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-12 Pra\ DIVIN Topic: "Divine Guidanc Week Beg rierou me tving is in succession whose names i Testament history. He w this series of monsters, i purposes became a pros* thirty-five years he con til Among other deeds of cru amne and two of his sons the time the wise men of birth of Christ. Being a the "King of the Jews." 1 dethronement. He at one* and inquired as to the pla siah. Herod had a Strang contempt for it. Fearing mined to defeat it. The quoted Micah 5: 2. Hero< to when the star appeare the mto go to Bethlehem child and bring him word the place of the infant Sa dream not to return to iteration ?heu he fouud t issued his terrible edict children under two years hem and the dependent v ere were too great for pe ture. The tyrant died a agony, but plotting to the appalling to the utmost d< Meantime "the augel of dream and directed that ] his mother unto Egypt, t sepu oueyea ana 60 tne tected. After Herod's death th dream to Joseph in Egyj young child and his inott obeyed, but on learning t he feared to return to tl again "warned of God in ? parts of Galilee." "He ca reth, that it ihight be f prophets, He shall be call There are in the text a instances of divine guidat ordinary kind in which "t dream to Joseph" and he In the other case he seem discretion, but as surelj might be fulfilled which w be called a Nazarene." Tht? ffimllifir anri viral goodness and wisdom ar course of our lives and s well-being, is finely and ii of incidents in the infancy destinies hung upon thet eye of the world were me obscure family. The min miracles, his services of unto death, the ofTeriug c death, redemption itself w and sovereign power. Hi erringly executed by meai over the conduct of His s< and the unique honors wl men became a reality, by Id committing their lives We are His servants an THE PRESBYTE ^er Meeting E GUIDANCE. e in Life." Matt. 2: 19-23. inning September 5. e first of the four of that infamous and deeds are connected with New as evidently the most monstrous of le was an Edomite who for political ?lyte of the Jewish religion. For lued his bloody and lustful career, lelty, he put to death his wife Mari>. He was seventy years of age at the East came to inquire about the jealous tyrant, when he heard of te was haunted with the spectre of j convened "the priests and scribes" ce of the birth of the promised Mese mixture of belief in prophecy and its fulfillment he desperately deterpriests and scribes very properly 1 then inquired of the wise men as d. Having learned this he directed and search diligently for the young . They were guided by the star to iviour's birth, but were warned in a >rod. The king was frenzied to deshat his scheme had miscaniec! end for the slaughter of all the male of age that were found in Bethleillages. The horrors of this massan to describe or imagination to picfew months later in excruciating last, inquisitions of blood that were agree. the Lord" appeared to Joseph in a lie should take the young child and o escape the fury of the kiug. Jolife of the infant Saviour was proe angel of the Lord appeared in a pt and instructed him to take the ter into the land of Israel. Joseph hat Herod's son was his successor, le vicinity of Bethlehem. He was i dream" and "turned aside into the me and dwelt in a city called Kazaulfllled which was spoken by the led a Nazarene." ssigned for our study three distinct tee. Two of them were of an extrahe angel of the Lord appeared in a "was warned of God in a dream." s to have exercised ordinary devout r under divine guidance, "that it as spoken by the prophets, He shall truth that our God exercises his kd power and love in shaping the so securing our safety and general npressively illustrated in this series of our Saviour. What vast, infinite se events, which apparently to the re incidents in the lowly lives of an istry of our' Lord?his teaching, his sympathy and fove, his obedience )f himself for sin, his triumph over as dependent on God's guiding hand b plans were wisely formed and un18 of the control which he exercised Brvants. Their welfare was secured bicb made Mary blessed among womeans of their faith and obedience to God's directing care, d have our part in the accomplish r :rian of the south. ment of the divine purj?ose. and are the objects of His co and lovingly Rulde us as He becomes ns to trust Hint as ir \7 n i uung reop TEMPE Topic for Sunday, Septembei 1 Corinthia DAILY R Monday: Self-repression. ] Tuesday: Denial of lawful Wednesday: Excess is slav Thursday: Dangers of exc< Friday: Sober advice. Tit Saturday: Using, not abus 29-31. "Every man that striveth f all things." It is evident that no narrow words, "Every man", "all thii The law of temperance uudt strenuousuess. The rather, it The man that controls bin than the man who takes a cl the first step in temperance. The man or woman who is better opportunity to make s or woman who is self-indulge propensities and tastes. Intemperance is of many k! matter of drinking. Intemp< the mind, intemperate dream are as evil as that which intx This is why the Apostle sayi is a great principle. Its app! members of the human fumih ing conditions and relations of There is always danger tha haste even in some things w swing off into some other foi guarding ourselves at every end w e are seeking. The man who is recognized and has power. Moderation ciple exercised and applied a and firmly, establishing itseli It is aggressive without ant inelastic. When the word "Temperan the thoughts toward that one in the liquor habit. So powei given color to all our thoughts c shaped and interpreted the t common form of evil, it has d It is a glorious fact to rect such as has never been know land. The outward limits of and more. It is said that tod living under either positive pri At its present rate, the mi country in a few years. Pet right habits mean more rapii social, economic and industrl elevated in proportion as the When they see this fully they life. During the year, 5,688,381 Society, including 864,247 com| xnents And 3,687,560 portions o are distributed among Bible S tribuled among the natives < army of coli>orleurs, who fre exciting adventures, some Society's /eport. September i, 1909. Wo are His dependent children nstant care. He will as surely did His servants of old and it uplicitly as they. * /> >le's Societies :rance. 12: Temperance in All Things. ins 9: 23-27. EADINGS. Romans 13: 11-14. things. Matthew 5: 29, 30. ery. 1 Corinthians 6: 9-20. 286. Jude 10-16. us 2: 2-12. sing. 1 Corinthians 7: 22, 24. ui uie mastery is temperate in - meaning can be placed on the lgs." irlies success. It does not deny makes it possible, lself is declared to be greater Ity. Ruling one's own spirit is temperate has a hundred fold ometliing in life than the man nt, given to indulgence of evil inds. It is not confined to the irate reading that intoxicates ing that intoxicates the fancy, * ixicates the body, s: "In all things". Temperance lications are as diverse as the r and as numerous as the varythat family. ,t in too feverish and furious a hich are good we may merely m of evil. Hence the duty of point, lest we defeat the very for his moderation is respected , is not compromise. It is prinvith wisdom, building securely f thoroughly as it goes along, .agonizing, firm without being ce" is used, it naturally turns aspect of the matter involved -ful is the evil here that it has ioncerning temperance and has erms we us&. Being the most etermined our terms. >rd that a wave of temperance n lieforp Id aniPAnlm the cause are extending more :ay sixty millions of people are ahlbition or local option laws, ovement will sweep the entire >ple are beginning to see that 3 enhancement, that the civic, al conditions are depressed or se moral "waves" have power, will assert the new and better volumes have been Issued by the plgte Bibles, 1,136,665 New Testaf the Scriptures. These volumes ocieties. The Scriptures are dig* >f various wild countries by an jquently meet with strange and of which are narrated in the