The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-01-10
LESSONS REVIEWED.
FOURTH QUARTER OF THE INTER.
NATIONAL SERIES, JUST CLOSED.

FOURTH QUARTER OF THE INTER.
NATIONAL SERIES, JUST CLOSED.
Lesson XIII, for December so. isss-Ge.-
srHl Topic, the Development Of tAs
Commonwealth Of Israel from Their
Occupation of Canaan TO Birth "f Obsd.
The third quarter closed with the children OF
Israel entering on the Promised Land, which
they soon occupied, except the portions stiil
occupied by the Jebusites and other nations
whom God had left ITO prove them. because
they had partially failed to keep His COM
mandments. The remaining lessons Of the
fourth quarter detail the wonderful history
of q period OF four centuries and more. during
which the chosen people went through sue
cession Of trials for the development OF their
character There is strange and renarka-
bly, interesting series Of repetiti0ns, eacn
phase having its own peeuliarities, yet ali
enforcing the same lesson--that unfaithfnl-
ness brings punishment
The processes are uniform; first there wBs
ueace and with IL prosperity till the peopse
forgot God, neglected His ordinances and
adopted corrupt practices from their neigh
bors; then God allowed those mel iXhhors -
triumph over them and reduce them &c
slayery til in their misery they called on the
Lord for deliverer then great hero arose,
delivered them from bondage and gave peace
all prosperity again brought in imp.ety ana
Sts punishment slavery, and then the reforIn;.
tory process was repeated. Nearly AL tb~
nations whose records make history have hnd
similar cxperiences Peace created pros
perity, prosperity was followed hy cor
ruptlon, and that led TO civil O. foreig1
war, sometimes to complete snljugntion: ::
poverty nnd misery taught their hard lasSoDs +,
and ou tho ruins Of the old civil LAtlon a neF.
one spraDg mp, III turn to grow corrupt an'
decay Bat this process, which gees Oh slowly
In modern Eusope and America went OF
rapidly ia the warmer climate Of southwest
ern Asia in the early ages OF tho World
Since the beginning OF written history, fa.c,
&4te aJd the nd ilccut regions have G2en held
byssve' distinct races: the flamitic. the Sc
sit.s, bts Persian, the Greek, tho Roman, tie
gal.c.u ,4a4 the Turkish. And ln,.ar each
there were nii-or, but bloody revolutions
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rible They coHld no: any longer Ess =,
fore tdeir snenies" nnj sunk iut, the n' :"
CALLING slavery. Their fret noted op"rcSso. =
were Of hesopetamia, and whon they hao
served their eight yeaas t,p Lord raised n.'
Othniol 60 doivcg thenl lie gave 'hen' res:
forty YEAR, then They trausgrcssed again,
and Eglon, king og Moab, brHeht then
under Tor eighteen voar.. Ehud slew I1gluu
and delivered them. and dhis time they had
rest for eighty yric that Il, pio,aoly, u
tho youngest child ss wh' Co1lt remein''sy
tho dGliveisnco lad died
1ben couo twenty yesrS of ss4i more gall
ing suhysctiol Go JaliJ. King of Canaati-
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south OF the laraolltes FrOal thls captivity
Blrak and Deborah delivered thep--" Are
the land bad rest forty yearS' Again theN
worshiped idols, and ths Lord gave IbcrI Int,
tho hand OF Mdtan, Aud this was ~ors'
than nil before, for the Mldiauita wsTa no
nrGdic robbers wao destroyed all pc tru,
al ibc fields; 80 tho lgrsolites tea from ih'
valleys and INSIDE tLouI deus ~ ttU moan
tains" Seven years OF horror and falu.u'
they suffered, and then tho Lord rsised u
Gideon 10 deliver thelu .snd the couOtrl
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Gideon" Then tho weAryiug story was ~
psated there was apostasy wholesale murdei
civil war and tho wicked rule vi Abmelech
After him there was comparative Ieac
Iorty-two yesrs, then another GpustAsy On
slavery for eighteen years. Jephthl deliv
cred them and another peace was follosed D
subiectlon TO the Philistinss, which bTIul
IA 20 tbo wonderful story of SIInAon.
After samson there was another civil wa
end "a period when thsre was practically u
ruler Every man did that which w
rigbt Ia his own eyoI" Tho sad nnrtatio
Ls then broken by the affecting story OF itn:'
Samuel, tho prophet, was then called and fl
NJ time Israel enjoyed better days.