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Lesson
LESSON XII
JONATHAN, COURAGEOUS ETA
Jonathan, Courageous Friendship,
1 Samuel 14: 1.46; 18:1-4; 19:1-7;
20:1-42; 23:15-18; 2 Samuel 1;17-27
1 i-inted Text, 1 Samuel 20:4.1?
Golden, Text — "A friend loveth at
all times" — Proverbs 17:17.
THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING
Time — The major part of Jona-
than's life falls in the latter part
of his father's life, which can be
said to be somewhere between the
years 1100 B.C. and 1056 B,C.
Place — Michmash is a deep ra-
vine running from the highlands
of Benjamin down to Jericho; Gib-
eali is, probably, a conspicuous hill
six miles n theast of Jerusalem
now known as Jeba.
The Jonathan of our lesson is the
eldest son of Saul, Israel's first
king, and is, therefore, a member
of tho tribe of Benjamin. IIe was
regarded in his father's lifetime
as heir to the throne. Like Saul,
he was a man of great strength
and activity.
'"Of all. the stories in, the Old
Testament, there is none which
appeals so quickly to one's sympa-
thies as that of Jonathan.
More than twenty years have
elapsed since the victory over the
Philisitines recorded in chapter 14,
during which time Saul proves him-
self to be unfit for such a high posi-
tion as king over Israel, David is
anointed to be Saul's successor,
and Goliath, the Philistine giant, is
slain by David, who is brought into
the presence of Saul as Israel's
great deliverer, At this hour Jona-
than's and David's friendship be-
gins.
It is *'ery interesting to note ,that
in no place in the sacred record is
David said to have loved Jonathan.
The lore is always on Jonathan's
side for David, While every one
would grant that Daviel certainly
did love Jonathan, yet the record
would seem to indicate that the
more unselfish, the deeper, the
more spontaneous love was on the
part of Jonathan.
4. Then said Jonathan unto Da-
vid, Whatsoever thy soul desireth,
I will even do it for thee. 5. And
David said unto Jonathan, Behold,
to -morrow is the new moon, and I
should nat fail to sit with the king
at meat; but let me go, that I may
Bide myself in the field unto the
third day at even. 6. If thy father
miss me at all, then say, David did
earestly ask leave of me that he
might run to Beth-lehem his city;
for it is the yearly sacrifice there
for all„the family. 7. If he say thus,
It is well; thy servant shall have
peace; but if be is wroth, then
know that evil is determined by
him. 8. Therefore deal kindly with
thy servant; for thou hast brought
thy servant into a covenant of Je-
hovah with thee; but if there be in
me inquity, slay me thyself; for
why shouldest thou bring me to
thy father? 9. And Jonathan said,
Far be it from thee; for 1f I should
at all know that evil were 'deter-
mined by my father to 'come upon
thee, then would not 1 tell thee?
David's plan was to go down to
Bethlehem to offer a yearly sacri-
fice and thus to have a reasonable •
excuse from being absent from the
feast. If, as a consequence of his
absence, Saul should speak quiet-
ly and approvingly of him, he then
would know that he could safely
return to the king's court. But Da-
vid would never know exactly how
Saul expressed himself in his ab-
sence concerning him, unless Jona-
than would devise some means of
communicating this inofrmation to
,him, and the following verses. un-
fold for us the scheme that Jona-
than had for so communicating this
information.
The Plan
10. Then said David to Jonathan,
Who shall tell me if perchance thy
father answer thee roughly? 11.
And Jonathan said unto David,
Come, and let us go out into the
field. And they went out both of
then into the field. 12. And Jona-
than said unto David, Jeohovah, the
God of Israel, be witness; when I
have sounded my father about this
time to -morrow, or the third day,
behold, if there be good toward
David, shall 1 not 'then send unto
thee, and disclose it unto thee? 13.
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Jehovah do so to Jonathan, and
more also, should it please my fath-
er to do thee evil, if I disclose it
not unto thee, and send thee away,
that thou mayest go in peace: and
Jehovah be with thee, as he hath
been with my father. 14. And thou
shalt not only while yet I live show
me the loving -kindness of Jehovah,
that I die not; 15. but also thou
shalt not cut off thy kindness from
my house for . ever; no, not when
Jehovah hath cut off the enemies
of David every one from the face
of the earth. 16. So Jonathan made
a covenant with the house of Da-
vid, saying, And Jehovah will re-
quire it at the band of David's en-
emies. 17. And Jonathan caused
David to swear again, for the love
that he had to him; for he loved
him as he loved his own soul.
Jonathan now divulges his plan
to David. David is to remain away
for three days, and then heisto
come back and hide near "the
stone Ezel," the exact location of
which we do not konw. Jonathan
will shoot three arrows, and say to
a lad whom he send after them,
"Go, find the arrows." If he tells
the boy that "the arrows are on
this side of thee," then David is to
know that he can return to Saul's
court in s' 'ty, but, if he should
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say to the boy, "Behold, the arrows
are beyond thee," then David .is to
know that he must flee,
"The farewell of these two is .one
of the most exquisite pictures in
all of -the Old Testament."
We come now to the last meeting
of these two friends. The circum-
stances surrounding this meeting
are compactly given in 1 Sam. 23:
14, 15. How like a perfect friend
Jonathan was when, knowing that
David must bo in a mood of deep
repression, he came to him and
strengthened his hand in God. And
Jonathan knew that he was to be
supplanted; yet he clasped hands
with the same loyal, tender love as
in the first days, and they parted
with their arms around each
other's necks and their souls knit
together. There is nothing in the
records of humanity which comes
nearer to the pure, unchanging love
of Jesus than this.
