Now the point which I wish to bring before you is this; do you know in what order, I mean on what principles, the books are arranged ?" "No, sir," is the universal reply.
I will tell you.

First come all Paul's epistles.

If you turn over the leaves of the Testament, you will see that Paul's letters are all put together after the book of the Acts; and what I wish you to notice is, that they are arranged in the _order_ of _their length_.

The longest comes first, and then the next, and so on to the shortest, which is the epistle to Philemon.

This, of course, comes last--no, I am wrong in saying it is the last of Paul's epistles; there is one more to the Hebrews; and this comes after all the others, for there has been a good deal of dispute whether it was really written by Paul.