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IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
Dchool CUNDAY I Lesson
(By REV. P. B. FITZWATER, D. D. f Mem¬
ber of Faculty, Moody Bible
Institute of Chicago.) Union.
©, 1933, Western Newspaper
Lesson fpr August 13
HANNAH
LESSON TEXT—I Samuel 1:9-22, 24-
28; 2:1, 2.
GOLDEN TEXT—Favour is deceitful,
and beauty is vain; but a woman that
feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Prov. 31:30.
PRIMARY TOPIC—God’s Gift of
Mothers.
JUNIOR TOPIC—An Honored Mother.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP¬
IC—What "We Owe to Our Mothers.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP¬
IC—Devout Motherhood.
As indicated by the lesson commit¬
tee, the lesson text practically covers
chapters one and two of I Samuel. In
order to get a full view of this un
'usual woman the salient features of
these chapters should be made to stand
out
I. Hannah’s Sore Trial (1:1-8).
Elkanah had two wives, in violation
of God’s law. God’s primal thought
for man was one wife only. There¬
fore, for Adam he made Eve. Han¬
nah's sore trial grew out of Jealousy
which naturally springs up between
two women, wives of one man. The
violation of this law of God concern¬
ing marriage has always been attend¬
ed with trouble. Since Hannah’s
name is mentioned first, we may
legitimately infer that she was his
first and lawful wife.
II. Hannah Prays for a Son (1:9-18).
She had the good sense to take her
trouble to the Lord. Believers should
do this even though the troubles re.
suit from sin.
1. Her bitterness of soul (v. 10).
Though Elkanah loved her and sought
to lighten her burden, he was unable
to bring to her heart the needed
solace. Only in God can help be
found sufficient to stay the soul in
time of great trial.
2. Her vow (v. 11) Hannah asked
God for a son. In connection with
her asking this gift from God, she
vowed to give the child back to God.
Samuel was therefore a Nnzftrite all
the days of his life. Much can be ex¬
pected of children born into the world
under such circumstances.
3. Hannah misjudged by Eli, the
priest (vv. 12-16). The priest observ¬
ing the motion of her lips and not
hearing the sound of her voice con¬
cluded that she was Intoxicated, de¬
manded that she put away wine. She
defended herself against this vicious
inference, assuring Eli that in bitter¬
ness of soul she was pouring out her
heart to God in prayer.
Even good people may be too re-ndy
to impute evil motives to others. The
devout Hannah must have been shocked
and grieved that Eli should so unjust¬
ly accuse her. The Golden Rule should
be applied in judging others.
4. Hannah blessed by Eli (vv.
17, 18). Her explanation satisfied
Eli, who in turn pronounced a blessing
upon her, joining in prayer that God
would grant her petition.
III. Hannah Consecrates Samuel to
the Lord (1 :19-28).
1. Her prayer answered (vv. 10. 20).
So definitely did she realize that God
had answered her prayer that she
named the child Samuel, which means
“asked of God.”
2. Samuel taken to Shiloh (vv.
20-24). Hannah refrained from going
to the place of yearly sacrifice till
Samuel was weaned.
3. Samuel lent or returned to the
Lord (vv. 25-28). According to her
vow. she took Samuel at an early age
to the sanctuary and gave him over
to the charge of Eli. the priest, to min¬
ister therein. It is a beautiful sight
to see Samuel In his tender years
ministering before the Lord. Godly
mothers will train their children for
God’s service. It was. no doubt, a
trying experience for Hannah to part
with her child. She dedicated him
unto the Lord to the end of his life.
IV. Hannah's Thanksgiving to God
(chap, 2).
1. She rejoiced in the Lord (w.
1-10). So really God had answered
her prayer and so definitely had she
consecrated Samuel to the sacred serv¬
ice, that she whole-heartedly rejoiced
In that she could give up her child in
the service of the Lord. She declared
that none was so holy as the Lord and
that there was none other like unto the
Lord. She realized that the Lord was
almighty and that the blessings which
had come to her were from him.
