The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-17
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 INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
(Copyright, Davis W. Clark.) 

Controversialists and reformers have
 opened a way for the patient toilers of the kingdom to follow. The one class is as indispensable as the other. That prophets widow showed gump- ton. She did not waste time inveigh- ing against the cruelty of the creditor , The law was on his side Her appeal was
 to the chief of the prophetic society.
 She stated her case and claim clearly.
 and followed the program to the dot.
 There was a dash of passion in 1t for
 she uttered (literally) a heart-dis- turbing plea. She was thrown upon her own resources. All she had was just
 enough inferior oil for annointing ner person a single time. But she must
 use what she has not what she has not She will not move q hand in disposi- tion of the treasure until she has the prophets orders. Satisfy your credi- tor first" is the direction. Nothing is our own until all debts are paid. One pot of oil over against a debt. and that debt large enough to enslave her sons. But no human resource is
 to be despised. It Is the unit which is to be multiplied. She must also per- sonalIy use what she has. Even the prophet can not pour out the oil for her.
 This lovely idyl of Elisha and the Shunammite shines in the troubled stream of public life. We stumble upon the comparatively small domes-
 tic incident in the midst of wars and kingscraft. Hospitality, contentment moth CT love. bereavement. grief. faith, and imoporunity.-all are shrined in
 this story. It casts It's light upon the kAA
 human life of thirty centuries ago.
 "A mighty man-but." That but"
 is the "wolf-note" that destroys the harmony. The meanest Syrian scullion
 would not have exchanged cuticles
 with Naaman. This little girl did not nope over her hard lot. Sine showed a
 cheerful and helpful disposition. Her
 contribution was caught up and woven
 into the providence of ages. which is to make God known - nan. Help often comes from unexpected quarters. It was not the first nor the last time
 when a word of wisdom was on the lip of a slave. And when misfortune Is
 severe no advice Is too contemptible. The slowness of the human heart to apprehend God is further indicated by the next step taken by the Syrian king. He SendB an army 10 mage the prOpnet
 a prisoner. He had learned nothing in
 his failure to cope with the Omnis- cience of God. He challenges Omnip-
 otence. This effort to arrest the proph- ct sets forth at once the temerity and impotence of the soul in It's fight against God. The timorous servant well represents some believers when they find themselves beleaguered by l temptations and unfavorable condi- tions.
 Half measures are usually weak
 measures. All Athaliah's cruelty l counted her nothing because she was
 not quite cruel enough. If she had kill
 ed Jehoiada together with the others. | she might have reigned longer. After all, she was too unsuspicious. She left
 the old high priest in possession of the dilapidated temple. That was her un- doing.
 The temple was an asylum for one
 boy (Joash.) Every boy should have
 right of asylum in the Church. It
 should be chief shelter and resort of youth.
 What the Roman Forum is to Rome