IN T E R N A T IO N A L S U N D A Y S C H O O L LESSON S
EXPOSITION AND PRACTICAL POINTS ofthe LESSON, T.C.Horton ILLUSTRATIONS - W. H. Pike Keith L. Brooks LESSON PICTURE, C. A.Kilwinski ELEMENTARY - Mabel L. Merrill ¡22gî22S?w '?WWW2ZZZÎ22îg7WWWW7WWWW93S3S2Sîîsy?WWTOTOw222222g?9OTTCWOOWW9OT9OTOTOoowoowOTOT9o (1) The word which came unto Jere miah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying, (2) Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink. (3) Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites; (4) And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maas- eiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door: (5) And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine. (6) But they said, We will drink no. wine: for Jona- dab the son of Rechab our father com manded us, saying, Te shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons, for ever: (7) Neither shall ye build The Setting of the Lesson. In the days of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, King of Judah,—one of the last of the kings of Judah. Israel had long ago gone into captivity, and now Judah nears her end. LESSON In both the kingdom EXPOSITION of Israel and the king- T. G. Horton dom of Judah the les son of seed-sowing and harvest-reaping had been exemplified, as it has been in the history of all Gen- house, nor sow seed, nor plant vine yard, nor have any: but all your days •ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers. (8) Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters; (12) Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying, (13) Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Go, and tell the men of Judah and the in habitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith the LORD. (14a) The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none, but obey their father's commandment: (19) Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever. tile nations. A nation is but an as sembly of individuals, and can never be any more morally than the individuals of which it is composed, and individuals either grow better or worse. They never stand still, and so it is with nations. It is an inherent law of God. Nothing is simpler and nothing can be more sor rowful than this unchanging law of God. No nation can rise higher than the in dividual life of its citizens. This is the most difficult lesson for our statesmen
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