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INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON OCTOBER 7, 1951 These commentaries are based on the International Sunday School Lesson Outlines, copyrighted by the International Council of Relig ious Education and used by per nission.) ABRAHAM, GODS PIONEER MEMORY SELECTION: “He looked for the city which hath the foundations, whose builder a ad maker is God.”—Hebrews 11:11. Lesson Text: Genesis 12:1*9; 12:14-17. We have this quarter, as our first unit in a comprehensive study of Old Testament history, the beginnings of the Hebrew na tion, from Abraham to Joshua. This study will be resumed in 1952 and continued in 1954 snd 1965. The first eleven chapters of Genesis arc devoted to the thou sands of years of the world’s his tory which transpired before the time of Abraham. The next 14 chapters relate some of the events which occurred during the 175 years of Abraham’s life. Abra ham was born early in the 20th century before Christ, the son of Terah, of the city of Ur, in the lower Euphrates valley south of Babylon. He had one brother, Nahor, and a nephew, Lot. Ur wan a seaport, an advanced city and a trading center. Ham murabi was one of their kings and modern science has uncovered the code of laws by which he gov erned his people. Many people have the impression that Abra ham was a rude, desert chieftain when he migrated from Ur, but this is not the case. Excavations have fairly well established that the people of that day enjoyed a high type of civilization, with two-story houses of burnt brick, drains, factories and other parts of an advanced culture. From the written records on the tablets, we gain some idea of their intellect ual interests and, among other things, find mathematical formu las dealing with the square and cube roots. The contemporaries of Abraham were not half savaee hut represented, in all probabil ity, one of the advanced spots of civilization at the time. A nr*ham was a very unusual man. Surrounded by people who worshipped idols, he was a rad ical and liberal in religious thought. To him, in some way, had come the conviction that the heavenly bodies were not gods and he determined to worship the one, true God who had made all things. Prom this deitv, Abra ham received a command to break away from his native country and go to a new land. Terah accom panied Abraham 500 miles to Ha ran, wher$ the family remained for some 60 years. Then Abra ham was again commanded hv God to depart for another land, some hundreds of miles away. Abraham’s great quality was his faith — he believed in God implicitly. Without knowing what lay ahead, he obeyed the divine orders, with complete fsith and full trust. Other (Treat men have done the same, for one cannot doubt the reality of faith in the lives of the apo3tles, or of men like Luther. Wesley, Columbus, Balboa, or countless others. After a brief sojourn during a famine in Egypt, Abraham, Lot and his followers returned to Ca naan, seeking greener pastures and richer fields. Prosperity came to them and their flocks became so large they could not continue to dwell together. Rather than see hostility develop between himself and Lot, Abraham called Lot and suggested that they separate. Abraham generously offered Lot his choice of the whole land. .Sel fishly, Lot chose what seemed to be the best—the rich valley of Jordan — which contained the wicked city of Sodom, which al most proved to be his downfall. Abraham selected the high lands of Hebron for his home and built there the third of his altars in Canaan. Subsequent events proved the wisdom of his unsel fishness and the happy history which came to his declining years was in direct contrast to the dis aster and suffering which attend ed Lot and his family. In Abraham, we have the story of a man who allowed God to con trol his life. He broke from well known surroundings at the divine command and made his home in the land to which he had been guided. We are not supplied with WASHINGTON NOTES LIVING COSTS The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that living costs in Aug ust were unchanged from July’s record high level and because they didn’t go up, some econo mists seem tc think that prices may be leveling off. The principal living cost index for August re mained at 185.5 per cent of the 1936-39 average. This is 7 per cent higher than August, 1950, and nine per cent above <the level of June, 1950. when the Korean war broke out. FARM PRODUCTS * The Agriculture Department is putting on a high-powered drive i to force some farm prices, notably those of cotton, rice, corn and ; soy beans, higher. it is urg ing that this season’s crops of these commodities be held off the market until better prices de velop. Farm prices have dropped nearly seven per cent since touch ing a record high last February. NAVY TESTS | The Navy is using Hiwassee Lake in the Tennessee-Georgia 1 egion of the TVA as the testing site for Ha new depth charges, fuses , for underwater missiles and launching devices for rocket missiles. The lake Is 250 feet deep in places and makes possible the testing of weapons used on the high seas. FOREST FIRES A heavy pall of smoke contin ues to hang over large areas of the Pacific Northwest, as fires continue to eat their way into tinder-dry brush and forest lands, more than 53,000 acres have been blackened so far in Oregon, Wash ington and California. 112.000 WOMEN The Defense Department has received the recommendation of an advisory committee on women in the service that the present total of 30,000 women in the armed forces be increased to 112, 000 within the next few months. The committee, composed of 48 women representing a cross-sec tion of civilian life, said “there are sufficient numbers of Ameri can women to meet all the needs of maintenance of home, industry, educational and medical institu tions, as well as military require ments.” FOOD PRICES The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that retail food prices lose seven-tenths of one per cent during August to bring the na tion-wide index to 227.2 per cent of the 1935-39 average. The new figure was about twelve per cent above the pre-Korean level. G. O. P. The Republican National Com mittee has informed Congress that it took in $18,016 more than it spent daring the first eight months of this year. Total re ceipts and contributions of $370, 342 were received from January 1 to August 81 and total expendi tures amounted to $352,326. EXECUTIVE PAYROLL The permanent staff of the Fed eral Executive agencies dimin 1 ished by more than 94,000, or about six per cent, during the j year ending June 30, according ' to the Civil Service Commission. Most appointments to Federal jobs since the start of the defense ! program have been made for in definite periods to avoid the prob lems encountered in cutting the : permanent staff of a Federal agency back to its peacetime size, after the emergency is over. all of the why's and wherefore’s, but the extolled virtue of Abra , ham was his confidence in God. He was content ter his life to be moulded by the higher power. No one thing would contribute more j to contentment and peace for an individual than to listen to the Uuiritual calls in life and answer them. Man sacrifices quiet enjoy ment and satisfaction in the mad scramble for the things he wants —lacking the faith to be patient and trust in God for the future. Let’s Safe Lives AI7TO TOLL EXCEEDS WAR As the nation girds for a stu pendous arms-building program, the statisticians tell us that, early in September, the millionth Amer ican to be killed in the wart of his country died on a Korean bat tleground. This is a great toll of human life in defense of the United States since the battle of Lexing ton in April, 1775, but. unless the nations of the world can dis cover some satisfactory mode of living in peace, the prospect ahead of the country is that it will not take another one hub died and seventy-six years for the second million Americans to die in combat. The total dead, due to war, is inevitably associated with the ag gregate number of people who have b«en killed in the United Stats, during the last half cen tury, on the highways of the nation. The statisticians tell us that late in this year, or early in 1952, the millionth American will be killed in a traffic accident. The tragic toll of modern high way transportation lacks about 11,000 of reaching the. million mark. The records show that nearly 1 one hundred persons, including men. women and children, are sud denly, horribly and fatally man gled every twenty-four hours on our highways. This tragic loss is not made up of men hut includes an appalling number of women and children. Many of them are innocent and intelligent persons, using the highways in accordance with the rules of safety and tha AT A CONSTANT SPEED OP YOU CAN om 400 MILES IN #d-\FV INJURY MOKIUK 10M KILLED ARE 4$ m.p.h. 55 m.p.h. 65oLf.li. Sim. $4 mitt. 7 hn. 18 min. 6hfs.10min. I in 16 11n 12 tin 6 NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL I laws of the lu4. only to become tho victims of careleas, reckless and, oftentimes, drunken drivers. SENATE VOTES 10 PCT. MILLION U. S. WORKERS Washington.—(LPA)—The Sen at* has voted a 10 por cent pay increase for 1,000,000 Federal worker*. The raises range from $225 to $800 maximum, and tne average is $370. Cost is estimat ed at $340 minion. Previously the Senate had voted pay raises at $400 to $800 tm 600,000 postal employes, st aa es timated cost of $260 mill tala Both increases are retroactive tea July 1. Death is the cool niyht. life is a sultry day.—Hemieh Heims. BALANCED RECAPPING (Kraft System) The Finest Recapping Your Money Can Buy!' • General Tire Quality Rubber. • Factory Trained Men. • Factory Approved Equipment. o Every Tire Thoroughly Inspected and Balanced. o Uniformly High Results. New General Tires Are Now Available MYERS TIRE CO. / “MYERS FOR TIRES” 432 South Try on Street at First Street Phone 4-4736 Are some of your Series E Government Bonds maturing this month? Now they can earn more money for you! NEW LAW PROVIDES TEN MORE INTEREST-EARNING YEARS POR YOUR SERIES E RONDS . . . AND YOU NEED HOY DO A THING! Are you one of those smart and patriotic Americans who began an automatic saving program with Series E Government Bonds in 1941? Then you’re one of the lucky people who can profit by a new law now! A bill recently passed by Congress now makes it possible for your United States Defense Bonds to continue earning interest ten years longer than was originally planned. For example, a Series E Bond which cost you $18.75 in 1941 will pay you $25 in 1951. But if you hold that bond tea extra years, until 1961, it will pay you $33.33, an average interest of 2.9% compounded annually. You get similar increases on Series E Bonds of every denomination. And there ia nothing for you, as a bond holder, to do. You need not exchange the bonds you have. You need not sign any paper, fill out any form. You simply keep your bands as you have been keeping them. You may still redeem any Series E Bond at any time after you’ve owned it for sixty days. (The tables on this page show what you can get for it.) But unless you really need the cash you’re much better off to hold your bonds. For U. S. Defense Bonds are as safe as America itself. When you buy your bonds regularly and hold them, they are steadily building a sum big enough to buy something really worth while—a home.Tbusincss. a retirement fund, an education for your children. And bonds are safer than cash! If you lose or accidentally destroy cash it’s gone for good. But when you have your cash in Defense Bonds, the U. S Treasury will replace lost or destroyed bonds at no cost to you. 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For full details, ask at any Fed eral Reserve Bank or Branch. ^ Now lo»k how yewr maturing bond* §• on Miming yndw Ik* now low! 135 00 10.75 $50.00 37.50 $100.00 7500 $200.00 15000 $50000 375.00 $1,000.00 75000 *, volvct •«$ y*^n yoti.. y« r» 20 .. t ii'andad autarKy «oKm (20 $25.31 25*4 2404 27.1* 2701 28.44 2*04 3000 31.33 32.47 33.33 $5002 51.17 51.13 5407 5503 3407 51.13 4000 4207 45.33 4407 $10105 103.75 104.25 10805 111.35 11305 114.25 120.00 125.13 13007 133.33 $30300 20700 21200 21700 322.50 22700 232.50 240.00 25007 241.33 34407 $504.23 51875 331.25 54175 354.35 34875 581.25 400.00 424.47 453.33 444.47 $1012.50 1,01700 1.043.50 1,08700 1,11200 1,137.30 1.142.50 1,200.00 1.35303 1,30407 1.333.33 Buy U. S. Defense Bonds today _ J Now they earn interest 10 years longer! 4 The U. S. Government do** not pay for Ikit advertising. The Treatury Department ShanM^ for tktur patriotic donation, the AdutrUurm CoumcU and
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