Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1890-10-30
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
AN INTERESTING AND INsTRUC-
TIVE LESSON.

and Prohtably.
The lesson for Sunday, Nov. 81, may bo
found In Luke %; 54-7i.
INTRODUCTORY.
This was notable night In our Lords
ministry. The lesson before US is the fourth
regarding events which occurred In this
brief period OF time. The three succeeding
lessons embrace the incideDts Of that yet
more notable day which followed.
WHAT THE LESSON NAYS.
Then took they him, or moro correctly,
laid hold of him. IL was forcible arrest.
Led him. or conducted him, as OF Cno
under custody. lie had submitted himself
to the wrath of man.--High priests house,
Caiaphas. Here the preliminary Jewish
trial was to take place.--And Peter IL Is
evident that Peters conduct on this &C.
caslon much impressed the other disciples.
Kindled IA fire. 1t was about Two o'clock
in the morning, about the coolest hour of
the twenty -four.-In the midst OF the
hall In q chatting dish, such as were used
then TO take of the chill.--Sat down to-
gether. The soldier guard and rabblc, In
Guiding Peter. Bad company.
A certain maid. A menial about tho
court. The word is sometimes translated
female slavc.-As he sat by the fire. The
light of it's flames disclosing him TO her
gaze. She seems to have edged about TO
get a better sight of him.-Earnestly
looked upon him. At last getting a coed
straight look at him. The word means to
eye narrowly.-This man was also with
him. More literally and graphically, And
this man was with him. A shrill cry with
finger pointed right at him.
He denied, or said no. The quick prompt
Ing OF earthly lf-interest.-Woman, l
know him not. Doubtless spoken 20 turn
away the fierce glances of those about. Let
us imagine ourselves In his place, ere we
denounce.
Another Evidently man, from the
gender used. There were several who had
bcheld the apostolic company In their walks
with the Master.-Thou art also of them,
/. e., OF those attached to the person of
Christ.
Another. Also man (autos). Conf
IDENTIFY affirmed. Without peradventure.
a Galilean. An added evidence OF his
completely.
| know not what thou sayest. Perhaps
with reference TO the Galilean dialect to
which the man had adverted. Then, as the
other people tells us he cursed and swore,
as IL to let thcm know that his was another
language entirely. Certainly IL was not the
language of Canaan.
Turned and looked. AS ho could do
through the open corridor.-Remembere
The cock according to Mark, had already
crowed twice, but IL was not until the third
crow that the words of Christ came back
to him.
Went out. Counting himself doubtless a
very reprobate.--Wept bitterly, 1. e., with
keenness of remorse, his penitence, like
David's, the saving clause.
The men who held Jesus. The brutal
soldiery. him. Or, played with
him. They made him the butt of their rid
iculc.-Smote him. The word literally
means 70 thrash or cudgel, used OF violent
WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES.
And Peter followed afar off. This was the
man that said but few hours before In
quick impulsiveness, ."Lord, am ready TO
go with thee, bot n into prison and to death.n
With thce-here was his opportunity. 1t
was either prison or death There goes the
Christ with his tormentors. And now where
Is Peter? With his Lord? No, skulking
there in the background afraid OF his own
shadow. presently denying his identity and
even his acquaintance. All, well, we take
courage. II out of such unworthy. crumbiy
rock as this God can build his church, then.
brother, friend, the worst OF us can come,
and God will make us over into something
tried and sure.
And the Lord turned and looked upon
Peter. That suf1iced. just a. look out OF
those tender eyes. What reDroof was in
them! O those looks OF Christi That look
when as it iswritten, ale behcld them (his
rejectors) and said, what is this then that is
written? The stone which the builders re-
jccted, the same IS become the head OF tho
corner.n That look indeed just moment
since In the garden when but casting his
eye on his molesters they foil back as IL
gaze upon them from the flashing glories
OF ms tnrUrIv JuoBnrvrvs- nv wtfnr a sosss
rcbuking face that Peter saw, and had IL
been the last glance he had from our ea-
vior's eye we may well say 1t would have
broken his heart. But that look of love by
the SC an, that mended all. Such face,
IL Is ours To behold to-day, ours though like
Peter we have paiued the Savior's heart
with swift denial
Prophesy who Is 1t that smote thee. o
vile men, buffetlng and mocking the Son OF
God Alas, wild, reckless destroyers OF
their own peace, for every blow on that pure
face was a stroke levelcd at their own eter-
nal comfort and happiness. How they must
have felt IL at the lastl How they shall
shrink at the thought Of 1t when confronted
by the Lamb upon the thronel @Prophesy
who It is that smote thee,n they said self
complacently, tauntingly. Poor fools, be
saw 1t all. They think they arc dcriding
the son. ale that sitteth in the heavens
shall laugh. The Lord shall have them In
derisionn Have a care. blasphcmous haters
of God. What you think to-do behind the
back the Lord Jehovah beholds. He knows
who smites him. You cannot blindfold
God!
Hereafter. IL is an appeal from the now
TO the then; rom the present with Its harsh
and unreasonable antagonism, to the future
with its clear, flooding light that shall ST.
lence all opposition. There was no reason
for Christ to tell his torment0rs, Tor, as no
occasion for him to ask OF them, for they
would not, and indeed could not, In their
wretched though unwilling poverty, answer.
Straight away he turns from them I'm their
reprobacy TO the solemn realities OF tho
Judgment scene: @Hereafter shall the Son
of man Sit on the right hand OF the power OF
God.p Think OF IL n moment. It Is peril
TO which all who withstand God are liable.
AT any moment he may turn away from
your obstinacy to the great bar OF Cod
Your day Of grace gone, henceforth simple
Justice for his vlndlcatlon there is at the
same time the condemnation OF his enemies.
What need we any further witnessI Yes,
IL was enough. Christ's own witness TO
himself is sufficient. His testimony In IT.
self is unanswerable. To those who be-
lieve it not, it means Chrlst's crucihxion by
wicked hands and willful. To those who
believe It, it signifies his exaltation and
rIorIncation i'm the hearts faith and dovo-
ton In the word, In nature, In providence.
I'm experience, I'm conscience there Is the
hea ven wrought UThou sayest IT," Jesus
Christ is revealed demonstrably AS the SON
| OF God. 9what need we any further Wit
ness?p The only question now Is the per-
| sonal one, awhat shall do with Jesus who
| Is called the Christie
Next Week.-aJesus before fiiate ana
| Herodn Luke 90; lila.
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