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r 9 THE : CHARLOTTE EVENING CHRONICLE, JULY 10, 1908. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON Xcprtmnt Conducted for The Chroni cle by Miss Mildred C. Watklns. . SAUL. CHOSEN KIXG. V I oon escnool LfC&son for July io i Mm. 10:17-27. ixowen Text "He that ruleth over rnen mu. be Just, ruling in the fear i uoa. I Sam. 23:3. . TOPICAL OUTLINE. God does not give up Israel though God appoints Saul by Tot, vs. 17-21 t "iucu ieeung toward . the new Jung, vo. 22-27. CONTEXT OF THE LESSON i The omitted section, chapter 9 and ne previous verses of this tenth chan tr. relates In simple yet graphic fauh km the circumstances by which God brought together Saul the king He had -seicteo: and Samuel who was to In struct film and appoint him ruler. ut or mis taui, son or a wealthy larmer of Benjamin, a grown man and a brave one. had so little knowledge of Samuel that it was his ervwnt who suggested that they go to famuei to get some .needed infor mation. The knowledge they desired was aoou-t a herd of donkeys that had 3rayed away from the fields of Saul's rather, the son havinjr eone on a lonir. fruitless search for them, returning Dy Samuel's home city. God had told His prophet that He was sending him the man "to be cap rain over my people Israel." and when Saul entered the room he raid to Sam uel. "Behold the man whom I spoke to thee of." Saul most modestly disclaimed any fitness for the high place offered him, but he was given signs that It was the will of God. signs that came to pass in every detail so that he could not doubt, and best of all he was charged In his own mind and thoughts by su pernatural guidance that turned him toward religious things, enabling him to Join In the utterances of a company of "the tons of the prophets." young mm trained by Samuel to sing anJ rpeak for God. In other words. God made him capable of passing from the affairs of his fjather's farm and herds to the affairs of government, but with praiseworthy reticence he tells not even his own kin the honor that had been thrust upan him, biding the time when there would be a public procla roation. This public appointment is the subject of our lesson to-day. ' Time and Pta.ce Not more tnan year since the last the last half of the eleventh century B. C. Mizpeh is some conspicuous hill not far from Jerusalem, being generally located few miles to the . northwest. GHead Saul's home, is five miles southwest of MIzpeh. "a beacon-like cone," stIU known as "the hill." COMMENTARY ON THE LESSON erses 17-21 very eagerly must ir.e representatives tna naa asked a king have come -together at Samuel's call to hear what King Jehovah had selected for them, for notice the phrase "Unto Jehovah to Mizpeh.' G-od in His great mercy did not with draw His guidance and interest any more than does the loving earthly fa ther when his son refuses the best counsels and makes his own choice of his life's course. The father is disap pointed but he continues to offer help and advice in the new path. In the case of mere human beings the chil dren may have some excuse for trust ing their own desires for the parent Is not Infallible and perhaps has no un demanding of the other's tastes and talents, but with our infallible God as adviser it Is madness for us to. set up our opinions as superior to His. Yet as Samuel told the Israelites that is exactly what they had done, and he adds weight to his words by the re minder of past days when Jehovah, their king, had delivered them out of worse bondage and oppression than any threatening them at present. De spairing slaves in Egypt had been brought out from their captor's land and transformed into a free nation, and again and again in the days of the judges they had been saved from en slaving kingdoms. "Ye have this day rejected your God who Himself saveth you out of all your calamities and your distresses," is a sentence we should expect to have as sequel: "And God hath this day rejected you as His people." but in stead there Is the command: "Now, therefore present yourselves before Jehovah by your tribes and by your virtually appointed by Jehovah Him self,. he was sought, and Jo! he could not be found. r ' v Verses 22-27 The marginal .reading furnishes the best sense here:: "They asked, of Jehovah.. 