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Sunday School Lesson May 12. Lesson VI--The Early Minis try of Jeremiah-- Jeremiah 1: 6-10; 26: 8-15. Golden Text-- W e ought to obey God rather than men.-- Acts 5: 29. A N A L Y S IS . TITLE OF TH E BOOK AND STORY OF TH E PROPHET' S CALL, ch. 1 : 1-10. II. H IS MESSAGE OF W AR N IN G AND OF * s o r r o w , c h s . 6 : 10, 1 1 ; 8 : 18 ; [. " h o YOU STAMMER o \J D on' t suffer under this handicap any longer. Successful pupils everywhere r e c o m m e n d our methods o f treatment. W rite fo r free advice and literature. | | THE ARNOTT INSTITUTE KITCHENER, ONT.. CANADA I 9 : 2. [II. H IS SPEECH IN THE COUR.", c h . 26: 1-24. TEMPLE I n t r o d u c t i o n -- Jeremiah has been called a " moral enthusiast;" but that name might have been given to any o f the great prophets. They were all moral enthusiasts Jeremiah has been called also, more appropriately, " the prophet o f personal religion" (see Gordon-- Prophets o f the Old Testa ment). He saw perhaps more clearly than any of that age that true reli gion enters deeply into the minds and hearts o f men and controls the whole life. To him religion and morality, religion and righteousness, were one and inseparable. It is a mistake to call him the " weeping prophet." While it is true and altogether to his credit that he could and did weep over the sins and misfortunes o f the people whom he loved, it is also true that he ·ould blaze with indigation against fouL iniquities, and, shrinking and sensitive though he was, could stand tike a rock o f adamant fo r what he held to be right. Jeremiah's prophetic ministry be£an in the reign o f Josiah, about B.C. .s i& ' i 626, a little more than one hundred < '* v-urs aMer i a i a h , and continued for EXTREM ELY GRACEFUL more than forty years Like Isaifyh Extrem ely grp^eful afternoon dress bjg lot w.-s cast 5i a period o f great o f marked individuality. The scal ancl tragic He s-aw the de loped hemline of low placed shirred cline and <s(L(n the Assyrian empire, We" rising power o f skirt, attached to hipband, creates the triu'mn^ tm avt rippling movement to hemline Bab', b n , ssha the end o f' the kingdom so popular a t th-> m o ^ n t . It is espe o f Judah, together with the captivity and exile o f multitudes o f her people cially lovely in shaer1 jir in te d velvet and the destruction o f their beloved w ith plain velvet fl-ufice for after holy city and temple. He felt most noons and inform al evjn irgs. Silk keenly the miseries o f his time, and crepe, crepe satin, canton-faille crepe, they are reflected in many passages of crepe de chine, crepe Elizabeth, geor his book o f prophecy. gette crepe and chiffon also charm ing I. TITI<E OF THE BOOK AND STORY OF fa b rics to select fo r Sig.ie No. 244. THE PROPHET'S CALL, ch. 1 : 1-1 J. Pattern is d e ig n e d in . ~es 16, 18, 20 Verses 1-3 give title and late and years, 36, 38, 4ft arfr 12 inches bust tell us o f Jerem iah's home and par measure. Sias:i56 r e t i r e s 1% yards entage. Anathoth was only a short o f 36-inch material *for skirt, belt and distance to the north o f Jerusalem, a neckband w ith '2 *'i \ ard.5 o f 36-inch city o f orlestly fam ilies (Josh. 2 1 : m aterial fo r bloufee,^ Price 20c in 18 ), to one o f which eJremiah be longed. It was to Anathoth that Abistamps or coin ' ^toir preferred). athar, the priest, the friend o f D avid W rap iuin ca re fu lly . w as S a n i s h e d o t > w m o n , tjecn jst? Trt had conspirefTagrafnst conspirei him, 1 Kings « O W TO t>R l)E R P A T T E R N S . 2: 26. We may assume, therefore, that W rite your name and address plain Jeremiah was well brought up and in ly, giving number and size o f such structed in the religion o f his fathers. patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in The thirteenth year o f Josiah's reign stamps or Coin (coin p referred; wrap was B.C. 626. His m inistry continued it carefu lly) fo r ^ach number, and until the eleventh year o f Zedekiah, address your order to W ilson Pattern B.C. 536. F or the contem porary hisService, 73 W est Adelaide St., Toronto. tory o f Jjd ah see 2 iKngs, ;hs 22 to 25. Patterns sent by an early mail. Jeremiah is presented to us as the i t T * ' » »· 1 i f . ,, | ^hild o f destiny, known and ordained I W O H o bw o r o h lin s before his nations birth to be God's x u n tf) the And yet> prophet in the princes. F or Jerem iah's denunciation o f the evil-doing o f these false min isters o f religion see chs. 2 : 8 ; 5: 30, 31; 8 : 10; and 23: 13. Jeremiah' s answer to the accusation was fearless and bold, and made a strong impres sion upon his judges (vs. 12-15). His one desire for them is expressed in his earnest exhortation. Amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice o f the Lord your God. By re pentance and amendment o f life this calam ity which he foresees may be averted (see also vs. 3, 19 -and 18: 7-8). The words o f the prophet Micah were ·recalled by ne member o f the court (M icah 3 : 12). UrijV.i or Uriah (v. 20) is nowhere else mentioned. Jeremiah on this occasion had staunch friends who stood by him and protect ed him from the king's wrath, else his fate would have been the same as that o f U rijah (v. 24). Anglo-American Sea-Power Frank H. Simonds in the National Review (London)-: Englishmen do not realize the 'extent to which now, ten years after the W orld War, American opinion has crystallized in tbe belief that we were made belliger ents by reason of British use of seapower. Until flie Germans imposed the submarine blockade the decisive majority of the American people were resolved upon neutrality.. . For this majority the German action seems a direct consequence of the illegal einplayment of