Connecticut western news., 1876-05-05
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSONS.
By Rev. Mason Noble, JE

FOR MAY 7TH. 1876. THE POWER OF JESUS NAME-ACTS
 III, 1928.
 GOLDEN TExT.-There IS none other name under heaven gwen among mon, whereby we must be saved. Acts iv, 12
 When you read thls hope you will have your Bible before you. open at the lesson. printed with the lessons in Question Books and Lesson Papers. We ought each to have Bible of our own. No one need be without Bible. If you have no Bible, and cannot afford to buy one just now. ask your Sunday school superintendent for one. He has ono waiting for you, bought and paid for. know. Every person in America must have Bible. And it is worth a good deal to study our Sunday school lessons out of our own Bible. It gives us more interest in both lesson and Bible. It makes us feel at home with our Bible.
 JEsUs' NAME-'Jesus' means 'Saviour,' and if we feel that he has saved us, it is the dearest of all names to us. But he has many other names, each of which teaches us something about Him. In verse IS He IS called Gods Son Jesus which testIfes of Ills Godhead and Ills glory, reuinds us of the love, of the Almighty Father for His Son. aud of His love for us John nj, 16). In verse A, the Holy One,' for though He bore our transgresSions It was without transgresslon and 'the Just which re minds us that He is to be cur judge at the last.and will judge us justly, taking into ac- count our belief in HIS promises and teachings. In verses 15, IS, 20, % and 25 you will find other names gwen Him, and everyone has meaning. In the first chap ter ot Johns Gospel. if you look carefully, you will find 20 of Jesus' names, and learn something of His love, or power, or glory from each. They are all well worth study Find all that are given in this lesson aud learn what each means.
  Peters sermon to the crowd of people who had gathered about himself and John and the lame man who had been healed, greatly wondering. They were people of JeIusa- lem, the very people who had crucifed Je- sus. Of this Peter reminds them; 'Ye de- livered Hlm up, and denied him. he says. He tells them they were worse than Pilate the heatben governor, for Pllate had de- termined that there was no fault in Him Matt. xvii, 24; Luke xxlii, 4, IA 16, 20l was the Holy Ons and the Just. they had denled Him. When Pilate gave them their cholce. they had chosen to save 8 muTd or CT. destroyer of life. and to kill the only one who could give eternal life (see golden toxt). They had done dlshouor to the name of Jesus.
 THE NAME GLoRHIED.-But God had glorlfed It. The God of the Jews, tue Gcd of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob had glo- rified Ills Son Jesus. They had killed Hum, but God had raised Him from the dead. The apostles were witnesses of that. Now He was living. Now, though ascend. ed to Heaven. He had power, as He had while on earth, to cure and heal. They were all witnesses of that. They had all tseen what faith in His name could do. Tie apostles had no power in themselves to work such miracle as thls., It was by l talth in Jesus name that the man had been cured. The faith winch IS by him hath given him (this poor lame manl this perfect soundness in the presence of you all (v. 16). So God has glorlfed His Sons name among those who dishonored it. | THE NAME PREACHED Peter tells them he knew that they had not wilfully killed the Son of c d. They had not under stood and felt ln their hearts that it was Gods Son that they rejected. It is so with the1r hearts to Jesus. They have not real ized that it is the Son of God that they have rejected. Christ has suffered. The word of God is fulfilled. Repent there fore and be converred.' is the message that that has rejected Him. chat your sins may be plotted out and God send Hts Holy Spirit to your hearts. tn verse 19, instead of when read in order that1. For Jesus Christ. whom you have rejected and cruci- fed, and whom God has glorlfied, will come again t20). He has ascended to Heaven, aud must remain there until the end of the world, as God has saId [21l. Moses has taught lDeut. Xviii, 1S-19l that he should come, and that everyone that will not hear ana obey Ills word must be destroyed [22- 23l And all Gods prophets have con frmed this I24I. You, sad Peter. are Jews the covenant made with Abraham lGen. xii, 3I, and the promises made through the prophets belong to you l25l. Aud now to you first, God, having raised up hls Son the Saviour, has sent Him to bless you. Is not it wonderful proof of Gods love that the Gospel of Salvation through Christ should have been first preached to the very men who had cTucified Gods Soni This Gospel 'blesses' peopie-does them good-bv turn ing them away from their sins l96l.
 Such was Peter's sermon to these Jews. Ie IS full of truth that is good for everyone, Everyone that has rejected Jesus may here learn who it is that they reject how God has glorlfied Jesus bow free is the saliva tion that IS offered us through Hun; how he would turn us away from our slns; and how certain it is that those who continue wilfully to reject H1m must perish.