003 Preface

Preface BIBLE STUDIES FOR LORD’S DAY WORK For years I have seen the need of my brethren pulling out of the old channels of sectarianism and modern Sunday School literature, and the seven years skipping through the Bible as found in our International Sunday School literature. I have seen the need of a system of Bible studies!n which the Bible could be taught in such a connected manner that the young could learn the plan of salvation as taught in the Bible, and then learn how to live that they may enter heaven. In our present literature these things are not taught plain enough to be understood by the majority. I have suggested a three-years’ course of Bible studies in these lessons, under the title of "Bible Studies," and shall send it forth as an evangelist to do good at all places where used.

We take up a three-years’ course of New Testament study, asking questions for two years, and forcing the student to go to the Bible to find the answer. As many important items are connected with each lesson not answered in the chapter considered, you will find general questions at the close of each lesson, which we hope will cause much general reading and searching both Old and New Testaments for the answers.

After two years of studying the Bible in consecutive chapters we then spend a year on subjects, dealing with almost all practical points connected with the Christian system.

I do not examine Revelation in these lessons, as I am not well enough versed in that book to teach it.

These lessons are only suggestive to all churches of Christ. We hope to bring about more Bible study, more harmony and union among the children of God, to bring us nearer together and kill out the modern Sunday School idea, and our present system of International literature, which I think is five years wasted in seven. This book is not a substitute for the Bible, but to help us to understand the Bible.

Nothing but ignorance and prejudice will cause my brethren to fight this book. My teaching in it is Scriptural, and I am ready and able to defend the same. Those who fight its teachings are not fighting me, but God, Christ and the Holy Scriptures as well. In love submitted,

J. D. TANT