2. Her love for Samuel (vv. 18. 19).
This was expressed in the making with
her own hands a coat for him and
taking it to him from year to year as
she went to Shiloh with her husband
to worship the Lord.
The priestly blessing upon Han¬
nah and Elkanah (vv. 20.21). The old
priest highly prized the ministry of
Samuel and expressed his apprecia
tion by pronouncing a blessing upon
Uis father and mother.
Faithful Prayer
Faithful prayer always implies cor
relative exertion. No man can ask,
honestly and hopefully, to be delivered
from temptation unless he has hon
estly and firmly determined to do the
best he can to keep out of it.—John
Ruskin.
Must Be Patient
We have only to be patient, to pray,
to do his will, according to our pres¬
ent light and strength, and the growth
of the soul will go on.
Old Scotia’s Historic Spots
Little Lossiemouth, Prime Minister MacDonald’s Birth
place, Among Others With Centuries-Old
Record of History and Tradition.
British Prime Minister MacDonald
was referred to by many American
newspapers, during his visit to Wash¬
ington, as the “son of Lossiemouth.”
A bulletin from the Washington
headquarters of the National Geo¬
graphic society, tells of this little
Scottish town and the country round
about it.
“Lossiemouth, where the prime
minister was born, and where he still
spends his infrequent holidays, is a
tiny fishing village in northeastern
Scotland,” says the bulletin. “It lies
on the southern shore of Moray firth,
a long arm of the North sea which
reaches westward to Inverness. On
clear days one can see across the
firth the blue hills of Cromarty and
Dornoch, while beyond them rise the
faint, jagged lines of remote high¬
lands in Sutherlandshire.
“The small industries of the town
are boat building and rope making.
It also serves as the port for Elgin,
a clean and prosperous little town,
five miles inland on the Lossie river.
The ruins of Elgin cathedral are the
most picturesque north of the border
abbeys. It is called the ‘Lanthorn of
the North,’ and dates from 3224.
“Morayshire, the country around
Lossiemouth, is low and rolling
bordered by the white sands and
blue waters of the firth. Strong
winds from the North sea sweep
across the wild heaths, covered with
sturdy heather, coarse grass, and
prickly whin. It was on such a
heath that Macbeth met the three
witches of Forres.
•“How far is’t called to Forres?’
The answer today is that it is only
a few miles west from Lossiemouth,
where the Findhorn rushes through
wild, rocky glens to pour into the
firth. Here Duncan held his court,
and here Shakespeare made Banquo’s
ghost appear before Macbeth.
“Forres is one of the most ancient
towns in northern Scotland. Sweno’s
stone, carved with runic knots and
figures of warriors, is supposed to
commemorate a Norse victory of the
Eleventh century. Nearby is the old
witches’ stone, where Forres witches
were burned.
"Continuing south and west along
the shore of Moray firth, past Nairn
and Cawdor castle, one reaches ro¬
mantic Inverness, capital of northern
Scotland and watehtower of the
Highlands. The city’s history reaches
far back into primitive times, when
it served as a stronghold for Pictish
kings. Columbia paid a visit to In¬
verness in 565, hoping to convert
Brude, then king of the Piets.
“Built on a steep hill in the center
of the town, Inverness castle com
mands a magnificent view from the
shining waters of the North sea in
the east to the mysterious, blue
peaks of tiie Highlands in ihe west.
Below the castle, and dividing the
city. Hows the quiet River Ness,
spanned by four bridges and crowded
with green islets.
“Inverness castle, traditional
scene of the murder of Duncan, lias
been destroyed and rebuilt countless
times. It was burned by Doland of
the isles, captured by Bruce, occu¬
pied by Mary Queen of Scots, seized
by the Jacobites in 1715, and blown
up by Prince Charlie in the rebellion
of ’45. Rebuilt once more, it serves
today as courthouse and government
seat for Invernesshire. In the plaza
before its gates stands a statue of
Flora MacDonald, maid of the Isles,
who so gallantly aided the fugitive
Prince Charlie, escaping to the
Hebrides with a price of thirty
thousand pounds upon his head.
