The Tupelo journal., 1908-09-18

REVIEW
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SCRIPTURE READING.-Psalm Is.
GOLDEN TEXT.-"And David per-
ceived that the Lord had established him
King over Israel, and hat he had exalt-
ed his kingdom for his people Israel's
sake - sam. 5:12.
Lesson Texts, Titles, Places, Etc.
Lesson LII Sam. 8:1O-22. Title.-Israel
Asks for a King. Place.-Ramah. Persons.
Samuel and Elders Of Israel. Golden
Text.-"By me kings reign. and....,.
Lesson al Sam. 10:17-27. Title.-Saul
Chosen King. Place.-Mizpeh. Persons
Samuel, Saul. Israelites. Golden Text
He that ruleth over men must.
Lesson 81 Sam. 12:1-5, 1926. Title
Samuel Warns Saul and People. Place
Gflgal. Persons.-Samuel, Saul, Israel
ties. Golden Text.-'Only fear the Lord
and serve......
Lesson Al sam 15:1s-es. ~Title.-sam-
uel Rejected by the Lord. Place.-Gil-
gal. Persons.-Samuel and Saul. Golden
Text.-"The Lord, Our God will we......
Lesson 81 Sam. 16:1-1S. Title.-David
Amounted at Bethlehem. Place.-Bethle-
hem. Pe~rsons.-Samuel, Jesse, David.
Golden TeXt.-"Man looketh on the out
Lesson G-1 Sam. 1889. Title.-David
and Goliath. ~Place.-Valley Of Elah.
Persons.-Saul David, Goliath. Golden
TeXt.-"In the Lord put I my trust
Lesson ii Sam. 1876. ~Title.-Saul
Tries to Kill David. Place.-Gibeah. Per-
sons.-Saul and David. Golden Text
THE Lord God is a sun and shield"
Lesson 81 Sam. 20:30-42. Title
Friendship of David and Jonathan. Place.
-Gibeah. Persons.-Saul. David, iona
than. Golden Text.-"A friend lovcth at
all tines.
Lesson 81 Sam. 26:17-25. Title.-David
Spares sauls Life. P~lace.-Engedi. Per-
sons.-David and Saul. Golden Text
Love your enemies, do good.
Lesson 1O.-1 Samuel 81. ~Title.-Saul and
Jonathan Slain in Battle. Place.-Mt.
Gilboa. Persons.-Saul, Jonathan, Phil
istines. Golde TeXt.-"Prepare to meet
thy God"
Lesson IL Sam. 2:1-7, Sis. Title
David Made King Over Judah and Israel.
Place.-Hebron. Persons.-David, Elders,
Israelites. Golden Text.-"Davfd went on
A Story Review.
Let the members of the class tell
the following stories, or, having writ
ten them out at home, read them to
the class. Put them in their most
dramatic form:
Story One. How a Farmers Boy
Became King q Samuel 500.
Story Two. How Saul Saved the
Eyes of the Men of Jabesh Il Samuel
II, 12):
Story Three. A Brave Young Prince
Il Samuel 10, 14).
Story Four. What Came to a Man
Who Disobeyed God Il Samuel IS, 15).
Story Five. How a Shepherd Boy
Became King Il Samuel 16, etc..
Story Six. A Young Mans Battle
with a Giant Il Samuel 10.
Story Seven. Why a Little Boy
Went Out Into a Field to Look for Ar.
rows Il Samuel 20).
Story Eight. The Story of a King
Who Tried to Capture His Son-in-
Law q Samuel 24-26).
Story Nine. The Story of a Beauti.
full Friendship Between Two Young
Men Il Samuel IS, 10, 20).
Story Ten. A Song Called 1.-The
Bow" Found in an Old Book, and
Why 1t Was Written q Samuel 81
2 Samuel u.
David. One Of the greatest advan-
tages of studying the lives of great
and good men is found in discovering
the way in which they attained their
goodness and their power to make the
world better.
Many of the older biographies told
us rather the heights to which their
heroes climbed, but showed us very
little of the way. Like Emerson they
bade us, Hitch your wagon to a STAR"
but the star was beyond our reach,
and they did not tell us how to reach it.
Our need is to trace the path up
which they toiled.
David's story is one of the best
of all hero stories, because it shows
and implies the stairway of faithful.
ness by which with painful steps
and Slow" through peril, toll, and
PAIN" "he climbed the steep ascent"
and reached the b~lessedness of his
| great work for all ages.
We can teach it best perhaps by the
following diagram, the scholar noting
that each feature or act of David's
youth was a means to its attainment.
David Was Chosen, not so much for
the excellences of character he al
ready possessed as for the possibilities
Of excellence to be developed by the
| grace of God, through his obedience.
1t is like the vision of the sculptor
who sees the possible statue in the
marble, as Michael Angelo once said
of a piece of beautiful marble, out.
wardly defiled and thrown one side,
81 see an angel there and must get
him out"
All These Endowments and oppor-
tunities were useless to him unless he
was faithful and true. God laid the
warp of his life in fair colors, but the
pattern God designed him to weave
in the loom of life could not be
formed unless he sent the right
threads through the changing lines of
the divine providence.
What a Vision Of Blessedness this
sets before every man! There ever
follows close upon faithfulness a
larger sphere Of usefulness and re-
sponsibility, increased power, greater
influence, because one is fitted for
them.
But when he had wrestled, then he
was fitted to reign.
The Way with All Gods Kings.
Maclaren, in the Sunday School Times,
speaks thus: 1T is a parable of the
King and the kingdom-small in its
beginning, "a handful of corn .
upon the top Of the mountains having
long warfare to wage, slowly but GER
tainly waxing stronger and stronger