The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1920-05-13
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.
Especially Prepared for The Republi-
can by DIR. U. S. Wright.
SUNDAY MAY 16.

SUNDAY, MAY 16.
Victory Under Samuel. l Samuel z:
PIT. Read chapters and 6.
Direct your hearts unto Jehovah, and
serve Him only. Sam. 7:3.
POwERLESS.
''Why does God permit it?" was Of
ten asked during the war when hearts
were sick with the pain of it's brutal
passions. Some settled the whole thing
for themselves by denying that there
was or is any power that shapes the
moving lines of this worlds history.
Others we're and are in sore perplexity.
Turn back to this picture of lsrael's
day of darkness and the same question
ing attitude emerges for the conditions
were tragic. They were Gods chosen
yet the symbol of Jehovah was lost in
battle and the restored was kept in a
private home because the old shrine was
held by their enemies. Everywhere
the Philistine Haunted the fruits of his
mastery and there as moral slump
thru all the tribes. What is the use
of worshipping helpless God?" was
the mental attitude. The real tragedy
was and is that God is helpless. He
must wait the action of that child of
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may be abated. His patience is pune
tuated with pain. Calvary is God 8
eternal heart-ache caught in tire world S
hush of horror at what sin had wrought
The grooming centuries are mans work
not His. Freedom carries with it a
terrible price for its giver, The father
of the prodigal could have refused the
means for the boys trip but the heart
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house and have travelled Just as far as
tho carried by those folly-winged feet
But pain was the price the parent laid
down in daily toll for that same boy s
liberty. The power to choose the right
instead OF the wrong can come only
with opportunity to choose and God
seeks power in every child or nation.
We need more the realization of our
suffering God waiting our willingness
that we may unbind His strength and
wash with our tears the wounds made
by folly. Yes Israel plunged on cursing
Jehovah for desertion and multiplying
shrines to foreign deities. Sin rusted
the sword, dulled the spear and un-
steadied the hand that welded them
Nation or man turning away from God
has lost its power.
PREPARATION.
But there were homes like that of
Hannah and Samuel was not the only
SAINT. While there is no record of his
activities thru these years of distress
the event proves his work unceasing.
der Tag" was no implanted up
heaval. Samuel walked those hills and
valleys thru all the years carrying the
splendor of his lighted life into home
and hamlet until there grew the hunger
for what was seen in him to be the pos
session of all. When God gets chance
with one man He can make a new age.
Life is at the dawn when saint ap-
pears. Sins clock never passes mid
night. Repent" was the message that
came back from their i0quiry of the
seer. Smash the VIZ, n as witness of
your sincerity was the stern order for
there can never be compromise with
any form of EVIL You can't fill a room
with dirt and expect decency to dwell
there. Clean up or shut up" said
Samuel by implication Turn from
sin Is Gods everlasting order, then
direct your hearts unto Jehovah. :"
For he is as hungry as the Prodigal's
Father for the heart Of His boy only it
must be that ard not any geographic
bubble or verbal logomacy.
POWER
Private regeneration means public
reform. Individual righteousness spells
national honor Tee otirinu of the pub-
lie is the law of the Republic. A ma
tional revival is the revival of the ma
tion. Come to Mizpeh " said Samuel
and from Dan to Judah ,heg gathered