Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-20
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON FOR JUNE TWENTY-THREE
JESUS RISEN.-MARK xvi: 1-13.

NOTES.-Mdry Mdgddlene.-There has
been tendency to confuse this Mary OF
Magdala with the sinful woman mention
ed in Luke vii: $3.50. In order that no
such mistake can be made, the narrator
expressly tells who this is (verse 1O). There
is no ground at all in mistaking this Mary
for anybody else, especially of doubtful
character-NGTy the mother Of James.
THE Less - -SGlOme, wife of Zebedee,
mother of James and John.-THe first
day Of the aCeek-Our Sunday morning.
They carefully observed the sabbath, and
took no trip of such length on that sacred
That they might come and GROint
htm.-IIere is another bit of evidence
that they thought Christ was dead. These
spices were to embalm the dead, to keep
it from putrefaction.-FOr it ICGS eC-
ceediHg gredt-It would take at least two
men to roll stone four feet by two,
shaped somewhat like milestone especial
ly when it had been sealed up by the guard.
"A yOung man.-Luke says there were
tlCO. This remarkable appearance may
well have been exaggerated i'll the minds
of some of the disciples who did not see
it. Perhaps these women i'll their haste
did not see the other one standing i'll an
other place.-And they :. 6eijeCed not.
"A pretty strong proof that the story is
not an invention. The testimony of one
was not sufficient for these doubtful dis
ciples.- Unto ttCO Of them.-CleOpas
and another disciple on the way to En-
mauS.
INsTUCTION-Ith has been well said that
on the resurrection of Christ hinges the
Christian faith. Disprove this miracle.
and the belief in immortality has no
stable ground in revelation. 1t would
only exist then in the hope of tortured
hearts. But there is no fact in profane
history better attested than this resurrec-
ton Lawyers are convinced before the
array of direct testimony and circum-
Stantial evidence. Christ was prOnOunc-
ed dead by the Roman centurion. From
the martyrs side flowed blood and water.
This physiological fact in the condition
of the blood proving death by actual
rupture of the heart, a pathological EVIL
dence the ignorant disciples could not
have invented. CrucitiXiOn precluded the
cataleptic trance At the request of zeal
GUS high priests the tomb was sealed and
a Roman guard was stationed to protect
his body from removal and the people
from fraud His disciples had no faith
in their Masters second life. The women
were eager to embalm his decaying body.
1t took his followers some time to believe
the stupendous fact. They were daZed at
the marvel: and it was only when their
reason was convinced that their hearts
and bodies worked for the new Gospel
until their violent death. The Christ who
was placed in a new tomb has given
scientific and satisfactory proof of his
claim for a new faith and spiritual life
based upon new revelation and high
plane.
Christ was no spiritual aristOcrat. He
first cOmfOrted the Mary whom he had
freed from the ban of terrible disease.
He sent Il special message to Peter, who
had Sl1ulked traitor in the courtyard of
Herod. Christ offers to the greatest sin
ner his best comfort and thought.
This lesson brings to close the official
Church study of the life OF Christ until
next year. But while the Sunday school
NAV spend the next six months on the
Old Testament, the student should not
neglect the NelC Testament in his weekly
readings. If necessary, let the parent
mark out so much to be read every week
or every day, so that interest may grow
into greater knowledge, and that in turn
be tranSplanted into Il new life. Let us
not forget, however abStruSe or hard of
explanation the records may seem to be,
that the Christ they delineate IS the cen
tral figure of human history, and that
he has given us the nOblest ideal of prac-
tical life. and that as philosopher, teacher
and human heart he has no peer. But
beyOnd this he is our Saviour, i'll that as
we follow him we lose ourselves.