Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-03-29
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON XIII, FIRST QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, MARCH 81.

LESSON John the Baptist Beheaded
mark vi, 1920 Golden text Math. x, 2S,
"Fear not them which kill the body, but
are not able to kill the soul" Here we
see the mystery of the suffcrings of the
righteous through the hatred of the wick
ed, 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, and
Jesus Himself from those for whom He
laid down His life. The times of these
things are still on and the need to re
member His words Fear none of these
things. BE thou faithful unto death"
(Rev ii, 10).
LESSON II.-Fecding the Five Thousand
MARK vi, 30-44. Golden text, Luke i,
53, "He hath filled the hungry with good
things" If the last lesson taught us to
endure patiently, even unto death, for His
sake, this teaches us to place ourselves
unrcservcdly in His hands that He may
use us to feed the pcrishing multitudcs
who have no bread of life. We are not to
calculate, like Philip, how or with what it
llay be done, but simply look to Him who
knows what He will do and how He will
do it,
(John vi, 25-35) Golden text, John vi,
81, He gave them bread from heaven to
eat. " The mamma from heaven, the water
from the rock, the serpent upon the pole,
the morning and evening burnt offering
in fact, every whit of the sanctuary and
its ritual all spakc 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 IN.-The Great Confession
(Math. xvi, 1929. Golden text, Math.
xvi, rs, Thou art the Christ, the Son of
the living God" The one question for
every individual that rises mountain high
in importance above all other questions is,
What think yc of Christi We talk about
the weather and the crops, the tariff and
the labor troubles, the fashions and amusC-
ments, and are all the while drawing near
cr to an eternity the happiness or misery
of which depends upon our present esti-
mate of and relation TO the Lord Jesus
Christ. 1t is either pity self and reject
Him or deny self and receive Him.
LESSON V.-Thc TRANSPORTATION duke
tx, $500 Golden text, Math. xvii, D:
This is my beloved Son, in whom | am
well pleased. Hear We Him" 1t does not
look attractive to take up the cross and
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mcnts of this sinful world, and perhaps
literally die to crafty some ungodly per
son 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 a little while. There is
an eternity of glory for the righteous who
die to self, and of torment for the upright
eous, who live for self.
LESSON NI.-Christ and the Children
! (Math. xviii, I'D Golden text, Math
xviii, IA, 1t is not the will of your Father
which is in heaven that one of these little
ones should perish" The way to the king
dom and the eternity of glory is here set
before us in the object lesson of the little
/ child who came to Jesus when called The
| little child came without dOubting7 or
reasonings and trustingly let Jesus take
him up and set him in the midst. When
we thus trustiully 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
| Gukc X, 25-3O. Golden text, Lev. Nix,
Is, "Thou shalt love thy neiehbor rs thy
self. " The law, although holy and just
and good cannot give lie, for we all come
short of its requirements through the SIN
LESSON NIII.-Christa and the Man Born
Blind (Iohn tx, LID. Golden text, John
tx, 3, Il am the light Of the world Ev
cry sinner is like this poor blind man,
blind from birth, not through any special
sin of our parents, but through Adam.
/ If we know that we are only poor blind
| bcggars, then Jesus stands ready to open
our eyes and cause us to see, but if, while
blind, we insist on thinking that We can
see and talk about things OF which We
know nothing, as If we could see, then we
are fools indeed and hOpelessly blind
There is more hope for publicans and har-
lots who know they are sinners than for
the self righteous.
LESSON IX.-Tho Raising of Lazarus
+ (John Xi, 3045). Golden text, John Xi,
%, Il am the resurrection and the life. SO
As hopeless as was the ca of Lazarus,
dead and buried and corrupring So utterly
hopeless is tn" case of every sinner apart
from the power of God, but there is moth
ing too hard for Him who made the hcav
en- 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 uttclmost all who
come unto cod 10y Him.
LESSON A-Thc Rich Young Ruler
Mark Y, l7-2O. Golden text Math. vi,
33, Seek ye first the Kingdom of God. " In
this lesson we have one of the great hin
ORANGES in the way of coming to Christ.
He can give sight To a poor blind Lcggar
or life to u dead, cOrrupting body, but lie
cannot do anything for one who has life
and sight and riches, which insnare and
entangle him and come between his soul
and God Better to be empty and depend
ent as the child, wounded and helpless H.
the man who fell among thieves, blind as
the poor begSar or dead as Lazarus than
rich and self righteous as this young ruler
LESSON AI-Xacchcus, the Publican
Quke xix, l-1O). Golden text, Luke xix,
10, The Son of Man is come to seek and
TO save that which was lost Although
the rich young ruler did not receive Christ,
here is "a rich publican who did The ruler
was the one 10 be coveted for the church
some would think, while the publican was
not SO desirable, even though rich but the
Lord secth not as man sceth, and His
choice Is often very unlike what ours
would be. See Samuel looking upon llliab
and read carefully sam. xvi, &, :. Mark
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