Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-06-22
CHklST'S MISSION CLOSED.
LESSON XIII, SECOND QUARTER, IN
. TERNATlOkAL SERIES, JUNE pa.

and EinaI Commands, Lessons Xxi.
r iCondensed from Lesson Helper Quarterly. by
pernissios of II S. Hoffman, Philadelphia, pub
lsher.l
The second quarter Of the year is devoted
tn the closing scenes, final lessons and com
mands death and resurrection of Jesus
Christ-events and teachings transcending in
Importance all other earthly events what
ever In the first quarter the calling of his
disciples and the preliminary work were I'm
folded; we now come to the distinctive doc
trines, the warnings and judgments, and
after them the shameful and painful death
which sealed the divine testimony, followed
by the visible proofs of life and immortality
brought to light, and the command to carry
the Gospel into the world.
The first lesson is the parable of the mar
rage feast how those first hidden rejected
the message how a multitude of all sorts OF
people were then called and accepted, and
how even one of them was found without q
wedding garment and rejected The teach
ing is plain The Jews first received a reve-
lation and neglected it, Christ came and sent
his servants, the apostles, to tell them all was
ready and again they refused, covetousness
being the prevailing cause, then the apostles
went to the gentle world, and all sorts and
conditions of people accepted the call And
Of these some failed on the final test. No
great learning is required to understand this
last. we the formal professor daily,
showing that the true work of grace is not
in his heart.
The second lesson nesson XIV, April s. pre-
sents an abrupt. n startling break in Christ's
general tone He is no longer the gentle
friend, he is the great and terrible Judge
pronouncing woe upon the blind guides, the
generation of vipers" 1t is a terrific in
dctment but so far as it was history it was
known to the indicted themselves to
be true. and SO far as it was proph-
ecv. il was soon to be fulfilled. The
Jews were soon to fill up the measure of their
iniouities by fierce prosecutions. and within
the lives of MANY who heard Christ Jerusa-
lem was DESTROYED 40 A. DN. after the most
frightful suffering by its people, and the
Jewish nation was utterly blotted out. The
essential point of the lesson is that God is a
inst Judre As well as a Saviour md Friend.
lesson XVI continues the warning with
an exhortation To wotch and then comes
the remarkable narahle of the ten virgins
with the same lesson and to n considerable
e,tent the Same fie,nres and similitudes ms in
lesson XIV The narable of the ten talent,
continues the teachino ne To our Lords
sacond COMING arain emphasizinc the ter.
Yihle fact that even of the chosen servants
ono did and many may nrove slotbful or
faithless Indoed This fact annears in al
rnost e,or1 toocbino and is ,t tbe lost ,po.+
nainfuuv CONFIRMED nv tho treacbery of
Jndos One noint in This ner.ble ;s onito
delicotelv mt. the slothful servant when
called to account at once hec,n IN find forI,
With tbe conditions of the trust and n
axacoerato the exactinc disnosition of bic
lord oven cbargin, hin, with ,r,,al+y ord
righteousness How verv natural How
close,v docs il corresnond with what Wa ca
often beor from, man who cornnl,in Of tho
,;oor Of Pil,1o doctrinat Aud tho Iord,s "a
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n,o;n If this ar that as .'hard doctrinen ua
so,,s j., anoot +bot tho connIoi,,t ;s folso ~
avon II the servant helieved it trne .sThor
oncbtest so much the more have given thv.
seIf IN the business Announced tbee to "
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