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“And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there; and Jesus also was bidden, and his disciples, to the marriage. And when the wine failed, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine. And Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come. His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it. Now there were six water-pots of stone set there after the Jews’ manner of purifying, containing two or three firkins apiece. Jesus saith unto them, Fill the water-pots with water. And they filled them up to the brim. And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the ruler of the feast. And they bare it. And when the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and knew not whence it was (but the servants which had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast calleth the bridegroom, and saith unto him, Every man setteth on first the good wine; and when men have drunk freely, then that which is worse; thou hast kept the good wine until now. This beginning of his signs did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory; and his disciples believed on him.
“After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and there they abode not many days.”
“And the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And he found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: and he made a scourge of cords, and cast all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew their tables; and to them that sold the doves he said, Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house a house of merchandise. His disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house shall eat me up. The Jews therefore answered and said unto him, What sign showest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things? Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. The Jews therefore said, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou raise it up in three days? But he spake of the temple of his body. When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he spake this; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.”
“Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed on his name, beholding his signs which he did. But Jesus did not trust himself unto them, for that he knew all men, and because he needed not that any one should bear witness concerning man: for he himself knew what was in man.”
QUESTIONS.
What happened in Cana of Galilee on the third day? Who was there?
Who were also invited?
When the wine failed, what did the mother of Jesus say to him?
What reply did he make?
What instructions did his mother give to the servants?
What vessels were conveniently near?
What command did Jesus give? What was done?
What further instructions were given? What did they do?
When the ruler of the feast had tasted the new drink, whom did he summon?
What did he mention as an unusual circumstance of the feast?
In performing this miracle what did Jesus manifest? With what result?
To what place did Jesus then go? Who went with him? How long did they remain?
What annual gathering was soon to be held? Did Jesus attend?
Whom did he find in the temple?
What did he do to them?
What did he command them to do?
What did this bring to the minds of the disciples?
What inquiry did the Jews then make of him?
What was his answer?
What apparently unanswerable objection did they make to his reply?
Of what was he speaking?
What event reminded his disciples of this prophecy? With what result?
What was the fruit of Jesus’ miracles at the Passover?
Did Jesus trust himself to them? Why not?
Did he need any witness about man? Why not?
NOTES.
1. It was but natural that the mother of Jesus should be at this gathering; for “the parties were relatives of Joseph and Mary. The special object of Jesus in attending this marriage feast was to commence the work of breaking down the exclusiveness which existed with the Jewish people, and to open the way for their freer mingling with the people. He had come not only as the Messiah of the Jews, but the Redeemer of the world. By attending this feast, Jesus sanctioned marriage as a divine institution, and through all his subsequent ministry, he paid the marriage covenant a marked respect in illustrating many important truths by it. While no shadow of worldly levity marred his conduct, he had sanctioned the social gathering with his presence. He gave no license to scenes of dissipation and revelry, yet innocent happiness was pleasing to him.”—Spirit of Prophecy, vol. 2, chapter 7.
2. The marriage relation was instituted before the fall (Gen. 2:18, 24), and, using it as an illustration of his union with his church (Eph. 5:23, 25, 29–32), Christ, through the word, has taught precious lessons. It is a striking fact that the Sabbath and marriage, the two institutions which were established during man’s innocency, are now the special objects of Satan’s attack. Men are now declaring that both are a yoke of bondage, interfering with their liberty. True liberty is only found in being in harmony with God (Ps. 119:45), and is not an excuse for sin (1 Peter 2:16).
3. There was no coldness or disrespect in Christ’s form of address to his mother. He used the same form of address in his last words to her. Chapter 19:26.
