Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-08-10
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
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TIE LESSON Text.

IS Genesis 15:1-1S.)
:. After these things the word OF the 4.ere
came unto Abram Ia q vision saying, ESAE
not Abram; am thy shield, and thyssz-
ceeding great reward .-1:-- =
X 2 And Abram said Isord,Y6cdl pEhat slft
Thou give me, seeing 90 childIess, and
the steward of my house Is this Eliezefof
Damascus? Es3
s And Abram said, Beholds to me Thou
hast given no seed; and. los9one born inSEs.E
house is mine heir. ss:ss
4. And, behold, the word OF the lEatd
came unto him, saying, This shal- ncta9e
thine heir; but he that shall come foEth
out Of thine own bowels -shAllt be- thifte
heir.
-. And he brought him forth abroad. SD
I:Haid, Look now toward HeaYepF and stAll
Eithe stars, If thou be ahlesto npFnber thsz1E;
and He said unto him, SoSshan thy seedshe.
s And he believed in the Lord; and%he
Ecounted 1t to him for righteousness. s
+ z. And He said unto him, am the Lord
that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees,
to give thee this land TO inherit it. -.
s. And he said, Lord God, whereby shall
know that shall inherit it? -
- And He said unto him, Take me an
;Aelfer Of three years old, and she goaEo<
three years old, and ram of three years
NDld, and turtledoVe, and q young pigeon.
divided them in the midst, and laid each
piece one against another; but the birds d.
axided he not. s'Iiis3;-'iIi-' ~
III And when the fowls came down upon
the carcasses, Abram drove them away,
~. And when the sun was going down,sI
deep sleep fell upon -Abram; and, loan
horror of great darkness fell upon him.:s's
=-a32. And He said unto Abram, Know ola
safety that thy seed shalfbe strangeS.tR
ri land that is not theirs, and shall setFa
|itheIn; and they shall affiict them 100 years.
IA And also that nation, whom they shas
serve, VIII 5udgei.sano afterward SHAH
they come out with great substance. ~
/. Is. And thou shalt go to thy fathersiin
pace. thou shalt be buried in a good cid
s 16. But in the fourth generation they shall
come hither again; for the iniQuity of the
Anerites is not yet full =: 50
Il. And it came TO pass. that. when th1
sun went down, and it was dark, behold:a
smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that
:passed between those pieces. -@-a
8. q. In the same day the Lord made cox-
ephnt with Abramr saying, Unto thy seed
have given this land, from the river OF
Egypt unto the great river, the river Eu-
pirates. z5
E3s.GOLDEN TExT-I am thy ahieIis.
atd thy exceeding great rewards4i
EGeu. 1871. -
..: NOTES AND COMMENTS. -
Read chapters Is, 10 and IL to-makGi
continuous the story of Genesfs:S But,
for our purpose of impressfng moral
and religious truths we need advett
ito but one incident in these ehaptefa,
outside of the ieskon kFtext ! printed:
above. 4 That one incident is the in.
-stitution of the rite of circumcisions
Some one has said that this hasiever
been the rite of the Jews, as baptism,
since then has been the sign of the
.Christian's covenant with God. II
was in; certain sense a symbol Of
Godszcoxenant; with Abraham. Butt
it really meant more to the. Jewish.
nat ton and people than apyi ordinary
I{r-sio -
lenses EthaHa one; q Separate and pea
culiar people. It effectually set them
apart from. their heather neighbours
It was a sort of recognition of theA
:layz of :enyirqp p1epSS 3. :: Elep rfn eiel0::
.cEfed==tn-1e city: Of JJr;, a cen 49,
ter3of. Asathe n. worship IN tife-1ery,-a
ancient world, and to establish thG4
worship of Jehovah, the only true,S..
God, in the wilderness aon the cast
era eeast Ief; the Mediterrahean sea-.
Here it is illustrated again by the in.
Stitution of this rite. God foresaw =
that. even here His people would BET:
surrounded by a Numerous heather.
population. What more effective bar.
rieE to outside influences. could He :
raise than this very rite of eircum--;
clsl0n IN eonneceion WIN tne s'uay
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ADRIAN was. living. dless-....-l IN
Canaan, with l.. confidence IN GODS
promise That his descendants should :
inherit the land. But there are in :.
dieations that the situation troubled :.
AlbGram sometimes. The most. open :.
expression OF his perplezlty is that :
found in 1872, 3. The prEpiexity was 2:
met by Posltlve assurance: enat nus !:
Abrams faith ln..the- assurance, SO !.