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The Junior Symphony Speaker has a wonderfully clear, resonant tone and is conceded to be one of the finest speakers on the market, Here •is a .complete, artistic radio outfit that will give uniform batt8ryiess reception and beautify any horne. Christmas is coming1 Let us demonstrate it in yoars. No obligation., Convenient terms, if desired, Wingham Utilities Cornmission Zed • THE SVNDAY SCHOOL LESSON Npvereber loth MICAH CIIAMPION TIE OP- PRaSSED—Micah, Chapters 2, 3, 6 and 7:1-6 GOLpEN TEXT—He Male showed thee, 01man, what is good: and what cloth 3 ehovah require of thee, bet to justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God? --Mie, The Ieesson in Its Setting, Time:—Micah prophesied during the reigns of Jotham, Allaz, and Hezekiah, kings of 'Judah, 13. Ce,754 to perhaps ene. Place: --Micah lived in 1VIoresheth of Gath, about: twelve miles west of Bethlehem. Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their ,bedsi. The wicked oppressors of Micah's day are represented as using the quiet hours of the night; when honest men are resting or communing with God, in fixing upon sone evil scheme, and planning ways of working it out. When the morning is light they prac- tise it. Wicked men are said to "13ve darkness' rather than light, be- cause their work are evil"; but those are deeds of violence or theft, ac- complish,ed when honest men are asleep. Because it is the power of their hand. 'Might makes right" is their motto. Whatever oppressive deed, they can do they will do. They argue that if a man is too weak or stupid to hold on to his possessions, he deserves to lose them. . And they covet fields, and seize them; add hbuses, and , take them away. Covetousness, forbidden in the tenth Commandment, the Com- mandment that pierces so deep into the human heart, il a sin of the spirit; but it is- 'certain, if we yield to it for a time, to find issue in sin ful 'deeds. The 'Jews held to their lands most tenaciously. And they opPress a man and his house, even a man and his hertiage. "His house" includes the man's descendants, those who would inherit his, prop- erty, and these vultures take away their heritage. Therefore thus saith Jehovah. Micah, like all • the prophets, has yieldedhire so completely to the will of GOd -that he is confident he is speaking Gods weak's. Behold, against this. family *do I devise an evil. These evil doers ("this fam- ily") have been devising evil on their beds; the. Almighty will now devise their punishment. From which ye shall not 7remove your necks, neither shall ye walk haughtily. Their pun- ishment takes the form of a yoke, the yoke of subjecttion to a foreign pow- er, which turned out ,to be Assyria. ror it is an evil time. The rich op- pressors may think themselves and the nation to be prosperous and hap- py; the prophett looks beneath the surface appearances, the fine houses and fine clothes and luxury and plea- sure, and sees sin and misery fester- ing there. Woe to False Leaders! Chapter 3 of the Book of Micah begins with a still inore• savage pic- ture of the iniquities of the ruling classes of the prophet's' day. The description has been compared to the bitterest passages in Dante's "Infer- no." These wicked men hate the good and love the evil. They rend the skin from their.victims, they tear their flesh from their bones, they' break their bones as if they would toss them into a kettle to boil. The time will come when these villains will cry for mercy to Jehovah, but He will not answer them, Be will hide his face from them in His fierce anger Wherever' there is an unjust ruler, he shouki be made to read this stern prophecy of Micah. God's' Three Requirements. Hear ye now what Jehovah saith. Micah begins a number of his pro- phecies with the earnest call,. 'Sear ye." This great utterance has been called "the most important in the prophetic literature"; it closes with a definition of religion which „is "the greatest saying of the Old Testa- ment." Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voiee. Jehovah is speaking to His prophet', and bidding his enter the vast and majestic court of the 'mountains and bear witness there for God and against the wicked nation, Hear, 0 ye mountains, Jehovah's controversy. The prophet now is speaking; he is opening' the case for the prosecutioh. And ye enduring foundation of the earth. Men are transitory; the great hills have seen generation after generation pass away , in their folly and evickedness, but they themselnes have enrittred, rot Jehovah hath a contrOversy with His people, and He will contend with Israel. Israel is at eternity with Je- hovah, and still is called "His peo- ple." How loving and gracious is the Teorcl, even in his controversieel 0 my people, what have I done tiergeri,1:',,,-'7;,se; ;nee ti.elerenee'""ntenie'reereee'enenen, WING/IAM ADVANCE -TIMES unto thee? and wherein, have I wearied thee? The Lord is now speaking; the Kinof binge has d4'- sc:ended from, the throne of the uni- verse and deigns Himself to speak tho court of the hills of the Garth. Testify against me. The Lord