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Sermon,
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“Subject: “The Stormy Passage.”
(Preached at Capernaum, in
the Holy Land.)
TEXTE: VEulered inlo tt ship, and went
over the sea toward Capernawm.”-John
vi, 17, “dnd He arose and rebuked
Wind and the seo.” Mark iv., 80.
Here in this seashore village was the tem-
porary home of that Christ who, for the
site of, this village, now in ruins, and all
around this lake, what scenes of kindness
and Joven and glory and pathos when om
Lord lived here! It has been the wish of my
life—1 cannot say the hope, for I never ex
pected the privilege-—to stand on the banks
of Galilee. What a solemnity and what
rapiure tobe here! I can now understand
the feeling of the immortal Scotchman (
lobert McChayne, when sitting on the bank
«of this lake, he wrote:
It that the wild gazelle
# down to drink thy tide,
* tha! was plegcad to save from hail
od by thy side
around thee the mouninins mest,
Mi CRIM repOosing soa.
far mare, the beantiful fest
Tesns walked o'er thee.
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firacefy
Ie now easily understand from the con.
tour of the country that bounds this lake that
storms were easily tempted to make thesy
waters their playground. From the gentld
way this lake treated our boat when wae
safled on it yesterday, one would have
thought it incapable of a paroxysm of rage |
but it was quite different on both the occa
sions spoken of in my two texts. [I closs my
eyes, and the shore of Lake Galilee as it now!
is, with but little signs of human life, disap-
ake as it was in Christ's
scone of great luxuriance: the surrounding
hills, terraced, sloped, rooved, so many
hanging gardens of beauty. On the shore
were castles, armed towers |
everything attractive and beautiful-—al}
styles of vegetation in shorter space than in
almost any other space in all the world, from
the palm tree of the forest to the trees
Figiiuus climate.
t seemed as if the Lord had launched one
wave of beauty on all the scene, and it hun
and swung from rock and hill and oleander
Roman gentlemt- in pleasure boats sailing
this lake, and sountrymen in fish smacks
coming down to drop their nets pass each
other with nod and shout and laughter.
swinging idly at their moorings, O, what a
beautiful scene!
It seems aww wo shall have a
Not a leaf winked in the air: nota ripple dis;
iurbed the face of Gennesaret: but there
seams to be a little excitement up the beach
and we hasten to see what it is, and we find
it an embarkation :
From the western shore a flotilla pushing
out, not a squadron, or deadly armament
not clipper with valuable merchandise, nor
piratic vessel, ready to destroy ev erything
they could seize, but a flotilla, “bearing mes
sengers of light and life and peace. Chriss is
in the front of the boat. His disciples are in
a smaller boat. Jesus, weary h much
speaking to large multitudes, put into
somnolence by the rocking of the waves
If there was any motion at all the ship was
easily righted; 1 passed from star
boa to larboard, or from Jarbeard to i
the boat would rock. and the
ies of the motion putting the Maste:
And they extemporized a pillow
made ont of a fisherman's coat. 1 think no
sooner is Christ prostrate, and His head
touched the pillow, than He is sound asleop
The breezes of the lake run their finger
through the locks of the worn siéoper, and
the boat rises and falls like a sleeping child
on the bosom of a sleeping mother
Calm night, starry night, beautiful night
Run up all the sails, ply all the oars, and let
the larg: at and th IH boat glide over
gentle Genegarst e sailors say there
Isgoing to be a change of weather And
wven the passengers can hear the moaning of
the stot, a8 1 comes ou with great stride,
and all the terrors of hurricane and dark.
ness. The Jarge boat trembles like a deer at
bay among the clangor of the hounds: great
ate of foam are flung into the air: the
ails of the vessel san, and the sharp winds
i is: the analler hoats
on the «lifes of the waves
time. It lay ina
or
quiet night,
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if the
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Overboard go cargo, tackling and masts
and the drenched disciples rush into the back
part of the boat, and lay hold of Christ, and
ay unto Him: “Master, cars! Thou not that
we perish®™ That great perscnage lifts His
head from the pill of the fisherman at
" 3 {they and looks out
+ storm. All around Him are the
boats, driven in the temptest and
through it comes the ery of drowning en
By the flash of the lightning [ see tise calm
brow of Christ as thé spray dropped from His
beard. He has one word for the sky and
another for the waves, Looking upward He
cries: “Peace” Looking downward He says
“Be «till ™
The waves fall flat on their faces the foam
melts, the extinguished stars relight their
torches. . The tempest falls dead and Christ
stands with His feet an the neck of the storm
And while the sailors are bailing ott the
boats, and while théy are trying to untangle.
