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SABBATH SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR
APRIL so.
Lesson Text: "Wisdom's Warming
Prov. T.. 20-3S - Golden Text:
Heb. xiii, 12-Commentary.

90. "Wisdom crieth without: she uttereth
her voice in the streets" When we read In
the New Testament such words as these.
"Christ the Wisdom of God" Who OF God
is made unto us wisdom" 4 Cor. j.. "a, 30.
we have no difficulty in understanding who
Jesus Christ is both the living personal word
and also the written word, so he Is wisdom
as to His person and as to His utterances. It
is no wonder, then. that it Is written, 'tWis-
dom Is the principal thing; therefore get
wisdom" Gv., y.
81. "She crieth in the chief place Of con-
course, in the openings OF the gates. In the
city she uttereth her words saying" The
great multitude are in the broad way OF self
and self pleasing, with little or no thought
of hereafter and day OF judgment. They
man soweth that shall he also reap" and
their only thought is pleasure and prosper
itv here and now (Math. vii, 13; Gal, ", u.
Wisdom is represented as calling. unto them
as they hurry along their downward road.
90. "How long, ye simple ones, will ye
love simplicity, and the scorners delight in
their scorning, and fools hate knowledge"
Simple ones, IL they believe, the devil, are
easily led astray. If they believe God, they
are easily led Alright. If they go astray,
they are soon among the scorners and the
fools, Yet wisdom loves them and cries
unto them: .How longY' "How long shall
thy vain thoughts lodge within thee"
'sdow long wilt thou refuse to humble thy
self before Me" tJer iy., IA; Ex. <. 81!
%. Turn you at My reproof; benold
will pour out My Spirit unto you'll will
make known.My words unit, you" he calls
so lovingly, so patiently. 80 perseveringly.
Come unto Me: return unto the Lord;
turn. o backsliding children; take with you
&1 @ho ord
some Of the many words Of the Lord to the
unto Him lisa. w., 3, q; Jer. i'll, I, Z, 10, IA:
Hos. xiv, o.. BE; only asks Us to turn to
Him, and He win do all the rest, giving His
words and His Spirit, His words which. are
Spirit and Life gohn VIZ 61. " ~
a.. because have called, and ye refused:
have stretched out My hand, and no man
regarded" !" It does not seem possible that a
people who had been 30 wondrously dealt
with could so treat such love, but the human
heart Is still the same, and the same love on
His part is turned away from by those TO
whom His hands are imp oringly stretched
out. How is it with you?
.25. But ye have set at uaught all Ny
counsel, and would none OF My reprooe."
They Knocked the messengers OF God, and
despised His words, and misused Bis proph-
cts until tbs wrath Of the Lord arose
against His people, till there was no remedy.
III Caron. xx1vi.. 16). They even went so
far as to say, I'VE have made convenant
with death, and with hell are we at agree
ment; we have made lies our refuze and
under falsehooi have we hid ourselves" lisa.
xviii, l5). Like the men before the food.
whose houses God filed with good things,
they said unto God, "Dspart from US; wna5
can the Almighty do for us" Dob xii, 15-
49,? !
26. II also will laugh at your calamity; I
will mock when your fear cometh." What
soeyer q man soweth, that shall he also reap.
and he that soweth the wind shall reap the
whirlwind" (Gal. vi, z; Hos. viii, q. Con-
corning all who take counsel against Him it
Is written, HE that sitteth in the heavens
shall laugh; the Lord shall have them in
derision" (Ps. H., A., and IL His loving invi-
tations are persistently despised we must re-
member His words, None OF those men
which were hidden shall taste of My sup
per" Luke xiv, 24.
%. When your fear cometh as desola.
ton and your destruction as whirlwind;
when distress and anguish cometh upon
YOU" In due time these Things will come
upon all who desplse His love and make
light Of Bis salvation. Because there Is
wrath, beware lest He take thee away with
His stroke, then great ransom cannot de-
liver thee lob x1xvi, 49,.
%. "Then shall' they call upon Me. but
will not answer; they shall sesk Me early,
but they shall not find Me-" Then shall they
cry unto the Lord, but he will not hear
them; He will even hide His facs from them
at that time as they behaved thenselves Ill
10 their doings mic. iii, A.. He told Jere.
miah that the intercesslon Of Moses AMI
Samuel could not save the Nation. and Hs
told Ezekiel tnat the presence OF Moan,
Daniel and Job would be OF no avail (Jer.
w.. !; Eek. xiv, IA, 20l. Sin may become
50 great that nothing will do but judgment.
90. For that they hated knowledge and
did not CHOOSE the fear Of the Lord" They
say unto God, Depart from us, for we desire
not the knowledge Of Thy ways Job xxi,
14,. The fear of the Lord is the beginning
of wisdom, foun iation Of life. great treas
ure prov. l.. z; *, 10; xiv, 81; lsa- x1xiit.,
o.. But they had no reverence for God, no
respect for His ways, no gratitude for His
gifts. The fool says there Is no God, and
many one who would not say this wisnes
that there was no God. The carnal mind is
enmity against God Rom. viii, y.
80. "rhey would none os My counsel; they
despised all My rerroof." Our Lord Jesus
said that whosoever heard His words but
did them not was IKE q man building on
sand, only to have everything swept away
(naCQ- Vlt., 20, 81. .
81. "rherefors shall they eat OF the fruit
OF their own way and be hlled with their
own devices" Their own wickedness will
correct them and their backslidings reprove
them. Hear, o eartn; behold, I will bring
evil upon this people, even ths fruit OF their
Thoughts, because they have not hearkene1
unto nv words Uer. IL. 19; vi, 49,. II
people will not recsive the truth. God will
let them receive delusion and lie ul Thess.
H., 10-12). He simply let's them have their
own way. with its consequences, If they
insist on having it. 4.
32. "For the turning away OF the simple
shall slay them. and the prosperity OF fools
shall destroy thsm." To turn way from
God is to turn ones back on the only source
of love and light. It is to choose darkness
rather than light John ill.,, 19).
33. But whose harkenetn unto Me shall
dwell safely and shall be quiet from fear OF
evil" What wonderful salvation our
wonderful Lord has provided for His enc
mics il they will only turn to Him IN tue
penitence. Life. eternal life, abun liant par
don, forgiveness Of all sins, with the asSur-
ance of there being no more Remembered,
an inheritance incorru otible, q joint heir.
ship with Jesus Christ, with the .pronlss ct
ali things temporal and spiritual that We
can possibly need.-Lssson Helper.