The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-12-25
THE SABBATH SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR DECEMBER 20.

Review of the Last Quarter of 1901, Psa.
cv., 1-20-Golden Text, Rom. will, 81
Summary of the Twelve Preceding
Lessons.
Notwithstanding the past quarter
we have seen the Lord gradually bring
ing about His purpose in ways that are
mysterious and strange. A nation is
raised up in foreign country, and then
with mighty hand is delivered from the
oppressor and started toward the land of
promise. We should learn that no event
in our lives is unimportant, for great re-
suits may spring from that which in itself
is very insignificant.
Joseph's brethren. Places: Jacob lived
at Hebron. Joseph was sold at Dothan.
Jacob sends Joseph to Shechem to visit
his brethren; he finds them at Dothan;
as soon as they see him they plan to kill
him; Reuben persuades them not to kill
him, but to cast him into q pit; they sit
down to eat and see q company of Ish-
maelites; they sell Joseph to the Ishmael-
ties, and send his coat, covered with blood,
to their father; Jacob mourns greatly.
II. Topic: The dreams of Pharaoh's
probably Zoan. Joseph is sold to Poti.
ten years; is falsely accused by Potiphar's
wife and cast into prison; the Lord is
with him and gives him favor with mis-
keeper; the kings butler and baker are
sent to the same prison; Joseph serves
them; they each have dream and are
sad; Joseph interprets their dreams, and
asks the butler to remember him.
III. Topic: Fidelity rewarded. Place:
Zoan. Pharaoh has two dreams that
trouble him; his wise men are not able to
interpret them; the butler then remem-
his dreams; there were to be seven years
of plenty and then seven years of famine;
Pharaoh chooses Joseph to buy up the
corn during these years of plenty; Joseph
is made ruler over the land; Joseph's
name is changed; he marries Asenath;
Joseph goes through the land and gathers
great quantities of corn.
w. Topic: Joseph forgiving his eth
ren. Place: Zoan The famine reaches
Canaan and Jacob sends his sons to Egypt
to buy corn; Joseph recognizes them;
keeps Simeon in prison; they return a sec;
0oa r tns with bmse sen 1GeE Re Eeyptsns
from the room; makes himself known;
"wept aloud" and "kissed all his breth-
rem" asks concerning his father; tells
them they must come to Egypt; offers to
give them the land OF Goshen.
V. Topic: Joseph's last days. Place:
Goshen. Joseph sends presents to his
father; Jacob and his sons so to Egypt;
Joseph meets them and weeps on his faith
er's neck; Joseph then introduces his
father to Pharaoh; Jacob blesses his sons;
Jacob dies and is buried in the cave with
Abraham and Isaac; Joseph's brethren
again ask forgiveness; Joseph forgives
them; Joseph trains his children well;
Joseph dies and is embalmed.
vi. Topic: The Affections of Gods peo-
pie. Place: Goshen. God greatly pros
pered the Hebrews and they became nu.
merous; the new king of Egypt oppressed
them greatly; they were made to serve
with rigor; taskmasters were set over
them to afflict them with heavy burdens;
they built Pithom and Raamses; their lives
were made bitter, but the more they were
oppressed the more God prospered them.
VII. Topic: God preserving Moses.
Place: Zoan. Moses's parents, Amram
and Jochebed, were of the house of Levi;
Moses was a goodly child and was hid
three months by his mother; an ark was
then made; the child was put in the river;
the kings daughter went to hattie and saw
the child: Moses's sister Miriam is told to
call a nurse; she calls her mother; after
the child was grown he became the son
of Pharaoh's daughter; she called his name
Moses.
VIII. Topic: The woes OF intemperance.
Israel is compared to a vineyard; the
Lord looked for good grapes, but it
brought forth wild grapes; some OF their
evil deeds are here enumerated; woes are
pronounced upon the covetous-those who
'tjoin house to house," also upon the
drunkards who regard not God; because
of this the people. are to be carried INTO
captivity; their ruin will be complete and
unavoidable; they are to be destroyed like
chaff before the fire.
TX. Topic: God calling Moses to deliver
Israel. Place: In the land of .Midian:
Moses decided to leave Pharaoh's court
and ioin himself to the people of God; he
killed a man and fed to Arabia; he mar
ried Zipporah; tended his father-in.!aw,'s
sheep; when in the desert. near Horet,
God spoke to him from the burning bush;
told him to put off his shoes; said he was
about to deliver Israel; called Moses tc
lead them out of Egypt and promised to
x Topic: The last plague threatened
Place: Goshen. Moses thought he was not
able to deliver Israel, but God sent Aaron
to assist him. Nine plaques were brought
blood, frogs. lice, flies. murrain:, bollS;,
hail, locusts, darkness and still Pharaoh
refused. One more plague was to be
brought and then they would be thrust
out. All the first born in, the land were
to be slain; there would be a great cry,
but among the Hebrews all would be safe.
XII. Topic: Preparing for the exodus
Place: Goshen. The Lord gave minute in
structions to Moses and Aaron. Each He
brew family was to take a lamb and kill it
in the evening and sprinkle, the blood on
~ 1,ofo nd nOstS.
lamb was to be roasted and all eaten;
they were to eat in haste, prepared to
leave at any moment; the blood would
out. and Pharaoh followed them to the
Red Sea. where his host was droWned
XII. Topic: The Prince. of Peace;
Place: Jerusalem. The prophet promised
that great light should come to the peo-
pie. This light was Christ: the worlds Re;
deemer. He has come and has established
a government of peace, 1t is to continue