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Sunday School
Lesson
LESSON X
GOD REQUIRES SOCIAL JUSTICE
Leviticus 19: 1-18, 32.87,
printed Text: Leviticus 19; 9-18, 32.27,
Golden Text—As ye would that men
should do to you, do ye also to them
Iii:^n'ise—Luke 6: 31,
'IC LESSON IN ITS SETTING
Tate—B.C. 1497.
Place — Undoubtedly these words
were uttered by the Lord to Moses
from the tabernacle of the congrega-
tion located not far away from Mount
Sinai, where the Israelites were en-
camped (see Lev. 1: 1).
"And when ye reap the harvest of
your land, thou shalt not wholly reap
the corners of thy field, neither shalt
Oiou gather the gleaning of thy har-
vest" "And thou shalt not glean thy
vineyard, neither shalt thou gather
the fallen fruit of thy vineyard; thou
shalt leave them for the poor and for
the sojourner: 1 am Jehovah your
God." There is no book in all the
world which so tenderly, and justly,
and helpfully considers the condition
of the poor as do both the Old and
New -Testaments (see also Dent. 15:
4-11; 24: 12-15; Ps. 41: 1; 72: 13;
82. 3, 4; Prov. 28: 3, 8, 11, 15; Isa.
11: 4; Matt. 11: 5; Luke 14: 13; 18:
22).
"Ye shall not steal." (Nee Ex. 20:
15; 21: 16; 22: 1; Dent. 5. 19; 24: 7;
Prov. 30: 9; Rom. 2: 21; 13: 9; Eph.
4: 28.)
"Neither shall ye deal falsely, nor
lie one to another." (See Ex. 20: 16;
Lev. 6; 2; Eph. 4: 25; Col. 3: 9.) Steal-
ing is often followed by lying, because
a person who will steal will attempt
to cover up the theft by untruthful
word s.
"And ye shall not swear by my name
falsely, and profane the name of thy
God: I am Jehovah." This admonition
corresponds with, the Third Comamnd-
ment.
"Thou shalt not oppress thy neigh-
bor, nor rob him." There are so manY
ways of oppressing one's neighbor—
by making it inconvenient for him to
have packages delivered to his door
because access to his home is across
a piece of property that another owns;
by making it so disagreeable for one's
neighbor that he will be compelled to
move from the community, "The
Wages of a hired servant shall not
abide with thee all night until the
morning," While the letter of this
command cannot be carried out in
most eases today, i.e„ the payment
of laborers each night, yet the spirit
of it can be carried out by paying lab-
orers at the time when an employer
enters into an agreement with his em-
ployees to pay them.
"Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor
put a stumblingblock before the blind;
but thou shalt fear thy God; I am Je-
hovah;"
"Ye shall do no unrighteousness in
judgment; thou shalt not respect the
person of the poor, nor honor the per-
son of the mighty; but in righteous•
ness shalt thou judge thy neighbor."
In this verse God turns our attention
away from personal wrongs to official
wrongs, giving a commandment in-
tended to guard men against injustice
as they stand in courts of law.
"Thou shalt not go up and down as
a talebearer among thy people." "The
original word from which 'tale -bear-
er' is translated, literally signifies a
traitor, a peddler, and is here applied
to one who travels up and down deal-
ing in slanders and detractions, as a
merchant does in wares, possessing
himself of the secrets of individuals
and of families, and then blazing them
abroad, usually with a distortion of
motives and facts."
"Neither shalt thou stand against
the blood of thy neighbor: I am Je-
hovah." This command is simply to
further protect the life of our neighbors
by forbidding the children of Israel to
stand aside while the life of any
neighbor was in danger, i.e., in drown-
ing, in attack by robbers or wild
boasts. Probably also it means that,
if we have knowledge of another's
crime in the shedding of the blood of
some person, we are not to keep
silence when possessing such knowl-
edge.
Thou Shalt Not Hate
"Thou shalt not hate thy brother in
thy heart." Of course it is in the
heart where hatred lives. Hatred can
quickly grow so powerful in one's life
that it can lead to almost every sin
imaginable, including murder. "Thou
shalt surely rebuke thy neighbor." We
can properly obey this command only
if we rebuke others in the light of
God's word, in the power of the Holy
Spirit, and in love. ",And not bear sin
because of him." ''If I do not warn
my brother when the opportunity of-
fers, I axil to be blamed for want of
truth and love."
"Thou shalt not take vengeance, nor
bear any grudge against the eliil.dren
of thy people; but thou shalt love thY
neighbor as thyself; I am Jehovah."
This is the first time in the Bible that
the command to love one another ap-
pears, "We are told to love incom-
patible members of the families and
kindreds with which we are associat,
ed, and perhaps they are occasions of
irritation to us, thorns stabbing our
most densely massed and delicate
nerve -processes.
