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THE LORDS SUPPER.
LESSON Il, FOURTH QUARTER, lN- TERNATlONAL SERIES, OCT. 12.


 , TERNATiONAL SERIES, OCT. 12. Text If the Lesson, Luke xxii, 7-2O. Commit Verses 19, 2O-Golden Text, Cor. xii, 26-Commentary by Rev. ID. M. Steasns.
 tCompiAd from Lesson Helper Quarterly by per. mission of H. s. Hoffman, publisher, Philadel phia.l
 We pass by many most interesting incl dents in the last days ere the crucidxion, and all His great discourse on the Mount of Olives concerning His coming again and the end of the age, and are brought in this lesson to His last passover with His disci- ples the night before He was crucif1ed.
 2. 'Then came the day of unleavened bread when the passover must be killed" Or, as in the first verse, 1.-The feast of un- leavened bread drew nigh which is called the passover" This takes us back to Elk. xii, where we have the record of the last night in Egyptian bondage and their de. hverance by the mighty power of God
 g. "And He sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat" These two we have found spe- cially privileged on several other occasions: at the raising of the rulers daughter
 
 find them again in Gethsemane. They also are the prominent two in Acts iii and iv in connection with the healing of the lame man and the conversion of five thousand. 9. "And they said unto Him, where wilt Thou that we prepare?" This is as it al- ways should be with disciple of Christ. Where wilt Thou? What wilt thou? Not as I will, but as Thou wilt. Thy way, not Mine. 10. 'And He said unto them, Behold, when ye are entered into the city, there shall man meet you bearing pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he en- tereth in." As when He told them by His omniscience just where and how they would find the ass and the colt; and as when Sam uel by the same omniscient spirit told Saul just whom he would meet and what they would say and do Quke xix, 30; 1 Sam. X, 2-9). So now knowing all things He di- rects them.
 H. "And ye shall say unto the good man of the house, The Master saith unto thee, where is the guest chamber, where shall eat the passover with my disciples~ He not only tells us when and where to go and how to act, but He also tells us what to say. In the gospel by John He very often speaks of Himself as sent by the Father, and not only so, He says the Father gave
 
 and what He should speak John xii, 49). So when He sends His disciples He tells them just what to say (Matt. X, 2, 19; Luke xix, SD. When the prophets were sent forth they, too, were specially instructed to speak only the Lords message Der. 1, q; Ezek- ii, 2; flag. i, 13). And we'll would it be for all preachers and teachers if they were always the Lords messengers, speak ing the Lords message.
 12 "And he shall show you a large up per room furnished; there make ready" Forget not from the last verse that He must enter the house as master; and see again the oneness of Christ and His disciples. Father, I will that those whom thou hast given me be with me where l am" (John Xvii, 24). Here is 8 willing owner of . house; 1t looks as if he must be disciple; he will offer large furnished room, and do 1t cheerfuTly. Are our homes as cheerfully placed at the Masters disposal, and is every thing excluded from the home that He would not Hkes
 18. "And they went and found as He had said unto them; and they made ready the passover" Prompt and cheeful obedience is our part as His followers.
 A. '1And when the hour was come, He Aet down, and the twelve apostles with Him" With God there is time for every thing, and He is never too fast nor too slow. "When the fullness of time had come He sent forth His Son." He has appointed . day in the which He will judge the world" (Gal. iv, 4; Acts xvii, SD. Many a time they tried to take Jesus to put Him to death, but they could not touch Him till the appointed time came, and then He gave Himself into their hands. As to our saliva ton, the time Is now; today, if ye will hear His voice; the hour now is, when they that hear shall live Qsa. i, IS; II Cor. vi, g; Heb. iii, 15; John V, 25.
 Is. "And He said unto them, With de- sire have desired to eat this passover with you before suffer-" or, as in the margin, II have heartily desired" We think of Him at the passover, at the age of 12 and at the first passover of His public ministry. We look away back to the first passover in Egypt, and think of the one in the wilderness, and at Gilgal, and the great ones of Hezekiah and Josiah and Ezra; but this one which He desired so greatly to eat with them was the greatest of all, for 1t was the fulfllment of all, and He who now $ ate 1t with them was on the morrow to be Himself slain, the great antetype of all the passovers that were ever kept, the true Lamb of God in whom alone Is redemption and dehverance from the great oppressor.
 16 "For say unto you, will not any more eat thereof until it be fulfilled in the Kingdom of God" If He is the true Paschl Lamb, and His death about to be accomplished, the fulhllment of all the types, then what is this that He says about . fuhllment in the Kingdom of God? Il the church is the Kingdom, as so many teach, and the Kingdom has already come then let some one who so believes please explain th1s verse. But If the Kingdom Ii postponed till His return, as He taught 1T chap. xix, Ills; and if at His return there is to be great gathering of Israel, iron Ill the corners of the earth, as all the prophets teach, and if it shall be according to the days of their coming out of Egypt O1c. vii, 1b), then 1t seems to me all plain
 n. "And He took the cup, and gav' thanks, and said, Take this and divide i among yourselves"
 1S. "For say unto you, will not drinl of the fruit of the vine until the Kingdom of God shall come" Then shall all Isfaeli fast days become joy and gladness ant cheerful tsasts. Then the ransomed of th, Loud shall- return and come to Zion witl songs and everlasting joy upon their heads They shall obtain joy and gladness, anG sorrow and signing shall flee away.
 19 And He took bread and gay, thanks, and brake it. and gave 9ntt e3ven for you, this do in remembrance O 0a." Having kept the passover He,nov institutes new feast which we call Tn Lords Supper, or The Communion
 2Q "Likewise also the cup after supper saying, This cup is the new testament il My blood which is shed for you" In tn, saine sense that He is the door, the true the bread and wine His body and blood and we partake of each in grateful remem brance of His sufferings for us, whereb, we become members of His body; and lool forward to His coming when we shall b perfected in His likeness Let us, whe1 we paxtake of the wine, think of His bloot shed for us, and pray to be such faithfu wttnesses that we shall be willing to sea cur testimony with our blood, not loving our lives unto the death