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imNATOMAI. JundaySchocl > Lesson' « ill^I *' H |, ** p *»y I Lenon for September 20 ««* ‘“pKIMART 1 TOPIC-P»ul , » Lev. for “jmOB TOFIC-How Paul Work.d '’JrVRMEpiATE AND SENIOR TOP- i ’’’lF’?? Dovotlon to HU Work. ■ people and adult topIC LtM B p>rtt A““ “•‘ b< > 4 Os Work. __ While the lesson committee has selected this brief passage In the second rfumter for printing, the Intention was ‘he message of the ent re «istle K "»• ® n Faul ’ s sec ® nd W1S ‘ ,Urv journey that the church at Thessalonlca was founded as seen In the last lesson. After crossing Into Macedonia he preached the Gospel at Philippi, where he was Imprisoned. From Philippi he went to Tbessalonks. The people there were largely Gentllea I, The Salutation (ch. 1:1). Timothy and Silas were associated with Paul in this missionary journey, and they are associates of Paul in this message. ||. Paul’s Thanksgiving (1:2-10). 1. For Their Faith. Love and Hope (v. 2 4). This triad of graces testified of their election of God. 2. How They Received the Gospel (v. 5. , „ , It was In the power of the Holy Spirit. 8. Joyful Obedience (v. 6). 4. Exemplary Lives (v. 7). 5. Missionary activities (v. 8.) 8. Turned From Idols (w. 9-lfi). 111. Character of Paul’s Ministry (2:1:12). It would seem from this defense that some of the Jews had caHed Into question his ministry. He defends himself by showing the character of his ministry: 1. It Was Courageous (w. 1-2). His persistence in spite of shameful persecution proved bls devotion to the Lord and His work. 2. Honest and Guileless (rv. 3-4). As one sent of God, he faithfully ministered unto them, not courting man's favor. 8. Without Flattering Words (▼. 5). 4. Without a Cloak of Covetousness (v. 5.) J. Did Not Seek Glory From Man (v. 6). 8. Gentle and Affectionate (w. 7-8). So vitally did be enter into the lives of the people that he displayed a gentleness even as a nursing mother with her children. 7. Unselfish (v. 9.) In order that his motive be not questioned, he labored night and day for his support. 8. Irreproachable and Blameless (v. 10.) He did not claim to be faultless, but he challenged them as to bls blameleesness. 8. Bls Lofty Alm (vv, 11-12). That they would walk worthy of God In keeping with their high calling. IV. How the Gospel Was Received (2:13-16). As the very Word of God. V. Paul’s Desire for the Thessalonians (2:17:3-13). 1. He Endeavored to See Them Face to Face, but Was Hindered by Satan (2:17-18). 2. He Declared Them to Be His Crown of Rejoicing (2:19-20). His hope of meeting his converts at Christ’s Second coming was his crown of rejoicing. 3. Timothy Sent to Them (3:1-10). It was his report that furnished the information concerning this church. 4. He Prayed for Them (3:11-13). VI. Sins Rebuked (4:1-12). 1. Unchast'.ty (vv. 1-5.) 2. Dishonesty (vv. 6-8). 3. Lack of Brotherly I.ove (w. 9-10). 4. For Being Busybodies (v. 11). 5. Idleness (v. 11). VII. Doctrinal Errors Corrected (4:13:5:11). L Not to Sorrow Unduly (v. 13). It was because of their misunderstanding of the meaning of the comln K of the Lord that they were indulging In excessive sorrow. 2. The Reason Assigned (w. 13-18). (1) The departed saints will come back when Jesus conies (v. 14). (2) Living Believers Will Be Caught Up With Them (v. 17). 3. The Time of the Lord's Coming Unknown (5:1-11). The exhortation is “be ready," watch. V|||. Concluding Exhortations (5; 12-28.) Sin, Grace, Humility No gin is so offensive to God, and so injurious to the soul as pride. Nq Brace Is so commended, both by prer«Pt and example, as humility.—Ryle. To Be Thankful To be thankful is to be etJsiqlaUy Cbrlsilike.— Russell H. Conwe/L - J

