The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-02-11
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
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and will remember their sin no more. --Jer
3l.34
CENTRAL TRuTn.-The way Of salvation Il
through new heart bestowed by Jesus Christ
TME--Jcrerliah prophesied from tho thir
teenth year Of Josiah d. @. 62O till after tho
destruction Of Jerusalem (5S6).
PLACE. Chiefly in Jerusalem.
DATE OF THIS PROPHECY. the lost
years OF Zedcl,iah (5o35S6), after two sieRes
and carrying away Of captives to Babylon.
CONTEMPORARY PROPHETS. --zephaniah and
Habakkuk and Huldah in Judah; Ezekiel and
Daniel in Babylonia.
JEREMIAH. Name: exalted Of Jehovah. u
(a) Parentagc; son OF Hilkiah. probably the
high priest Of the last lesson. (3) Births about
b. G. CAS- the samo time as King Josiah. (4)
Homo: born at Anathoth, q small village three
miles northeast Of Jerusalem in benjamin.
(5) He was never married. (C) Character: he
is called the weeping prophet, sad on account
OF the hopeless sins and miscrics Of tho people
He was tin1id retiring, tcnderhcartod, never
morosc, always brave, with an outlook of hope.
az Work: jeremiah began to prcphcsy In the
thirteenth year Of Josiah. u. c. OF, and con-
tinued through five reigns,t It'll after the destruo.
tion of Jerusalem, D. G. SS3. lie was carried
captive TO Egypt after that, and tradition says
he was stoned to dcsth there, aged 70 years.
CIRCUMSTANCES. Tho Jewish nation was
Fastening TO It's f,.ll. False worship nbounded; ;
sins and crimes multiplied. Jeremiah and the
other prophets tried in vain to stem the tide.
The people wero beginning to reap the har-
vest their sins hal soun Twice had Nebu.
chadnezzar come with his hosts and carried
away many captives and great treasures zoos
and 1881 and he was again planning the cam.
raign which ended in the capture OF the city.
HELPS OVER HARD PLACEs.-Chaps 80 and
81 are glcaIl OF light in the darkness.
"a. Sow the house OF Israeli" it was then like
devastated Ge,d; God promised to make the
"A f,T n " fT,n Ial1 vrt%
grain II sown with wheat. GO. $50 will I
watch" ETC.: the countries which took them
captive sent them back again. 90. "A sour
grape:" rather sour grapes. that injured the
teeth. so set on edge:" Gulled, ruined In
the exile the people imagined they were suffer.
ing for their fathers sins, but really no more
than they deserved 50. Covenant with
their fathers" tsee Tx. ?4 Heb. 8. See also
Deut chaps. D. 20 23). They we're to be pros.
pcred II they kept thc Law. although was Q
husbands" jonci in the closest love and most
solemn vows. 33 This shall be the covenant"
He would s:!vo them now hearts by the coming
Of Jesus Clr1't .nd tho Holy Spirit, providing
also for forgiveness - THE ordinances Of
the noon:" the sure and regular order Of no
turc would be proof Cf Cots faithfulness to
His promises They proved Ills fuithfulness
His kindness, ani His power.
LESSON COMMENT.
During the life of jeremiah it was a
time of great trouble and anxiety for
all who really loved the welfare of
Israel. Things were going from bad to
worse, for the northern kingdom had
already gone into captivity and the end
of the kingdom Of Judah was fast ap-
preaching. This the prophet clearly
saw, and, seeing, did all he could to
arrest the downward tendency of the
nation. But it was all in vain. The
people and their rulers were bent on
and nothing could stay them
in their course. So for the weeping
prophet there was nothing left but to
warn and to weep. Yes, there was one
more thing left to him, and that was
the only cheerful thing that he had to |
do. That was to predict return of |
blessing to even those whom God had
rejected for their own wicliedness,
through the goodness and mercy of
their Heavenly Father. This he did in
many ways and at different times.
One OF these cheerful utterances we
have in our lesson for to-day. 1t speaks
IT time when God shall again plant
His people and shall watch over them.
N that day all the house of Israel shall
inow the Lord and shall not any longer
iced to be taught, for they shall all
lave come to loyal obedience to the
ruth. as they have learned it from God
himself. All the verses of the lesson
n various ways speak of this time, and,
'esides this, there are many passages
10Th in jeremiah and in the other
'rophets that mention the same thing.
wen in the New Testament we have
estlmony to the same story; for the
Ipostle Paul says that while blindness
n part hath happened to Israel, the
lme is coming when God shall take
way the veil that is before their eyes
nd they shall see clearly that truth
'hich they now reject. This
rophecy was not fulfilled when the
ews returned from their captivity, nor
'as it fulfilled when Jesus came to this
'orld. Has it yet been fulfilled? No,
OF yet; for as yet we see the vast
lajority of the Jews in spiritual dark
ess, and rejecting the Messiah of whom
,eir own prophets spoke SO clearly.
S they refused to listen to the preach
lg OF Paul eighteen hundred years ago,
now they refuse to hear the Gospel
essage to-day. If any Of their number
'cepts the Messiah, they cast him out,
1d regard him as dead to themselves.
ut this is not always to last. The day =
coming, says the prophet, and the
'ostle as well, when they shall see, =,
I'd shall believe.
Now look at a few Of the reasons why Q
e should be much interested in the y
elfare Of the Jews. In the first place, /,
l that we know of religion has come -
us through them. Abraham is the Il
ther OF all the faithful, both of Jew q
b nationality and of all nationalities. c,
u the prophets and all the apostles, u
ithout an exception, were Jews. The u
orld has bees more swayed by Jewish e.
ought than by the thought of any IL
her people. But, last and most i'm ol
'rtant, let us not forget that, as regards !,
e flesh, the Saviour of the world was ie
Jew This is the best reason why we r
ould be deeply interested in the well -