The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-05-30
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
rvrom tho Chicago standard. !

from the Chicago Standard
The lesson tor the above date may be found
In the twenty seventh chapture OF Matthew,
from the thirty third TO the fiftieth verses.
INTRODUCTORY.
We have come ~ last to the execution, We
were about to say, the lega! murder of the
Son OF man Whose act was ity Whose
hands carried the stains Of his bloody You
have seen Munkaczy's @Christ Before Pr
late There In the center stands the victim;
IN his meek, painstricken face, the words
written: The lamb slam from the founda-
ton OF the world" over yonder on the
right a round-pated man In The Roman to-
ga, and seated on the Roman bema His
eyes are down-cast his fingers are working
neryously, he seems like ons distraught 10
he the guilty oney IL it Plate that sheds
the innocent blood of the patient sufferer
standing therey Yonder is soldier with his
spear gruf, taciturn, inperturbable. There
IN the drowsy but curious rabble, among
them man yawning in the face of such dis
tress woman carrying her child aloft in
her arms. Are these the murderersy Or is
that the base instig ator of the crime, standing
before Plate, his hand extended toward
Christ, his scowling face toward the Roman
governor, his mouth open as II to speak
words of execration? None of these is
guiltless, all have red hands; but il we seek
the very heart OF malice and murderousness,
we must fasten our eyes on one other figure
There he sits, half way between Christ and
PLATE, lordIy parsonage clad In the vesture
of high Jewish Office, his eyes bent half
superciliously, half exultantly, upon the
Christ One word from him would turn the
tide, but he is silent He let's him die. He
/ Is the murderer
7 WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES.
/ They were come into place called Col
/ gothd As to the place, physically speaking,
/ we know il not. There are pictures which
more or less adequately realize TO Us the
| scene, but they are largely con jectural God
has not preserved for US by inspirational
methods the mere geographical and temporal
accessories OF the Messianic pilgrimage. But
dis words, they are spirit and they are life.
we know. morally speaking, the scene.
! There Is place called Golgotha" in Christs
/ life, the point whore. for loves sake, He
/ bore our SINS. Oh, get that spectacle vividly
/ upon the spiritual retina The native mis-
sionary there In the heart of China
was preaching his sermon. 1t was simple,
succlnct, sufficient brothers" he said-we
] give his words but in substance-@sin has dug
/ PIT and We are fallen in. How shall we get
outy Confucius comes, and, plying US, tells
us If we once get out never TO get in again,
Zoroaster stands above and speaking beauti-
| iul words teaches Us how we shou d live out
side the pit Buddha approaches close to the
edge, weeps as he looks over and says If
/ you will only come up here whore can get a
mold OF you, will he p you Jesus comes,
aud leaping down into the pit, lifts poor hu-
mainly out with His strong and mighty arm.
/ This Is, indeed, the meaning of the place
called Golgotha May you find it, friend
lie uoud not drink A Supplying mixture
/ il was, intended 10 smother the senses and
dull the edge of pain He would not take
| 1T Another soup he had submissively
! taken to drll X, the cup of sins suffering,
and he would allow no abatement of the
requisite ordeal 1t is the spirit which must
actuate every successful seeker OF souls.
4 he little open by-ways of self-easing are
! oftener TO be avoided. He knows where
/ 1--we, said the half-devoted preacher, ap-
/ preached regarding lost soul, che knows
where live. II he is earnest he will come
| to me. Il shou dhave said TO that minis ter, F"
} says Dr. Penteco,t who tells the incident, @If
! you wers in earnest you would go to him.
1t was, forsooth, good excuse. Methods for
/ evading duty are not hard 10 find BY our
| habit of accepting or rejecting them we
prove whether or no we have the spirit of the
cross.
That Il might be FULFILLED 1t was only the
rafting of dice against the sides of box,
only the dividing up OF cast-of garments y ct
| God took note OF It, took such note that the
/ prophets of old who saw not Cesar take the
crown, saw this apparently Insignificant act
and wrote of 1t Why was ity Simply Thu,
| 1t had reference TO Jesus. There are no trities
| in the Clrist-life; apart from HIM all things
are baubles. 1t Is he that givss significance
to history, sacred and profane. john Bunyan,
I our friend tells US, passed doorway once,
aud overheard four women talking of the
grace Of God. 1t was little incident Null
| utudes OF Things more noteworthy had doubt
less occurred in the English tnker's life, how
J ever prosaic heretofore, but that was the
\ great thing. That was the passage that
angels recorded 1t marked the beg inning OF
/ new and noble Christian life. The barking
| Of little dog was used of God to turn Fred
| erick Robertson from the army TO the min
istry. Look for the ChrIstly reminders In in-
dvldual career. IL is Jesus that lifts life up
I above the dead level
This is Jesus, he King of the Jews And
| hence the King of all the world. For where
! shall we go in order to find the core of hu-
manly, the regal center or soul lifey The
Roman is master in political strength, but he
~ cruel and heartless. The Greek has as
thstIc leadership, but his beauty quickly
| turns to ashes He Will STAY his own Of
spring when the time comes Where shall
we find a sovereignty sufficient for al soulsy
I Where but among the Jews, that people Of
/ kndling faith and hope and charity; that
people of the upward look and the outward
life and the inward love? Jesus as King of
| the Jews is King of ali hearts-your King,
my King, the King OF Gods great universe.
/ II thou be the Son of God come doWn
! from the cross. He will not come down from
the cross, hence he Is the Son OF God III he
had answered the worlds call aud left tho
cross, as there was physical possibility of
his doing, he would have renowned his di-
vlnity aud proven himself less than Son.
~Come down from the cross" men say still.
Leave II behind, and so prove yourself great
or than the crosa Then we shall believe.
Some seem inclined to make the concession,
I lney Will put aside ms OUonse or the cross.
| But shall you aud do other than our Lord?
He accepted of it. He conquered by it, @Hel-
en-" said our little five ear-old friend, now
an angel, to her younger sister, indignant
over a stem that had pricked her, "Ion't
break of that thorn; pretty soon it will be
beautiful rose" Little innocent her childish
creIulity may teach Us, though it be by ind-
rection, very good lesson.
} Himself ne cannot SdUe. True ii was. Be-
| ing Christ himself he could not save In
order 20 be Savior to sinners he must yield
himself and give freely his life. 1t is story
thst Hannah More told away back in the years.
! There was a shipwreck on the ocean. just as
| the life boat was about to push of from the
fated vessel negro appeared on deck, bear
| ing large sack strung across his back He
was about to embark on the already heavily
laden craft with his load, when they cried
| out, ~Oh, no, there is not room for you and
! your burden too Straightway he had left
the bag on the boat aud had sunk beneath
the angry watrA Strange you say. No,
not 20 strange. In the sack we're the two
little children of his master. 1t was his am
to save them. His own salvation, that was
another matter.
Next lesson-Jesus Risen Matt %: LIS.
Low, BROAD heels are now considered