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go too. Jesus will always tell us through His Holy Spirit what He wants us to do, and we ought to do it, whether other people do or not. Maybe your mother will not let you go out in the wet, and Billy slops around in the water, and you think your mother should let you do the same thing Billy can do, and you cry because she will not let you. Now mother knows best; Billy is strong and it does not hurt him to get wet, but it would make you sick. Now that is the way with things that Jesus gives us to do. He gave
. Peter the thing that was best for him, and He will give you and me the thing that is best for us. Sometimes Jesus lets us get sick, or hurt in some way, and we find fault with our sickness or hurt, because it keeps us from doing what we would like to do. Let us never do that, be– cause J esus knows what is best and will not let anything come to us that is not for our good. Memory Verse: "Whatsoever He saith unto you, do it." John 2: 5.
OCTOBER 7, 1923 THE PEiRFECTION OF CREATION Genesis, Chapters I and 2
As announced elsewhere in this issue, the series of Sunday School lessons. outlined by the Lesson Committee appointed by the World's Fundamental Association, begins October 1st, 1923. coverinJtS the Old Testament in eighteen months. However. in accordance with our plan to print (for the convenience of those living at a distance) the first lesson for the succeeding month in the precedin~ issue. the lesson for October 7 is given in this September issue. Golden Text: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Gen. 1: 1. Outline: ( 1) The Author of Creation. ( 2) The Order of Creation. Introduction: S!!ripture must be compared, with Scripture ( 2 Pet. 1: 20) Scripture must be rightly divided. We are not to take our own theories to the Bible and try to find some text to substantiate them.
The Bible is God's gift to lost men. It is written for the common people as well as for the learned, and is to be understood in an easy, simple, plain manner. The greater portion of the Book is historical narrative and religious in– struction. Much of its prophetical por– tion is to be read in the open light of revealed truth. Some rules to be observed in reading the Bible: It is to be read as we read other books,-in the light of gram– matical laws. A true interpretation and exposition of any portion of Scripture will always harmonize with that of all other Scrip– ture.
The Scripture is to be taken literally, .unless the context makes it absurd. Wesley sang, "Trusting in the literal Word We look for Christ on earth to reign." The Bible is the history of one peo– ple. It has one author- the Holy Spirit. One theme-Christ. One pur– pose-the restoring of the earth. We do not have to harmonize Scrip– ture with the statements of men who claim to speak in the name of Science. Science is God's voice in nature. The Scriptures are God's voice in grace. It does not fall to the lot of any man to harmonize these. The harmony is In Him,-Himself. He cannot contradict
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