The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-09-27
The SUNDAY SCHOOL.
lesson n the International sesaes eo0
September 20. lO0i-ouarte~ly
Review.

upon them that fear Him.-Psa. 1O3sl5.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Below is presented a brief chronoi.
ogy Of the period covered by the past
quarters lesson:
i0o4 b. C.--The creation. Adam and Eve
created In Eden and their fall. Birth OF
Cain and Abel near Eden.
H76 b. C.-Murder o. Abel. and consequent
Punishment OF Cain.
&N b. C.-Birth OF Seth.
374 B. C.-Death OF Adam.
30i7 Is. C.-Translation OF Enoch.
2sls Ii. C.-Birth Of Noah.
2s4s Il. C-The food.
RATS b. C.-Covenant with Noah In A..
menia.
2247 Il. C.-Confusion OF tongues. in Baby
lonia.
1898 B. C.-Death OF Noah. in Arabia.
1896 Ii. C.-Birth OF Abram at Ur. Chaldea.
1926 ID. C.-Abram moves from Ur to Haran
in Mesopotania.
1921 Il. Call OF Abram. .Abram and
Lot move to Canaan.
1918 Is. C.-Abram and Lot separate: Lot
goes to Sodom and Abram settles In
Hebron.
1918 b. C.-Lot carried away captive by
Cherdoraomer and rescued by Abram.
1912 -. Goods covenant with Abram.
1910 Is. C.-Birth Of Ishmael.
1897 u. C.-The covenant renewed..-.
Abrams name changed to Abraham. ana
Sarafs to Sarah. Abraham entertains
three angels. aud intercedes for Sodom
....Lot fees from doomed city,. .Sodom
destroyed.
1896 u. C.--Birth Of Isaac. In Moab.
1894 Il. C.-Hagar and Ishmael sent away.
1871 Il. C.-Abraham offers to sacrifice Isaac
on Mt Moriah In Jerusalem.
1850 Il. C.-Death OF Sarah. In Hebron.
1857 Il. C.-Marriage OF Isaac and Rebecca.
at Lahai Roi
1887 Ii. C-Birth Of Jacob and Esau.
1872 Il. C.-Death Of Abraham at Beersheba.
lS04 Ii. C.-Esau sells birthright for mess
OF pottage. The covenant confirmed.
f60 IL. C.-Jacob ais Esau's blessing and
starts for Padan- Aram.. His vision at
Bethel.
1853 b. C.-Jacob marrIes Leah and Rachel.
1883 Il. C.-Jacob's children. excepting
Benjamin. born. He returns to Canaan
..Wrestles with angel at Penuel....His
name changed to Israel.
The above table is valuable only for
comparisons, and getting at the inter-
walls between the more notable events.
The dates are those found in the mar
gins Of our Bibles, but are not ac-
curate. They we're estimated by Arch
bishop Usher in the eighteenth CEN
fury. He had at his command only
the dates given in the Bible text, with
out the helps that have come to more
recent scholars from other sources.
One corrective to the dates of the
common chronology is furnished by
the study of geology. The fossils in
the rocks, the arrangement of the
strata of soil, the signs Of channels
worn by rivers, all show the great
age Of the world. Some students have
talked about millions of years as in
cluded in the worlds history, but con-
servative biologists believe that pres
: emit processes have been going on for
from $4,000 to 10000 years, and that
there have been men in the world for
not less than 10000 years.
The monuments of ancient peoples
: also prove that the date assigned to
the deluge by the Bible margin is
many hundreds. if not thousands, OF
years too late. Some high authorize >
, on the history of Egypt place the
earliest known events in that history
as early as b. C. $500. Others cut the
date down a thousands years or more,
but all agree that records dating
4 earlier than b. c. 5000 exist in Egypt
/ The records Of Assyria certainly be-
!. gin as early as II. c. $500. 1t would
I manifestly be impossible for two ma
! tions, surrounded by other peoples
q to be formed and organized in re-
! gions so far apart as Assyria and
Egypt in much less than 500 years
I after sweeping catastrophe like the
. deluge The date of the deluge is to
be considered. therefore. as not later
(, than b. c. $500. and very likely as early
as b. c. COCO.
The date Of Abraham's life is gen
A orally believed to have been not faI
!. from the period indicated by the
q Bible margin, the time fixed by vari
!. us authorities ranging from B. G
q e10o to r. c. 1850.
o THE GOLDEN TEXTS.
q Lesson LIN the beginning God created
= the Heaven and the earth.-Gen. III.
, Lesson II-where sin abounded, grace
q ala much more abound Rom. $40.
l. Lesson III-Noah found grace In thu
e eyes Of the Lord.-Gen. 6:s.
Lesson W. Will bless thee. and make
thy name great. and thou smart De piess'
ing.-Gen. 1872
d Lesson vi-whatsoever ye would thai
. men should do to you, do even SO TO them
2 Matt 1872
y Lesson VII am thy shield, ana my ex
Y ceeding great reward.-Gen. ISL.
I. Lesson vII.-The effectual fervent prayer
OF a righteous man availeth much-Jas
sic
Q Lesson vITI.-By faith Abraham. wher
i he was tried. offered up Isaac.-Heb. l1:17.
/. Lesson Ix.--Blessed are the peacemak
ers. for they shall be called the children
' OF God.--Matt. 6:9.
q Lesson x-surely the Lord Is In thiI
place.-Gen. isle.
Lesson xI.-Men ought always to pra,
and not to faint.-Luke ISL
= Lesson xII.-wine is a mocker, stronl
. drink is raging. and whosoever Is deceived
= thereby Is not wise.-Prov 2i.
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