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! PREACHING CHRIST.
LESSON X, THIRD QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, SEPT. q.
Text of tho Lesson, Acts viii, 5-25-Mem-
DRY Verses, 5-S-Golden Text, Acts viii,
s-Commentary by the Rev. ID. NJ.
Stearns.
QUARTERLY MISSIONARY LESSON


QUARTERLY MISSIONARY LESSON
5. Then Philip went down to the city
of Samaria, and preach Christ unto them"
| BY comparing verses a. IL, % with this
verse we obtain considerable light as to
what was preached in those days. the
Word, the Gospel Christ, the things con
corning the kingdom; and if we compare
chapters ii, %; " 36, ~, 40; xvii, IS, 80, we
will find that their preaching included re-
| pentance, forgiveness, peace, resurrection
| and Judgment.
6, And the people with one accord gave
| heed" just eleven times in this book dove
find the phrase with one accord" ii, IA; ii. /,
| 4G iv, p; Y, -; vii, 81; viii, e; xii, 90; Ky,
IS; xviii, 10; xix, 2o); and only once else
wheyc in the New Testament is the word
used 0Rom. XIV, 6, r. ". Seven times in
| the Acts it is zone accord" for good. and
! these seven make a most profitable study.
! 1t is the manifest power of the Holy Spirit.
I. "&lany taken with paIsies and that
were lame were healed" These, in addi
ton to the unclenn spirits which were cast
out, we n sample of the miracles wrought
! by God through Philip, which constrained
the people to give heed to his words.
S. "And there was great Joy in that city"
| This is always the result Of receiving Je-
sus. Those who bclieVe-that i, receive
! Him ,.John i, 12) will be filed with joy and
/ peace from. XIV, 49,, and it is His pleasure
that we should be full of JOY John XIV, III
xvi, 90.
O "Brt there WINS n certain man caI,ed
simon givinp ont tbnt himself was some
grcot ono y Thc adversary is ALWAYS busv
and Won cou always recognize him bv tbe
prominence he oivcs himself. This is the
shirt of anticbrist See Dan. viii II o..
ri ~. Iulo iv e : Thc shirt Of Teens is
to ohnea self and homo. t;o1 LTobn viii oe
40. vvii a.
10 $40 whom, tbav all rave heed from,
tbo Io,.t othn ,,ro,ts.t c3vino This n,,,,
, i. tho ,,ro.t no,vnr of God > 4 ,,ro,t fnl.
lo,in,, io no r,onf ti,,t = man i. ,i,h, nav
ore f,,v follo,var. rnce.snrilv an evidenro
tb,t :. n,,n ic wrnn,, Consider Enoh
1er.miah and thn nroI,hets and tbinl. Of
/ Iosrs Himself Jobn II 6G>
II "ua Ind hetv,itcbod then, with cor
ceries " So it has been. is and will be tiIl
.Iesus comes .Iesus spcaks of Sims bv
false to,cbcrs in tho Inst dovs tb,t, sLoI1 If
no..il,ln Iocaiv, tLn ,1or+ Nt,,tL WIZ. on
and we road in Rav viii 2 { Of mI,ItitnLo,
,yor.Iirin,, rho ho,,t md IN II TLn.s Il
o-11 If Hose who nrnfor a lie TO tho trrth
10 "Hut whom tLrr believed pbili,
nrnoching the thipus concnrnin,, tho limo.
dom of God and tbc ra,un of .Iesne ChriIf
tbe, ,vora hnutiz.d hot, mon ond u.,,,,o,, ),
Tbn recDntinn of tho truth il tho c,,,,, fo-
all dncention Tbav NOT only beord hnt
thev received thr trutb or ratbe, thrv ro.
crivad Insus who is tho truth dom viz.
G. John Y. II. -, The entrance of the
word piveth lipht Cps cxiy. 1901
n "Thpn simon himself hetieva1 olso.
and when he was bautizrd he continued
with philinu The mower of Cod ie ohIato
break the hardest heart some doubt
wbet thi, was a real case Of true CONVEX
sion or NOT Wnsb,ll meet INN n,,ir h,,+
now observe that he believed. was bantized
and continued,
IA Is "Prter and John nraved for then,
that. they mirbt receive the iolv Gbn.t ;;
Word having reached .Telusulem Of the
GREAT work poin,, ON in Sonaria Peter md
John were sent to help. and inasmucb MS
they had received the word thev givo
themselves ia PRAYER that they may now,
receive the IGDIy Shirt
1G .For ms vet He was Fallen, rpon
| nome of them. only they were hantizad i'm
the name of the Lord .Ir.usn Having mo-
Heved and been bautized thew were conse-
oueutlv saved NIork xvi III. Jobni -.
iii. l6. V. 24 But we ara saved to servo
and live INTO Gol II Tbess O. II Cor
v IN and for this life and service we ,..d
the snecal ritt If the HOLY Snirit which
ca few care about
y "Then laid tbev tboir hands an than,
and they received tbe HOLY Ghost y So
also mt Ephe,us Paul laid his hands On
tvplve men who Lod heli.v4d and tbev 20.
cejycd the Holy Ghost and nro,,besiod
(chapter xix. G. y There is evidently =
Gift of the Shirt f,,,, saved neonIa fo, ..,,ico
Of which we hear comnnrativcIv liftIn.
and vet there i = nlain commend to "Do
fuad with tho Sniritu fTrnb " ,s Coatba
way in Luke ri IA
Is. 10 "Give me also this mower that y,
whomsoeyer Law hands he NAV receive
the HOLY Ghost - We now return r. simon
of whom we read in verse - that he bo
licved, was bautized and continued with
phiIip WONDERING and hoboIdine, Ana
now he offers money that he NAV ohtain
This mower to c,nfer tho snirit IIa doas
NOT seek mower to snrvo C;nd in humility,
Xxx. 1W. but rather seeks to he q ,,re,t one
oud boyo ,,c,,.o,. >, ;