The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-08-06
CHHiST'S AUTHORITY.
international sunday-Schoo1 Lesson FOR
August o, 1891.


LESSON TExT.-John 517-30.
GOLDEN TExL-An power is given unto Me In
Heaven end in earth.-Matt 2S:1S.
CENTRAL TRUTu.-We have q Saviour with
oil the authority and power necdful for our sal
TTNE-Probubly at the Passover season,
March go to April 5, A. d. 2S
PLAcE-Jerusacm. The pool Of Bethesda
wes either the large pool near st. Stephens
! gate, east Of Jerusalem, or the fountain OF tho
Virgin near the pool Of Sloan, south OF ther
| temple.
! l:irrRvENING HIsroRv.-Jesus remained twos-
| DAYS ct s5ychsr, thon went on to Galilee, nnd
| cured a nobleman's son. OF the next three
| months there is no record Then Jesus went to-
| Jerusalem to tho Passover, and healed an impo-
tent man Of the pool OF Bethesda, which mira
| Gle occasioned the discourse OF todays lesson.t
| HELPS OVER HARD PLACEs-17 Answered;
them:" for their complaints that He had cured
O man on tie Sabbath. my Father worketh"
etc. has rested from creation, but is working
| for redemption. jesus was doing the sarne'
kind of work. 10. "The Son:'' the Messiah.
| the Son CT God come in the flesh forming by
| the union the divine man Christ Jesus. G
| "Greatcr works than thcse:' miracles they
| had seen-works of saving mon, OF giving sptr~
| itual life, Gs az Pcntecost 81. "R2seth up the
dead:" both spiritual and physical. quick.
| cneth:- rnaketh olive. - "Judgeth no man:
except through the Son. "All Judgment unto
the Sons" who as partakcr OF human nature.
would be seen to eynpathize with them; as
dying for them, would be known to love them
tldgc rerfcctly. e5. '"Tbe dead shall hear tho
voicc:" this must refer to tle spiritual resur-
rection. 1t had enc fulnllrcnt at Pentecost-
sen Of God:" q Divine Saviour, with all Wis
dom and power ever drawing upward N-
son CT man. 30 as to syrnpath!ze with man.
be known By man, die as man to make atone
rnout GO Hour Is coraing:" this refers to the
physically deed, 30. 'Danhation: condenha-
Ton, as in '. "a
Lesson COMMENTS.
When come to write q lesson, 1 al
ways think that have aclass of boys in
front of me, and l say to myself: "How
can | SO teach this Lesson that these :
boys may get eo-nc Eood from it?" The
lesson to-day is hard enc, for it has no
narrative in it, and the themes to which
it refers are not such as naturally in
tcrest boys. All the more need then
for careful preparation, so that some
thing may be said that shall help them.
As read these verses recognize that
the Master is speaking of two very i'm
portait things, namely: physical life
and spiritual life. These arc the pivots
on which. then. my teaching must turn.
When we are sick, what is it that we
most drcad2 Death. Yes; and the rea--
son that in case OF severe sickness we
call the doctor, is that we may escape
troIl death The fsct Is that all men
everywhere have done all that lies in
their power to nullify the power of
death All doctors, hospitals, medi-
cines, health resorts, bear witness to
the anxiety to escape from death. The
recent excitement over the 'Koch'
remedy for consumption arose from the
feet that there were many thousands of
sufferers all over the world, who
hoped by means of his remedies
r. 4y,.% II 1sA1,
was slowly doing them to death
So absorbingly anxious were all these
sufferers to be benefited in this way,
that we nre told that for months ahead
all the sleeping cars that ran from the
:" Riviera, where many of these persons
. were trying to be healed, to Berlin,
Y were engaged. Yes, all mankind IS
anxious to escape from that dread
% %; enemy, death. Ave sometimes hear that
e, dying is paying the debt Of nature ~
" but that is not ts.o. Dsath Is the debt,
=" not of nature, but of sin. For, as we
7, shall soon see, if there We're DO sin,
i there would have boen no death. -
II Yes, in spite of all these fierce eff
To- To- forts to escape from death, no one will
succeed. For awhile we may stay its
= progress, but in the end death always
w ,
New York is great city, and London a
larger, but there are larger cities than
either of these, for outside of then both
lie the cities of the dead, and they grow
steadily. Millions, and thousands of
millions lie there, and the professions
TO them never cease. And will it ever
be SO? No. For the lesson tells us that
the time is coming when all that are in
their graves shall come forth. Christ
has power over death, and at the end
will show this power, and then not one
of those who have been laid away will
remain in the grave. This is one Of the
- precious truths that we find the Master
proclaining in this lesson. Not always
will death triumph The great cities
\ of the dead shall one day be broken up.
y and life take She place of death.
But the death Of the body Is not all
us that the blessed Master speaks of in
na al these verses. He also speaks Of the
y death of the soul. Men are spiritual
- ly dead. For example, when
m we see q man given over to sloth, 30
NJ that he makes no effort in any way 70
'uI better himself, we say that man is dead
Fl to ambition. He Is SO little swayed by
n it, that he feels no motive power in
g. clining him to do anything to help him
8 self. SO when q boy insists on telling
~ that which is untrue, and cannot be
% taught to speak tho truth, we say he is
dead to the truth. In the same way q
= man may be dead to shame, or dead to
ary gratitude, or to friendship. By this, we
ai mean that he hos no appreciation Of
Pc any of thsss things They exist, but
81 not for him. Well In the same way q
o. man may be dead to spiritual things. SO
- that while they exist he has pothin2
IN n,t' ~ uo SiUr SneM ~ .i.o eonun :N:a t.'s
III, mankind is to-day. The golden rule
'ed has no ATTRACTION for them. and thew