The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1901-07-18
TIE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
esssn In the international Series
for Jsly n, 10OI-Noah Saved
In the Ark,
prepared by II. c. Lenington.l
THE LESSON TENT.

l6 Go forth of the ark. thou, ana thy
life. and thy sons, and thy sons wives
Sith thee.
IT, Bring forth with thee every living
hing that Is with thee. OF all flesh, both
II fowl. and Of cattle. and Of every creep
ng thing that creepeth upon the earth:
hat they may breed abundantiy In the
arth. and be fruitful. ani multiply upon
he earth.
IS. And Noah went forth. and hi. sons.
md his wife. and his sons wives with him:
IL. Every beast. every creeping thing.
md every fowl. and whatsoever creepeth
Upon the earth, after their kinds, went
orth out Of the ark.
-. And Noah builed an altar unto the
ord; and took OF every clean fowl and
Tered burnt offerings on the altar.
Il. And the Lord smelled sweet saver;
md the Lord said In His heart, ] will not
isain curse the ground any more for mans
'ake; for the Imagination OF mans heart
evil from his youth: neither will j again
mite any more every Thing living. as l
aave done.
q While the earth remaineth, seed time
md harvest. and cold and heat, and sum-
ner and winter. and day and night shall
| ,ot cease.
GOLDEN TExT.-Nsah eound Grac~
- tAe eyes Of tho Lord-Gen. 0,S.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
1t was never intended that the In
ernational lesson series should set
apart only portion of the Bible for
study. and leave all other portions
Untouched. Certain passages have
seen selected for the express purpose
u being printed with the various les
'on helps and being read at the reg
llar Sunday school sessions. But the
aassage to be studied almost always
includes much more. The passage
Tor the present lesson takes In the
entire story Of the food, beginning
With the sixth chapter, reading
through the ninth. This omits SO far
n the book of Genesis only the fifth
.hapter, which is only q genealogical
able. An analysis of the passage
follows:
Wickedness Of Men In the Earty Ages
The Man Noah. 'S:s.is: ~: s.m =
rhe Ark and the Flood ...... .6:li.1s: 7:2,N
New Start In Life. 800. Chapters and
Wiokedness OF Men in tho Early
Ages.-We have seen how the en-
trance Of sin into the heart of man
naugurated an age Of crime. Az tho
population Of the earth increased, IN
Ill God saw that tho wickedness Of
man was great in the earth, and that
every imagination of the thoughts Of
ais heart was only evil continually"
Gen. SIS. Tho earth vas literally
illed with violence (verse ls). So God
'aid: "The end Of al flesh ID come
before me, will destroy
them with the earth.7 We are be-
ginning to see how "the wages Of sin
. death" dds L-l
The Man Ncah.-The references
given above will give glimpses Of the
character Of Noah. He was surround-
ed BY wickedness and violence ON
every hand, but ho found grace in tho
eyes Of the Lord, because he was just.
because he walked with God and be
sause he was righteous. The fact that
- soon as he and his family were
safely landed from the ark he built
IN altar and offered sacri6ce 70
God shows that his nature was AN es-
sentially religious one. 0s
The Ark and the Flood--The ark
was built under tho direction Of God
and into 1t were introduced species Of
every living thing. Then came the
food. There Is every reason to be-
lieve the food to have been universal,
that 10 coextensivo with the human
population of the world. Traditions
Of the event have been handed down
through every known raoe Of people.
Science confirms tho possibility Of
the event. Just at tho close Of the
glacial period there were q "succes-
sion Of cstastrophies, startling in
their magnitude. and short in their
duration" which may we'll have cul-
minated In the deluge.
Anew Start IN Hfe.-Wlth the pop
alation reduced to Noah and his chill
aren and his childern's families, there
was . splendid chance for new stArt
In life. The earth was beforeSthem.
Ill history was to have been written
anew. But man needed Redeemer.
men were still away from God, and
tho story Of sin and suffering began
anew. There was this one difference,
however, that God established His
covenant with His people. Noah had
built an altar and offered q sacrifice
in token Of his safe delivery from
the food. The fact was pleasing to
God, so He made the distinct prom
ise that He would not send another
great food upon the earth, and estab-
lished rainbow in the heavens as
token. God realized that the 'imag-
nation Of mans heart is evil from his
youth" (Gen. 8:21). so He would make
no more outward demonstrations of
his power, but aid man by an inward
force to rise above the sin that Is In
his heart.
Noah is ono Of the best examples
piven us in the Bible of the truth that
righteousness pays. and it pays to be
right and to do right in the midst of
the great wlckedness Of others. If
any one lesson is more clearly taught
than another. It is that wickedness
and unrighteousness all around is no