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,,HE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON J. FIRST QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, JAN. 2.

TEXT Of the Lesson, Gen. I. a0-3ls II. Is.
Memory verses, se-ss-Golden TEXT,
Gen. 1, s7-Commentary BY the Rev. u.
n. Stearns.
o. "And God said. Let Us make man in
Our image, after Our likeness, and let them
have dominion" At some time in the past,
known only to God. called in the first verse
''the beginning" God created the heaven
and the earth-that is. He spake them into
existence-as is proved by Pa xxxiii. 8;
Heb. xi, 8 He must have everything good.
for He always does. That He did not create
the earth without form and void 10 stated
in lisa. XIV, 10. Compare the r. V. What
happened between verses and to bring
about this chaos we shall know some day.
About 5000 years ago God brought order
and beauty and fruitfulness out Of the
chaos and confusion into the space OF SIX
DAYS, as is here described. See also Elk. xx. II.
And now on the sixth day He makes man
to have dominion over all. How He made
man and woman is more fully stated in
chapter IL, Z, GIGS. and that he called their
name Adam is stated in chapter ", q The
words let Us" imply the Trinity. which
fact Is also clear to a simple minded He
brew scholar in the word for God.
q. $50 God created man in His own i'm
age; in the image of God created He him;
male and female created He them" Then
this man and woman must have been the
finest pair that ever walked the earth.
Whatever else is implied in this image Of
God, it is evident from Eph. iv, "a, that
righteousness and holiness of truth are in
cluded. How much more we shall know
when in that bright morning of the resur-
rection we shall have been made like Him
who is the brightness of the Fathers glory
and the express image of His person u John
Iii, 2; Heb. i, 81.
2S. "And God blessed them. and God said
unto to them, Be fruitful and multiply.
and replenish the earth and subdue it, and
have dominion" The blessing Of the Lord
1t maketh rich. and toll addeth nothing
thereto prov. X, %, r. W.. When in the
sixth year God commanded His blessing on
Israel, there was as much produced in one
year as ordinarily in three years Uev. XIV,
Ply. When Jesus blessed the lads loaves
and fishes, they fed many thousands. He
says, "Herein is My Father glorified that
ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be My dis
ciples" John XIV, 81. The time is coming
when the last Adam will subdue all things
unto Himself, for He is able. But now He
is gathering out and training the subduers,
who shall in that day have dominion with
Him. find it helpful to pray, Lord, in
asmuch as Thou art able to subdue all
things unto Thyself phil. iii, 2D, subdue
me wholly to Thyself now"
y 90. '.And God said, Behold, have given
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the face of all the earth and every tree in
seed; to you it shall be for meat" God
would have His children at perfect rest
concerning food and raiment. AS to cloth
ing such as we wear, they had none iii, 2o),
but inasmuch as all other creatures had a
clothing which was q part of themselves,
doubtless Adam and Eve. made in the i'm
age of God. were, like God, clothed with
light Cps. civ, 81. And now here is full
provision for their bodies as to food. We
have no record of flesh being eaten till after
the deluge Chapter tx, 81, though we do not
say that it was not eaten. But He who fed
sinful Israel for 40 years in the wilderness
will always provide for His own.
80 "And to every beast Of the earth, and
to every fowl of the air, and to everything
that creepeth upon the earth wherein there
il life, have given every green herb for
meat-and it was So" Not only man, but
beast, is provided for. These wait all upon
Thee that Thou mayst give them thei-
meat in due season FPS. civ, 90. Behold
the fowls Of the air, your Heavenly Father
feedeth them Are not five sparrows sold
for two farthings, and not one Of them is
forgotten before God (Math. vi, &c; Luke
xii, 81? Observe the phrase II have given"
and think Of Rom. viii, 49, He who spared
not His own Son, but delivered Him ur
for us all. how shall He not with Him
also freely give us all things'
81. "And God saw everything that He
had made, and. behold, it was very good.
And the evening and the morning were the
sixth day." This is the seventh time that it
Is written, "God saw that it was good"
God is love, and lie cannot do or make
that which is not in His sight good. He is
good, and His mercy cndureth forever Cps.
cxxxvi, u. He is round about us as wall Of
fire and will not possibly permit aught that
Is not good to come to us, SO We can surely
bless the Lord ut all times Czech. ii, 5; Ps.
xxxiv, y. In all the days it is first evening,
followed by night and then morning. So
now it is the worlds night, but the night
II far spent, and the day is at hand. The
morning cometh (Rom xiii, IL; lisa. xxi, 12).
/. "Thus the heavens and the earth were
finished and all the host of them" Thus"
How? Why, by the word of His mouth
Cps. xxxiii, G). In chapter it is written 10
times, "And God said" Now. since He
thus created all things, what is there He
cannot dor "Ah, Lord God, behold, Thou
hast created the heavens and the earth by
Thy great power and stretched out arm,
and there is nothing too hard for Thee" (Jer.
xxi, ~. If Christians, how thankful we
should be that God, who commanded the
light to shine out of darkness, hath shined
In our hearts to give the light of the knowl-
EDGE of the glory of God in the face Of Jesus
Christ QI Cor. iv, O.. On 'the host Of
them" see Deut. iv, 10; Elk. xii, Al; Ps. CHI.
d; Sam. i,3.
Q. "And on the seventh day God ended
His work which He had made, and He rest
ed on the seventh day from all His work
which he had made" The words finished"
and ended" are suggestive Of some other
works in due time finished or to be finished,
Is the tabernacle, the temple, the work OF
atonement and the redemption Of the world
eek. Il, SO: II Chron. vii, II; John Xxx, 30;
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