Connecticut western news., 1876-01-07
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSONS.
By the Pastor of a Sunday School.

JANUARY 9TH. 1876.
 GOLDEN TkxT.-And the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day for ward.-I Sam., 16, IS.
 LESSON-I SAM. 1s. 1-1s.
 (D How long.' this was at least three or four years after the date of our last lesson, Whenwe learned how Samuel told Saul of for seven years more. The Lord is not slack, but is long sufferinR.-2 Pet. 8 9. Sometimes 1t takes good men 8 long time to become reconciled to Gods dealings. Fill have perhaps seen powder horns. Horns have been made into bottles and cups from the earliest times, and such are still us used & in some places. o To O. see e what kind of consecrated to Gods use. God meant that the king of Israel should be his servant. Jesse the grandson of Boax and Ruth. 'Bethlehemite;' Jesse lived at Bethlehem. where Rachel was buried Gen. S5. 19; 1; where Ruth and Naomi lived, Ruth 1, 19 1; where Jesus was born. Luke 9, All.
 (2) He will klll me- shows how wicked a man Saul had become. Take helfer.' it was part of Samuers duty ro offer sacri tsl1 aSeS sn and teach +as the people God did no. best to tell all he was going. to do. It IS never right to toll lie. It is often right not to tell all we know. Never tell any tnlnR that Will make trouble unless you know that it will do good.
 (4 Comest thou peaeeablyf The Elders or chief men of the town knew that fer several years Gods prophet had nsthlng to do with the king. and they were afraid ot trouble. 'Sanctify yourselves.' to sane apd pure. The people must come with clean bodies and clothes (Ex. 19, 10) as we'll worship God.
 F[cl Ehab was Jesse's eldest son. David when he was klng, made Eliab one of his chief rulers. Chr, 27, IS.
 l7l Ihls verse is very good one to learn by heart. God does not thlnk of people,or judge of them as we do. People can tell us lies, and deceive us, so that we will can dscelve God. The Lord looketh on the heart. Always remember that. We can judge something of what sort of a per son Eliab was, by what he said to David aftsrward. Sam. 17, 28.
 1891 Abinadab and Shammah were sol dlers: Sam. IF. 12-14.
 III Jesse.s youn gest son was not there. This was David. David means darling. Because of the nsme they had given him, or. as seemed likely. flor we do not know thisl made for him; and because he was, like Benjamin, the youngest child of old people II Sam. 17, 12l. we are led to believe that he was favorite. and very likely his brothers lllke Joseph's brothersl were jeal ous of him and disllked him; Eliab's talk certainly sounds that way. So David was separated. somewhat. from the rest. There had not been time to summon blm from the 'wllderness' whore he was keeping the sheep. We will not sit down till he come.' way the whole story reads, that Samuel had told Jesse, perhaps, Something of why be had come to Bethlehem but that he did not let any of the rest of the family ,or ot the people of the place. knew what he was there for.
 [12l David's beauty, grace. agility and strength are very often spoken of. l see that some of the Question Books and Les son Papers say that at this tune he was a boy only 16 years old. The Bible does not years after this. and IS then spoken of as in good old age, full of days. riches and honor.' Josephus. the great Jewish histo- ran, says he was 70 years old when he died. If so, he must have been at thls tune man, about 2S years old. He certain iy was very strong and brave, and had, while keeping the sheep, killed lion and bear: Sam. 17, 34-86.
 l1Sl Though he was annointed with the holy oil in the midst of his brethren,' it CT people there, understood what it meant. But the Lord knew. And though God waited seven years before he gave hlm the kingdom. the Split of the Lord was with DdNAu AIOAn tn8t uay 1OEWaTO, anu AlL UDRt happened to him helped to make him Q good king.
 Bethlehem, where these things happen ed, is about six miles from Jerusalem. It IS there now, and still ls 8 village, haviuR about 5000 inhabitants. It stands hieh.up- on hin. The houses are of stone, and close together. Tue streets are narrow steep and crooked. All the people living in Bethlehem now are Christians although most of the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the rest of the country are Mahometans, and worship Mahomet.
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