Arizona republican., 1917-06-30
International Sunday School Lesson for
 July 1
ISAIAH'S CALL TO HEROIC SERV-

Golden teXt.-"Also l heard the | voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall 1 I send. and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me" Isa. 6: 8.
 Lesson text.-Isa. 6. (Memorize vs. 6-S). CD In the year that king Uzziah l died I saw also the Lord sitting upon | a throne, high and lifted up, and his | train filled the temple. CD Above it (him) stood the seraphims (seraphim), each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. (3) And one cried unto another. and said, Holy holy..holy is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. (4) And the posts of the door foundations of the tresholds
 were) moved at the voice of him that
 cried, and the house was filled with smoke (5) Then said I, Woe is mel
 for I am undone, because l am man
 of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for
 mine eyes have seen the King, the
 Lord of hosts (6) Then flew one of
 the seraphims" (seraphim) unto him,
 having live coal in his hand. which
 he had taken with the tongs from off i the altar. CD And he laid it upon my
 mounth (touched my mouth with it.
 and said Lo, this hath touched thy
 lips; and thine iniquty is taken away
 and thy sin purged. (S) Also (And) i I heard the voice of the Lord, saying
 Whom shall I send, and who will go
 for us? Then said I, Here am l. send me. (9) And he said, Go, tell this
 people, Hear ye indeed, but under
 stand not and see ye indeed, but per
 ceive not. G0) Make the heart fo thls i people fat, and make their ears heavy,
 and shut their eyes; lest they see
 with their eyes, and hear with their
 ears, and understand with their heart,
 and convert turn again) and he
 healed. CID Then said l, Lord, how
 long? And he answered. Until the cl-
 ties be wasted (waste) without ln-
 habitant, and the houses without man,
 and the land be (becOme) utterly des-
 olate (waste), CPD and the Lord have
 removed men far away and there be
 a great forsaking (the forsaken places
 be many) in the midst of the land
 G3) But yet in it shall he a tenth
 and (And if there yet he a tenth in
 it) it shall return, and shall be eaten , fup) as a tell tree terebinth), and as an oak. whose substance is in them , I (stock remaineth), when they cast their leaves (are felled: so the holy
 seed shall be Gs) the substance
 (stock) thereof.
 Time.-Abcut 759 B. C. Place-The
 Temple at Jesuralem.
 ExpositiOn-T Isaiah's Vision of
 Jehovah of hosts, t-S This passage
 contains the record of Isaiahs call to ' special service. He may have proph- esied before this (cf. 1: D but from
 this time his ministry took on new
 form and power. Many a minister to-
 day gets a new vision of God and
 thus his ministry gains new mean
 ing. Every mans great need today IS 9 q real vision of God. We do not SC r much need correct theories about God ! as a vision of Himself. We must see I the Lord if we are to be greatly used { It is the work of the Holy Spirit to l give is a real vision of the Loro l l (Acts ': 55, 5e John 16: 14. How e can we reconcile the statement thai S Isaiah "saw the Lord with the state 2 ment of Jno. 1: IS. The answer is Y simple, no man hath seen God as He n is in His invisible essence at any D time. He is the "invible (unseeable) l. God" (Col. 1: 15). Him no man hatf . seen nor can see" q Tim. 6 16). Bu = this invisible God has manifested | Himself in various times in Vislnl' t forms or similitudes (Num. 12:S) t Jesus Christ was the supreme mani
 festation So real and true and perfec e were these manifestations that i IT Ncould be said that one who saw thes' q manifestations had seen God (Jno. 14 A 9. But it could be said with equa e truth, "No man hath seen God at an! r mo" The death of UZziah was quit r. likely a great shock and seeming los = to Isaiah. but just then the Lord cam l. in with a fuller revelation of Himself
 nften need to have our earthl
 props taken away in order to obtai ! the fuller revelation of the Lord Him
 self. He was sitting upon a throne He is the real King 0sa. 66 l l Rev. 3: 21; 4: gil; Ps. ?: 2-11' = King Uzziah was dead but the req -l King was still living High and lifte'
 up" (cf Isa. 57: 15; Ps 46: 10; 1oS ,SS methods in the school in Tucson un - der q comnetent man. profeIlbly