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Sunday School
Lesson
Sunday School Lesson for March 10

Sunday School Lesson for March 10
Subject: Downfall of Israel
Golden text: righteousness Ex-
alteth Nation, But Sin is Reproach
to Any People" Pro. 14-34.
Memory verse: Pisa. 1876.
= Topic: What Comes of Doing
Wrong"
The scripture checked up is Kings
.17-1-1S, but sad indeed is the history
of Israel and the people at large
drifting back into sin.
Time after time, Judah was our
Lords only hope and as we study its
life it looks as if it had to go down
and it came so near, and when it was
the darkest Jesus came on the scene.
IF they'd had ministers like we have
some today taught by teachers who
are not converted at all-they would
have taught that Judah was to be coli
verted then He'd come. Israel failed
outright. One of the chief causes of
the Elm and fall was the kings were
taking heather wives unto them
selves. Today when a Christian man
or woman takes a husband or wife
out Of home where there is no Bible
or prayer in the life, they soon dis
cover they have a man or woman but
no husband or wife and then the
downfall has started and the end
must come by conversion or land in
hell-even though we done read it in
so many words as we read it here.
Only few days ago, a wife said to
me as the tears ran: "Oh, yes Mr..
Berwick, l was a Christian girl and
enjoyed my life and work so much.
but | see it now. | married a man
who was not a Christian but in spite
of the fact that he has been so good
to me, | lost out, not knowing what
was being done !" I said, you speak
of him being so good to you. What
do you think would have been the re-
suit il you had tried after you were
married to have lived your testimony
but where you first lost out was by
not living it before your marriage.
1t may seem strange, but the man
refer to had the same story. There
was no sin in Israel and there is no
sin in the church today so fatal and
far-reaching as this of marriage into
the world. One ahas said: 81 looked
for the church and found it in the
church" The most successful way the
devil has to get in is by this.
A minister said to me: 81 know
it is wrong for a Christian to marry
one of the world, but I'll tie the knot
| il they come to me-" My answer was,
might as we'll get drunk the next day.
and even then you could not do the
harm to the cause. Then he didn't
tut IN
not going to let any FIVE to twenty
five dollars get away from me-" And
so the thing goes.
In verse 9 of our lesson. Israel did
secretly things that were not right
against their Co." Today people
think they are hiding away from God
They don't know that all shall be
open as on the house top.
The great world war was the result
Of sin. Think of the money spent in
killing and plundering each others
kingdom and some so very foolish as
to think it would make the world bet
ter. Who don't know that nothing
under the sun can do that but the saw
ing grace of God. In verses 10 and
IL, They burnt incense under every
green tree Incense, the symbol
OF prayer. was to be burned on the
alters only, but there was nothing
farther from them than the spirit Of
prayer-but they rejected His statutes
A fireman asked me to stay all
might with him. Before he lay down
he kneeled by the side Of his bed in
| AIence for some little time. After he
Twas on his feet asked him what he
was doing. He said he was praying