What one of our memory verses would you like me to find? (Give out the other memory verses by subjects and let each child read the verse he has found.) What is the text that tells us what a friend and a brother will do for any one who needs his help? Let us find that in the Bible. Open your Bibles in the middle. What book have you there? That is the hymn book of the Bible. The next book to the right is another book of poetry, and that is the one which has our memory text in it. The chapter and verse are both 17. Who will be the first to find it? Yellow is the color for the books of poetry, so I will give you a yellow slip to mark the place of this verse. Let us all read it together. Who can tell me in other words what that verse means? LESSON 11 Abraham Entertaining Angels =Teaching Material.=—Genesis 15:1-6; 17:1-8, 15, 16; 18:1-16; Hebrews 13:16. =Pupil’s Reading.=—Genesis 17:1-5, 15, 16; 18:1-8; Hebrews 13:16. =Memory Text.=—Forget not to show love unto strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Hebrews 13:2. LIGHT FROM OTHER BIBLE PASSAGES Numbers 22:22-27; Judges 13; 1 Kings 19:5-8; Luke 1:11-22, 28-33; Matthew 2:13. FROM THE COMMENTATORS (Genesis 15:1-7.) Abram felt that he had made the mightiest earthly powers his enemies, and probably feared that the next campaigning season would bring down on his encampment an irresistible host; so the word of encouragement comes, “Fear not, Abram; I am thy shield.” Besides, he saw that he was exhibited to his followers as a man who had the enjoyment neither of this world’s winnings nor of the promise of God, for the sake of which he sacrificed the booty offered him by Sodom. The soreness he felt on this account was removed by the assurance, “I am thy exceeding great reward.”—_Commentary on Genesis_, _Marcus Dods_. AIM =To further deepen the impression made by the last two lessons, helping the children to see the beauty of kindness, and so stimulate within them the desire to practice kindness and helpfulness in their own lives.= LESSON PREPARATION These lessons give to us as teachers an opportunity for a leisurely study of the book of Genesis of which every teacher should take advantage. Of course all that intervenes between lessons at any point should be read for one’s own information, but no more should be given to the scholars than is indicated by the limits of the teaching material. It is interesting to note in the study of chapter 17 that “the rite of circumcision is not, as is sometimes thought, a rite peculiar to the Jews. It was and still is widely practiced in different parts of the world”; but while with other races the underlying principle seems to be initiation into manhood, with full civil and religious rights, its meaning among the Jews was and is the same as that which underlies our sacrament of christening, namely, dedication to God.