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The SUNDAY SCHOOL
international Lesson for January 2s. lso,
Gods Covenant With Noah-Gcn. a.,

: The SUNDAY SCHOOL.
> International Lesson for January Is. iss
J -cod's Covenant With Noah-Gcn. o,
! III.
. Especially Arranged from Pcioubcts Notes
: SoLpEs TEXT do set ray bow in the clous
and u shall be for a token and a covenant h.
! tween mo and the Garth Gen o:ia
J LIE SECTION or THE HISTORY includes ci,sr
, ters . tos "a ;. o. Tho ark as type a PET
~ I'D. Christ the door tJohn lO:7 .Th
door was shut Ciath c5l0). Noah saved b
iaith tHeb. ii;'). The dangers 10 which s.r
ners are exposed tMath :5:al co. /: Tbess
lY. e'a
\ IiME-Accoriing 10 the common chronoloe,
1 tue umc OF this lesson was In tho year OF ~,
world NJ tanno mundD 1863, or H. (.23 "a jrs
- inc close OF the flood; over fifteen ccniu
no since our last lesson It Is well TO under
staa, that these dates are not settled. bat arr
helpa ! for all practieaI purposes.
| Pf~At E-Wherc Noah lived before the osod
ID uuknd wn. bat probably somewhere IN the re-
| gion Of Il Eupnratcs. perhaps near It's mourn.
| IS In the Chaldcan account. when Surhpul.
near the n oufh - tho Euphratcs, was con-
duercd In tn sixteenth century. IL C.. or cars
Ter, IL Is can I'd In the record The city OF tho
ark. The ark reste1 somewhere On the moun-
ralns OF Araral, whach extend through Anne
MIA to the southwest II is not the high pear
now called Ararat bus the mountainsus region
known cs Ayarat
THz TWO DOCUMENTS According % tbe
view OF tho higher criticism there are m
these chapters two separate storses OF
the flood. worked toge thoS into oSe accroat bv
the editor Of Genesis These can be seen in
dinerens kinds Of type In Dacons Gcnesfs Of
Genesis. or Bisscirs Genesis printsd IN ccIors.
Or II one viii mark the margin Of hts Rtbe
the following verses with blue pencil for Tia
Jehovistic or Prophetic stor1 and me remain
ing verses with q rcd pencil for the Elohistfe ar
Pfiestly story he can read easily the supposed
two accounts. Mark with blue Oils: 7:1-S rlQ
T. last part Of n, lass part OF H. = ~ 8: last
part OF =. and FIRST ~ 4 Oh: last part Of IL 80
22 9:1s-2z
But note that these contradictions are not in
tho Bible narrative, but are the creation OF the
critics AS put together by the editor they arc
perfectly harmonious
LESSON NOTES.
The Good Man In Bad World
Noah, the grcat-grandson Of Enoch.
also walked with God. lie was a hoIy.
virtuous, pious man. in . world running
itself with wickedncss. His was not
merely passive goodness lie did not
hide himself from the world. He was
preacher of righteousness q Pet. 2: 81.
Heusea his utmost power to save his
fellowmcn. 1t is not probable that he
was popula- with men, but he was in
favor with God. This man was the
means by which God saved the race.
The Ark.-God warned the people
one hundred and twenty years before
hand that a flood would come and de-
stroy the people on account of their
And Noah was com
mandcd to build great ark for the
CT himself and family, and
for any others who would
believe and repent.
The ark was not ship. but q hugo
oblong box. four hundred and fifty
feet long, seventy five broad, and for
ty-five deep Cif cubit equals eighteen
lnchcs). not larger than some of our
great steamships. The ark was built
of gopher wood. probably cypress. q
tall, straight evergreen tree. This
wood is almost incompatible, and fire.
1rently employed in the construction
II temples. bridges and even ships. Il
$ said that the gates Of st. Peters
church ut Rome made Of this wood)
which lasted from the time OF Con-
'tantine to Eugene w., 1. e., eleven
hundred years, had in that period suf-
cred no decay. The ark was made
vatertight by a covering of asphalt
which abounded in Assyria- Ark
where the vessel is pitched
without and within with pitch. may
till be seen upon the Tigr:s. in the old
egion of the flood.
The Animals Preserved in the Ark
he method of speaking of the animals
hat were taken into the ark, "clean
nd unclean," implies that chiefly
hose which were useful to man wcro
reserved, and that no wild animals
,arnivora) were taken into the ark:
, that there Is no difficulty from the
rcat number Of different species OF
nimal life existing in the world.
The Dclugc, Its Extent.--Thcrc In
very reason to believe thnt this catas-
'ophe was co-extensive with the hu-
IAN population of the world. In every
ranch Of the human family traditions
the event are found. But this would
Of imply the covering Of the whole
'und world. ''All the earth" fire.
lently means in the Bible .'all tho
'gion," ''all the land" the home Of
le race. We still use the words In the
me sense. 1t Is probable also that
lc.crimes and violence of the previous
70 had greatly diminished the popu-
tion, and that they would have ut
rly extcrminated the race, had not
I'd in this way saved out some good
cd from their destruction.
The Covenant with Noah.-At the
ID of the year the waters had SO dried
} that Noah and his family could dis
nbark from the ark which rested on
e highlands of Armenia far north Of
e original habitat Of man.
The Great Fear.-When Noah and
$ family first began again to mako
cir homes on the land. there would
fear at every rain that IL might
the beginning Of another food.
lis would interfere not only with
cir comfort but with their progress.
hat was the use of building housea
cultivating fields that might at any
ne be destroyed?
DEACON LIGHTS FROM THE DrruoE.
fhe Danger of SIM. Tho tendency
mankind without the gospel is to
ow worse and worse.