Those who desire merely to _read_ this book or to look it over will not
find it interesting. Those who already know how to study will not need
these hints, and can use the book in their own way. But there are many
who desire to study these subjects carefully, and yet do not know
precisely how to do the work. For these students, earnest but untrained,
the hints are given.
1. These studies should be pursued with the Bible close at hand, so that
every Scripture reference may be at once searched out and read.
2. Begin each lesson by a general view; reading it through carefully,
and memorizing the leading divisions of the outline, which are indicated
by the Roman numerals I, II, III, etc. This will give the general plan
of the lesson.
3. Now take up Part I of the lesson in detail; notice and memorize its
subdivisions, indicated by 1, 2, 3, etc., and search out the Scripture
references cited in it. If practicable, write out on a sheet of paper
the reference (not the language of the text in full), and what each
reference shows. Thus, with the references in the First Study, page 17,
Part I: