Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-09-27

Sunday school review for September 80, 'Ss.
THEME-EILIAL DIsoBEDIESoE.-Deut.
xxi: 1921.
IS. If a man have a stubborn and rebel
lious son, which will not obey the voice of
his father, or the voice of his mother, and
that, when they have chastened him, will
not hearken unto them. 10. Then shall
his father and his mother lay hold on him
and bring him out unto the elders OF his
city, and unto the gates Of his place. 20.
And they shall say unto the elders OF his
city: This our son is stubborn and rebel
lious, he will not obey our voice; he IS
glutton aAd drunkard. 81 And all the
men OF his city shall stone him with stones,
that he de- so shalt thou put EVIL away
from among you; and all Israel shall hear,
and fear.
GOLDEN TnxT-Be not among wine bib
| bers; among gluttonous eaters OF flesh; for
the drunkard and the glutton shall come TO
poverty; and drowsiness shall clothe man
with rags.-Proverbs xXin: 20, 81.
CENTRAL TRUTH.-The soul that sinneth
| IL shall die-Ezekiel xviii: 4.
TEACHING PoINTs.-Its sinfullness, V. 10;
its correction, vs. Is and 30; its punish
| ment, v. 81.
TIME.-B. G. 1851.
| PLACE.-The place of Moab.
kUTHoR.-Moses, through whom we have
the first five books Of the bible.
| CIRCUMsTAHCEs.-Deut means
the second law, or the repetition Of the law.
1t consists mainly of three addresses which
Moses made to Israel in the last few weeks
| of his life. He repeats the principal
facts in their history since leaving Egypt,
| especially TO reinforce the law. Our les
son occurs in the second address, and has
to do with the commands OF the second
! table.
NOTES.
~, ,1x N,,l.H
strong, obstinate and unreasonable; rebel
! lious, unruly and lawless resisting authori-
| ty; will not obey, fixee habit Of disobedi-
ence; father or mother, repeating his of
| Tense first against one and then against the
| other.
2. Its correction, VS.. 1890. When they
have chastened him, by earnest and godly
| rebukes, by denying him for time certain
| rights or privileges, by corporal punish
ment for his sin, or by all combined; will
not hearken unto them, incorrigible and
beyond restraint. Lay hold ON him, inn
| plies force, and for such a son would be
necessary; bring him unto the elders, when
every effort his parents could make has
| been despised and their authority denied,
| then this last resort. An appeal 70 the
civil authorities. The elders were tho mag
istrates Of those days. EXODUS xiv, /
Numbers XII, 49, The gate of his place,
the common place of resort in the East,
! both for social intercourse and public bust
ness. The judges sat in the gates. (Deut
xvi, IS; / Samuel iv, 1S). In this public
trial the parents add to the charges of
| stubborness, rebellious and wilful disobe-
dince; that he is glutton, or a riotous liver,
one who squanders his time, his substance
and his strength, in sinful lusts; and q
| drunkard, gluttony and drunkenness are in
| the nature of the case often joined togeth-
er proverbs xiii, 20, 2l Matt xi. 49,;
| they account for his obstinacy and disoDe-
dienc. a drurs1ard is one who has lost
control Of himself, being mastered by
strong drink. One who is poisoned and
! dehled in body, mind and spirit. A dTinker
| is always in danger of becoming a drunk
ard. No drinking, no drunkard."
3. It's Punishment, V. 81. Az the men of
! his city; tlial disobedience and drunken
ness are sins also against society, hence the
| civil law must take action upon them; shall
stone him with stones that he die; "a terrible
death; mode Of punishment in Moses
! day that lasted until after Christ's death
! Deut. Xiii:10; Xvii:5; Acts vii $500
Parental Partially would keep this law
| from abuse, and we may well rejoice that
| there is no record Of its execution. Put
evil away; the object was TO vindicate the
| law and suppress the sin: all Israel shall
| hear and fear, second object was that all
| other disobedient children might be warned
and all parents admonished not 10 permit
the spirit of disobedience to grow
PRACTICAL THOUGHTS.
Disobedient children make poor citizens.
Disobedience TO parents is dishonor 10
| God.
Irreverence and ingratitude are twin in
| EQUITIES.
A son whom the rod does not change may
be caught by the halter.
Slipping mild ~ drinks smoothes the way
| for strong drink.
Filial disobedience is as a wide gate TO a
broad road ending in death
1t is the source of most of the crimes
! with which the state has to deal.
Sin may be drawn as with cart-rope,
| but will not go unpublished.
The fine silk of sinful disposition may
grow into great cable OF evil habit.
"Resist the beginnings" In no vice is
this proverb more important both to parents
and TO children.
Drinking is sowing to the wind. certain
! 10 reap the whirlwind.
1.-THE excuses Of youth are drafts on the
health of old age, payable with heavy in
terest some twenty or thirty years after"
SUMMARY OF TEACHING.
Filial disobedience has its roots in the
evil heart Matt. XIV, 49,; its fruits offend
the parents, the family, society, the soul
itself, and God. Disobedience, stubborn
ness and rebellion, sins which appear very
early in the child-life, are often followed
by gluttony and drunkenness.
Note stubbornness as the marginal read
ing in Deut. xxx, 10; Jer. vii, "a xvi, IL;
xxxiii II, and in the texts Of the revised
versions. See it joined with idolatry in l
| Sam. XIV, D.
To be cured they must be nipped in the
bud; their growth will be as sad as IL is
rapid
Parents to correct their sons should pray
with them as well as for them. Alas for
those who must appeal to the civil law
against their own children.
Punishment respects not only the one Of
Tended, but society also. The state must
suppress those whom parents cannot re-
strain, and that which is the cause of their
offending.
LIGHT on THE LESSON.
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary
| madness.-Seneca.
A sensual and incorporate youth hands
over worn-out body to old age.-Cicero.
Drunkenness is a fiattering devil, a
sweet prison, a pleasant sin, which who
soever hath, hath not himself; which who
ever doth commit doth not commit sin, but
he himself is wholly sin.--Augustine.
oh; cursed, cursed sin traitor to God
| And ruiner OF man mother of woe,
And death, and hell wretched, yet seeking
| worse
Polluted most, yet waflowing in the mire;
| Most mad vet drinking frenZy's giddy Gun.