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LESSON XIII.—JUNE 29.—THE CLEANSING OF THE LEPER.
[Note to the Student.—These lessons are not designed to be exhaustive, but suggestive. In references to the “Desire of Ages,” in the lessons, the subscription edition is referred to. Those who have only the trade edition will find the matter in chapters 1, 4, 11, 27, 71, 77, 78; also read “Patriarchs and Prophets,” chapters 5 and 30. “Christ Our Advocate,” Bible Students’ Library No. 129 (price, 10 cents), and “Looking unto Jesus” (price, $1.00) will be found a great help. The SIGNS OF THE TIMES will have an article on the subject of each lesson this quarter by J. O. Corliss. Read these articles in connection with the study of the lesson. We have not space to print all the scriptures. Let the student study them carefully from the Bible. Those printed are from the Revised Version.]
SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS.
1. Give a brief description of the leprosy. What was done with the leper?
“He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall surely pronounce him unclean; his plague is in his head.
“And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and the hair of his head shall go loose, and he shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.” Lev. 13:44, 45. (“Desire of Ages,” pp. 262, 263.)
2. Give a brief description of the sinner. What, then, is represented by leprosy?
“Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and more? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and festering sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with oil.” Isa. 1:5, 6.
6. What provision has been made for the cure of sinners?
“In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.” Zech. 13:1. (Isa. 1:16, 18.)
7. When Christ cleansed the leper, what did He tell him to do?
“And He charged him to tell no man; but go thy way, and show thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing, according as Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.” Luke 5:14.
8. What was the law commanded by Moses?
“And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing; he shall be brought unto the priest.” Lev. 14:1, 2.
9. When the leper was to be cleansed, what was done with him? Where did the priest meet him?
“And the priest shall go forth out of the camp.” Verse 3.
10. Who was represented by the priest? Where, then, does Christ go to find the sinner? Where must we go?
“Wherefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered without the gate. Let us therefore go forth unto Him without the camp, bearing His reproach.” Heb. 13:12, 13. (Note 1.)
11. What did the leper bring for offerings?
“And on the eighth day he shall take two he-lambs without blemish, and one ewe-lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour for a meal-offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil. And the priest that cleanseth him shall set the man that is to be cleansed, and those things, before the Lord, at the door of the tent of meeting.” Lev. 14:10, 11.
12. State the order in which they were offered. (See verses 12-20, 53. Note 2.)
13. How many offerings do we have to bring to accomplish far more than was done for the leper? (One. Heb. 10:10-14.)
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Children Selling the Signs
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Selfishness
Selfishness. — A physician of twenty-five years' practice (Evans, “Divine Law of Cure”) says: “I am satisfied that much of what goes under the name of chronic disease, especially of a nervous type, has its root in selfishness,—at least, a purely unselfish man or woman, with consequent tranquil happiness, I never saw who was a nervous invalid. Such a state is usually the result of an over-estimate of their own importance and value in the universe, and a desire to make every one contribute to them, instead of sacrificing themselves to others, according to the Christ-principle. The best prescription for such persons is in the words of Jesus Christ, ‘Give, and it shall be given.’ To love something outside, or beside ourselves, and to be actuated by an irrepressible desire to be of use,—to do good to others,—gives a strength and tenacity of life that in some cases seems to border on the miraculous. I have known some persons whose ruling passion was to do good, who have carried with them, thru many years, an amount of suffering that would have crushed out, prematurely, many a less unselfish life. In their case their diseased condition did not subtract a single unit from ‘the days of the years of their life.’” Primarily, all disease, all sickness, all death, is the result of sin. Sometime sin will be no more, and the race will be immortal. The incorruptible characters of love will be given immortal bodies. But the character must be acquired here, and that means the elimination of selfishness.
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CONTAINED IN THIS NUMBER.
Poetry.
“As Ye Would,” n. s. . . . 10
Ready . . . 12
General.
Ebal and Gerizim . . . 1
The Remedy for Leprosy, J. O. CORLISS . . . 2
The End of Sin’s Dominion.—No. 5, G. W. REASER . . . 3
“As a Fool Dieth,” G. B. THOMPSON . . . 3
Christ’s Prayer for Us, Mrs. E. G. WHITE . . . 4
The Preacher for the Twentieth Century . . . 4
Editorial.
