6. Micah.—The rustic Isaiah and evangelical prophet. 
7. Nahum.—The preacher of judgment upon Nineveh. 
8. Habakkuk.—The preacher of judgment upon Babylon. 
9. Zephaniah.—The herald of the day of wrath for the world and 
judgment upon Judah. 
10. Haggai.—The prophet of the second temple. 
11. Zechariah.—The preacher of the Messianic kingdom in opposition 
to the kingdom of earth. 
12. Malachi.—The herald of the coming of the Lord. 
B. THE NEW TESTAMENT. 
1. The Four Gospels. 
1. The Synoptic Gospels: 
(a) St. Matthew.—The Gospel for the Jews. 
(b) St. Mark.—The Gospel for the Romans. 
(c) St. Luke.—The Gospel for the Gentiles. 
2. St. John.—The supplementary Gospel. 
2. The Acts of the Apostles. 
The history of the early spread of Christianity. 
3. The Pauline Epistles. 
1. Romans.—Justification by faith. 
2. 1 and 2 Corinthians.—The power of the cross applied to conduct. 
3. Galatians.—The law and the Gospels. 
4. Ephesians.—The church as the body of Christ. 
5. Philippians.—The identification of the Christian with Christ. 
6. Colossians.—The glory of Christ. 
7. 1 and 2 Thessalonians.—Christian life in view of the second advent. 
8. t and 2 Timothy and Titus.—Pastoral epistles. 
9. Philemon.—Christianity in domestic life. 
4. Hebrews. 
The superseding of the old covenant by the new. 
5. The General Epistles. 
1. James.—Practical Christianity. 
2. 1 and 2 Peter.—Christian privileges and duties. 
3. 1, 2 and 3 John.—The life of love. 
4. Jude.—Dangers of apostasy. 
6. Revelation. 
Coming judgments and the second advent. 
THE BIBLE. 
All religions of the civilized world have their sacred books, con¬ 
taining, in most part, the system of belief of their adherents, and with 
more or less claim to a divine origin. For example, the Mohammedans 
claim for the Koran that it lay before the throne of God from the begin¬ 
ning of time—was never created. In this the Bible differs from all other 
sacred books. As Drummond has thoughtfully said: “ In the distant past 
there flowed among the heathen nations of the world a small warm stream 
jike the Gulf Stream in the cold Atlantic—a small stream of religion, and 
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