"A single cairn of stones marks
Culloden moor, near Inverness, where
the prince and 5,000 hungry, ill-clad
clansmen met lasting defeat at the
hands of 9,000 British regulars, un
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der the duke of Cumberland. Rough
stones, carved with the names of the
clans, MacLean, Maclachlan, Mc
Gillivray, mark the graves of the
3,200 Highlanders who fell. In an
adjoining cornfield stands a tablet
to the fifty Englishmen who were
slain.
“Inverness today is the distributing
center for the Highlands. It is here
that the annual sheep and wool mar¬
kets are held. Industries include the
manufacture of tweed, brewing and
distilling, lumber manufacture, gran¬
ite cutting, and some shipbuilding.
Climate and location have made it
extremely popular for summer holi¬
days. Shakespeare discovered that
in Iverness, ‘the air nimbly and
sweetly recommends itself unto our
gentle senses.’
“A further attraction for tourists
is the ‘Northern Meeting,’ or High¬
land Gathering held in September.
Athletes from all Scotland gather for
games and contests. Men in kilts
and tartan plaids crowd the narrow
streets, and the ringing notes of the
‘pibroch’ echo from the castle walls.”
How Solitude Breeds
Deep Fear of Silence
Through force of circumstances
(living alone in a forest cabin), I
have made an unconscious study of
accordant sound, writes Carrie
Woods Porter, in the Atlantic Month¬
ly. I have learned that snow, when
it falls, makes a pattering sound as
of wee padded feet hurrying, i nave
heard the brook by my door bubbling
all day, not conscious I was hearing
it. I have awakened on winter morn¬
ings with a puzzled realization that
some change lias come over my hack
ground of silence. The brook has
frozen, locked, in the night.
There are windless, moonlight
nights when there seems to be ab¬
solutely no outdoor sound. Soft
snow lias packed itself about all mak¬
ers of sound. As the night becomes
deeper and colder, the boards of my
cabin snap as they contract. At
about three or four o’clock in the
morning the ice in my water bucket
cracks as it freezes tighter.
For evening companions I have
three sounds—the flutter of flame in
my stove, the tick of my clock, the
hurried tumbling sound of the brook
outside. These are three pictures
pinned against a wall of silence.
One comes to understand why per¬
sons too much alone occasionally be¬
come demented. They walk up so
close to silence, almost within touch¬
ing, experiencing distance of it. Then
they become afraid—afraid that the
flutter of the flame, the tick of the
clock, the sound of their own breath
soughing through their nostrils, will
stop. What then?
Present New Ideas on
Mysteries of Nature
Few would believe that a snake
which had been killed, skinned,
stuffed, and mounted could continue
to show signs of life, says London
Answers. But the naturalist, the late
W. H. Hudson, pointed out that if
the skin is watched, something will
happen which may give us a new
idea of life and death. Every spring
it will shed a layer of scales.
it is as if the skin know - instinct
ively that moulting time has come!
Snakes shed their skins on waking
from winter sleep.
Biologists have now proved that
tissues can be separated from ari ani¬
mal's body and kept alive indefi¬
nitely.
In one laboratory microscopic liv¬
ing cells, taken from a chicken, have
continued to grow and divide for
thirteen successive years with no
loss of vigor. The cells.have outlived
the normal life of a fowl.
Burden of
Age-Old Pensions
Made Long Ago Still
Drain on Treasuries.
The aftermath of war makes tong
Have we not heard that
Britain is still paying for the
powder and shot she used on the
French at Waterloo? Is the United
States not still making disburse¬
ments on account of the Revolution?
And here is the little city of Che
rasco, a few miles from Turin, which
is still paying the interest on tribute
levied on the place when Napoleon
seized it 137 years ago. during his
campaign. Napoleon de¬
manded the tribute in order to clothe
and nourish his army, which had
suffered terribly during the march
across the Alps. Many of the citi¬
zens of Cherasco had fled on the ap¬
proach of the French and the city
fathers went round, hat in hand, and
begged the money from the few
who had remained behind and were
able to contribute. The citizens who
gave were promised a fixed rate of
interest forever. The more public
spirited agreed to take 3 per cent;
others bargained for ns much as 6.
