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} eart, to teed if T--or, indeed; 8 nien~should faint or fall by the way? 2 there are some who no lon, that it would be: retreating intellectual] Lo conceive 'of 'afi infinite" heart' thal broods 'over men or a hand that helps. | They tell us thal science has wiped 'ofit] the possibility of such a 'one as the great Shepherd 'of {he flock of humanity. Yet even they are not dead to this great thought thal so Tong atirwed men's souls iad made them brave, ready lo sacrifice, |' die. ' The truth is, the singer of long' ago was but. giving expression, 'in. figures familiar to him, of a truth we all appre- hend with greater or less clearness, one that alone gives strength, hope, and faith 'lo our hearts, the conviction that back of all : THE WARRING PURPOSES" and jangling 'discords of our lves and our world there is reason, and orden, and beneficence. The sclence that seemed' to wipe out the conception of a mighty Creator who fashioned ihe first man with his fingers, "but emphasizes witli a stress that grows from day to day the fact {hat this uni- verse Is not without order, its forces as sheep without 'a shepherd; that the stans are nol wandering, rior the least dlom without guidance; that, as one put it long' ago, all things 'work together for good, : 11: the remotést particle of matter bound up with the mighty laws of the universe, guided, governed, led to its appointed end, bound to serve ils pur pose, shall we not have faith thal the Jaw that 'guides the atom and holds the planet pervades all the: universe and takes us in ils'mighly grasp? We widen THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, TER, 17, Lesson VJI. Lot's Choice. Golden Tex(r Take 12. 15. THE LESSON WORD STUDIES. yDhsed on the fext of the Revised Vers sion, : Egypt, the Land of Plenly.--The por- tion of our 'narrative intervening <be- tween this and our last lesson tellssof a visil of Abram to Egypl and assigns as & reason for that visit. of the Hebrew patriarch and lis household the fact that thére was. famine in Palestine. Egypt was known in ation as 'the land of plenly, because its fertility was depen- dent, not on uncerfaln' and scanty rain- fall, as was {he case in Palestine, but on the fefuiar and unfailing flow of 'the Nile River; caused by the perennial melt- ing of the snow and the heavy rainfall | Josh in early spring near the headwaters of [7.1 the stream far up in the Nubian: moun. tains: to the south. Iis great fertility _ made Egypt a land of wealth and also of culture; It is nol strange, therefore, that ils prosperily should prompt bar- ~barian 10 envy, and ulate 1a 'them a desire' for the conquest of so vich and prosperous a countey. In'times moving seo Lh 3 erd in the great: thin f world 'as well on ans 6. strange,' a poor: religion that = believes that providence will send a man hi$ din- ner but never gives a 'thought to THE GREAT. PURPOSES working out through all the sirife of our common life, through our industrial, social, 'and -polilical problems, nor re- members that life is more than meals or millinery. A There is the large faith which we need for all times, to believe that a- plan is heing wrought out behind all the seem< ing chaos, that there is a purpose 'even though we' cannot yet trace its lines, lo be willing to go on doing oursvork, lay ing down our lives, because the great world needs us; he 'Shepherd ' cannot bring his flock 1o the green pastures and the slill waters unless we live and labor and die. A SRA There is only 'one solution to all .the mystery of our-lives, the riddle of history and the universe; il is the spirit solution, that we are but the offspring, as = all things ara but the creation of spiritual forces; that we are working out spiri- tual destinies, {ho green pastures and the still walers are but emblems of felicitics and beauties beyond our tongue, the full orbed glory of 'the soul tos which {ho|g Shepherd leads by 'toilsomie = mountain ways or dreary desert trails; but at last | we come to' the house of the Lord, Waere we may dwell forever. i HENRY F. COPE. after his arrival.in Palestine from Meso: polamia. 3 4. Called on:the name of Jehovah «Re- ferring to Abram's habitual custom ofls worshiping Jehovah, . 6.5The land' (thé ountainots or Tug: ged'table-land 'of Ephraim) was not able to bear them---Not fertile' or productive enough to sustain the "whole. company of 'the combined families = with "their gumerous flocks and herds. - This was | sisls doubtless' especially: true after the period ol famine through which {he 'country had just passed (comp, Gen. 12, 10). 7. A sirile between the herdsmen--A most natural occurrence when pasturage for the herds was searce, = + The Canganite and the Perizzile--~Two of the sfx or seven peoples often: enu- merated when Old: Testament wrilers characterize the. land of Palestine 'as it was: before the Hebrews: took. posses: slon. 'fhe' ofher peoples usually 'men- tioned with: thesa. two are the Amorite, {he Hitite, the Hivite, the Jebusite and sometimes the Girgashite (comp. Exod. 3. 8,17; 23, 98; 83. 2; 94, 11; Deut, 20. 17; 1; 110 3; 12. 8; Judg. 3. 5; Deut, 4 h. 8. 10; Neh. 9, 8). The Cangdan- 'ciated with each other, in'the narralives of Genesis and Judges especially, From some of these narratives it would seem that the lalter occupied a district about Bath-el and Shechem particularly, bul|é le probable derivation 0f the word from | 8 ¥} "perazi" meaning country = folk: or sasantry; makes il seem probuble thal | the 'name, refers to 'the village : the LE B.C; since which time the land-of fhe Pharaohs has been .enlirely. overrun i il 'tion' of Canaan, the tillers. general ar fe! to an {ribo or race: For note on: Canaanite 'see Word Stu ies" and Perizzites are frequently assos |$ an Spores spl pignon course ed sl psail the