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Tout he highly interested in learning the real facts about Delco Light. You'll probably get a Surprise wi ter!. you hear the money and. work It saves, how little it costs, and how easy Genend Motors hitlro M,n4le, the payment terms. II. Johann, Glenaninen, District ` Supervisor J. J. Fryfogle,, Winghant, j. A. • "outig .l elgrave, Local Dealers rllESUNDAYSdffOO!N LESSON VII.—MAY 19 Jeremiah; Calls to Obedience -Jere- miah 7: 1-26, Golden Text. --Hearken unto my voice, and I will be your God, and ye Shall be my people,—Jer, 7: 23. THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING, Time,—Probably near the close of the reign of Ding Josiah, who died B. C,. 608. Place. -At a gate of the temple in Jerusalem. 'GOD'S PROMISE TO BE OBEDIENT. "The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah."—In just what way God's commands came to the proph- ets we are not often told explicitly: sometimes through other---• persons who were moved by ` God's Spirit, sometimes by a voice heard by them- selves, sometimes in visions, usually by a strong impression • made upon their minds which were attuned to God's will by their ready obedience, If we were more obedient to God, we should receive more messages fr,;m Him. "Stand in the gate of Jehovah's House."—" T'he scantiness of our knowledge as to the details of the temple courts hinders us from going beyond a conjecture as to Jeremiah's exact position. In Herod's Temple', there were seven gates connecting the inner with the outer court, t viz., three on the north, three on the south, and one on the east. If this represented the state of things in Sol- omon's Temple, Jeremiah evould prob- ably have stood at one of these look- ing down upon the people who were assembled in the outercourt prepared to pass in It may have been the "new gate" that at the entry of which Baruch read the roll (Jer. 36:10) in theadjoining chamber of Gemariah in the inner (Eng. Version, `higher') court."—Cambridge Bible, "And say, Hear the word of Jehovah, all ye of Judah."—A good representationfrom the cities and villages of Judah was probably before the prophet, for he spoke, very likely, at one of the three yearly feasts which brought enormous throngs to Jerusalem. "That enter in at the gates to worship Jehovah." --Jeremiah reminded them of the ob- ject for which they were supposed to go to the temple; they needed to be t eminded, as church -goers of the pre- sent often need to be. 'You carne here to worship God; it is God's Words I am about to, proclaim to you." Every preacher and every Sun- day -school teacher should workin the solemn, consciousness that God is back of His preaching and teaching. "Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel,"—"Jehovah of hosts" is "the Lord of the armies of Heav- en," perhaps the most majestic and awe-inspiring of all the titles of Deity. "Amend your ways and your doings." —This is one of Jeremiah's most fre- quently used .expressions) we met it in our last lesson, Jer. 26:13. "Ways" ineans the general course of life; "doings" are the separate deeds that constitute the general. course. "And I will cause you to dwell ire this place."—That is, in Jerusalem and in their own towns of Judah. This is a promise,, if they will. repent and change their evilhabits to good; it is also an implied threat, that if they do not do .this, they will be driven from their homes and front the land. All God's promises can thus be read in reverse. "Trust ye not in lying words"— Rather than in "the word of Jehovah" which Jeremiah was proclaiming, and which was perfect truth. The "lying words" are those; of the false pro- phets ,which Jeremiah imitates in what follows. "Saying, The temple of Je- hovah, the temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, are these,"—These marble floors, these stately pillars, these golden ornaments, all the splen- dor that makes the temple .of Solom- on one of the wonders of the world. Jeremiah doubtless pointed to the glories of thrice -repeated words; which the false prophets had used as a sort of incantation., They had the temple, they were the people of the temple, what was greater than the temple? So they rested in the ex- teriors of religion; but Jeremiah iii sisted over and over that religion i is a matter of the heart and of the 11f "For if ye :ltoroughly amend your waya and your doings;" --No half -way', reformation, such as Josiah' had suc- ceeded in bringing about, from which the people had fallen away after a few years,would suffice to torn away the just wrath of God. "If ye thor- oughly execute justice between a mat and his neighbor."—"According to the Jewish idiom this simply ineans 'bee tween one another.' The question, "Why is my neighbor?" (Lake 10:29) le thus the more remarkable as • the Jews habitually used_. the word as equivalent to 'any one.' "If ye oppress not the sojourner —The stranger in the land, who, be- ing unfamiliar with its laws and tete- toms, would be easily imposed upon ""Che fatherless,, and the widow."— These, having lost their natural pro- WINGHAM ADVANCE -TAMES tectors, are in all lands and at all times the easy "prey of designing men. "And shed not innocent blood in this place." -"This place" is not of course, the temple, but Jerusalem. Jeremiah does not refer to cold- blooded murders, which his hearers also would condemn, but judicial mur- ders, the slaying of Wren by unjust coprt decisions, such as we saw last Sunday attempted against Jeremiah himself, and such as Jesoiakint suc- ceeded in bringing about in the case of Urijah the prophet (see also our last lesson, Jer, 26: 20-23), "Neither wall: after other gods to your own hurt."—To "walk' after other gods" is to liveaccording to heathen customs, to follow heathen gods. Not only this, but all the other wicked deeds named in the verse, would be to their own hurt. "Then I will cause you to dwell in this place."