The Spirit in the New Birth . . . 6
“The Sabbath Transferred”. . . . 6
A New Earth . . . 7
“I Tell You of Them”. . . . 7
Outlook.—Family Ties Breaking Up—The Liberty Involved—Cuba’s Prospect—How About Sunday Laws, Mrs. E. M. PEEBLES—There Is a Reason . . . 8, 9
The Home.—Discipline in the Home—A Little Traveler—What Is Kosher Meat?—Homes and Orphan Asylums—Paying the Penalty—Tobacco Was His Ruin—What to Teach Boys . . . 10, 11
Missions
Missions.—Mission Fields at Our Doors, E. J. B.—Missionary Labor in Bible Translation—Letter from Paraguay, E. W. Snyder. 12, 13
International Sabbath-school and Sunday-school Lessons
Greatness in God's Sight
The one great man of the world to-day, more talked about, more feared, is not a king or an emperor or a czar or a president, but a private citizen with billions of dollars under his control. Yet in God's sight the least in the kingdom of heaven, he of humble mind and contrite heart, is greater.
Forthcoming Mission Articles on India
By Editor
Three Mission articles of great interest, illustrated, that will follow this issue. These are “Women of India,” “Child Wives of India,” “Women in India.” The first and second are by Miss Georgia A. Burrus, a devoted Zenana worker; the third is by a Hindu gentleman, not a Christian, but one who is interested in Zenana work. These are articles which we know will arouse hearts to the needs of India. Read and circulate the papers containing them.
Pacific Press Stockholders’ Meeting
Among the subjects acted upon by resolution at our last stockholders’ meeting are the following: Gratitude and consecration, larger sales of Gospel publications, securing better and more efficient field and office workers, increasing the circulation thru sale and subscription of THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES and Our Little Friend, greater effort in missionary and educational work among our employés, and the establishing of a branch office in Mexico. These resolutions were discussed with great interest, and many most excellent things were said. The meeting was one that told for progress in the Lord’s work.
Pacific Press Organization
Pacific Press Organization.—The new board and management of the Pacific Press Publishing Company are as follows: C. H. Jones (president), Wm. Saunders (vice-president), E. A. Chapman (treasurer), M. C. Wilcox, C. E. Frisbie, H. H. Hall, W. H. B. Miller. Secretary, T. A. Kilgore; auditor, Mrs. L. M. Hall; manager, C. H. Jones; superintendent of the manufacturing department, W. H. B. Miller; manager New York Branch, 11 West 20th Street, S. N. Curtiss; manager Kansas City Branch, 18 West 5th Street, B. R. Nordyke; editor SIGNS OF THE TIMES, M. C. Wilcox; assistant editors, A. O. Tait, C. M. Snow; editorial committee of Libraries, M. C. Wilcox, A. O. Tait, M. H. Brown; Publishing Committee, C. H. Jones, M. C. Wilcox, H. H. Hall, A. O. Tait, W. N. Glenn, M. H. Brown, C. M. Snow.
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The Fulness of Jew and Gentile
“The Fulness of Jew and Gentile,” an eight-page tract, is the title of Bible Students’ Library, No. 165. It is a brief explanation of Rom. 11:12, 25, in particular, and of the whole chapter in general. It ought to have a large circulation among those interested in the conversion or restoration of Israel. Price, 50 cents per hundred. Address, Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal., or any of our branch offices.
The Sabbath Is Holy Regardless of Men’s Belief
The character of God is not affected by the regard that men have for Him. They may praise or revile Him, obey or disobey Him, He is forever the same. This is as true of the institutions He has constituted and ordained as it is of Him. For instance, He has hallowed the Sabbath day, and the day is therefore holy. How men regard the day does not affect it. A coin with the regular stamp of the government which issues it is genuine whether men believe it or not. Man’s belief does not in any way affect its value or character. On the other hand, men’s belief in the genuineness of a counterfeit coin does not affect its character. It is counterfeit, and will ever remain so. So men may believe in the sanctity of the institutions which Satan has palmed off as genuine, but they are spurious still; and men may call the Sabbath “Jewish,” but it is still the Sabbath, “holy unto the Lord.” Its character is from God, not men. The Lord does not command man to make it holy, which he can not do, but “to keep it holy.”
