Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1895-09-05
NUMBER 4
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON X, THIRD QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, SEPT. 8.

NATIONAL SERIES SEPT. 8.
Text OF the Lesson, Joshua xiv, 5-14-Mem-
ory Verses, 7-9-GoIden Text. Joshua xiv.
14-commentary by the Rev. ID. MI.
4 stearns.
8. las the Lord commanded Moses, 90
the children Of Israel did, and they divided
the land !" Moses and Joshua were faith
full servants Of Jehovah and implicitly
Obeyed His commands. They left nothing
undOne that He commanded. Joshua took
the whole Land and divided it among the
tribes, and the land rested from war (chap-
ter xi, Is, 23). But although the land was
/ wholly given to Israel they did not possess
| it fully Chapter xiii, u and they allowed
the Jebusites and Canaanites To dwell
among them (chapter XIV, 63; xvi, 10;
xvii, l2). This disobedience on the part Of
the people afterward brought trouble upon
them (Judg- it, l, p. Every true be-
lever in Jesus IS now blessed with all
Y spiritual blessings III the heavenlies In
4 Christ (Eph. i 81. Yet but few enjoy full
] possession. Many prefer to tolerate few
Y Canaanites and Jebusites and rather enjoy
their ways
8. Thou knowest the thing that the
Lord said unto Moses, the man of God, con
cerning me and thee in KadesI-barnea- N
\ These are the words Of Caleb to his old
Y friend and companion, Joshua Caleb was
Of the tribe Of Judah, and Joshua was OF
I Ephraim (Num. xiii 8, S) Only they
two Of all the spies believed God and
urged the people to 20 right up and take
the land in the name Of the Lord. The
\ Lord said that only they two of all that
I generation should enter the land Mum
xiv, BOZ and that the rest would die Id the
Y wilderness because Of their unbelief. They
too, would have TO wait 40 years because
I Of the unbelief Of Others but they waited
with God, for He also waited and was him
/ dered by the unbelief Of the people. Hear
I His words, How long viii it be ere they
Y believe Me2" "Oh, that MY people had
I heaFkened unto Me- (Num. xiv, IL; Ps.
lxzzi, l3).
T. Forty years Old was when Moses,
VI the servant of the Lord, sent me from Ka-
4 desh-barnea to espy out the land, and
I brought him word agaiIAas it was in mine
\ heart I" His heart was right with God.
4 He believed God and feared to grieve Him.
J Therefore he spakc what was in his heart
as in the sight Of God and sought not to
( please the people. For this faithfulness
Y he and Joshua were threatened with stones
4 {Num. xiv, 1O), but the Lord stood by
! them. Consider David, with not a human
being to stand by him, threatened with
u stones by his own friends, and observe
what he did II sam. Xxx, 6).
s. MY brethren that went up with me
/ made the heart Of the people melt but
I wholly followed the Lord my God" The
\ ten spies had to confess that the land was
.
I giants and walled cities; seemed 70 utterly
to forget the power Of God in Egypt and
| at the Red sea, and to losc sight Of God al
I together that they filed the people with
Y fear and Encouragement and with muir
I murings against God Many such today
I are seeing themselves and their circum-
stances, and by unbclicf and murmurings
\ are dishOnOring God and making intidels,
o. "And Moses sware On that lay, say
7 ing. Surely the Land whercon thy feet
4 have trodden shall be thine inheritance.
I How Caleb had lived on the word Of the
Lord all those yearsl They had been his
life, his meat and drink Perhaps every
1 day he had called them to mind and been
Y strengthened by them. He may, like Da-
4 vid, have pleaded them in prayer, saying,
7 Rcmember the word unto Thy servant,
upon which Thou hast caused me to hope
N (Ps. cxix, 49). The word Of the Lord is
I a sure found.ti0n Oh which we may firmly
rest lit endurcth forever, is true from the
I beginning and Is forever settled in heaven
Y Qsa. xl, 8; Ps. cxix, 100, SOY.
10. "And now behold the Lord hath
kept me alive as He said these forty and
\ five years. 1t always has been and al
ways viii DE ''As He said. Y The noble
man Of Capernaum Believed the word
that Jesus had spoken John iv, SOY.
Paul said in tho storm at sea, III believe
God that it shall be even as it was told
me" (Acts xvii, 25l Abraham was fully
persuaded tLat what God had promised
I Hewas able 70 perform Rom IL, 2p The
Lord of Hos-s hath sworn, saying, Surely
u i have thought, Sd shall ii come 10 pass,
and as | have purposed, 50 shall it stand
\ lisa xiv, 24)). Blessed are I'LL who be-
lieve, for there shall bo performance of
the things told them by the Lord Luke /,
/ 45)
ILL., "As yet ann H. strong this day a. I
was in the day that Moses sent me. " AS
strong and hearty at the age nf IS az when
he was 40- Like Moses at the age Of l20,
his eye WAS not dim nor his natural force
abated (Deut xxxiv, ". "Th-y that wait
upon the Lord shall renew their strength,
they shall mount mp with wings as
eagles" "Yputh IL renewed like the
eagles lisa. Kl, Sl; r. ciii, 3D.. Take as
/ living illustrations of the same grace to-
day George Muller in his nineticth year,
journeying and witnessing for Jesus
Christ; DF. David Brown of Aberdeen.
the great commentator, who wrote me Nov.
8, 1894, that though in hi ninety second
year, he was in perfect health. He said,
~ I have no aches nor pains, am not tired
of life, but would like to do little work
for my Master before go OF lie comes. n
Jesus Christ is still the very same Jesus.
~. "If 10 bc the Lord will be with me,
then ! shall be able 70 drive them out as
The Lord SAID. W" He seemed to covet the
difficulties that he might sce thu grcat
power Of God. Being not weak in faith, be
gave glory tn God. He counted not On bis
ability, but that God was ablc. Like Paul
he could say, Il / can 10 all things through
Christ, who strcngthcncth me. Y "For
when ! am weak then ann strong phil
iv, 13i II Cor. xii, l0l God with Us" is
the secret W all strength III Hi service
See Jer. ], y, l9; Hag i'll 4; Math-
xviii ls20l.
13. And Joshua blessed him, and gave
unto Caleb the SON of ,Jcphunneh Hebron
for an Inheritance. 1t was at Hebron
that Abraham built an altar unto The Lord
and dwelt, after Lot separated himself
from him. There he welcomed and enter
tanned the Lord Himself, and there The
Lord communcd with him (Gcn. xiii, Is;
xviii, ], So. Hebron IS suggestive II fel-
lOwship W communion, and whom W. have
the spirit Of Abraham and Caleb we shall
Z know what fellowship with God means II
John i 81.
ia Hebron therefore became tho inhyr-
itance Of Caleb, because that be wholly
Y followed the Lord Goa w Israel. Y This
following fully h. The secret Of fellowshlEA
for there can be mono with half hearted
! following TITO next verse says that the
old name Of Hebron WIS Kirjath-arha.
Arba being great man among the ANA
kims. But 'arba' IL also thu Hebrew word
for four, 50 that il might hp the city Of
tDur
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Animals that are very sick and that
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drenched with the medicine shaken up
with water. Great care should he cxer-