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StlMSOHE Lesson (By REV. P. B. FITZWATER, D. D>, Teacher of English Bible in the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) (Copyright, 1919, by Western Newspaper Union.) LESSON FOR MARCH 23 ISRAEL WARNED AGAINST COMPROMISE. (May be used with Temperance Applic*' " tions.) ' LESSON TEXT-Joshua 23:1-16. GOLDEN TEXT?Evil .companionships corrupt good morals.?1 Corlnthiafls 15:23 ADDITIONAL MATERIAL - Numbers 88:50-56; Joshua 9:3-27; Judges 2:1-3;. 3:1-6; . <c Colossians 2:8. PRIMARY TOPIC?Loving and obeying 01-1C.98 JUNIOR' TOPIC?Standing up for the right. r-U . INTERMEDIATE TOPIC - Dangerous 7 company. - / Joshua, .knowing that his life was drawing to a close, summoned Ihe *%! leaders of Israel to appear before him. He* knew the tendencies which the nti-. tlon rtas developing and the peril Which faced It as his leadership was coming to an end. His jealousy for ? " \ God and solicitude for them prompted him to assemble them and point out the great dangers which confronted vk them. I. A Review of What God Had Done (23:3,4). ; 1. God had* fought Israel's battles \ < . 3). He gave them victory over the ,V\. . stTong nations which Inhabited Canaan. Striking Evidences of this are /i, the capture of Jericho and victory at Gibeon when the sun stood still at "V . Joshua's command. This victory had *'v v- been secured quickly, which indicates that God had interposed In their be. ,half. "** 2. God the hand of Joshua had apportioned the laifd among the tribes (v. *)for antoherltance. In chafer < .24 Joshua rehearses the wonderful titfngs' God had done for the nation from Abraham down * ttirtragb the ages. .." . tf.Pelnfcl out the Promisee ae Yet Unfum?e<U23.:5-10). -* ''1. "He snail ?rpel <^em before you" The actual possession which, God had given was the pledge that he wo-ald give them full possession. God's premise was the fctiartmtee of thts. In '. < view of God's faithful performance of an hie promlaes there, should be .?I,, ^ ^ r . i ;-u' v, %o room ior aouDt. < . ;' * . * & pf jov shall chase 'a thMBsand" (v.-10); The reason of this waa because the Lord God woott fight for them. To have 4h4-Lord,.fight,f?r - us is to hare the assurance of rIctoryv regardless of how few or how many. ? 3. The condition upon which these promises would; be realised, a (1) "Be very courageous", (v. Q>)*. At a time . like this It required courage to look to _ God for all the cation's Deeds. *,(2) .."Keep and do all that Is written in * the law of Moses" (t. 6). Fidelity to God's law was essential. Turning aside In any particular would forfeit ^helr claims upon him. (3) "Keep aloof from the Canaanltes" (v. T). This separation was to obtain wtth reference to (a) marriage among them (b) idolatrous customs. (4) Cleave wholly unto God (v. 8). til. 8olemn Warnings Issued (23: 11-16). ... . 1. Take good heed that you love God sincerely {j. 11). Love to God Is th* sum total of duty toward him. 2. Refrain from intermarriage among the Canaanltes (v. 12). For God's people to intermarry among the heathen Is to set In motion influences which would Issue In confusion and disaster. 8. God will make the heathen snares, traps and scourges instead of giving victory over them (v. 13). 4. Evil things will come upon them Just as good things had been dons for them even t? their destruction (v. 15). 5. The wrath of God kindled against them (v. 16). Peace and Righteousness. Righteousness means victory with the help of the Spirit of God oyer ourselves, over our inclinations, our passions, our tempers, our whole sinful natures. There Is no peace without "victory in the spiritual life, and I am inclined to think that holds good between men and nations. There is no peac? until righteousness Is done. The ; Prophet Mid: "They have healed also the hurt of my people slightly, saying Peace, Peace, when there Is no peace." There must be righteousness toward God and our fellowmen If there Is to be peace and good will on earth. If We Suffer. "If we suffer, we shall also reign with him," says St. Paul. What a crown is that for this, O sulTerer! "Thy pains and sickness are all cured; thy body shall no more burden thee witn weaaness ana weariness; my acnlrffc*head and heart, thy hunger and thirst, thy Bleep and labor, are all gone. Oh, what a mighty change Is this which shines as the brightness of the firmament 1"?Baxter. God's Will. -The kingdom of heaven is aot come even when God's will Is our law. It Is come when God's will Is onr wtIL When God's will Is our