_I. The Twelve Minor Prophets._ Note 1 and 2. Each of 1. Historical Period of their ministry. the books of the 12 _II. Select Readings from Zechariah:_ prophets should be read. 1. Repentance. See also the summary of 2. Prophecies Yet Future. each book in the Bible Helps, Dictionaries, Bible Treasury, quoted in previous lessons. Readings, Zech. 1: 1-7. Chaps. vii and viii. Chaps. xii, xiii, xiv. _III. Select Readings from Malachi:_ 1. His Arraignment of Israel for Unfaithfulness. Mal. iii: 7-18. The Promise of God's Returning Favor. 2. The Coming of Messiah's Messenger. Mal. iii: 1-6. 3. Destruction of the Wicked--Elijah's Mal. iv: 1-6. Mission. _SPECIAL TEXT: "Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother; and oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart."_--ZECHARIAH. _NOTES._ 1. _The Greater and Minor Prophets:_ "A review of the books as they stand in our Bible gives us first the Greater Prophets, and secondly the Minor Prophets. It should be understood that this arrangement is determined by the length of the books, not by the comparative rank of the writers. The minor prophets are not to be regarded as necessarily less important persons than the greater prophets. Amos may have been a grander man than Ezekiel--yet Amos is classed with the minor and Ezekiel with the greater prophets. This simply means that we have less of the writings of Amos preserved than of those of Ezekiel--and so of the other minor prophets." (Cambridge Bible Helps, p. 34.) 2. _The Historic Period of the Minor Prophets:_ "The Minor Prophets form in the Hebrew canon one whole, and go collectively under the name of the Book of the Twelve Prophets. They cover a period of four hundred years, from the ninth to the fifth centuries before Christ, but they are not arranged in the order of the time of their production." (Cambridge Bible Helps, p. 41.)