Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1907-09-18
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Lesson XIl.-Third Quarter, For
Sept. q, 1907.
THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES.

by Rev. D. M. Stearrs.
Copyright, 1907, by American Press Association
Since "all Scripture is profitable and
whatsoever things were written afore-
time were written for our learning"
III Tim. iii, 16; Rom. xv, A., what shall
be said of us if we pass over all the
precious things of this box between
the last lesson and this one? l cannot
forbear calling attention to one OF the
great chapters in each of these five
books ere we pass from them-Gen.
xii God providing>a Lamb; Elk. xii,
the Lamb slain and the protecting
blood; Lev xvi, the great atonement;
Nun. xix, cleansing by the way by
the ashes of the red heifer; Deut xviii,
the prophet like unto Moses with Gods
word in His mouth.
As to some Of the precious words OF
this book we are just leaving, may
these which have long been living
bread and water to me prove the same
to many: /, 80; ii. Z; iii, %; iv, 80; vii,
6; viii, 2, 3; XXI, 6, 8; xxi, 9-12;
xxxli, 3, II, %. u. These are but
few of many Of His great words.
The lesson today tells Of the home
going of Moses, the man of God, and
the appointment Of his successor. The
instructions to Moses concerning his
death, the manner of it and the reason
for it are found in chapter xxi, As
80. How many present privileges we
lose because we are not always care
full to sanctify the Lord in all things
we may never know on this side Of the
glory, and there it will be too late to
rectify anything Oev. X, 8; Pet iii, 10;
iv, II; T Cor. X, 81. In chapter Ill, %
%, we read how Moses besought the
Lord TO let him go over Jordan and
see the good land, but the answer was,
LET it suffice thee; speak no more
unto Me Of this NATTER; thou shalt
not go over this Jordan, but charge
Joshua and encourage him and strength
en- him. for he shall so over before this
people, and he shall cause them TO in
herit the land which thou shalt see"
In John xiv, q, %, see how He says
that He will specially manifest Him
self to and make His abode in those
who keep His commandments. He Is
always looking for such that He may
show Himself strong on their behalf
QI Chron. xvi, 81, but there are many
who see much that they never set foot
on either because they are unbeliev-
ing, like the ten spies, or some special
sin is hindering. Many truly saved
people are very far from possessing
their possessions (Obad. 10, and thus
they dishonor God and fail to sanctify
Him in the eyes of others.
We may try to imagine the parting
between Moses and the elders and the
people as lR left them to 90 up the
mountain to go home to God. but the
Holy Spirit has not written it for us.
When, few months earlier in the
same year, Aaron went up into Mount
HOr to go home to God, Moses and
Eleazar went with him and saw him
die after Moses had put his priestly
garments upon Eleazar (Num. Xxx, 90
%, and xxXiii, 3S), but no one was with
Moses except God and the angels.
How far any Of the people or rulers
accompanied him we do not know, but
1t is said, mo man knoweth Of his
sepulcher unto this day" verse O..
With undimmed eye and undated
natural force, in his one hundred and
twentieth year, without sickness or
suffering, as far as we know, he pass
ed from this mortal body out into the
presence of Him with whom he had
often conversed face to face and with
whom he had on two different Occa
sions spent forty days and forty
nights in another mount The brief
but comprehensive statement is, $50
Moses, the servant of the Lord, died,
and He buried him in a valley
in the land of Moab Verse 81. There
is no death aud no burial like it in all
history just as there never arose in
all Israel another prophet like unto
Moses, whom the Lord knew face to
face Verse 10.
Neanys1, 800 years after this the same
Moses is seen on the Mount of Trans
fguration with Elijah, who never died,
and with Christ, who was soon to die
for them and for us, and the topic Of
their conversation was His decease,
which He should accomplish at Jeru-
salem duke tx, 80, 81, by virtue Of
which both Moses and Elijah had at
that time enjoyed many hundreds Of
years of blissful rest and by which
alone there is redemption for any one
since Adam fell. The greatest event
in all the history of the world thus far
has been the incarnation Of God in
Christ with the life and death and
resurrection and ascension that fol-
lowed, for all are parts Of one event.
The next great event will be the resur
rection of all the bodies Of the saints
who have died and the rapture Of all
the living soints, and these two classes
were represented by Moses and Elijah
on the Mount of TRANSPORTATION.
We infer from Jude, 8, that the
body Of Moses had been raised be-
fore the TRANSPORTATION. This does
not necessarily conflict with the state
ment that Christ is the first fruits
from the dead, for all resuTections
are by virtue Of His. Joshua as
the successor Of Moses will be our
topic two weeks hence, so we turn our
thoughts frst and last and always to
Him Of whom both Moses and Joshua
were types and who will soon come
again "i.-l TIE sight of all Israel Verse
~ as their MeTeiah Czech xii, 10; Isa.
XIV, 0; Acts iii. 81; II, 20, 30)