The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-05-03
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
International Lesson for May q. 1905
The Agony In Gethsemane-Ms ls;3o-


GOLDEN TEXT The cup which my Father
hath given me. shall not drink its-John u. ~
THIS SECTION OF the Gospel story In ludes
the lesson and the parallel accounts la Mat
thew e5.3s- 80. Luke g ss-s6; John ISL
TINEA. d. 90 THURSDAY evening. April &
about midnight. To about one o'clock Friday
morning. Apr.l7 Immediately following tha
Institution OF the Lords supper
PLACE garden on the vest
ern slope OF the Mount OF Olives
JESUS was beginning tho last day Of HIS
earthly life About thirty-threc and one-nals
years old
CIRCUMSTANCES. We closed our last lesson
with those words Of heavenly comfort and In
struction which the beloved disciple has pre-
served for Us In his Gospel Closing with .
prayer overlooking with tenderness and hope.
and with "a hymn sung by all. Jesus had com.
pleted His work a. teacher. and there rc-
NAMED only the steps 20 the cross. and tho
atoning work thereon. by which alone His
words could become the power OF God for SAL
Walton
LESSON NOTES
a coarser infidelity has much to say
about the shrinking Of our Lord from
death. Such weakness is pronounced
unworthy, in contrast with many .
his cross; and many hero to whom
death has been welcome as the sight
of'sky and stars TO prisoned men
1T would suffice To answer that Jesus
also failed not when the trial came,
but before pontius Plate witnessed q
good confession. and won upon the
cross the alteration of fellow-sufferer
and the confession OF Roman soldier"
Courage is not stoical Indifference
nor insensibility TO suffering. 1t is not
that physical prowess which disdains
any expression of pain. THE stole, to
whom pain is no evil. and the Indian,
laughing and singing at the stake. arc
partly actors and partly perversions Of
humanity" "Who is so hard-hearted a.
10 think less of the valor of the mar
tyrs because it was bought by many .
lonely and intense conflict with the
fiesh?" True courage is of the soul,
and is measured by the degree Of sensi-
bility 10 pain. and by the full vision
and consciousness of the evil to be en-
dured, together with the unfinching
doing Of one'sduty in the face of all. The
most sensitive soul is often the bravest.
A friend once called the attention Of
Napoleon 10 the blanched face of an
officer as he was marching into battle,
as showing that he was a coward. Ma
poleon replied that that man was the
bravest officer in his army; for he saw
clearly and felt lxeenly his danger, and
yet invent forward into the thickcst OF
the battle.
Into this one hour were crowded by
provision the combined horrors of the
passion. its cruelty. its shame, its
physical torment. its spiritual tortures-
He felt with the greatest intensity the
sin of the world The wiciSedness Of
Judas, the weakness of even His chosen
ones. the best on earth. the crimes Of
Jewish leaders soon TO be wrought
against Himself. their ineasureless folly
in rejecting their Messiah. their only
hope. the terrible evils soon to come
upon the whole nation. brought before
His soul the most awful results Of sin
upon the human race. 1t was the I'M
speallable horror of world throwing
away Heaven and hope. and trampling
on the most radiant manifestation Of
love God Himself could make to them.
1t was the mother heart burdened with
the sin and ingratitude of her son who
smites her for her efforts to save him.
The Answer To Christ's Prayer.-v.
A.; Luke 2a:i3. There were three an
swers TO the prayer of Jesus.
First, the angel strengthening him
luke was direct answer. There are
two ways of answering a prayer for
the removal Of burden. In one the
burden is taken away. and we remain
the same; in the other we are made SO
strong that the burden is no longer
burden to us; as what would crush .
child is but sport TO a man. Paul
kept the thorn in his flesh, but Gods
grace was made sufficient for him.
Jesus going on To the cross ". 42) shows
that the answer was given.
Second. lie had most intimate COM
munion with God. BY His trouble and
His prayer lie came close to His Heaven
~ Father.
The third answer to prayer Is the
giving, not that which we ask for in
the form we ask IL, but the soul OF our
prayer. the thing we in our deepest
hearts want, and would ask for IL we
saw all things as God sees them II
clearly before the vision of Jesus there
had appeared two choices, the one Of
escape from the cross. but with that
also the failure Of His mission, the
triumph of evil, the loss OF unnumbered
souls, no crown. no glory. no abiding
,n the right hand of God; and the other
choice, that Of the cross and Its agony
but with 1t also the redemption OF the
world, the ineffable glory Of God, the
Joys Of millions of the saved, the crown
of triumph over evil-who doubts
which would have been His real. inner
most prayer. His prayer was answered,
Tor the cross was changed 10 crown.
iethsemane into paradise, death into
immortal glory.
LESSONS FROM GErnsEMAxE.
Every life has its Gethsemanes Of sor.
low. and may have its victories.
Alone. that worn-out word
Yet all the poets sing. and grief hath known
u hopes laid wastc. knells In that word Alona
-Buiwer
BE sure 1t Is something more than
surface feeling, something more than
impulse; il is good, honest. sober, con-
'iderate. patient principle, stayed IN
~ prayer. that alone can remain awake.
ind outwatch the stars, and wait
through the darkness, and conquer
ID. Huntington.
The best people find the least fault
With their brethren, and are the most
'cady TO find excuses for the failures OF