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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Lesson XII First Quarter, International
Series, March -.
81. Blessed are those servants whom
the Lord, whom lie coineth, shall find
watching Faithful service is the topic
for today, and there Is nothing more puri-
tying or more conducive to faithfulness
than watching FOR the coming OF tho Lord.
/ testify from personal experience of 90
years II The heart is full Of fears or cares,
both OF which arc fully dealt with in tho
preceding part of this chapter, we shall
neither be watchful nor faithful, but IL we
live in and Cor our Fathers good pleasure
VERSE 3s1 all fears banished by His perfect
love and oil cares cnst upon Him Il John
iy, Is; l Pet. V, - then our treasure be-
ing In heaven we will bo watching for the
Son from heaven From the first assur-
ance of Deliverer Gen. Ill, 15) to the end
nf the book we are ever reading OF the
Coming Ono to suffer and to reign Il
Pct. 1, ~. he came once, at Gods mp
pointed time, to suffer, and the Sineons
and Annas watched for Him. He Is COM
ing agein. Blessed are tho watchers.
IS, Blessed IRE those servants" Those
who Will not be taken by surprise should
He come at any moment of the night or
day While these lessons are very prac-
teal and must be applied to the heart Of
every believer glance at verse 80 will
show that tho watchers here specially re-
ferred TO are Israel, who when Jesus shall
come In His glory shall, in the words OF
lisa XIV, o, acknowledge Him as their
Messiah l certainly do not wait and
watch for Him to return from the wed
ding, for rs q part OF Himself. His body,
the church, l expect to be at the wedding,
30 III the goodman OF tho house had
known what hour the thief would come,
he would have watched" His coming as
a thief Is mentioned in Thess v, 9; II
Pet. ill., 10; Rev. HI, 3; xvi, TO- but only
In reference to His enemies and the day of
the Lord Listen to I Thess v, 4, 8.
But 20 brethren aro not IN darkness,
that that day should ovcrtake you as
thief, Ye are all the children OF light and
the children of the day. We are not of the
night nor OF darkness "
40 BE ye therefore ready also for the
Son Of Man colneth at an hour when ye
think not. The title, Son of Man, -.
takes us back TO Ps, viii, 4-6, and to Dan.
vii, l8, a. 27, and shows the coming ruler
OF Israel and of the world, in which on
| DIAL capacity tho head and body, Christ
and His church. shell be manifest as one
] q John iii, 2, Col. Ill, 4; Thess. lii, 13).
/ Neither death, which is an enemy. nor the
/ Spirit at Pentecost, who came as another
| Comforter, nor the destruction of Jeru-
salem, which Is contrary to Ps. oil, is, can
/ In any Scriptural sense be said to be "a
( coming of the Son OF Man. Let us not
/ omit the lesson that is in this and similar
verses for our own souls. BE ready for
service or glory any moment
IL, ~ And the Lord said, Who, then,
/ is that faithful and wise stewardY' This
! In answer to Peters question as to whether
! the Lord had been speaking specially to
| them or 20 all He seems to answer
"Whosocvcr will may be u faithful and wise
steward. In Cor iv, 10, Paul speaks OF
himself Gnd fellow laborers az stewards Of
the mysteries OF God and says that the ona
thing required of steward is TO be found
faithful, and that in Wow of the coming Of
the Lord. Meat in due season" Is also re-
fcrrod to In | Cor, iii, 3; Hob V, l2-14,
and tho difficulty of giving meat when one
can only take milk.
Az Blessed IL that servant, whom his
Lord when Flo oometh, shall find so do
ing" 1t will be sad indeed for tho scrv-
ants who are giving stones for bread and
the poison of uubelief instead of the milk
and meat and honey Of the word OF the
Master. The Bible Is a complete equip.
ment for every man Of God, sufficient Il
furnish him thoroughly for every good
work III TIN. iii, 10, ~, and the preach
err who steps outside of the word OF God
for a topic for his people is dishonoring tn,
Word Of God and growing the spirit Of
God. Tho ono business of every teacher
and preacher is to be, Ike Hagga, tn,
Lord messenger with the Lord 5 messag,
alag i, 49,.
"a. "Of "a truth l say unto you that h,
will make him ruler over all that he hath. ;
1t is snid of Abraham eldest. servant tina
He ruled over nil thnt no had tGcn
xiv, ~ for "all the goods OF his mastc
were In his hand Verse 10Y, 1t is said o
Joseph that Potiphnr made him oversee
over all that he had" and that Pharaol
set him over all tho land Of Egypt" (Gcn
xxx, 3; Kill AZ. Jesus said OF thu
Spirit, "He shall receive Of mine and shall
show IL unto you. All thugs that tho ia
Their hath are mine" (John XVI, II, 1o)
Consider well, o child OF God, our presen
privileges and future glories and be faith
ful.
as, 40. ellis portion with the unbeliov
ors." Therefore this servant was never
truo servant; hut, liko Judas, only mum
berod with Thorn. There Is no Scriptur
that oontradicts or really conflicts will
the statement OF our Lord that His sheel
, can mover perish tJohn K, 27-29) Th
profcsscd servant who lends his tongue t
the evil one 10 lash other servants and "A
the same time gives himself up to the in
2 toxioations of this worlds attractions ha
bottor consider ere II be too lato these sol
> emn words of Him who shall be our judge
| "Not every one that saith Lord, Lord, bu
/ no that docth the will of my Father
, (Math. vii, 81. "Whosoevcr will DO
, friend of tho world Is the enemy Of God
(.Ias. Nv, -. "Ye cannot serve God an
mammon" duke xvi, 49, II one choose
TO be an unbeliover, he cannot expect othe
r than the unboliovers' portion.
r AZ, As, II ! understand the teaching c
e these two verses, ii is that while all unbS
/. lovers, whether prc,cssedly servants {
God or not, shall go TO tho place of tor
- ment. there shall bo degrees OF torment i
I. proportion to their guilt. / nm In I'll