The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-03-29
CHRlSTS LAST WARNING.

CHRlSTH LAST WARMING.
international Sunday School Les.
son for April 9. 1899.
The SIN Of Ifypocrisy aad rts Consequences
Tho Eflbrts Of God 70 SavO Man.
kind - Hear Ys the Word.
Especially arranged from q. 9. Quartefiy.1
LESSON TExT--Matt. 23:27-99
GOLDEN TExr-Create In me clean
heart, o God; and renew right spirit
within me.-Ps. 81 1:10.
CENTRAL TRurH-Hypocrisy is Q most
deadly sin.
TMr-Tuesday, April 4, A. d. 30. The
same day as the last lesson.
PLAcE-The temple in Jerusalem.
INTERVENING HIsroRY = Matt. 22:1S46;
23:1-28; Mark 12:1340; Luke 20:2047.
INTRODUCTION Jesus continues His dis.
courses in the temple on this the last day Of
His public ministry. After various Incl
dents, referred to in Intervening History,
He utters the earnest warnings Of to-day's
lessons.
HELPS OVER HARD PLAcEs--o7. Wes unto:
Q statement Of fact, not wish. Hvpoerttess
those who arc one thing and appear
another. Whaed sspSlchers: the entrances
to tombs and tho stones marking graves
were whitewashed 20 TINT no one need
accidentally touch them, especially near the
Passover; for to touch Q tomb inflicted
seven days uncleanness (Num. 1910. Full
Of dead nen's bones. and Of all wnekdsassa
The dccaying body IL not only rcpulsive to
the sense Of smell, and dcfhng to the touch,
but at certain stages the impurity 10 deadly.
The smallest particle introduced into tho
blood through q wound may bring early
death. Many doctor has fallen q victim
TO this contact in the dissecting- room. s.,
spiritual death is not only defiling, but
deadly Il John 8:l4,l5), o leaven Of death.
20. Build the tom6S Of the prophsss: thus
avowing that they admired nnd honored
their principle, and therefore condemned
the acts Of those who martyrcd them. 81.
Wherefore yebe Witnesses, etc. because at the
same time they were plotting to kill Jesus,
tho prophet of God. 50. FIJI vs up II. meas
Sre: Of the guilt Of the nation, 20 that tho
hour Of punishment had come.
MODERN APPLiCATroNs-Sayiug our pray.
ers, but not really praying; making pro-
fession Of religion when wc have none in
our hearts; going through tho forms Of re-
ing to the poor, with selfish motives. NorB
The cure of hypocrisy is not the giving up
Of the outward forms and professions, but
the having right heart and pure motive 90.
Generation: offspring Of Vipers: deccitful,
deadly; like their father the old serpent,
the devil 81. Send prophets: the ancient
prophets, Elijah, Isaiah, Daniel, ETC.. and
John the Baptist, Jesus, the apostles. IS.
That upon yow snGA come: the final punish
ment, tho destruction Of Jerusalem and the
nation took place about forty years after
this. Abel: Gen. 4:8-l2. Zacharias: see the
account in 2 Chron., "a :20-22. 8S. Your hosss
(the temple) Is L.tf unto yow desolds: Jesus
left the temple, nnd God was no longer abid-
ing there to defend it. 80. TIL ye shat soy :
till ye repent and receive Jesus as your
Messiah.
CoMMENrs-The Saviour came to seek
ond to save that which was lost, and no one,
however sinful, who took refuge at His feet,
ever found Him failing in mercy. These
chiefs and conspirators, however, had been
upon His path like blood-hounds for three
years. They had not only abused the
Scriptures and wrcsted them to the hurt Of
their own souls, but also to the destruction
Of the souls of oil the people who were
taught to look up to them as religious
guides. For three years He had patiently
dealt with them, reasoning and pleading
with them by precept and parable. But
they hated tho truth, and despised tho light
As Canon Farrar says: "Sinco Love had
played her part in vain, Juaties leaped upor
the stage;" and why should not our Lord
pronounce this woe, why should not Hi
holy nature blaze with divine wrath against
sinl Is sin never to be rebukedi Il hypoc
risy never to DO unmaskedi 10 moral IN
dignation no necessary part Of the Divine
naturel
MEMS WAY OF RECEIVING THE INVITA-
TIoN.-1. Some simply neglect Gods invita-
tion, and with minds full of this world,
| pleasures and profits, pay no attention
These are the ones spoken Of in verse 8. 8,
tho majority Of people are doing to-day
They ore too busy to go to church, and evCl
to give five minutes o day, morning ant
evening, to thank God for His goodness ant
ask for His love. II they ever do 60 Il
church and hear the great invitation, the.
| 60 home, and ON Monday they forget al
about It; and one goes to his farm, and an
other to his store, and that ends tho matter
You may see such persons described b.
Jesus Himself in Matt. 10: %.
| The FEARFUL REsULT.-God makes no se
cret Of this. Over and over again He ha
told us what would be the result Of reject
ing Him. Jesus, the gentlest man who eve
lived, spoke very plainly on this point. L
this parable we have the old truth Of futur
and fearful punishment placed before us.
II folly to shut our eyes to this. Heaven
real and hell is real, and, before many year,
all will be in ono or the other. But to-da
the invitation comes again to all, and hiI
who accepts, Jesus viii in no wise cast out
REV. A. n. Sehag1lsr.
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS.
1. We see what things arouse the indif
nation Of loving Saviour.
Q. Christ declares the woe which II OF
folded In every sin, as plant In . seed,
make men feel how dreadful thing sin 4
and 80 haste to forsake 1t.
8. Tho fact that there are hypocrites doe
not prove there IL no true religion.
I. Hororing the good who are dead, an
can not reprove US, u Q common way (
seeming good.
| s. Tho true honoring 10 to initiate thei
example.
Q. Men imagine they would be better
others circumstances, when they do not
a. well as they con In their own.
Z. God makes every possible effort to ssv
men.
g. II men continue to be vipers when Go
would have them to be angels. there
nothing left for them but destruction.
Q. Thore 10 cumulative force IN sin-in u
body, In the soul, In the nation.
LET us all resolve, first, TO attain u
grace Of silence; second, to deem all faul
finding that does NO good sin, and to r
| solve, when Wo arc ourselves happy, not