The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-09-24
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TEMPERANCE
LESSON
Sunday School Lesson for Sept. II, 1908
Specially Arranged for This Paper

GOLDEN TEXT.-"Wine Is mocker,
strong drink is raging."-Prov. 2O:1.
Comment and Suggestive Thought.
This chapter has two parts. Part |
THE Garden of the Lord-Judah,
Our Country, Ourselves.
Part 2-The Things That Brought |
1t to Ruin-Drunkenness and Its AL |
lies.
Israel, the Lords Vineyard.-It is a
picture of Judah, between rs and 27 |
centuries ago. It was a small coun.
try, but with a glorious record, glori.
Gus opportunities, but at that time |
threatened with ruin. II is represent |
ed TO us under the figure of a vine.
yerd
Let us look at the scene. "In pic
ture OF great beauty Isaiah describes
a vineyard upon one Of the sunny prom
ontories visible from Jerusalem"
Who planted this vineyard Of "the
well beloved?"
Watch and note what he had done
for It, See in their origin and his
tory as 1t passes before you as in a
panorama, what God has done.
All that goodness, greatness, wis
dom, knowledge and love could do for
vineyard or a people.
He loved them with an everlasting
love once asked a man In charge
Of a great greenhouse which culti-
waited roses so beautiful that they
we're worth their weight in gold, how
he was able to produce roses 80 much
more beautiful than those in other
greenhouses.
His reply was: 81 love them So"
Gods love to us is more than sun
shine and spring rains to help US to
bear good fruit.
What more did God do out Of his
love?
He placed them in the best country
in the world for the purpose. He
| hedged them round with laws and di.
vine institutions, and with his own
| loving care defended them from all
enemies. He planted in this vineyard
the vines of his promise, his word, his
commandments, institutions OF reli-
zion, instruction in holy things. He
| "ced there the wine press, which
| esents the various advantages
| Inferred on the people to help them
TO bring forth good fruit and present
II to the Lord. Every influence, every
institution, the teachings of the proph-
@ S, The hymns of David, the worship
at the sanctuary all aided the people
to produce and develop.
What did he expect as the result Of
this care?
He expected good fruit, the best
fruits, all the virtues, devotion, conse-
Grafton, courage, brotherly kindness,
obedience, sincere worship, righteous
living, the beauty Of holiness, love,
Joy, peace, and all the fruits of the
spirit Intelligence, noble character.
and missionary work among the ma.
tions.
What did he obtain?
He looked that IL should bring
forth grapes, and 1t brought forth wild
grapes" grapes in appearance, but
filled with gall and poison.
What was the effect upon the ma.
tions?
Read lisa. 5:5-7, and compare II
with the disasters that came upon Is.
rael through its capture in b. G. 72l
What was the cause of this ruin
The answer is given in the verses OF
the lesson. Read them.
The causes are "catalogued in a Sc
ries OF woes, fruits all OF them OF
love of money and love of wine" at
is with remarkable persistence that
in every civilization the two main
passions of the human heart, love
Of wealth and love of pleasure, the in
stinct to gather and the instinct tc
squander, have sought precisely these
two forms denounced by Isaiah in
which to work their social havoc
appropriation Of The soil and indul
gence In strong drink
Alcohol Out Of the Raee.-The con
tcstants in the Marathon race, which
is run on April 10 from Ashland tC
Boston, 25 miles. we're notified this
year in the following terms: "Alcoho
in any form is positively forbidden
before, during, and Immediately afteI
The race. II never does good, anC
. |
foregoing shall be considered suffi
cient grounds for disqualification by
the physician in charge" In previous
, Marathon races some men who haC
,, become tagged had resorted to alcoho
! and other stimulants, and some o
them fell unconscious soon after TAX
ing the stimulants.
Why We Should Sign the Pledge.
1T is for thy own highest good"
Another reason for a pledged tota
abstinence is because a pledge-sign
Ing movement is the most natural, AM
perhaps the only way to make def
mite and decisive the much needle,
!, movement OF personal temperance.
Once more, a pledged total absti
nence seems to me desirable becaus
II is the most positive and definit
way in which ones influence can b.
made effective for others"
"Such pledged, attitude, moreover
seems to me to be most in line wit