The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-11-23
SUNDAY SCHOOL
Lesson 8.-Fourth Quarter, for
November rs, 1917.
THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES

Text of the Lesson, Ps. 103-Memory
Verses, 8-10-GoIden Text, Ps. 1882.
Commentary Prepared by Rev. D. M.
Stearns.
This is a part of the fourth book Of
Psalms, ending with the one hundred
and sixth, and corresponds in some
measure to the book of Numbers,
which tells of the forty years in the
wilderness with the many vicissitudes.
1t begins with Ps. 80, the prayer Of
Moses as he saw the thousands falling
around him day by day; but in the
last one, as the wilderness story is
reviewed, it is written that God saved
them for his names sake and many
times delivered them, although they
believed not his word and hearkened
not to his voice Cps. 106 1924, 25-43).
The sustaining truth in all the dark
ness is the final coming of the king
dom, when the Lord shall come to
| judge and reign and build up Jerusa-
| I'LL, hCNCl W DC oWh uOWh uSdlA
(96 :13; SO 20; 1O2 1879.
Our present lesson begins with the
forgiveness of sins and ends with the
story of the angels who do his pleas
ure. David is called the sweet psalm
| iSt Of Israel, and he tells us in his
last words that the Spirit Of the Lord
spake by him and gave him his mes
sages Gil Sam. 23:1, %. This is
truly psalm of Thanksgiving in which
he calls upon his soul and all that is
within him to magnify the Lord. /
heard the late George Muller once say
| concerning Lam. 3 "a, "The Lord Is
my portion, saith my SOUL" 1t is my
! soul that says it, not merely my lips,
| and unless our souls utter the words
| they may count for nothing in his
| sight. The forgiveness Of sins is the
beginning of all true happiness, and
| through the finished work of Christ as
| our substitute, our sin Offering, this
| great proclamation should be made to
every creature duke "a AT, 48; Acts
| ID 49,. 800. Our iniquities and trans
| gressions are by him forgiven, put as
| far away from us as the east is from
| the west, cast behind his back, cast
into the depths of the sea, blotted out
| and shall not be remembered Oversees
| PIP; Mic. Z 10; lisa. 3S II; 43 :25).
How many figures he uses to assure
| us that they are gone and can never
| be found And if this does not fill US
with Joy and peace (Rom. 10 :13) it
| must be because we do not believe it.
AS to healing all our diseases, God said
| to Israel, 81 am the Lord that healeth
thee" and, 81 will take sickness away
| from the midst of thee" (EX. 10 :26;
| % :25). We know that all whose sins
| are forgiven will surely have redeemed
| bodies in the resurrection of the just,
| which shall never know sickness (Phil.
3 20, 2D, and even now he may give
| us wonderful foretastes. A life re-
| deemed from destruction makes us
think of 1 Thess. 1 10, "Who hath de-
| livered us from the wrath to come"
| The loving kindness and tender mer-
cieS and good things of Wv. 4 and 8
are all included in the with him free
| ly all things" of Rom. 1892. The re-
| newing of youth takes us to lisa. 40 81,
and onward to the time when we shall
| be like him Il John II, p, which sug-
gests that as he was not over thirty
| four when He died and rose again the
| oldest Of us shall be about that age in
| the resurrection. Righteousness and
peace shall then be fully manifest in
| his kingdom ". 6, lisa. 32:1O.
He could tell Moses of his ways
which are as far above ours as heaven
| is above the earth, but Israel had to
see his doings, and only when they
saw did they sing wv. I'll; lisa. 55:
| SO; Ex IA :3O-31; 15 ~. How full of
comfort are the words of w. 13 and
Il with lisa. 66:13 Like as a father
with the added assurance that he
knoweth our frame and remembers
that we are dust. There is a great
deal of comfort for tried ones in Elk.
81, 81 have seen, and have heard,
-. for know" I live good deal
on some words memorized as boy
in Sunday school from what we then
called "paraphrases"
To human weakness not severe is our
High Priest above.
His heart o'erflows with tenderness; His
bowels melt with love.
With sympathetic feelings touched, He
knows our feeble frame.
He knows what sore temptations are, for
He has felt the same.
ALI things seen are temporal, all
flesh is grass, but the word Of the Lord
endureth forever, and his mercy is
from everlasting to everlasting wv.
1913; lisa. 40 :6-S; Ps. 90:1-2; II Cor.
:18). His throne and his kingdom
should be our constant meditation
". 19), and that does not mean any
so-called throne or kingdom in the
hearts Of people, but literal kingdom
on this earth which shall include all
nations, and he shall be the one king