The Herald, 1907-02-01, Page 3,
Sunday School.
:CNTERNATIONAL LESSON V'I.-- FEB,
Abram Called to be a Messing, --Gen. xis.
Commenitary, T. Guts, calls
(Vis- 1.3).'' 1 Abram -Thus f
l
Dios• has been a history of t
� .rttee; telt from this point to
'd>a` Genesis a single faulty fs br 'to prominent notice, and the r
Mentally, the famlyi tribes of men are iofr.elbraom.
loll their prominence in snored
i due- through them the true
•was perpetuated until the wo
treacly for its wider disseminate
Abram lived at Urrof the Maid
ruins. of this city, ealteu M
• ;six miles west of 'the Euphrt t
where it is connected with th
about 120 miles above its," entra
Vie Persian Gulf and 120 miles s
ref Babylon."--Peloubet, It is
that in Abram's time the Persi
reached nearly to Ur. At the. cal
Abram left Ur and moved
'Euabout 500 miles nates to orth of Ur. - Alt s Ii
`family remained until Terah,
aged father, died. It is more th
.able that the legends express th
• that Abrarn was driven away by
tion. Believing in one God ism°
a mere abstract doe rlue. Tha
was antagonistic not only to i
but• to the immoralities and crime
• ilelatry favored. Abram's position
, ed not only their religion, but th
'and their crimes and their ill
wealth, and this always quickly
noir against the reformer. Get t
He was tried whetner' he lov
better than he loved hits home a
• est friends, and whether he coul
ingly leave ail to go along with
This appears to be the second ea
some unknown reason Abram as
• company remained at Haran for
:tea. of years instead of going on
aan. Thy father's house --',Cerate
now dead, it is very probable th
family were determined to go no
• but to settle at Haran; and as
might have felt inclined to stop
them in this place, it become nee
for God to call him the second tine
Acts. vii. 2-4. I will shew thee -Go
not tell him what it vs, that he m
cause hire to walk by faith and
'sight. The apostle assures us tl
• all this Abram had spiritual views
xi. 8-10) ; he looked for a better
• only as typical and of f tl ered e heavenly land of pi
Mance,-Clarice. Abrah was called
to separate himself flint all the i
roux influences of friends and co
2. A great nation, --There are seve
tint promises in verses 2 and 3.
God called him away from his own
• ple. He promised to make him the
tingnished head of a great nation.
promise required great faith; he
' seventy-five year old and as yet li
child. A great nation would be o
'large numbers, of noble charaot
great influence in blessing others
:nation which should serve and obey
Thy name great -Known, honored
loved by multitudes of people. It
remarkable fact that perhaps no
• man has ever been so widely and so
meetly honored. -Bush. A blesst
: By his integrity, wisdom and faith
;life has been a great blessing to
whole world for fe mr tho-'Sand c
3. That bless thee, eta. -Ab
cause was to be Cod's cause. Thi
. still true in the case of the righte
man. See TT. Citron` xvi. 0. In th
"In thy 'posterity. in the Messiah
shall spring from thee." All the
ilies--By fancily is meant here, and
• ten elsewhere, a people. or nation,
garded as one groat family deseen
from a common parent. -Conant,
'blessed --This promise was fulfilled
in the benefits which the world has
reii>ed from the industry. wealth, gen
and morality of the Tewisit people:
in the benefits which have come to
world through the Scriptures, the 1
the literature, the religious spirit, ,
particularly the monotheism of the
brew people; and (3) in the blessin
. which have come to the world throu
iter. Messiah who Ulna • Abraham's see
• •--Todd.
TT. Aber:ham journeys to Canaan
, 9•, 5). 4. Abram departed -His ohedien
WAS speedy and submissive, for "he we
out, not knowing whither he went, b
knowing whom he followed" Had spa
en -God had not atilt' commanded hi
' -to go. but had given hint many, preeiol
'promisee, Abram stands in history
the father' of the faithful. 1Ie was
marl of great faith. The greatness
• ' hit! faith is seen by the difficuttits whie
edit: overoome. 1. He stood alone. 2, TI
journey would require self-denial.
Marey of the promises were afar off.
