The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-05-17
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR
MAY 10.
Lesson Text: "The Lords Supper,
Mark xiv, 1226-Golden Text:
Luke xii. 1O.-ComWcn-
tary on the Lesson.

12 ''The first day of unleavened bread,
when they killed the passover" The last day
on earth In a mortal body had come; this |
night He would keep the passover with HIS
disciples and on the morrow be crucified-
Christ our passover sacrificed for JUS u Cor.
", 0-and He went forward calmly, un-
waveringly, knowing every step OF the way
beforehand It was over fourteen hundred
years since the first passover was Kept tha1
night In Egypt, when by the blood of a lamb
the first born of Israel were saved IRON deatn
and the nation brought forth from their
bondage by the outstretched arm OF Jeho-
vah and now the Lamb of God to whom
every sacrifice from the beginning pointed Is
about to be slain, whose blood saves from
eternal death all to whom 1t is applied, and
who shall yet accomplish for Israel n greater
dcliverance than that from Egypt. We can
not think of His omitting single passover
feast since first He went up to Jerusalem with
Joseph and Mary at the age OF IL, when he
uttered His first recorded words: "Wist ye
ness FathfullS did He Key Reep fseaE6rs @ E6as Ss,- Ba
In all things pleasing the Father and soon we
shall hear Him say to His Father: 81 have
finished the work which Thou gavest me to
do" As we go forward finishing the work
which He gives us to do, let us cheerfully and
persistently renounce our own will in all
things and keep saying to Him: Lord, where
wilt Thou. what wilt Thouy'
13. ''He sendeth forth two Of His disci-
colt CHAP XII, ~, but this time we know
whom He sent, for Lu. xxi, 8, says it was
Peter and john He may have sent the same
two on the previous occasion, but we arc not
told He sendeth whom He will, and where
He WILL and every disciple is expected to too
realy and promptly obey, willing To be sent
anywhere and just rs willing to be passed
by and see another sent the last is somtiInes
the hardest.
"Go We into the city, and there shall meet
~ hearing N nitchpr Df water. fol-
low him. All things are naked and open to
| His eyes He is acquainted with all our
words and ways; it would help us to remem-
ber this.
| IA. ''The Master saith. where is the guest
chamber where l shall eat the passover with
| My disciples!" What privilege to prepare
| a room for Jesus and welcome Him and bis
disciples to it; what privilege to let Him
! have the use of anything that we have, but
| how slow we are to see 1t.
Is. He will show you a large upper room
Furnished and prepared; there make ready
! for MS" This indicates the mans cheerful
aud willing service; he did not do as little as
he could; he did not say, Well If | give the
use of IA room that is all He can expect fine,
but, like Mary, In the previous lesson, he did
all that he could, he gave a furnished and
for us unless we cheerfully place all we are
and have at His service it is proof that we
donot know or appreciate His love tous.
| 16 His disciples went forth and came
ln,o the CltN, ana IOunu as lie n;tu S;tlu u1lUO
| them: and they made ready the passover"
| When we obey Him we will always find 1t
! Just aS HeSpys: there is nothing SO safe and
sure and glorious as believing and obeying
! God IL we are willing and obedient we shall
eat the good of the land lisa. l., l|. He has
prepared for us u passover and invites us to
come under the shelter of His blood aud con
stantly partcke of Himself saying unto us
"He that cateth Me. even he shall live by
Me" (Johu vi, 81. We IN return may pre-
nd nTar Hin, continually tho
sacrifice Of praise and good works, with
which He will be well pleased. tHeb xiii
thIeP priests ... .s..,. y ,o,,ot,, vi.,
of money to hetray Him unto them Tvs. Ii
~; yet he continues with the twelve us on
of them, not thinking that the searcher O
hearts saw his every step and knew his ever,
word and act. How many are like him tc
day and yet continue among the number o
the profesSed followers of Jesus!
IL. And as they sat and did eat, Jesu
sad: Verify say unto you. one of you whic
eateth with Me shall betray Me-" If yo
would have complete record, read betweel
the last verse and this one Luke xii 1918
John xiii. LII, and praycrfully ponder tn
things written there concerning the kingdom
of God and the present need of c,eanness
humility and loving ministry to others.
w. They began to be sorrowful, and I,
say unto Him, one by one, Is it ~ Luke ant
John tell us that they began tn inquire among
themselves, doubling Of whom He spake
Judas that he could be for three years a THE
and hypocrite and these eleven not find i
out and perhaps not suspect it; on the othe
hand what glorious testimony to the lon,
suffering and wondro,Is love of Jesus that ri,
bore patiently with this wicked Que ant
never in any way indicated to the other
What he s1 was rs;
with Me and vet kilt Me. which would be IN
breaking of the most solemn vow of friend
ship and fidelity. Matthew says she tina
dippeth his hand with me in the DISH" whic
might imply that Judas was sitting or recliI
ing near to Jesus he also tells us that Juda
then said Master is it ~ to which Jesu
replied; Thou hast said" thus finally point
Ing him out before them ALL for the time ha,
come, as it will surely come sooner or later
to all like him. For further light on thi
particular moment at the feast read JOIN
xiii, 24-30.
2l. Good were it for that man If he hac
never been born Them plainly, it is better
never to toe born than to profess to belong K
Christ and be a hypocrite. 1t will be NOR,
! tolerabe for the ungodly than for processing
Christlans who are not real Christians; Il
will also bc more tolerablc for those wht
never heard of Christ than for those who
have heard of Him and rejected Him.
~. And as they did eat, Jesus took bread
and blessed, and brake it. and gave to then
and said: Take, eat; this is My body" We
conclude from John xiii, 80 that Judas hac
at this time gone out, and now that the pass
over sacrifice was about to receive its CRANE
fulfilment the future fulfllment in the king
dom will he as to results) Jesus Institutes &
His followers t Re eonet Is to aRs,s Ss observed b,
20. is Sloriously simpe it is grandly sol
emn; He takes bread, He gives thanks HI
breaks the bread and as He gives it to them,
| bidding them to eat it, He saws. ..TbiS !,
My body which is given for you, this do in
remembrance of Me Uuke xxi, l9)
-, - And He took the cup, = q
ana ana ne said unto them: This is My blood OF
| The new testament which is shed for many :,
After all had eaten of the bread then He
passed to each the wine, bidding them drink
OF II, and telling them that il was His blood
she'd for the remission of sins.
%. "NCrily say unto Won will dr;,,,. ,
more "t the fruit of the Vine. until thai dnv
imi. Ina. ! dIihk ~ now III the Kingdom of God :"
1uS. , aS the passover points us forward TO tbe
S''"'n ;,S ior thc manifestation of all it's bless
, 10 lhr S'iine Kingdom, and by it we constant
y sho" forth the Lords death till He come