Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-07-13
s'lIE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON u. THIRD QUARTER. M
T1RNATIONAL SERIES. JULY -.


Memory verses. :. g. Golden Text, John
v AZ cess,mcriary by me Rev. ID. NJ.
stearas.
/. ~Ur. make rs gods" Some one has
said that whenever we turn away from
leaning exclusively upon God either for sal
walton or for the necessities OF the path
we are virtually saying. Up. make Us
gods" This il equal to a rejection of
Gcd. They had not seen Moses nor heard
from God for several weeks and they can
trust no longer They cannot walk by
faith. they must have something 10 look
upon Blessed are all who are content to
believe without seeing or feeling-content
to live by faith
2, 3. Aaron. the anointed high priest.
seems TO have no word OF warning or help
for them as from God. He was Moses mouth
or spokesman, and Moses was TO him In
stead OF God tE,x IN, Is: vii, u, and Moses
being absent he, like false prophet. speaks
out OF his oHn heart this evil advice tJer.
xiii. 100. Ii Is sad when we depend upon
man instead of upon God for the message
then when the man Is absent we have
no message Observe also that as they
gave tho ornaments Of their ears To make
an idol. so they gave their ears 10 the
devil (Deut. xxi. 10, ~.
T. Instead Of receiving at theiR hard the
gold TO make an idol. they should have re-
ceived ut his hand aud from his lips the
living words OF the living God. Ii Is sal
case indeed when the one who ought To
represent the people before God misrepre-
sents God 20 the people aud joins the pco-
pie in heathenish desires aud customs.
Through him who should have led them 90
the God OF Glory they changed their glory
into the simiiitude Of an OK Ups. cvi, eol.
IL looks II Aaron lid wholly lost his
reason when we hear lin say, These be
thy gods, q Israel" Compare II Thess. Il.
10, H.
g. And when Aaron saw IL, he built an
altar before it.p See this sin repeated in
the case of Jeroboam aud the very words
OF Aaron used Il Kings XII, %, 33) This is
all the work OF the devil from beginning to
end, and SO is everything like il in the
churches and among the people Of God to-
day. God is Spirit, and they that worship
Him must worship Him ia spirit and in
truth. And when any person or thing
comes between the soul and God IL is idol
airy.
g. THE people sat down to eat and drink,
and rose up TO play" See Cor X, Z, and
it would be well to read the whole chapter
Is 1t not on the same line OF things when in
houses built for the worship of God people
bearing the name of Christ meet to cat and
drink and be entertained or amusedp There
is n wonderful likeness TO the dancing and
singing OF the naked people around the
golden calf oversees 10, 25) in some things
done in our midst in the name of religion.
Z. The Lord said TO Moses that the people
had corrupted themselves, and He ordered
him down from the mountain to see 20 IT,
All the good is from God, all the evil is ON
our side with satan back of il. Long after
ward the Lord said to this people: 20 Israel,
thou hast destroyed thyself, but in Me is
thine help. . Israel, return unto the Lord
thy God, for thou hast fallen by thine In
iquity" (Hos. xiii, o; xiv, D. The sin Is
ours, the salvation is all His.
s. "They have turned aside quickly out
of the way which | commanded them"
Blessed are the undefiled in the way who
walk in the law OF the Lord Cps. cxix, y.
There is no way for the child Of God TO walk
in but THE WAY, which is Jesus Christ
Himself (John xiv, o.. We are not to turn
from Him either to the right or the left
(Joshua 1, y, and when tempted to turn we
have the promise of help and guidance il
we are only willing to be guided lisa. XXX,
81; Cor. X, l3l.
80. II will go up unto the Lord, perad-
venture ! shall make an atonement for
your SIM" Before coming down from the
mount Moses had pleaded for Israel and
obtained the assurance that God would
spare them as a nation. The account of
this, and the meeting with Joshua, and the
destruction and disposition of the calf is
found in the intervening verses, also the
significance of the question WHO is on the
Lords sides" and the true meaning of con-
secration. Compare Luke xiv, 26,21; Math.
K. 81, 49,
81. "And Moses returned unto the Lord /"
While all sin is sin, and even the thought
Of foolishness is sin prov. xiv, %, yet
some sins are more heinous than Others.
Moses Calls this great sin. Jesus himself
spoke of a sin that hath never forgiveness
at the same time that he spoke of the for
giveness OF all manner of sins except this
particular sin mark iii, 2S, 29). The sin
that overtops all others Is the rejection OF
Christ the Son of God.
80. And. if not, blot me. pray thee, out
of thy book which thou hast written" He
is willing TO suffer in their stead il neces-
sary in order 10 save them. The same
spirit is seen in Paul on behalf of this same
people Israel (Rom. tx, b. The reality is
seen and fully carried ont in the Lord Jesus
Christ who was made a sin Offering for
Israel and for us that we might be saved
Oh Cor. v, 2D
SO whatsoever hath sinned against me,
him will blot out of my book" In Rev.
Xxx. ~ we read of books being opened. and
another book which Is the book OF life In
Nal. iii. 10 we read of book of remem-
brance. What book is referred to in our
lesson we may not now know. but we may
be sure that if it were possiL A to- have a
name blotted out of the hcok'.f life our
Lord would not have made il such great
ground of rejoicing to have ones name
there duke X, 20; Rev. iii, %.
"a. Behold, mine angel shall go before
thee. Nevertheless, inthe day when visit
will visit their sin upon them" The Lord
is slow to anger and plenteous in mercy.
but sin that is not repented OF and forgiven
shall in due time be visited Every peniteut
sinner may be forgiven by. accepting Him
who died in his stead, but there is no other
way but by the atonement. The guiding
and protecting angel is meutioned in Elk.
xiii, 20, Behold ! send an angel before
thee TO keep thee in the way, and TO b-iag
thee into the place which have prepared"
THE angel OF His presence saved them"
lisa xiii. 3D. Well may we say, IF thy
presence 20 not with me. carry vs. not up
hence (Ex xxxiii, 80 But thank God for
Math xviii, -: Isa xii. 10, IS; Deut XXI,
s; Heb. xiii. ). etc.
IS. And the Lord plagued the people,
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