Signs of the Times Midsummer Number
By Editor
“THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES” of July 24 will be a special Midsummer Number. It will deal with subjects of paramount interest. All our subscribers we know will want it, and thousands more will want it. Millions more will need it. More about it next week.
Meat and the Workingman’s Strength
What nonsense it is that the great Edinburgh Review indulges in! In comparing Americans and their greater products with European workmen, it attributes the superiority of the former to the fact that they can purchase with better wages a larger amount of meat, and says, “Without that form of support in extensive quantities, the high evolution of energy witnessed in the American workingman would either not take place, or would result very speedily in mental and bodily exhaustion.” The idea that meat furnishes more strength or energy or power of continuance than a non-meat diet is a fruit of ignorance. We know to the contrary. We know men who have for years lived on a non-flesh diet who are doing better work than they did when on a flesh diet. More than this, they are doing as hard work, mentally and physically, as flesh-eaters in the same lines, and are as fruitful in resources, as energetic in work, as enduring in labor. The man who lives properly on fruits, grains, and vegetables, can work longer hours without exhaustion, and with as unflagging energy, as any flesh-eaters (other things being equal), and, we believe, longer.
Increase of Gambling.
Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis, of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., uttered, in a recent sermon, the following truthful words: “The “evils of drink are familiar to you. There are other “evils. But the greatest peril is the insane spirit of “gambling which seems to have taken hold of the “people, irrespective of social standing or religious “belief. The insane desire to get rich quickly is at “the bottom of it all. The incessant gambling on “all sports has wrought demoralization to the country. Horse-racing . . . has been degraded “and bestialized by gambling. Every Saturday “afternoon you see at the race tracks thousands of “working girls and men who have families to support, crazy with the intoxication of gambling. As “each race is run, they stand up, a yelling, cursing, “purple-faced, brutalized gang. From the tiny lad “selling newspapers on the street to men dwelling “in a palace, the gambling spirit seems to have invaded all. Where is this thing going to end? It “is time we called a halt and began to consider “what things are really worth while.” We can tell Dr. Hillis where it will end—in wrecked and ruined lives, destruction of the nation, and the judgment.
And Now the Theater.
The Congregationalist tells us that the “Rev. Charles M. Sheldon announces that he will soon set about dramatizing his story, ‘Edward Blake,’ and that he will prepare it for presentation at Washburn College next fall. If successful there, then he will decide about sending it on its way, he having come out openly of late in favor of the drama as an agent for ethical and religious instruction.” We expected it; but it would be pertinent to ask in this connection, “What would Jesus do?” Why did He not dramatize the Sermon on the Mount, the parable of the Ten Virgins, the Talents, or His remarkable discourse of Luke 21? What a field opened for John in dramatizing some parts of the Apocalypse and presenting it at Ephesus! But we do not hear of these things. The business of the Master and His loved disciple was to save men from the great theater of the world.
The Danger of Half-Truths
Half-truths are often the worst of errors, the most debasing and soul-destroying. An instance of this is seen in the "applied Christianity" of a certain well-known professor. His perverted, law-made "Christian" Socialism has led to the break-up of his family and his recent divorce. Of his relations with another woman, Dr. Josiah Strong says, "Their conduct has been despicable beyond the resources of my vocabulary to express; and if all the facts in the case were known, these people would not be tolerated in any self-respecting society for an hour." But this has resulted largely from the holding and living of what are called "half-truths." They are really the worst of lies. Out of them has grown every false religion the world has ever seen.
Aim at Something.
It is said that a judge, by a remark, gave a word of counsel to a young minister which had a moulding effect on a long, useful life. The remark was this: “You are just commencing your ministry. Allow me to suggest that in each sermon you aim for one of two things—either to win a soul or to build up believers.” We pass it along. It is sad to hear a sermon preached because it “must be done,” or “is expected,” or to “please the people,” or to “win applause,” or for any other purpose whatsoever save to win souls or build up believers. Preach God’s message.
