Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-29
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
Golden Text: watch We. stand
fast in the faith. quit We like men,
be strong" l Cor. 1915.
For June 3, 1928
BY DIR. MARION MICH. HULL

fast i'll the faith. quit We like men,
be strong" 1 Cor. 1915.
ISala1S ministry was apparently
of no effect. Manasseh as a boy Of
| twelve assembled the throne of David
at the death of his godly father
Hezekiah, and for 55 years years
the longest reign of any of the kings
-undid everything that Hezekiah
and Isaiah had tried to accomplish.
His son, Anon, reigned only two
years and was succeeded by another
boy king, who was only eight years
old at the time of his accession. Jo-
siah, however, had the blessing of
having had a godly mother and of
being guided by a pious priest, Hill
kiah and he did that which was right
! in the sight of Jehovah. In his
eighteenth year, in repairing the
temple, which he had ordered, the
Book of the Covenant Deutteron-
omy) was discovered and a great re-
Vival followed.
No Wabout five years before this
discovery, young man of about
twenty years of age, just a bit
younger than the king himself, had
a call from God. He was the son of
Hilliah and his home was in Anna
thoth, about three miles from Jeru-
salem. He was naturally tender,
affectionate and sympathetic, and
very shrinking in his nature. GOD
told him that He had known Him
him apart for a definite work while
he was yet unborn and had ordained
him to be a prophet to the nations.
jeremiah, for this was his name,
shrank from the duty, OIL account of
his youth. But God touched his
mouth, and put His words in
his mouth, and promised His pres
ence always.
The work to which jeremiah was
called was a hard one-to rout out,
to pull down. and to destroy, to
throw down, to build and to plant.
Notice there are six; the absence of
the seventh is noticeable-to reap.
Jeremiah's task was the hard. the
unpleasant, the thankless task of
preparing the ground by deep plow-
ing, after dynamiting the stumps.
after cutting down the timber, after
destroying what was already grow.
ing there-and then to plant. But
the harvest, the reaping was not to
be his; others were to receive the
reward of his task and labors.
Jeremiah might have shrunk from
this task many times in the forty
and more years that followed had
it not been for the inducement that
God now gave him. He showed him
vision of an almond tree, that is
the earliest one to blossom, and of
seething pot faced to the\ north.
The judgment was to come soon. and
it would come from the north. Then
Gods word Of promise came which
must have often been heard and re-
membered in the days of stress and
strain. Thou, therefore, grid up thy
loins, and arise, and speak-and be
not afraid, be not dismayed-for I
have made thee this day a defenced
city, and an iron pillar, and brazen
walls against the whole land, against
kings and princes and priests and
prophets and people. They shall
fight against thee but they shall
prevail not against thee; for I am
with thee, saith Jehovah, to deliver
thee.
His Ministry
It would De extremely interesting
if we had time to study in detail
some of the sermons which this
remarkable man delivered, for after
they were delivered and he was shut
UP so that he could not preach open
ly, God directed him to write them
in a book that they might be a per-
grandson of the good King Josiah.