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from Austria to enter the country
and qualify for practice there.
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Novis to Join McGee Cast as Tenor
Soloist
When Fibber McGee and Molly re-
turned to the NBC -Red Network.at
9:30 p.m., EDST., Tuesday, Sept.
6th, the featured singer on the pro-
gram was Donald Novis, brilliant
young radio tenor who first achiev-
ed national prominence as winner
of the Atwater Kent audition in
1928. The son of a Welsh cobbler
who coached him carefully in sing-
ing, Novis Avis born in Hastings,
England, Marct 3rtl, 1906. Urged on ,1
by his father,I svho brought him to
Canada in 1908, Novis gave up an
athletic career to carry on the fam-
ily singing tradition. When the
family moved to Pasedena, Califor-
nia, where Donald's father got a
job singing in a church, Novis took
up his musical training in earnest.
Joining the Whittier Glee Club as
soloist, he won first prize in the
California State Eisteddfod and he
took the leading tenor role in the
opera "The Duenna" at the Pasa-
dena Playhouse. Since winning the
Atwater .Kent audition, Novis has
been on NBC, has sung with Gus
Arnheim's Cocoanut Grove Orches-
tra, and has appeared in such mov-
ies as "One Hour With You," "Bull-
dog Drummond" and "Monte Car-
lo." More recently, he was the sing-
ing star of Billy Rose's "Jumbo"
and in the West Coast revival of
"Roberta." He has also sung at the
Trocadero in Hollywood. Other
details on the Fibber show will be
announced later. It will continue
weekly under the sponsorship of
the S. C. Johnson & San, Inc.
Frank Crumit and Julia Sander-
son, famous stars of radio and the
stage, become "generals" of oppos-
ing armies in the new Battle of
the Sexes program beginning over
th NBC -Red Network on Septem-
ber 27th, at 9:00 p.m., EDST. These
famous stars of radio and stage
will return to radio in roles entire-
ly different from any they have
ever played before.
Beginning Tuesday, September
27th, they will bring to the NBC -
Red Network a new audience par-
ticipation program called Battle of -
the Sexes, to be broadcast weekly
over the NBC -Red Network from
9:00 to 9:30 p.m. EDST., under the
sponsorship of Molle Shaving
Cream. The new broadcast will pit
men against women in a battle of
wits to determine, if possible, whe-
ther men or women are more in-
telligent. Crunimit and Miss San-
derson will command the male and
female "armies" respectively, each
attempting to defeat the opposition
in order to win top cash prizes.
The four -member "armies" will be
recruited from the Radio City stu-
dio audience. The battle will be
waged with "General" Julia firing
questions at the male ''army" and
"General" Frank aiming his quiz
barrage at the women.
Playlets with casts of outstanding
professional actors—motion pic-
tures—an actual reproduction of a
famous radio broadcast—are only
a few of the features of the latest
`blue coal' sales promotion project,
which the D.L.&W. Coal Company
will present to Ontario fuel dealers
at the King Edward Hotel, Toronto,
Monday, September 19th, and at the
London Hotel, London, on'Tuesday
the 20th.
Bearing the title "HERE'S
HOW", this 1938 'blue coal' Caval-
cade is one of the most complete
and ambitious programs of its kind
ever offered, and the hundreds of
fuel dealers and their employees
who will be present are assured of
'an afternoon of high class enter-
tainment, combined with up-to-the-
minute ideas and suggestions for -
increasing sales and offering im-
proved customer service.
Prominent in the cast who will
be seen in the dramatic presenta-
tions are such well-known stage,
screen and radio figures as Mildred
Harris Chaplin, former wife of the
famous Charlie Chaplin, and her-
self star of many musical revues
and extravaganzas; Alexander
'Campbell, who has been identified
with many big Broadway produc-
tions; Eugenia Rawls, who played
in close to 700 performances of
"The Children's Hour"; Alexander
Cross, with a long and successful
theatrical record, and recently seen
in several notable screen roles;
and many more actors and actreps-
es of outstanding ability.
One of the big features of the
programs will be a presentation of
one of the famous "SHADOW"
broadcasts, at which the audiences
will be able to see just how one of
these immensely popular air fea-
tures is actually put on. Playlets
will be given illustrating such sales
features as "Telephone Directory
Advertising," "Co-operative News-
paper Advertising," ''Contacting
the Customer" and "Trying in With
Blue Coal." Motion pictures will
vividly show the mining operations
used in producing this famous iden-
tified anthracite. Buffet suppers
will follow the afternoon's enter-
tainments.•
Men Are Stricter
On Wearing Veils
Dr. Wilfrid D. Hambly, curator
of African ethnology at Field
Museum of Natural History, says
that among the Tuareg people of
the Sahara and Timbuktu, the
women, traditionally veiled, are
becoming lax about wearing theirs,
but the men wear veils and are
very strict about never revealing
their full faces in public.
These people are Mohammed-
ans, and it is, therefore, custom-
ary for the women to wear veils,
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but in recent years they have been
extraordinarily careless in observ-
ance, of this tenet of their relig-
ion, says Dr. Hambly. On the oth-
er hand, the men, who even un-
der Mohammedanism would not
elsewhere be expected to veil
themselves, are extremely rigid
in adhering to a local custom re-
quiring them to cover the lower
part of their faces, leaving only
the eyes visible. They lift their
veils but do not remove then,
even while eating,
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Tu C 'RI WORLD Ferguson
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WHIPSNAKES are clumsy and awkward on the ground, but
they are very much at hem In trees. Their slender bodies blend
in with the branches and make them very difficult to see, and many
a lizard or other small creature has felt the fangs of the whipsnakc
when his eyes had not warned him of danger.
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