QOTD | Miss Grace Saxe's 10 Questions

Ten Questions to Ask Each Chapter:

“What is the leading subject?
What is the leading lesson?
What is the best verse?
Who is the principal person?
What does it teach of Christ?
Does it show an example to follow?
Is there any error to avoid?
Is there a duty to perform?
Does it give a promise to claim?
Is there a prayer to echo?”

–circa 1917
Quoted in R. Laird Harris, Exploring the Basics of the Bible (Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 2002), 99.

I know very little of who Grace Saxe was, but the above quote is rather well-known, and her name is associated with Billy Sunday. She seems to have lived in Illinois and Indian, and was in active ministry around the turn of the century.

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