The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-01
TAE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
International Lesson for February 4, 1S9
-Beginning OF the Hebrew Nation.

GOLDEN TENT Will bless thee, and make
thy name great; and thou shalt be 4 blessing
Gen. 1879
THE SECTION OF HISTORY belonging 70 this
lesson includes chapters X1. and XII
INTERVENING EvENTs.-l Repopulation Of
. the earth in the three lines, Shem, Ham and
Japheih. to which the races OF men and their
languages arc still traced. 2 The Tower of
Babel tho formation of different languages. and
the dispersion 8 The genealogy OF Abraham
TIME-Abrapam entered the Pr omsed and.
b C. 1921: 497 years after the food, and 470
years before his descendants took possession
of it,
Observation-Disclosures vas born B C.
1885, l. G., A. M. 2o0S, almost exactly half way
between Adam and Christ. Noah died two
years before his birth. Abraham left Ur about
B C. 1926 aged seventy years He left Harnn
and entered Canaan b. @. 1921, aged seventy
five. From this date is usually counted the four
hundred and thirty years to the Exodus. He
lived in Canaan and vicinity about one hundred
years, b. c. l921-ls22
PLACES --Ur in Chaldea on the lower part
Of the Euphrates Haran, in Mesopotama,
branch of the Euphrates, and various parts
Of Palestine, then called Canaan.
UR OF THE CHAJDEEs The ruins of this
city, called Mugheir, are six miles west of the
Euphrates, near where 1t is connected with the
Tigris, about one hundred and twenty-five miles
above its entrance into the Persian gulf Here
there have lately been discovered bricks bear.
ing the mark of an ancient king. Urukh-
LESSON NOTES.
The Development of the World After
Noah.-The new race started on
much higher plane than the former
one. They had learned many lessons
from the old world. They had seen the
effects of sin. They had records of
Gods dealings in the past. They stood
on the plane of civilization and ;nvcn-
ton attained before the food, but with
better purposes and uses.
The most noticeable story of this in
| tervening time is that of the confusion
| of tongues at the tower of Babel, near
| the present site of Babylon. The story
| represents the beginning of the diver
| sity of languages, an act which did
| not indeed shatter the one primitive
| language into many complete lam
guages, but into the beginnings of
many. an impulse of the natural dcvel-
| opment OF languages. A very slight
| influence only would be necessary
Note an example in Mark Twain's
| Buck Fanshaw's Funeral" the inter-
views between the minister and the
miner. Even those Americans who
first attended Sunday-school conven-
Iloll III lIOflNlOl lclU bilc ucett Oh du III
terpreter, different names being so
often given to the same thing.
The First Call of Abraham.-11:31.
| Abraham. 1) Name: Originally Abram
| (high or exalted father; changed aft
erwards to Abraham father of null
titude) (2) Parentage: He was the
son of Terah. of the line of Shem (3)
Birth: He was born at Ur of the C',1l-
dees, b. c. 1895, two years after the de-.
of Noah, through whom his father could
easily have gained a knowledge of the
true God. with him begins new
chapter in the history of the race
His Surroundings at Ur.-In Abra-
hams time the city of Ur, though now
over one hundred miles from the sea.
was on the shores of the Persian gulf.
Abraham, no doubt. often walked upon
the sands of the scashore, to which the
number of his descendants was COM
pared. The city was great maritime
emporium, walled town, with high
civilization and large commerce; sit
uated in marvellously rich country,
said to be the original home of the
wheat-plant, and famous for it's dates
and other fruits. Pomegranates and
apples grapes and tamarisks grew wild.
The city of Ur was not only the capi-
tal it was the holy city of the Chal-
deans. The remains make disclosures
regarding the worship of the gods
which must shock even those who are
familiar with the immortalities fre-
quently fostered by heather religions
The Call.-Ten generations and more
| fha N fnIrr h1rnlra1 l,,
since the flood. Again man goes
astray and falls into idolatry and wick
edness. There is danger that the
truth will again be lost from the earth,
and the race ruin itself through sin.
Another method of redceming man,
! from that of our last lesson. is now un-
dertaken, whose beginnings are
recorded in to-day's lesson. The pur-
pose of the Most High was to choose
man, and in him family and nation,
to be his witness upon the earth, and
the repository of ancient truths and of
Messianic hopes. until the tuliness of
redeeming time should come. Through
the training of this family and nation
should come the redemption of the
whole world. Therefore God called
!
friends and move nor.hward to the
land of Canaan.
The Second Call. some unknown
reason Abraham and his company re-
manned at Haran for number of years
instead of going on to Canaan. But
Abraham did not know that he was go
ing to Canaan (Acts 7:3; Heb. 11:e.) The
statement in 1881 that he was going to
the land of Canaan means that this
was the divine purpose, and not that
it was Abraham's plan. lie remained
in Haran till after his father, Terah's
death, and then the Lord showed him
that he was not yet at the end of his
journey.
LIGHT FOR TO-DAY FRoM AN ANCIENT
PILGRIM.
The true life in this world is pill
grimage from worldliness and sin to
the promised land of holiness and
Heaven.
God calls us all to go OH this pilgrim