The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-02-23
Sunday School
Lesson
Sunday School Lesson for February &c


Verify, verify" which means 'of
q truth"-n the Catholic Bible it is
"Amon, amon," which means BE ii
sol say unto you the hour cometh,
and now is, when the dead shall hear
the voice of the Son of God. And they
that hear shall live"
One of the chief thoughts in this
lesson is the blessing of Cody people
! in the home. | don't know if you I'M
derstand that there is such a thing
as a so-called church member and not
Christian. Christian means Christ
in you" Some people could not think
of having any real Christian in the
home or about them. They are afraid
of them because they don't like to
have Jesus around; they have no
room for Him-they say away with
Him" The greatest blessing in the
home, aside from Christ Himself, is n
Cody person.
Elisha was, as we call it today, "a
new minister" and he aften has no
easy time. The people will talk among
themselves, how he is not like our old
minister and not only so, but the new
minister finds a different people. You
see the people were married to the
minister instead of the Lord. Elisha
starts out so different. This woman
fit up a room for the man of God
because of his passing that way. Some
people of today have a room for the
people of God. Well, it was in Elisha
! to do something for the home. There
were no children and no one can
know the full joy of home without
children. He asked God to give them
boy and he answered the prayer
and in 2 Kings 81 to we see more
of Gods care for this same woman
and her son.
So the woman received more than
she gave. But that's always so, when
done in the name of Jesus.
Some one has said, THE beauty of
the home is order-the blessing of
the home is contentment-the glory
of the home is spitality-the crown
of the home is Goodness" Emerson
said, 1.-THE ornaments of home are
the friends who frequent it and not
the contents and reasoning on the
the contents and frescoing on the
never thrown away or lost-he who
sows courtesy reaps friendship and he
who plants kindness reaps love-" And
Ruskin, 81 believe the first test of
truly great man is his humility if he
does not know he has any" Chas.
Hodge, The doctrine of grace hum
bles man without degrading him and
exalts him without giving him the
big-head."
I've given you those quotations be-
fore. Don't think we can read them
too often. A truly Cody person will
give a home more than they take
away.
The boy is out in the field with the
father and is taken very sick. Take
him to his mother-how natural. No
one for the boy like a mother. He
sat on her knees until noon and died
Then she laid him on the bed of the
man of God. Mr.. Moody said she laid
him on that bed so there'd be no more
rest for Elisha until he restored the
boy. l so often think how anxious
people are for the body-but the SOUL
Did you ever read the second verse
of the Third Epistle of John. l was
i'll meeting last fall in Philadelphia
got in by card. People were lined
up for blocks trying to get in, be-
cause of the healing of the body.
Sad? Yes indeed-but the soul. Men
come forward in the mission every
night in the week, kneel, pray, cry,
then stand and profess to be convert
ed, all to get bed for the night. We
must beg people to accept Jesus as
Savior for the soul-but the body.
How blessed when things come that
truly drive us to God, our precious
friend.
heard Bishop Foster say in prayer,
Lord give us success" and then he
was so still, l looked up to see if he
was still there and he was and oh! it
seemed the longest time when he
said, And Lord that is the thing we
need to be afraid Of" John 2-25, HE
knew what was in man."
1t is in time of success that men
forget Him. See Deut. ITO to ~.
How many fellows have put the Bible
mother gave them down in the bottom
of the trunk and it was there until
God used the broom of circumstances
to sweep them out of corners of sin.
like he brought Naomi as we see in
the book of Ruth. Now another look
at the mother. Can't you almost see
her going. Trust the servant? Not
her Why all this? She knew the
boy was dead. If all the mothers of
dead children knew they we're dead
Eph. Filtered be a stir, but they
don't know it because they don't be-
lieve God. They don't know that the
very mountaineering Of humanity is
poisoned by sin.
was dead to the beauty and joy
of salvation and life of God as lamp
post. | was dead to the sweetness of
the precious Bible and was dead to
the fact that the Holy Spirit was try
ing to dig me out Of the awful place.
Cne of the words that the word con-
vert comes from is "unpacked."
The devil sure did have me packed
away in sin and when r was willing
: for Jesus to unpack Jim, didn't He
bring Jim out? Didn't he give Jim a
rev life? David said, Pisa. 1885, ."
81 called unto the. Lord out of dis
tress and He set me in large place."
And now he says, Eye are dead and
your life is hid with Christ in God"
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