The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-08-09
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON VII, THIRD QUARTER, INTER.
NATIONAL SERIES, AUG. 13.

Text Of the Lesson. IL enron. AAAh'' ;
1I-oS Memory Verse, Fl - Golden
Text, Ps. cXix, 1G-Con,mentary Pfe-
pared by Rev. D. II. Stearns.
[Copyrisht, 1906. By American rress Association
The money gathered TO repair the
house of the Lord recalls the method
adopted 10 obtain money in the days or
King Jehoash and the priest Jehoiada-
. chest beside the altar, with 4 hole ii
the lid of it, and it worked splcndluly
and brought in much money doubt
not but that 4 proper appreciation OIL
the altar (thc cross OF Christi today
would bring an abundance for the
Lords house. l have seen :: box With
hole in the lid to receive thank ofler-
inSs from grateful hearts to help give
the gospel to the heather and thus ald
in completing the house-the church
accomplish great things. But have
seen 4 similar box placed to receive Of
ferings for other purposes accomplish
next to nothing Each Of these boxes
was in d church, but the altar and the
object made all the difference. When
the love Of Christ constrains there IS no
| lack.
When any one does the best he
knows for God, as Josiah was evident
" doing, God will find i way to reveal
! Himself more fully to such 4 one, and
in this case EIe caused The priest Hill
kiah to find the book OF the law, Which
some think was the original book OF
which we read in Deut. XXI, 24-226.
The priest gave the book to the scribe,
who read it and then took il to the
king and read it to him, with the result
that the king when he heard it rent his
clothes in token Of his acceptance Of
and submission to the message and his
grief that the law had been so set at
naught.
The king at once sends for further
| LIGHT to one who is qualified to eN-
| plain the law more fully, and Huldah,
the prophecies. who dwelt in JeruSa-
lem. is consulted (versc 22). jeremiah
had ut this time been Il prophet about
| five years compare verse anu .,er.
| I. !. ~, and why he WAS not consulted
I do not know unless it happened that
he was 1T his home in -Anathoth and
Huldah was right there in Jerusalem
| and the matter required immediate
light. There were doubtless many
men of influence and Importance III Jc-
rusalen, but some one has said that a
woman knowing Gods will is far su-
perior to man who doesn't.
Josiah had heard the curses Of Deut.
xviii. 1920: xxx, il, is, etc, and knew
that the wrath OF God was hanging
over them because Of the SINS Of the
nation and now earnestly desired de-
liverance for himself and his people II
such could be obtained. The word of
God is very plain concerning every un-
believer that the wrath Of God is upon
| him John iii, IS, sc; Gal. iii, 10; Jas.
ii, lO), but how few seem to believe II
or tremble at the wcrd Of God as King
| Josiah did. Yet only with such as
tremble at His word does God dwell
lisa. lvii, Is; lxv.., 2, 81. a good prac-
teal word for many today is found IN
Job xxxvi, 1S, because there is wrath
| beware lest lie take thee away with
His stroke; then great ramSon can
not deliver thee"
The prophecies has no answer from
herself, as many seem now to have, but
she has q '.Thus saith the Lord God, of
Israeli oversees %, 20, the New Testa-
mcnt equivalent Of which is, verify I
say unto you" Happy indeed are all
who receive such messages meekly and
proceed promptly to give heed to them.
God said to Moses concerning Christ,
II will put my words in His mouth,
and He shall speak unto them all that
sha!! command Him" Deut. xviii,
lS). He said the same thing to Jcrc
miah concerning Himself in Ter. i, 70,
and believers now can trust Him TO
fulfill to them His word to Noses,
| Now therefore go, and Will be with
thy mouth and teach thee what thou
shalt say" EN. iv, 12), provided that
they have His message in them.
The Lords message as given in the
rest Of the lesson had no comfort for
tie perSistently rebellious; it never
has. But there was much comfort for
Josiah and for all who would turn to
the Lord with him, and therefore JOSH
alb sought to turn the people to God
that they might escape the impending
judgments, and many did turn to the
Lord With him, as we read in verses
81. 50. Gods aim is always to bring
men to repentance that they may not
perish QI Pet iii, o., and this is seen
in the last awful judgments Of the
great tribulation, where we read again
and again that they repented not (Rev.
TX. 20, 21; XVI, 9, III.
Josiah in that same year Kept the
greatest passover that had been kept
since the days of Samuel (xxxv, IS, l9),
but the revival was only temporary.
The hearts Of the people were away
from God, and the time came when
even such men as Moses and Samuel
or Noah, Daniel and Job could not de-
liver the nation by their righteousness
or their intercession Ger. Nv, l: Eek.
xiv, 1N. Consider in Job xxxiii, 14-3O,
how God labors to deliver man from
the pit, and let US be encouraged to per-
severe by John Vi, 81. Then when we
have lovingly and patiently done al,
if men will not repent, We have deliy-
cred our own souls Geek. xxxili, 81.
The manner Of Jostah's death (xxxy,
%, 20 has in it something very sug-
gestive and searching. 1t was the Will
Of God that he should die peacefully
,-bo,, l,Ic +i-oa nor,a h11t bv his w;1Iflll-