'Is the man yet come hither?' " for of course Samuel's call was only for the -representatives and though there were thousands of spectators Saul might easily have been supposed not to have come personal ly since he was not one of the "el ders." Very contradictory are the views concerning that hiding among the bag gage such a 'large assembly would, like a camp-meeting, have much para phernalia of "stuff," or -baggage, food for man and beasts, etc for Saul has been praised for his beautiful humil Ity and modesty, scorned for his cow- idlers to give mo .twelve musket bul-. etn and I will turn them into gold." The . bullets , were handed over to a courtier, who cast them into a cupel. ?ubois added'a few grains of a certain j (powder, covered .the whole with cin ders and placed it over the lighted lur race. In an anxious half hour's time Dubois exclaimed", 'The gold ismade! Louis XIII. permitted no one but him self to blow. away the burning hot cin ders. -But he blew so hard that ihe onlookers were smothered .with them Everyone cast a look "at the bottom of i he cupel and exclaSmed, "There is gold!" ' Everyone was joyfully astonished. The Kins embraced Dubois- and knighted him off-hand, and the cour tier who handed over the bullets was rewarded with a. gift. On the sugge 0 -. UNION NATIONAL BANK 111 . . H Charlotte, N. 0. T. W. WADE; Prest. M. Capital $100,000:00 : ; P. B. MCDOWELL, : Vice President. VICTOR, Cashier. ; . V F. D, ALEXANDER J. A. FORE P. S. GILCHRIST , Your business is DIRECTORS: e. d. latta, jr. f. b. Mcdowell w. b. rodman cordially invited. " - E. A. SMITH sr T. W. WADE A. H. WASHBURN ardice and stage-fright, censured' for tion of the Queen the gold was assay his shirking and shrinking back froms ed. A goldsmith was sent for, yrht God's will. After all that had - hap pened, after Samuel pouring- on his head the sacred anointing oil after re markable supernatural, or rather pre dicted, experiences, and finally after the- plain utterance of Jehovah's choice by the lot, I regard Saul as much more a distruster of 'Jehovah's wisdom and ability than as a distrust er of his own wisdom andability. He knew God. had called, him to a high place, he had God's promise that He could fit hint for the place, he! simply disbelieved God, and after all, looked away from God td his own weakness' declared that It was 18-carat gold, the Wint standard of the coin in circula tion. But no one was much Impressed .by that accusable Jact. Dubois was at once commanded to supply! 800,000 ;'vres ($160,000) , worth of gold every 'veek, which he undertook to, produce hs soon as an adequate installation had been erected. He obtained "the ;.unds required for the "purpose, tout de layed, with vain excuses, its: realiaa. tion., . The cardinal lost patience, grew angry and finally had the monk in carcerated In. the Chateau or vincen nes. He was convicted -as an asso elate of the criminal "Union de Sai.it Dubois and saM. "I can't " t . Some pupil may Intelligently sug- Sulpice." On July 25, 1637; gest. "Well, he did prove unfit, so was hanged. wasn't "he right in his estimate of his own power and character? ' Certainly! Notice to Our Consumers. ne m rigni except mat ne mucn w. leased to announce that over-estimated them. He never Foley.s Honey and Tar for coughs, aia jet oa ta-Ke run possession or nis colds and iunK troubles is not a,t weakness and Ignorance and change foted bv the National Pure Food them into divinely-given strength and and Drug law as it contains no opi knowledge. ates or other harmful drugs, and Nevertheless Saul was exactly , the I we recommend it as a. safe remedy. type of King the Israelites had been for children and adults. R. H. Jor clamoring for; they had never asked I dan & Co. and W. L. Hand & Co. that he be righteous and upright: . e-o-d their ideal was superiority of physical I powers, and as Saul stood among them a gigantic figure, head and shoulders overtopping every other one present. they delighedly agreed . with Samuel that there was "none like him among all the people." and shouted, "Lons live the King!" "Samuel told the people the manner L,YTP. VI A111UU1U evil u niULC 11 17 ii x Bargain Column thjousands,' which meant that they must come through their representa tive heads for Jehovah to select ths King they were foolishly' bent on hav ing- I have no doubt that they. paid lit tie attention to Samuel's jweU deserved reproaches since after all Jehovah had let them have their own way. and oh! we do love to have our own way. We are not of different clay from these Israeites; we too deliberately decline to take all God's advice as we find it In the Bible even -vjhile we pro fess to oe ills cnuaren ana even while we are praying to Him daily with words that sound humble and submissive. Somebody has well said: "There are three grades of people; one class that doesn't consult God at all in the plan ning, another that first makes the plans and then asks God's blessings on those plans, and finally tne third class that goes to God saying: "What Is Thy plan? Give me wisdom to car ry It out perfectly.'" The Israelites and the average Christian belong to the second grade, Samuel and a few shining names be long to the last and on them alone ' can God depend, to them alone' can He give the best of either earth or .heaven or of the kingdom that Is to be on the earth. "Samuel brought af! the tribes near," through the twelve tribal chiefs who came up to cast lots we suppose this the method as it was the appoined one In other cases before him, and the "Benjamlte leader