The descendants of these contribu¬
tors are still getting a fixed sum
every year, though the city authori¬
ties do not now know how much the
tribute was. They know only that
the names of those who paid have
been kept in the city archives and
that their descendants still receive
the interest agreed upon so long ago.
And there is the case of the pen¬
sion to the descendants of Monte¬
zuma. emperor of Mexico. One of
the three children of Montezuma
married one of Cortes’ captains and
upon her and two other surviving
children. Emperor Charles V be¬
stowed pensions, these to continue
to tiieir descendants to the last syl¬
lable of recorded time. That pro¬
vision became a charge on the vice
regal government of Mexico more
than 400 years ago and has been
regularly paid to the far-flung prog¬
eny of Montezuma during all the
vicissitudes of rule which Mexico
has experienced since she revolted
from Spain in 3821—even during the
feverish and tragic reigns of Ifur
bide and Maximilian. The genealogy
of the Spanish line from Montezuma
is well authenticated, but there have
been endless legal disputes over the
claims of the Mexican line, for the
records are much confused. There
is a movement on foot now in Mex¬
ico to discontinue these pensions on
the ground that the claimants can
show no scars of wounds received
during tiie conquest and that the
payments to (he family, which up
to this time amount to nearly $4,
000,000, would seem to be ample
compensation for the injuries orig¬
inally inflicted upon their forbears.—
Boston Transcript.
Doomsday
The end of the world is in sight,
according to the inhabitants of i’it
cairn island, and they are making no
provision for the future, says the Mont¬
real Herald. They are not planting
young coconuts this year nor storing
up anything for the future. The 393
people of the island are the descend¬
ants of English sailors who mutinied
on the warship Bounty in 1790 and
Tahitian women. Because of their
isolation in mid-I’aciflc, the islanders
are self-supporting. Coconuts and
other fruits brought to the island by
the crew of tiie Bounty are still
growing there. Some of the agricul¬
tural implements still used were
made from the iron of the Bounty.
Visitors are not allowed to smoke
there. Neither are they permitted to
drink alcohol or wear stiorls.
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LIFE’S
LITTLE
JESTS
FRANKLY SPEAKING
The shop assistant -wrapped up the
customer’s parcel and deftly handed
it to him.
“There you are, sir,” he said, “and
if the goods are not just to your lik¬
ing we will cheerfully refund the
cash."
Farmer Giles sniffed.
“Don’t tell me sech a yarn, young
man,” he replied.
“Eh? What?” exclaimed the as¬
sistant, momentarily take# off his
guard.
“Ye might gi’e me my money back,’’
said tiie farmer, “but 'tain’t human
nature to be cheerful about it.—Lon¬
don Answers.
Mistaken Encouragement
“I told a friend of mine to sing In¬
stead of brooding over his troubles.”
“Good advice!”
“I don't think so. Every time he
gets a little bit worried now, every¬
body in the building has to suffer!”
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ALL FOR NOTHING
She watched the door of her new
establishment open to admit her first
client. Business had started! A
good Impression must be created
upon him!
Hurriedly she grasped tiie tele¬
phone receiver and became engaged
in an animated conversation. Then,
an appointment having been ar¬
ranged, she replaced the receiver,
and, beaming on her customer asked:
“What can I do for you, sir?”
A moment’s pause, and then:
“If you please, ma’am, I've come
to connect the telephone!”—London
Tit-Bits.
Sizing Them Up
The Coach—Yes, sir, our track
team is the bone and sinew of the
college.
The Professor—Not so very sinewy,
but there’s enough bone in their
heads to make the classification ap¬
propriate.—Brooklyn Eagle.
Old Story
“You were crazy to get married,
and now that you are, you don’t seem
a bit happy,” said her dearest friend.
“No,” she sighed, “I’m a good deal
like the baby that couldn’t be happy
until it got the bumble bee.”—Cin¬
cinnati Enquirer.
Pass the Ear-Muffs
Headline: “Husband Leaves in
Midst of Wife’s Bridge Party; Dis¬
appears.” !
Just fugitive from the chin gang. 1
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—Atlantic Journal.
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