Isw, we are M i kind ?f noble slaves. When his wttt'ki oar will, we are free children. <Owf|e Maedooald. ~ Fellow Jesus Only. ' L?st this be thy whole endeaver, this tfcf prayer, this thy desire?that thou Ottytst ?e stripped of an eel6*knees, ml with entire simplicity feilew . Jans only.?Tkemas a leapt* President Straining Ev Third Term, Hei Editor Quotes From Early and Lat Speeches of Mr. Wilson in Exx phasizirig Contention That Hi Present Enthusiasm for League o Nations Is Contrary to Previou Expressions. (By Henry Watterson.) He who would be well considere must not prophesy evil. Yet . ho^ shall we consider human condition inevitably embodying dangers aheac without in some sort mingling the d( finite actualities of the present wit certain speculations touching the fu ture? When I write that' the worl is on the way to its second destruc tion, having enjoyed its first quite while ago, I invoke the wrath ..an fly in the face of that unseeing.an intolerant optimism which will broo no lea or hindrance to its dance o death. . "We are all going to the % devil, says Aminadab Sleek in the comedj "And you, mylady," addressing th Wicked Old Woman of the Worlc "go first." It is ever thus and thus We refuse to take our medicine. W do not accept even our aphorisms an< apply them to ourselves. We ganj our gait hoping that while we pur sue the way another will pay th bill. Always, where we can we see] to get something for nothing, and a to the result the word is "devil taki y*iie hindmost." ' ... Reaction in Speeches. .In that ribald sheet,jthe""N|BW Yorl Sun, I read the following:? * "It is the fortune^ good or ill/ of i prominent man that "some of hi! words.do not depart from the publi< memory* We remember Washington'! and Lincoln's phrases. We remem ber Cleveland and Roosevelt parth for their *epigra,ms. The. contem porary President has. been more pro lific in speech than perhaps any-othei of the American Chie? Executives He had earnest listeners,. fojr . spoke when men's ears were keenec for his views on subjects of th< greatest importance. Hi? most inter esting speeches have been made . ii the last four years, naturally. Ther< has not been time for the substance of them to fade from the people'! memory. In several parts of Mr. Wil son's last speech there were state ments which could not have failed t< arouse in his hearers memories oi his past speeches; not necessarilj echoes, but reactions." - ' Then there and thereupon the Sur ! proceeds to impale the President up I on the jagged ends of his parts oi speech on sundry and divers public occasions. Adopted English Idea. The Sun speaks of "the Wilaor that was and the Wilson that is." 11 undertakes to wheedle its readers in to the belief that the Chief Magis trate is the most inconstant of mer by contradictory quotations from his own speeches. As, for example, ii recalls how, when he was preaching neutrality, he dwelt upon the cir cumstance of our territorial isola tion?"America apart in its ideals"? and the wisdom of Washington's ad juration against "entangling alii ances"?places alongside of these de liberate utterances his latest farewel address in whdch he declared that _ I' having heard nothing from the?cntic! of his league plan except the ques tion. "Will it not be dangerous fo: us to help the world?" he.replied. "I would be fatal to us not to help it,' afcd added "from being what I wil venture to call the most famous an< the most powerful nation in th< world we would of a sudden have be come the most contemptible," "help ing the world" being the adoption o the English, not his, plan to hitcl the United States to a League of Na tions, where, willy-nilly, we must di in certain eventualities as we ar< told to do by a majority vote of ou European, Asiatic and African col leagues. ' II. The Sun is cruel in its citations May an aristocratic not change hi mind? Shall a schoolmaster be heli either to rule, or ferule? The Occu nant. rvf flip Rrwntivp Mansion is no as other men. He becomes a law un to himself. He can smile and hid a breaking heart,or be a ^ay Lothari as the case may be. It is little shor of blasphemy that an Orb that Shine for All should turn its effulgent ray upon * single individual with the fol lowing deadly effect:? Faithful gtudents of Mr. Wilson' > ery Energy Toward iry Watterson Maintains : ! ( earlier utterances must have hear< . with varied-emotions, this sentem IS J on Tuesday evening:? "The sweet revenge, therefore, : this, that we believe in righteousnes and now we are ready to make th ' supreme sacrifice for it, the suprem J sacrifice of throwing in 6ur fortune ^ j with the fortunes of men everj A'j where." S| The words relative to belief i , righteousness are from the same lij i that said, after the Prussians had ir jJ"jVaded Belgium and outraged il l"; women:? ^ Plea for Neutrality. : j "The United States must b^ neutre ai in fact as well as in name durin ^ thes'e days that are to try men's souli We must be impartial in thought a *:'well as in action, must put a cur 1 upon our sentiments as well as upo I every transaction tkat might be cor j str^ed as a preference of one part r j to the sfcbrggle before another.", 6 i Til AIT A^ DwaC' w?