The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-06-09
TIE sUNDAY SCHOOL.
Tho pea OF I.io.,s-D.n. G:fo-ss-lc ecn
for June l2, 1902


GOLDEN TESr.-No manner OF burt wns found
upon him, because he h.licycd IN his Cod
Tn CT s..a..1
CE:........AL TnprH.-Ge,. delivers TIis faithful
4oces IN tirnc Ct trouble.
TIMK.-Ecty.con L. {. SO and &C IN the Two
pears OF Darius reign
& 1'IACE-Cabylon, jcs, conquered by Cyrus.
lsfl!cs--Darias the McGc ~as king OF Daoy-
Ao,. under Cyrus He IL probably tho same as
Cycxares. tic fcthc .-inlaw CT Cyrus lie was
sixty two years oil and rciCnCd two years
TEE JEWS had been n cxao about seventy
years. nnd thc promised return w;.3 near Dan
1e.'s cSaltation ard his great faitLfulncss were
- prope-a tion for the return
DArirL was more than eighty years old, IND
a,sd bccu in Babylon sixty-cight years. Part Of
this time he was at the head of the government
hut for some tinc he seems to have been In
private life with tie wise rlcn just before our
1csson he hcl been again placed II high Office
through his Interpretation Of DclShnzZar's
.Sirearn.
IELps OVER HARD PLAc:sa-The story OF
the plot shoyll be read IN the earlier part of the
chapter. TIC occasion Of 1t was partly envy
saaa o foreigner. IN old nan Of On exile race,
should be exalted over the young natives, and
Spartiy because Daniels strict honesty stood in
tho way of their schemes for unjust wealth
TIE Plot Against Danist.-Thc reasons for thi
rsot were, doubtless, ul Grst and chiefly that
he stood In the way OF their dishonest gains.
Such Officers in those tines almost always made
tic:- position means OF wealth They soon
found that Daniel would neither wink at
their rlisdecds nor share In their Oshonestics. J."
t2) Daniel was foreigner and JcI, Of n slave
race. exalted over them, and holding tho place
t,icy or their friends wanted (3) Daniels char
Ectcr WIS q perpetual rcproof They were
tired Of seeing his GOOD deeds 0nd hearing his
praise: Us the Athcni2n voted for the coudom-
nation of Ar!stidcs the Just Simply because he
was weary of hearing him called the Just az
LNyy because Daniel w;.s preferred before them
ca account of his wisdom end honesty, and
higher holors still were planned for him (6D
The DecrSe.-It seems strange t,lat any mol-
arch should sign such an absurd decree But
~, according to Pussy CLccturcs. pr 445, 4i6l,
the Pcrsars lool:ed upon their king as q repre-
sentative of God, as indwclt by Him. and as
each gave him divine houors. (o) The decree
appealed TO the ling's vanity and solf-conceit,
a1d he doubtless imagined no great harm could
conc from II, and that he would not enforce it.
1t was kind OF joke piece OF fun tO There
may have been political reasons Being Mede
he would conciliatc the Pcrsans by conforming
10 their religious ideas. ond divine honors
would confirm his rule
10 ''Thc don OF lions" o cave. OF large place
dug [, the rocl:, open abovc for giving food. and
with . door for entrance at the side II. Sealed
: It with his own siSnet:" custom originating
In tae fact that few could read Both parties
ecaicd the stc.lc so that neither could interfere
e. God hath sent His ansci:" whether visible
on not is not said. "a These men which had
accused Dancl:". not the whole I20. but .thc
Heading uccuscrs. Many OF tho others were
doubtless scattered over tho kingdom and
would not be there. IS. II make dccroe:" by
tAis means tho natives were prepared 70 respect
f,c Jews and help them 10 return homo. The
Jews themselves would be strengthened in
i,its The decree roads cs IL Dnnicl himself
wrote Il for the king.
LESSON NOTES.
Daniel got into his trouble not by
wrong doing, but by right doing.
This was hard. Ent Daniel Is not the
only man in all the world who has got
ten into difficulty in this way. Long
before hira Joseph was east into prison
because he would not sin q greet sin.
Then after that Elijah had to fee from
before Jczcbel because he would not
bow down to her hiticous IDOLS Then
we saw last week how the young friends
of Daniel Jared because they would not
forsakc the law of the Lord their God.
An New Testament times such instances
Inbound. Paul and Peter and James
an suffered simply because they chose
% do the right. They might have had
m easy time of it, had they gone in the
face of that which their conscience told
chem and conformcd to the sins of the
world around them.
In the case il our lesson to-day. we
j. ,E-c told that God interfercd 10 deliver
His servants from the mouth of the
lions Docs God always thus interfere?
No. Not even in Bible times did He
do this. Elijah was delivered from the
-xvrath of Jczcbel, but many other of the
Lords prophets were slain by the edge
Of the sword. Isaiah was sawn asun.
der. Paul was beheaded. as was also John
che Baptist. Peter yves crucifed, and
James beheaded, while TIE beloved
< John was cxilcd. If you want to know
how 1t often farcd with holy men of
cid, read the l1th chapter of Hebrews,
End you will see. "They had trials OF
c-ncl moclSing and scourging. yea, moro
Dver. of bonds and imprisonment they
-zrerc stoned, they were sawn asundcr.
-<ycrc tempted, were slain with the
ssword; they wandered about In sheep
skins and goatslxins, being destitute,
afflicted. torrnented.~ The sane treat
4Gacnt is netcd out still TO those who try
20 follow the Lord Jesus IN some parts
pf the world. In Africa we still have
s.Hhe blood of the martyrs shcd; and in
Madagascar they suffer many things
from their enemies.
What then? Why, we should have
s1hc same spirit that animated the
s.co Of olden time and the martyrs oi
--modern days, and be rather willing to die
than to do the wrong. Daniel won't iato
=Ahasdcn not knowing whether God would
or would not deliver him II he he'd
beea sure that the liocs would devoul
Aim us soon as he reached the bottom oi
-zhc den, he would have gone there ell
ahc sarae. To he willing to die for the
right is one OF the very grandest things
4h0t o man can do. See, coeo are willing te
die Sor their country. and shall we b<
4 Eilling to die for our country and re
frse 70 die for our GOD?
You will never have 70 encounter q
Zion, much less den full Of them. To-
1he sake of duty. Bus tho Bible tell.