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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON VII, THIRD QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, AUG. 20.

Text oftho Lesson. Acts xiv. 1o-@5-Mem-
DRY Verses, 14-iG-GoIden Text, I Cor.
xvi, 13--Commentary by the Rev. u. NJ.
Stcarns.
TO- "Then Paul, after that the governor
| had beckoned unto him to speak, an
swercd." Last week we left Paul about to
address the people from the castle stairs
! Just after his arrest. The next day he is
brought before the Jewish council, but
both the address from the stairs and his
words befo,e the council caused such an
uproar that the chief captain had to rescue
and care for him. The next night the Lord
stood by him and strengthened him
tchapter xii, ~. Then because of plot
to kill him he is sent under a strong escort
| to CHsarea In this lesson he is before the
governor Felix, and also the high priest
and elders who have come from Jerusalem
to appear against him. They have just &C
cuScd him, and now he is about to answer
for himself
II. "l'here are yet but twelve days since
went up to Jerusalem for to worship" The
story of this book then from chapter xxi, 10,
to this event occupied but 12 days, but how
full they were for PAUL Consider the last
II hours of the Lord Jesus ere He was nailed
and how large portion of each gospel is
taken up with the record. Whether our
hours or days mean much or little let all be
for Him.
II And they neither found me in the
temple disputing with any man, neither
raising up the people, neither in the syna-
gogues, nor in the city" So that their ac-
cusations, even though made by Orator
Tertullus, were all lies. 1t is very trying
to be publicly accused of things of which
you are perfectly innocent, but it is very
clarifying to God if one can be patient UNI
der such circumstances q Pet. ii, 1921; iv,
l4).
ID. Neither can they prove the things
whereof they now accuse me-" Only lies
and not a particle of foundation. But so it
was with Jesus Himself, and He answered
nothing Mark XIV, 80, giving us an ex-
ample as to how we ought to act. 1t is well
sometimes to be as deaf and dumb Us.
xviii, 49, lN.
IA. SO worship the God of my fathers,
believing all things which are written in
the law and in the prophets" And yet
that was counted heresy because he be-
eved the word of God rather than mans
Interpretation of that word. In some quar-
ters it is counted kind of heresy to SO be-
lieve in these days, but we are surely safe
in following Him who said, "All things
must be fulfilled which were written in
the law of Moses, and in the prophets and
in the Psalms concerning me-"
Is. And have hope toward God. which
they themselves also allow, that there shall
be resurrection Of the dead, both of the
just and unjust" Some of the most inn
rection ora rohx;v o. 81 MARGIN. lisa wi
10. Hos vi . and nan Vii .
~ "And Leroin do / oxorciee n,rso1f 70
bavo ol,yors corsciorco ,,oi,I Of offonsa+,,,
ward cod and toward mon y Rnlieving and
ta.cbing Tint all the saints chill uoet tha
ord in thn mir and he Mt the iudgment scat
of Christ II Tboes iv 1G II. Rom Wv 10.
n Cor v 1m tn hn unload for tboir works
pauI eonobt ca tn live tb.t in that dav bia
works might not no hrrnod Nm or iicon,
moved n Cor III r. x o. r W
II "No,v nftar many vonrs car,a IN
hring aims IN NV ration and offerings y
As from Antioch (chanter ii % 3M 81
from other ploces the saints sent thank of
ferincs ia Jerusalem for If Jerusalem sent
them the rood nows If Jesus the Neeeiab
II wac hrt ,io,bt that tbev eborId reney,.
hor Tho eainte tboro in ten,noraI aifts
is "Wherrnnon certain Jews from Asia
found mo r,,rifad IN tho tan,rIa nai+har
was No f,ro,Ind for his arrest evcert tboir
hatred Of tLo man and his tearhinT He
teacbing was strictiv ScrintnroI and hearti,
" Endorsed Inv tbo ord Jesus IIimseIf
(cbnnters viii o 10 viii ~ ca that thoir
hatred was ro.lIv n hatred Of Cod and IIis
truth ON comfort "a that IL faithful to
Him we must exnect felIowshin in His suf.
ferings n ,nkex ~. John Wv 2ol
10 ..Nybo ore,bt RI have been hero before
tbee ard ohioct - tboy had ouoht agsinst
me y Knoyvino tbnv could nroye notbing
thew tho,1e,bt hast not to anreor In v;eIv
~ o+onr;t7 40 ,ta ;ndcr,nont cont ,,hot
solid com fort +bora is IN tho words ,.If Cod
ho for ne ,,,ho' nar, ha oooinst ,,ss, "IVbo
sbalI ,av anrth;n1r 70 The charge Of God,s
eIectn fPonr viii 81 e9I2
Oh "Or eIee lar tbese CANA bere sov IL
thew have found arv evil doino in me willie
} | STOOD heforo tha council ~ His anneor.
ance before Tho oor,cil and tho bannenipg s
there are recorde1 in cbanter viii 10 II