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Sunday School
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Sunday School Lesson for March 2e

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Golden text: Psa 1917. "Jehoyad
is righteous in all His works."
Some doctors will blarney you to
get your money. Some times the
nurse will lie TO you to put you to
sleep. The politician will do most
any dirty work in order to keep his Of
flee, but a statesman and our blessed
Lord loves us too well to go into any
cheap thing with us. q
The Sunday school committee has
given us Josh. II for our memory
verse, but | think verse is the best
and l Will give it to you in full, except
that | shall make it read in our
United States talk: IF the book of
the law shall not depart out of your
mouth. so thou shalt mediate there
in day and night, that you mayest OBJ
serve to do all that is written therein,
then you shall make your way pros
porous and then you shall have good
success" And this promise covers
two worlds-this one and the one to
come. This lesson is a review of the
quarter, and the first lesson at hand
is a young man throwing away the
opportunity of his life. As rule we
make big to do when a man throws
away good position or a few thou
sand dollars, as did this young man
in the lesson, but think of him who
throws away his own soul-lives as
though he had no soul. We don't need
to go to this fellow, but all about US
they are and what is more, often his
own parents are no help to him to
know any better, and l see in my
Bible that such children will raise un
in Judgment against such parents.
There is an awful time ahead for
the careless Christian. This boy be-
longed to a family of Gods people-a
type of the church. In Amos 81 Woe
to them that are at ease in Zion," or
! III the margin it reads who are Sc
cure" Don't you see it? People in
me church and it no better because of
them. Talk to them about the need
of the cause and they say: 81 belong
to the church and | go every Sunday"
You see their thought is to get into
clear Rev II And all kim
Greds of the earth shall wall because
of Him." This has reference to the
next coming Of our Savior who shall
come to destroy the devil and all his
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of the earth and the great men and
the right men and the mighty men
shall cry to the rocks to fall on us
and hide us from the face of Him
the wrath of the Lamb.
Now a man may die because of
drink or some other awful sin and we
take him to the church house-where
he wouldn't go alive-and the min.
lister is to fix things up. But there is
an awful time coming.
The next five lessons deal with
Elijah and his work. Israel wanted
to be like other nations, though their
God had made them different and
sought to keep them different and
separated. He tried the kings, they
would have failed Him as He told
them they would. Also He tried the
priests but they failed Him. In
Judges. chapter IS, we see one
prompted by the greed of gold caus
ing him to steal away and taking a
heather God away with him. But
never did prophet fail his God. The
Prophet always took the whole coun-
sci of God, but did a priest? We to
this day have both classes in the min
istry.
The next three we have Elisha.
Elijah had lived such a life in the
presence of Elisha that he craved a
two-foid better yet. When a man
takes a stand FOR his Savior and is
satisfied to be on level with a
smoking Christian, he is not in a
class with Elisha, or he is satisfied
with one who'll tell stories or takes
part in SANDER or works tricks for
gain. He is not in class with, Eli
sha and is not likely to have man
tie fall at his feet from heaven and
} in l Kings 1921 we see as much
power in the bones of Elisha as had
been in the life of Elijah. How
blessed to live a life that will create
the desire in others for more Christ
like life and if we do we may be sure
that we must get rid of the weights
and sins that upset us.
Next is Jonah. Some people don't
believe that Jonah swallowed the
whale-but Jesus set his seal on the