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Show SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON AS I GIVEN BY REV. RASSWEILER The Lesson Text. The Authorized Version 1 And the Lord spake unto M06es, saying. 2 Send thou men. that they may search the land of Canaan, which I le unto the children of Israel, of every tribe of their fatherp shall ye send a man. every one a ruler among them. 3 And Moses by the commandment of the Lord sent them from the wilderness wil-derness of Paran, all thoe men wern heads of th children of Israel. 25 And they returned from searching search-ing of the land after forty days 26 And they went and came to Mo 6es, and to Aaron and to all the con grygatlon oT the children of Israf. unto the wilderness of Paran. to Ka deah; and brought back word unto tbnn. and unt all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land. 27 And thy told him, and said. We came unto the land whither thou sent est us and surely it flowoth with milk ar'j honey; and this is the fruit of it 28 Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great, and moreover we saw the children of Anak there. 29 The Amalckites dwell In the land of the south, and the Hlttltes. and the Jebusites. and the Amontea dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan. 30 And Caleb stilled the people be fore Moses, and said. Let us go up at once, and possess it for we arc well able to overcome it 31 But the men that went up with him said. We be not able to go up against the people, for they arf stronger than we. 32 And thv brought up an evil re port of the land which the had ! searched unto the children of Israel ! saying. The land: through which We I have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature And there we saw the giants, the I sons of Anak, which com1 of the gl ants; and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were Ili their sight Golden Text If God is for us. who is against us' Rom 8. 31. It Is always so. The multitude? on the road of all time, ever are on the border of a better state The man of vision sees man's estate as it Is in the purposes of God, and de clares to the near sighted hosts- "You need not stay here in a wa that is hard and drear Your destiny Is yonder on the uplands of character and attainment God has planned bet ter things for you; a state where you shall be free and everyone lord of his own freehold his own master under his own vine and fig tree' with no slave driver over him and with no destitution In your midst, where ail shall live together as brothers In peace and plenty There are heights of moral attainment a holy land and even a holy city that you can win where all things base are cast down and when in soul ma9tery each on of you shall be secure In sobriet chastity, honesty, and loving kind ness. Fear not. God wills it. and God s biddings are His enablings He has planned this as the goal of Hia whol creation, and all the forces ot the universe are moving onward to prepare the way before ou. This is your true heritage declared by thu seere of all time Enter into it Then up rises Mr Near Sight. Mr Hard Head. Mr. Practical. Mr. Lazy Mr Hose Sense. Mr Great Lust, Mr Low Lived Mr Little Faith. Mr Self Will and Mr. Worldly Mind- This .s a fine talk, but it is all hot air. This Seer ha6 seen a pipe dream Thi would bo a fine state of affaire oui It Is Impossible There are too many difficulties In the way What's the use of trying It Isn't natural. Thie state of brotherhood and uni versal plenty justice and freedom would be fine But I see great vest ed intereets enthroned upon great mountains of wealth The eat up the land, and you can't help your self Justice would desirable But I see the giants pull graft, and bribe entrenched en-trenched behind invulnerable walls el corruption and special favors. You cannot dislodge them A white ribbon state is a fine idea, but you can't work It I see great walled castlee. yes whole cities walled with saloons and dives And then" saloonlsta and white slavers and gamblers are giants of influence in the land and have built high upon mountains of gold It is impossible to overthrow them. Yes. these all are like giants In their power and Influence We plain citizens are as nothing before tbem And tbey look down upon us as well as If we were too small to notice. We might oa well resign ourselves to our servitude and return to our tasks, content with a slave's portion and submit cravenly to hiving our bods and daughter taken from us to ruin Those moral uplands are beautiful and fruitful, sun kissed and fragrant but it Is Imposaible for us to reach them The way to sobriety heights and chastity mount is guarded by the towering giants Lust and Folly, armed with deadly spears of gold And though the young climb painfully yet In the end young mn "Ul be cast flown and maidens captured as man as they wish And even If we wer to fight the beast in us would betray us. It is not a natural place for ut. The lowlands of Egypt should be our home. Let us resign ourselves to youth having Its fling, and humanlt going to the devil Mount Honesty Is a noble peak, but utterly Impossible of ascent Fraudulent Fraudu-lent Crags barr your way. It is ire possible to go straight You have to swerve to get around them. And then Giants Greed and Fear want will push you Into the crooked path that winds down to the slough of corruption. cor-ruption. Yes, the estate of goodness Is a goodly state but tsJce It from us, the council of this man of vision is foolishness fool-ishness We cannot possess It The frtant sons of Old Man are too mant and too much for us. Let us be content con-tent to grovel here below. Let us go back to the flesh pots of Egyptian lost. Awsy with this rlsloesry, this fan atical reformer These upltfter3 are only disturbing us for naugh' I hy are upsetting political security, unset t ling business, destroying our pace of mind, and equanimity of conscience. Stone them Away with them v -1 will not have them to lead us Let us follow our own devices In the path of leasr resistance But here stand eternally. sturdy Joshua Strong Faith, and Caleb Try much, and they say, "We can. too. It is an Insult to God to say that ho has made us for this lowly condition It is defamation of humanity to sav that we must sta mean and base, and wallow in sin It b a stigma upon the race to say that we cannot im prove our social condition and be rid of oppreB8ion and exploitation and lce Of ourselveR we cannot do it But with God's grace we can conquer Let us depend upon the power that work cth for righteousness and go forward Let us attempt great things for God and expect great things for God And now when the people do try, rhe Insist on doing It their own way, In their own strength. God says, not by this road, but round by the Jordan road is the way of victory But no. they will go up by the way of Self Will, and they come back dofoatcd But at last when people have learned to follow God's councils difficulties part and obstacles fall and giants flee and men enter into their better heritage- G. F RASSWEILER |