"Thou shalt rise upbefore the hoary
head, and honor the face of the old
man, and thou shalt fear thy God: I
am Jehovah." "When you meet them
in public places, or they come to
where you are, show them reverence.
Infirmity, wisdom, nay, age in itself,
have each a claim on us.
"And if a stranger sojourn with thee
in your land, ye shall not do him
wrong."
"The stranger that sojourneth with
you shall be unto you as the home -
born among you, and thou shalt love
him as thyself; for ye were sojourn-,
ers in the land of Egypt: I am Je-
hovah your God," The law command-
ing the Israelites to be kind to strangw,..
ere is frequently repeated in the Pen-
tateuch.
"Ye shall do no unriguteousness in -
judgment, in measures of length, of
weight, or of quality." "Just bal-
ances, just weights, a just ephah, and•
a just bin, shall ye have." "It is of no
account to keep the Sabbath —in a
way—and reverence outwardly — the
sanctuary, and then on the week day
water milk, adulterate medicines and
foods, slip the yardstick in measuring,
tip the balance In weighing, and buy
with one weight or measure and sell
with another, and 'water' stocks, as
the manner of many is. God hates,
and even honest atheists despise re-
ligion of this kind. A religion which
is only used on Sundays has no holi-
ness in it."
"I am Jehovah your God, who
brought you out of the land of Egypt."
"And ye shall observe all my statutes,
and all mine ordinances, and do them:
I are Jehovah." There are three fun-
damental reasons here given to per-
suade, and encourage, and even com-
pel man to obey these and other laws
which God has given: the fact that
the one who gives these laws is none
other than Jehovah, the omnipotent
sovereign, th only true and living
c$od; that this Supreme One beside
Whom there is no other, though exalt-
ed in heaven and invisible to the nak-
ed eye, is Yet "our God"—ours In
love, ours to guide us, ours to pray to,
the God'iefore +whom, some day, we
shall stand and the God who knows
all that we do. Pinally, to Israel, Je-
hovahwas the God who had redeem-
ed them from the bondage of Egypt,
and, to us, the Father of our Lord and
Saviour, Jesus Christ, who sent his
Son_;that We should be redeemed from.
sin and the power of Satan; and that
`we should be brought into the very
presence of God,by his love and grace.
Their next for him will be "Street
Corners", after which Mervyn Le Roy
would like to borrbw them for a ser-
ies, Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer's favorite
is fourteen -year-old Judy Garland.
They have lined up three stories for
her. Universal intends to keep Deanna
Durbin very busy for the next year,
and Paramount plan to star the young-
est of all, four-year-old Kitty Clancy,
in "Call Back Love".
Rubinoff does not like to expose
his priceless Stradivarius violin to
brilliant studio
lights any longer
than is necessary,
so during rehearsals
and whenever ho
was not playing for
the sound track of
"You Can't Have
Everything," he used
a double. The husky
virtuoso carries a
big insurance policy
on the violin and
would feel lost if
anything happened
to it. He had it with him when he
played at an open air concert on Chi-
cago's lake front recently when more
than 100,000 people listened to him.
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to let all the news photographers take
pictures of her, she rushed off to Mt.
Kisco upstate to go in rehearsal for
her first stage engagement. Four
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and suddenly found myself wanting
to burst into cheers. Playing a role
quite unlike any she has done on the
screen, a role simply made to order
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musically rich, and great variety of
moods.
Ozzie Nelson and has popular radio
orchestra are currently appearing at
the. Astor roof in New York, but soon
he will move his activities to Holly:
wood so as to be near his wife, Har-
riet Hilliard,. who is under long-term
contract at the RKO studios. Ozzie is
the hero of all boy scouts who want
to make a naive for themselves. At
fourteen he was honored at a jam-
boree in London as the youngest
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"High, Wide, and Handsome," a
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cluding that incom-
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Youngsters who were the original
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All the summer radio surveys re-,
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every other performer in popularity.i
Their salary is said to have sky -rock-
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watching himself as star of "High,
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has bowed out of the "Show Boat"1
program but he will have one of hist
own very soon . Adolphe Menjou
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Gish, whom film fans have never for-,
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broadcasting system serial called
"The Couple Next Door" . , . When;
John Barrymore returns to radio, it
won't be in Shakespeare, but in "The
Animal Kingdom" and "Accent on
Youth," some time in September.
Meanwhile he is making a picture at
RKO with Irene Dunne,
If vaccines and sprays have failed
to relieve the hay fever martyr, the/
might try hiding the calendar.
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Muriel "Honey" Johnson, arriving
in New York from Europe, scene
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marrying Georgian princes, looks
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