The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-08-10
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Lesson VlI.-Third Quarter, For
Aug. IL, 1917.
THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES.

Text of the Lesson, II Chron. xxxiv, l.
10 Memory Verses, 2, 3+GoIden
Text, EccIes. xii, documentary Pre-
pared by Rev. D. M. Stearns.
We have come to the record of the
last good king who reigned over judah.
and while Isaiah and Micah were the
prophets during the reign of Hezekiah,
jeremiah began to prophesy in the thir-
teenth year Of Josiah Qsa. /, /; Mic
|, 1; Jer. 1, p. Every good prophet,
priest and king points onward to the
Lord Jesus who when on earth was the
prophet like unto Moses, speaking just
what the Father told him; who is now
our great high priest within the veil,
ever living to make intercession for us;
and who when He comes again shall be
the true king Of Israel, reigning in
righteousness, priest upon his throne,
and We shall be His associates and
joint heirs, the twelve apostles ruling
over the twelve tribes of Israel Deut.
xviii, IS, 10; John xii, 40, so; Heb. vii,
24-27; Jer. xiii, 5, 6; Zech. vi, IL, 13;
Rev. |, 5, 6; v, 8, 10; Luke xii, $500.
What glorious future to keep ever
before us, to wean us from all present
entanglements and enable us to run
with patience the race set before US!
(Heb. xii, 12) AS Josiah was power
less, even with the help Of Jeremiah,
to effectually stem the tide of ever in
creasing iniquity, we may not expect
to do more than he did In the last
years Of his age, to which we have
come. Jeremiah was prophet of the
Lord during the last forty years pre-
ceding the judgment upon judah (the
last eighteen Of Josiah's reign and the
twenty-five Of the four bad kings
who succeeded him), and we may be
within a good deal less than forty
years Of the end Of this evil age, which
will end with a time like the days of
Noah and Lot duke xvii, 26-3O). We
can only do as Josiah and jeremiah
did, and that is be faithful to God as
He gives US time and opportunity. It
is profitable to compare the reigns of
Joash and Josiah III Chron. XIV, the
two boy kings, but Josiah Gid better
than Joash, though he did not reign as
long To do right in the sight of the
Lord, turning neither to the right hand
nor to the left (lesson verses 1, p, is
good summary Of godly life and
reminds Of the Lords message to
Abram after the thirteen years blank
in his history, II am the Almighty God;
walk before Me and be thou perfect"
(Gen. xvi, 16; xvii, y.
The message might be read literally:
l am El-Shaddai, the mighty God, all
sufficient for you; walk before Me and
be upright or sincere. 1t is a good
word for every believer. AS to being
kept from turning to the right hand or
| to the left, there Is a very gracious
promise In lisa. xxx, 21. When Josiah
was sixteen he began to seek. after the
| God Of David, his father Verse 81, and
| no doubt he did it with all his heart,
| according to Jer. xxx, 13, and in no
sense feignedly, as many do. When he
was twenty he began to purge the land
from idols oversees 3-S), and the saying
| in verse about burning mems bones
on the idol affairs reminds us of the
| saying of the unnamed man of God to
| Jeroboam in I Kings xiii, l, 2, when
| he mentioned Josiah by name as the
| king who would do this. In II Kings
xiii, 1920, the fulfillment Of this say
| ing of the man Of God Is fully recorded.
I often refer to this prediction and
| fulfllment as token Of the literal full
| flment which shall yet be Of every pre-
| diction concerning things yet future
| AS truly as His riding upon an ass
| colt foretold in Zech. tx, 8, was literally
| fulfilled, so truly shall the prediction
Of the next verse Czech. tx, 10Y be as
| literally fulfilled, and He shall speak
peace unto the nations, and His do
| minion shall be from sea to sea and
from the river to the ends Of the earth
| In Mic. v, 2, it was foretold that the
| Messiah would be born in Bethlehem
and that He would be ruler in Israel
We know that he was born in Bethle
hem, the whole world being moved by
! the decree Of Caesar, and it was that
decree which brought Mary from Naz-
areth to Bethlehem at that time. He
has never yet ruled in Israel, but He
| surely will at His coming again in
SIOly, duu Tic uOlC WOrlu Is NOW De-
ing moved to prepare the way for Is
raers restoration and recognition as a
| nation. We seem to have come to the
beginning Of times foretold by our
| Lord in Luke xxi, 1928, distress Of ma
| lions, with perpiexity, the sea and the
| waves roaring, mems hearts failing
| them for fear and for looking after
those things which are coming on the
| earth. He said that even the begin
ming of such times would indicate the
drawing near of redemption for Isreal
| written May %, 1916) Josiah's ref
ormation reached even to the putting
| away of some Of the idolatry introduced
by Solomon UI Kings xiii, 10, ~
When he was twenty-eight he be-
| gan to repair the house Of the Lord
| Qesson verses S-13). and it was then
| the Book of the Law was found, the
| result Of which will be our next lesson
| The house now being built is the
| church Of the Living God, and it is the
one only thing worthy of our attention
Every true believer is a living stone
bought by the precious blood Of the
| Lamb and by that made fit for heaven.