Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1917-10-31
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Lesson v.-Fourth Quarter, For
Nov. f. 1917.
THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES.

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Memory Verses, 10, 11--Goldsn Text.
kinas Xxx, 11--commentary Prspar-
Cd by Rev. o. N. stsarns.
The story Of Elijah In the preceding
chapters as he stood so nobly and
grandly for God Is most inspiring. and
Gods loving care of him at Cherith
and Zarcphath. and when discouraged
and weary he lay and slept under the
Juniper tree and wanted to die. but an
angel fed him twice and sent him on
his way. Is all SO comforting, for the
same God Is our God and Father II we
are in Christ. and He Is always full of
compassion. If we only knew Him as
we might. how happy we would be-
and how He would glorify Himself In
us. We must not see people nor be
afraid of them. for the Spirit is saying
to US, who art thou that thou should
est be afraid Of man . and for
gettest the Lord. thy maker?' Qsa. il.
u, 49,
Our lesson today is the story of thir-
tt-three drunken kings with such an
host of soldiers and horses and chariots
that they seemed to fill the country.
while the children Of Israel seemed
like two little focks Of kids oversees |,
II. 10, 27. The king Of Syria. with
whom the thirty-two kings were asso-
ciated. sent word to Ahab, king OF
Israel. that all his wealth and even his
wives and children belonged to him.
the king Of Syria. How suggestive OF
the devil. who dared to tell the Lord
Jesus that all the kingdoms Of the
world and the glory of them belonged
to him Matt Nv. s. o: Luke ". 5. O..
Ahab seemed at first to consent to this
oversees 2-4). but when the king OF Syria
sent again demanding the right to
search the houses and help himself to
all that he desired then the king of
Israel and his elders stood against 1t
oversees 5-9l.
How suggestive the unr1ghteous and
cruel demands Of the drunken king and
his associates are Of the way strong
drink treats q man who becomes Its
slave by running his home and taking
from him his wife and children and all
his pleasant things! Now. Ahab was
certainly one of the worst Of men, as It
is written In chapter xxi. Is. There
was none like unto Ahab. who did sell
himself to work wickedness in the
sight of the Lord. whom Jezebel, his
wife, stirred up" but Israel was the
Lords people. though in rebellion
against Him. and for the honor Of His
name He sent prophet to Ahab. say
ing. Il will deliver this great multitude
into thine hand this day. and thou
shalt know that am the Lord" verse
l3). So the king Of Israel and his men
slew the syrians with q great slaughter
lYerse 2n.
Then the Syrians said. Their gods
are the gods of the hills. 80 we will
dght against them in the plain and
shall surely conquer them" There
fore man Of God came again to Ahab
with this message. Because the Syr1
ans have said the Lord is God Of the
hills. but He u not God Of the valleys
therefore win deliver all this great
multitude into thine hand. aud We shall
know that am the Lord verse ~.
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us tnink OF the oay wnen more oieu
by the hailstones which the Lord cast
down from heaven than they whom
the children OF Israel slew with the
sword tJosn. 4, ~, ana also OF the
le5,0OO whom an angel slew IN one
night I'll Kings XIX. 55l.
How many ways the LORD has to &C
complish His purposes. ana Mt the close
OF nearly two years OF this madness OF
the nations dune. I9l0J we cannon
but wonder what would happen II
Israels God should come ana cease u
keep silence tPs l, 81. These TWO greal
deliverances were intended to lead
Ahab to know the LORD oversees ID. ~
and yet In the end OF our lesson cnap