the cordage the disciples stand in amaze.
ment, now looking into the calm sea, then
into the calm sky, . then inte the calm
Haviour's countenance, and they cry out
“What manner of man is this, that even the
Unds and the sea obey Him?”
The subject in the first place impresses me
ith the fact that it is very important to
Wwe Christ in the ship; for all’ thosé boats
ald have gone to the bottom of Gennesa
ro ¢ if Christ bad not been present. Oh, what
# lesson for you and for mie to learn! We
pust always have Christ in the ship. What-
er voyage we undertake, into whatever en- |
erprise we start, lot us always have Christ
in the ship. All you ean do with utmost ten
sion of Body, dA and soul, you are bound
to do. but obl hues Christ in avery enter-
prise, Christ in svery vovage,
Are IHen who ask GOH iia} at the
» ing of great enterprises. He has been
SH Tes fh the mast, no trouble can over
pow them: the storms fight conte down
the top of Mount Hermon, and lash
then plun
yd
cpuld not hurt them. But hers is another,
who starts out in worldly enterprise,
wd he depends upon the uncertainties of this,
'e. He has no God to help him. After a
shile the storm comes and tosis off the!
masts of the ship, be puts out his lifeboat and:
the | boat; the sheriff and the auctioneer;
to help him off; they can’t help him off
= paust go down--no Christ in the ship
life will be made up of sunshine
, There may be in it Arctic
tornadoes; I know not what
i
: of trial dash clear over the hurricane
3, arid the decks are tia,
4 the ship? aks God for
i Et
wall fof
he
2 da ey 0 IAD 08 ds
+ dopariurs,
o%a men, tho disciples of Josus Christ,
alifs’ SE James lost his head. St. Philip
| as hung to death on a pillar, Ht. Matthew
i pind his life dashed out with a halbert, St.
Mark was od to death through the
pireets. St. James the Less was beaten to
| death with w fuller's club, St. Thomas wad
struck through with a spear. They did not
ad following Christ smooth sailing. Oh,
ow they were all tossed in the tempest! John
{uss in the fire, Hugh McKail in the hour of
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Covenanters--did they find
smooth sailing? But why go into
story when we can draw from our
| pwn memory illustrations of the truth of
| what I say? Some young man in a store try-
| Ing toserve God, while his employer scoffs
| At Christianity; the young men in the same
store, antagonistic to the Christian religion,
teasing him, tormenting him about his re
i ligion, try to get him mad. They succeed in
getting him mad, saying: ‘You're a pretty
Christian” Does that young man Bnd it
smooth sailing when he tries to follow Christ?
Ur, you remember a Christian girl.
father despises the Christian religion; hey
mother despises the Christian religion; her
brothers and sisters scoff ut the Christian re-
{ligion; she can hardly find a quiet
pines in which to say her 3 hor.
i Did she find it smooth sailing
| when she tried to follow Jesus Christ? Ob,
juno! All wha would liye the life of the
r: Ny —-— » v a
{ Christian fatigion ‘hist suller Persécution; i
| you do not find it in one way, you will get it
{ in another way, The question was asked,
i “Who are th nearest the throne And
the answer came back “Thess are they
who came up of great tribulation-—great
flailing, as the original has it; great flailing,
| great pounding and had thelr robes washed
and made white in the blood of the Lamb."
| Oh, do not be disheartened! Take courage.
