HOLY SCRIPTURE.

Examiner.-REV. DR. WARBURTON.

FIRST DIVISION.

1. What period of time is embraced in the Second Book of Kings? Name the first and last Kings of Judah mentioned

therein.

2. Who was the last King of Israel? By what people were the ten tribes vanquished and carried into captivity, and how did their King's policy, as to repeopling the land of Israel, tend to the subsequent antipathy of the Jews and Samaritans?

3. The fulfilment of an ancient prophecy of Isaac's, and of another uttered against Jeroboam, is mentioned in this book. In what King's reign respectively did the fulfilments take place?

4. State three of the principal miracles.

5. What providential discovery seems to have led to the "Revival" in the days of Josiah?

6. What remarkable illustration is afforded in this Book, that Repentance for Sin may be accepted, while its penalty is enforced?

7. Can you mention any miracle confirmatory of the grand truth of a bodily resurrection?

8. What internal evidence have we that S. John did not write exclusively for the Jews?

9. What inference may be drawn from the omission by S. John of the predictions respecting the seige and capture of Jerusalem recorded by the other Apostles?

10. Give some instances of the peculiarity of S. John's Gospel in commenting on the facts which he relates.

11. What were the heresies against which S. John's Gospel, particularly the earlier part, was specially directed? 12. Only one miracle related by the other Evangelists is found in S. John's Gospel, what is it?

13. Mention some of the matters omitted by the others, and recorded by S. John only.

HOLY SCRIPTURE.

Examiner.-REV. DR. WARBURTON.

SECOND DIVISION.

1. What period of time is embraced in the Second Book of Samuel, and who is the prominent personage in the Book? 2. Mention some of the evil consequences of David's sin with Bathsheba?

3. What parables are recorded in this Book?

4. What seems to have been David's error in numbering the people, and to what influence is it ascribed in another part of Scripture?

5. What remarkable prophecy concerning the Messiah and the Kingdom of Heaven is there in this Book?

6. Do you remember a reason given in another part of Scripture why David was not allowed to carry out his inten ion of building a Temple for God's worship?

7. Does mention of St. Luke occur in the Gospels or the Epistles, and when mentioned to what profession is he stated to belong?

8. Give some proofs from internal evidence that St. Luke wrote his Gospel for the Gentiles.

9. Mention some instances of our Lord's respect for the distinctions of civil life.

10. Give some instances of our Lord's employment of the co-operation of human agency in performing miracles?

11. State the portions of St. Luke's Gospel used in the service for evening prayer? Is any part used in the morning service?

12. Mention the miracles peculiar to St. Luke's Gospel?

13. State the discourses and parables in this book not mentioned by the other Evangelists.

PRAYER-BOOK AND CATECHISM.

Examiner.-REV. W. A. SPOONER.

1. What are the objects of Public Worship stated in the exhortation? Show how they are carried out in the different parts of the Order for Morning Prayer.

2. What do you know about the "Te Deum?" Into what parts may it be divided?

3. Explain the meaning of the Article in the Creed “I believe in the Communion of Saints."

4. Explain the meaning of the terms Rubric,' Kyrie Creed, Anthem, Litany, Gospel, Psalm, Canticle.

5. Write out the Collect for Christmas Day: explain its meaning, and shew what doctrines are asserted in it.

6. Illustrate from the Services of some Sunday the connexion which exists between Collect, Epistle, and Gospel.

7. Give the order of the different parts of the Communion Service.

8. What are the chief duties, which the Catechism tells us, we owe to our neighbour?

9. Explain what you mean by a Sacrament, and shew how Baptism is a Sacrament.

13. What are the benefits, whereof we are partakers by the Lord's Supper? Explain the answer.

11. Give, as far as you can remember, the Special Psalms which are appointed for Easter and for Ascension Day, shewing the reason for which they are selected.

12. What lessons ought Christians to learn from the Second and Sixth Commandments?

13. State any of the earlier sources from which any portions of our Prayer-book are derived.

14. What events do we celebrate on The Innocents' Day,''Epiphany,' and 'Whitsunday?'

ARITHMETIC PAPER.

Examiner.-REV. W. G. SAWYER.

The Upper Forms will take the whole paper. The Lower Forms will take the first nine questions only.

1. Multiply 149570 by 15790; and divide 433418175 by 615.

2. Reduce 3 m. 7 fur. 8 poles to yards; and 573 miles to inches.

3. Write out the tables of Lineal Measure, and Square Measure.

4. If the carriage of 5 cwt. 7 lbs. for 84 miles cost £3 18s. 4d., what will it cost me to have 21 cwt. 1 qr. 14 lbs. carried the same distance?

5. If a person travel 300 miles in ten days, when the day is 12 hours long; how many days will it take him to travel 600 miles, when the day is 15 hours long?

6. Find by practice how much the carriage of 5 parcels each weighing 4 cwt. 3 qrs. 21 lbs. will come to at 12s. 6d. per ton.

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7. Find the sum of 1, %, †, †, and of 3, 1, 12, 1. 8. Reduceof (61+2 — 3) to its simplest form. 9. Find the simple interest of £635 18s. 44d. in 3 years at 3 per cent. simple interest.

10. The floor of a room 29 ft. long by 18 ft. wide was covered with carpet 2 feet 3 inches wide at 3s. 10d. per yard. How many yards of carpet did it take; and how much did it cost?

11. If the rental of my parish is £3,796 14s. what sum will a rate of 10d. in the pound raise for the repair of the highways, and what shall I have to pay for my farm of 160 acres which lets for £1 2s. 6d. per acre ?

12. Express 7 fur. 25 poles as the decimal of a mile; and find the value of 655 of a day.

13. The length of a rectangular field being 25 chains 8 links, and its breadth 14 chains 75 links; what number of acres does it contain ?

14. Two persons form a joint stock by subscribing £3500, and £5000 respectively, and in a certain time they clear £1000; how must this sum be divided between the two?

ALGEBRA.

Examiner.-REV. D. THOMAS.

1. Find the value of 4a2 + 3b2 + 2c2 + d2. 24abcd if a=1,b=2, c = 3, d = 4.

2. Find the sum of 2a + ab + 3b2, 3a2

4ab + 26a,

3a2 + 3ab — b2, 12a2 — 14ab — 762, and 3a2 — 12ab + 1762.

3. State the rules for removing brackets, and remove the brackets from

a

[b-{c-(de)}].

2x+xy and ≈— y +2.

(2) yz + zx + xy — (xyz)3 (x3 ‡ ya +≈1) and (xy)*+ (yz)3 + (2x)*. 5. Divide

(1) 23

8x+3 and x2 + 3x13 + x + 3.

(2) 4(x-4x+5) and 12(x + 1).

7. Find the L. C. M. of

(1) 6a2, 9ax3, 15a2x, and 24x5.

(2) x2 — 1, x2 — 2x — 3, and x3 — 7×x3 + 6x.

(1) (1) (+)

10. A market woman receives half a guinea by selling all her eggs and half her apples at 18d. and 9d. a dozen respectively, but if she had sold all her apples and half her eggs she would have received three half-crowns, find the number of apples and eggs.