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SABBATH SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR
MARCH 81.
Review Of the Fourth Quarter-Scrip
ture Reading, Hebrews l., LA
Golden Text: Matt. XII,
20-Commentary.

S0-COmmenCary.
LESSON John the Baptist Beheaden
mark vi. 1929. Golden text, Math. K. %.
:'Fear not them which kill the body. but are
| not able to kill the soul" Here we see the
| the mystery, of the sufferings OF the righteous
| through the hatred Of the wicked. as In the
| case Of Joseph at the hands Of his brethren
| and the wife of Potiphar; David from his
own son. Absalom; Daniel and jeremiah
| from their enemies; the apostles from the
Christ hating Jews, the Jesus Himself from
| those for whom He laid down His life. The
times OF these things are still on and the
need to remember His words: Fear none OF
these things. Be thou faithful unto death"
| Grew. H., 10).
LESSON If.-Feeding the Five Thousand
| mark vi. 3044). Golden text, Luke l., So.
He hath filled the hungry with good things"
| II the last lesson taught US to endure patti
| emily. even unto death, for His sake, this
| teaches US to place ourselves unreservedly In
| His hands that He may use us to feed the
perishing multitudes who have no bread OF
| life. We are not to calculate, like Philip.
how or with what 1t may be done. but simply
look to Him who knows what He will do and
how He will do 1t.
LESSON III-Christ the Bread Of Life
| John vi, $3.50. Golden text, John vi. 81.
''He gave them bread from heaven to eat"
The mama from heaven, the water from the
rock, the serpent upon the pole the morn
ing and evening burnt ofering-in. fact.
every whit Of the sanctuary and its ritual all
spake of Him. Apart from Him there Is no
| life but in Him are life and Joy and peace
and all true welfare for time and eternity.
LESSON IV.-The Great Confession (Math.
xvi. 1929. Golden text, Math. xvi, 16,
"Thou art the Christ. the Son OF the living
God" The one question for every Individual
that rises mountain high in Importance
of Christ? We talk about the weat" and
the CROPS. the tariff and the labor t.. Jubles,
the fashions and amusements, and are all the
while drawing nearer to an eternity the
happiness or misery of which depends upon
our present estimate of and relation to the
Lord Jesus Christ. It is either pity self and
reject Him or deny self and receive Him.
LESSON V.-The TRANSPORTATION (Luke
ix.. 2S-9G. Golden text, Math. xviii, 5:
This is My beloved Son. in whom am well
pleased. Hear ye Him." 1t does not look
attractive to take up the cross and die to
self and all the pleasures and enjoyments OF
this sinful world, and perhaps literally die to
crafty some ungodly person as John the
Baptist did and James and many others. But
there is another side to it. The present and
all things seen are only for little while.
There is an eternity ofglory for the righteous
who die to self, and OF torment for the un-
righteous. who live for self.
LESSON VI.-Christ and the Children
CNath. xviii. LID. Golden text, Math. xviii,
IA: lit Is not the will Of your Father which
is in heaven that one Of these little ones
should perish" The way to the kingdom
and the eternity Of glory is here set before
us in the object lesson Of the little child who
came to Jesus when called. Tie little child
came without doubtiags or reasonings and
trustingly let Jesus take him up and set him
in the midst. When we thus trustfully come
at His call and commit ourselves unto Him,
we become children of God and come under
special angelic care.
LESSON VII-The Good Samaritan Guke
X, 25-SD. Golden text, Lev. xix, 1e, "Thou
shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.'' The law,
although holy and Just and good, cannot
give life, for we all come short Of its require
ments through the sinfulness and weakness
of the flesh.
|: LESSON vIII.-Christ and the Man Born
Blind John tx, 1-1D. Golden text, John
tx. 5, II am the light Of the world" Every
sinner is like this poor blind man, blind from
birth. not through any special sin of our par
ents, but through Adam. If we know that
we are only poor blind beggars then Jesus
stands ready to open our eyes and cause us
to. see. but If. while blind, we insist on think
ing that we can see and talk about things OF
which we know nothing. as II we could see.
then we are fools indeed and hopelessly
blind. There Is more hope for publicans and
harlots who know they arc sinners than for
the self righteous.
LESSON iX.-The Raising of Lazarus (John
M.. 3O-45). Golden text, John M.. 25, II am
the resurrection and the life AS hopeless
as was the case Of Lazarus, dead and buried
and corrupting, so utterly hopeless is the
case Of every sinner apart from the power OF
God, but there IS nothing too hard for Him
who made the heaven and the earth. This
same Jesus who could open the eyes OF one
born blind and bring to life one who was four
days buried is able to save to the uttermost
all who come unto God by Him.
LESSON X.-The Rich Young Ruler (Mark
X. 17-2O. Golden text, Math vi, SO, ''Seek
ye first the kingdom Of Cod In this lesson
we have one of the great hindrances in the
way of coming to Christ. He can give sight
to a Door blind beggar or life to dead. cor
rupting body. but He cannot do anything for
one who has life and sight and riches, which
insnare and ehtangle him and come between
his soul and God. Better to be empty and
dependent as the child, wounded and help
less as the man wAo fell among thieves, blind
as the poor beggar or dead az Lazarus than
rich and self righteous as this young ruler.
LESSON XI.-Zaccheus, the Publican Luke
xix. 1-1U. Golden text, Luke xix, 10.
THE Son OF Man is come to seek and to
save that which was lost. y Althoug gh the
rich Young ruler did not receive Christ, here
is a rich publican who did. The ruler was
the one to be coveted for the church, some
would think, while the publican was not 80
desirable, even though rich, but the Lord
seeth not as man seeth, and His choice Is
often very unlike what ours would be. See
Samuel looking upon Eliab and read care
fully SAM. xvi. 6, T. Mark we'll the sub
stantial evidences OF Zaccheus's sincerity and
remember that faith without works is dead,
being alone. When Jesus is truly received,
He will live His life in us.
LESSON XIl.--The Mission of the Seventy
duke X, 1-9). Golden text, Luke x. 2,
Pray ye, therefore. the Lord OF the harv-
est. that He would send forth Slaborers
into his harvest" Willing hearted men
and woman are the instruments whom the
Spirit uses to gather out this elect body. The
infalhble and God breathed word is the all
sufficient equipment fol- every Spirit Allied