{ You are in glorious companionship. God
will seo you through all trials and He will
geliver you. My subject also impresses me
{ with the fact that pac sometimes get
| yery much frightened. '
In the these disciples as they
rushed into the back part of the boat, 1 find
| they are frightened almost to death They
say: “Master, carest Thou not that we
| perish?” They had no reason to be frightened,
for Christ was in the boat I suppose if we
had been there we would have been just as
much affrighted. Perhaps more
| gery good people get very much affrighted
t is often so in our day, and men say:
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rin he Adler’ clos Bad even nn the kilaas of
garna ag the ship: the crew were entirely
demoralized: vet Christ vise, and He p
His foot on the storm, awd it crouches at Fis
feet. Oh, yes! Christ can hush the tempest,
You have had trouble. Perhaps it was the
hittio child taken away from you--the sweet-
ost child of the household, the one who asked
most curious questions, and stood around
sou with the greatest fondness, and the
i e cut down through your bleeding heart,
Perhaps it was au only son, and your heart
has ever since been like a desolate castle, the
owls of the night hooting among the fallen
arches and the crumbling stairways. Per.
haps it was an aged mother, You always
went to her with your troubles. She was in
your home to welcome your children into life,
and when they died she was there to pity
vou; that old hand will do you no more kind.
yous; that white lock of hair you put away in
she casket or in the locket didn't look as
it usually did when she brushed it
way from her wrinkled brow in the
the country church. Or
your property gone, you said: ‘I have so
much bank stock. 1 have so many govern-
iment securities, I have so many houses, I
ave so many farms—all gone, all gone.”
Why, sir, all the storms that ever trampled
t
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various errors going over the church
down.”
allright
and think
she
P
our
fs going
fh, how
ol by
to perish;
many good
iniquity in
is going
Opie ure
day
t worry,
coin g to
YUSIIOSS A Hor on
into a cavern to sleep. He lies down with hid
thaggy mane covering the paws. Meanwhile
the spiders spin a web across the mouth of the
i Ye have captured him
rossamer thread after mer thread
tl the whole {rout of CRAY is coverad
with the = sob, and the ider
“The lion is done; the Hon is fast.’
while the lion has got through
ing: he rouses himself he shakes
alks out into the sunlight
aver
friumph righte
un
wr SY
After a,
g
soep
his mane, ho w it: he
4
Test at
3 Wh avi
ith his
is captured forever,
ii make any t
among men.” But after a while the |
the Judah will rouse Himself and
come forth to shake mightily the nations
What's a spider's web to the aroused Hon?
tive truth and error a fal and
truth will come off victor
But there are a great
who get affrighted in othe
are affrighted in our
They say: “Oh! thi
gale: we are afral
ing to be upset, and the
many people bro
are going to be
aff righted w
ing hold of churs As though n
Captain, with five thousand bushels of
for a cargo, should say some
upon deck: ‘Throw overboa:
go: and the
“Why, Cs
ron Throw
ih
Lg i it
sAis re neve
tribe of
Ce how soe iva’
& Trev
hes
says the La
hafl that has got into §
{f wheat, and the only
ff thechaff is to th ail the
Now, that is a great deal wiser than
the talk of a great many Christians who
want to throw overboard al thousands
and tens of thousands of souls who are the
subjects of revivals. Throw all overboard
because they are brought into the kingdom
of God through great revivals, because there
a peck of chaff, aquart of chaff, a pint of
shall! Isay lef them stay until the last ithe
Lord will divide the chaff from the wheat
Do not be afraid of a great revival, Oh, that
such gales from heaven might sweep through
sll our churches! Oh, for such days as Rich
ard Baxter saw in England. and Hobart Mo
Cheyne saw in Dundes! Oh, for such dayy
ss Jonathan Edwards saw in Northampton
{ have often heard my father toll of the fact
that in the early part this century
a revival broke out at Somerville N,
J. and some people were very much
agitated about it. They said: "Oh you |
are going to bring too many people foto the |
church at once: ” and they sent down to New |
Brunswick to get John Livingston to stop the |
revival, Well, there was no better soul in
all the world than John Livingston Hae |
went and looked at the revival, they wanted
him to stop it. He stood in the pulpit on the
Sabbath, and looked over the solethn audi. |
tory, and he said: “This brethren, is io |
five thousand
way to get rid
wheat over.
bushels o
board
a6
of
try to stop it."
leaning heavily upon his aff —a very old
man. And he fred that staff, and took |
hold of the small end of the staff, and began,
or and the thumb, and be sid: “Ob, thou
impenitent, thou art falling now falling
lite, falling away from peace and
heaven, falling as certainly as the cane is
ing througis m han nalting
thoug haps falling slowly
cane Rope on falling through John Liv.
