T H E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S weight and solemnity of truth and not to seek to bring others under its action. — C. H. M. v. 33. To serve the Lord their God. The repetition here denotes that service was the only thing his heart was set upon. His aim was to engage them to God and their duty.— Henry. PICTOBIAL QUESTIONS Who was King of Judah at the time of this lesson? 34:1, 33. Who was Hilkiah? 34:9. What was the House of the Lord? What was the money re ferred to here? II LESSON Kings 22:3-4. What QUESTIONS was the Book of the W. H. Pike Law? Josh. 1:7-8. Who found the Book of the Law? To whom was the Book of the Law given? Who read the Book of the Law before the king? What effect did the reading of the law have upon the king? Whom did the king command? What command did the king give? What did the king say was upon them? Why was God’s dis pleasure upon them? To whom did Hilkiah and others go? Where did the prophetess live? What two messages did the prophetess send to the king? Was one a message of judgment and the other a message of comfort? What did the king do first upon hearing these messages? What second thing did the king do? What third thing did the king do? What was the fourth thing the king did? Was Josiah’s reign a good reign ? PRACTICAL QUESTIONS Ought Christians to give toward ma terial buildings such as churches and Bible Institutes? Should these build ings that-belong to the Lord for His service be allowed to go to decay? Did the people come to know God’s law by helping to keep up His house? Should the claims of the Gospel be brought to our statesmen and president and those in high official position? Why did the priests go to the prophetess? Does not
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dation of an implicit faith in the Bible has been at the expense of religious obligation and at the cost of human happiness.—Holland. v. 22. Went to Huldah the proph etess. He-seeks for the prophetic testi mony of God with respect to the state in which he sees Israel to be, and God makes known to him by Huldah the judgment about to fall upon Israel, but tells him at the same time that his eyes shall not see the fall.-—Bible Synopsis. y. 30. Bead It in their ears. What other book beside the Bible could be read in public assemblies from year to year with an attention that never tires and an interest that never cloys?— Hall. The Word of God will stand a thousand readings, and the man who has gone over it the most frequently and the most carefully is the surest o f finding new wonders in it.—Hamilton. We have not to invent a morality. We are not called upon to refer to one another say ing, “What is your view of moral good ness, moral purity, moral righteous ness?” No man is consulted about this. It is written^it is ours to obey. Prac tice soon goes wrong when there is no spiritual revelation. Let the Bible be withdrawn from society and morality will soon withdraw along with it. We need the Book, stern, definite, authori tative, saying, “ Thou shalt. Thou shalt not.”— Parker. v. 31. Covenant in this book. Cities fall, empires come to nothing, kingdoms fade away as smoke. But that this Book no tyrant should have been able to consume, no tradition to choke, no heretic maliciously to corrupt, that it should stand unto this day amid the wreck of all that was human, with out the alteration of one sentence so as to change the doctrine taught therein-—■ surely there is a very singular provi dence claiming our attention in a most remarkable manner.-—-Jewell. v. 32. Caused all to stand to it. Wherever God’s Word is circulated it stirs the hearts of the people, it pre pares for public morals. Circulate that Word and you find the tone of morals immediately changed. It is God speaking to man.— Simpson. Mark the actings of Josiah when his heart and conscience had been brought under the powerful influence of the Word of God. He not only bowed down under the Word himself, but he sought to lead others to bow likewise. This must ever be the case where the work is real. It is impossible for a man to feel the
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