INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SC
MOSES* CHARGE TO THE
PEOPLE
MEMORY SELECTION: “The
eternal God is thy dwelling place,
and underneath are the everlast
ing arms.”—Deuteronomy 33:27.
Lesson Text: Deuteronomy 30:15
20; 31J-3; 3S:27-29a.
It was on the plains of Moab
that we find the children of
Israel, as our lesson opens this
week. The forty years of wander
ing in the Wilderness were draw
ing to a close and the men, who had
once been slaves in Egypt, were
dead. Only Moses, Joshua and
Caleb of the men who left Egypt,
were left. A new nation, stronger
and more civilized, bad been
shaped in the wilderness.
The nomadic life of the wild
erness wanderings were soon to
come t® a close and the time for
the conquest of Canaan was ap
proaching The people had been
taucht the highest code of moral
laws ever known to man and they
had experienced over the years
the leadership of Jehovah through
his ?elected servant, Moses.
Realising that his life was
about to Mr aw to its close, Moses
gathered Ml the people together
before him. He had several very
important matters to discuss with
them. The first was the making
of a new • covenant with God be
fore Canaan could be taken. The
old covenant had been broken
when the Israleites worshipped
the golden -calf. The essence of
the old covenant was that Israel
should worship Jehovah only. The
new covenant would be the same,
but it had to be made with a
new spirit.
Moses opened his farewell ad
dress by reminding his people of
their past history. For forty long
years, they had been nomads In
the wilderness and yet, not even
for a day, had they lacked the
essentials rtf life. Enemies had
been unable to stand against
them, for Jehovah had protected
them.
Moses also reminded the chil
dren of Israel that they had been
given the privilege of choice.
They could Obey God and enjoy
the" rich rewards He promised, or
they could refuse “rewards" for
services performed, but, in real
ity, the Bihle is a book of re
wards. All through its pages, one
is promised rewards — blessings
for obedience and punishment for
disobedience. Nature rewards us
bountifully also. We are blessed
if we obey her laws and we are
most certainly punished if we
transgress her established edicts.
We should not, however, em
phasise the blessings which come
from obedience and fail to men
tion the punishment which in
evitably follows disobedience. To
do so, overlooks a vital part of
the matter. We are often prone
to talk about the blessings of
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Heaven, all the while * nuttier
mention of the punishment of
hell.
Jehovah promised the Israelites
I land the same promise is ap
i plicable to any nation today) that
i if they would “love Jehovah thy
! god, to oljey his voice, and to
j cleave unto him," he would pro
vide for them, supplying their
i every need. Coavei-sely, if they
jdid not serve him and love him,
the “wrath” of God would he
; kindled against them and they
| would suffer the consequences.
Then, reminding his people of
his age — one hundred twenty
years at that time—Moses an
nounced to the people that the
Lord had said unto him, “Thou
shalt not go over this Jordan.”
While that must have been a ter
rible disappointment for Moses—
not to he able to lead his people
into the Promised Land—he ac
cepted it as God’s will. He con
tinued by telling them that Jeho
vah would go with them and that
he would destroy their enemies.
“Be strong and of a good cour
age,” he counseled his people, for
Jehovah would not fail them nor
forsake them.
Turning to Joshau, Moses laid
, on him the full responsibility for
leading the Israelites into the
Promised Land, promising that
Jehovah would go before him, as
He had promised.
In the closing chapters of Deu
teronomy, we read the poetic
words of Moses. It reminds us j
of the Psalms and is often called j
the “song of Moses.’ Since all
Hebrew fathers blessed their sons
as they felt death approaching,
Moses gave his blessing to his
; people. Would that we all could
remember the words of Moses,
that “the eternal God is thy
. dwelling place, and underneath
, are the everlasting arms.” How
I much safer we would all feel in
this terribly upset and uncertain
world
j (These commentaries are based
on the International Unifrom
Sunday School Lesson Outlines,
i copyrighted by the International
j Council of Religious Education
jand used by permission.)
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Washington, D. C. (ILNS).
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and the League Reporter, weekly
i paper of Labor's League for Po
, litical Education, have been
, merged. The first issue of the
new publication, the AFL News
Reporter, appears under date of
December 5.
The merger was by order of
the officers of the AFL and in
accordance with action taken by
the last federation convention.
The AFL News-Reporter is a
tabloid of 8 pages. Free mat
service of photographs, features
and cartoons to the labor press
will bo continued.
RENTS RISE IN WASHINGTON
Washington. D. C. 1ILXS).
Over 60 per cent of all rental
units within Washington exper
ienced rent increases averaging!
18, or 14- per cent, during the
three months from mid-May to
mid-August. The U. S. Labor
Department’s Bureau of Labor
Statistics said almost all of the
reported increases occurred after
July L effective date of the new
District of Columbia rent control
law. This law permits a rent
rise for individual dwellings up
to 20 per cent above their 1941
levels.
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CALIFORNIA WOMAN WINS
FIRST PRIZE IN UNION'S
GLASS HOBBY CONTEST
Philadelphia (ILNS). — Mr*
Berta Simpson, an Oakland. Calif.,
hair-dresser, was the first prise
winner in the nationwide Glass
Hobby Contest sponsored by the
Glass Blowers Association, AFL.
She received a prize of a $500
TJ. S. savings bond for statuette
caricatures she made out of dis
carded wine bottles. $1,000 in U.
S. bonds were awarded to the 9
winners.
The contest to find new uses
for old bottles and jars drew
554 entries from the United
States, Mexico, Alaska, Denmark
and India. Contest judges were
Lee VV Minton, president of the
Glass Bottle Blowers Association;
Donald Doctorow, editor of the
American Glass Review, and
Catherine Howe of Glass Indus
try Magazine.
Second prize of a $250 bond
went to Charles Snyder of Oak
land, for an aquarium lamp made
from a pickle jar. He is a welder
at the Owens-Illinois plant and
a member of the Glass Bottle
Blowers Association.
Third prise of a $100 bond
went to James G. Klein, of Chi
cago, for a hill-hilly family in a
cider jug.
Fourth to ninth prizes of $25
l>onds went to:
C. A. Rebenstorf, Belleville, 111.
violin lamp made from a bottle
with strings you can actually
tune; Jack Davis, a member of
the. AFL Teachers Union, Chi
cago, decorated vase made by his
pupils; Andrew M. Harvey III,
Waterville, Ohio beer rang made
from bottle; Mrs. A. J. Dellget.
Wheeling, W. Y'a, kniek knack
container made of crepe-paper
wound cheese jar; Mrs. Evelyn
Cornelius, Wilton, Calif., sewing
kit made of three jelly jars; Mrs
Tessie Shainmark, Jersey City,
N. J., decorated vase from wine
bottle.
ADJUSTMENT OF
INEQUITIES
Washington. D. C. (ILNS). —
The Wage Stabilization Board has
issued a regulation providing for
extra wage increases for workers
whose pay was out of line with
that of others in comparable jobs
in an industry or area. Adjust
ment of such inter-plant inequi
ties, the board said, would not
threw its stabilization program
out of kilter because only a mi
nority of plants and employes
would be affected
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