The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1923-10-19
THE JUDGE
REVIEWS
THE LESSON

-NdtlOuS.
Golden Text, Look unto me and
be we saved. all the ends OF the earth. S
Isaiah XIV, p.
IF you will study your ancient map"
said the Judge. you will note the
strategic position that Isreal occupied
with relation to the other great nations
OF antiquity. Egypt was south. as
syria was north, Babylonia and Per-
STA were east. and that great highway
of trade. the Mediterranean Sea, was
directly west. The famous mariners
OF those days were the Phoenicians,
and their capital city of Tyre was
as famous in their time among the ma
tions, as London and New York arc
today. Hiram, king of Tyre, and
friend OF David and Solomon, was
mighty man of commerce, and he
made his ships as famous on the sea
rs our own Henry Ford has made fam
Gus his ships of land"
Now when these nations of old
were not busy fighting each other,
great trade was going on between
them, and one Of the greatest of cara
van routes was through the land OF
lseral to Damascus. 1t passed through
the plain of Samaria. Galilee being to
the north, and Judah to the south.
Thus you can readily see that Iseral
was. as our subject declares. in the
midst of the nations II is another
interesting commentary on the an
Gent political situation to know that
the Jews as 4 nation were strong in
proportion as their surrounding COM
petitors were weak. They knew the
meaning of our modern phrase. EN-
tangling alliances and they were mix
ed up in many league of nations
But for the most part their entangle-
ments made for their undoing. and the
old prophets thought as highly of the
leagues OF nations with which they
were familiar AS Americans seem to
regard an instrument of similar i'm
port today.
There have been attempts in the
past to save the world by military a.
|iances. and Isaiah the prophet was
quick to see that world peace could |
not come by any such method. Even
David, greatest of Jewish warriors.
saw the futility OF saving the world by
expeditions. In his magnifi-
cent hymn of praise to the Creator,
Psalm XXXIII. he sings:
There is no king saved by the null
itude of host;
A mighty man is not delivered by
'reat strength.
A horse is vain thing for safety
Neither doth he deliver any by his
reat power
yet in the midst of those terrible
ays when Assyria. Babylon and
Egypt were at mortal grips, when | ]
World peace, or even national peace /
'as hardly to be suggested as a re- {
,ote possibility. Isaiah gave to the
Torld its nnoblest conception of world | Z
eace. He saw how impossible. howl
lntenable, how unthinkable was a
'orld filled with hate. In a time OF
arkness, OF apparent hoplessness, he
ointed toward the sun-rising, and put 6
the lips of God-fearing men, a song
hope. This is it,
And it come to pass in the lat
ter days. that the mountain of the
Lords house shall be established N
upon the top of the mountains O
and shall be exalted above the O
hills; and all nations shall flow c,
unto it. And many peoples shall Fl
go and say, Come we, nd let us d.
go up to the mountain OF the Lord "
and he will teach us OF his ways. al
and we will walk in his paths. =
And he will judge between the r
nations, and will decide concern
ing many peoples; and they shall
beat their swords into plowshares.
and their spears into pruning
hooks; nation shall not lift I'D
sword against nation. neither
shall they. learn war any more.
Isaiah III. 2-4.)
The prophet lived in a time when
Assyrian and Egyptian and Isreal-
were bitter enemies. yet listen to L.
sc sublime words: q
In that day shall there be a y.
highway out of the Egypt to AS 70
yria. and the Assyrian shall come far
nto Egypt. and the Egyptian into AM AMI
'ssyria; and the Egyptians shall Ad
'orship with the Assyrians. In =
nat day shall Israel be the third n
nth Egypt and with Assvria Idc