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SABBATH SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR
APRIL 8.
Lesson Text: "Aflictions Sanctified. n
Job. ", f7-27-Golden Texe
Heb. xiii, 6-Commen-
tary.

Three Of Jobs friends-Eiphaz Bildad
and Zophar-aaving heard Of the Affections
Of Job, made an appointment to come and
mourn with him and comfort him. When
they saw him they knew him not because he
was SO changed. They wept, and rent their
clothes, and sat with him upon the ground
seven days and seven nights without speak
ing word, for they saw that his grief was
very great (chapter il, lib. Then Job
spoke and cursed his day, after which Eli
phaz was the first of the three to speak, and
this lesson is part of his speech. Job had
loss Of children and cattle and even his
bodily afliction chapters l., %; H.. TO-. but
these friends, with their false accusations
and insinuations, stirred all the old man
that was In him. These three condemned
Job without cause, and yet their words have
much in them that is helpful.
II. behold, happy Is the man whom God
correcteth, therefore despise not thou the
Christening Of the Almighty This Is sound
tice. Blessed Is the man that endureth
trial! Count it all joy when ye fall into
divers trials. Whom the Lord '1ovsth He
chasteneth. II We endure Christening, God
dealeth with you as with sons JAS j., IL, 2;
Heb. Xii, 6, q.
18. "For BE maketh sore and bindeth up;
he Woundeth, and His hands make whole"
Or, as it is written elsewhere, 81 kill and /
make alive; wound and I heal; neither is
there any that can deliver out OF My hand"
(Deut xxxii.. 39). But though He cause
grief, yet will He have compassion accord
ing to the multitude of His mercies, for He
children Of men Nam. ill.,. 32, 33,.
10. 'He shall deliver thee in six troubles:
yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee"
Not even satan can touch believer without
permission, for he hal TO obtain permission
to touch Job, and if God allows US to 60 to
the furnace He knows how to deliver. So
that Daniels friends were right when they
said, 'Our God, whom We serve, is able to
deliver us from the burning fiery furnace.
and He will deliver Us out Of thine hand, o
king" dan. ILL.,, III. In the promise, There
shall no evil befall thee (Ps. xci, 10y, we must
not think to escape trouoIe. for just that is
promised us John xvi, 33. and possibly
Imprisonment and death (Rev. H., 10; Math.
<, 28, but In the resurrection it shall be
seen that We have not been hurt, nor hair
Of our heads perished.
20. "ln famine he shall redeem thee from
death, and In war from the power of the
sword" The upright shall not be ashamed
in the evil time, and In the days Of famine
they shall be satisfied (Ps. xvii, Is, 19l.
He who fed Elijah by the brook and In the
widows house during the three years fam
inc who fed Israel for forty years with
the Lads few loaves and fishes, Ia the kame
yesterday, to-day and forever. And hs to
the sword, think Of David's deliverance from
the sword Of Goliath and his victory over
him.
q. "Thou shalt be,hid from the scourge
Of the tongue; neither shalt thou be afraid
Of destruction when It cometh." The tongue
is often as sharp sword (Ps. w., O.; lvii.,
A., but He will keep us secretly in peviliou
from the strife Of tongues tPs. xxi. 20,
Inasmuch as the angel Of the Lord encamp.
eth round about Us, the tongue that would
touch US must first touch Him. Not even
dog can move his tongue against Us without
permission lex. xi., q.
%. "At destruction and famine thou shalt
laugh, neither shalt thou be afraid Of the
beasts of the EARTH" One would almost
think the speaker was describing the millen.
nial times, when the wolf and the lamb shall
feed together, and they shall not hurt nor
destroy in all Gods holy mountain iIsa
lxy., 25). But with such records as that OF
David over the lion and the bear, Daniel
over the lions and Paul over the poisonous
reptile q Sam. xviii, 36; Dan. vi, %; Acts
xviii. 4, 81, we see what may be even now
as foreshadowiugs Of coming glory. Let US
"have faith in Cod"
%. "For thou shalt be in league with the
stones Of the fell. and the beasts Of the field
shall be at peacs with thee" David comes
to mind again with his stones altered from
the brook, one of which, sung in the name
Of the Lord OF Hosts, sank into the giants
forehead II Sam. xviii. 49l. And the no left
handed men who could sling stones at hair
and not miss Judg. *, 18 show how God
can give control over stones in that sense.
As to the beasts, read Isa. xi., 6-9, and for
another wonderful story Of the past see
Kings xiii, 2S.
"a. "And thou shalt know that thy taber-
nacle shall be in peace, and thou shalt visit
thy habitation and shall not sin," or.
R. ", SHALT miss nothing" "The work OF
righteousness shall be peace. and the effect
Of righteousness quietness and assurance
forever. And My people shall dwell In q
peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings,
and in quiet resting places lisa. xxxii., II,
18). We may even dwell in Jehovah Him.
self, for it is written, Lord, Thou hast been
our dwelling place In all generations Us.
25. Thou shalt know also that thy seed
shall be great and thine offspring as the
grass of the earth" The promise to Abram
was that bis seed should be as the stars OF
heaven and as the sand upon the seashore
Usen. xii, II. When Rebekah left her
home to become the bride OF Isaac they
PRAYED that she might become the mother
OF thousands of millions (Gen. xiv. 6N.
Jesus has said, There is no man that hath
left house or brethren or sisters or father or
mother or wife or children or lands for MY
sake and the gospels but he shall receive an
hundredfold now in this time, houses and
brethren and sisters and mothers and chil-
dren and lands with prosecutions, and In the
world to come eternel life" Mark <, ~
xxx, 301.
&c. "rhou shalt coms to thy grave in
full age, like al q shock OF corn cometn III III
His season." 1t turned out 50 in JOBS case,
for he lived after this afflction lao years and
ssw four generations. SO job died. being
old and full Of days Job Kill, 1G, IL. With
the believer in Jesus length OF years IN
mortal body is not the greatest blessing ex-
cept in so far as God is gloriaed thereby.
81. "Lo this, we have searched It; 80 1t ls;
hear il and know thou it for thy good" We
might with Job have somewhat to say to
Eliphaz but we are trying to forget the
man and get something out or tne message,
and therefore we notice that it is good 10
search out a good matter, but especially
good to search tho Scriptures for therein -
the best Of all matter.-Lesson helper.
Mails Through Pneumatic Tubes.
The tubes are laid under ground
between the branch postoffices and
the main office; they are OF brass,
covered with various materials to
protect them in the ground, and in
laying them care is taken to avoid
sharn corners and curves At the