The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-20
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
SERIOUS SUBJECTS CAREFULLY
CONSIDERED.
Scholarly Exposition or tho Lesson
Thoughts Worthy of Ca'm Reflection
Half an Hours Study OF the Scriptures
Time Well Spent.

Half an Hours Study OF the Scriptures
Time Well spent
The lesson for Sunday. May "a, may be
found In Kings II: 6-1S.
INTRODUCTORY.
with this lesson We come TO that sad yet
not unfrultful period of IsraoPs history
called he captivity 1t began for the ten
tribes in 722 Ii. O., for Judah In COG IL. &.
The end thereof, for judah came, To all in
tents and purposes. with the decree or
Cyrus In 535 u. &. The ten tribes never re-
turned as "A united people, hence they are
called "the lost tribesn In IA sense this
captivity Is not yet ended. Such Is the con-
tention OF that remarkable little work on
Jeremiah's prophecy. by David Baron, "The
Jewish Problem.n Quoting, along with 9TH
ers, the passage, Il will bring again the
captivity OF my people Israel ana judah"
he says that there is here promised ga COM
plete restoration of the entire nation in
terms most unequiyocal and minute, which
certainly could not be- said TO have received
their fulfllment I'm the-comparatlvely
speaking -niere handful who returned from
Babylon" 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.
Hoshea. King OF Israel, 122 II. c.
King of Assyria. Shalmaneser. whose sue
cessor, Sargon, completed the conquest
Carried away Israel, 81 carried away
says Sargon's tablet, found at Nineveh,
"27.2S0 OF the citizens" Placed or set, sug
gestive OF control.--Halah. At the north
OF Assyria. In Habor. Or on the liha-
bour which was itself "the river of Gozan."
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 Abyss. -From under the
hand. Intimating subsection. gods.
The word other literally means after, L. e.,
gods that come after.
Walked. or deliberate SHINING. Cast
out. strong word meaning to dispossess.
At Mum. II: -, IL is rendered disinhert.
The nations had sold, as il were, their
birthright, and forfeited the land.
Did secretly. From the verb TO cover,
| or veil. The noun is translated covering in
the margin of Isa. 1: 5.-That were not
right. More accurately, not SO. /. e.. what
ought not to have been so.-Against the
Lord, or toward the ord.-From the
tower of the Waterman to the fenced city.
The tower OF the Waterman was mere out
post The word for tower I'm the Hebrew is
the word Migdol, transferred as "a proper
name at one or two places in the English;
u. q. Elk. 1872.
Set them up. OF set up for themselves in
dicating selfwill.-lmages. Anything set
| up.--Groves. Revision, Ashera. These
shrines were for the worship OF the lewd
goddess Kshera regarded by the Assyrans
the spirit rs it were OF good luck. Latin,
IL.
Every fourishing or spreading tree that
offered good place.
WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES.
The Lord east ont. The Lord reigneth.
All things are I'm his hand. and he is not
only the great Creator but the one who sub
/ dues and overturns. Mary magniied him
| by crying out. "Hc hath put down the
mighty from their seats and exalted them
OF low degree" And IL is she that gives in
| ttmation Of the method: "He hath scattered
the proud In the imagination OF their
hearts" Pride IL is that works mans ruin;
sci help, when wholly selfish. Is self-ruin.
And IL Is not simply the kings of the ma
tions who act. They are but the agents
and mess engerS OF a higher power. 1t is
God that casts out, and his sovereignty is
as high and honorable in bringing down as
in setting up. Believe it, friend. the Lord
has to do with our lives whether we accept
HIM % not. IL we be not lifted up. we shall
be east out What folly To ignore it. Spur
gcon says man is like traveller who stops
at n 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 it
N
n, hateful to God and hurtful 10 man. The
waltz has become "a sort of fashionable di-
version, and the world has yelled its bad
origin. as she has, in 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 theater about the
middle of the eighteenth century, where il
was Al 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 it
agoing.
Yet the Lord testified against Israel. 1t
IL not necessarily against Israel 1t is
rather unto Israel God was speaking i'm
Israel's behalf when he sent by the mouth
of all his prophets. IL was a kind father
seeking To warn his children; it was "A ten
der shepherd trying to call back his sheep.
Men find fault with the pulpit to-day. They
speak OF being preached at. As If the SER
mon were an overseer's whip rather than
shepherds crook. "Turn ye turn we, for
why will we die" is the voice OF love rather
than of wrath "Kecp my commandments
means keep guard Of your life, for the COM
mandments Of God are our bulwark of de-
Tense. o, the confusion of face that must
come upon the dlsobedent at last rs they
realize against what earnest. long contin-
ued testimony of God and angels they have
sinned.
"There Is danger In longer delaying,
Swiftly the moments pass by;
II now you Will come there Is mercy,
Jesus will help IL you try"
They followed vanity and became vain
That l. It, We presently become just what
we follow after The spiritual mind of the
Greeks sank to the level OF the low placed
gods and goddesses they chose to rover
ence. The hearts OF the heather, follow
ing with all the Righteousness that Is theirs
after wood and stone, presently themselves
become wool and stone. The Christian
following after the world soon becomes
worldly, the wording following after tho
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 IL to be
carnally minded is death, itself death To
live according To the course OF the word Is
to take on more and more the habiliments
OF the grave. "Hollow and shallow says
DIR. Pierson. care the two words that eX-
press for me all worldly pleasure To be
conformed to the world is to be conformed