4. “This donation of Christ to the marriage supper was a symbol of the means of salvation. The water represented baptism into his death; the wine, the shedding of his blood for the purifying of the sins of the world. The provision made for the wedding guests was ample, and not less abundant is the provision for blotting out the iniquities of men. The wine which Christ provided was not of an intoxicating character.”—Spirit of Prophecy, vol. 2, p. 104. “In the words, ‘Destroy this temple,’ Christ gives a sign that he reads the secrets of their souls. These words of Christ possessed a double meaning, referring to the temple at Jerusalem as well as to his own material body (the earthly temple of the Son of God). . . . When the Jews should put Christ to death, they would virtually destroy the temple. . . . As the death of Christ brought to an end the sacrificial system, and destroyed the sacredness of the earthly temple, so the resurrection of Christ involved the opening of the true ministration in the sanctuary above, the temple of God in heaven.”
Suggestions for Further Study.
Can you see in this miracle any teaching that ceremonials must have in them life and power from Christ to be of any value?
See how God’s power to create us, to cleanse us, and to raise us from the dead, are all taught in this lesson.
Observe the new places mentioned.
GOD’S PROMISES TO DAVID
“Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine;” “that thy profiting may appear to all.”
4. And it came to pass that night, that the word of the Lord came unto Nathan, saying, 5. Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the Lord, Shalt thou build me a house for me to dwell in? 6. Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle. 7. In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me a house of cedar? 8. Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I took thee from the sheep-cote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel; 9. And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth. 10. Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime, 11. And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the Lord telleth thee that he will make thee an house. 12. And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. 13. He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 14. I will be his Father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men; 15. But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee. 16. And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established forever before thee; thy throne shall be established forever.
Golden Text: “In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust.” Ps. 71:1.
Note.—It is well always to read the context, in this case the whole of chapter 7 and the parallel passage, 1 Chron. 17:1-27. The Messianic Psalms may be read with profit, as for instance, Psalms 2, 110, 72, 45, and 2 Sam. 23:1-7. In the New Testament read, Luke 1:32, 33; Matt. 25:31-34. The time of this was probably about B.C. 1042; the place, Jerusalem. David was now about 44 years old. The prophets were Nathan and Gad. David’s wars were over, and he had rest from his enemies. As he reflected on God’s goodness, he determined to show his gratitude by building a house for the Lord, and so stated to the prophet. This plan seemed wise to Nathan’s judgment, and he told David to do all that was in his heart; for the Lord was with him. 2 Sam. 7:1-3. Here our lesson begins.
SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS.
(1) Who came to Nathan after the prophet’s assurance to David? Verse 4. (2) What was he told to tell David? Verse 5. Note 1. (3) How did the Lord say his presence had dwelt among them? Verse 6. (4) Had he ever asked a house from any tribe? Verse 7. (5) How did he say he had exalted David? Verse 8. (6) How had he been with him and what had he done for him? Verse 9. (7) What did the Lord say he would do for Israel? Verse 10, and 11 first part. Note 2. (8) What did he promise David for his faithfulness? Verse 11, last part. Note 3. (9) What did the Lord promise should follow David’s personal reign? Verse 12. Note 4. (10) What should Solomon do? Verse 13. Note 5. (11) What did he say of his dealings with Solomon? Verses 14, 15. (12) For how long will the kingdom of David through Christ be established? Verse 16.
NOTES.
1. The reason why David should not build the house of God is stated in 1 Chron. 22:8,—he had been a man of war and blood. A man of peace and rest must build God’s house of rest. The time had not quite come for a permanent house.
2. My People Israel.—That is the true Israel of God. Israel was a derived name, indicating character. (See Gen. 32:24-30.) It is also used many times as meaning all of Jacob’s descendants. But it is always the remnant, true to God, that the Lord counts as his people. (See Rom. 11:2-5; 9:6.) All Israel, the true Israel, shall be saved even as was Jacob, by faith. (See Rom. 11:20, 26.) The time when the people of God will dwell in such safety as is set forth in the text will be when Christ enters upon his eternal reign in an earth free from the blight of sin (Psalms 72; Revelation 21, 22), when the kingdom, and the dominion under the whole heaven shall be given to him and his people (Dan. 7:27).
