Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-03-25
for the Aun1e Girtle.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON !, SECOND QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, APRIL 6.

! NATIONAL SERIES, APRIL b.
Text Of the Lesson, Luke xiv. 1-12 easter
Lesson) Memory Verses, 6-S - Golden
Text, Luke xiv, 6-Commentary by the
Rev. d. M. Stearns.
When we are having but one lesson In
each chapter, 1t seems pity to pass a
chapter by, but as the Resurrection Is the
greatest topic In Scripture, including all
others, we feel led to choose the Easter les
son. If any prefer chapter 1iii-fail not to
notice the corruption suggested BY the
heaven, and the hypocrisy which shall in
due time find it's home where there is
weeping and gnashing Of teeth. Before
the door Is shut let all enter who will by
truly receiving Him in whom alone Is sal
walton.
/. "They came unto the sepulcher,
bringing the spices which they had pre-
pared" In Mark xvi, 1, we find that 1t
was two Of the Marys and Salome who did
this. Verse 10 Of our lesson mentions
some others. Their service was truly low
ing one, but 1t was not work OF faith,
and therefore In measure fruitless, for
"without faith 1t Is impossible to please
Him" (Heb. Il, g.. The order In I Thess
/, Sis "Work Of faith, labor Of love, pa
thence of hope" II we keep Gods order
in our service, all will be well.
Q. "And they found the stone rolled
away from the sepulcher. Mark xvi, 8,
says that they talked among themselves as
to who should roll away the stone from
the sepulcher; for Mark xv, 46, AZ, says
that they saw the burial Of His body and
the stone rolled unto the door Of the sepul-
cher. The apparent or real difficulties will
vanish as we move on in love to Him con-
strained by His love to US. These women
were ready to minister at His death, but
they had also ministered to Him in His
life MARK 1v, 40, 41).
8. "And they entered in and found not
the body of the Lord Jesus" They were
looking for a wrong thing In wrong
place through lack Of knowledge because
Of lack of faith. They were as unsuocess-
full as were the people who looked for the
body Of Enoch or the 30 men who looked
three days for the body of Elijah (Heb. Il,
8; II Kings, II, ~. There will be some
more unsuccessful searohers some Of these
days when all the dead in Christ shall
have left their graves and the living saints
shall have been caught up with them to
meet the Lord in the air Il Cor. xv, %, 81,
So; Thess. iv, 1879.
| 4. "Behold two men stood by them In
shining garments. 1" From the story Of
the angels who came with the Lord to
visit Abraham (Gen. xviii, Q, 80; XIX, y,
all the way through the Scriptures they
are always spoken Of as men and never as
women. I only mention this to show how
unscriptural are our pictures of angels.
Heb. 1, IA, is very comforting concerning
the ministry Of angels, and Ps. Gill, 30,
81, Is very inspiring, making us long to
be like them in service and in obedience.
8. "Why seek ye the living among the
dead9" For "the living" the margin says,
"Him that nvesh." The previous verse
says they were much perplexed, and now
we read that they were afraid and bowed
down to the earth. Unbelief always pro
duoes these things, while joy and peace
come. by believing (Rom. XIV, 13). Our
departed friends who have died In Christ
are alive and well, although their bodies
rest in the grave. They are with Christ, !"
"present with the Lord, and it is very
weak faith or no faith that olings to the
tomb as If they were there.
6. "He Is not here, but is risen; remem-
Der how He spake unto you when He was
yet in Galilee" The words Of the Lord
are very plain words, easily understood If
simply believed, for Through faith we
understand" (Heb. ri, 81. AS to both law
and prophecy being very plain, see Deut.
xvii, g.; Hab. ii, 2. Now we cannot re-
member the words Of the Lord If we have
not received them, if we have not laid
them up in our hearts.
z. "The Son of Man must be delivered
into the hands of sinful men and be cruci-
fed and the third day rise again" He had
said just these words to them over and
over again (Math. xvi, u; xvii, %; *,
1e), and He had meant just what He said,
and it had all come to pass exactly as He
had said, so that their whole difficulty was
that they had failed to take Him at His
word.
8. "And they remembered His words"
So we, in the morning Of His coming
again, will remember His words and see
everything fulfilled exactly as it is writ
ten. We would therefore do well to re-
member them now and hold them fast and
be ever saying for our own encouragement
and for the encouragement Of others, "Be
Of good cheer, for I believe God that it
shall be even as it was told me-"
8. "And returned from the sepulcher and
told all these things unto the eleven and
to all the rest" Read Math. xviii, SO, for
further details of the angels message to
the women. You will soc that they depart
ed quickly with fear and great joy and did
run to bring His disciples word. To run
errands for Jesus bringing glad tidings
of His resurrection and coming glory, is
good cure for sorrow. 1t was as they thus
went that Jesus met them and suffered
them to hold Him by the feet and worship
Him. He meets those who rejoice and
work righteousness.
10. at was Mary Magdalene and joan
na," etc. 1t would seem that Mary Mag
dalene got somehow and for time sepa-
rated from the other women (she will ex
plain it all to us when we see herr and
that the Lord appeared to her the very first
and spoke to her, but would not allow her
to touch Him, for He had not then ascend
ed to His Father in His resurrection body
John Xxx, 16, ~, but before He met the
other women whom He allowed to touch
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