The religious emotion in |
audience was overpowering,
saw a type of their
cane kept falling and falling until
struck Mr Livingston's
clasped it stoutly and said;
you as |
doom, as the
‘But the grace of God ean
once and salvation. “Well” said
the p e after the service, “I guesd you had
better send Livingston home: he is making
the revival worse.” Oh for fais from
heaven to sweep all thacontinenis! The dan
ger of the church of God is not in revivals
Again, my subject impressed me with the
fact that Jesus was God and man in the same
being, Here He is in the back. part of the
boat. Oh, how tired He looks; what sad
dreams He must have' Look at His countes
nance; He a ihinking of the cro e
coms. look at H a is a
flesh of our flesh. (ng yA
atieup: els a man. Bat then I find Christ
at prow of the boat; I hear Him say,
nets, bo stil) and 1 jee the Moti Xhsel
at vot, and olding
ts His ilies bod '
, and want
rari, Leo and, kaon deo St he ck
] ay: ! wenry
of : thize with all m
kot beep worse than this to you. Yet you
overthrown, Why"
‘brist gays: “I have that g one in My
coping. 1 can cafe for him as well
you can, better than you can,
bereaved mother Hushing the
tempest. When your property went away,
God said: “"Therd are treasures in heaven, in
banks that never break.” Jesus hushing the
tempest. There is one storm into which we
‘will all have to run. The moment when we
letgo of this world and try to take hold of
the next, we will want all the grace possible
+x onder 1 seo a Christian soul rocking on the
surges of death; all the dark
ness seen let out against the
pwirling wave, the thunder of the sky,
ghe shriek of the wind, all seem to
muite together: but that soul is pot troubled:
there is no sighing, there are no tears: plenty
of tears in the room at the departure, but he
‘weeps no tears—calm, satisfied and peaceful;
all is well. By the flash of the storm you
the harbor just ahead, and you are making
for that harbor, All shall be well, Jesus bee
fing our guide
Into the harbor of heaven pow we glide
We're home at last, home at iss!
Softly we drift on the bright, sliv'ry tide,
We're home at last
"e
i ywers of
that soul
Bee
Glory to God | all our dangers are o'er,
We stand secure on the glorified shores;
Glory to God! we will shout evermore
We're home at last
———
Home-Made Selfishness.
Why 18 it necessary for so many
people not only to make a virtue of
their pa and aches, but to
everybody around them uncomfortable
“Don't do that, I have s headache”
“Stop that clatter, you make m
nous.” “I eannot have the least
to-night.” How often we hear
like t them
haps. Do we
ly selfish i
to be rendered ma
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hese, and mak«
I TOeRIIEA
becanse one
Is there ar
husban ia Ls
homes, than to find wi
with a piece of linen bound
ead, and the atm
To hear the
to see the frown which
pain has caused.
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and 4 i
fo and me
about her
wphere full of cam.
whining voice and
bt. the
LLL
phor,
. no dou
be cheerful under these
to sit down placidly
evening in company with such a dismal
hely Look
time you have what we
regular gick head ache,’
vision is inspiring A
says: “Next to the Bible the looking
glass has done the most to civilize the
world.” 1 think if we eounld
ghmpse of ourselves, in some moods
we would feel ashamed
It is quite possible to hide pain,
vousness, irritability, sorrow, Worry
and eare. That is, to be serene and
cheerful in spite of them. We
have known one such
haps when she died, we
a saint” It was bes
moment allowed
troubles to troubl
If this 18 possible,
complish it. “Bat.” I hear you sav,
“shall 1 endure silently, while those
about me are constantly talking of their
own troubles, and groaning over their
pains.’ Yes, certainly, why not? Your
own duty is clear, and you ean do it if
circumstances,
§¥Y
mete
men know as ‘a
noted
ner
ie
tA
said, ‘she wa
g,
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never
perso
ah
her
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id
PARA
one
BOY One «
you and 1 can
so fortunate that you never suffer
Never mind; you know you are mak-
ing the path of life a little easier tor
those about you, and that is all you must
expect. Be cheerful in spite of wind
and weather, try to be merry with an
ulcerated tooth and to joke when the
servant gives an hours notice on Mon-
day morning. Smile when you make a
mistake in entting which involvesa new
yard of material, be sunny when yon
come home with wet feet and ruined
shoes,
“Impossible!” you say. Try it.
