The Washington herald., 1913-11-29
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
November 30, IoI3.
; Crossing the Jordan.
LESSON. Joshna III, Palm civ.
GOLDEN TEXT. I:.ish Il. 70. .:

Fear thou not. for am win thee.
% And Joshua rose up early in the
morning, and they removed from Shittim.
and came to Jordan. he and all the chill
dren of Israel; and they lodged there De-
fore they passed over.
CD And II came TO pass after three
days, that the officers went through the
midst of the camp.
Cs) And they commanded the people.
saving, When ye see the ark OF the COW
enant of the Lord your God, and the
priests the -Levites bearing IT, then ye
shall remove from your place. and go
after II.
20 Yet there shall be a space between
you and IL, about two thousand cubits by
mea sure: come not near unto It, that ye
NAV know the way by which ye must
90; for ye have not passed this way here
tofore.
90 And Joshua said unto the people.
Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow the
Lord will do wonders among you.
(0 And Joshua spake unto the priests.
saying, Take up the ark Of the covenant.
and pass over before the people And
they took up the ark of the covenant. and
went before the people
% And the Lord said unto Joshua,
This day will / begin to magnify thee IN
the sight OF all Israel. that they may
know that. as 1 was with Moses, SO
will be with thee.
90 And thou shalt command the priests
that bear the ark OF the covenant.~say-
ing, When We are come TO the brink of
the waters Of Jordan, ye shall stand still
In Jordan.
90 And Joshua said unto the children
of Israel Come hither. and hear the
words OF the Lord your God.
d0 And Joshua said. Hereby ye shall
know that the living God Is among you,
and that he will without fail drive out
from before you the canaanite. and the
Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Periz-
zite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorfte,
and the Jebusite.
QD Behold. the ark Of the covenant
of the Lord of all the earth passeth over
before you into Jordan.
CID Now, therefore. take you twelve
men out OF the tribes Of Israel, for every
tribe man.
u3) And II shall come to pass. when
the soles of the feet of the priests that
bear the ark OF the Lord, the Lord Of
all the earth, shall rest in the waters of
Jordan, that the waters OF Jordan shall
be cut OF, even the waters that come
down from above; and they shall stand
in one heap.
90 And it came to pass, when the
people removed from their tents, to pass
over Jordan. the priests that bear the
ark of the covenant being before the peo-
pie.
u5 And when they that bare the ark
were come unto Jordan. and the feet OF
the priests that bare the ark were dipped
in the brink of the water. 0or Jordan
overnoweth its banks all the time Of har-
vest)
Q0 That the waters which came down
from above stood. and rose up in one
heap, a great way on. at Adam. the city
that is beside Zarethan; and those that
went down toward the sea of the
Arabah. even the Salt Sea, were wholly
cut on; and the people passed over right
against Jericho.
u0 And the priests that bare the ark
of the covenant of the Lord stood firm
on dry ground in the midst OF Jordan,
and all Israel passed over on dry ground,
until all the nation were passed clean
over Jordan.
ID When Israel went forth out of
Egypt. the house Of Jacob from a people
Of strange language;
ca Judah became his sanctuary. Israel
his dominion
90 The sea saw 1t, and fed; Jordan
was driven back.
(IA The mountains skipped like rams.
the little hills like young sheep.
C5 What aileth thee, o thou sea, that
thou heest? Thou Jordan. that ye turn
est back?
go Ye mountains, that ye skip like
rams; ye little hills. like young sheep?
90 Tremble. thou earth, at the pres
ence Of the Lord. at the presence Of the
God of Jacob;
. 90 Which turned the rock into a pool
of water, the flint into a fountain Of
waters.
The story.
natnvo.n o,. to.t n...on and fhIa wa
have an account OF how Joshra called
the people to himself and commanded
them TO prepare to cross the Jordan and
possess the land; giving a special charge
to the two and a half tribes that they
should now fulfil the conditions upon
which Moses had allowed them to settle
on the east of Jordan, those namely Of
helping their brethren to gain possession
of the land.
In answer to his charge the people COW
enanted with him. promising obedience to
him as Jehovah was with him, and as he
was strong and of good courage.
The lesson for the day is that Of the
story of the crossing of the Jordan. The
appointed readings consist OF a brief par
agraph giving the account of the prepara-
ton for that crossing, and a psalm in in
depreciation thereof.
The people marched Immediately 10 the
banks of the Jordan, and then orders
were issued that henceforward they were
to be guided in their goings by the move
ment OF the ark of the covenant borne
by priests and Levites. This was to be
the new symbol of the Divine presence
and guidance As the wilderness was left
behind, so the pillar of cloud by day and
fre by night was Withdrawn, The peo-
pie were charged that the condition OF
following this ark was that they were
to maintain a space between 1t and them
selves, and that they were to sanctify
themselves. These conditions being full
filled, Jehovah was about to do wonders
them. Then came the final COM
mapd through Jehovah to Joshua, In
which He declared that on that day He
would begin to demonstrate to the people
that He was with Joshua as He had been
with Moses.