The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-11
WEEKLY SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
A Nation Needs Religious Homes
Rr HIGHT E MOORE
By HIGHT E. MOORE

III Dp HlGHl
Sunday. Sept. ~. W
Read Deuteronomy 6:E-S; IL
EI8-25.
Study Deuteronomy ga, 5: II.
1925.
The home IS the citadel of civil,
ization and the Christian home is
the buIwark of Christianity. The
basic need and the chief asset OF
every nation is the religious
home Such a home, as here
sketched by Moses in one of his
farewell addresses, Is based on
love 20 God, built on loyalty 70
the Word Of God. and bIest in
Iiyin. by the will Of God.
THE HOME AND The LORD
deuteronomy 81
The Lord Of the Home Is God.
This massage was the first scrip
lure taught to Jewish children
and was recited twice a day by
every adult male Jew. IL was in
Guided in the first act Of syna-
1ogue worship as the Jewish Con
fession Of Faith and was called By
Tesus the first and great COM
,naandment Of the Law. Here are
three operatives: % Listen.
sHear, o Israel" The message IS
audible; and calls for the hearing
ear II is direct; let the people
listen. It is urgent; be ready TO
.act (2l Learn. There is a God ;
and 80 atheism is false. He IS our
God. the God of revelation and
experience. He is not a national
'or racial deity, nor one Of many
Gods, but the One God OF heaven
And earth. The oneness Of God IS
'basaI IA our knowledge. t3)
n 0ve Here is the first claim OF
God upon all moral beings. Love
contains 1.-The elements Of admira-
tion, reverence, the desire to pos
sess and the will 70 benefit y
love 20 God must be with all the
heart including all the faculties
~ the inward man; with at the
soul or life as the very center OF
personality; and with al! the
might or the sum total of active
power and energy.
The HOME AND THE BIBLE
deuteronomy I'D
The Book of the Home Is the
Bible. Here are three imperai!yes
IN Lay Up these my words IN
the heart as the seat of affection
and In the soul as the dynamo OF
a good life. Not only store Bible
words in memory but translate
Bible truth into conduct. Keep
them 80 close upon your person
that they saturate you with their
substance. Accordingly. the de-
vout Jew made two boxes, each a
cubic inch in size; enclosed in
each was a parchment on which
was written foar passages lex.
14:l-lO, lI-l6; Deut. 6:4-9; IL:
1921, and fastened one upon
the forehead and the other inside
the left forearm. t2) Teach
"these my words" to your chill
dren. Teach them in converse
tions by the fireside and on the
wayside. Teach them when you
lie down at night and get up IN
the morning. Teach them by ex-
ample and observation, by pre-
cept and practice. (3) Write
"these my words first upon the
doorposts Of your residence and
then upon the gates Of your
premises or of your village or
town. Thus small obIong box
(called mezuza) containing Deut.
6:4-9 was affixed 10 the right.
hand doorp0st of the house and
often of each occupied room.
THE HOME AND THE NATION
deuteronomy I'D
The Fruit of the Home Is the
Nation. Good homes bear much
good fruit in a nations life. Note
five things here: "a Longevity.
The country Inat ID Ilileu Will
pious homes will be longlived,
generation succeeding generation
Ia the paths Of civic righteous
ness. t2) Fidelity. The com
mand of God must be kept not
only as a treasure to be guarded
but also as duty to be perform
ed diligently. Obedience to God
IS animated by that love to God
which makes one cleave to him
with devotion and walk in all his
ways. (3) Dispossession. The
forces Of evil must be routed,
Grant that they are more in NUM-
BIER and mightier in resources:
they are foes of the good, and
must be driven out upon the COM
mand of Jehovah. (4) Possession.
Wide was the land before the He
brew Thost-from the southern
wilderness to the majestic Mount