I send a few of the questions that I have been using for our childrens' class. I write a copy of them for each and give them for study. I don't send them as samples, for if I were writing to print I should add a good deal more, should answer every question if difficult, and should make the spiritual clearer. But writing them out for each one in the class, I can't take the time to do more.— (See next page.)
Oct. 5. Luke xx. 9-19.
What is the subject of the lesson?
What is a parable?
What did Jesus mean by vineyard?
Ans. The world.
What by husbandmen?
Ans. Man.
What did he mean by "went into another country, etc."?
Did God go away from man?
Ans. No, but man, in belief, went away from God.
What did he mean by "fruit of the vineyard "?
Ans. Fruits of the Spirit.
Name them.
Who is meant by servant?
Ans. The Moses thought.
How did the husbandmen treat the second servant?
Who did Jesus mean by the second servant?
Ans. The thought perceived by the prophets.
Who is meant by the third servant?
Ans. John the Baptist.
What did the Lord of the vineyard then say?
What did the husbandmen say of him?
Who is meant by his son?
Ans. Jesus.
What did he say the lord of the vineyard would do to the husbandmen?
What did he mean by destroying them?
Ans. He meant that all wrong thoughts must be destroyed, and good, pure thoughts must take their place.
Then what did Jesus tell them that "was written"?
Ans. Golden text.
What is meant by "the stone"?
Ans. Christ, Truth.
Who were the builders who had rejected it?
What did he mean by "scatter him as dust"?
Ans. All wrong thoughts must be destroyed by Truth, and if destroyed are as dust or nothingness.
How did the scribes and pharisees receive the parable?
