Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-09-28
LESSONS REVIEWED.
THIRD QUARTER OF THE INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES CLOSED.

lessor XIV, for Sept. 80, 1SSS-Topio,
the Forty Years Wandering in the
wilderness of Stakeholder Text, John
1, As.
The Second Quarter closed the mission of
Christ with an exposition Of His great conf
mission to His dsciplA, to "Go and teach all
nations" an injunction which passed to their
successors and rests upon the Christian world
today. The Third Quarters lessons relate to
Gods dealings with Israel and the settlement
of the chosen people in the Holy Land-the
action which prepared the scene and laid the
foundation for the establishment of Christs
earthly kingdom.
The lesson for July l turns upon the
awfully sublime promise, as quoted in Heb
viii, 10 81 will be to them n God and they
shall be to me people," This is, indeed, a
Golden Text Then follows from Ex
xiv, LIP the announcement and formal
ratification of Gods covenant with the chill
dren of Israel at the foot of Mount Sinai
From Egypt to Sinai the people had been
taught Gods power; in the giving of the law
they were shown His majesty as law giver;
they now received IA glimpse of His character
in the dispensation of grace. 1t was but a
glimpse. 1t was the first covenant" The
last was 20 be manifest in Jesus Christ. The
people accepted the first covenant; there was
a universal confession of faith, and i'll the
erection of the twelve pillars and the sacrifice
offerings the covenant was ratified. Most
appropriately the ratification closed with ar
awfully sublime visitation. Moses and Aaron,
Nadab and ADihu, and seventy of the elders
of Israel went up into the mountain and
there had a vision of the "God of Israel"
certain by a symbolic vision, a show of kind
ness, unlike that of terror at Sinai This
done, their long probation begun the train
of events to terminate i'll the Incarnation of
Christ.
The second Sunday of the quarter brings
us to the first great apostasy, only forty days
after the covenant. And in that aposCasy
Aaron was a participants; he took thrir
golden ornaments and fashioned the golden
calf, and they danced around it with the
foolish notion that they We're worshiping
their God. 1t was a result of the force of
habit For 400 years they had been slaves to
an idoatrous people, people who worshlNcd
the SACRED Bull, Apis and when Moses
was long absent the old idolatrous feeling re-
turned. Many generations passed before the
Hebrews were entirely purged of this idola-
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