British sea-power in re spect of neutrals.' and particularly in respect of the United States. In SOME CANADIAN NATIONAL EXHIBITION LEADERS dubitably we adopted the : . same F^|VroY>gnizant o f the part they muBt play to maintain the record of pro- methods when w e mecame belliger gressfOt j'anadian National Exhibition, Toronto, August 23rd to September ents. but this detail is not even gen 7th; gentleiBfa pictured herewith have gone into their various tasks with erally known. characteristic enthusiasm. Agriculture and its allied industries w ill be *-------strongly emptk-sised, as usual, and " Empire Year" unquestionably will sur gritish motor-cars worth £ 11,000 pass all its pre^a »essors. The two weeks' program, quite aside fro-m Its have been exported in a ye^r to Fiji, agricultural phases, 1will be one of deep and diversified interest. where*' in ' l& ^ k V l ijn .the -first £ar arrived In the island^ a cosin^jttee as that reported in 7: 1-7, but with the Shiloh (v. 6.) had been destroyed o f.d r v il doctors was formed to exevents immediately follow ing describ-1 by the Philistines in Samuel's tim e,, tagniinate tbe monsters thought to be ed at length. The reign o f Jehoiakim after having been long recognized as a .^fe'ealed under the bonnet oegan in B.C. 608 and continued t o 1national sanctuary, 1 Sam. 4 : 10-l^i- L B.C. 597. Although a son o f the good Psalm 78: 60; Jer. 7 : 12-14. T h « " 3*H ki'hat did you say when Jack King Josiah, he proved to be one o f the claration o f Jeremiah aroi' 4;J- tiifc eateued to kiss you?" " I told him worst and wickedest of the rulers o f anger o f the assembled peop'W ·nhi., > ***Uke to see him try." `And then?" i um ulH h » v o c o n d e m n e d .felljt Jack always tries to do what fulfilment o f his destiny, his own con Mr. Ala.nMjg Ty Houghton,- the retir- sent and obedience have a part, vs. 5, IngTT.S. A m S . *dor, in a striking ad 6. Gordon (Prophets o f the Old Tes dress a t jja? in London given in tament) w rites, " Jeremiah's call is more o f the nature o f a spiritual his honour, s.MT.-- ui. the me ,kirth» *n which the-gracious influences " If anyone is anxious about W a iia o r f bv £ °* e y ears come to their fruition. Anglo-American relations 1As he walked through the fields o f there are. unsolved problems between Anathoth in quiet communion with the two peoples I have no words to Ihis God," t h e l e a n i n g "a ^ ` "purpose 'o f com fort him. There will never be a , his life lay suddenly unveiled before time when such problems do not exist, him ; pud with a full sense o f respon" I confess frankly I see only one sibility he accepted the divine comreason for distrust. And that is the ! mission, and went forth as Jehovah's existence of two mental hobgoblins. prophet.' A t first he shrank from, the One of these hobgoblins appears from ; !a , j , ^ e was. young-- a child-- how time to tim e in Am erica to assure us ^ speak the words o f God? I Then comes to him the divine cbmthat Britain is a predatory Power, ,, , . ... 1mission, the eneourrging assurance cynically careless 0t right and wrong. the ever-present help o f God, vs 7 indifferent to the interests of oth ers,. 8, 17-19. It is a high commission; ingreedy, cunning and waiting only for deed, that is given to the young proa favorable opportunity to strike us phet, to speal. words o f authority and down. jo f power over the nations and over " The other appears from time fo kingdoms, to break down and detlme in Jritain to assure you that ^ roy *hf evil, to build and to plant as America becomes more conscious;* . S 'n /> Ho;? .aith fu lly and how . . her strength * . to evitably becom e imperialistic and, | II. H IS MESSAGE OF WAGING AND OF ruthlessly and brutally seeking to ex- ( SORROW, chs. 6 : 10, 1 1 ; 8 : 1 8 ; ploit others, will use that strength I : . merely to play the bully and become Very faithfully and very earnestly a danger and a menace to the peoples the prophet has warned the people and of the world. If these two hobgob- urged them to turn from their evillins speak the truth the future is doin g into the way o f righteousness. He has pointed to the Scythian hordes dark indeed. "But these two hobgoblins do not from the orth, which at that time were speak the truth. There are no such spreading themselves fa r and wide peoples as those described. The over the territories o f the now weak ened and helpless Assyrian empire, as description is false. The real peo the instruments of Jehovah' s punish ples are wholly different. They are ment. His warnings and pleadings made up o f millions of kindly, decent, are unheeded. Shameless iniquities hard-working, God-rearing men and are still practiced, ch. 6 : 7. He breaks women, who possess innate common forth in 6 : 10, 11, in furious protest. sense, who are busy about their own The inevitable penalty o f their sins affairs, who do not fear one another, in the ju st judgm ent o f God, w ill have who want to live in peace, and who \ to be borne both by them and their Ichildren, by husband and w ife, by mean, God willing, to do so. mt. nnt about shmlt timB that we re re- y ° un£ nien an<i These Is it not t me m at we ^ old together. ^ difficulties cognized that fact fully and conscious- which Jeremiah had to face and the 1 J. and turned definitely away fr o ® j passionate intensity o f his message. such fantastic views o f our true rela jg f a;n(. w jt,h sorrow, and tions to each other? A durable and there were moments when he would unbreakable peace exists even now fain have abandoned his thankless task between the British and American and sought the rest and peace o f the peoples if they will but recognize the wilderness. 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