The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-09-02
Sunday School
Lesson x.-Third Quarter, For Sept.
8. 1911.
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LESSON I.-lsaiah's prophecy con
corning Sennacherib lisa. xxxvii. II
39. Golden Text Ps. XVI. l. God is
our refuge and strength. very pres
ent help In trouble" Sennacherib Is In
the line Of Cain and Pharaoh aud all
enemies Of God and His people to BE-
contaminated in the disappearing anti
christ OF the last days. back OF whom
and through whom Is always seen the
devil. The devotion of Hezekiah e
the living aud true God was too much
for the great adversary. and 80 he
stirred up the king Of Assyria against
Hezekiah. But see how two men who
knew God prevailed in prayer.
LESSON 1.-THE suffering servant OF
Jehovah lisa. lii. 8, to lii. 1a. Golden
Text lisa. lii. &. The Lord hath laid
on Him the iniquity OF US ALL" We
find this record right In the midst OF
the last part Of Isaiah. the middle
chapter of the middle section. and the
middle verse Is lii. 5. which gives US
the heart Of all Scripture. IL with His
stripes we have been healed. then as
His redeemed ones standing against
the world. the flesh and the devil, we
must be content to suffer with Him
and count 1t q great privilege Phii. /,
20; Pet. ", Is; '. I. 1O,. We shall
be satisfied when He IL (liii. III.
LESSON lH.-Manasseh's wickedness
and penitence I'll Chron. xxxiii. l-20,.
Golden Text lisa. /. 16. II. Cease to
do evil. learn to do we'll" OF all the
wicked kings Of the ten tribes none
exceeded Ahab In wickedness, but
Manasseh in Judah seems to have ex-
ceeded him. By comparing II Kings
xxi with our lesson chapter We see
how fearful the record is. 1t looks a.
IL he did the very worst that he could
do. The conversion Of such q wicked
man should greatly encourage parents
who have ungodly children. for God Is
full OF mercy.
LESSON Iv.-Josiah's devotion to God
QI Chron. iii. 4. 1-l3I. Golden Text,
Eccles. XII. /. Remember now thy
Creator in the days Of thy youth"
This boy king probably knew only of
bis fathers zeal for God. and may
have been thus inspired with q similar
zeal. When he was only sixteen he
began to seek God earnestly. and when
he was twenty he purged the land
from idolatry and did that which the
man Of God said 800 years before that
he would do Il Kings Kill. 2; II Kings
xiii. 16,. When he was twenty-six
he began to repair the house of the
Lord his God.
LESSON v.-The finding Of the book
Of the law I'll Chron xxxiv. 1889.
Golden Text. Ps. cxix. IL. Thy word
have ! hid in my heart that I might
not sin against Thee" As he went
on In his good work. God gave him
more light by causing the book of the
law to be found. This was a fulfll-
ment OF the word. Then shall we
know II we follow on to know the
Lord (Hos. vi. 81. II we act up to the
light we have. God will In some way
send US more. The Lord knew that
Josiah would inquire into this and be
obedient and humble himself before
God.
LESSON VI.-Jeremiah tried and ac-
quilted (Jer xvi. 7-l9,. Golden Text.
Ps. xvii. l. The Lord il my light and
my salvation. whom shall feary 1t
seems strange that priests and prophets
Of the Lord should want to kill a man
because he spoke the words Of the
Lord. simply because the message did
not suit them. but there were in those
days. and there are today. professed
messengers OF the Lord whom He
never sent. prophets of the deceit Of
their own heart speaking lies in His
name Ger. xiii. IL. 16. 81. Is. 26,.
LESSON kim burns the
prophets book der. xxKvi. 2O-32,
Golden Text. lisa. Il. 8. The word Of
our God shall stand forever" 1t was
not the prophets book. but the Lords
book, which the king cut up and burned
In the Gre, but the book was written
again Immediately in larger edition.
and the Lord attended to Jehoiakim.
There are many now who seem to