The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-07-28
rHe SUNDAY SCHOOL.
reter end john Before, the Council-As4s
Ai1-tS---Ju1y 81. 1892.

Peter and joan Before, the Council--Asss
Ai1-tS---Jufy 81. 1892.
Especially Arranged from s. S. Quarteriyl
GOLDEN TsxT.-There Is none other name
under Heaven given among men, whereby we
must be saved Acts 4:12.
CENTRAL TIsUrH-Christ Is the Saviour and
only Saviour Of men l .A
TIME.--Juno, A. d. 30 The same afternoon as
the last lesson, and the day following.
HELPS OVEN HARD P1.ACEs.-i. Captain OF
the tenple" the head Of the band Of Levite
eentinels who kept guard over the temple 3
sEveutide:" IL was three o'clock when the
lame man was healed. IT must now have been
ss late as SIX. O "Annas:" He was the high
priest elected and acknowledged by the people,
while Caiaphas was the legal high priest up
pointed by the Romans T. by what power"
they wished to accuse them OF magic or sorcery,
which was punishable ty death (Ex 2ai1a) 10
Note the boldness OF Potter. who short time be-
fore had denied his Master. II. This is the
stone" etc quoted from Ps. 1924 IL sal
vation:" from SIN to holiness, to Heaven
'None other name:" the name includes al that
there ia In Jesus, Of power, divinity, humanity
sMust be saved" why can we he saved only by
Christi "a He only brings Gods forgiveness
(y The promise Is only through Him (S He
has the power Of the Spirit by which the heart
Is changed (G He Is the sum Of all goodness
10 reject Him Is to reject goodness, and hence
be unsaved Ia ''Thot they had been with
Jesus" they had seen them With Him. and REQ
ognized the manner and the doctrine and the
same kind OF good WORKS 10 1--WE cannot deny
it," facts ore the invincibie argument for Chris
tisnity. Its good works prove Its divine origin
LESSON NOTES
We have to-day a most fascinating
story. The arrest, the imprisonment
and the subsequent trial Of the apostles
At their trial the man whom they had
healed was brave enough to stand with
them, and that was much to his credit.
The very presence of this man was o
great embarrassment to the council;
for they could not deny that great
miracle had been wrought in his case,
since they all knew this man to be the
same as the one whom they had for
years seen at the gate of the temple So
it put them into tight place TO have
him standing before them and bearing
witness to the power of Peter. How
ever, they were not willing to meet the
matter squarely, SO they took council,
and made up their minds that they
would threaten the apostles and forbid
them 70 do any more such deeds In the
name of Jesus This they did, and with
what result we will see in our next
lesson.
At the very first glance we see that
In the persons that come before us some
were for ond so1ne against Jesus Count
up first those who were on the side Of
Jesus There were Peter and John, and
their friend, the quondam lame man
These, so far as we are told, were the
only ones that were ON the side OF the
Master il that council But there We're
many on Ills side who were outside that
council chamber. For, as result of
that miracle, there were many that had
come to believe in Jesus. In the coun-
eli chamber, however, there were many
more against Him than thers were on
his side. In the first place, see there
a familiar face in old Annas. This is the
same one rs He before whom Jesus him
self appeared on that fatal night Then
there was another familiar face, that of
Caiaphas, beside whom there was John
and Alexander, and many OF the
relatives of the high priest Then
there were the seventy who belonged to
the Sanhed1m, so that they far OUT
numbered the adherents of the Master
In that room. The truth was in great
minority, as it has often been since that
day. Yet this in no wey daunted these
plain fishermen, who knew that they
had the truth ON their side, and that
they had done nothing worthy of stripes
or imprisonment So they spoke up
boldly when they were asked by what
authority they had done this good deed.
And moro than this. They dared preach
the truth to that very council that had
condemned their own Master to death,
and who they knew felt anything but
kindly towards them This was grand.
Now look again at that assembled
throng. Some Of them are glad, and
some are sad We might naturally ex-
pect that the men arrested would be
the sad ones, and those who had arrest
ed them would be the glsd ones But,
as a matter of fact, it was just the
other way The council WIS sad.
"grieved" at the power that these men
had; while they were full of JOY over
the good that they had been enabled to
true. For these men had source OF
Joy of which that council knew nothing.
Theirs was spiritual joy, which laid
fast hold ON unseen truths The men
really to be pitted were not the two ar
rested apostles, but the seventy who
had had them arrested
Ever since that day the world has
been divided into two parts, those who
are on the Lords side, and those who
are against Him. We may not openly
have taken our stand against Him as
this council did, but he who is not Oh
His side is really opposed to Him. Now
if you had been at that trial, ON which
side would You have liked to stand: on
that OF Peter and John, or on that Of
Annas and Caiaphas? This is q serious
question, and one that you have IN re-
slity already answered. For all who
are not on the side OF Christ have ranged
themselves with those who, like the
hirh priest and his father-in-law. are