The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-09-17
QUARTERLY
REVIEW
Sunday School Lesson for Sept. 20, 1908
Specially Arranged for This Paper

Lesson Texts, Titles, Places, Etc.
Lesson Ii Sam. S1O-22. Title.-Israel
Asks for a King. Place.-Ramah. Persons
Samuel and Elders of Israel. Golden
TeXt-"BY me kings reign, and......
Lesson FL Sam 1017-27. Title.-Saul
Chosen King. Place-Mizpeh. Persons
Samuel, Saul Israeltes. Golden Text
HE that ruleth over men must......
Lesson al Sam. 121-5, 1926. Title
Samuel Warns Saul and People. Place
Gilgal Persons.-Samuel. Saul, Israel
ties. Golden Text.-"Only fear the Lord
and serve......
Lesson fl Sam. 15:18-2S. 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. 16:1-13 Title.-David
Anointed at Bethlehem. Place.-Bethle-
hem Persons.-Samuel, Jesse, David.
Golden TeXt.-"Man looketh on the out
ward.....
Lesson 6.-1 Sam. 1889 Title.-David
and Goliath. Place.-Valley of Elah.
Persons.-Saul, David, Goliath. Golden
Text I'm the Lord put l my trust"
Lesson IL Sam. 1S:6-16. 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. 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. TitIe.-David
Spares Saul's Life. Place.-Engedi. Per-
sons.-David and Saul. Golden Text
Love your enemies, do good......
Lesson 10.-1 Samuel 81. Title.-Saul and
Jonathan Slain in Battle Place.-Mt.
Gilboa. Persons.-Saul, Jonathan, Phil
istnes. Golden Text.-"Prepare to meet
thy God"
Lesson n.-2 Sam. 2:1-7. Sis. Title
David Made King over Judah and Israel.
Place.--Hebron. Persons.-Dayi d Elders,
Israeltes. 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 q Samuel $40.
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 q Samuel 10, 80.
Story Five. How a Shepherd Boy
Became King 4 Samuel 16, etc..
Story Six A Young Mans Battle
with a Giant q Samuel 10.
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 q Samuel IS, 10, 20).
Story Ten. Song Called The
Bow" Found In an Old Book, and
Why 1t Was Written Il Samuel 81
Samuel u.
David. One or 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
Deiuc uo, IlllNi goul NooOA w q oNtA,
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 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 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 defled and thrown one side,
Il 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 Vision of Blessedness this
sets before every man! There ever
follows close upon faithfulness
larger sphere of usefulness and re-
spOnsibility, increased power, greater
influence, because one is fitted for
them.
But when he had wrestled. then he
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