WHY GO TO CHURCH? Bishop William F.Anderaon says, I "The highest art Is th it of practicing ihe presence of God." That there Is a God Is the universal belief which as a mere statement has little moral force. The attributes <>• I God —omniscient, eternal, all-wise, allpowerful, omnipresent, etc., are also generally conceded but are held, too often, merely theoretically. History and experience furnish many examples of God’s manifestations in the affairs of such men us have been closely associated with Him. The Bible Is primarily a history of the work of God in relation to men, in which uro found many instances of successful men their sue cess attributed Io the part God had in their lives. Men crave success, especially al the close of life when everything seems to be slipping away and there is whispered from human lips, “there is no help." if life with God is u success before the closing earthly scenes, who will doubt that it will be a success in that event? it all depends upon how well has been practiced that fine art —the presence of God The Church service furnishes a means of making progress in that fine art. WHY NOT (IO TO CHURCH NEXT SUNDAY? —' o ♦ i^Sermomwum s Hell is without music. + + + Self-pity is a road down-hill. + + + Love will dissolve your enemies. + + + When God prevents, ask the reason and his purpose. ♦ + ♦ Some of the noblest benefactors oi the race never knew the joy ot achievement.—A. B. Meldruni. + + + Every man is a sort of a poatofiice He can give out only that which he receives. ♦ + ♦ Some Christians lose al! their re ligion when they get very tired or very angry. + + + Only those that have learned the delights of a life of service know real freedom. + + + No defeat is a hopeless defeat tha’ teaches us at once our weakness ant our strength. + + ♦ There are plenty o people in tbi world who have yet to learn the difference between real gratitude and mere selfish gratification. + + + 1 am far more likely to find fault with my circumstances'than I am to ind fault with myself. + + + “Nothing venture nothing win,” is as true in the spiritual as it is in tin material realm. + + + A jack will pijsh up or let down, and reading is like a Jack. Read only the books that lift. + + + There is something seriously wrong with our religion if it does not niaki other people wish they had it, or !. it makes them glad they don't have it. + + + One Christian age prepares the way for the succeeding. Other men have labored and we enter into their lab ors. This is the sort of evolution in which we all believe. o————— THE QUESTION BOX (Send problems in question form tc Church Editor; answers will appeal in later issue.) 1— What would you consider especially worthwhile to take up in the September Workers’ Conference? —Ask each worker to come to the conference with a criticism of yout school as it is now conducted, and a suggestion for improvement. —Have two or three who have visited other schools during the summer ready to tell of the good things they observed. 2— We have been providing Rally Day souvenirs serving just the one purpoose ot calling attention to this one day. Is there something that might serve us better? —ln the Moody Sunday school, Chicago, the members were given a

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Rally Day soouvenlr which could lie used throughout the year. This was in the form of u book mark containing the Sqnduy school lessons foro the entire year, beginning with the fourth quarter. 3 Wo are planning our first Rally Month. How could you use the Sun days of the month in a special way? Make the first Sunday Hables Day —Hie Cradle Roll superintendent preseining certificates to new membersof her department. The pastor's message can be niade fitting, and baptisms of children follow. “Young Folks’ Day” may bo observ. ed, the young people having charge. Then a third Sunday might lw> “Old folks' Day'—the oldest in the congregation given recognition In tbe program then Rally Day tbe mo t special of all. Weekly Story Os Early Education In The Homes Making Good. Curtis, a sophomore tn co'lege, dreamed one night that he died and asked permission at heaven’s gate to enter. St Peter, being off duty, the sophomore’s grandfather was in charge nt the gateway, und of course the boy was admitted. But alas! the lad hid not gone far before he met St. Peter who inquired as to his right there, for his record was evidently not satisfactory, ’You go back and make good,’’ was St. Peter's command. Curtis awoke from his dream and it was so very real that he determined then and there “to make good." He took a course in one of the best colleges of the United States and applied himself diligently in the thuk ing of such preparation for life’s worl. that lie might make good. Noto only was a collegiate course decided upon, but the inculcation o> high ideals created and fostered by the host of associations, was consid After the years of preparation fit life’s work, St. Peter’s command ”‘G< back and make good” was a forcefu incentive ever urging him to do Li. best. ' "— Comments On The Sunday School Lesson Paul writes to the Thessalonians—(l Cor. 2:1-12) for Sunday September 20. Forced to flee in haste from Berea Paul soon reached the seashore auc took ship for Athens, thence to Cor itnh where Silas and Timothy brought word from the converts in Thessalon ica. Paul's thoughts had been con stantly with these Thessalonian Chris lians—mainly won from heathenism: he had but a short time to train them and they, like hitn, had to suffer per secution. He had been eager to heat from them and the good news ot theit steadfastness moved Paul to write his First Epistle to the Thessalonians which overflows with gratitude ami joy at their Christian faithfulness. Word was brought that Paul was being slandered (the best charactei does not guarantee freedoom from slander) among the Thessalonians, and also that they were being troubled aver some questions connected with the expected coming of Christ, am’ Paul deals with those matters in th, epistle. He answers the attacks upon him self by appealing to their own knowledge of his course while with them as God's mesenger. He was willing that men should read his outer life, and God his inner. Bold? No—just Christian. Paul reminds them that the ressurectian of Christ is assurance ol the ressurection of those that are his, and warns them to live in watchful readiness for the Lord’s return, add ing specific directions for their re lattons with their religions leader: and one another, and for their per sonal conduct. V I—" You1 —"You yourselves know. ...that our entrance unto you was not in vain.”—The greatest satisfaction in life is knowledge of good work done. V 2 —Paul refers to his shameful treatment in Phillipi, but “we were bold in God," he says, “to speaK unto you the gospel of Cod with much con tention.” (Paul had no monopoly on boldness— just as much ot it accessible to us as to him) Paul traveled a rough road but "'much conflict" couldn't make him hesitate an hour from his appointed course. If it is true that an optimist is “one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it," Paul was certainly an optimist. v 4—" We were allowed to be put in trust with lhe gospel.”—The gospel )

