The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-09-18
QUARTERLY
REVIEW
Sunday School Lesson for Sept. 20, 1908
Specially Arranged for This Paper

ed his kingdom for his people Israels
sake Sam. 5:12.
Lesson Texts, Titles, Places, Etc.
Lesson Ii Sam. SLOPE. Title.-Israel
Asks for a King Place.-Ramah Persons.
Samuel and Elders of Israel. Golden
TeXt.-"By me kings reign, and......
Lesson FL Sam. 10:17-27. Tltle.-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
,Silgal. Persons.-Samuel, Saul, Israel
ties. Golden Text.-"Only fear the Lord
Lesson Al Sam 1513-2S Title.-sam-
Iel Rejected by the Lord Place.-Gil-
gal. Persons.-Samuel and Saul Golden
TeXt.-''The Lord, Our God will we......
Lesson 81 Sam. 161-19. Title.-David
Amounted at Bethlehem. Place.-Bethle-
hem Pcrsons.-Samuel, JESSE David.
Golden Text.-"Man looketh on the out
Lesson 6.-1 Sam. 1889. TitIe.-David
and Goliath. Place.-valley of Elah.
Persons.-Saul, David, Goliath. Golden
Text-"In the Lord put my trust"
Lesson IL Sam. 1876 Title.-Sam
fries to Kill David. Place.-Gibeah. Per-
THE Lord God is a sun and shield"
Lesson ST. Sam. 2O:3O-42. Title
Friendship of David and Jonathan. Place.
-Gibeah. Persons-Saul, David. Jona-
than Golden TeXt.-"A friend loveth at
all tines.
Lesson 81 Sam. 26:17-25. Title.-David
Spares Saul's Life. Place.-Engedi. Per-
sons.-Davd 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. Golden TeXt.-'Prepare to meet
thy God"
Lesson 11-2 Sam. 2:1-7, Sis. Title
David Made King over Judah and Israel.
Place.-Hebron. Persons.-David, Elders.
Israelites. Golden Text.-"David went on
and grew great.
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 Il Samuel 800.
Story Two. How Saul Saved the
Eyes of the Men of Jabesh Il Samuel
IL, 12).
Story Three. A Brave Young Prince
Il Samuel 10, 14).
Story Four. What Came to Man
Who Disobeyed God Il Samuel 10, 15).
Story Five. How a Shepherd Boy
Became King Il Samuel 16, etc..
Story Six. A Young Mans Battle
with Giant Il Samuel ~.
Story Seven. Why a Little Boy
Went Out Into Field to Look for Ar
rows Il Samuel 20).
Story Eight. The Story of King
Who Tried to Capture His Son-in-
Law q Samuel 24-26).
Story Nine. The Story of Beauti-
full Friendship Between Two Young
Men Il Samuel IS, 10, 20).
Story Ten. A Song Called 'The
Bow" Found in an Old Book. and
Why 1t Was Written Il Samuel 81
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
babe us, Hitch your wagon to 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 1t 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 blessedness 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 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.
Maelaren. in the Sunday School Times.
epaAlrs Tins. ssIt is a Darable OF the