Calendar:Oct. 16th to Nov. 15th.

DAILY BIBLE READING……….. .Oct. 16th, Acts 1; Oct. 31st, Acts 16; Nov. 15th, Rom. 3.
MEMORY WORK:2 Thess., ch. 1, also Memory Outlines.
GOOD READING:…….. The All-Sufficiency of Christ.

Daily Reading

The main part of our Daily Reading will be the book of Acts, with its intensely interesting narrative. For literary style, vividness of description, lucidity of narrative, and definiteness of purpose, we have nothing beyond it in the inspired Word; while all mere human productions pale into insignificance by its side. I can only say, let us read it carefully, slowly and prayerfully. It is the great book of Church History, leading us from Jerusalem with its Judaism, through various Gentile cities- Antioch, Philippi, Corinth, Ephesus-until at the close we are at Rome, the center of the Gentile world. And this marks, we may say, the history of the Church from Judaism to its final emancipation into the testimony for which it was marked out from the beginning-a worldwide, yet heavenly body, whose destiny is the glory on high.

Let us all see then how much we can gather from this wonderful book. For those of you who have leisure, I would recommend Conybeare and Howson's "Life and Epistles of Paul."

Memory Work

We take up now the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians. As the first epistle dwelt largely upon the coming of the Lord with reference to the hope of the believer, so the second shows us the coming in relation to the world. For the believer, all ends with the rapture; for the world, the end is judgment. Chapter 1 is our portion for this month. Let us devote a few minutes daily and we will soon have it in our mind.

Memory Outlines

I wonder if you are enjoying your "Memory Outlines" as much as I am. I got a letter from a dear young sister the other day in which she said, "Oh, how glad I am that I have begun the outlines." Well, so am I-and I hope a great many of you are saying the same.

Shall I tell you my general plan with these outlines? When I wake in the morning, I go over the outlines of yesterday's chapter, to keep it fresh in mind, and if I have time, I review, in memory, from the beginning of the Gospel. Just now, you know, it is Luke. Then I read the chapter for the day, seeking carefully to get its meaning. Then I start with the outline. I look over the chapter carefully and see what the subjects are. Today, for instance, it was that precious familiar 15th chapter of Luke, and I did not have much difficulty in selecting the divisions;-"Three," you say, "the lost sheep, the lost money, and the lost son." Yes, but don't forget the lovely little introduction in verses 1, 2-"Sinners attracted to the Lord," and well they might be to hear such words of love and grace as follow. Then in the parable of the prodigal, I divided it into jour parts:away from the Father; coming to himself; the return to the Father-and last the sad sequel, the elder brother.

Now that will serve to illustrate how I do. First I decide on the various divisions; how many are there? I made 7 in to-day's chapter. After I can repeat these seven divisions, I count how many verses are in each division-2 in the first, 5 in the second, 3 next, and so on. It is quite easy to remember a little numerical series, 2, 5, 3, 6, 3, 5, 8. Of course such a list has nothing distinctive to fix it long in the memory; but next I connect these numbers with their corresponding paragraphs. Thus, "Sinners attracted to the Lord, 2;" "The lost money found, 3;" etc. As I do this I often find some significant connection or contrast between the meaning of the number and the contents of the paragraph. Thus, "The return to the Father, 5," which is the number of God with man. I now write out a rough draft of the outline, with the corresponding verses as, "The prodigal comes to himself. 17-19." I now have my memory outline, but I do not yet enter it in my final memory outline book. Several hours perhaps after I have written my sketch outline, I write it out clearly from memory in a rough scratch book I have. This serves to test my memory. Lastly toward evening I make a fair copy in my regular book of "Memory Outlines," where I now have outlines written out from memory of all Matthew, Mark and Luke as far as we have gone.

Now you will pardon this long description of what many of you can do in less time than it takes me to write it. But I am so anxious to have you regular users of note books. Get the habit. Buy a number of 5 cent memorandum books, and use them freely. I hope to see a great many of you adopting the memorandum note book. Then I know how glad you will be to have every chapter in the gospels lying open in your memories like a book to read from. And lastly I hope many of you are going to earn the free reward of Kelly on Matthew. So keep moving in this work.

Just one word more. Perhaps a number would like to do Matthew, but haven't time both for it and Luke. So, as I want you to get Kelly en Matthew, suppose you devote all your time to the first Gospel, leaving your daily memory outline of the current chapter, until you have entirely finished Matthew. Or, better yet, I will allow every one till the last day of December to do Matthew. Now surely there are going to be a good number who will avail themselves of this offer. There is only one condition-that you keep on with the memory outline of the daily chapter, Luke, John, etc. You will find all needed directions in the September and other numbers of Y. B. D. Of course the sooner you send in your outline after Oct. 1st, the better; but you can have the extra two months.

