The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-27
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
AN INTERESTING AND INSTRUC-
TIVE LESSON.
Reflections of an Elevating Character
wholesome Food for Thought = study
Ing the scriptural Lesson Intelligentiy
and Probably.

! b. found in ChrOn "A 4-14.
INTRODUCTORY.
Heredity is something, but it is not
| iron. IL may well make us fear, bat il
need not cause Us to despair This same
Joash, who works so loyalty for God in
the lesson before us, had for his great
grandparents the notorious Ahab and
Jezcbel. But God had interviewed and
| touched his heart with new inspira-
ton from on high. There is an almost
romantic interest attaching To the story
of the long concealment of the young
| prince in the house OF the high priest.
His pious rearing shows itself in his
liingly career, and proves again how the
bringing up tells more than does the
blood in the after life. 1t is lesson of
peculiar interest to the young, and it
mas its suggestions also for the Jehoi-
adas and Jehoshebas of to-day.
WHAT THE LESSON SAYS.
After this. The things narrated in the
opening verses-the young kings coro-
nation and establishment in the king
ship.-Was minded. Hebrew: Upon
the heart Of Joash. -Repair. First
meaning, to make new or fresh, |. O., e.
new. SO rendered at . Chron. 10: 8
Gathered. Probably a formal relig-
ious convocation. To repair the house
Not the same word as repair in V. 4.
This means to strengthen. The word
occurs in this sense at Eze. 30:21.-
Hasten. Hebrew: BE quick.
Required Or investigated. The word
means to make dilligent search, inquisi-
ton. First meaning to tread out Je-
hOiada was responsible for the right per-
Torrance Of the duties en-. oined upon the
Levites. Collection. Literally, the
lifting up; hence, tribute.
That wicked woman. Emphatic and
placed first in the Hebrew. -,Broken
up, More accurately, made a breat h .
Dedicated things. Or the holy
things. An added dissertation
stow upon. The word also means to
make a sacrifice with. See Douay. (Vari-
atoms
At what time. Or, when the time
came. Kings Office. Or Officer He
brew: mastering -Emptied. To pour
out from. --Gathered. The first mean
ing Of the word, quite Suggestively, is to
sweep together
Repair. Same word as in V. 4. Tho
kings mind" is now executed. -
Mend. Same as word rendered repair
N " 5; to strengthen, perhaps with
orders.
The word was perfected. A peculiar
Hebrew idiom. Healing went up on the
work, |. e. repairs. In his state. He,
brow, measure, proportion. See varia-
tions.
Before the king. Literally, the face
Of the king-To minister, or of serv.
Continually. The daily burnt
offering.
WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES.
Joash was minded to repair the house
of the Lord. Give the young man a
chance. Encourage the Christian youth
of the land in this new spirit of en-
deavor for the Master. II we under
stand this young peoples movement AT
all, it means for one thing, and that our
later Joash is minded to repair the house
OF the Lord. Not that he proposes to
improve on what has been SO grandly
wrought under God, through his elders
of Israel. The foundation of God stand
eth sure. The word OF the Lord abideth
forever. But the service of the Lords
house may suffer loss and decline in the
wear and tear of the years. There
needs TO be new spiritual equipping
with each generation, TO keep abreast of
the times. When young Joash is thus
minded. shall we not all thank God and
take hold with him?
HOwbcit the Levites FASTENED j. not
Let that be said of former generation
OF ministers. 1t is n sad thing for any
advance movement when the Lords own
ACCOMPLISHMENTS are behindhand with
it. Bad for the movement and bad for
the servants. If the Lord has called his
ministers for any known purpose it is
TO hasten the coming Of the Lord. And
yet how slow and tardy are some of those
called t. the work, keeping away from
the thick of the fight, counscing at
times retreat rather than advance. 1t
is not well. This is day for the bugle
call and the battle cry: for the anonted
of the Lord TO be at the front, urging on
to now aggression and to certain victorc
o TO hear it, in lofty confidence, all along
the line, ave will rejoice triumph in
thy salvation, and in the name of our
| God we will set up banners" Gods ban
ners-not ours
And all the people rejoiced, and
brought in. Certainly. What better
time for rejoicing? The Joy times are
always the growing times. AS we bring
| in of our little substance, God brings in
| of his boundless grace. And so it is
| more b 'essed q. @. more profitable) TO
| give than TO receive. A friend of ours
| was calling the attention of a goodly
| company OF us, some time since, to the
| fact that the word cheerful in the
| familiar Scripture, "The Lord loveth a
| cheerful giver," is the Greek word
iarios, very like our English term
| hilarious, which comes from this same
root; and so he chose to read it for the
time just for its suggestiveness- giving
| that is almost hilarious, bubblng. over
with JOY. Well, there is such a thing
as the luxury of giving. Have you
| learned it?
Thus they did day by day and gath
cred money in abundance. 1t is the way
To increase our church treasures.
Everybody giving and giving daily.
| Good DR.. Stimson over there i'm Indiana
and through the Southern precincts
keeps ringing the changes on the words,
every one of you, on the first day of the
week, as the Lord hath prospered.
Some Of us will never forget It, Some
of our churches are profiting by il. Why
not all? Perhaps. those Israelites were
feeling rather poor, like some of the rest
OF rs but when they GET To work in this