lord unites these together as an antidote against tempt-head, and every part, needs to be ation. It has sometimes been one of the devices of Satan, after a backslider has been drawing near to God, and strongly soliciting for mercy; yea, after a time has been set apart for this pur-your present state of mind to decide pose, to ply him afresh with some powerful temptation; and while his mind has been unsuspicious, and, it may be, thinking itself to be somewhat secure on account of having so lately been engaged in earnest devotion, he has been surprised and overcome! The consequence, as might be expected, has been a future neglect of prayer, under the idea that it must have been mere hypocrisy before, and would now be adding sin to sin. Instead of depending upon spiritual frames for preservation, and especially when they are over, perhaps we ought to expect that our a poor, miserable, perishing sinner; the door of mercy is open, and you are welcome to enter it. Let your past character then have been what it may, and let your conversion be ever so doubtful, if you can from this time relinquish all for Christ, eternal life is before you. The Laodiceans, who, though composing a Christian church, were doubtful characters, are counselled to deal with Christ in the same manner as sin ners deal with him, for riches, for righteousness, and for heavenly wisdom. 4. In all your supplications be contented with nothing short of a complete recovery. It is possible you may obtain so much ascendancy over your evil propensities, that they may seem to be slain before you; or, at least, that you are in no particular danger of yielding to them any more; and yet you may not have recovered that holy rest in God, that sweet peace which arises from confessing our sins upon the Head of the Gospel Sacrifice. But while this is the case there is no security against their revival. The first temptation by which you are assaulted may afford lamentable proof that they are yet alive. Nothing will serve as a preservative against the risings of evil propensities short of walking with God. There is much important truth in that declaration of the apostle, "This I say then, walk in the spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh." Sin is not to be opposed so much directly as indirectly; not by mere resistance, but by opposing other principles to it. It is not by contending with the fire, especially with combustible materials about us, that we should be able to quench it; but by dealing plentifully with the opposite element. The pleasures of sense will not be effectually subdued by foregoing all enjoyment; but by imbibing other pleasures, the relish of which shall deaden the heart to what is opposite. It was thus that the apostle became "dead to the world by the cross of Christ." Do not, therefore, reckon thyself restored till thou hast recovered communion with God. David, though the subject of deep contrition, yet was not contented without gaining this important point. Till then and renew a Cast me not the poison would still at times be rankling in his imagination. Hence arose the following petitions : "Create in me a clean heart, O God, right spirit within me. away from thy presence; and take not thy Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free Spirit." Make these petitions thy own; and if God grant the thing that thine heart desireth, go and sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon thee! SOMETHING FOR EACH TO DO. IT is simply that every man, woman, and child in the church shall look round upon his or her acquaintance and friends, and select one individual, and resolve, with God's help, that this one individual shall be brought under the sound of the Gospel; and no efforts, labours, prayers shall be spared to secure his or her conversion during the year. Is this too much to ask? If there is one Christian in the church so low in his own esteem, that he cannot find a poor ignorant child, or a despised beggar, to whom he can go, like his Master, with the offer of salvationthat he cannot find one whose affection he can gain by kindness and love, whom he can teach himself, or draw to the sanctuary for instruction there, and for whom he can offer continually the effectual fervent prayer, which availeth much;-if you are too poor and insignificant to do even this, ask yourself for what God brought you into his church? He has work for every one of his servants to do: if he has none for you, then you may be sure you are none of his. But it is often by just such weak and lowly-minded disciples |