Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-21
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
THOUGHTS WORTHY OF CALM
REFLECTION.

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found In Kings n: 6-is
INTRODUCTORY.
With this lesson VIC come 20 that sad yea
not unfrnitfui period Of israei's history
called the captivity. IL began for the ten
| tribes In 722 II. O.. for Judah In 0O6 b. q.
The end thereof, for judah came. to all in
tents and purposes with the decree OF
| Cyrus In SOS b. @. The ten tribes never re-
| turned as united people. hence they are
called athe lost tribes In sense this
captivity is not yet ended. Such Is the con-
tention OF that remarkable little work ON
Jeremiahs prophecy. by David Baron. aThe
Jewish Problem Quoting, along with 9TH
ers, the passage, ~ will bring again the
captivity OF my people Israel and Judah.D
he says that there Is here promised "a COM
plete restoration of the entire nation I'm
terms most unequivocal and minute. which
certainly could not be said TO have received
their fulhllment I'm the-comparatlvely
speaking-mere handful who returned from
Isabylon.n A Jew himself he expects to see
his people ultimately return TO Mt. Zion.
and there crown the son of David king.
And Is not Christ himself their better Zion?
WHAT THE LESSON SAYS.
Idols. The Hebrew is dung balls or dung
llngs, In the language of opprobrium, CT. 2
Kings 10: % (adraught housep). This
thing. This is emphatic In tho Hebrew:
like, this very thing.
Testified against. Or unto. The word
testify means to assure or certify, to speak
I'm strong. earnest language. as did the
prophets In Gods behalf and for the peo-
Ply bly, se hSsS 81 al Che paobest
gave their solemn protest. The word testi-
fly is so rendered at Gen. 40: 3.--Keep. or
guard, as their only source OF safety, the
commandments being given In love, not In
wrath-Sent to you. ]. O.. for good. -
| Servants. Gods own angels of ministra-,
ton. Such was Christ. Zech. .; s.
Hoshea. King OF Israel, 722 b. c.
King OF Assyria. Shalmaneser. whose sue
sessOr, Sargon, completed the conquest. -.
Carried away Israel. ~ carried away"
says Sarson's tablet, found at Nineveh.
"27, $50 of the citizens.n Placed or set. sug-
gestive OF control-Halah. AT the north
OF Assyria.-In Habor Or on the Kha-
bour, which was itself "the river of Gozan.D
The word by should be omitted here.
For so Ii was that.-Better. and IL was
| because. Sin did it.-Brought them up.
An Eastern Abysis under tho
hand. Intimating subjection.--Otherg gods.
The word other literally means after, l. g.,
| gods that come after.
Walked. OF deliberate SHINING.
| out strong word meaning to dispossess.
| At Mum. IA: ~, IL Is rendered disinherit.
| The nations had sold, as IL were, their
pilthGiiGghtn and forfeited the JlaRfao were nov
| right. More accurately, not so. 1. e., what
ought not to have been so"Against the
Lord, toward the Lord. FROM the
tower of the Waterman to the fenced city.
The tower of the Waterman was mere out,
post. The word for tower In the Hebrew Is
the word Migdol, transferred as proper
name at one or two places In the English;
Q. g, Elk. IL: ?.
Set them up, or set up for themselves in
dicating self will.-Images. Anything set
up-Groves Revision. Ashera. These,
shrines were for the worship OF the lewd
goddess Ashera regarded by the Assyrians
the spirit as it were OF good luck Latin.
Fortuna, Greek, Venus-Green tree.
| SnrQadinQ
offered good place.
WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES.
Tho Lord cast out. The Lord reigneth
All things are In his hand. and he Is not
only the great Creator but the one who SUP
dues and overturls Mary magVhed him
by crying out @He hath put down the
mighty from their seats and exalted thu,
Of low degree" And 1t is she that gives i'm
tlmation Of ire method; sHe hath scattered
the proud in the imagination Of their
hearA.A Pride it Is that works mans ruini'
self help. when wholly selfish, is self-rulp;
And It is not simply the kings OF the ma
and messengers Of higher I'll power I'VE Il tits IS
God that casts out and his sovereignty is
as high and honorable In bringing down as
in setting up Believe IL. friend, the Lord
ha; to do with our lives, whether we accept
him or not II we be not lifted up. we shall
be cast out. What folly to ignore It'll Spur
geon says man is like traveller who stops
at hotel and orders what he will and
| when the bill is presented replies that he
has no money, and never thought OF paying
or being asked to pay. But the bill must
be paid.
The children of Israel did secretly those
things that were not right Not that they
wrought evil, unseen either of God or men.
but they covered their SHINING over and
yelled its enormity. They tried to cloak 1t
as fashion and custom. but back of IL all was
sin, hateful TO God and hurtful to man. The
waltz has become sort of fashionable d.
version, and the world has so yelled its bad
origin, as she has, i'm a degree, its bad mean
ing, that Christians themselves are. at times.
deceived. But tear away the veil We are
informed that the waltz was first introduced
upon the stage OF Vienna thoater about the
middle of the eighteenth century, where 1t
was at first but only tolerated.; gradually It
has worked its way into clean and beautiful
homes But, whatever Its surroundings, IL Is
doing work still for the party who started Il,
agoing.
Yet the Lord testified against Israel. IL,
Is not necessarily against Israel. IL is,
rather unto Israel God was speaking I'm.
Israel's behalf when he sent by the mouth
of all his prophets. 1t was kind father
seeking to warn his CHILDREN; II was ten.
der shepherd trying TO call back his sheep.
Men find fault with the pulpit to-day. They
speak Of being preached at AS IL the SER,
mon were an overseer's whip rather than a
shepherds crook "Turn we, turn We, for
why Will We dien Is the voice OF love rather
than Of wrath. "Keep my commandments
means keep guard OF your life, for the COM
mandments of God are our bulwark of de-
fense o, the confusion of face that must
come upon the disobedient at last as they
realize against what earnest, long contin-
ued testimony OF God and angels they have
sinnedi
"There Is danger in longer delaying.
Swiftly the moments pass by;
| III now You will come there Is mercy
Jesus will help, II you try.n
S9 qSsS su SfSlts Se Ss,i ~ s
gods and goddesses they chose TO rever~
/ ence The hearts of the heather. follow
ing with all the Righteousness that Is theirs
after wood and stone, presently themselves
become wood and stone. The Christian
| following after the world soon becomes
| worldly, the wording following after the
devil gradually becomes devilish. Vanity
| means breath. The man who follows after
nothing but breath is himself presently
naught but breath. He has become vain.
o. the emptiness OF sin! True IL Is TO be
carnallv minded is death, itself death. To
, live according TO the course of the world ~
TO take on more and more tho habiliments
: of the grave. AHollow and shallow says
) DIR Pierson, aare the two words that ex-
| press for me all worldly pleasure.n To be
| conformed TO the world Is to be conformed
| TO vanity. emptiness, death.
They should not do like them. IL Is 4
good rule to follow. Ses what the world
does, and then do the opposite. There Is
now only one better rule, possibly now IN
u this new dispensation: See what Jesus dio
i and then do like him. But observe nov
: | these Israelites noted. They straigntuny
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