CHAPTER I. (First Meeting)
STANDING STILL IN FAITH How often do we hear the expression, “I know there is no standing still in faith.” The expression is scripturally true, and yet there are many…
CHAPTER II (Second Meeting)
LEANING ON THE ARM OF THE BELOVED To come up out of the wilderness leaning upon the arm of the Beloved, Jesus, is the desire and prayer of every sincere…
1 – God’s Method
God enjoys honoring his earthly offspring by using them as tools for mutual blessing. His strategy is to primarily employ instrumentality and intermediate agency. The divine government’s entire structure is…
10 – Stereotyped
If you place a living person within a plaster of Paris mold, they will pass away if they are not quickly freed. This was somewhat how the class meeting was…
11 – Non-Adaptions
NON-ADAPTATIONS. The Class Meeting was hampered by the disregard for the law of temperamental and spiritual affinities. Too frequently, the classification of persons into classes was arbitrary. They weren’t asked…
12 – One of Them
He was a good man, but much of his goodness was in a bad way. He didn’t curse, steal, tell lies, or violate the Sabbath. He did not argue with,…
13 – Another
He was a good man as well. Others found him to be uncomfortably good. He wasn’t pleasant to be around outside of the class meeting. He was a disease there.…
14 – And Yet Another
He was a kind man as well, although he wasn’t always wise. His fatal fluency was his shortcoming as a Classleader. He delivered speeches to the class rather than leading…
15 – Types
A lawyer who was around 35 years old, a graduate of one of the oldest and best institutions, and the owner of a sizable wealth by inheritance served as the…
16 – What Form?
The number of students in a single class was initially set at twelve. Under the previous system of running the Class, this was the maximum number that one leader could…