| jl. iitji ait viiv wvivao ui viic ' j (Tent who said in an address to th J-1 Congress sixteen months after th e- war began:;? d "We have stood apart, studious! S>j neutral. It was our manifest dut -jto do so." 6 The President who advocate k ''throwing our fortunes In the f01 s tunes of men everywhere" ' is th e President who said to the Congress - ' "Americans must have a conscious ness different from the copsciousnes < of every other nation in the world." I: can not get it out of my min * that Mr, Wilson is bending lever s nerve of heart and brain ?to brini ' about conditions'which will seem t s justify his candidacy for a third ten - in* the Presidency. The White Hons ? becomes to itsfoccupants :ah enchant - ed palace. Most men, and all womer - who get there wish to remain. I f would be strange if the Wilsons prov ? ed 'ian exception.; 2 . The proposed League of: Nation i not. only flies in the face of our tra i ditiona but ^involves a far reachmi - revolution of international relations i Jt will:no more promote world peaoi J than the advertised nostrUma insuri i bodily health. It is as Borah says 3 "a league of diplomats." It will ti< our hands for exigencies not hard t< - foresee. It will put us at the mere: >! of alien contingencies. It will, evei as Knox wisely tells us, make fo: r! war, not for peace. It may be goo< | for France. It will be good tor Jung 11 land. In differing ways each needi a breakwater against political floods f But, with our continental peculiari ties, especially our Spanish-Americai complexities, we need to be and w< want to be entirely foot loose * an< ' fancy free. We gain nothing by th< 11 acceptance of foreign obligations an< the dissemination of foreign influ *| ence. Why should we surrender an] l:part of pur sovereignty blindfold' ?' Why.sh'ould we set out on a wil< tj goose chase after the millennium i !, thousand years ahead of time? Tha * is alt there is to this League of Na " tions fanfare. It is not true that my opinions ar< -j coroled by any dislike ..of Mr. Wil *j son. Of none am I conscious. But distrust his judgment and would com Ijmit the future to^he ambition of n< ?j man. The President has the habi 5 once in a while of making a break vHe seems fond of experimentation r I It is a bad bent in the magisteria t| head of a great nation and in histori 'j times has involved many a people ii 11 costly adventures. ij Looking Toward 1920. 8j From now directly ahead all thing -1 political with us will face towan -j 1920. The republicans have botl f j houses of Congress. That might prov a disadvantage.* But in this fad Mi -j Wilson has made an issue for then o! to stand upon, while the democrat e are bound to be divided by it. H r tells us it is not a party issue?jus - a Wilson issue?a clever scheme i we could unite on Wilson. In tha default it whips over to the republi i ; cans, who will make it a winning par sj ty question, while working it as ai d arousing patriotic slogan. The precipitancy with which th 11 scheme was put and the' stand an i- deliver attitude with which the Presi e | dent put it, though characterizin o a demurable autocracy, are in lin t with most of the Wilson proceeding s^and will, in my judgment, prove fa s tal to those who tie to it. The cour 1- try is not on the down grade yet, 1 is still on the rise, if not at the to b of the acclivity. W? requir? hel % from nowhere. When we have h( to give we shall give it in our fr way, not on compulsion from Euro] Asia and Africa, as provided by star chamber calling itself an int< national council.?The New Yo 'e Herald. is LEMONS WHITEN AND s?j BEAUTIFY THE SKI el , ? ? e | Make this Beauty Lotion Cheaply f 131 Your Face, Neck, Arms and Hands. At the cost of a small jar of or< nl - >si L- J > Go to...... rn pm ; !/ 1 vL n . j to bl i A Large e r ? y , The. 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