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What was the mountain of Samaria? Why does Amos compare the moun tain of Samaria, their capital city, to the cities of the Philistines? What is meant by the evil day? Why were they putting it away? What kind of beds did they have? What does this extravagance sug gest? Were they living temperately? What suggests their intemperance be side the wine? What is the affliction of Joseph? Why were they to be grieved over this affliction? What punishment was to fall upon them? In what did they drink their wine? What do feasting, music, wine and perfumed anointings suggest? Do these conditions of life suggest the most useful way of living? Practical Questions Are people of ease usually temperate? Do the judgments of God usually fall upon people of ease sooner or later? Are not most people today, toiling to save so that they can have ease in the future? What is the danger when ease comes? In what did Israel trust? Is it possible to sleep too much? Prov. 6:9-11. Prov. 24:33, 34. Is there a danger of eating too much? Prov. 23:21. How do too much eating and sleeping affect one’s life? Prov. 21:17. What kind of songs did they sing in verse 5? See Revised Version. Is there much of this kind of sing ing today? Why do these luxury lovers go into captivity first? What is the sure end of a country that gives itself up to pleasure? Personal Questions Ought every man and woman, boy and girl, to have some time for pleas ure?
How shall we regulate our pleasures? Ought we to spend eight hours of the 24 hours in sleep, eight hours in work and eight hours in pleasure? Should our pleasures ever be allowed to endanger ourselves, bodily, mentally, spiritually? Should our pleasures ever be allowed to interfere with the happiness of others? Should we always be temperate, sane and safe, in our pleasures? Is it God’s will that we enjoy the pleasures of life? Ought we to bring our pleasures with in the limits of the will of God? Is it possible for Christians to miss the best in life because they spend too much time and energy in trying to keep up with the demands of a pleasure-lov ing age? Ought Christians to spend more time at the whist table and in the concert hall than they do in Bible study and prayer? Should we not beware of God’s “ woe” upon our pleasure loving? Memory Verse.— “ Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live.” Amos 5:14. Approach.—The little folks will en joy a picture bn the sand table showing just a little o f the geography of the country. Show the. Dead Sea and the wilderness of Judea. BEGINNERS Speak of David’s AND PRIMARY hiding in this wil- Mabel h . Merrill derness, of Christ’s temptation t h e r e , and of John the Baptist preaching there. Amos, of whom we are to hear today, lived on a hill in a little town not far from Bethlehem, where we remember Jesus was born, so he would be familiar with the memories of the things that happened here. Amos took care of sheep.— Peloubet’s Select Notes. God Sends Amos on an Errand. Amos 6:1-7; 7:10-15.
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