The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-10-21
Christ Comforting HIS Disciples.

| The lesson for Sunday, Oct. 25, may be
found In John IA: Ia, and 1927.
INTRODUCTORY.
"Whcre l am" Is Jesus word here and
| that "where," through all the long GEN.
turtles. has been his. His In actual Iealika-
! ton, ours by faiths anticipation. We
sometimes long to know what IL is and to
penetrate the veil. But that word OF
Christ is sufficient for us: "Whither go We
know the way (RevisiCn) Where is the
truer translation. for il Is the same word
as is quoted at the opening OF this para
| graph. "Where l go.n That "wheren IL Is
not ours as yet to know. But this we do
know, and for the present it Is enough--the
way Hear him: IL am the way"
WHAT THE LESSON SAYS.
Troubled First meaning shaken or agl-
| tated, as OF water. used or Christ at John
H. - and 10: 81 --BclieN Q In God. Greek,
into God implying deliberate allegiance.
Believer. also. The Bible Union version
seems NEARER the Greek: And believe. See
| Variations.
| large estate or establishment CT "a house
divided against ITSELF Matt IL: Co.
| Mansions From the verb t. remain (meno)
hence u dwelling place, home. III it
were not so. Greek, IL not go. Bet
ter. For l go. 10th. TO prepare. The
word for putting in readiness with special
pains. CT. IL have prepared my dinner"
| Matt. %: 4.
1 will come Better. as In Revision, /
come again, OF, better still, l am coming
again. Present tense. To myself The
| proposition OF nearness, pros There we
may be also. The Greek is terse and force
full: That where I am also we may be.
Keep. Rather, Ye will keep. See Vari-
ations.
"Pray." Greek, to make inquiry. Same
word used at John 12: Fl ("desired him,n)
1. @. asked. See Variations. --Comforter
Greek, Paraclete, one called to the
| sstance of another.
Even the spirit OF truth. Omit the word
even, so connecting 1t. us in the. Greek,
NOR closely with what r cedes. Receive.
In the sense of cordia reception. AS where
at John g. 81, "They willingly received
him into the ship."--Knoweih him. 1. e.
recognize.
Spoken or talked, OF familiar converse.
With you The proposition, para, by
the side OF.
Name. The idea OF favor. credit, char
acter.-Teach. The word applied to
| instructors in the schools. -Whatsoever
l have said. or what / said excluding,
doubtless, the things intimated or pre-
dicted.
/ leave. Same word as in V. Is. In the
sense of dismissal. He passed it over to
them from himself their especial pos
session. This, indeed, is not the worlds
giving Afraid. Same word an>lated
fearful at Matt. 8: 26. ("Why are ye fear
ful?")
WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES.
Believe In God, believe also in me. Take
1t either way; conditionally: IL we believe
in God, we believe also I'm me Or impera-
lively: Believe in God, believe also in me.
The ma or implication is the same. God
faith is Christ-faith. To know God is also
TO know Christ. Indeed without the lattei
we have not the former "No man cometh
unto the Father but by me- 1t is interest
ing to note in this connection how glibly
statements are made to the contrary by So
called free thinkers, the Central Music hall
pulpit not long since declaring that without
! doubt men found their way to God unled Of
Christ. They find their way somewhere, but
not to God He who finds God comes con-
scously or unconsciously by way of Christ.
He Is that Light (which lighteth every
man, every man that seeks after God.
Many mansions. A home with many
rooms. There are apartments for ALL
adapted and prepared In loving Kindness
for every one. There Is "a children's room
there, we fancy, and mothers room. In
these mansions fair we shall yet see the
| loved ones gone before in the faith of
Christ And the babes that slipped away
from reluctant arms here shall be found
again there kept under better than a moth
er's care Mansions OF light they are with
windows that look all ways. We have just
been putting away from earth's pain an
aged servant OF the cross. How often no
used to ask us OF things we could not tell
him. But now he knows better than we
| can know. And up there we shall know
and know we are known.
He dweileth with you and shall be i'm you.
1t is from grace to grace; with you is good;
in you Is better. With us i companion
Ship in US Is glory. Someone was asking
the other day, "Shall we pray to the Holy
Spirlt?" Pray to the Lord Jesus. Or pray
to the Father In the name OF the Son. He
who honors the Son honors the Spirit The
| gracious Shirt himself.
but he takes Of the things of Christ and re-
veals them unto us. When we eXalt Christ
we are obeying the wooings OF the Spirit,
and this is the Spirits highest glory.
| Wherever Christ is, just there is the Spirit,
and the Spirits manifestation is Christ In
us. IL was in the very next breath after
the promise OF the Spirit that Jesus said
IL Will come TO you"
Because live ye shall live also. Let us
read IL rs In the Tischendorf text, Because
! live and we shall live. This is the reason
why we shall see him, because we live
both he and we and he in us. 1t is also the
| reason why the world does not sec him; ~
does not live In him. There is no union OF
thought and purpose. And so, after ALL
the sentiment Is the same by either read
! Ing: Christ Is our life. Only let us not
miss the strong accent OF the passage. we
live. An essential part of the work OF
| grace Is IL that new life is manic cd I'm
Us. Christ's peace Is left now for US to ex-
ercise. We have grown careless about IT,
| We have thought some magical life were
being lived somewhere for us. IL there Is
any eternal life that Is ours IL IS not away
of somewhere in the heavens, but IL Is
here and now I'm us. Christ in us the hope
OF glory.
He will keep my words. This the secret
OF IL all. ale said he would" spoke the
child, sand that Is enough" Yea, verify,
II the word be kept we take these precepts
and promises OF Christ and hide them In
our hearts just as the soul is taken bare and
plain in the depths of the soil. AS we take
them, guard them, keep them, presently
they shape themselves into bread and
! blessing, and God and Christ are revealed
TO us In the kept word. The way Is clear; IL
Is open to every one Here Is Christ's
promise I'm his book: "That ye might have
llfe.n al will give you rest" "That my Joy
might remain in you,n AMY peace give"
Now let faith lay hold OF this simple word.
Take IL and keep it believingly and so
Christ is with us. and with the Father no
has come I'm to make his abode with us.