—To dwell securely, safe even from their powerful and greedy neighbors„ the :Assyrians. ' "In the land that I gave to your fathers from of old even for evermore," -Jeremiah says, not that the land was given to be held forever, though that would have been true, but that the Jews, if obedient, would dwell . in the* land from ancient days onthrough the endless future. This was the glorious promise, and the condition attached to it. GOD'S WARNING TO THE DIS- OBEDIENT. "Behold, ye trust in lying words, that - cannot profit." -Jeremiah had ifnplored' them to put no faith in the lying prophets, the' preachers o fem- pty forms; but the people do trust them, they are bound' to them as with steel chains. False words, : empty words, profitless words. "Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely."—.These. are allinfractions of the second table of the Decalogue. "And burn incense unto Baal."—Baal was the chief male ctyity of the heathen nation surround- ing the Jews, the sun god. , "And walk after other gods that ye have not known." ---Seeking after religious 'novelties,' new deities tempting to novel excesses.:.. "And cone and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name."—They . believe that ` they can worship both ` Jehovah and Baal. They come fresh from the licentiotks worship of their heathen deities and enter the temple dedicated to Jehov- ah, worshipping there as expecting such worship to be acceptablel "And say, We are delivered."—They actual- ly think that such worship will deliv- er them from their sins and save them from their perils. .."That ye may do all these abominations?" — They leave the temple with their conscien- ces quieted, and start off again on a new seriesof bestial deeds before the heathen shrines and in rhe idola- trous high places. • "Is this house, which is called by thy name, become a Jen of robbers in your eyes,?"—The limestone rocks of Palestine are full of caves, and these caves became the convenient lurking places of robbers,.David teed his men often used thole, as dwelling places while Saul was hunt- i:ig them. Now that the people of Jerusalem and Judah have - become robbers both of God and of men, tak- ing away from both what was their due, they actually dare to look upon the holy temple as a cave to shelter. them, a den in which they can hide from"the pursuing anger of the Most High! Christ quoted this phrase in cleansing: the temple of the traders who were profaning it (Matt. 221:13). Dean Plttmptre compares those to whom Jeremiah spoke to the brigands of Italy, who soothe their consciences by their devotions; at the shrine of some favorite 'Madonna. "Behold, 1, even I, have seen it, saith Jehovah:"-- "I. have been a witness to your evil deeds, and (it is implied) will punish them," GOD'S LESSON FROM HISTORY. "Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel."—The first is God's title of power, the second is Hie title of providence, Israel has been God's people, chosen by Him, guarded by Him, blessed by Hint above all other nations; and now see what base in- gratitude is 'returned to Him! "Add your burnt -offerings unto your seer: - aces, and eat ye flesh."—Burnt-offer- ings were wholly consumed upon the attar; other sacrifices ..were partly burned upon the altar, and partly reserved to be eaten in sacrificial feasts by the worshippers, a sort of communion service with Jehovah. ;ironically Jeremiah cries, "Heap up your sacrifices, one kind oof s acri- fice to another, gorge yourselves in your 'religious' feasts! It is all to no avail,, for your hearts are not with God, but with idols." "For 1 spake unto your fathers, nor commanded tltetn in the day that I brought themout of the land of Eg- ypt, concerning burnt -offerings or. sacrifices.'` This verse is relied upon by those who hold that Leviticus, with its many rules for many kinds of sacrifices, was not written till af- ter the exile; but this view is negeo tived : •by other passages in Jere- miah and the . p•opitets before him. 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Thi'; teaching finds many' echoes thrbughout the Bible, notably Samuel's great saying, 1 Sam. 16:22, "What God means is simply this, that the elaborate ritual of the Jewish tab- ernacle, is orderly and interminable series of sacrifices and offerings, was not established then, and that they got on perfectly well without it." -- Samuel Cox. "But this thing I commanded them, saying, Hearken unto my voice."— Thus Ex, 18:15, "Obey my voice � in- deed and keep my covenant," words spoken atthe very thne of the exodus. "And I.wiIl be your•God, and ye shall be my people."—This is a quotation from the very book of Sacrifices, Lev. 26;12. "And walk ye in allthe way that I command you, that it may be well with you."—This is from the 13,00k whose discovery in the temple (with or without the rest of the Pen - totaled') made such a sensation,. in the days of Josiah, Dent, 5:33. This por- tion of Jeremiah, chapter 7:21-23, was chosen from the Jewish synagogue ritual, to be read following Lev. 6-8, and at the satire service. of a function and the names of her guests correctly reported. "Blessed are all those whb do not expect the editor to kneiw everything, but who call up and tell him when- ever an intecesting event occurs for them; for they shall have a newsy paper in their town. "Blessed are they who get their copy in early; for they shall occupy a warm place in the editor's heart. "Blessed are they, who co-operate with the editor in his effort in behalf of the community; for their town shall be known far and wide as a good place in which to live." . Wilson Hamilton, of Lucknow died. after only a week's illness, last week, in his 64th year. Ide was a native of Huron Township, and 'for the past four years was courier on R, R. No. 1, Lucktlow. 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