Middletown transcript., 1898-11-26
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.

Sunday School Lesson for
Nov. 27, 1898. Temperance Lesson. Pro-
verbs 4.10.19 Golden Text-"My son, if
sinners entice thee, consent thou not"
Prov. LILO
Hear We children, the instruction of a
father, and attend to know understanding,
For give you good doctrine, forsake ye
not my law. For was my fathers son,
tender and only beloved in the sight of my
mother. He taught me also. and said unto
me, 'Let thine heart retain my words.
Keep my commandments, and live.
Get wisdom, get understanding; forget it
not; neither decline from the words of my
mouth. Forsake her not and she shall
preserve thee; love her and she shall keep
thee.
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore
get wisdom and with all thy getting get un-
derstanding. Exalt her, and she shall pro-
mote thee; she shall bring thee to honor
when thou dost embrace her. She shall
give to thine head an ornament of grace;
crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
Hear, o my son, and receive my sayings
and the years of thy life shall be many I
have taught thee in the way, of wisdom. ]
have led thee in right paths. When thou
goest, thy steps shall not be Strengthened;
and when thou runnest, thou shalt not
stumble. Take fast hold of instruction; let
her not go. Keep her, for she is thy life.
Enter not into the path Of the wicked,
and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid
it, pass not by it, turn from it and pass
away. For they sleep not except they have
done mischief; and their sleep is taken
away. unless they cause some to fall. For
they eat the bread of wickedness, and
drink the wine of violence.
But the path of the just is as shining
light, that shineth more and more unto the
perfect day. The way of the wicked is as
darkness. They know not at what they
stumble.
My son, attend to my words; incline thine
ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart
from thine eyes, keep them in the midst of
thine heart. For they are life unto those
that find them and health to all their flesh.
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out
of it are the issues of life. Put away from
thee ,froward mouth, and perverse lips
put far from thee. Let thine eyes look
right on, and let thine eyelids look straight
before thee.
Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all
thy ways be established. Turn not to the
right hand nor to the left; remove thy foo
from evil.
International Sunday School Lesson
for Dec. 4, 1898. The Book of the
Law Found. 2 Kings %: 8-20.
Read 2 Chron. 81. Golden Text-
BLESSED are they that keep his testi-
monies, and that seek Him with the
whole heart" Psalm 1892.
The boy king Josiah in the eighth
year Of his reign began to seek after
the God of David his father; and in the
twelfth year he began to purge idolatry
from Jerusalem. In the eighteenth
year, after purging the land, be repair
ed the house Of the Lord. He sent
money that had been collected to pay
the carpenters, builders and masons,
and to purchase materials; but there
was no reckoning made with them OF
the money that was delivered into their
hand, tecause they dealt faithfully.
And Hilkiah the high priest, who
summed the money, found in the Lords
house the Book of the law Of the Lord
given by Moses. Then they carried
the Book to the king and read it to him
and when he heard. it he rent his clothes
for fear Of the wrath Of the Lord that
was contained in the Book.
Then he commanded Hilkish and his
servants "Go ye, and inquire of the
Lord for me, and for all Judah, con-
cerning the words Of this Book that ii
found, for great is the wrath of the
Lord that is kindled against US, because
our fathers have not hearkned unto the
words of this Book" And they went
to Huldah the prophecies, and COM
muned with her, and she said TO them
'tThus saith the Lord, Behold I viii
bring evil upon this place and upon The
inhabitants thereof, even all words o.
theBook which the King Of Judah haiti
read, because they have forsaken Me. :
But the Lord sent word to the king
because thine heart Was tender, anC
thou hast humbled thyself before th'
Lord. also have heard the'
|. thine eyes shall not see all 'thI
evil which 1 will bring upon thi
place"
The king went up to the house o
the people, great and small, and h'
read in their all the words of the Book
And the King made covenant DefoTt
the Lord to follow Him with all hi
heart and soul, and caused all that wert
present in Jerusalem and Benjamin t.
stand by it. And he took away all th'
denominations out of all the countries
that pertained to the children Of Israel
and all his days they departed not from
following the Lord, the God of theil
| fathers.
1.-THE Lord is merciful and gracious
slow to anger, and plcnteousin mercy
"He hath not dealt with US after oul
sins, nor rewarded Us according to oul
iniquities." His book declares to Hi
children: Ii any man sin. we have al
Advocate with the Father, Jesus
Christ the righteous; and He is the pro
pitiaiion for our SINS" And thi'
Advocate declares in the Book:''I am
the Way, the Truth, and the Life: nc
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