3. A house.—God would give David something better than the privilege of building the Lord a house; God would build him—David—a house, a spiritual,—but not the less literal,—and an eternal house. The reign of his seed should be eternal.
4. Thy seed after thee.—Solomon, who was also, in his name, his wisdom, his glory, and his peaceful reign, a type of the eternal kingdom of Christ.
—Egypt prohibits the cultivation of tobacco, and yet that country exports about 150,000,000 cigarettes annually.
—The massacre of whites in Matabeleland still continues, and a powerful attack on Buluwayo is expected on July 10.
—Emile Arton, one of the Panama Canal conspirators, has been sentenced to six years’ imprisonment at hard labor.
—Parisian officials have recently made the startling announcement that fully one hundred lepers are at large among the poor of that city.
—Smallpox and yellow fever are running amuck in the island of Cuba, and fears of their ravages are causing many of the Spanish families to leave the country.
—Advices from Lima, Peru, dated July 2, state that severe earthquakes are occurring daily in the vicinity of Arequipa, and much damage has been done to buildings.
—As a result of the seismic and tidal disturbance in Japan, many of the sites of former villages are entirely submerged, the waters of ocean covering them to a great depth.
—By a simple flaw in the will of Baron de Hirsch, the fortune of his adopted daughter, Lucienne, who is now fifteen years of age, will probably be changed from $1,000,000 to $75,000,000.
—The Egyptian Government packet from Suakim to Suez, in consequence of a broken shaft, was wrecked on a reef on July 1, and it is feared that her sixty passengers are drowned.
—A member of the Babe Mohammedan Secret Society made an unsuccessful attempt, on June 27, to take the life of the Persian shah at Teheran. The would-be assassin was arrested.
—In Canton will be published this year a Chinese Christian newspaper, bearing the name of Light. Its editorial force will consist of two Christian preachers, Wong Yuk Cho and Au Fung Chi.
—London has at last opened her museums on Sunday for the benefit of her working people. On the first Sunday of the opening 10,650 persons visited these places of educational recreation.
—A party of English surveyors has been arrested by the officials of Venezuela, for alleged trespassing on Venezuelan territory, but through the friendly offices of the United States the party was released.
—A private belonging to a regiment of Highlanders, lately rode through the streets of Glasgow on a donkey, and was fined over $15, or one month’s imprisonment, for attaching ridicule to the queen’s uniform.
—An insurrection to overthrow a provisional government is what the republic of Ecuador now has on her hands. The revolt is headed by one Vega, of unknown fame, and report of a decisive battle is momentarily expected.
—Advices from Cuba state that the revolutionists have served formal notice on the inhabitants of Havana that they will destroy every vestige of the city by means of dynamite, and that plans agreed upon for the explosion have already begun to materialize.
—The starving Cretans, victims of Turkish atrocities, have appealed to the United States to send a war ship to their relief. Hunger and exposure have so weakened the women that they can no longer suckle their children, who are dying off by the hundreds.
—Queen Victoria has at last begun to tolerate the telephone in her mansions, and it is expected that an electrophone will soon be placed in her residence, so that she may listen to the music of the concert-hall singers without the necessity of attending the performance.
—Christian Almer, aged 74, and his wife, aged 75, celebrated their golden wedding on June 29 in a very singular way. Christian is a veteran Alpine guide and mountain climber, and the sturdy couple on that day made the ascent of the far-famed Matterhorn, 12,150 feet high.
—The inhabitants of British Columbia are petitioning the Federal Government for a tax of $500 on all Chinese who come to that country. The Mongolians of that section have been interfering so seriously with white labor that the patience of the working classes is exhausted.
—Near Luga, Russia, the police discovered that a sect holding its meetings there had for some time past been sacrificing children. The bodies of many children, apparently two to four years old, were found in a vault under the church. Forty-five persons of both sexes are now in prison accused of murdering these innocents.