was indicated settling the fact that the king must be from that tribe. In like manner the particular fam lly was selected and then the very man. for everyone, being a descendant of Jacob there could be a perfect or . ganization of representative , heads. -rfivil and military the military was bv tens, hundreds, thousands, the sys tem being minuately described in the ' Pentateuch. . Each individual had his exact place: there was never such a continuation of a central government and States-rights down to the rights of every hamlet and ramny. --&aui me . son of. Kish." having been thus Indl- book," refers probably to the constitu tion Samuel drew up under God's, di rection, a constitution based on Deut. 17:14-20, which lays down the restric tions of .the monarch. God did not wish them to have a monarchy, they .would have one,, then God pitifully protects them against the full effects of their own folly by. teaching theni the principles of a limited or constitu tional . monarchy, the King and the subjects having responsibilities and privileges safeguarded, both being just under God as the final authority, for Samuel and a whole line of proph ets speak to the King God's orders, representing Him as the supreme sov ereign to whom they owed their first allegiance. The important business having been transacted the delegates were dismis sed to report the results each in his own home or community, the newly elected King returning quietly to Gib- eah for as the one reason for having a King was for a" war leader there was at present no attempt at royalty be yond a band of valiant men. whose hearts God having touched, felt called upon to escort Saul home in token of the pledge that they would obey his summons when war came. As nearly always happens in a rev olution there were still dissatisfied folks, "certain worthless fellows," in Biblical phrase Belial is not a .proper name who despised the man God had cnosen, contemptuously asking: now shall this man save us?" They belong to that the class that ignore God al together, the chronic complainers that evidently do not believe there is any wise Providence over-ruling our af fairs. How they argued in the face of the decision of the lot we do not know except that they refused to be lieve this unknown stranger of a small tribe capable of doing what they de manded, and they not only spoke their rebellion, they acted it 'by not bringing any tribute euphemistically termed In the Orient "present." Saul provea by holding his peace" that he had one requisite of a ruler over men, rule over his own spirit and it was not long until by a splendid act of courage and good Judgment he made himself mas ter of the situation and naa at nis mercy these rebels, whom he kindly rescued from death at the hands of an army enthusiastically desirous to kill anyone opposed to their popular new King. If Saul and his nation had even now followed God wholly there was a chance for prosperity and success; they were still wise in their own con ceits and the record became one blot ted with disaster and failure. 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Irice . .-... . .,.,.. ...... . . ., ! $3,800 . - This is an excellent investment. The Charlotte Trust and Realty Company. Phone :.3;ffiSfe ,18 E. Trade St. HOW DO YOU SPEND YOUR HONEY? Are you doing it ina way to receive substan tial benifit? Are you laying aside something" t for a rainy day ' ' t If not; you wilt never - have a better time to begin than -now. To get quickly started, begin the easiest way, come to the COMMERCIAL NATIONAL JBANK and open a Savings Account. Do not wait for a large sum, for it may never come; just de posit whatever you have to spare, no matter how small the amount. We woll gladly as- ssi you m getting startea. R. A. DUNN, President. A. G.' BRENIZKR. Cashier. AN ALCHE311ST I3IPOSTOR. Fate of Dubois Who Duped Louis XIII and Richelieu. Chicago News. WILMINGTON EXCURSION TUES DAY, JULY 14TH, 1908, VIA SEABOARD. ' The Seaboard . Air Line Railway will oDereate a special excursion train Rutherfordton-Charlotte and There have been many alchemists lt.1tat. stations to Wilminarton who ciaimea to De aDie io-inaKe Tuesday, July 14th, leaving Ruther from the baser metals. A strange ad- ordton 5.45 a. m.t Charlotte 9:30 venture in this connection was that in m Fare for the round trip t from which the dupes were persons of no charlotte only S3. 00. Fast scnedule less importance than Louis XIII., King in both directions, giving a three of France and Navarre, the Cardinal days outing at a most remarkably Minister Richelieu and Francois du Tremblay, Father Josepn. . called "the gray eminence."' This was In the sev enteenth century. The alchemists' ns-me was Dubois. He was an ex- Capucin monk, a contemporary of Fa ther Joseph, and he informed the lat ter he had the secret of manuractur low cost. The best of order win prevail. 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