The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-03-03
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
The Downfall of Judal--,Jcr. SO: 1-1o-
1tEl Memory Verses 6-S.

GOLDEN TEXT--Behold, your house is le1t
onto you desolate. Matt. 29:3S.
CENTRAL TRuTn.-The way Of tho trans
Eressors Is hard.
TME.--Jerusalem destroyed In the summer
of ID. @. $50.
PLAcE-Jerusa,om; Eiblah, scventy.fve
miles north of Damascus; Babylon.
RULERS. -zcdeaiah, twenty first and last
king of Judah, q soa OF Josiah; Ncbuchadnez-
gar, king Of Babylon
PROPHETS. Jeremiah, ii Jerusalem (bH-
$3.50; Ezekiel. in Dabyloaa Ga3,573); Daniel.
an babylon (Go353j). Obadilh (5Sj).
PARALLEL ACCOUNTS. -Jcr. 5s:l-lo; Caron
46:1121; 9 KINGS 2>i-l2.
BIBLICAL LITERATURE oF TIE PERIOD
-Jer. chaps nl-9J, 2r.3i, SO, 80. Psalms seventy.
-four ard sevcnty-rino give pictures OF the siege.
obadiah belongs TO tho carly part OF the cap
1iyity. JcrcI,iaas "Dooli OF Lamentations"
sconsists of Ave Tos:n5 or dirses. written about
this captivity. -Four CT thcin arc alphabetical
poems tho tTeatT-tvro stanaas commencing
with the letters OF tho Hebrew alphabet. They
:are supposed TO have been written in the
>Grotto Of jeremiah, on the west side Of Jerusa.
lem.
HELPS CvEH HARD PLACEs.-l. IN the ninth
year" BIC. 53S ''The tenth MONTH" "1ibeth,"
which extends from about tho inildo OF Do
scemDer to tho m.ddle CT January. 9 Eleventh
year =. fourth month, tho riath day" about
July /, 586. year and half after the siege be-
gan- ''The city was broken up:' tho walls
were broken through, and tho city surrendered
3 ''In tie iliidlc gate:" between the upper
and lower CITY, "Elbsaris: high Assyrian
sitle belonging 10 the previous name; Sarse-
chin the E:.5saris. So Rab-maS, high priest,
or chief Of the sorcerers, belongs to Nergal-
sharezer who was tho Rab.maS. 4. Gate be-
Swixt the two walls:" of the valley OF tho
Tyropean. bstwegn Zion and the temple mill.
The AssyrianS came in from the north; the
7,ins fed to the south. THE way Of the plain:"
over Olivct to Jericho, to the plain OF the
Jordan. s. ''E.bah:" where as 4 center
-Nebuch aGncZzar was conducting the siege OF
Tyre es well as Jerusalem. c. Slew sons"
as the last sight lie should ever behold z.
Put out 2 2,dei,iahs eyes" Thus fulfilled two
remarkable prophecies: one by Ezekiel C2:lO.
aS} that King ZDdekiah should be led into
babylon captive, should live there and there
s1ie and yet he should never see the city; the
<o,her by jeremiah (32:35), that Zcdekiah
should speak with NebucAadnezzar mouth to
mouth, and see his eyes 0. Fell away de-
ssextcd from the city to the Chaldeans.
LESSON COMMENT.
Nine months ago we had this same
2esson. AS u suggestion, which may
add some freshness to it, I would give
the following outline:
Call to mind two great professions.
The first Of these l see is marching out
of Egypt. Moses is the great leader,
and the faces of all the people are radiant
with joy and high anticipation. There is a
2ook of triumph on their countenances,
and they are laden with the spoil of their
enemies. which they have had given to
Ehem, SO glad were their previous cap
Gors to have them leave the land. Pres
emily see this procession fall into dire
straits, by reason of their adversaries.
Pharaoh is after them with his hosts,
and they see no way out of their diff
culcies. Then theycry to the Lord, and
are delivered with mighty deliverance,
and that without striking blow in
their own defense. On the further side
rof the Red sea they gather, while their
prosecutors are struggling in the wa
&ers, and at last Pharaohs hosts are no
more; for the floods have gone over
them, and the horse and his rider have
forever perished in the sea. Then they
sing, and with song and dance pro-
claim their great victory, and ascribe
Ghe praise to the God of their fathers.
This was a grand sequel to such a tri-
u1nph, and was prophetic of a very
sgreat future. What may not such
people do. with God as their shield, and
with the God of their, fathers 'as their
tuckler? Truly, if ever nation had
grand beginning, this was that people.
The second procession is vast con.
7Srast to this one that we have just been
considering. Again a vast throng of
people. but in their countenances there
US no sign of triumph. With downcast
Ncountenances they march forth, but
= ho,. &c - AL -
mouths, and no arm of the Almighty is
stretched out for their deliverance. The
clanll of the chains is the only music
that greets the ear, and the cry of de-
sspair the only sound that escapes their
lips. Their king is taken to face his
conqueror, and when he sees him he is
greeted with dcrision. His two sons are
slain before his eyes, and then he is by
refinement of cruelty blinded himself.
After this brief pause in the awful
anarch, it is resumed, and for a thousand
miles the weary exiles drag their way
10 land Of captivity and of shame.
What contrast between the two pic
zures! What pair Of oil-paintings
these scenes might suggest, full of les.
sons for nations as well as for individ-
zlals!
Now all these things happened to
them for ensamp piles, and they are writ
ten for our adInonition upon whom the
ends of the world are come. Where
fore let him that thinleth he standeth
take heed lest he fall" Cor 10: II, 70.
In these two pictures we see set forth
the plans OF mercy that God has for His
people, and the perverse way in which
they mar those plans. = Rev. A. T.
sSchaufLicr ID. D.
s.EssoSs FROM TIE CAPTURE OF JERusA-
LEM.
|. God put every hindrapce possible
In. the way Of thcir sin and destruction
prophets, warnings, mercies, time for
repentance, q vision Of the end
2. % The punishment comes slowly
at first, IN smaller measures, in order
60 give opportunity for repentance. (2)
at is accompanied by earnest warning
and entreaties. (3) 1t is intended to
save men from sin (4) There is there-