The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-12-11
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Lesson In the Interrn tional Series
for December Ii. I9O2-rhe
BOY Samuel.


for December Ii, I902-rhe
BOY samuel.
THE LESSON TENT.
Il Sam. 3:G--4)
6. And the LORD called get again. Samuel
And Samuel arose and went to Eli, aEc
said. Here am 1; for thou diGst call me.
And he answered, / called ROT, my son; lie
down again.
Z. Now Samuel did not yet know the
Lord, neither was the word of the LoEc
yet revealed unto him.
s. And the Lord called Samuel gain the
third time. And he arose and went TO Ell.
and said, Here am ], for thou diGst call
me. And Eli perceived that the Lor6I haG
caAeG the child
.. Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go,
, lie down; and it shall be, il lie call thee,
! that thou shalt say, Speak. Lord; for Thy
servant heareth. So Samuel went and lay
down in his place.
~. And the Lord came, ard stood, ard
called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel.
Then samuel answered, Speak; for thy
servant heareth.
II. AnG the Lord said to Samuel Behold,
| Will CO thing In Israel. at which both
| the ears OF every enc that heareth 1t shah
tingie.
Ell all things which L have spoken con-
eernirg his house; when begin, will also
make ar end.
lS. For | have told him that will judge
his house forever forthe iniQulty which ne
khoweth; because his sons made them
selves vile, ard he restrained them not
u. And therefore l have sworn unto the
house OF EN-, that the iniquity OF Els house
shaIl not be purged with sacrifice nor offer
ing for ever.
GOLDEN TENT.-Speak, Lord; for
Thy servant hcareih.-I sam. 3.o.
OUTLINE or SCRIPTURE SECTION.
iannah prayer. er...................l Sam. !.
Hannah song. ...............l sam. 2;l-ll.
samuel In the Tabernacle. Il Sam. 2:l2-a6.
Ell I'll warning S.....,............l Sam 3:2I-e6.
ne cai! OF samuet.............l Sam, ol-2..
TlME.-B. c. Ill ana 1l65.
PLACE-Shiloh and Ramah.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The Lords call came to Samuel
when he was mere lad because he
wished to use him then and still
more fully when he should become a
man. Unquestionably Samuel did a
much larger work because of his
early conservation to God. He is one
OF the great men of history. Eli
did something towards bringing
about the unity of the tribes; Sam
uel thoroughly completed it. He de-
livered Israel from the Philistines;
brought it back to the worship of
Jehovah; judged the nation worthily;
prepared the way for the monarchy;
instituted a school for prophets, etc.
Nuh IL
right beginning.
The circumstances attending the
birth and early life of the worlds
great and good men are always of
interest and value. We study the
child in order to know the man. So
we treasure the facts about the
childhood of Joseph, Moses, Samuel,
David, and more than all, of Jesus
the Christ.
Chapter 1 tells of the grief of
Hannah, because God had given her
no children. Her husbands other
wife-for in those days men often
had several wives-had children, and
she taunted Hannah in very un-
kind way because she was not so
blessed. This was especially hard to
bear at the time of the yearly visit
of the family to Shiloh, to worship
at the tabernacle. Shiloh was at this
time the religious capital of Israel.
On one of these visits, though her
husband Elkanah tried to comfort
her, she was too sad to eat, and.
after the sacrificial feast was over,
she remained behind ''in bitterness
OF soul, and prayed unto Jehovah,
and wept Sore And she promised
in her heart that If Jehovah should
answer her prayer she would bring
the child up as Nazarite and dedi-
cate him wholly to Jehovah's serv-
ice. Though at first Eli, who was
high priest, thought from her
strange actions that she was drunk,
he soon saw his mistake and said to
her: go in peace and the God of
Israel grant thy petition"
The next year when the family
went up to Shiloh, Hannah remained
dt holhO w tuhO VI tuS CIlllu
that had been born not long before,
and whom she had named Samuel,
which means asked of God"
The song which follows seems to
be only remotely connected with the
foregoing. ats theme is the humil-
alton of the lofty and the exaltation
Of the lowly, which is developed with
no special reference to Hannah's cir
cumstances."-Driver. The reference
to Jehovah's king leads many to
think that 1t was composed during
the kingdom which had not been
established in Hannah's time.
Now that the tabernacle was To-
Gated permanently at Shiloh, addi-
tions of wood were built on around
it for the use of priests. 1t was here
that Eli and Samuel lived.
"The word of Jehovah was pre-
cious:" Better, was rare. mo fre-
quent vision:" The prophets, as a
large class, had not yet arisen. "The
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