The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-01-17
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON FOR
JANUARY 10
Lesson Text: 9TH. Song % Aachar'a-,
Luke ,87 80 Golden Tex. Luke =.
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G7 "And his father Zacharias was filledl
with the Holy Ghost" After Mary had
spent some three months with Elizabeth :ss
returned to her own poYrs-'. AtN
fise day came to circumcE E.-zlechild, the peo-
pie who had come together were about to call
him ZaGbarias. after his father, but his
mother Said that he should be called John:
his father being appealed to asked for 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 unbelief (see vss.
20, 62l, and as he spake and praised God he
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 Psalms xii, 13; lxxii., IS; cvi., 4S) telling
of Gods mercies and deliverances, past and
future, for His people Israel. The name is
first found in Elk. ", I, when Moses and
Aaron demand of Pharaoh that he let Gods
people go. and is always associated with
Gods special interest in that people. The
Lord OF Hosts and God Of Israel, at least
thirty times, indicating His power to care
for His people and deliver them.
He hath visited and wrought redemption
cred years since Malachi had said that the
fIoyenantsd IH. with David and Abraham, hut
now His time had come to work redemption
for them and to redesm them if they were
willing That we should meekly, patiently
AM ;Iu fully wait tho Lords time is enc NJ
the great lessons of Scripture exempiihed I'm m
patriarchs, prophets, apostles, and III our
Lord Himself.
60 And hath raised up an horn of saliva
ton 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
Sam. H., |, 10; Ps. xviii, 2li and in rs.
cxxxii.. 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.
20. "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,
a! John and Jesus and the apostles, and VIII VIII
eSsmsciScs uSeS through those s, VINO PSt Slei
Spirit speaking is noris Gs,,and the Holy
speaking itieb. l., !, y; John xii, 49). '
a. That we should he saved from our on.
emies and from the hand of all that hate us ;,
Let us remember that this lesson, ALTHOUGH
!hon' xv., y refers primarily and chiefly to
israel and her salvation from all her p,er;;.S "
rs the prophets had foretold.
a. '3 10 perform the mercynromised to
our fathers, and TO remember r1Jis holy Gov
enant: the oath which He s,ars tn n 6nr r1s- fa.
ther Abraham In Ps. cv., S-i0 the Gov
! ham ,nd no,srn,oI 1' "'e ne made with Abra-
rael, and one of the promise i, The cowen,nt
| nf C,nno Iu", Tf W w W EEive them the Land
| to rcaI ,ri,' 1 one yill take the trouble
! with Ahrabam, j., ,Io H m repeated covenant
xxi. they will see the Il YXu, XIII, N., WI WI
enant aud surely be dt 1ern'. on Gudo ~ .or '.,
days anu 3oks beyond even oul
a. -. delivered, , HI,
= lii holiness an seINc I'm I'm,
Him all the days of ouu sn,eoSsness oel". ~
lsraerS present conditik me eooo oe si'we a a
their land still sifted ,Pn, loo ye.s 80 ouO ~ ~
Vet s,s,e-sz-veS;, rebdR uonS al haciohS "u'
Sheni, clearly indicates n Ike still resting upoI
;;s, have otr zaehsi Ind ntpa.
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