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... ntent at http://about.jstor.org/participate--jstor/individuals/early-journal--content. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary source objects. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not--for--profit organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. INDUCTIVE BIBLE-STUDIES. INDUCTIVE BIBLE-STUDIES. 57 57 has no ground in the statements of the Bible. Both the priests and the prophets favored David, and both were loyal to Saul, 19:18; chs. 21, 22. 5. Saul's symptoms in connection with his evil spirit are those of insanity. Whether the term evil spirit is to be regarded as merely a descriptive phrase for insanity, or as describing a personal agent who caused the insane symptoms, is another question. VI. QUESTIONS FOR PRACTICAL WORK.* 1. Show how solicitations to evil accompany even opportunities for getting good and doing good. 2. Show the undermining influence of single sins. 3. Show how the moral man is in danger because he is a moral man and not spiritual. SIXTH STUDY.-PROPHETS, RELIGION AND SCRIPTURES OF ISRAEL IN THE TIMES OF ELI, SAMUEL AND SAUL. [The material of this "study" is furnished by Prof. Beecher. It is edited by Prof. Harper.] I. PRELIMINARY NOTES. This " study " is intended to sum up the biblical material furnished on the subjects cited, and to systematize the same to some extent. A mastery of it will aid in a better understanding, not only of the ground already covered, but also of that yet to be taken up. 2. The opinionspresented, in some particulars, differfrom those of many scholars, and especially from those of scholars who hold that the institutions described in the Books of Samuel are so radically different from those described in the Pentateuch as to prove thatthe latter cannot then have been in existence. 3. In view of this, the student should scrutinize closely all statements given, and examine with care every passage referred to, in order not only that he may fill out the statements, which are necessarily very brief, but also that he may prove or disprove them. 4. Notice is to be taken that in the presentation here given, (1) it is not intended to give a discussion of Pentateuchal questions, and (2) only material belonging to 1 Samuel is used. The treatment is therefore necessarily limited. 5. Once more, the student is urged to accept no statement which is not backed by biblical proof of the most satisfactory character. II. THE PROPHETS. * The word translated "kill," in these verses, is " sacrifice " in Hebrew. t No one can prove that what he wrote was the sections of 1 Samuel that contain our present account of the rise of the monarchy, but equally, no one can disprove this, and it is a plausible conjecture.