The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-07-19
GIFTS UNTO THE LORD.
International Sunday-School Les.
son for July "a, 1899
Offerings Of the People for tho Tabernacle
Tho Real Nature of Money and
the Only True Giving-Sug-
gestions for To-day.

CENTRAL TRUTH--1t is great privilege to
give freely for Gods cause.
TIME-Autumn, u. @. 140l.
PLAcE-Tbo Valley Of Rahah, before
Mount Sinai.
INTRopUcTfoN-In our last lesson God an
swered Moses prayer for His continued
presence with the people, and showed
Moses His glory. After this, Moses was
again summoned up into tho mount, whith-
or he went with two new tables Of stone,
on which God again wrote tho command
ments. Moses remained forty days In tho
mount. On returning he called upon tho
people for trecwill offerings, with which
to construct the tabernacle and its furni-
ture; and they gave abundantly. It is csti-
mated that tho tabernacle and its furniture
cost about o million and o quarter dollars
HELPS OVER HARD PLACEs.-20 And all
the congregation departed: from the great u.s.
sembly to which Moses had summoned
them, repeating tho Sabbath law and ask-
ing for contributions for tho tabernacle,
stating what things would bc needed 81.
Whose heart stirred him up tho heart Is the
center and source Of hberality. Giving is
Of little account without the heart. The
tabernacle: o costly and beautiful tent for
the manifestation Of Gods presence and for
SShVoA Va WOichhps ~ 10 uCoSAiuOu IA
chaps. 1928. Sec noxt lesson. o. Tablets
armlets. 49, Blue, etc. tho colored yarns
or cloth of wool or Of linen dyed with these
costly colors. Red skins: skins tanned and
dyed red. badgers skins: sealskins, made
into leather. a Shtttim GOOD: acacia, q
thorny tree, like our hawthorn, only larger;
q close-grained wood, Of orange color. No
other kind of wood was used for the taber-
nacle. 25 Wise-hedrted: skilled, and devoted
to God Fine linen: special manufact-
ure Of Egypt, where it was so fino
as some times to be worth its weight in
gold. 27. Onpr stone: the stone out Of
which canoes are cut, being formed Of diff
ferent-colorcd layers. There were two Of
these upon the cphod. Ephod: the special
overdress Of the high priest. Breastp,ate:
a small costly garment Of the high priest,
on which twelve precious stones were
placed, to represent the twelve tribes.
REFLEX INFLUENCE ON TIE GvERs-God
did not need these gifts. All the treasures
Of the earth were His He who could create
the world with word did not need these
gifts Of a small portion Of that world. But
all this was ono OF Gods methods OF tram
ing loyal and largc-hearted mer and women.
1t bound them TO Him with new interests
and strong motives; it stopped their mur-
uluEluBS duu EhNc buCui SOpt CuCcE ~ RtNc
them noblor objects, and led on to moro
loving conservation.
CosrNENrs-Solomon says sMoney an.
swereth all things" What Is money! HB
really part Of myself. For II work for
dollars for my work, Is not that two dollars
my days work turned into cashl In real
ity, have two dollars worth Of myself in
my pocket. And If it is my father who has
given me the same amount, 1t Is two dollars
Worth Of my father that ] am carrying
about mo. Is not this strange way Of
looking ut money! And yet 1t is truo way.
am oil the time carrying myself about
with mo. When, therefore, ! spend my
money for any thing, nm spending myself.
II wo only thought Of this oftener, we
should be more careful about the way in
which wc spend ourselves. See that young
man! He has just received bis weeks wages.
He says: ~ have ten dollars; what will l
do with itl" He Is o fast young man, so he
goes to the nearest saloon, and spends 1t for
strong drink. What has he donel lie has
spent a part Of htrnsey TO ruin himselN An
other young fellow comes homo with his
ten dollars, and says: "What shall do
with this part Of myselfp He is lovor Of
books, and so no goes to the secondhand
bookstore, and carefully picks out as many
books as his ten dollars will pay for, and
goes homo with q part Of himself under his
arm. A third man puts his money into the
savings bank, 30 that part of himself may
earn him some more cash in the future. Yet
another says to himself: "My old mother
used to pinch herself to lay aside money for
my education. She is I'D now, and needs
some little luxuries 70. 7hich she can not
pay. I will send my 4 dollars 10 her."
So he sends ten dollar, worth of himself to
tho old lady, and rejoices that no Is able
thus to pay part Of the debt he has so long
owed her. Finally, still another says: 'grhis
ten dollars is q weeks worth Of myself, and
will send 1t to carry tho glad tidings OF
salvation to those who have not heard it,
So he puts it into tho contribution box, and
it goes to help the cause of missions
In this way let tho teacher draw out
the strange power that money has
and make tho class see in q new
light tho power Of this common thing. Nc
wonder that Solomon said Money an
swereth all things" We all admit that we
are responsible for the way in which we use
our bodies, and for the way in which we use
our time or our talents. But we are not 81
ready to admit that we are responsible fol
the way IN which we use our money. The
last thing that is converted is too often the
pocket-book. In fact, the next revival tina,
the church needs is revival that shal
reach as far as tho pockets Of those who
have been converted in previous revivals
There are to-day many thousands of church
members who have no idea that God has {
right to every dollar that they own, ant
that unless they givo in proportion as HI
has given to them, they are really robbins
God. If the duty Of tithing their income,
il pressed home upon them, they RESPOND
that that was Jewish requirement, ant
| that we do not live under the law, but undel
the Gospel. What they really mean, bu
| do not want openly to say, il this, that they
| want to be meaner than the Jew eve
thought of being. This is the true inward
ness of the objection to the tithing system
And on this account we have church debts
and mission debts, and Sunday-schoo
debts, and all manner Of religious debts
IL Christians we're as liberal as the Jews il
our lesson, we should hardly know what u
do with tho millions on millions that woul(
pour into all our treasuries.-Rep. a. y
Scla46ier
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS.
| /. God has given us q great work TO do
to make the whole world His temple, ani
bring all the people into His kingdom.
2. A right heart makes liberal hand.
8. 1t is q great blessing to be ablo ant
willing to give.
| 4. All men, women and childrep--car
find some work to do for God,
8. Each one must give what he has, and 4
Is accepted.
O. Common work Is Rlorided and ennoblei