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CHAPTERS OF BIBLE STUDY
OR
A POPULAR INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THE SACRED SCRIPTURES
BY
THE REV. HERMAN J. HEUSER
PROF. OF SCRIPTURAL INTRODUCTION AND EXEGESIS, ST. CHARLES SEMINARY, OVERBROOK, PA.
THE CATHEDRAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 123 E. 50th Street New York 1895
Nihil Obstat: D. J. McMAHON, Censor Librorum.
Imprimatur: MICHAEL AUGUSTINE, Archbishop of New York.
COPYRIGHT BY JOSEPH H. MCMAHON, 1895.
PREFACE.
The following pages are printed from notes used in a series of lectures before the "Catholic Summer School of America" at Pittsburgh. They are neither an exhaustive nor a scientific exposition, but are meant as a suggestive introduction, in popular form, to the intelligent reading of the Bible. Some of the answers to questions proposed by members of the "School" during the course have been inserted where it seemed most suitable.
I take occasion here to express my deep appreciation of the courtesy shown to its visitors by the Directors of the "Catholic Summer School." Their self-sacrificing spirit has secured to the organization the earnest co-operation of many gifted men and women animated by that refined Catholic feeling which constitutes the highest type of a truly cultured society. Nothing could have placed the institution on a firmer basis, or could better have given it that guarantee of success to which the last session has borne witness.
H. J. H.
CONTENTS.
I. The Ancient Scroll
II. Strange Witnesses
III. The Testimony of a Confession
IV. The Stones Cry Out
V. Heavenly Wisdom
VI. The Vicious Circle
VII. The Sacred Pen
VIII. The Melody and Harmony of the "Vox Coelestis"
IX. The Voice from the Rock
X. A Source of Culture
XI. The Creation of New Letters
XII. English Style
XIII. Friends of God
XIV. The Art of Prospecting
XV. Using the Kodak
XVI. The Interpretation of the Image
XVII. "Deus Illuminatio Mea"
XVIII. Bush-Lights
XIX. The Use and the Abuse of the Bible
XX. The Vulgate and the "Revised Version"
XXI. The Position of the Church
XXII. Mysterious Characters
XXIII. Conclusion
XXIV. Appendix