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Joshua Renewing the Covenant With Israel SundaySchoolLessonforNov.10, 1907 Specially Prepared for This Paper LHSSON TKXT.-.Iosliun 21:14-23. Mem ory verses 22-24. GOLOION TRXT. "Cliooeo you thlfl dny whom yo will serve." Joshua 24:15. TIM13.-Ncar tho elo.so ot Joahua's life, AeeonlhiB to our Blblo margins, li. C. 1427, 25 years after crossing tho Jordan, und 18 after our last lesson. Prof. Beeeh cr thinks that tho time since the crossing of Jordan was much briefer. I'tiAClC Tho religious capital was at Shlloh (Josh. 1S:1). Tho great assembly for renewing tho covenant was at Sho chem, butwocn Mounts Kbal and derl sdni. JOSHUA was nearly 110 years old, liv ing at Timnath Serah, not far from Sho ehorn. Comment and Suggestive Thought. Tho conquest of tho country took .several yours, not of uninterrupted warfare, but of wars intermingled with cultivating the fields and making homes and becoming citizens. Al though tho Canaanites were not wholly exterminated (Josh. 123:12; Judg. 2: 2, .'), yet tho wnr was practically end ed, and tho people gave themselves to tho positive work of settling down as prosperous citizens of the Prom ised Land (Josh. 21:43-45). Joshua was drawing near to the close of a long and useful life of 110 years. llo had been watching tho tendencies of the times, and know well tho character of his people and the po culiar dungers to which they would be exposed. Therefor ho determined to make, before ho died, one more ap peal to them, under tho most solemn circumstances possible. It is uncertain whether tho last two chapters of Joshua are two different addresses or two reports of tho same address. Tho only importance of the question is its bearing on the struc ture of tho book. Tho Polychrome Bible, the Exposit or's Bible, and others regard them as two trustworthy reports of tho She chem address, given separately as the editor received them, and not inter woven according to the plan usually adopted. Others regard them as two similar addresses on the same groat occasion to different audiences, tho ilrst to a mass mooting of the people, and the second to tho olllcers and judges of all tho tribes assembled at Shechem, probably on tho sloping sides of Mts. Ebal and Gcrlzim, where they had gathered 25 years before, on tho first entrance into the Promised Land, and made the most solemn promises to God. Vs. l-i:;. No circumstances could bo more Impressive, as, amid these hallowed associations and memories, the white-haired, beloved leader, saint ly in character and touched with tho light of a near eternity, arose and made his dying appeal, somewhat as tho Apostle John, when very old, went feebly among tho, disciples,, saying continually: "Little children, love one another." In this place all tho assembled multitudes could see and boar him. For tho air is so clear that a "single voice can be heard by many thousands." Tho longest re corded distance at which a man's voice has been heard Is 18 miles in tho Grand Canyon of Colorado. Dr. Young records that at Gibraltar the human voice has been heard at a distance of ton miles. Joshua first proclaims what God has done in tho past, as a motive for trusting and obeying him in tho pres ent. Gratitude and love are awakened by his wonderful goodness to them. Faith in him and reveronce and awo are inspired by the manifestations of his divine power (vs. 1-13). Joshua's Conference with the Peo ple. Vs. 11-24. Urges tho people to choose you tills day whom yo will serve. Vs. 14, 15. V. 14. "Now there fore," in view of (heso facts, "fear tho LORD." Not bo in terror before him, nor driven from him by fright, but hold him in reverential awo and respect, realizo his power to help and to punish, so as to devoto yourselves to him in poi-recl trust. There can bo no trilling. "Servo him in sincerity and in Truth." Not in outward farms merely, but also in tho heart and tho Hfo (John 4: 2JI, 24). The idea, says Prof, needier, Is rather of wholeness, integrity, than sincerity. The Double Witness. Vs. 25-28. First. Tho Covenant. V. 25. "Made a covenant with the peoplo that day," i. 0., "ho solemnly ratified and renew ed the covenant of Sinai (Ex. 19:20), as Moses had done before him in tho plains of Moab (Dent. 20: 1)." Cook. "Set them a statute." lie determined and established "what in matters of religion should bo with rsraei law and right." V. 2(5. "And Joshua wrote." As Moses at Sinai wrote all tho words that Jehovah had spoken in a book, probably a papyrus-roll (Ex. 24:4), so Joshua now inscribed 'minutes' of tho transactions connected with tho ronowal of tho covenant at Sechom. "In tho book of tho law of God." This protocol ho placed inside the roll of tho Law of Moaes." Cambridge Bible. TESTED BY TIME. A Cure That Has Held Good for Four Years. Mrs. Mary Crumlish of 1130 West Third Street, Wilmington, Del., says: "Some years ago 1 began to feel weak and miserable and one day awoke from a nap with a pierc ing pain In my back that made mo scream. For two days I could not move and after that I had backacho and dizzy spells all the time. My ankles swelled nnd I ran down dreadfully. I was nervous and had awful headaches. I wonder that any medicine could do what Doan's Kidney Pills have done for me. 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