Cleveland County herald., 1921-07-07
IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL Sl1rlldaySchool ] ? Lesson 7 By REV. F. B. FITZWATER, D. D.. Teacher of English Bible in the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago)
 Co, 1921, Western Newspaper Union)
LESSON FOR JULY 3
THE EARLY LIFE OF SAUL,

j LESSON TEXT-Acts 21;S9; Deut. 6:4-9 Of. Il Tim. 3:14 IS.
 GOLDEN TEXT-Today if ye will heal
 kgs voice. harden not your hearts.-Heb
 3:Ty>3.
 FshFEEENCE MATERIAL-Deut. 4:9
 10; s:20-25: Josh. 4:20-24
 PTaE1ARY TOPIC-W'een Saul Was {
 Boy.--Acts 22:3; Deut 6:A-9.
 JUNIOR T0PIC--When Timothy Was 2
 Boy.-np Tim. 3:14-15.
 l INTERME EDGATE AND SENIOR TOPIC A-Jewisl9 Boy Life
 | YOUNG PEOPLE AND AI5WLT TOPIC
 --Sauls Early Training and Education.
 We are now entering a siE month"; stady of the life and teachings of one
 of the greatest wsn who ever lived.
 r. SauPs Birth aActs 2l :39).-
 His parenss> belonged to the gribe of
 Benjamin ansi were ''Hebrews of the Hebrews,' that is, Jews who have not become contansinatea in their ancestry through intermarriage with the Gen. tiles (Phil. s :51g
 1 l. Time of ItFis impossible to deter mine the exact year Of his birth, but ! the probability iss' that it was praeti- | caliy the same as that of Jesus. He 1 was young manp when stephen was stoned (Acts [ :58)., "Yonng man" may mean any age from twenty to thirty. About 60 A, D. i'll tl.es Roman prison he calls himself "PaulAthes aged" (Phl- lsrnon D. This distinction would hardly bs appropriate for a man under sixty.
 z. Place of (v. 39). Ibrsus, the cap- itaA of the Province of edlicia. Repre- sentative business men Game here from all parts of the world. It WAS self governing city which made citizenship ther4ebn noticeable. Besides, it was one of the three great educational centers of the Roman empire. Gods provi- denee ordered that the apostle to the GensileS should be born in g. city where he vsoulI3 encounter men oes every class and nation, making him broad in his symT1bthW and tolerant in his. dealings with otheFS.
 II. saulHs Home Jraininqs 0Deslt- 6: 4-9; If. IL Time 3,:34, 15).
 He 9was brought Mp in a pious hosNe {Phil. 3:5AA hn the passages cited above is given. oie responsibility of Jew 1.-the training of his children.
 l. Ctstraai truths to be S9ughs QvV. i, 5. ()h Unity Of God ''The Aord our GoGGs> enc Lan5" This. was, A tes- timony against the polytheiatn, existing among $he, Gentiies, of that day. He is Sod alone, there6ege to worship. am- other iss sifai yhe word translated 'God" .ss plural in. form, giving room for theasctrine os bEas Trini t.yf-b bather, Son and sHolN Spiait- The great need of the worl6 is a Becognitions GG the 3undam aatal doat1iEse of the unity and trinity of the &odhead. There can be no estat liShedi ordey until Godgis, given His righbful place; neither can there be any moral heaIBh. (2D Max5s su- preme obligation, ax. 3. Cod should be loved witlsr all GGe hear ty ts0al and might, because hle is God alone and supreme Dhis> beiaS the tirsttamel great commandmenh,. w.s know what is mans supreme duty.
 7. Ho7m these tIiwghs are to he kept alive (vA 6,9@A The plaoar'for Gods Word is in, the. heart. In order that it may be m, the heart CD "csaeh it dili- gently 0 thy ohhbdren" tW D. The most inponta af1 part of a Chistl's educa- tion is that given by pareats in the Word oeNod4 G39 Talk oFsthem in the home 80 D. R0w blessed is that home where Gods Word .ssthe topic of conversation Q;s) Talk of them when retiring for bhe night (y 70t The last thing upon, which tbe mi anii should rest before going to. sleep sh0aId be God and II Ess truth. a59 TalA og them when rising in the morning <z4~T). How tit- ting that God should speak lo --e~the first thing when we awake! (6) Binas them apen thine hand sys S). This was literally done by the BeEWs, even to the wearing of Little boxes between their eyes. CD Write thenls upon the posts of the houses and on the gates (v. 9).
 Doabtless TimothXs home training was similar to Saul's tdh Tim. S:14, l5). Frosa child Timothy was taught the Holy Scriptures UA Tim. l :5). This was> done in the hona. by his mother.
 lta. Saul's Educaaon (Acts 22 :3).
 l.. In college at J ,Iariasalem. A JeWlSh child became ch5il of the law at the age of thirteen. Most likely at this age he went to J asluSalem to enter upon his course of study. Here he sat,.at taae feet of Ganaaliel, one of the most. eminent teacheEs that ever blessed. Is, rael The course of study hero, was restricted to tlse, Holy Sculptures 2 A trade ah Tarsus. Perhaps satteEt finishing his college course at Jerpsa7- lem he returned to TarSns anoalearneH a trade. One, uabbi saida 'He tEat teacchr eth not his son tradR doeth the same as if he hagataught him to steal" Uhe trade he learned was. tent making. Ihas came in vary good la his later life, en- abling him to support hiAself. while preaching the gospel.