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(3) Saul was looking for his father’s asses, and found a fortune. (4) In doing deeds for your Heavenly Father, you will be divinely di rected to a rich reward. (5) Samuel sweetly submits to God’s will and is superseded by Saul. (6) Samuel gave Saul the oil of con secration and the kiss of congratu lation. (7) The story of Saul’s life can be told in a few words:
awful end. Saul began well but dis obeyed and ended in ruin. Man’s Estimate of Man. When a stranger was trying to locate the .Carlyle family he asked a Scotch man where Thomas Carlyle lived. “ I ken them a’,” was the answer. “ Jock’s a doctor in London; Tam’s a harum- scarum sort o’ fellow that writes books, but Jamie— that’s his farm over there — Jamie’s the man o’ the family. He breeds the best swine that ever cam’ to Dumfrie’s market.” God’s estimate of a man is not in the terms of swine. How to serve God. A converted cowboy gives this as his idea of what religion is: “ Lots of folks that would really like to do right think that servin’ the Lord means shout ing themselves hoarse praisin’ His name. Now, I’ll tell you how I look at it. I’m working for Jim, here. Now if I’d sit ’round the house here, telling what a good fellow Jim is and singing songs to him and gettin’ up in the night to serenade him, I’d be doing just what lots of Christians do, but I wouldn’t suit Jim, and I’d get fired mighty quick. But when I buckle on my straps and hustle among the hills and see that Jim’s herd is all right and not suffering for water and feed or bein’ off the range, then I’m serving Jim as he wants to be served.” Have you ears to hear God’s voice? Ex-Chief Bonner, of the New York fire department, once said that he could hear the slightest tap on the bell over his bed, while the baby could cry all night without disturbing him. “ My wife,” he added, “ Never hears the alarm, but she wakes at the slightest squeak from the baby.” There is a pos sibility of so setting our hearts for the messages of God as that “ the slightest tap on the bell” of conscience will awake us. Golden Text illustration. An Eastern lady desired her three sons to give her an expression of their
The Cry of Israel. The Choice of God. The Consecration. The Corruption. The Casting Away.
Subject illustration— Saul’s Good Be ginning. An English painter, Mr. Frith, gives us five pictures in his series, “ The Hoad to Ruin.” The first scene is the room of an undergraduate at Oxford. A number of young LESSON men are gambling ILLUSTRATIONS with cards. One is W. H. Pike blowing out the candles as dawn is breaking. Empty bottles are on the floor. One bright, open face is seen among the, number. The second picture is “ The Lawn at Ascot,” and here the same face is surrounded by the vultures of the race course. The third repre sents the town mansion of this young man, some years later, and the bailiffs are in possession of the house, which is being sold to pay his debts. The fourth scene is a humble “ Pension” in a French town, where the landlady is presenting a long bill which she re quests to be paid at once. The last painting is another scene again in Lon don. It is in a back garret. There are. some broken toys and some threadbare female apparel, but only the man is seen— he is locking the door. On the table is a pistol which suggests the
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