Is committed to all of us, and wo have been "put In trust" with it. While this should, give all hristians a high sense of responsibility, it falls with special weight upon teachers und ministers of the gospel. “Not as pleasing men. but God." The most winsome leaders are thinking of pleasing nut men, but God. V s—" Neither5 —"Neither al any Hine used wo flattery."—"Soft words butter no parsnips;’’ yet “One can catch more files with honey than vinegar.’’ V 7—" But we are gentle among you." There was mighty little gentleness in the world in Paul’s day. "An iron hammer can shatter a biotic of ice but it is still ice. Only silent warm sunshine can melt it into sweet water." V B—Paul frames his picture of the Christian life with "courage, purity, love, fidelity.” He dispenses "his very soul" ayong with his preaching and teaching. He Imparted his very soul to these Christians, pouring his mind into their minds—the work of the min. Ister, teacher or parent, and the supreme work that Christ does for us. V 9 —“ljiboring night and day”— Their is no "elght-houy-day’’ for those who succeed greatly In any enterprise. V 10 —"Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily, and Justly and tinblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believed.” —Men can judge conduct. God alone knows the heart. V 11—" Exhorted and comforted as a father doth his children. "You can't do much for folks who are not "dear to you.’’ V 12 —Example and precept are the two oars that move the world upstream. And we are to copy an infinitely greater Master than Paul was. Christ is our perfect pattern. How earnestly must we strive to follow his example and walk "worthily" of Him! o Religious News Gathered All Around The World Dr. W. G. Landes, secretary of the World’s Sunday School Association, is now in Los Angeles, Calif., making the necessary preliminary arrangements for the next World’s Convention to be held there in 1925. In the interior of Venezula there are three whole states —Portuguesa. Zaniori and Apyre- without a single missionary. Thousands have not so much as heard of Christ. The will of the late Victor F. Lawson, publisher and editor of the Chicago Daily News for nearly fifty years, gives three-quarters of his large egstate estimated at $2,000,000, to church, welfare and educationai institutions. The director of St. Peter’s museum in Rome, has unearthed in the underground vaults of St. Peter’s basilicaean original unrestored mosaic by the thirteenth century artist, Gietti, representing the head of an angel. The mosaic was part of Gietti’s great mosaic over the principal entrance to the portico of St. Peter’s. Os world-wide interest to church people is the recent selection of the Very Rev- J. N. Ogilvie, D. D„ of Edinburgh, Scotland, to succeed Rev. John McUaugher of Pittsburgh, as president of the Presbyterian Alliance, which comprises all the known Presbyterian sects. Rev. Ogilvio was formerly moderator of tbe Church of Scotland. The Inland .South America Missionary Union which has recently broken new ground among several Indian tribes tn the interior of Brazil, is now contemplating another long step forward. It plans to occupy Iqultos. the great rubber mat 2,506 miles up the Amazon in northeastern Peru, and a strategic center from which to touch thirty tribes of unreached Indians. George Eastman, a highly appreciated citizen of Rochester, N. Y„ has put his energy, intelligence and wealth back of Rochester’s university. The assets of that institution now total $47,000,000 and this does not include recent gifts of $17,500,000 by George Eastman. This is a better world in which men, while they live, work desperately hard for money only to give it away in service to their fellowmen. The forty-eighth general convention of the Episcopal Church opens in New Orleans on October 7, 140 years, to the very day. flora the closing of the first triennial meeting of the American church in 1785. For the first time the General Convention is to elect a presiding bisbop, this office having previously been filled by seniority of consecration. Bishop

Maloda, from the Japanese Diocese i to Tokyo, is to be present , The New Social Creed for the 1 Churches to be proposed at the , twentyfirst regular meeting of the ( National Council of Congregational Churches at Washington, In October, points out certain consequences which would follow for our social life If we were to take Jesus in earnest and make his social and spiritual Ideals our test for community as well as for individual life, hi other words, tbe New Social Creed asks, "What Would Jesus Do Now?" o , QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION “Paul writes to the Thessalonians" (Cor. 2:1-12) for Sunday, September 20. 1— How far should we go in sacrificing self for others. ’ 2 — What was the "conflict'’ referred to In verse 2? 3— For what reasons, and to what extent should one take notice of criticism? 4— How was Paul "approved of God? It is sometimes said that we should imitate Christ only, and uot bis followers. Is this true? Which of these qualities of Paul do we lack in out work ? 5— What influence does the expectation of Christ’s return have upon your Christian life? is there more joy or dread for you in the hope? Lesson Prayer Father, we have today completed another quarter’s study of thy precious Word. Each Week we have learned more of thy great love for us and of thy will eua< erning us. We thank thee for the example we have had In Paul’s life. Make us eager to teach, quick to learn, and earnest in performing otiy duty. Book Review ROMANCE OF RELIGION, by Guild, Abingdon Press. Cincinnati, is a collection of fifteen sermons presenting the romantic in religion under such themes as The Romanc of Business. The Gospel Acording to Anter- i lea, The Costmark, Bringing Up Fath-' er. The Romance of the Stars, etc. THE CONTEMPORARY CHRIST, j by Joseph M. M. Gray, Methodist ; Book Concern, Cincinnati and New ; York, $2.00, is a series of sermons' devoutly and reasonably interpreted .

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