The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-02-14
SUNDAY SCHOOL
Lesson VII.-First Quarter, Fol
Feb. 16, 1918. .
THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES.

1e&E OF thS Lesson Gen. KILL l"S-WeFn"
cry Verses 1-3-GoIden Text, Gen.
xii, documentary Prepared by Rev.
o. M. Stsarns.
We closed our last lesson By a very
brief glance at the fact that when in
the days of Peleg, son of Eber, the
Most High, the possessor Of heaven
and earth, divided to the nations their
Inheritance, He set the bounds Of the
people according to the number Of the
children Of Israel Gen. K, IS; Deut.
xxxi, 81, although Israel had not at
that time begun to exist on earth. To-
day there Is no nation among the ma
tons called Israel, but in the sight Of
God Israel Is still a nation and shall
never cease to be one, and ere long
shall be recognized as such, and her
king shall sit on David's throne at
Jerusalem and shall be king over all
the earth, King Of kings and Lord OF
lords (Jer. XXI, 35-40; ill, IT: Zech. xiv,
o; Luke /, 80. 33). He will perform
the truth to Jacob and the mercy to
Abraham even as He has sworn Cfic.
VII, 20.
This is worth noting now, as we are
about to begin the study of the story Of
Abraham. To those who would dare to
question there ever was a man call
ed Abraham we would say-consider
Jesus Christ and His testimony In such
passages as Matt viii, II, IL; John viii,
SO. The number twelve Is suggestive
Of all Israel and of the time when the
twelve apostles shall sit on twelve
thrones, ruling the twelve tribes Matt.
Xix, %; Luke xii, 30. The seventy
nations Of Gen. K make us think OF
the other seventy whom He sent forth
after He sent forth the twelve. The
Babel story Of Gen. H, 10, points US
onward to the consummatlon of rebel
lion against God before the promises
to Abraham shall be finally fulfilled
(see Rev. xiii; xvii; xviiD.
The spirit of Babylon may be found
everywhere today and is easily recog-
niEed by the principle Let US make
Us a name" Gen. xi, y, instead of Let
US make Him a name" l know well
that the wisdom Of men, under the
name Of scholarship, new theology,
ETC., derides a great many things which
are plainly written in the Scriptures,
but 1 am one Of those who believe all
things written by Moses and the proph-
cts and that there shall be a literal
fulflment Of the same, even as Christ
Himself taught.
From today's lesson onward we have
the story Of Abraham, the friend OF
God Oh Chron. xx, Z; lisa. XII, 8; Jas. ii.
23), to whom the God Of Glory appear
ed and said, Get thee out of thy coun-
try and from thy kindred and come
into the land which l shall shew thee"
1t Is written Of him, by faith Abra-
ham, when he was called to go out into
a place which he should after receive
for an inheritance, obeyed, and he
went out, not knowing whittier he
went" (Acts vii, 2, 8; Heb. ri, 81. He
was for more than $50 years contempt
.rary with Shem, the son Of Noah, and
I do not doubt but that he had heard
from him OF paradise, the flaming.
sword, the cherubim, the future glory
Of the redeemed, when all creation
shall enjoy the benefits Of the great re-
demption according to Rom viii, 1923.
See also Heb. xt, 10, ID. The great
promises of verses / to 3 Of our lesson
were not fulfilled to Abraham in his
lifetime (see Acts vii, D., and they still
await their complete fulfllment, but
all that God has said shall come to
pass in His time, and all true believers
shall see it ..
His call was to complete separation
from his kindred, but he took some OF
them with him, and they seem to haye
proved a hindrance for a time. He did
not get beyond Haran till the death Of
his father xxi, 32). When he entered
the land his first resting place was 81!
chem, Shechem, in the plain Of Moreh.
There the Lord appeared unto him
and confirmed the promise, Unto thy
seed will I give this land" (verse y,
and there Abraham builded his first
altar in the land unto the Lord. This
seems to have been the Lords irst ap-
pearance to him since He called him to
leave his native land. He had not been
fully obedient, and revelations of the
Lord require obedience On our part,
The Canaanite was in possession Of the
land and knew not the God OF AbraIn,
but this gave Abram the opportunity
to bear witness to the true God, and
also to manifest his faith and patience.
: His next resting place was between
Bethel and Al, and there also he build
ed an altar unto the Lord and worship
ed Him Verse 81. This was all as IL
should be and q testimony to the liv-
ing and true God in the presence OF
the heather who dwelt In the land.
He continued his journey southwark.
and from verse 8 we may gather a
good saying for our daily life, going
on STILL" 1t should always be so with
the believer, or, as in II Sam. v, 10.
margin, "going and growing" or, as In
Eek. XII, z, ian enlarging and a wind
ing about, still upward, = . by the
midst" The rest OF this lesson chap.
ter is not 30 good a record The going
down to Egypt because Of famine In
the land does not look like confidence
in God, and IT did not turn out well, for
It led to deceit N the part of Abram and
Sara In the presence of the Egyptians,
and we read Of no altar unto the Lord
In the Land OF Egypt. Deceit is aIways
wrong, and we can never AFFORD 10
emit the altar unto the Lord, It'll b not
Tor MS 10 condemn. Are we with our
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