The Dolores star., 1907-09-13
RELIGIOUS.
MOSES PLEADING WITH ISRAEL.

Sunday School Lesson for September 18th
LESSON rExT.-Deut. 6: Ills. Memory
verses t-7.
GOLDEN TEXT T.-"Beware lest thou
forget the rd,"-Dsut. 6: IL
TIME.--Just before the Israelites cross
ed the Jordan to enter the Promised
Land. A few months after tho last les
son. Forty years after the Exodus. Ac-
cording to the margins of our Bibies. b.
C. 145l.
PLACE.-Ths Israelites were encamped
In the broad space between the River
Jordan and tho mountains of Moab.
about opposite Jericho, on the eastern
bank of the river. This tract has a
breadth of four or fve miles.
Comment and Suggestive Thought.
Reasons for Loving God Supremely.
Id He is supremely good he is the
sum of all good. He that loves God
loves all that is good. and hates all
that is evil. (2) He is not only good.
but lovable. His goodness is attrac-
tive; 1t is worthy of love. (3) All
we have and are we owe to him: and
the only way in which we can make
any return Is to love him and obey
to give; to withhold It is unutterably
mean. (D "The best thing in man is
love, and God wants the best" (5)
Such love not only honors God, but
elevates man. Love Is the most en-
nobling act Of the soul; and the nobler
and higher the object, and the more
intense the love. SO much the more
is the one who thus loves ennobled,
purified, enlarged, exalted in nature.
(El In, htvv, oil that ntI0ht
to move the highest affections of men.
The Foundation of Religion. Of
Character, OF Righteousness, lies in a
right heart, heart that loves God
and loves men. No act OF goodness
without this is true goodness. And
men will not long continue to do right
toward all without this deeper motive.
This love is not national. but indi.
vidual Each heart must do the low
ing. and whom all hearts do 1t the
whole naticn will have this heart of
love.
He that has this love in his heart
has the fountain and source OF all vfr-
tue 1t is to the life what the main
spring is to watch, what fountain
is to a stream, what the soul is to
the body, what the two olive trees Of
Zechariah's vision we're to the lamps
they fed This is what faith in Christ
brings to the soul.
The one great essential. both for
the individual and the state, is a new
life in the soul that suprsmely loves
the good and hates the evil. This is
the one way to the best life here and
hereafter. The state is made up of in
dividuals, and, therefore, If every one
had this new life the whole state
would be free from its corruptions
and crimes. The newspapers would
give us the morning news of good
deeds, instead OF It's flood Of crimes
and wrongs.
Education in Religion and Right
eousness-(7) And thou shalt teach
them diligently unto thy children"
In every way. by home instruction.
and by schools. and by sabbath wor-
ship and teaching. And shalt talk
| Of them when thou sittest In thine
house." etc. The atmosphere of the
home shall be full of these truths
Men will speak often OF that which Is
| OI the greatest interest. conversation
is marvellous power for culture and
training. The events of the day, the
deeds of ourselves and OF others, can
be made the occasion OF moral instruc-
ton, In concrete and vivid form.
They are to great moral principles
what the particles in the air are to
the light. which would be generally
invisible but for the objects which re-
fleet and disperse It, The home Is in
its nature university. 1t is a large
part of the true university e3ten-
sion" movement.
Family Training is the greatest ill.,
fuence around the. young.
Family Religion is the foundation Of
church, of Sunday school. of religious
life. OF the whole country's morality
and prosperity.
Family Prayers are great aid to
family religion. and the International
Lessons for the whole family are one
OF, the greatest helps to this end.
The Family Atmosphere, Of reli-
gious life. OF benevolence, Of temper
ance. OF Kindness, of intelligence, of
bright conversation. is the largest fac
tor in family training.