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THE SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR AUGUST 4. Subject : Abram and Lot, Gen. xiii.. 1-1?? tiuldrii Text, Matt, vii., 12? Memory Verses, ?-U?Commentary on the Day's Lesson. 1. "l*p out of Egypt." In the language of the Jew the direction to Jerusalem from every quarter was upward; besides, Egypt was a low-lying country and the traveler would have to ascend on his way to the hilly country of Canaan. "Into the south." Not the south of Eavnt. but the southern region of Palestine. A certain part of the country was called the south before the times of the patriarchs. 2. "Very rich." Abram and Lot had both been greatly prospered and were very rich. The property of these times did not k consist in docks only, but also in silver ? and gold. Abram was very rich, and yet very religious. As piety is a friend to outward prosperity (1 Tim. 4: 8), so outward prosperity, if well managed, is an ornament to piety, and opportunity of doing so much the more good. 3. "Even to Bethel." A'oram returns to the place of his altar in Bethel. In like manner Christian settlements cluster around their churches. Nothing can satisfy God. in reference to a wanderer or backslider, but his being entirely restored. "Between Bethel and Hai." Stanley well describes this point as a conspicuous hi.l, its topmost summit jesting on the rocky slopes, and distinguished by its olive groves offering a natural base for the altar, and a fitting shade for the teat of the patriarch. 4. "Called on?the Lord." This implies more than an ordinary prayer; he reestablished public worship. 5. "\\ ent with Abram. It seems plain that Lot was from the very beginning borne onward rather bv Abram's influence and example than by his own faita in God. 6. "Not able to bear them." "Their flocks and herds had grown too numerous to find pasture there. An inability, moreover, of a moral kind may be implied." "Substance was great." As their families increased it was necessary their flocks should increase also, as from those flocks they derived their clothing, food and drink. Many also were offered in sacrifice to God. 7. "A strife." The occasion of their quarrel was their riches. The quarrel originated in the scarcity of herbage for the subsistence of their flocks, "and in their eagerness for the possession of the wells, or fountains of water, which in that rocky, arid region have a value unknown to the inhabitants of a country like ours." "Dwell then in the land." The Perizzites arc not mentioned in the table of nations. Chap. 10. Their origin is obscure. The Canaanites were the original occupants of the soil. S. "Ahrnm said." He first let Lot take tils choice, and then left God to choose for him. This was heaven'v wisdom. This is what. faith ever does: it allows God to fix its inheritance, and is always satisfied with the portion which God gives. "Xo strife." There is a special danger of quarrels in the family and among kindred. The love of God in the heart is a sure cure for all Ftrife. "We are brethren" (R. V.) We are of the same famiiv. worship the same God in the same way, have the same promises. and look for the same end. Why then should there be strife? 9. "The whole land." The heaveniy principle of forbearance evidently holds the supremacy in Abram's breast. He i walks in the moral atmosphere of the Scrsnon on the Mount. It was an unselfish act for Abrant to give up his rights and renounce his own interests for Lot. It was the act of a true man of God. "Separate from me." His proposal to separate < arises from his love of peace, not from any selfish regard to his own interests. 10. "Lifted up his eyes." There is a crisis in every man's history at which it will assuredly he made manifest on what ground he is resting, by what motives he is actuated, and by what objects he is ani- J mated; thus it was with Lot. "Plain of Jordan." Lot chose the Jordan Valley I north Oi tne ucaa >e;i near me city ot i Sodom. Lot seems to have had nothing in view but his temporal convenience and ! advantage. He does not inquire into the j character of the inhabitants, nor does he ; appear to express any reluctance in leav- j ing Abram. "Before ? destroyed." The ! face of the country was altered by the tie struction of these cities. "Garden of tiie j Lord." He knew of its fame as the garden > of Eden: no crust of salt, no volcanic convulsions had as yet blasted its verdure. 11. "Lot chose him." The choice was selfish. He should have been generous toward his uncle, instead of greedily taking the best for himself, and then, the choice was made for worldly advantage without regard to spiritual things. "Thev separated." It is not thus with the riches of grace or of glory; the more we have of them the closer it unites us. 12. "Pitched?toward Sodom." He advanced toward it till he came near, but was probably prevented from entering by the well-known character of its inhabitants. He who keeps bad company, indulges in doubtful pleasures, or allows wrong and selfish acts to influence his life is pitchinz his tent toward Sodom. 