The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-02-11
Sunday School
Lesson
SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON FOR FEB. IS

ScripturesMat. 22:l522 and 3O-4O.
The great book; yes, and the only
law book on this whole earth! Go in a
court and the best you can get is the
rulings OF the different judges and
rot one refers to the book Of the
law euteron0my-u0 To our bless
I'd Savior vino came to give us the
spirit of the law.
In the Old estament we get the citi-
Zenship of the Kingdom Of God on this
earth Lawyers will tell you that GUS
tom makes law Think Of it! And GUS
tom has swallowed the practical daily
life of church and state. And that is
one reason why so many sermons OF
power are preached without effect.
God said. Thou shalt not lack any
thing Thou shalt eat and be
full Not one promise from the
time that was made until now has
failed the fellow who will walk in the
way he has made for us. II is the
ambition of our God to give his peo-
pie all they can stand This means
that God is on the side of man and his
happiness from first to last. And
thou shall bless the Lord thy God.
One has said: THE strength of ma
ton does not consist in riches, but
vir:Ae And no nation can be Chris
tian until it's people are.
Another has said: The more God
gives us, the less we have of God.
1t is SO easy for so many to forget
him. Think of d man never going tC
God in times of blessing but must be
driven by trouble. Such people arc
beggars-they can never praise Him
The thanksgiving that God wants is
Of the heart that is full of love to Him
of the tongue that will anywhere
everywhere acknowledge his grea
debt to God and pra Sc Him or His
goodness; of the life which will dc
His will in receiving Jesus Chris
His Son as his savior, His wisdom
and righteousness and sanctification.
A little boy in Trenton, N. j.. lost
his pet dog; he had his father come
with him and kneel by the side of his
bed and join him in asking God &c
! send his dog back. the fourth day al
: terward the dog came back, looking
, mighty tough. After he had WASHED
t him and dressed some wounds he
said to his father: Come now ant
let us thank Go for sending back my
\ dog" And never will l forget the
+ way he talked to God. Render the
: things to Caesar that belong to hin
! and to God the things that belong tc
$ him.
d Show me the man who will sleeI
= on duty and at the same time kicl
i for crews to be pulled off and II
. show you the man who'll rob God ant
. defeat himself. If we truly give ur
selves to God we shall not shut on,
eyes to the things of Caesar, but thu
sanctified spirit filled man will flint
that Caesar would rob God outright
= YET let him write up the citys bust
ness and he will show all the church
es-but not word about the saloon
if any. Christianity is the very life O
this old world today, only for that
would have been gone long ago. Th
highest thought of God is in vers
81 aid SO of our lesson and here
where the greatest part of the churc
and so-called socialism falls down to
!. day. Here we have the simple cree
o. Jesus Christ. We show our low
Cor others-not so much in what W
+ -ev as by sympathy an FELLOWSHIP
;. with God BeecheT said, I've see
: enc poor woman who was worth NOR
!. than the whole church to which sh
! belonged, and its minister put togett
or, and I was that minister and IN
u church was the church. She lived oN
II er a cooper shop; her life was lif
= of prayer. All true citizenship ca
g only come on salvation and it goe
- out to the other fellow. Your neighbo
: was the man who needed our help
One has said: What does half tn
misery and all the quarrelling in tn
world come from, but from peopl
. loving themselves better than thei
neighbors?'' When a man recognize
his own relation to God, he cannc
fail to recognize his relationship
his brother man and it will not sho'
itself to a faction but to all.
| think I've told you before of tn
- chicken that had a feather of tn
. wrong color. The chicken was NJ
n wrong because the feather was Their
n but the feather was there because til
chicken was wrong. No man is sill
ner because he does wrong, but h
does wrong because he's sinner an
that's why he needs a savior.
Nj pER WICK