The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-13
IHE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON WI, FIRST QUARTER, INTER
NATIONAL SERIES, FEB. IA.

IL. Then the high priest rose up, and
hll they that were with him, and were fill
ed with Indignation" The preceding
verses tell of multitudes coming to Jeru-
salem to be healed, and they were healed,
every one. 1t seems that blessing came
even from the shadow of Peter falling up-
on them. Multtudes of men and women
believed and were added TO the Lord, and
| many signs and wonders were wrought by
the hands of the apostles but 1t was all
the work of the risen Christ through them
by His Spirit. The same Christ lives to-
day, and the same Spirit is in every believ-
er, but where are the signs and wonders
To the glory of GodS Is it because believ-
ers do not live to honor Christ as the apos-
| ties did?
1S. And laid their hands on the apos-
ties and put them in the common prison. 4"
The nigh priest and the Sadducees were
very religious people and professed to wor-
ship the one living and true God, yet they
thus manifested their anger against these
men because they honored Jesus Christ
risen from the dead and because of the
mighty works done in His name. The
margin of verse II says they were filled
with envy, and there are still many reli-
| 6iOuo PCopiO NhOSC anu SctIllnRly
hateful conduct to Others can be accounted
for only on the ground of envy.
10. but the angel of the Lord by night
opened the prison doors and brought them
forth. " When the Lord wants his people
all night in prison, that is the place for
them to be, as in chapter iv, 3, but when
He wants them out of prison He has an
gels enough to minister to them, and one
angel has more power than all the soldiers
: on earth, and prison doors or walls are
nothing to them.
90. $50, stand and speak in the temple
to the people all the words of this life I"
/ The words of God are Spirit and life John
! vi, 63). Christ Is life and apart from
Him is no life Col iii, 4; John v, 12).
If we have life in Christ, it is that we may
pass it ON to others by holding forth the
word OF life (Phil. ii, l6). If we have the
bread of life and living water it is that
we may pass on the same to those who
/ have them not. Five small loaves in the
hands of Christ fed over 5000 people. He
Is the very same Jesus
FL, The apostles did as they were told
and taught the people in the temple. The
high priest, with the council and senate,
assembled in the morning and sent to the
prison to bring the prisoners. 1t was evil
IDENTIFY something very important that
these men, Peter and John, should be dealt
with severely, and hence the calling to-
gether of the whole senate as well as the
council and now that they had them safe
ly in prison-as they supposed-was tho
time to do something very decided.
90, 23. The prison shut safely, the keep.
ers before the doors, but no prisoners III
the prison-this is what the officers camo
and found and returned and told. Tho
rulers were taking counsel together against
the Lord and against His anointed, and
the Lord was having them in derision (Ps.
ii, 2, ~.
"a. The high priest and chief priests
doubted whereunto these things would
grow, and well they might, for II lame
people are made to walk and all manner
of sickness healed, and prison walls and
faithful guards set at naught the rulers
may well ask, What next? We know
whereunto these things will grow-they
will keep growing until to Him every knee
shall bow all kings fall down before Him,
and all nations serve Him. and the king
dom and dominion under the whole heav-
en- be given to the saints of the Most High.
20, &c Hearing from some one that the
prisoners were teaching the people in the
temple, the captain and officers went and
brought them without violence. The same
power that took the apostles out of prison,
and that sent the soldiers to the ground
when they came to take the Lord Jesus III
Gethsemane might have arrested this cap
tain and his officers if the Lord had thought
best, but His plan for them now seemed
to be that they should quietly go with the
officers. Quiet submission to circum
stances, trusting God to arrange the cir
cumstances, is the way of peace for the be
lever. find great help in this word, do
as occasion serve thee, for God Is will
thee" U Sam. x, y.
81, %. Being set before the council, thu
high priest accuses them of filling Jerusa
lem with their doctrine and making thu
council guilty of the death Of Christ, ant
this in spite of the command of the coun
Gil to stop teaching In the name Of Christ
There is no reference to their escape from
prison, perhaps because they felt compelled
to acknowledge the hand Of God in thi
and dared say nothing against 1t, perhap
for other reasons.
, 90. "Then Peter and the other apostles
answered and said, We ought to obey Coz
rather than men," In the presence OF TIT
council that put Christ to death they fear
ed not the same treatment II such had beef
the will of God for them. They had pray
ed not for deliverance from their enemies
, but for boldness in teaching whatever TN
result might be (chapter iv, 29-31). The.
remind us Of the friends Of Daniel, who
with the fiery furnace before them, feare'
not to honor God and defy the king Tn
/ fear of God delivers from all fear of men.
30. "The God of our fathers raised VI
Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on
tree The end of all their conversation
as we'll as the beginning is Jesus Christ
the same yesterday, today and foreve
(Heb. xiii, q, 81. They are not afraid :
. insist upon the fact that the rulers OF tn
2 Jews crucifled Christ, and with triumph
they assert that God raised Him from tn
7 dead. - -,
81. Him hath God exalted with hi
: right hand to be Prince and Savior
o for to give repentance to Israel and foI
0 giyeness of sins" Humbled unto deaf
{ and crucifled by His enemies, God raise
Him from the dead and gave Him glor
and exalted Him to give repentance unit
Israel first il they would accept 1t, for u
TO this time 1t looks as II Christ Nigh
a. th.. l. In rslnn