The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-08-15
THE DAY OF
ATONEMENT
Sunday School Lessonior Aue. Is. 1907
specislly Prepared for This Paper
LESSON TExT-Lev. 1852. Memor,
Specially Prepared for This Paper

LESSON TExT.-Lev. fss-22 Memory
verse 2.
GOLDEN TExT.-"wherefore he is
able to save them to the uttermost that
come unto God by him."-Heb. TBS
TIME.-In the interval between the
first day OF first month Of the new year
(ApriD when the tabernacle was com
pieted and the twentieth day Of the sec
ond month May when the Israelites
left Sinai. 1890 B. G. according to the
common chronology
PLACE.-In the plain before Sinai.
Comment and Suggestive Thought.
In order to understand the symbols
and types of this lesson. II will be
best to have the scholars see for them.
selves In the history how unframed
and imperfect these people were. how
often they sinned against their heav.
eriy father in spite OF all he had done
,sspf them.
They needed something to make
them realize more deeply the awful
evil and danger Of sin. the greatness
Of Its wrong against their God; some
thing to remove the separation and
estrangement from God which sin al
ways brings between the sinner and
his heavenly father. as wrong-doing
separates child from his earthly "a
thr; something to deliver them from
the sin itself and the tendency to SIM
Our Need Of Forglwensss.-Every
person sins in thought and In deed.
Even the youngest are conscious OF
wroug-doing. and as they grow better
they will realize still more the oon-
trast between themselves and the per
feet law OF God. The better we grow
the higher our ideal, and the farther
away our sins seem to place rs.
The day Of the atonemeut was one
OF the Ave great festivals Of the Jews:
I. The Feast of Trumpets-wslcom-
ing the new civil year. on the LIST OF
Tisri (September-O October). one day
only.
Q. The Passover. t<th Of Nissan (or
Abib). April-the beginning Of the
sacred year. lasting seven days; a.
did 3 and 4.
3. The Feast OF Pentecost lin Swan.
end OF May. the FIRST fruits OF the
harvest.
4. The Feast Of Tabernacles. in
Tisri beginning the l5th). feast OF In
gathering or thanksgiving.
5. The Day Of Atonement. fast day
doth Of TisrD Done day only. All
were Joyous festivals except the Day
Of Atonement. For even in deliver
ance from sin. the goodness Of God
joyous delight in God, a glorious fu
ture has more to do than grief and
mourning. though these are absolutely
necessary.
The Day of Atonement was held or
the 10th day of the new year, about
October 1, varying with the new
moon. II was a day OF fasting and
prayer, of the most solemn services
of repentance and reformation. and o.
good resolutions.
It was kept as a most solemn sab
bath and fast, when all must abstain
, from work and "affiict their souls OF
pain Of being "cut off from the people
". 20: Acts 81: 81. Its ceremonies
) signified the public humiliation OF th'
, people for all the sins of the past year
r and the remission of those sins by tn
!. atonement which the high priest mad
. within the vail. whittier he entere'
!. on this day only."-Smith. "The Da
a of Atonement Is the time when uni
versal reconciliation takes place. Chi
q drn ask forgiveness of parents: thos
n who have wronged one another In
' plore pardon; all differences on tina
r occasion are healed. and everybod
A Is on good terms with one another.
q C. 8. Robinson.
n In the observance of the day amid
4 varied ceremonial two young goat
9 were chosen ". 81 to represent tn
,. atonement for sin and its forgiveness
!. by two object lessons. both OF thei
Q essential.
y The first object lesson was the offe
y ing Of one Of the goats as q sacrihc
e for sin ". 81. The offerer was hin
IT self purified by a special sacrifice "
D, 1l-14).
For God to offer free pardon for 81
without the atonement would be to d
feat his own purpose of redeemir
the world.
y The blood Of Jesus Christ Is I'll
highest expression of his love.
The second object lesson was II
= scapegoat Tvs. s. 10. 20'22). ITO
; the scapegoat" Tvs. 10. 26) is tran
'e lated In the r. " for Azazel" tt
: sacrificed goat was TOR Jehovah
This was for Azazel. his exact o
posite. the prince Of darkness. accor
II ing to the majority of modern schl
ars, In Millions Paradise Lo
"Azsxel ID, represented as the. standal
bearsr OF the internal hosts. cast o.
from heaven and become the embot
ment Of despair" Century Dictionar
The meaning 10 very uncertain
There can be little doubt that II
ceremonial was intended as . symbt
ical declaration that the land and Il
people are now purged from gui
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