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COMMENTS ON THE LESSON.
The Independent.
The Christian religion. as historical
revelation, is founded on the resurrection
of Jesus Christ But for that it would
have been nothing moro than scot OF the
Jews. moral philosophy based on the Ser
mon on the Mount. Through the resurrec-
ton it became the glorious hope of the
world.
Christs resurrection is the pledge of our
resurrection. If Jesus died and rose again.
We shall rise again also. So we may say
that Jesus has brought life and immor-
tality to light by His gospel, the gospel OF
His resurrection.
In our modern thought of Christianity
We do not make near so much of Christs
resurrection as the apostles did. putting
the emphasis on His death instead. While
Paul spoke often of the blood of Christ.
yet he had as much or more to say of the
power of the resurrection. That resurrec.
Christ be not risen We have no more hope
OF the future than others. Paul asked why
he should be so ready to suffer persecution
II 1t were not for his expectation of
resurrection like his Masters.
Christs resurrection was proved by His
repeated appearances. He was in spirit
ualized body. 1t was necessary that the
risen Christ should make Himself visible
to the senses. Our resurrection has its
chief value in the assurance that death is
immortality Of the soul ss practically the
same as resurrection. The soul lives: the
body dies. When we die we are then to be
with the Lord in Paradise.
We must not undertake to know too much
about our resurrection and future state.
The fact is enough that we do not die
when the body dies. and that We shall be
forever in glory with Christ, If We serve
God. But we should be careful not to
speculate too much about the nature of the
resurrection of the body, or the time of
Christ's second coming, nor should we try
too exactly to define how much is literal
and how much figurative in what is said
about our resurrection.
In Jesus Characterization there is neither
male nor female Women were first at the
sepulcher. Women were among the
prophets, if they were not among the apoe-
ties. The basis of Christs commonwealth
is not the state, nor the family, but the
individual.
OF General Interest
The Southern Baptist Convention will
hold It's thirty-seventh session forty
Friday. May eth.
1t is reported that DR.. William NJ Taylor
pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle Church,
Now York city, will be invited to take the
place of Rev. Dr.. Cairns. principal of the
United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh.
Scotland.
To the Chicago Free Kindergarten Asso.
citation request has just come from Bonn
bay, India for samples of Bible cards used
by the association In it's free kindergar.
tens This institution is doing an excellent
work, and this adoption of its method for
imparting religious instruction IS only one
of many tributes to it's practical and effi-
cient way of doing things.
The members of the Young Mems Chris
tian Association had sentinels at ell the
Protestant churches in Decatur. ILL.,. on
Sunday, March "a. They reported that eO7
men were at church, of whom 616 were
night during one hour the same sentinels
stood at the doors of twenty EIGHT saloons
in tho city and counted !, S85 who had en-
tered tho ealoons. OF that number 160 were
old mon and thirty three were women.
The Catholic Review says that II the
Douay version Of the New Testament with
ont any omission or change. they will be
glad to SEQ 100000 copies distributed
among the Catholics of the United States.
",nn fear of H9ly ,5s the
Society will sell this book for ten cents q
COPY or give copies away for nothing. the
Review promises to freely advertise their
purpose and assist them in carrying 1t out.
aiw avs on condition that they produce an
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gsrbled, nor multilated, nor padded"
Professionalism In Europe predominates in
Great Britain, Denmark. Sweden, Norway,
the Netherlands. Switzerland md the Ger
man empire, while Roman Catholicism is
the principal religions faith in Italy. Spain,
Portugal. Belgium. France and Austria. In
Ireland there are 1,155,0O0 Professionals. and
about 1900. 900 Catholics. Italy. Spain and
Portugal are almost wholly Catholic, while
Denmark, Sweden, Norway and the Meth
erlands are almost entirely Protestant. In
Switzerland two-thirds of the population
are Protestants, and In Scotland there are
only about $4,000 Roman Catholics. and
only about five million and q half in all
Great Britain and Ireland.
The extent of foreign mission work is
not generally appreciated. There are
fifty.One Protestant societies in the United
States devoted to the foreign missions. be-
side more than ten individual undertak-
ings of the kind and thirty women's boards,
which. together. support 5000 male and
female missiona aries in the field and II, COO
native workers, and expend s., 0OO, 900 an
nually. Similar organizations in Europe
send out 1900 workers and employ AZ. 900
native missionaries. and devote 81. SOC. 900 to
the cause each year. Missionary workers
of tho world are spread over the entire
Globe about three hundred being stationed
in Africa. 900 in India. nearly six hundred
in China and more than ono hundred each
in Mexico, South America. Japan and other