The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-01-17
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR9
JANUARY 10
L. .sson Text: 'Th' Song oa zacharfa~,
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67. .'And his father Zacharias was filled
with the Holy Ghost" After Mary had
ssa9t some three months with Elizabeth -sa
asr"a gaye to ls.ssS t. her STp eor -. lfxp
the fSss DAY came to ercnna m md t6s S9S- Ss.
pie who had come together We're about to call
him Zacbarias, after his father. but his
mother Said that he should be called John:
MS father being appealed to asked for a writ
ing table and wrote, saying: His name is
John then were the ears opened and the
tongue loosed which had been closed and silent
many months because of unbelef (see vss
~, 62l, and as he spake and praised God he
was was filled with the Holy Spirit and uttered
this prophecy
, Is Blessed be the Lord God of Israel" "
thus ends the first, second and fourth books
OF fsaims Cxli., 13; lxxii, lS; cvi., 4s) telling
nt Gods merces and deliverances, past and
futare. for His people Israel The name is
hrst found in Ex. v, 1, when Moses and
Aaron demand of Pharaoh that he let Gods
people go. and is always associated with
Hods special interest i'll that people, The
prophet Jeremiah associates the two titles,
thirty times, indicating His power to care
LOT his people and deliver them
he hath visited and wrought redemption
Tor His people (R. W. 1t was four hun
Tred years since Malachi had said that the
covenanted with David and Abraham, hut
now His time had come to work redemption
for them and to redeem them il they were
willing. That we should meekly patiently
anI sru1.fuliy wait the lords time is enc IF
the great lessons of Scripture exemplifed in
Lord Himself.
90. "And hath raised up an horn of saliva
tion for us in the house of His servant Da-
vid.' The horn is the symbol of strength or
power Hannah sings of her horn and the
horn of His anointed; David sings Of the
horn of his salvation, which is Jehovah Il
SnV N, "a
cxxxi., II. Jehovah Himself says that in
Zion He will make the horn of David to
bud, indicating the coming of the Messiah
from the house of David.
70. "As He spake by the mouth of his holy
prophets which have been since the world
began The same spirit now speaking
through Zacharias had spoken in times past
by the prophets, and afterward through
John and Jesus and the apostles and will
esaxes uSte anrsGgn % 'ho;s "nG Pst Sleia
Spirit speaking is nohs ia Gsat,tal and the Holy
speaking (deb. L., l. .; John xii 40,
-. nat we should be saved from our o,
9nles and from the hand of all that hate ns,,
i;Iso us Us, rememoer that this lesson, although
Tx" IKE all Scripture, written for our instrIs2Ss.,
1hon. Sv. q refers primarily and chRen tta, tn
lSiae' and her lvaton from all her e2 er;3;.s ~
as the prophets had foretold eS'
q; I3 10 perform the mercy, I,ro,,;sod 20
enant; the oath @ which i''f%0sy He His holy coy
amer Abraham" In Ps, cv Sle u the euf COW M
. ham and SoHSr ronr@eS of as &c one with Abra-
rael, and one of the promiS =. jacob ,, t ana Is
Is distinctly said to be to YES III .me toSGna,S GOV
of Canaan. If any one wsiye them n the .san,a Lana
to read carefully the oft Ill take the trouole
with Abraham in Gen repeated covenant
Xxi'.. they will see the g Xt., Kill, Ky, HVh.'
enant. and surely be pa I'LL terms Oh that Gov
cially for Israel and laS aSrsuaded that u Is spe.
days. 3oks beyond even our
"A, =. delivered. 1
: y in boi,noss serve Him,
Him all the ,jovs of I'D Righteousness before
Israel's present cond;t;l life" One glance at
their land still sifted q pm, 1900 years out OF
yet t.eserveei the rebb bnong all nations and
hem, clearly indicates Ike still resting upon
Spirit through Zacbar; I hat the words of the