—In the Jewish cemetery of Slootzk, in the province of Minsk, an old woman was recently seen weeping over one of the graves. It seems that her son, over whom she was lamenting, had died years ago, but as she could produce no certificate of his death, she had been fined 300 rubles in consequence of his nonappearance at last year’s recruiting.
—Vessels plying between Foochow and the island of Formosa are said to be the constant prey of pirates, who not only seize everything of value, but carry off the women and put the crew and male passengers to death by the most terrible torture. The Chinese Government has promised to act immediately, and it is expected that the pirates will be run down.
—The Peruvian Revolutionists have declared a free republic in the province of Loretto, and are making preparations on an extensive scale to resist all attempts of the government toward their suppression. While this republic has not been recognized by the Brazilian states, it is known that Brazilian sympathy is largely on the side of the revolutionists.
—A process has been patented in Germany for making a substitute for the natural skin for use in the healing of wounds. This tissue is made from the muscular coating of the intestines of animals, which has been divested of mucous membrane and treated to a pepsin solution, followed by a solution of tannin and gallic acid. When placed upon a wound, this artificial skin is wholly absorbed in the healing process.
—It is believed, in diplomatic circles, that as a result of Li Hung Chang’s visit to Moscow, arrangements have been made for a close military alliance between Russia and China, including the construction of a railway to connect the existing Russian-Siberian railway with Port Arthur. Li Hung Chang will visit the United States on his way back to China, and will make a personal inspection of railway service on the lines over which he will ride from New York to San Francisco.
—A new law promulgated in France is officially described as being for the purpose of making marriage easier, by simplifying the proof of parental consent. Heretofore a man under 30 years or a woman under 25 had to give three successive monthly notifications to unwilling parents before their consent could be dispensed with. A single notification by a man over 25 or a woman over 21 will now suffice. One month after such act of respect the marriage may be celebrated.
—The French in their scheme for furnishing funds for the Paris World’s Fair in 1900, have taken time by the forelock in an ingenious manner. The plan is to issue bonds for 65,000,000 francs, each bond of 20 francs value. These bonds do not mature or bear interest. They are simply so many tickets of admission to the fair, each bond representing twenty admissions. But the special feature which attracts the people is that each bond has a chance for a prize in a big lottery, which will be a feature of the exhibition.
—France is now excited over a new prophet, one Pauline Delpont, a lad of nine years. The child is described as very illiterate, speaking only the local dialect, but when inspired, speaks perfect and elegant French, as well as several foreign tongues including Latin. Like all modern prophets, his powers are tested in the guessing of secrets, and throngs are daily visiting the humble home of this child wonder. Tradition had it that the silent tower of the old church of St. Amans was once provided with bells. Young Delpont prophesied that these bells would be found by digging in a certain locality, and that two skeletons would be unearthed before the bells were reached. Excavations in the spot designated proved the prophecy to be correct, and the effect on the superstitious throng can, perhaps, be imagined.
DOMESTIC.
—The mineral product of the United States during the last year was valued at $611,795,290.
—Three bank robbers fully armed and equipped for their wicked work, were captured at Vancouver on June 28.
—An Indian wife’s unfaithfulness resulted in one suicide and a double murder recently near Helena, Montana.
—Five members of the Episcopal Church choir of Charleston, Mass., were drowned while boating on Lake Massapog on June 29.
—Last year there were manufactured in the United States 4,181,000,000 cigarettes, being an increase of 436,000,000 over the year 1894.
—At Fort Smith, Arkansas, on July 1, five members of the “Buck gang” paid with their lives the penalty for murder and criminal assault.
—Five Japanese girls who had been brought to Tacoma for alleged immoral purposes are on their way to San Francisco for deportation to the Mikado’s realm.
—The property of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, Talmage’s former church, on Clinton Avenue, was sold, under foreclosure proceedings, for $73,000, or $17,000 less than it cost.
