The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-05-07
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LESSON
LESSON FOR MAY 8
REST AND WORSHIP (RECREA.
TION).
tBy REV r b. FITZWATER. ID. d,
Teacher of English Bible In the Moody
Bible institute of Chicago.)
t@. 1871. Western Newspaper Union)

GOLDEN TEXT-The streets of the city
shall be full of boys and girls. playing In
the streets thereof-Zech. SIS.
REFERENCE MATERIAL-Ex. ss:h;
Lev. 23:3; Neh. s:9-1S; Heb. 4:s.
PRIMARY TOPIC-The Happiest Day
Of the Week.
JUNIOR TOPIC-Holy and Happy Days
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC
Sane Recreation.
J YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC
The Use and Guidance of Recreation.
The title "Rest and Recreation, as
chosen by the committee, is hardly
true to the content of the Scripture
passages. 1t should be REST and
Worship"
1.-The Feast Of TabernacIes (Lev.
% :39-43).
This was the final feast of the series
which in type covered the great facts
Of redemption.
/. Time of ". 39). 1t was on the If
teenth day of the seventh month and
lasted seven days. This time would
about correspond to the close of our
September and the beginning of Octo-
Der. 1t was after the harvest had been
gathered.
2. Method of keeping wv. 40, 42).
They were to take the bOughs Of good
ly trees, branches of palm trees, and
the boughs of thick trees, and willows
of the brook, and construct booths.
These booths were placed on the fiat
tops of houses, ON the streets and open
places of, the city, and even in the
fields. In these the people dwelt for
the whole week.
8. The significance of it ". 43). QD
A memorial of Israels dwelling In
booths in the wilderness wv. AZ, 43).
1t reminded them of Gods care of them
during their journey through the will
derness. (2) A "harvest-hOme thanks
giving" ". 39). "When We have gath
cred the fruits Of the land" This was
the greatest feast of rejoicing of the
whole year, for more numerous sacri-
fees were offered than at any time of
the others (Num. % 1880. (3) II
foreshadowed the final gathering Of
Gods redeemed ones from all nations
Czech. 4:16, ~.
il.-The Sabbath Day Deut. SIP
15). .s -e d
1. Meaning of (Gen. %, g.; Ct. Elk.
0:S-1D. According to the etymOlogy
of the word, sabbath" means to desist
from exertion-repose. God rested
when the work of creation was done.
On the basis of this, God has estab-
lished the law of labor and rest. 1t is
not only a memorial of~creation, but
of redemption Deut. 5:15). The
Jews were to keep the Sabbath in
memory of the deliverance from Egyp-
tian bondage.
2. Obligation of wv. 12-15). %
Kept as a sacred institution ". 20,
God sanctified it (Gen. 2:3). "Sancti-
fly" means to cOnsecrate, dedicate,
therefore holy. 1t means set apart to
Gods service; therefore keeping the
Sabbath meant more than cessation
from labor-it meant to cease from la
Dor in order to occupy ones self with
God. Its supreme Specification and obli-
cation was to remember God. (2) No
work to be done on the Sabbath wv.
Ii, 14). All work was to be done in
six days. In fact, the obligation to
work six days is here made just as
binding as to keep the Sabbath day.
Work was Gods primal thought for
man. Even before the fall he was to
dress and keep the garden. Work is
the psychological solution of pauper-
ism (II Thess. 3 :10). 1t is thousand
times more gracious to provide en-
ph yment for the suffering poor than 20
ma Ike gratuitous gifts unto them. CD
By whom should the Sabbath be kept
". 14)? (a) The head of the family.
He should be the example for all. (b)
The children. The children should be
obliged to follow the example of the
parents in keeping the Sabbath. (c)
The servants. The maid in the kitch-
en-, the servant on the farm, the chauf-
feur in the city, should keep the Sab
bath as well as the head of the family
and the children. Cd The beasts of bur-
den. The dumb animals are likewise
entitled to their rest. (e) The stran-
ger. The foreigner who comes to our
shores should be obliged to keep the
Sabbath. 1t should be kept in mind
that Christians are not under obliga-
ton to keep the Sabbath as law (Col.
PIG, ~, and especially as it applies
to any particular seventh day. The
first day of the week is the proper day
for a Christian to observe. This he
does not as a law, but ASA glorious
and exalted privilege. He is on resur-
rection ground, therefore above the
law. While the keeping Of the Sab
bath is a matter of privilege, woe unto
the one who abuses this privilege. The
principle of resting one day out of
seven is memorable in its demands. az
The ground of obligation was redemp-
ton from bondage ". 15).
IA. Jesus Invited His Disciples to
Rest MARK 6 81 .32).
He took them apart to a desert
place. This was not primarily for
recreation, but that they might be free
from the crowd to have fellowship
with Him, that they might be pre-
pared for the strenuous days which
were to follow.
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