Connecticut western news., 1875-12-24
LESSON I-FOR JANUARY 3, 1876.

GOLDEN TKXT.-When he would have in heriGed the blessing, he was rejected Heb. xii. 17.
 As THE NEWS is not printed during the holidays, it ls necessary to give the lesson for next week at this time. Now open the Bible at the lesson aud we will try to
 lVerss 1ol Do you remember how the word of the Lord' came to Samuel when he was little boyf He was an old man now, and we do not know how God spoke tSsI he was % sure ens, it was o God M % tSas spoke. The people then had DO Bible except the parts csfled Genesis, Exodus LevIticus, Numbers. peuterenomys and. the book of Joshua, so God gave them prophets like God speaks to us through that, and by His Holy Spirit in our hearts.
 QD When man truly 'repents' be feels sorry thai ha has done W ron c.. and stops dolR9 it. God never does wrong. When not obey God, then God was sorry and re- iecteds Saut from being king. God is al- kyays sorry when we. sin, and always chan 0es b,s treatment Of us because he is al- ways just aud righteous. Samuel was very prayed for h1m all night.
 l12) Samuel staiteq the next morning to find Sad'. They told him that Saul had set up Q places u. e. monument of victo- NHAAA0k btklN lb k0U0 AUuu9 E6M0 pt<bu- ed on, and gone down to Gllgal.' This use Of words 'saows tue poDp aud cifcum- stance of the procession. Saul was, as proud of tue victory God had given him as thou ghth6 had won 1t for @himself. Sam uel found Saul, who boasted that he. had done what God commanded. ,-.-.--..,-. I14) But he forgot that the evidence of tns dlsobodience was right before them both, How often people claim to be right, when anybody by just looking about lit AlA Nh..k kkaxAsNl Nlni, RnIn Ap,A ways when tue claim IS false God eau sec and does see. We may bo charter than I Saul snd lnden the evideuce from men; but
 we eannet hide it from God. a z g.A .Q6l Saul tries to lay the blame on the people. Ever since the days of Adam folks doing on others, But the words show that
 he did not object. And b . says they kept the cattlafo sacrifice it to saed God had commanded that 1t be sacrificed without kseptd but Saul preferred hIs own way, la., l16s19l Samuel says stay stop telling Ifalsehoods and making false excuses. As l'oHe known to boa prophet of God, and as the one who had an nointed hlm king, Saul does not dare to prevent samuel from
 sage from God. in brief thus: You were
 nobodyi you were nothing; God made you l klpg; He gave you an errand to do. Why \ hsyeyeUnot done as He told youP
 [20-21l Saul still insists that he has do Re tKmks sAeag, bot says he did destroy tht
 Amalekites. He owns that verythinR
 should have been destroyed, but says the people, saved them, and that they hae
 saved them to sacrifice them. Many and
 many one has not half so good an excuse ! for the way they have disobeye cd GodW l [22-23l Read these verses very carefully I fer they teach a lesson we all need to learn Nothing can take the place of obsdlenot I to God. Nothing can excuse disobediepce fOne who ,disobeys God may R0 t6sefufct disobedlepce right. We cannot buy Gods lforeivebess for one sln by doinR sofnetbiui
 else that IS right. A uiaL might steals ant
 then give all that be has stolen to tn
 right. God loves to have us obey him, fol
 what he tells us to do is the very bes thing to do always. The best for us ana
 the best for everybody else. Ills com mandments are not grievous'
 Because thou hast rejected the word O I being king This is something like th I Golden Text for this lesson. The text 1 about Esau. He sold his 'birthright,, !, th 'Ir1kht to be the head of the household, an
 ss wanted to cat. He could net buy
 back again. And he lost more than he un l defstood, for God had promised that b 1 would 0ive great bless inRs to that fanlii y
 He could not get them Dack when ne ha, sold them Ss s1t was too lHte.i S0r with Baul II As we read on in the story we hee that h \ was very sorry afterwards that he had los I theikinGdom, but he could not get 1t back Il It was too 1ate.,l sss ss,s '" 6,tJT .ts,l,ali 'i3 When we do wrong God often lets . '9 9'suffer tor it. We cannot make the wron
 right and we have to take the consequeu Ces., As soon as the wronG is done, 1t is to late. A httle boy threw c stone at hi Ebrother when he was angry. 1t. struck hi 1br6ther' on the head and killed him. Ina
 boy was very sorry. He was sorry as lon les he lived. Everybody pitied him; nc
 body punished hlm. But he could not eve restore his brother to life. Every sin " commit has it's consequences. Sometime
 they seem great aud sometimes they seer
 suuall. S0metimes they etfecp many othe Il people, and sometimes only nnrselves. w l never can tell how it is RoIhR to be. Gu
 lesson from this is Always try 70 Iobe
 God. for tbat is right. A If we have done wrong. God can foreiv 1us. He always does fol give us if wSwi Fl truly repent. Jesus did everything righ and thea died for tLose who do wrong .an
 for His sake God will be sure to forRive U . If we repent. He loves tO forgive and say
 us. But He does not prevent all the COT sequences of our wrong doIng from con
 ing. That would not be wIsest CT best.