The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-12-11
rHE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
.rscoN xl, FOURTH QUARTER, IN
~roNATIcMAL SERIES, DEC. II.


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~ "And they went in to the king and
- II, the words in the ears of the king"
VIZ :. King Jehoiakim, son of Josiah,
~, ~ reigned Il years, but did evil in the
VIZ. - the Lord. In the fourth year of
,e "e .oign the Lord told jeremiah to write
~ hook all the words He had spoken
!" 1T Israel since the days of Josiah and
"a them to the people if perchance they
- -. ,,,rn from their sins to the Lord and
ms tbeir iniquity forgiven. Both in the
.b nav and fifth years of Jehoiakim's IS reign
pu.a ,l.o words were read publicly and pri-
r.,ey again and again (see previous part
This chapterJ, and now some who heard
.horo tell them TO the king.
d so the king sent Jehudi to fetch
.to roll. and Jehudi read 1t in the cars of
10 ling. 3" Baruch the scribe, who had
,rritten the words of the Lord from the
nth Of jeremiah, had also read the
- in the ears Of the people and of the
.r,ers (yerses 6, 8, 10, 15, 16), but now
rahrdi reads. 1t does not matter much
Tho reads provided he reads distinctly
I'd Give the sense and cause the people to
nnderstand the reading (Neh. viii, 81 AS
70 the origin of the words, they were from
.bo lord. the Lord words. He used
Iaromiab' s mouth and Baruchs pen and
mouth. but The message was neither from
Iorpniah nor from Baruch, but from God.
Now IL is .Tehudi's mouth, but it is still
tho same message from the Lord.
% 20. "lIe cut it with the penknife and
east il into the fire that was on the hearth,
| until all the roll was consumed in the
fro Thus did .Iehoiakim with the roll
containing the message from the Lord
Tnus he despised and treated with con
tempt the message from the Lord and
trrred his back upon the Lord and would
not hearEen to Him. What a contrast to
Josiah in cur last lesson, who humbled
himself before God and turned to Him
with all his heart .Iehoiakim was Cain
/ man. while Josiah, like Abel, had faith in
God All are either for or against God.
% 'Yet they were not afraid, nor rent
their garments, neither the king nor any
Of his servants that heard all these words 3"
The hard hearted. TebelIious king wouad
influence those about him iH some meas
ure to be rcbellious, like himself. When
once the heart turns away from God, the
hardness ofttimes increases very quickly
When we reaeive not the truth i'll the love
i Of it. God lets us believe 1ielusion and u
y lie I'll Thess ii, II, 12). l. is a fearful
thing 10 even listen to Il word against God
or against His word. for, while holiness is
not easily communicated sin is, accord
ing to Hag il u, -.
25 "He would not hear them" Three
are mentioned who pleaded with tie king
not to burn the roll, but he would not
listen to them. He thought that be knew
better thar his counselcrs, he was in his
own esteenr wiser than his father who had
humbled himself before God, he did no5
believe that He that, being often re-
proved, ha4sleneth his neck shall Suddenly
be destroyed, and that without remedy
prov. XXX, u.
&c. But the Lord hii them" This re
fers to Baruch and jeremiah, whom the
king would now like TO lay hands upon
and put a stop to such words as these. In
verse 10 We learn that avhen the Book was
about to he read to the king some advised
them TO hide so that they coulA not be
found, ami now we learn that in their
hiding they were guided by God Elijah
was SO securely hidden by God that he
could not be found by .Ahab in any nation
or kingdom Il Kings xvii, 3; xviii, 10).
There Is q rock, the Rock of Ages, in
whom we may 50 seozrely hide that no
evil can befall us (Ex xxxiii, %; Isa ii,
IL; XVI (, margin). The life af all who
truly receive Christ ar their Saviour is
m said to be hid with Christ in God, for He
sour life Col. Ill 3, a.
q, 2S. Take thee again another roll
and write IN it all the former words that
We're in the first roll " have fur some
years reveled in the blessed assurance OF
rs cxix, 50. Forever, @ Lord, Thy word
settled in heaven" On my wag home
rom India 1ast year it was my privilege
Fhile spending a few days in London to
nmee IN some blessed fellowship with my
otar brother in the Lord, Rev. John vii
A,hson, author of that wonderful book,
israel My Glory l found him one day
greatly rejoicing in Ps. cxix, 80, on which
ae1patlated somewhat after this fashion;
Just think of what we have here! What
sttled2 Thy word Whore is it settled.
N II heaven. For how long is it settlad!
IoeVer Whose word is il? Thine, @
Mru! Let the enemies throw out Jonah
Ano his book, and Daniel and his book,
-uu Whatever they do not like, they can
~ y, more destroy the word of God than
l1laAlm could destroy the words of Jere-
.a-n rol When we reach heaven, we
-Ni una Jonah anG his book and Daniel
a-u Ills book and all the word of God for
e'G settled there
The king of Babylon shall certain
OO1ne and destroy this land and shall
N- T,-4e 10 cease from thence man and beast 81
r1sse We're some of the words in the roll
mn Jehoiakim burned which caused
sau 70 hate it and burn it. Jonah WAS a
soa uurtAis type of our Lord in His death
rsi.1 I1eSurreetion, and this the great truth
&,s,hr ,en sslan hates and may be one reason
- ne would if possible set aside the book
aDvO..I, Onah- In Daniel perhaps more than in
a tp o'nef book in the Bible the importance
g. '.e wisdom of this world Id understand
o. 1Iulngs OF God is made manifest, and
Ds.,lat uat reason, among others, the book OF
dsr;Tl dIei Is dlsiiked. Revelation tells of the
tS,a tS,n !. ; cownfan and final doom and there
Soh .S ne would like you not to read that
d T. Ia o. Therefore thus saith the Lord
low aOlaklm, king Vt Judah Then fol
lin statement of what would come upon
NJ bss9haily for this sin, but he would
SoIhe0s In chaYfaP vii 10 - ,.-oa