—————————
Tax Shuttie famuly had gathered
about the fireside after the Christmas
“Well, children,” said Job, with his
best smile on, “Yon have all had a good
Christmas?”
“Yes, sir,” from the lusty throats,
“And there won't be another Christ.
mas for a year, thank Heaven.”
“Christmas ought to come twice a
year,” said the oldest.
“Once a month,” said the next,
‘Every week,” chimed in the third.
“Chrithmath onght to be every day,”
lisped the youngest.
A Wite, ” id oy “let's have Chrisi-
mas all the year in our hearts,” and the
scheme would have worked first rate
only the furnace fire went out before
morning.
Wobls—Did you get your poem into
The Seribblers’ Magazine?
Cobbs No, the editor was aitogetiier
too matical,
“Two grammatical? How is that?”
“Why, he went right to work and
declined it."
One Sunday the rector had been abe
sent, and on his return naturally asked
his clerk how he had liked his substi.
tute on the previous Sunday,
* Well, sir,” was the unequivocal re
ply, savin your Honor, not very well;
he was a little to pline I. r me, likes
A preacher us joombles the r'ason and
confoonds the joodgment; and of ull the
born preachers 1've heerd there's none
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No man who understands the dary
business ever sells his best 0 ws at any
prica, The better the dalrymun the
more ious the 8 should be of
iocwhowaniatonall, :
Tapestry Painting,
It will be noticed the eolours lo
much darker when wet than when dry,
and due allowance must be made for
this. Don't be frightened of putting
on the colours of sufficient depth at
once, providing you are sure the sol
our you are using is the right one. It
is useless painting three or four times
over the same tint to obtain depth when
it might have been got in one painting.
I believe in finishing off the painting
ns far as possible in one sitting, as
when your frat tint is laid and is getting
o Little dry any colours painted on this |
sink in very agreeably and give a char- |
mingly soft effect. Not that this soft- |
ness is always the most desirable qual-
ity to get in your work, for a certain
vigour and crispness are necessary in |
order to counteract the softening effect |
the tissue has upon the colours. Tape .-
try punting is not a difficult art, for |
unlike oil and water colour painting,
the worker has not to trouble about!
“texture,” that is working his colours |
until they look finished, this being ob- |
tained for him by the tissue itself. All |
you have to do is to put the right tints |
on in aliquid manner, so that the whole |
of that part of the canvas 18 covered
without showing the marks of the |
brush, and the rest 18 done for you by |
the tissue, which, owing to the way it
is woven, gives a charming efleot to the
painting. I have scen copies of some
of tie pictures in the National Gallery |
exencted on this woolen tissue, and
most excellent is the effect, for all the
depth of colour and tone of the original
can be obtained with a certain softness
which only a dyed material has, Mr. |
Coleman, whose christmas ecards ot
little semi-nude children are so well
known, has painted some tapestry |
panels, enlargements of some of his
Christmas ecard and very
charming they are. He allowed a good
deal of the plain tissue to show through-
out the painting {the colour of the
tissue isa warm cream), and this not
only economised his labour, but had a
most excellent effect Much of the
effect he obtained with the outline,
which was done in a warm brown, and
his introduction of turquoise blues and
greens (colours be is particularly fond
may be seen in tins
with warm yell pr
most harmonious and delicate offi
In painting flesh the
be put in. Neutral
Yonicrns
designs,
hi {
OWE duced
ts
shadow
i I
yd the shadows 8
i : #3:
Liiin
with
th mes
$
the ook
brash
ini 3
For si cond pad i
t of sky blue
wet nee bright pind
When dry
Italian earth and pink s
I don't much nth
ast rales, but it may be useful
in good flesh ting may be
gh I would not advise my
y tie themselves down to {
other formula.
