The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-09-12
MOSES PLEADING
WITH ISRAEL
Sunday School Lessonior Sspt.l5.19o7
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LESSON TExT.-Deut. 6: Lis. Memory
verses Al
GOLDEN TExT.-"Beware lest thou
forget the Lord"-Deut. 8: H.
TIME.-Just before the Israelites cross
ed the Jordan to enter the Promised
Land. A few months after the last les
son. Forty years after the Exodus. Ac-
cordins to the margins of our Bibles, b.
G. 1851.
PLACE.-The Israelites were encamped
in the broad space between the River
Jordan and the mountains of Moab.
about opposite Jericho. on the eastern
bank of the river. This tract has
breadth Of four or five 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
him in love. That is all that Is ours
to give; to withhold II is unutterably
mean. (4 "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, 80 much the more
Is the one who thus loves ennobled,
purified, enlarged, exalted In nature.
(6) In him are found all that ought
to move the highest affections OF men.
The Foundation Of Religion. OF
Character, Of Righteousness. lies In a
right heart, q heart that loves God
and loves men. No act Of goodness
without this Is true goodness. And
men will not long continue to do Hight
toward all without this deeper motive.
This love Is not national. but indi-
vidual. Each heart must do the low.
Ing, and when all hearts DO II the
whole nation will have this heart OF
love.
He that has this love In his heart
has the fountain and source Of all vir-
tue. II 10 to the life what the main
spring Is to a watch, what q fountain
is to a stream. what the soul is to
the body, what the two olive trees OF
Zechariah's vision were 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 supremely 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. II 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 its food Of crimes
and wrongs.
Education In Religion and Right
eousness.-(7) "And thou shalt teacf
them diligently unto thy children.
In every way, by home instruction
and by schools, and by sabbath wor
ship and teaching. And shalt tall
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 1!
of the greatest interest. Conversation
is a marvellous power for culture ant
training. The events Of the day, thu
deeds of ourselves and of others, cal
be made the occasion Of moral instruc
ton, In a concrete and vivid form
They are to great moral principles
what the particles In the air are Il
the light, which would be general.
invisible but for the objects which re
feet and disperse It, The home Is Il
its nature university. II Is larg
part of the true university exteu
sion" movement.
Family Training is the greatest In
huence around the young.
Family Religion is the foundation O
church, of Sunday school, Of religion
life. of the whole country's moralit
and prosperity.
Family Prayers are great aid ;
family religion. and the Internations
Lessons for the whole family are on
of the greatest helps to this end.
The Family Atmosphere. of rel
gious life, of benevolence. Of tempe
ance, OF kindness. of intelligence, q
bright conversation, Is the largest fa'
tor In family training.
(S) "Thou shalt bind them for
sign upon thine hand" etc. II was
literal and formal Interpretation {
this command which led to the use {
phylacteries upon the arm and upo
the forehead. These are small cub
cal leather cases. In which are parcl
ments containing four passages {
scripture In four columns (Ex. IL
lilo, 1916; Deut 6: 40 and IL: 1921
These are bound upon the arm and b
tween the eyes. by leather thongs.
The real meaning Of this comman
Is that Gods law should be In ever
deed of the hand. In the sight of II
} avaa IN tho nlana Of the head Evav