13. "Wicked and sinners." The men of Sodom were sinners 01 the first magnitude. -* The greatest depravity is often found among the inhabitants of the most fertile lands. Lot has faben into the very vortex of vice and blasphemy. Lot chose the company of sinners. One is safe with wicked men so long as he is endeavoring to make them good, hut is never safe when he chooses their company. 14. "Look." etc. He is to make a full survey of the land in all direction-, and he is assured that it is his to inherit, and a title dfrd is g.ven to him for n:s seed fo~* ever. Cod says to every believer, look from the place "where thou art." and "the land"?the spiritual good, "which thou seest"?which then dost see ttromised to thee in Mv word, "to thee will I give it." 15. "All the land." Cod repeats His rromises for thP support of the fait.t of His servant. "Will I give it." He who was willing to give up everything for the honor of God and religion received the Idessing of the Lord, but he who sought this world lost all. 16. "Thy seed as the dust." That ir, they shall increase incredibly, and, take them all togtthtr. shall be such a great multitude a? no man can number. 17. "Walk through." Survey the land: enter and take possession of it for thyself an d thv posterity. 18. "In Hebron." This is the first motion of this name; it was anciently Kirjath-ar' a. It is one of the most ancient cities in the world. Here Sarah and Abram died. "An aliar." "litis was the third altar Al ram Lad l.nilt. Lot nr.'V. choose Sodom, bin as for Abram he sought and font d hh in find It's the high fiver v,ho runts tba: ricl.c take unto then-icives wings. THE PEN IS STILL MIGHTY, fcarua'.ism oT ToChj hs Viewed by a Grefit Editor. Tv'o have outgrown the age of great editors in the sense 111 v. hi.-h they were accept'-:! half a century ago. not because there are no longer great editors among us. but because they have so largesy multiplied as to efface individuality. The towering lords of the journalistic forest arc as great and grand today as ever in the past, but a host of their fellows has grown up with them, and the resistless logic of their advent has made the Journalism of toiay absolutely Impersonal. This change has come because the rapidly-widening field of journalism has summoned a large proportion of the best intellects (?- and thn OI lac COUUil * 1UIU 3CIHI.C, ai*u ku j editorial writer has ceased to be the newspaper. Half a century ago the newspaper was a luxury; today it Is a universal necessity. Our wonderful progress in railways, in the telegraph and in the Journalistic mechanism that leads the mechanism of the world In progress, with a free school at every cross roads, has made the newspaper multiply into countless millions, and it is today the greatest of the great public educators. It has a larger clientele than the school, the college and the pulpit combined, and instead of reaching only a few of the more cultivated and fortunate classes it now enters almost every home and is read by every class and condition of our 80,000,000 of people. The successful editor today may be guiltless of leaders or paragraphs for his dutios are much more important than the writing of editorials. He has every class and condition of culture at his command. He successfully summons the President of the republic holding tne highest civil trust In the world, to enrich his columns. Cabinet Ministers, senators. representatives and the most cultured teachers in literature, art and science are subject to his call, and the pulpit, the bar and every other profesplon proffers the genius of the land to the editor. All these are journeymen in the journalism of today, while kings and potentates of the old world are often more than willing to be heard through the American newspapers. Blooament to an Eucllih Pope. A movement is now on foot to erect a monument in Rome to the memory of Nicholas Breakspeare, Pope Adrian IV. the only Englishman who ever eat upon the papal throne. The fund for the monument is to be raised among English Catholics. Pope Adrain was born in 1100 at Langley. near St. Albans. England. His parents were poor and the future pontiff was denied admittance to one of the English monasteries. He then went abroad and rose from honor to honor, at the age of 54 he was elected to the chair of St.Peter. Not In Demand. 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The establishment of a knitting mil! is talked of at Malee. X. C., and G. C. Baldwin is interested. Mr. Baldwin asks for prices on knitting machinery and on cop yarns for manufacturing. The Sanford (X. C.) Cotton mills has completed its addition, recently under construction, aijd has the ngw ' spindles. 4,00^ in number", "now in op; eration. The entire complement is | now 9,000 spindles and 256 looms. Mm. Window's Soothing Syrup forohildroi j teething, soften the gums, reduces infl&mma- ' ! tion, allays pain, cnrae wind oolic. 25c a bottle Sugar-coated compliments are sometimes hard to swallow. Piso'e Cnre is the beet med: *ine we ever used | for all affections of throat and lungs.?7m. I 0. Endsley, Vanburcn, Ind., Feb. 10, "T5. The first world's fair mas in London in | 1851. Bav. H. P. Carson, Scotland, Dak., says: "Two bottles of Hall's Catarrh Care complete* i It cared my little girl." Sold by Druggists, 75c. 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