An Adult Sunday School Class at
Calvary Reformed Presbyterian Church
December 2005 - February 2006
led by C. Michael Holloway

The titles for each lesson are taken, often quite out of context, from the writings of generally well-known individuals. This page gives the reference for each of these. Bold font indicates the lesson title.

Week 1 -- Winston Churchill, "The Few," House of Commons, August 20, 1940: Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Week 3 -- Washington Irving, The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, Chapter 2: The consequence is numberless disputes and conflicts between them and the bee hunters: and often a party of the latter, returning, laden with rich spoil, from one of their forays, are apt to be waylaid by the native lords of the soil; their honey to be seized, their harness cut to pieces, and themselves left to find their way home the best way they can, happy to escape with no greater personal harm than a sound rib-roasting.

Week 4 -- Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection, Chapter XIII: This doctor was always making all sorts of concessions to the prisoners, and was therefore continually coming into conflict with the prison authorities and even with the head doctor.

Week 5 -- Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, Chapter 33: How did the vexed wind chafe and roar about its stalwart roof; how did it pant and strive with its wide chimneys, which still poured forth from their hospitable throats, great clouds of smoke, and puffed defiance in its face; how, above all, did it drive and rattle at the casement, emulous to extinguish that cheerful glow, which would not be put down and seemed the brighter for the conflict!

Week 6 -- L. Frank Baum, Rinkitink in Oz, Chapter 14: Zella told them that they could go in their boat along the shore of Regos to a point opposite the mines, thus avoiding any conflict with the warriors of King Gos.

Week 7 -- Jonathan Edwards, "Miscellanies #4": O, how is the world darkened, clouded, distracted, and torn to pieces by those dreadful enemies of mankind called words.

Week 8 -- Fyodor Dosteovsky, The Brothers Karamazov, Chapter 12: Some murderous conflict may well come to pass from all this, and that's what your brother Ivan is waiting for.

Week 9 -- Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, Chapter 27: Mr Chester, with the volume gently extended in one hand, and with the other planted lightly on his breast, talked to them in the most delicious manner possible; and quite enchanted all his hearers, notwithstanding their conflicting interests and thoughts.

Week 10 -- Charlotte Bronte, The Professor, Chapter 10: At last a servant entered to announce dinner; the conflict being thus necessarily terminated, we parted without having gained any advantage on either side: Mdlle. Reuter had not even given me an opportunity of attacking her with feeling, and I had managed to baffle her little schemes of craft.

Week 11 -- Charles Dickens, Bleak House, Chapter 40: There are various opinions on the merits, more or less conflicting with Volumnia's.

Week 12 -- Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary, Chapter 8: Checkmated for the moment, he was far from abandoning the conflict.

Week 13 -- William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 1, Scene I: Alas! he gets nothing by that. In our last conflict four of his five wits went halting off, and now is the whole man governed with one: so that if he have wit enough to keep himself warm, let him bear it for a difference between himself and his horse; for it is all the wealth that he hath left, to be known a reasonable creature.