Footnotes
[1]. This should be understood, so far as the Elders of the Church are concerned to refer only to ordinary cases of delivering announced lectures or discourses. But in the course of an Elder's ministry, when preaching the Gospel, he should respond to the promptings of the Spirit in his ministry, even to violating the rule here laid down by Mr. Pittenger.
LESSON XVI.
(Scripture Reading Exercise.)
ANCIENT CONCEPTIONS OF GOD.—(Continued.)
ANALYSIS. | REFERENCES. |
VIII. Beliefs of the Greeks and of the Romans. 1. The Origin of the Greeks and Romans. 2. Mythology of the Greeks and Romans. 3. Classification of the Greek and Roman Deities. | Myers' "General History," Chs. x, xii, xxiv-xxvi. Burder's "Hist. of All Religions," p. 527 et seq. "Myths and Myth-Makers" (John Fiske); "Mythology of All Nations," Ch. i, et seq. "The World's Worship" (Dobbins), Chs. viii and ix. The notes of this lesson. |
SPECIAL TEXT: "Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, 'To the Unknown God'; whom ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you." (Acts xvii:22, 23.)