Don't try too difficult an eff
imple study of foliage and
mild do ss a beginning,
Tapestry painting can be used |
junction with embroidery Fo
border, for instance, the
carried ont in the
fixed a few stitches of
d and there to
i lioy ©
(5
3
3
this
%
A
w
dyes, nnd
silk
MM ere
groundwork can
quickly by psinting
vwork nb ition
-
£0 ele work may
NOT
& un i.
o in
iresses might we
, if one wish
nique, and the effect mi
better than embroidery
be patted with these dyes
nd velvet must of course be
ght: white is best, as all the dyes are
transparent, and consequently th
lights must be loft, for if once destroyed
they cannot be restored. The worker
must be certain of his touch, and have
a clear idea of what has to be done, or
Ox n
tint is laid upon the tissue it cannot be
removed or even lightened. There is
no getting the colors out so the only
thing is not to make mistakes. Care-
fully plan your work and think out
Your } sori) before commencing your
work, and then yon will have little
chance of going wrong. It is because |
Borders t
*
Vis
fut
i
plans are matured thet they have to
rub out and botch and bungle. Every
touch should have a meaning and be
put on with intention and precision.
Go the readiest way to work for their
18 no merit in spending a month over a
painting if it could be equally well
done in three weeks. Tapestry painting
is much more effective when painted
laboured.
The P
Some amusement may be obtained
among young people by writing, with
common ink, a variety of questions, on
different bits of paper, and adding »
pertinent reply to each, written with
nitro-muriate of gold. The collection
should be suffered to dry, and put
aside, until an opportunity offers for
using them. When produced the ans-
wers will be invisible. Desire different
persons to select such questions as they
may fancy and take them home with
them: then promise that if they are
placed near fire during the night,
answers will ppeat written beneath the
questions in the morning: and such will
be the fact, if the paper put in any
dry, warm situation. — Plain Talk,
aper Oracle,
AS. 3
In theses days when the use of cose
metics has reached such an extreme
nnt when a tace which is thoroughly
ulifal in itself is rare, and powder
snd rouge cover, or, seek to hide,
pirciirnp pm ia Wg
on Oly or
be in order. With neither a know
1 » of, nor wish for these outward
additions which render the face beanti-
ful, she & cosmetic whieh
should show a pure and beautiful soul.
For the lips, truth; for the voice,
Jravet; for the eves, ays for the
nd chai i foe the , upright
f will doubt thet she was in her.
recommendation
SUNDAY DECEMuEn 20, 145),
QUARTERLY REVIEW.
TITLES AND GOLDEN TEXTS.
Gouren Texr vou Tue Quanren: As
long as he sought the Lord, God made
him to Prosper, «2 Chron, 26: 5.
1. THE TRIBES UNITED UNDER DAVID,
Behold, how good and how plessant
it ia for brethren to dwell together m
unity! Psa, 138 : 1.
11, THE ARK BROUGHT TO ZION,
The Lord loveth the gates of Zion
Fea. 87 + 2.
1, DAVID'S THANKSGIVING PRAYER
In every thing give thanks: for this
is the will of God in Christ Jesus con-
cerning you.~1 Thess. b : 18,
IV, RIN, FORGIVENERS, AND PEACE.
we have peace with God through our
Lord Jesus Christ. — Rom. 5 - 1.
V. DAVID'S REBELLIOUS SOX
Honor thy father and thy mother:
that thy days may be long upon the
land “which the Lon thy God giveth
thee. « Erod. 20 +12.
VI. DAVID'S GRIEF FOR ABSALOM
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standeth tak j fall 1 Cor.
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the house of Obed.-edom. and all that
pertaineth unto him, because of the
ark of God And David went and
brought up the ark of God from the
hots Obed-edlom into the city of
David with joy (2 Sam. 6:11, 12
The Lord loveth the
than all the
of
Scholars
of Zion mors
Jacob (Psa. 87 : 2
Teachers: Cry aloud and shout, thou
inhabitant of Zion: for great is the
iioly One of Israel in the midst of thee
(1sa. 12 : 6).
All: Blessed be the Lord out of Zion,
Who dwelleth at Jerusalem. Praise ve
the Lord (Psa. 135 : 21).
