SUNDAY SCHOOLS

Grey River Argus, 18 April 1925, Page 7

SUNDAY SCHOOLS

A DAY OF GOOD TIDINGS. 2 Kings 7.9. Read the story in the second book > of Kings. Chapter G, verse 24, to the end of Chapter 7. Answer the following questions: — L What was the name of the besieged city? 2. Who was Ihe King who besieged 3. Give an incident to show how terrible! the people in Ihe city were suffering in the siege. 4. What dispersed the army of the besiegers? 5. Who brought the good tidings to the city? Sermonette. It was an Eastern city, wailed high and only entered by its armoured and well-guarded gates. All the roads of approach to the gates were watched so that no food could roach it and the result was an awful famine. Tn those days there were no aeroplanes to carry messages or food so that was no nope of help from outside friends, also there were no guns to break down their massive walls, they were secure from th** outside enemy, until they opened them, but think of the awful enemy insidefamine, with its sister disease, killing , off the weak ones. Outside the city, between the walls and the camp of the enemy, living among the. caves that surround an eastern city were a number of poor lepers hopeless of cure, a source of fear ro friend and enemy alike approaching the camp with their ery of Unclean! Unclean!” just near enough t■> pick up the garbage thrown out and f;ght over it with the dogs. These poor creatures it wa.., who first ( found out what Cod had been doing in the earn]) of the enemy, and they were the first to benefit Ly it. But what said they to each other as fed, clothed, and ~: '’ > h with spoil'-, they went Trom tent to tent. Not how much can wo got, but. ”We do not well,” sa <1 one, ‘‘this is a T)ay of Good Tidings we hold cur peace. —C »m < ’ that we 111 ay go an d tell ’ ’ Ts not this our day of Good Tidings? We know of the BIRTH. DEATH and RESURRECTION of God’s Son in older to open the gate of Heaven. Heaven to all people. Africa. India, Chinn, the Islands in this Eastern Hemisphere in which Australia, and New Zea land arc the ONLY Christian countries, wait for the Good Tidings and are we going to follow the example of lepers and share our Good Tidings wit a a. starving world, or are we going 1o keen them to ourselves. I see as I write thi e litt!? girl tn a heathen land nt a rniss'u'nary service. Tn her arm? is a do 1 !, the first toy she has ever had. T see her lay it on the altar among all the other gifts— stopping to smooth its lr<ss as she leaves it there—-and I hear her say: lt Jesus gave His lire for me. j shall I not give Him tlw thing 1 love best ? ’ ’ Where is your treasure, my reauer. here, or given to the Dear Master to be used in Bis work and for His gloiy .