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Section V — From the marriage altar
Date ___________ AH-SG 16.1
A. Read pages 99-128. AH-SG 16.2
B. Check your knowledge: AH-SG 16.3
1. What did God make husband and wife to be to each other? (99:1.)
AH-SG 16.4
2. Complete: “Jesus wants to see __________ marriages.” (99:4.) AH-SG 16.5
3. What is the proper attitude to have toward a Christian wedding? (100:4.)
AH-SG 16.6
4. What is inappropriate? (101:2.)
AH-SG 16.7
5. Complete: “Marriage does not lessen their ____________, but strengthens it.” (102:3.) AH-SG 16.8
6. What should be done during the beginning of married life? (103:5.)
AH-SG 16.9
7. Complete: “The wife is to _____________ and ___________ her husband, and the husband is to ________________ and ________________ his wife.” (103:4.) AH-SG 16.10
8. What should a husband or wife do when difficulties, perplexities, and discouragements arise? (106:1.)
AH-SG 16.11
9. How should love be manifested? (109:1.)
AH-SG 16.12
10. Complete: “Let all seek to discover the _______________ rather than the _________________.”(105:3.) AH-SG 16.13
11. Complete: “As your love for Him [Christ] ______________, your love for each other will grow ____________ and stronger.” (106:0.) AH-SG 16.14
12. Complete: “The wife must not consider herself a __________, to be tended, but a _____________; one to put her shoulder un-der real, not imaginary, burdens, and live an understanding, thoughtful life, considering that there are other things to be thought of than herself.” (110, 111.) AH-SG 16.15
13. Complete: “Come to your family with a __________ countenance, with sympathy, tenderness, and love. This will be better than expending money for _______________________ or physicians for your wife.” (111:2.) AH-SG 16.16
14. Draw lines between the beginnings of these sentences (in the left-hand column) and their endings (in the right-hand column):
a. “Continue the (1) a plea for rulership.” (106:4.)
b. “Neither husband nor wife is to make (2) rather than exact it.” (107:3.)
c. “Allow no sharpness (3) to come into your voices.” (107:1.)
d. “Let each give love (4) are more valuable than wealth and luxury.” (108:1.)
e. “Thankful hearts and kind looks (5) early attentions.” (106:1.)
AH-SG 17.1
15. Complete: “The husband should let his wife know that he ________________________ her work.” (114:1.) AH-SG 17.2
16. Complete: AH-SG 17.3
“Neither the husband nor the wife should attempt to exercise over the other an ______________________________________.” (118:2.) AH-SG 17.4
17. What subjects of conversation do we avoid? (119:2.)
AH-SG 17.5
18. What should be firmly repressed? (120:1.)
AH-SG 17.6
19. Does the Spirit of Prophecy condemn sexual intercourse except for child bearing? (121:2.)
AH-SG 17.7
20. “It is carrying that which is ________________ to excess that makes it a grievous sin.” (122:3.) AH-SG 17.8
C. Rate your love for your family: AH-SG 17.9
Affectionate ______ Warm ________ Indifferent ________ Cold ________ AH-SG 17.10
1. What is your most charming way of expressing affection?
AH-SG 17.11
__________________________________________________ AH-SG 17.12
2. What is your most annoying habit to your family?
AH-SG 17.13
D. Discuss with others: AH-SG 18.1
1. In the light of these two sentences, whose counsel should we follow?
“Jesus wants to see happy marriages.” (99:4.)
“Satan loves to see misery.” (72:2.)
AH-SG 18.2
2. Why was Christ’s first miracle at a marriage festival? (99:2.)
AH-SG 18.3
3. How much should be spent on clothes, flowers, receptions, etc., in a Christian wedding? (100, 101.)
AH-SG 18.4
4. What does it mean to “study to advance the happiness of each other”? (106:1.)
AH-SG 18.5
5. What does a companionable wife and mother mean to her husband, son, and daughter? (110:1, 2.)
AH-SG 18.6
6. How can the “unhappy couple” on pages 111 and 112 become happy?
AH-SG 18.7
7. “She [Eve] had fallen into temptation by separating from her companion.” (115:1.) Had Adam and Eve remained together, would they have yielded to temptation?
AH-SG 18.8
8. What lesson are we to learn from this?
AH-SG 18.9
E. Think on these things: AH-SG 18.10
1. How can the evening be a “pleasant social season” in your home? (110:2.)
AH-SG 18.11
2. How often should love be expressed? (109:1.)
AH-SG 18.12
3. In what ways is love expressed? (109:1.)
AH-SG 18.13
4. How do accusations often become realities? (110:0.)
AH-SG 18.14
5. Am I truly making a real endeavor to make a success of my marriage, or am I expecting my partner to make all the adjustments and efforts?
AH-SG 18.15
6. Should the emphasis be on “Wives, submit” or on “As it is fit in the Lord”? (115, 116.)
AH-SG 18.16
7. Do I consider sexual intercourse an act of endearment, a way of expressing my devotion to my companion?
AH-SG 18.17
F. What is one way I (as the husband, wife, son, daughter) can express love to each member of my family today?
AH-SG 18.18