Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1893 — SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON. [ARTICLE]

SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.

--J S«nd»yy]3tt»y I*|§ £ Sfcipti;l. Whosoever »veth instructiorr lovcth -kr*r*wledger- but he that hateth reproof is brutish. School. 2. A good man obtaineth favor of the Lord; but a man of wicked devices will he condemn! . 3. A man shall not be established by wickedness; but the root of the righteous shall not be moved. 4. A virtudus woman is a crown to her husband; but she that inaketh ashamed is *as rottenness in his bones. 5. The thoughts of the righteous are right* but the counsels of the wicked are deceit. 6. The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood; but toe mouth of the upright shall deliver them; 7. The wicked are overthrown and are not; but the house of the righteous shall stand. 8. A man shall be commended according to his wisdom; but he that is of a perverse heart shall be do spiaed. ——*— 9. He that is despised, and hatha servant, is better than lie that H6noreth himself and lacketh bread. 10. A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. 11. He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread; but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding. . 12. The wicked desireth the net of , evil men; but the l-oot of the righteous yieldeth fruit. 13. The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips; but the just shall come out of trouble. 14. A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth; and the recompense of a man’s hand shall be rendered unto him. 15. The way of a fool is right in his own eyes; but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise. Nail Heads.—“ Righteousness ex: alteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people.”—Prov. xiv, 34. “So it is the will of God that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.”—l Peter, ii, 15. “They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many td righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.” —Dan. xii, 3v Introduction. —The main body of Proverbs begin at chap- 10, “The Proverbs of Solomon,” and ends at xxii, 16. This collection has certain distinct features which mark, it off from all that precedes and all that follows. It is, strictly speaking, a collection of Pi'overbs —that is, of brief, pointed sayings, sometimes containing a similitude, but more generally consisting of a single an-tithetical-moral sentiment. AH these proverbs are identical in form; each is expressed in a distich. “Be good and you will prosper; be wicked and you- will suffer," is the sum of the whole.—R. F. Horton, in Expositor’s Bible. The lesson to-day is a series of contrasts between those who accept the invitation of Wisdom and follow in her path of virtue and those who yield to Folly and pursue the way of vice.