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SUNDAY SÇHOO fc^LESSON= LESSON I.--JULY 4 GOB HEARS A PEOPLE'S CRY Exodus 1: 1-22 ; 2: 23-25 PRINTED TEXT Exodus 1: 6-14; 2: 23-25 GOLDEN TEXT "Before they call, I will answer, and while they are yet speaking, I will hear." Isaiah 65: 24. > THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING Place:--The children of Israel lived, for the most part, during their residence in Egypt, in the land of Goshen, located in the eastern part of Egypt, north of the southern point of the Nile Delta. v Time:-- B C. 1643---- B.C* 1578. "And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation-" Joseph was the one through whose prestige in Egypt the Hebrew people wefeiL allowed so many favors, strangers strangers as they were in the land of Egypt. With the passing of any great statesman, or captain of industry, or military commander, there comes, sooner or later, necessarily, a change in the circumstances, organization, and leadership over which the deceased deceased once so completely dominated. dominated. It is perfectly natural that the statement of the death of all those of Joseph's generation should be followed followed by a record of a radical change in the conditions pertaining to Joseph's Joseph's people. i "And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceedingly exceedingly mighty ; and the land was filled with them." In this verse, the writer employs the very expressions "were fruitful," "increased abundantly," Which are found in Gen. 1: 22, 28 / and 8: 17. "This points to a strictly extraordinary or miraculous rapidity in the rate of increase, though, of course, miracle has its limits of possibility possibility in accelerating the rate of increase through birth. The follow- V. ] n g arc naturally favoring circumstances circumstances for such a rapid multiplication: multiplication: the proverbial fruitfulness of women in Egypt ; the: peculiar fullness fullness of vitality in the Tsraelitish race, which still continues ; a prosperous prosperous settlement in a good land in circumstances' fitted for abundant physical life." "Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph-" "The Hebrew word 'arose' is almost always used to describe a new commencement, commencement, as in Deut- 34: 10; the word 'new' occurs in connection with an ,-s_entire change (as in Deut. 32: 17; "--Judges 5: 8) ; while the expression 'üà.:W not' (Deut. 28: 36) is applied not so much to absolute want of , knowledge as to the absence of friendly acquaintanceship." x ---- "And he said unto his people, Be hold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, jvhen there falleth out any war, they also join themselves unto our enemies, and fight against us, and get them up out of the land." There was absolutely no justification justification for such a suspicious attitude toward the Hebrew people, for, in the first place, they have never been known as a warlike nation, and, in the second place, they were so favorably favorably situated in Egypt, that there would have been no reason, for their rising up to unite with Egypt's enemies. enemies. Moreover, the Hebrew people had no alliances with the nations around Egypt, and were, of all people people in the world, the most independent, independent, i.e-, a people who were bound more by their miraculous out-calling by God than they were by any blood ties with other peoples- "Therefore they did set over them taskmasters." Literally, these were "captains of labor-gangs," the word mas being "the technical term for a _ body of men employed on forced labor, labor, as in I Kings 5: 13, 14, etc," "To afflict them with their burdens." The word here translated "afflict" means "to bend," "to wear out anyone's anyone's strength," and is the word used in the prophecy in Gen. 15: 13 that this would be the actual experience of Israel in Egypt hundreds of years after the prophecy - was uttered. "And they built for Pharaon store- cities, Pithom and Raamscs." Pithom was a town in Goshen in lower Egypt founded by Raamses II, situated on the banks of the canal connecting the Nile River with the Red Sea- "Its ground plan . was in the form <ç>£ a perfect square enclosed by strong walls. Within this enclosure stood a temple dedicated to the god •of the setting sun, and subterranean chambers of various sizes, quadrangular quadrangular in shape, without communication communication with one another, and approachable approachable only from above. These were lined with walls of brick, made some with and some without straw. There is little doubt that they were intended intended for the storage of grain and other provisions." "But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel." The word here translated translated "grieved," should, more literally and more accurately, be translated "had a loathing for." "Contemptuous "Contemptuous aversion toward aliens was always always a feeling of Egyptians, and is also found among heathen. To Egyptian Egyptian feeling, the aliens, especially the Semitic, were atheists, because not owning the gods of Egypt. The Israelites Israelites were the more disliked, if not abhorred, as belonging to the foreign race of shepherds. When the Hebrews grew into great physical physical force, that aversion deepened into into dread," "And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor." rigor." "And they made their lives bitter bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick," "The mortal (literally clay, Isa. 29: 16), would be the black Nile-mud, which was used in ancient Egypt,, not only for bricks, but also for mortar : in the latter case, it was usually mixed with potsherds." "And in all manner of service in the field, all their service, wherein they made them .serve with rigor." The work "in the field" consisted