In this fourth chapter there is a rather amusing account of how God tries to show Jonah what a mistake he is making. Jonah goes out in his rath and sits down to see what will become of the city, to see if even yet God will do what He ought to do and burn it up like the cities of the plain. As he sits there a gourd, a quick growing vine, grows up over him and he sits gratefully in its shade but next morning a worm has smitten it and it is withered away and what with the pain in his head from the piercing sun in the east wind and what with his already broken temper Jorah is quite seriously upset and repeats again is better for me to Gie than to live"—and God—we can sec His patient smile at Jonah's perverse temper as He asks him "Are you very angry for the gourd?" and he answers quickly "I am very angry, angry unto death." and so God takes ihe cue—"Yes, you would spare a thing of a moment, up in a day and withered in a day, which cost you nothing in care or love, and yet you won't let me spare Nineveh that great city with its millions of living people, men and women and children, made in the image of God; how much more valuable are they than a wayside shrub?"
That is the story of the book of Jonah and in it Israel and we were meant to learn that the love of God goes out in infinite yearning to all men: as we read in I Timothy 4, 10. He is "the living God, the Saviour of all men," "who will (I Tim. 2, 4) Lave all men to be saved and to come unto the knowledge of the truth," that all may realize that glorious unity we read of in Col. 3, "Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free, but Christ is all and in all" and all may join that countless throng seen in Rev. 7, 9... "a great multitude which no man could number of all nations and kindreds and peoples and tongues which stood before the throne trid before the Lamb."
The Great Book's Lesson And at this time there is hardly anything of greater importance than that we should lay to heart the lesson of this great book. Israel after the captivity was freed from idolatry and set herself to keep the law of God as, never before and she was in great Cutlets Rump Steak up Meat at
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