The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-02-06
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.


International Lesson for February ., 1899
Tho sermon ON the Mount-Luke
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tArranged from Peloubet's Notes.1
GOLDEN TBxr.-Why call ye me Lord,
Lord. and do not the things which sayf-
TIE SECTION includes Luke s:l,-le. and
Matthew, chapters e. 9 and Z. with the list OF
apostles in 1924. ~ The choosing Of the
Twelve and Cd the Sermon on the Mount.
T1Mn.-Summer Of A. d. %.
PLAcH.-According to tradition, the ser
mon was spoken on the Horns Of Hattin, or
Mount Of Beatitudes, o sQuare-shaped hill,
about 90 feet In height. with two tops; near
the center of the west coast Of the Sea OF
Galilee, two or three miles from the sea,
and seven southwest from Capernaum.
LESSON NOTES.
Jesus had now, by His gracious teach
inQs and His divine works, gained 30
many disciples, and some of them had
reached such degree of His spirit that
the Great Teacher could begin the or
ganization of the working force OF His
kingdom, and lay down the platform OF
it's principles. This marked new
epoch in the development OF HIS
mission. Note, therefore, it's place In
the life of Christ:
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PRAYER. That He should spend SO much
time, time needed for sleep, in secret
PRAYER shows how greatly He felt the
Importance of the crisis to which He
had come, and the value of secret
prayer for meeting it.
The mission of the twelve apostles se-
lected was to learn of Jesus, and then
be preachers of the Gospel home and
foreign missionaries. Says Bishop H. w.
Warren: "Jesus chose twelve disciples,
that every man, IN all time, might find
himself represented among the apos-
ties. The doubter finds himself in
Thomas; the fierce, hot-headed, quick
tempered man finds himself in John,
the Son of Thunder; the opinionated,
| impulsive man in Peter; the hard
headed, practical man, desiring the
first place in the kingdom, in James,
etc. We are all there. And to all OF us
can come like fitness, worthy of apostle
ship"
Jesus, having begun the organization
CT His kingdom, speaks to His disciples
and the multitudes who had come up
to hear Him. Here he lays down the
principles according to which oil who
are members of the new Kingdom must
live. He begins with the pathway to
a blessed life. At the same time Jesus
points out the pathway of danger, to
yarn men not to walk therein. Both
beatitudes and woes were uttered.
Jesus also shows Uuke 6:27-40) that
rot force but love is to be the moral
POWER of His kingdom. In these verses
there are certain applications OF the
law of love to daily life, which not only
show us how to live, but are tests by
which we can know whether we really
\ possess love. Love is to be shown to our
enemies, to those that are bad and dis
agreeable, by kind words and deeds,
by giving, by lending, without hope OF
reward.
Commencing with verse Al Jesus
teaches that true reform must begin at
home, right in our own hearts, and re-
veals the test of sincere hatred of
wrong. He draws picture and shows
how morally grotesque is the conduct
Of the fault-inder. A man with a great
beam in his own eye (who, therefore,
can see nothing accurately, proposes
to remove little splinter from his
brothers eye, a delicate operation, re-
quiring clear sight. No one can right
fully or successfully help others to
escape from sin who does not at least,
with earnest sincerity, try to overcome
his own faults and sins.
Says Jesus, according to the revised
version: "There is no good tree that
bringeth forth corrupt fruit" 1t is
a strange fact, here brought out, that
from the same soil, by means of the
same sunshine and rain, under the
same culture, different fruit will be
produced by different trees. So that
the only way to have good fruit is to
have tree which naturally produces
good fruit. The only way to have
good fruit in our lives is to have good
hearts and principles of Righteousness
Again, the heart is the source of all
the treasures of life. From a poisoned
fountain only deadly waters can flow,
The mouth is the easiest outlet of the
feelings and character within. A bad
man may sometimes speak excellent
words, but watch him, note all his
speech under differing circumstances
the words will infallibly indicate In
some way what is in his heart.
A parable of warning follows, the
parable of the house built upon the
rock and the house built upon the sand
The house is the general fabric of the
outwardly religious life. The rock Is
Jesus Christ. The floods and streams
represent temptations, prosecutions
worldly influences. One man builds
his house upon rock. He hears the
words of Christ, and brings his hear
and life into accordance with His ex
pressed will. Another builds his house
upon the loose soil above the rock
This treacherous foundation gives
way with the first freshet. The sane
is the hope of the hypocrite, the mer'
professor, the forms of religion adopted
from custom, or love of praise, or tenn
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