of "constructing "constructing canals and dams for conveying water from the Nile to the fields, and in the actual work of irrigation. This was laborious, for the water had to be brought to the high-lying fields. artificially by a series of buckets attached attached to long poles worked on axles, by which it was gradually raised from the one elevation to another, than which nothing was so tiring in the daily work of the Egyptians. "And it came to pass in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died." We do not. know who this king of Egypt was. It is hardly conceivable that he could have been the Pharaoh in the first chapter of Exodus- "And the children of Israel Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage." "This allusion to the complaints complaints of the Israelites in connection connection with the notice of the king's death seems to imply that they hoped for some amelioration of their lot from the change of -government, and that when they were disappointed, and groaned the more bitterly in consequence, consequence, they cried to God for help and deliverance." "And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham. (See Gen. 12: 2, 3; 13: 14-17; 15: 4-21; 17: 1-14; 22: 16-18.) With Isaac. (See Gen. 17: 19, 20; 26: 2-5.) And with Jacob. (See Gen. 28: 13-15; 35: 11, 12; 46: 3, 4.) "And God saw the children of Israel, Israel, and God took knowledge_ of them." Literally, "God had respect unto them." "The knowing means, not simply acquainted with the circumstances circumstances of their condition, but compassionate appreciation of it. God entered their case and looked into their heart." A wise man is one who no es a lot. --Sault Daily Star. Air Expert In Montreal H. E. Wimperis, president of the Royal Aeronautical Society, former former director of scientific research for the British Air Ministry, who is in Montreal, attending sessions of the Semicentennial convention of the Engineering Institute of Canada. Iggf ' By VIRGINIA DALE % Always a dauntless trail blazer, Sam Goldwyn has just announced that in future all of his productions will be filmed in Technicolor. Where Sam leads, others feel that they must follow, and the chief drawback is that it is going to be very expensive, because Technicolor film costs considerably more than black and white. First of the Goldwyn Goldwyn Technicolor films will be "Follies" "Follies" with Helen Jepson, the Ritz Brothers, Zorina, the great Russian Ballerina, Virginia Verrill, beloved of radio fans, to swing those blues and a vast array of comics. Robert Young got a wonderful break when M-G-M loaned , him to play opposite Claudette Claudette Colbert in "I Met Him in Paris." His own studio officials officials who lately had been treating Bob rather like a comfortable comfortable old shoe, went to the preview and came out raving raving about him as if he were a new discovery. discovery. Right away they went out and bought the screen rights to a grand story called "Witness to a Murder," and presented the star role to Bob. There is a pretty thrilling story of grit and courage connected with the Hal Roach picture "Pick a Star." A blonde beauty named Eosina Lawrence Lawrence who sings and dances light heartedly in that and in "Nobody's Baby" was paralyzed as a child as the result of a back injury. After months of consultations, her mother located a doctor who thought he might improve her condition by -giving -giving her exercises. Now she is strong and healthy and agile--much more so than other girls who did not have to fight for a chance to walk and dance. There isn't a busier girl in all Hollywood than Dorothy Lamour, which is a break for film fans, Put bad news to the many radio fans who have been wishing she would find time to sing regularly on a radio program again. She has just finished Poles in "High, Wide and Handsome" Handsome" and "The Last Train From Madrid" and will start any day now on "Her Jungle Love." Her first big success, you will recall, came when she played "The Jungle Princess" Princess" and Paramount has been looking looking for a sequel to it ever since. Character "His greatest asset was character," says The Ottawa Journal of Sir Robert Robert Borden- ... "Courage he had and sane counsel and vision, but above all character ; that indefinable quality of moral and spiritual strength which, allied with intellectual intellectual integrity, compels the world's confidence." This is a high tribute to any man. Sir Robert was not a "clever" man. Neither was Mr. Baldwin who retired a few days ago. as Prime Minister of Great Britain. But both men had the faculty of inspiring confidence and the solid common sense that justified justified it. Both men served their nation nation well in times of serious crises- Men of character in public life are a nation's g reate ;t possession. Harvard astronomers have discovered discovered on photographs taken of the sky near the South Pole the biggest of known galaxies. It would take 50,000 Milky Ways like ours to make up this one. This newly discovered mass is about 50,000,000 light years long and 20,000,000 wide, so that the shape is that of a strip. The metagalaxy, metagalaxy, as it is called, is 100,000,000 light years away. Possibly it may shed light on the relation of time, space and matter to one another. U. S. National Income WASHINGTON -- The Commerce Department reports tile national income income totalled $62,058,000,000 in 1936, or 87,411,000,000 over 1985. 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Sail Barges Racing Thames River sailing barges, -participating in annual race fjrom Lower Hope Point to Mouse Lightship and back, made this scenic picture as they loaded on full sail before a favoring wind. Eighteen barges vied for the honor of.being known as the fastest on the river. Robert Youn; B--3