will not stand on the divine dignity, He will allow man to make any come plaiet and bring any charge against Him, Fer I brought thee up out qf the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage. God pauses for the charge, but none is brought, for' norie can be brought And I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. It was a marvellous trio of leaders, two brothers and a sister: lawgiver, high priest, and prophetess, 0 tny people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised. Balak sought to destroy the Israelites with the curse of the prophet 13aalam as they approached Canaan; read the stirring story in Num. 22-24. And what Balaam the son of Beor ans, wered.him. He was moved by warn- ings from Jehovah, and not only re.. fused to curse Israel, but blessed the peeple and that repeated/y. Remem- ber from Shittim unto Gilgal. The last station of the Israelites in their wilderness wanderings was Shittiin, and their first station in Canaan was Gaga', netween the two. was the wonderful providential crossing of the Jordan and that is what Jehovah would have His people remember.. That ye may know the righteous acts of Jehovah. The people had not been able to charge Jehovah with any 4 unrighteous acts; on 'the contrary, they have all these loving deeds of their God to bear in mihd., Wherewith shall I come before Jehovah, and bow myielf before the high God? Israel, the nation, is now speaking. As if struck with convic- tion of his ingratitude, he asks what gift he can bring to Jehovah that will show his thankfulness for what the Lord has done for him. Shall I come before Him with burnt -offerings with calves a year old? Burnt -offer- ings, entirely consumed on the altar, represented the entire Consecration of the worshipper. Year-old calves were regarded as the choicest. Will Jehovah be pieased with thousands of rams, or with ten thou- sands of riyers of oil? Solomon, at the dedication of the temple, offered twenty-two thousand oxen and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep. Shall I give my first-born for my trangessions, the fruit of my body 'for the sin ,of my 'soul? The story of Jephthah's daughter shows this cruel superstition far back in the days of the Judges. _He hath showed thee, 0 man, what is good. The prophet again speaks for, Jehovah, addressing a single Israelite,. thus individualizing the na- tion and coming at close grips with them. And what do Jehovah re- quire of theebut to do justly, and, to love kindness, and to walk humb- ly with God? Micah now adds the fundamental requirement of a lowly heart, submitted in profound obedi- ence to the will of God. The Israelites of the prophet's day were grasping, greedy, unjust, and cruel in their deal- ings with the poor. They were, oppres- sive, 'and showed no mercy toward those whom they had within their power. They were haughty and proud deeming' themselves alone worthy of honor or wealth or station. All of this Micah tells them, is in absolute oppo- sition to God's requirements. The voice of Jehovah mieth into the city. The speaker is now not the prophet, but the Lord, and he is talk- ing no longer to the representative Israelites, but to the central city of the nation, Jerusalem. And the man of wisdom will me thy ilia; Hear ye the. rod, and who hath appointed it "The rod" is the coming punish- ment of the nation, the avenging hosts of the Assyrians will drag the people away into captivity. " Are there yet treasures of wicked- ness in the houae of the wicked? Has the wicked man still in his house treasures which he has obtained by his wickedness? Is he keeping up his evil deeds and continuing to heap up his ill -got gains? And a scant measure that is abone- inable? The "measure" is named, viz., the ephah, a measure equivalent to about three pecks. Shall I be pure with wicked bal- ances, and with a bag of deceitful weights? If "I" is retained in the translation, the people must be speaking, breaking into Jehovah's speech, their consciences being Arm's - For the rich inen thereof are full of violence. "Thereof" goes back to "the city" of verse g, that is, Jeru- salem. The rich men of the capital got their wealth not only by trickery but by highehanded violence, by ban- ditry and robbery, itt person or by hired accomplices, And the inhabi- teats thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouths, Mica has condemned the acted lies of false balances and short weights; but those who practicae eueli knavery will not stop with it, brit will goon to worded deceit, to lying about their goods, to untrue representations to 7eXaggerated advertisements, and to lawsuits bolstered up by false witnes- ses and feeged papers. Therefore I also have smitten thee with a grievou$ wound, "Also" sig- nifies "in my turn", Israel. by his *ins had been wounding, the loving heart of God; stow God ,would be obliged to wound Israel, I have made thee desolate because of thy sins. Israel, now so proud, surrounded by flatter- ers and hangers-on, would 'be aband- oned by them all when his punish- ment should fall. 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