The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-06-11
FINDING OE THE LAW.

AnScfnaIionaa Sunoay-ScnooA Lesson Aof
Juno IA tSvA.
Especially Arranged from 3. 3. CuarterIyJ
LESSON TExT-2 Chron. "a: 14e9
GOLDEN TExr-The law of Thy mouth is bet
ter unto me than thousands Of gold and silver.
--Ps f1o: "a
CENTRAL TRUrH-The power OF the Word Of
God
TMD-The book OF the low was found d y
en2, tho 18TH year OF josiah.
PLAcE-Jorusnlem.
RULERs-Josiah, Eing OF judah, b. U o4oouea
(Thc northern Kingdom had oeon extinct since
B. e. 722
fhoPsEIs ;1'', soIenilan 1epnahi'h ih"o""
RuR, anu huiann sno propmetess ,,.,,,,
fAsALLhL ASoouNa ~ y, M evenssoi voSsa es.
resh are rsoor~co oo =, W Sonron' on"pS' o. o"'
hlngs, cnaps. ~ =,
eVATh OF THE hiN1poM,rn -sotun ty y,aS y1s,s
M Mnsve psssou a"1s s.,ioc wy ue%,n y, ~.
Mos1 o, 'nrs titho Mu.osscn, Iiesonn s... 81 so,.
$neu nc @ sn%vo ~, p.sa. ,. 80 10 'aN,,r1r..
tious s oa,-. rr,t,, a. Ta VOC nrni.scd nv tns
Assyrians. VINO carried hin away captive He
repented, but idolatiy still fourshed Anon
bis son, next reisnod two yoars ana every evii
s,,u,pheo In.,at ~ ~ IVES siNi' a-o ' ''0-'s 'o-'
Helps OVER Fam rrAcz,-n ~.roupht
out the money!" contributed for the repair Of
the temple in tho oightocnth yoar OF Josian,s
.o1sn rne ~ ,.kaan ~, tno pr!cs. @ psn .ess pess
while th.r wera s,nroh,,1 for money. II wss
probably hidden 20 prov9..t i:s destruction by
Manasseh. I: ros no. missed 50 much because
sne wo.n .. 'ac prcsss g. tne ,p, suplu .ne,.
froli, Of tho law, The 1--WE nooks Of Mosea IA
"shaphan tho scribo:' tho kings secretary. 1t
is not probable that the king could rcnd; only
afew lesrnea ones could seso .nen. N Ren' en-
sns rS ,o- ~. a.naor uA thr.ntonino the na.snn
Among tho portions road were doubtless Inc
threatening In Low. 30 and Deut %. ~. I'm
the coliego:' should &c within tno sccona
Mi h-,rg s,-ii- -. not,on vea soo ,nr oone ~
be saved; thoy would not repent, and nothing
but the terrible experience Of the scvcnty years
captivity could Keep them from iao.atry.
as,s ,Va n ,ne neg xne 81 o ~ rat,on h.ye smss
resntto for repentance, The captivity oeean
about thirty-six years later
LESSON COMMENTS.
Two hundred years have passed away
since Joash had the temple repaired. OF
the kings between Joash and Josiah,
Amaziah, Uzziah and lothian were
quite good. Then came the wicked
Ahaz. He was followed by good Heze-
kiah. But Maaasseh was very vile, and
Anon equally so. Then camo the young
king Of whom our lesson tells. In the
twenty-sixth year of Josiah's age he set
about rcpair,ng the temple of Jehovah.
AS they were executing the kings COM
mand, and taking the money out of the
the vaults, they found an old COPY 10
roll) of the law. There was no print
ing press in those days, and the copies
of the law wero in manuscript form.
and therefore very scarce. This will. In
part, account for the fact that josiah
had never seen COPY. Probably Ma
nasseh and Anon had taken aood care
to neglect that law which condemned
their evil deeds When Joe;ob hao,.,
the law read he was f;lled With ho,ror-
for he enw now FOR the f,rst time how
avf,l wcrc Gods dennnci.4ions "a idol.
atrv. He rent his clothes for SORROW,
and hooked To God for Guidance IN the
future l,eer;no Of the law Of Moses
Probably the ch ief passage that TINA
aroused Josiah Ia that found In Deut.
Is: 15-es.
Josiah was godly man; he had lived
up to the light that he had. quite sin
cerely. Why, then, did he rend his
garrnents2 Because he now, for the
first time, saw clearly how bitterly God
was opposed to indolatry, and how
severely He threatened to punish It.
Why had not the king seen all this be-
fore? Because he was dependent on
tradition for his information, and those
who had taught him had so long been
accustomed to holatry that they had
become quite lenient towards evil preo.
tices. Familiarity with the sins Of the
day had somewhat bIunted their moral
sensibilities, so that ;dolatry did not
look to them as black as Gods law
painted it.
If anyone now wants TO find out how
black thing sin Is in Gods siQht let