The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-06-01
The P,ssover Instituted.

The Passover Instituted.
The lesson for Sunday, June 3, may
To I, und in Exod II: LA.
INTRODUCTORY.
The blood OF Jesus Chri,t-this Is
the underlying theme If the lesson be-
fore Us. PloSounder or MOI practical
AID pertinent sub ect of thought the
bible does ontain. Speak it out
plainly, personally. Get its large inn
FORT, first of all, ior self-then, out OF
heart touched with the Hood, give
to OF ers. Newman Halls last strong
word Is On "Atonement, the Fundamen-
tai Fact of Christianity" Says he.
We consider that on this, as its strong
foundation, stands the church OF God.
We bu III on sand, il We build else
whore. This is the groundwork OF al
suran Of pardon, the source OF our
So ict al life. Says Or. Enoch Miller:
This Is the ntral truth, the denial
of which throws the whole fabric of
spiritual truth into di int grafton and
collapse 1t is the sun in the
Haven5 of rev lation, around which
oihc doctrines rovolvo and from which
they derive their | ght. II God has
not reveal. this fact that we are
saved by the evolutionary work of
Chr ist-he has revealed nothing, or
the evela'ion has en- c,oshe in such
deceptive angua e as 10 n ce5 it + ;
tewil erment and mistak IS, AMI that
which should have b en- steady lsmp
10 our feet and light t. our path only
loads Is into Cuagmire5 OF error and
desI air."
POINTS IN THE LESSON.
"The Lord spake, and we may add,
it was dor O. The Ii rd speaking,
whit h it, OF j. marve Gus, is followed
! y MI velol d ing, when he finds a
faith III Moses through whom he may
peri rm.
"A NIB for house." HCus hold re-
ligion goes back to the beginning of
thing. The church of the home is
perhaps the first church God ever or
dained On cart AMI the sacredness of
the domestic establishment should ever
BE- regarded. The W luntary principle
does not abate but rather SIT epgtnens
tais divine clair.
Mae your count for the lamb.
W hat better pictr re Of tho household
CT saints. What a glim Sc of com
munion joys! How does tho pastor
m Ike his count for he lamb? How the
plren? How did God make his count
when the sac ifce was offered, once
for all?" The are grave questions.
The blood hall 10 TO you for a
token" Token not so much Of death
as of life, of life cut Ct death. Thus all
life comes to be The life of the
flesh, says lie iticus, lis in the blood"
aId Immediately follow the significant
words, 1T is tho blood that maketh
at nement for the soul. Lev. IL: II. !
All this manifestly looked forward to
the "Dlood of Jesus Christ" Z he hood
of tho slain beast was a token of life
merely; the blood of Jesus Christ j.
itself life from the dead and salvation
from sin. Whom Jesus gayo his blood
he gave imse to tie race, and by
that Sacrifices We live.
HINTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
The Sunday school teacher should
bc, wit 4 this lesson. like John the Zap
fist standing by the Jordan, pc nting
W tn his finger and crying, Behold
the Lamb of God that tax tn WY the
81 Ct the worlI." If ve fix our gaze
so close y upon Moses, or II we fasten
tic attenti, so narrowly upon self as
TO forbid the eye from ing lifted to
that one who stood amid the throng
an who stands there st Ii as the Lamb
OF God, we shall DO recreant TO our
trust and shall ha Who'll Y ignored
the word which says, "He must in
crea e. but | must decrease" Hide be-
hind the cross to-day.
Bat the Lord spoke to Moses AMI
Aaron for purpose. 1t wa that they
might in truct Israel and lead them
forth. What If Mo es had viowel the
burn NC bush and h card the voice and
IL ell put the eXIerierco away as
nau ht more than a precious IN I'm )ry
of the past Not So The vol and
vision was Ii, "a with every servant
of Col. in order that he might take it
to God ) Teolle, IS. k we unto all the
con yregation cf Israel" Bro her. do
not be selfish with your revelations
from n high. Let them fit you, rather
than un t you, TO- service. That was
q beautiful vision the monk Of the
e end was having in his cell whom the
hour struck for the fee ling Of the
poor He wOull fain, like &c or in The
No unit have tarr!cd with the marvel.
But NJ, / work was elsewhe. O. duty
called and he loyal Y obeyed. Glad in
dc d was he who 4 he returned TO find
the vision still there, and gla1 with
e.nbling W hen he heard The voicN,
~ JllOu obIlIs loNO hiCNs
John avs it in Revelation, Il 10 ked,
AMI 10, lamb st Cd ii the Mount
Zion" 1t is what the c'can ed eye al
ways sees. Look hcavenward, k
earthward, it is land that stands in
q g midst The writer took some lit
tie oncs the re it OF tho City OF
Brotherly Love tie other day. TIE
NEST rotewor by thing about the rip
was that from the four cIrdinal points
of tie compass, locking down the main
avenues and across the city roofs, stood
cut. distinct and plain, overlapping all.
the tower Ct the CITY Hall there
ut the busy confer. from mort ,,
IRON south. trCm east, from west.
that same fanil Oh ect So in
our Bible outl, oks, toward Cen
esis, ward Reeve alton, in the Cos
pei, in the ep stiles, amidst the COM
pGny of the prophets or the glorious
corn any Of the apostles. there in tho
IN stands-"a lamb rs IL had b on
s'a n" So prea n, so teach.
Next Less n-"PGssago of the Rod
COa "" Ex II.1O.SO