The Bible is so full of suggestion that it is impossible, in the brief Sunday-school half-hour, to view the many fields of thought opened before us with any degree of satisfying completeness. That fact, indeed, constitutes one of the greatest satisfactions of the Book. Neither teacher nor scholar can go very far with earnestness in Bible study without feeling an intense desire to collate and compare, to go to the bottom, to take views single in purpose, but wide in reach. This wish to read the Scriptures as a whole has ever been held a sign of healthful growth in Christian endeavor. How may we encourage and satisfy this desire? Here is a method I have repeatedly found helpful to my class and myself. I prepare for myself what I call topical lessons. I have noticed especial interest in some one topic,--the use of Sunday, say, or future punishment, heaven, prayer, abuse of money, missions, the nature of sin. On some Sunday, then, I announce that one of these topics is to be discussed at next week's meeting. I ask the scholars to think the matter over, and look up texts. Some do, some do not, as is usual in such matters. Sunday come, I have in large script, pinned to the wall in view of the class, an outline of the topic chosen, with the texts to be used indicated in clear figures. It is intended for a lesson in methods of Bible study as much as in Bible contents, and so aims to be complete and thorough in its range. The plan is explained, and the scope of the subject. We take it up by natural divisions. All have Bibles, of course. The references are numbered. "Mr. Brown, please find No. 1; Mr. Jones, No. 2; Mr. Robinson, No. 3," and so on. In a few seconds we are ready for a discussion of the first division. I shall trust to the scholars' memory for the commoner quotations, and not trust in vain, if I have done my duty previously. This division disposed of, more or less to our satisfaction, we pass to another point, then to another, rapidly or leisurely, as the time permits, being careful that in the half-hour the general scope of Bible thought in the matter, its largeness and depth, its insight and minuteness of detail, be adequately exhibited. May I show you a sample outline? FAITH. 1. What is it? (Heb. 11:1; John 20:29.) 2. Whence comes it? (_a_) From God (Rom. 12:3; 1 Cor. 2:4, 5; 12:4, 8, 9; 1 Pet. 1:4, 5). (_b_) From Christ (Heb. 12:2). (_c_) From the Bible (John 17:20; 20:31; Rom. 15:4; 2 Tim. 3:15). (_d_) From preaching (Rom. 10:14; 1 Cor. 3:5). (_e_) But all one (Eph. 4:5; 4:13; Jude 3). (_f_) Not from works (Eph. 2:8, 9; Rom. 3:27, 28; Gal. 3:11, 12; 2:16). 3. What does it do? (1) The works of faith: (_a_) It is a work (John 6:28, 29; Rom. 4:5). (_b_) Which draws us to God (Rom. 5:1, 2; Eph. 3:12; 3:17; Jas. 1:5, 6). (_c_) Thus pleasing him (Heb. 11:6).