—A sudden squall on Lake Shawano, Wisconsin, on June 28, capsized a small yacht containing a party of nine, six of whom were drowned before assistance could reach them.
—The Mexican minister at Washington has tendered the resignation of his office on account of a report published in an official journal during the recent trouble over the Guatemala difficulty.
—A negro prisoner, accused of the attempted murder of the family of a Mr. Buxton, was taken by a mob from the jail at Rockville, Md., July 4, and hanged. To the last he protested his innocence.
—Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” and benefactress in general of the colored race, passed quietly from this life on July 1, at her home in Hartford, Connecticut, at the age of eighty-four years.
—There are said to be over 3,500 miners now at Cook’s Inlet, Alaska, who are stranded and unable to secure employment. Supplies are going fast, and it is feared the men will resort to harsh measures to obtain food if something does not develop soon to furnish relief.
—The total length of telegraph lines in the world at the present time is estimated to be 904,701 miles, while the entire amount of wire used in the construction of the same is 2,682,583 miles, or enough to encircle the globe at the equator something more than 107 times.
—The latest reform crusade is that which is aimed at the use of the bicycle by women. The reformers claim that the bicycle is the devil’s advance agent, morally and physically, and that seventy-five percent of the female cyclists will be invalids within the next ten years.
—As a result of the cave-in at the Wilkesbarre coal mines, on June 28, seventy miners are entombed. The work of rescuing the imprisoned men has been greatly hindered by a number of other cave-ins, and little hope is entertained that any of the unfortunate miners will be alive when reached by the rescuers.
—A body of religious enthusiasts, of Montreal, have adopted the queer practice of sleeping not in beds or on pallets of straw, but in coffins, “narrow, grim, and black.” They subsist upon bread and water, and spend hours of each day bent in prayer about an altar in a darkened chapel, their necks laden with heavy chains.
—A plot to poison the family of John Heilman, Damascus, Oregon, has just come to light through the partial success of the cowardly crime. The agent used was strychnine, which was placed in a barrel of drinking water. One of the members of the family, a child two years old, died from the effects of the poison, and others are in a critical position.
—The Paris award on matters pertaining to seal fishing in Bering Sea is to be considered and upheld as the supreme law of the land. This award restricts the jurisdiction of the United States on the sealing grounds to the territory within the three-mile limit. This makes seal-fishing at all times legal in the open sea, and numbers the days of the Alaskan fur-seal.
—It is stated that at the death of George Washington in 1799 it was found that he had left $20,000 for the establishment of a national university in Washington. This amount at compound interest for nearly one hundred years has now increased to about $5,000,000. It is believed the university will be established in the year 1899, one century from the date on which the bequest was made.
—A San Franciscan has recently patented an invention which is destined to supersede the shuttle-and-bobbin method of weaving. By this device the loom is supplied with a continuous thread, and will run from morning till night without having to be replenished. It is claimed that this invention will make a reduction of one-half in the cost of all productions of the loom.
—Considerable interest is manifest in the astronomical world at the present time over the reappearance of Brook’s comet. It is only visible now by aid of the strongest instruments, as it is very far away. According to calculations this comet is not due until October of the present year, but for some reason it has broken away from its itinerary and comes into observation five months ahead of schedule. Nor is this all. It is bringing three others with it, and presents a spectacle similar to Biela’s comet as seen in 1846.
—Under the auspices of the Red Cross society, a hospital has been established in New York in which no alcoholic medicines are to be used. It is the belief of the founders that alcohol is not only unnecessary in the treatment of disease, but that it is a positive injury to the patient. While acting as a stimulant in a case where a stimulant is necessary, alcohol tears down the cellular tissues of the body, so that a relapse is certain to follow the application. To attain the object for which alcohol has been administered, such drugs as caffeine and nitroglycerine are used, and the founders of this temperance hospital claim that their use is attended with better results than was the use of the alcoholic stimulant.
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