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ESSONS RE VIE TO.
RTH QUARTER OF THE INTER
TIONAL SERIES, JUST CLOSED.
u XIII, for December 30,
eml Topic, the Development of
Commonwealth of Israel from
Occupation of Canaan to Birth of Obed.
third quarter closed with the children
entering on the Promised Land, which
Jrupied soon occupied, except the portions
by the Jebusites and other
Horn God had left '‘to prdve them,”
had partially failed to keep His com¬
The remaining lessons of
.lurth quarter detail the wonderful history
period of four centuries and more,
the chosen people went through a suc
si on of trials for the development of
iracter. There is a strange and remarka
interesting series of repetitions, each
having its own peculiarities, yet all
forcing the same lesson—that unfaithfal
|s brings punishment.
the processes are uniform: first there was
*oe, and with it prosperity till tho people
ot God, neglected His ordinances and
pted corrupt practices from their ueigh
; then God allowed those neighbors to
mph over them and reduce them
ery till in their misery they called on
1 for a deliverer; then a great hero arose,
them from bondage and gave
prosperity again brought in impiety and
mishment slavery, and tlien the reforma
& process was repeated. Nearly all the
>ns whose records make history have had
fji } ar experiences. Peace created pros
,y, prosperity was followed by cor
( jon, and that led to civil or foreign
.
sometimes to complete subjugation:
Tty and misery taught their hard lessons,
j | on tho ruins of the old civilization corrupt a new and
sprang up, in turn to grow
(lV* But this process, which goes on slowly
odern Europe and America went on
ly in the warmer climate%f southwest¬
|V ern in the early ages of the world,
the beginning of written history, Pales
[ j,nd the adjacent regions have been held
bVven distinct races: the Ilamitic, the Se¬
lf;, the Persian, the Greek, the Roman, the
hfcen and the Turkish. And under each
III |»V wero minor, but bloody revolutions.
vo just completed the history of its
|;Iest by tho Semitic Israelites; let us
\) a moment at those nations who sur¬
fed them, and part of whom they ex
y had many names and principalities,
[ere all of one race, the Hamites, and
pneral type of heathenism. They had
essed far enough to have walled towns
intensive writings, and those nearest
people; Phoenicians but partook all ancient of the civilization writers agree of
is they advanced in wealth and arts
u leclined in morals. Their religion was
|> lit, h probably, a worship of of the from heavenly that
and the forces nature;
fjfcent on to worship the images such of ani- im
.and knd to have in their temples
f- disgusting rites as cannot be de
with decency (Romans i. :24). The
faets tell us clearly of Goa a intention to
ySlate people guilty of such practices,
fonderfully havo those prophecies been
ed. The Israelites finally exterminated
; maanites, and the Persians and others
out those other nations; the Greeks
5#yed Tyre and the Romans annihilated
. offspring, the Carthaginians; God
|fi“m elites, preserved the tents of the Shun,” knowledge that of is, His the
of He “enlarged Japhet” and made the
tr 'g of Ham subject to him. The licen
;’anaanites have no representatives in
j|h- ^ern world; the Israelites are among
UK er present proof of ever fulfilling
and a glorious future is still in re
Lior them.
fer the conquest we are told that the
lites served the Lord “all the days of
.4a and all the days of the elders that
Joehua,” but the taint of idolatrous
Pes was not yet worked out of their
so they soon “did evil in the sight of
.
jrd and served Baalim.” Seven times,
ikingly sifnilar language, is this state
•pade about their serving the gods of
-lag nations, and it is occasion-
ally added that they adopted tho impure and
cruel rites with which tho heathen celebrated
their worship. Their punishment was ter¬
rible. “They could not any longer stand l>o
fore their enemies” and sank into the most
galling slavery. Their first noted oppressors
were of Mesopotamia, and when they had
served their eight years the Lord raised up
Otkniel to deliver them, lie gave them rest
forty years, then they transgressed again,
and Eglon, king of Moab, brought them
under for eighteen years. Lluid slew Eglon
and delivered them, and this time they had
rest for eighty years—that is, probably, til]
the youngest children who could remember
the deliverance had died.
Then come twenty years of still more gall¬
ing subjection to Jabin, king of Canaan
meaning at that time a small coiuitry just
south of the Israelites. From this captivity
Barak and Deborah delivered them—“And
the land had rest forty years.” Again they
worshiped idols, and the Lord gavo them into
the hand of Alidian. And this was worse
than all before, for tho Mldiamtes were no¬
madic robbers who destroyed all the fruit
of the fields; so tho Israelites fled from tho
valleys and “made them dens in tho moun¬
tains.” Seven years of horror and famine
they suffered, and then tho Lord raised up
Gideon to deliver them. “And the country
was in quietness forty years in the days of
Gideon.’ Then the wearying story was re¬
peated; there was apostasy, wholesale murder,
civil war and tho wicked rule of Abimeleeh.
After trim there was comparative peace
i'orry-iwo years, then another apostasy and
slavery for eighteen years. Jephtha deliv¬
ered them and another peace was followed by
subjection to the Philistines, which brings
us to the wonderful story of Samson.
After Samson there was another civil war
and a period when there was practically no
ruler. “Every man did that which was
right in his own eyes.” Tho sad narration
is then broken by the affecting story of Ruth.
Samuel, tho prophet, was then called and for
a time Israel enjoyed better days.
To protect ourselves against tho storms
of passion, marriage with a good woman
is a harbor in the ten pest; but with a bad
woman, it is tempest in the harbor.—J.
Petit Senn.
HELP
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running sores. I had been afflicted for ten years
SKIN DISEASES ai d usually got worse
ir, hot months. Eight
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cured me, and I have had no symptoms of the dis¬
since.”
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