The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-07-20
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
THOUGHTS WORTHY OF CALM
REFLECTION.
A Pleasant. Interesting. and Instructive
Lesson, and Where 1t May He Found
A Learned and Concise Review OF tho
Same.
Lesson for July 22.

hcssoh TOT July
The flight into Egypt is the topic
under consideration in this lesson, the
subject matter being found in Matt. Z:
1923.
Egypt Is the scene Of the lesson.
The gospel light shines far an sends
beam TO penetrate the darkness OF
the far land of the Nile. The path Of
the Son of man reaches at the very
outset to the Gentiles. Like David
Joseph was saying, Teach me thy
way, . God" and hence the Spirit 8
intimation leading the f. ct Of the holy
family TO the domain OF the Pharaohs.
But God was there. Angel custody
by the way; angel welcome every
where. Isaiah said it rightly for all,
led of the LOrd-"Thy Waterman shall
lift up the voice" May Jesus find his
way into many an Egypt heart, and all
the watchmen sing ogether.
Golden Text he Lord shall preserve
thy going out and thy coming IN "--Ps
Points In the Lesson.
"Warned of God in dream" 10th
the wise mon and Joseph were given
these hea enly limitations. Herod had
not counted on such an alliance +
those he would deceive or destroy. IF
God be for us who can be against u.s."
In Hebrews Ii. we read Of Noah
warned of Cod" Instructed in the
thought of 1t. Joseph and Noah we o
under divine tutelage. Such school
master to lead us t. Christ have we.
What else are the law and the propl-
cts? The meek, a4uiescent Joseph,
he is one of the most beautiful figures
of all the New Testament groups.
hai ~ =
word, he silently arises ard departs.
divine behest is ccmely. 1t means
faith, nothing more.
Out of Egypt have / called my Son. Z"
1t is out of Egypt that the church is
always being called, 1T of Egypt the
Christ spirit is always coming. Egypts
OF bondage, Egypts OF darkness,
Egypts OF incompletencss, out of such
places the kingdom keeps coming and
coming.
They are dead which sought the
young child's life" In very truth, and
the young child lives on. Prosecutions
have their day and pass into history.
In Rama and elsewhere is weeping
and lamentation. The church OF
Jesus Christ abides, aud the spirit
that 1t was sought to quench lives and
burns on stronger than ever HerCd
dies; Christ never. HE shall be called
Nazarene A kind of play on words.
Nazer was the word applied to a holy,
consecrated soul. 1t did t mean an
inhabitant of Nazareth, but a devoted
life, the scene of his con:ec alton be-
ing town whose name itself, in sound
at least, suggested the cha "acter OF his
life.
Hints and Illustrations.
AS with sermon, SO with a lesson,
What better thought than this, out Of
the lesson-the grace OF Cod God is
able to make all grace abound toward
YOU" said Paul. But suppose there
should be new and unexpected de elop.
ments? "He giveth more grace" says
James. And, so covering every posi-
BILE contingency, the Lord himself
says: "My grace is sufficient for you. I"
How beautifully this is Illustrated Ia
the earthly life of Jesus.
One of the maste rs has pictured the
holy family on the way down to Egypt
and pausing amid its idol temples to
rest. In the shadows OF one of the
great, open sanctuaries OF old Egypt
Mary is sitting and nursing the infant
hrist, at the same time looking up
with strange, wondering light in her
eye, at the goddess in stone holding
her failed son in her arms. Even thus
in the rude Cushite figures she catches
faint angelic mes ages and prophecies
of coming Deliverer such as keep her
heart bordering.
Something for the children. Jesus
was, we may believe, like any other
child in his mental and physical growth
into manhood, only that manhood was
the man Christ Jesus. What now, was
Christ's first conscious recollections OF
the earth pilgrimage? Wa, IL not
probably connected with this first
journey made Egypt-ward? Look back
into your own life What is the earli-
est item of memory? More than likely
it was some time when father or
mother said Come" and a strange.
long journey was taken TO some distant
place. This lad Of ours is making his
first visit to tho sea-shore. Just now
we have rescued him from little lake.
let of slrf when the waves have all at
once swept far up the sands and about
his ankles. The account he renders TO
his mother is TO the effect, child
fashion, that he didn't know the ocean
was so near to the land. A new and
never to-be forgotten experience. That
trip down to Egypt and presently back
to Judea and Nazareth, how did it
seem to the child Jesus? It is at lea +
a pleasant sub. Get for imagination.
Next Lesson-"The Youth OF jesus"
Luke ,: 40-5l.