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A HOLY FESTIVAL.
LESSON VIII, THIRD QUARTER, IN
P TERNATlONAL SERIES, AUG. 10.

Text of the Lesson, Lev. XIII, 33-a4.
Commit Verses 41-43-Goiden Text, Ps.
cxviii documentary by Rev. ID. NJ.
Stearns.
CONDENSED from Lesson Helper Quarterly, by
permission of IL s. Hoffman, Philadelphia
publisher
This chapter may well be called The Chap
ter of the Feasts of the Lord" or 1.-The Chap
ter of Holy Conversations" the former ex-
preston beginning and ending the chapter,
and found also in verses 4, 81 while the latter
is found no less than eleven times in this
chapter.
Our lesson today gives an account of but
one of the eight different convocations re
corded in this chapter; or seven if we do not
count the Sabbath, which was an institution
as old as Eden.
So "And the Lord spake" How little we
are apt to think of this most weighty state
ment. 1t ought to cause us to give heed with
all our powers as we remember that while
other things pass away 1.-THE word of our God
shall stand forever"
"a. Speak unto the children of Israel"
Moses was simply the Lords mouthpiece to
the people and had only to say what the Lord
told him
"The fifteenth day of the seventh month"
1t is for God to appoint the day, and for
to be obedient. 1t was on the first day of
this month that they blew with the trum-
pets, and on the tenth day was the great
nual atonement of last weeks lesson. The
fftieth year or year of jubilee was ushered
in by the blowing of trumpets on the atone
ment (xxv, 8, 10.
THE feast of tahernacles seven Gays unto
the Lord" In Elk. xii, 10; xxxiv %, it is
cnll ho Of
had gathered in all their fruits out of the
field also v 80 of our lesson. Verses 40 to
43 tell us why it is called the feast of the
tabernacles; they all took boughs and
branches of trees and made booths in which
they dwelt seven days, rejoicing before the
Lord, as they remembered their forty days
in the wilderness, when they had no crops to
gather in, but they dwelt in tents and God
fed them
35. IAN noly convocation." because 1t was
a gathering unto, and i'll the name of the
Holy One of Israel. He was their holiness.
even as He is ours, and apart from Him there
is no holiness.
mo servile work" Nine times in this
chapter are we told of no work or no man
uer of work, or no servile work Tvs 5, Z, S,
81, p, IS, 81, s., 80 IN connection with these
holy days All true service ought to be joyful
SCI wv sc" "''''A 'i'iihS " iiiii VINO
SPEAKS iicih on '"e mercy seat VINO HIM
SCH Is our 'llercy scat All slaNish work. or
work done because we ought to do it, or must
do it, should have no place in the service of
such Redeemer, whose service is perfect
freedom"
V. 81. IAN Offering made by fire untG tie
Lord" Twice in this verse. and five times
elsewhere in the chapter do we find this ex-
preston Tvs & IL, Is, p, %. 1t was be
cause ol uhIs oHeIihg by IRE That
tneie was W ne no seiNue WORK
uut oiilS joy III Une Aoru' "llR ofep
"uii'i'y VI '''
o. Every 'hihs upon MS Gay SACRIFICES
ana the huhn'er vi 'ueih Ieasts ana The order
Oh theih al appointed 10y uou ana everything
upon MS oay' 'he priests ana tle people had
only 10 re"' III isn. anu pe ope''Ieht' ana the
Soiiiihlnu vas 10 "ii'e 'ne words OF the
law very Piai"iy'
o. peH''e VIC 0'"U''HS, eltS'
Fo"e' an" Tree VIII oIer-
Hlgs' "nich ye give uiluo uhe LORD Israel
WIS rG4"i'on 10 E'Ee uii'o 'ie Aoru LOT ms
sIe'ia' WORSHIP, anu ioI 'le'I own great good
every seNenth "aS III 'he "hoie year besides
'"eSe 'ii'' 'hi'''i ae'SoHs Vi from one 10
seven or more uays' "heh everything ordl
nary hau 10 DE liid aSlde' they had also to
give one tehuh Oh an tner increase besides
thelr special gllts ana VOWS and free will
offerings
"A, having no" glanced at all the verses
IN the lesson verses o9-f" were touched
upon IN cohnectloh WIN verse % let us look
at lhe ieasts Oh tne Loru III thelr reference TO
Chrlst ana TO US ana may the spirit that
was III Moses deciare thein unto us. The
same spirit III raul declares that molly days
m v ieast oays'' new moons ana SABBATH
days are shado" OF thlhgs TO come Col
H. TO- ''l mat Chrlsr our PASSOVER has
been sacrlnced lor u.s. ana that we are to
keep uhe least WIN uue uilieaNehed pread OF
sincerity anu lruUh purSihS out All the old
ieaVen Oh nance ana "lcKedness' Il Cor V, Z,
o. ne aiso Oe'iS US 1hau Chrlst risen from
hne uead Is Che hFst iruitS OF Them that
'ieep' Cor' XIV ~ @',l mere tnen Is the
substance OF Ihe hfSt three OF the seven
IeasuS' CnriSt Tue true passover, christ the
true uhleaVeheh bread ana Christ risen from
the dead the true tlSt fruits Now the