Lesson 3. Superintendent: Andnow
O Lord God, thou art God, and thy
words are truth, and thou hast prom-
ised this good thing unto thy servant:
now therefore let it please thee to bless
the house of thy servant, that it may
continue for ever before thee: for thou,
O Lord God, hast spoken it: and with
thy blessing let the house of thy serv.
ant be blessed for ever (2 Sam. 7 : 28
29).
Scholars: In every thing give thanks:
for this is the wili of God in
Jesus concerning you (1 Thess. 5 : 18).
Teachers: It is good to sing praises
unto our God; For it is pleasant, and
praise is comely (Psa. 147 : 1),
All: Whale 1 live will I praise the
Lord: 1 will sing praises unto my God
while I have any being (Psa. 148 : 2),
Lesson 4. Superintendent: Blessed
grates
whose sin is covered. Blessed is the
man unto whom the Lord imputeth not
iniquity, And in whose spirit there is
oo guile (Psa. 82 : 1, 2,
Scholars: Therefore being justified
by faith, we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ ( Rom.
b: 1)
Teachers: Seek ye the Lord while Le
may be found, eall ye upon him while
he 13 near (Isa. 55 : 8), :
2 Ali: Thy face, Lord, will 1seck (Psa.
a7 1 8)
Lesson, --Buaperintendent: But Ab.
salom sent t all the
tribes of 1 #O0N as ye.
hear the sound of the trumpet, then ye
shall say,
the Galenite, David's couusollor,
hin city, even from Giloh, while he
offered the sacrifices. And the
conspir.
rege mesos herd
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eas Houons the father and thy
mother: that thy days may be long upon
the land which the Lord thy God givets:
thee (Exod. 21:12),
Teachers: Children, obey your pme-
ents in the Lord: for this is right (Eph.
6:1).
All: A wise son taketh a glad father
(Prov. 10; 15.
Lesson 6. —8nperintendent: And the
Cushite answered, The enemies of my
lord the king, and all that rise np
agrinst thee to do thee hurt, be as that
Young man is. And the king was much
moved, and wont up to the chamber
over the gate, and wept: and as he wont,
thus he said, O my son Absalom. ms
son, my son Absalom! would God 1 had
died for thee, O Absalom, my BOD, my
son! (2 Sam, 18: 32, 88),
Scholars: A foolish son is a grief to
his father, and bitterness to her that
bare him (Prov, 17: 25).
Teachers: My son, hear the instruct
ion of thy father, and forsake not the
law of thy mother (Prov. 1: 8).
All: A wise son heareth his father's
Le HET 2.
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superintendent: Give
therefore an understanding
heart to judge thy people, that I n #Y
discern between g ] il, for who
is able to judge this thy great people?
And the speech pleased the Lord, thst
Sol had asked this thing (1 Kine
3:9 10;
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get us an hesrt of wisdos
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heard of
fame of Solomon eoncerning the na
of the Lord, she came to prove him with
hard questions. And she came toJeru
with a (reat trad, with
that bare spices. and very much
and precious stones: and when sbi
ome to Solome communed
with hi was in her |
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s here (Matt. 12: 42
l'emchers: Christ Jesus was made
un us wisdom {1 Cor. 1
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All: He that gloriet}
in the Lord (1 Cor. 1
lesson 11.—Buperintendent
came to pass, when Solomon was
that his wives turned away his heart
after other gods: and his heart was not
perfect with the Lord his God, as was
the heart of David his father (1 Kings
11: 4;
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from God
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fall (1 Cor. 10; 12).
Teachers: Let us fear therefore, |
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rest, any one of you should
seem to have come short of it (Heb. 4
1.
All: How shall we escape, if ne neg:
lesson 12. —Buperintendent: Now the
And the time that Solomon
reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was
forty years. And Solomon slept with
his fathers, and was buried in the city
of David his father: and Rehoboam
his son reigned in his stead (1 Kings 11;
41-43.
Scholars: Let ns hear the conclusion
of the whole matter, Fear God, and
whole duty of man (Eeel. 12: 13).
Teachers: For God shall bring every
work to judgment, with every hidden
thing, whether it be good or whether it
be evil (Eeol. 12: 14).
All: We must all be made manifest be.
fore the judgment-seat of Christ; that
each one may receive the thi done
in the body, according to what he hath
done, whether it be good or bad (2 Cor.
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