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a general preparation of heart for this event? Num. 9:11-14. Should all men recognize and accept the blood atone ment of our Lord Jesus Christ? I Cor. 5:7. Do men today treat the blood atonement very much as Ephraim and Manasseh did? Was not Ephraim’s treatment of the passover the reason why they were punished by Assyria? Verses 7, 8. What is it to be stiff necked? Do some Christians have this awful disease today? Will God forgive a nation that turns to Him and admin ister mercy in the place of judgment? What attitude of heart is necessary in honoring the atonement of Christ? Verse 11. What altars did they cast into the Kedron? What shrines do we destroy when we accept the blood atone ment of Christ? Is there a need in the church today of returning to the Bible way of atonement as much as there was a need for Judah in Hezekiah’s day? Would not many pastors and theological professors be as ashamed and humiliated as the Levites were if they came in simple faith to proclaim remission of sins by the shedding of blood? Were the results of this return to God’s way worth while? Did this return bring joy and happiness to all? Did this re turn put far off coming judgment? Judgment did not come to Judah for over a hundred years. Did this return put them in praying touch with Je hovah? A King Who Worshipped God. 2 Chron. 30:1-27. Memory Verse.— “ O come, let us wor ship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker.” Psalm 95:6. Approach.—Now, boys and girls, I want you all to hear this question I am going to ask you, and think well before you answer. How many really
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BEGINNERS Sunday School this AND PRIMARY morning? My! I be- Mabel L. Merrill lieve every hand is up, and I just know you mean it by the happy look in your eyes. What a great blessing is ours to have a splendid Sunday School to come to where we can worship God. How thankful we should be for it and our faithful teachers to tell us the wonder ful Bible stories each week. Did you know the things we like to do show what kind of people we are? This morn ing we are going to have a story about King Hezekiah, and we will watch him and see what things he liked to do. Lesson Story.—When King Hezekiah became king after his father’s death, things were in bad shape, for his father did not serve God, but worshipped idols and offered up sacrifices to them. God sent His prophets to warn the wicked king, but he would not listen; he had a big idol made and placed in the court of the temple, and took away the altar of the Lord' to make room for the idol, and cut in pieces the sacred vessels of gold and silver in the temple. Then he shut up the doors so no one could go there to worship. One day this wicked king died, and Hezekiah his son was made king in his place. The first thing Hezekiah did was to open the doors of the temple, and call the priests or ministers who had been sent away from the temple, to come and clean it and put it in order, so that God might be worshipped there again. The men did as the king commanded, and soon had the temple all cleaned and repaired, and the golden and silver vessels back in their place. Then the king called the rulers of the city, and they went up together to the temple, taking with them some animals which the priests killed and offered up on the altar of God as a sacrifice for all the people’s sins. When the offering began to burn on the altar, the songs of praises began
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