I will add a few lines I got this morning from a young sister:"D. and I are both working hard on the memory outlines of Matthew. We find it quite a bit harder than memorizing the epistles straight through [that's because it's new, and because you have to analyze]. You asked for some sample outlines of our chapters, and I am going to give you two or three, with the hope that you will send me any criticism and corrections that are necessary." The outlines she sent are in the main correct corresponding closely to what I had found. She has enlarged a little sometimes, and in one chapter had made too few divisions, but it greatly encourages one to see such correct work.

Good Reading

"The All-Sufficiency of Christ"-a precious pamphlet on this great theme. Get it and read it.

Your Library
Here is a well-chosen set of books sent by a young sister. I think you will find some good hints in selecting your own books.

Notes on Genesis and Exodus. C. H. M. 2 vols.
Numerical Bible. F. W. G. Matt, to John.
The Land and the Book. Thomson.
How to Study the Bible. S. B.
Genesis to Revelation. S. R.
Lectures on Hebrews. S. E.
King Saul. S. E.
Readings on Romans. C. Grain.
Readings on 1 John. C. Grain.
Simon Peter. W. T. P. W.
God's Messages in Nature. W. S. H. Wylie.
The Son of God. J. G. Bellett.
Spiritual Law in the Natural World. F. W. G.

[She adds, "I made several attempts at reading this, and failed."But it is a fine book. Who has succeeded at reading it through?]

God's Evangel. F. W. G.
Notes on the Book of Esther. H. A. I.
Lectures on Daniel the Prophet. H. A. I.
Notes on the Book of Daniel. W. K. !
Eight Lectures on Prophecy. Trotter & Smith.
Hudson Taylor's Life-both volumes.
Complete Poetical Works of Frances Ridley Havergal

-among my most valued treasures. They have been a great help to me in my Christian life. I am now enjoying "Kept for the Master's Use," by the same author. It is small, but contains much precious truth. I have read Mary Slessor, but do not own it. I also have a Life of David Livingstone.-M. deV.

Young Believers' Meetings

I am glad to hear of at least two new meetings having been started, and shall hope to hear some good news from them. Now that school has reopened, and the warmer weather is over, I trust we will begin with renewed energy the work of the fall and winter. There are numbers of places where I would like to hear of the work among the young people.

How to Budget Your Time

And here we have some good hints in the little essays I asked for, and which are coming in. Read these and see if you haven't a little contribution to make also.

"There are probably two main things to be considered in properly apportioning our spare time, namely:(1) The amount of spare time at our disposal, and (2) the use to which this time is to be put, or the subjects which will occupy us during that time. With these two points decided upon, a third, and most important, point is, "purpose of heart" to carry out our schedule.

The first item may be easily found by charting the daily duties as ordinarily performed. The second item, or the subjects to be followed, and the time per week to be spent on each, may be listed somewhat as follows;

Daily Bible Reading ……… 15 min. per day.
Sunday School Lesson…….. 3 hrs. per week.
Bible Study …………….. 5 ½
Good Reading ("Help & Food") 3 New Testament Greek …….. 6
Chemistry ……………. 12 ½
Miscellaneous Reading……. 2

It now remains simply to apply the subjects listed to the spare time on the chart, and pick the most suitable time for each. This also may be seen more clearly by making a chart.

By referring to the spare time chart it will be seen that the thirty-five minutes on the train and twenty-five minutes during lunch-time give an hour each day which may be spent in reading. The twenty minutes spent on the cars is better adapted to reviewing memory work, and for this purpose a pocket Testament is very handy. The evening hours are arranged as best suits the subjects. The time listed for New Testament Greek was included in this chart in view of the proposed lessons in Help and Food.

Remember, we "are not our own," but "are bought with a price," and this includes our time also. May the Lord grant us to use our time as belonging to Him.-E.W. B.

Now doesn't that lay out a fine schedule? But it means some work, and, as our dear brother writes, "purpose of heart." May the Lord help him and all of us to be good stewards of what has been entrusted to us.

Here is a paper with some good and helpful suggestions.

"In the morning during the week I purpose to spend one half-hour in prayer, reading of the Word and one half-hour in reading 'Eight Lectures on Prophecy,' and find it profitable to look up the scriptures in the Bible, and put the reference in the margin of the book, where the scripture but not the place where found is given. Then any time left could be spent in memorizing, etc. The evenings we have to spare could be used for dispensational, word, typical, etc., study; a holiday or half-day off could be used to review our studies. Then on Lord's Day, outside of our meetings to remember our Lord, which we all enjoy, and gospel meetings, we could devote our time in visiting the sick, distributing tracts, speaking a word here or there for our Lord and seeking one another's fellowship. We must not forget to jot down different thoughts in our note book which we have at hand."-J. D.

United Prayer
I am glad to receive, as I sometimes do, requests for prayer, and specially for the conversion or deliverance of souls. Let us make it more of the business of life, to spend a little time daily in prayer for others.

We will defer any fresh questions until we have room, in our next issue, if the Lord please.

Address all correspondence to me,

c/o Loizeaux Bros., 1 E. 13th St., New York City.