Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-07-20
TIE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
E.esson In the international Series
for July n, 10O1-Noah Saved
in the Ark.
Prepared by H. c. Lenington.1
THE LESSON TEXT.

Genesis S:15-22)
IL And God spake unto Noah, saying,
Is Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy
wife. and thy sons, and thy sons wives
with thee.
II. Bring forth with thee every living
thing that is with thee, OF ali flesh. both
of fowl, and af 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.
IS. And Noah went forth, and his sons.
end his wife, and his sons wives with him:
10. Every beast, every creeping thing,
and every FOWL. and whatsoever creepeth
upon the earth, after their kinds, went
forth out OF the ark.
20 And Scah buiied an altar unto tbs
Lord; and took of every clean fowl, and
ofIered burnt offerings on the altar.
q. And the Lord smeIied a sweet SAVIOR;
and the Lord said in His heart, will nat
again curse the ground any more for mans
sake; for the imagination of mans heart
Is evil from his youth; neither will I again
smlte any more every thing living. as 7
q While the earth remaineth, seed time
and harvest, and cold and heat, and sum-
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 food, beginning
with the sixth chapter, reading
through the ninth. This omits so far
in the book of Genesis only the fifth
chapter, which is only a genealogical
table. An analysis of the passage
follows:
Wickedness of Men in the Early Ages.
The Man Noah .6:S-i3: ~ !" a.9S 80
A New Start in Life....... Chapters and
Wickedness of Men in the Earle
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, uu-
til "God saw that the wickedness IF
man was great in the earth, and that
every Imagination of the thoughts OF
his heart was only evil continually"
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
given above will give glimpses of the
Lob x.fN
ed by wickedness and violence on
every hand, but he found grace iii 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 a sacrifice to
God shows that his nature was an es.
sentially religious one. L.
The Ark and the Flood-The arlt
was built under the direction of God
and into it were introduced species of
every living thing. Then came the
flood. There is every reason to be-
lieve the flood to have been universal,
that is coeXtensive with the human
population 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 a "succes-
sion of catastrophies, startling in
their magnitude, and short in their
Duration" which may well have Gull
minated in the deluge.
A New Start in Life.-With the pop
ulation reduced to Noah and his chill
dren and his childern's families, there
was a splendid chance for new start
in life. The earth was before them,
all history was to have been written
anew. But man needed a Redeemer,
men were still away from God, and
the 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 a sacrifice
in token of his safe delivery from
the flood. The fact was pleasing to
God, so He made the distinct prom
Use that He would not send another
great flood upon the earth, and estab-
lished a rainbow in the heavens as
token God realized that the @'iInag-
nation of mans heart is evil from his
youth (Gen. s: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 one of the best examples
given 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
excuse for ourselves being wrong.
Noah walked with God, and was
saved when all others persisted.