Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-01-04
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL,
LESSON !, FIRST QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, JAN. 7.

NJ. Stearns.
&c. 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
1.-THE beginning" God created the heaven
and the earth-that is, He spake them into
existence-as is proved by Ps. xxXiii, 6;
Heb. ri, 3. He must have everything good,
for lie always does That He did not create
the earth without form and void is stated
in lsa. XIV, lS Compare the X. 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 FIX. Xxx. II.
And now on the sixth day He makes man
to have dominion over all. How lie made
man and woman is more fully stated in
chapter ii, :, 2l-2j, and that he called UCir
name Adam is stated in chapter V, . The
words Let IS imply the Trinity, which
fact is also clear to II simple minded He
brew scholar in the word for God.
p. so God Great ed 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 t,is image of
God, 1t 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 tile express image OF HIS person Il John
H. =; Heb. |, -.
~. And God blessed them, and God SAID
unto 10 them, BE fruitful and multiply,
and rcplcnish the earth and subdue it, and
have dominion The blessing OF the Lord
it maketh rich, and toll addeth nothing
thereto prov. y, -, H. W. When in the
sixth year Tod commanded HIS blessing on
Israel, there was rs much produced in one
year as ordinarily IN three years u-ev. NXv,
FL. When Jesus blessed the lad : loaVcS
and fishes, they fed many thousands. He
says, Herein is My Father glorified that
We bear much fruit; SO shall ye be My dis
ciples (John Nv, Nl. The time Is coming
when the last Adam Will subdue all things
unto Himself, for lie Is able. But now lie
Is gathering out and training the subduers,
who shall Ill that day nave dominion with
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