:Some of the promises seetned impossibl
t of fulfilment. 5. He knew not whithe
'he was ;oing, 6. Tao no doubt encom
tared ]much opposition. Lot -Lot wa
' Abrarn's nephew, the son of his brothe
Harare Haran -Sometimes written Ohar
ran:` 5.. SSarni-"My prinocss" afterward
Changed to Sarah, t'a princess"; that is
a princess for all nations and no longe
for Abram alone Soule gotten f
Baran -This may apply either to th
, persons who were employed in the ser
vino of Abram, or to the persons he had
been the instrument in converting to the
;knowledge of the true God. Land of
Canaan -A good land possessed by a bad
1 people, who for their iniquities were to
be expelled. See Lev. xviii. 25. This
!land was made a type of the kingdom of
Ood; and Abram Ieft his own country,
father's house and kindred, and took at
the eoninland of God a journeyto this
promised. land; nor eeased till he ar-
rived in it; so should we cast aside every
Weight, conte out from the workers of
jnlgnity, set out for the kingdom of
God, near erer rest till we real% the
Abrahrn
the Bible
he entire
the close
rought in -
est of the
.only in -
deserve
history,
religion
rld was
on in the
amity of
ees. "The
Mug
heir, are
es, near
e Tigris,
nee into
ontheast
probable
an Gulf
1 of God
up the
opotanuia,
ere the
Abram's •
an prob-
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pensecu-
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t fault
dolatay,
s which
assarl-
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excites
hee out
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God.
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r digegiign,
heavenly country. Into Canaan
they eamc }t was the divine plan at 1
the first that Abram should go to Can-
aan., and now, after several years' delay
at klarau, God antis him again, and this
time Abram reaehes the land that had
been selected as a hone for himself and
his descendants,
III. Abraham in Canaan (vs, 6-8), 6.
Passed through -Abram paused through
the land from the north toward the
south, Place of S"bechent (R. V.)-- Be-
tween Mounts Ebal and Gerizinr. Oak
of Morels (R. V.)-Mnreh was prabably
the origii>,al owner of this oak grove in
Sheyhem. In the land -No doubt Abram
had come to Canaan expecting to find it
a real paradise, but now two difficulties
confront him: 1. The Canaanite was in
the land to interfere with his right of
possession. 2. There was a severe famine
in the land at just this time. "Faith has
its trials as well as its answers. It is
not to be imagined that the man of.
faith, having pushed out front the shore
of circumstances; finds it all smooth and
easy ,sailing; again ani: again he is• call-
ed upon to encounter rough seas and
stormy skies." ---C. B. M. 7. Lord ap-
peared -"In what way this appearance
was made we know ndt; it was probably
by the great angel of the covenant,
Jesus, the Christ, Tim appearance, what-
ever it was,. perfectly SR defied Abram,
and proved itself to be supernatural and
divine. It is worthy of remark that Ab-
ram is the first alar[ to •whom God is
said to have shown himself Himself or
appeared." Will 7 give --God was deal-
ing with Abram• not in Iris private and
personal capacity merely. but with a
view to personal interests in futln'e ages.
An altar -The word which we render al-
tar signifies properly a place for sacri-
fice. Altar comes from the Latin situs,
high or elevated, because places for sae-
rifice were generally- either raised very
high or built on the tops of hills and
mountains; bence they are called high
places in the Scriptures; but these were
chiefly used for idolatrous purposes, By
this solemn act of devotion Abram made
an open profession of his religion, es-
tablished the worship of the true God t
and declared his faith in the promise.
8. usalain Beth-el-Twelve
was then cal ed Luz, and wles north of ar
named Bethel by Jacob after his vision,
BRIM ,;:TRIAL.
THE CASE OF EDMUND .BRIDANT,
CHARGED WITH WIFE MURDER.
Crown Desired t, Read, Letters That
Passed Bet1p'.en Prisoner and His
Wife -Media Evideii a Heard.
• A Toronto despatch: Edmund Bridant
the young barber; who is on trial in the
Criminal Assizes, ' lbefore Chief ,Justice
Meredith, on e eba'rge of murder, aris-
ing out of the dentiirpf his wife, who
died from llood-pszisieettng, was put on
the witness stand yeaaterday, but his
cross-examination was , ot concluditd, ; ns
the Crown '� ed, ' 'td ;sorne /otters
thatepees s taus t guor and'
wife, it'll
terdety by fi'': I7etz" c ons: , t ,;;
prisoner, Bridant dein a) solutely' that
he was aware:: of he''facttthtit his wife
was using certainmedicines, 'though he
had accompanied her: to the office of
the Dr. De Voss Medicine`,Company at
210 Queen street east. 13richent stated
that lie and hits iwife were always on
good terms,anti never had n. quarrel, as
had been said by 'some a the witnesses.
1)r, A. R. Benet, the etfttial analyst,
could not say 1vht;