The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-07-18
The SUNDAY SCH SCHOOL.
Lesson in the International Series
for July II. 10O1-Noah saved
In the Ark
prepared by II. c. Lenington.l
THE LESSON TEXT.

II. Bring forth with thee every living
thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both
OF fowl and of cattle. and of every creep
Ing thing that creepeth upon the earth;
that they may breed abundantly in the
earth. and be fruitful and multiply upon
the earth.
1s. And Noah went forth. and his sons,
and his wife, and his sons wives with him:
l9. Every beast, every creeping thing.
and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth
upon the earth, after their kinds, went
forth out of the ark.
~ And Noah builed an altar unto the
Lord; and took Of every clean fowl, and
offered burnt offerings on the altar.
u. And the Lord smelled a sweet SAVIOR;
and the Lord said In His heart will not
again curse the ground any more for mans
sake; for the Imagination of mans heart
Is evil from his youth; neither will again
smite any more every thing living, as l
have done.
% While the earth remaineth. seed time
and harvest. and cold and heat, and sum-
mer and winter. and day and night shall
not cease.
GOLDEN TEXT.-Noah found grace
In the eyes Of the Lord.-Gen. Gas.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
1t was never intended that the In
ternational lesson series should set
apart only a portion of the Bible for
study, and leave all other portions
untouched. Certain passages have
been selected for the express purpose
of being printed with the various les
son helps and being read at the reg
ular Sunday school sessions. But the
passage to be studied almost always
includes much more. The passage
for the present lesson takes in the
entire story of the flood, beginning
with the sixth chapter, reading
through the ninth. This omts so far
in the book of Genesis only the fifth
chapter, which is only genealogical
table. An analysis of the passage
follows:
Wickedness Of Men in the Early Ages.
The Man Noah. .6:s.i3; II: o:2s. q
The Ark and the Flood 80. .6:14-22; 7:2-24
A new start In Life... Chapters and 9
Wickedness of Men in the Early
Ages.-We have seen how the en-
trance of sin into the heart of man
inaugurated an age of crime. As the
population of the earth increased, un-
| til God saw that the wickedness of
man was great in the earth, and that
every Imagination of the thoughts of
| v.
Gen. 6:5. The earth was literally
filed with violence (verse 49, So God
said: "The end of all flesh is come
before me, I will destroy
them with the earth" We are be-
ginning to see how "the wages Of sin
is death"
The Man Noah.-The references
| fyiv will civ sr1i, 80 10
character of Noah. He was surround
ed by wickedness and violence on
every hand, but he found grace in the
eyes of the Lord because he was Just,
because he walked with God and be-
cause he was righteous. The fact that
as soon as he and his family were
safely landed from the ark he built
an altar and offered sacrifice to
God shows that his nature was an es.
sentially religious one. e."
The Ark and the FIood-The ark
was built under the direction of God
and into it were introduced species OF
every living thing. Then came the
food. There is every reason to be.
lieve the flood to have been universal
that is coextensive with the human
populati tion of the world. Traditions
of the event have been handed down
through every known race of people
Science confirms the possibility OF
the event. just at the close of the
glacial period there were 'succes'
sion of catastrophies, startling in
their magnitude, and short in theiI
Duration" which may well have cul
minated in the deluge.
A New Start in Life.-With the pop
ulation reduced to Noah and his chill
was splendid chance for a new start
in life. The earth was before them
all history was to have been writer
anew. But man needed a Redeemer
men were still away from God, and
the story of sin and suffering begar
anew. There was this one difference
however, that God established Hi!
covenant with His people. Noah hat
built an altar and offered a sacrifice
in token of his safe delivery from
the flood. The fact was pleasing tt
God, so He made the distinct prom
ise that He would not send anothe,
great flood upon the earth, and estab
lished rainbow in the heavens as ;
token. God realized that the "imag
ination of mans heart is evil from hi
youth" (Gen. seq, so He would maxi
no more outward demonstrations o
his power, but aid man by an inwar'
force to rise above the sin that is il
his heart.
Noah is one of the best example
! given us in the Bible of the truth tina
righteousness pays, and it pays to b
right and to do right in the midst o
the great wlckedness of others.
any one lesson is more clearly taugh
, than another, it is that wickednes
, and unrighteousness all around is n
, excuse for ourselves being wrong
Noah walked with God, and wa
saved when all others perished.
Rams Horn Blasts.
Policy is prudence prevailing owe
principle.
/, To mans desperation came God
I II, mira finD