The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-11-12
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
International Lesson for November
l4. Is07-Pauis Ministry In Rome
Acts 2sf17-3l.

Acts 2si17-3i.
ARRANGED from Peloubcts Notesl
GOLDEN TEXT am not ashamed OF
the Gospel OF Christ for II Is the power %
God unto salvation TO everyone that be-
neyeth.-Rom. il6.
! THE SECTION includes the lesson, TIN
list OF Roman Christians in Romans lG:3-i5:
the references TO his captivity In the four
\ Epistles written during the first captivity.
and the references TO his later life In the
three Epistles written during his second
LESSON COMMENT.
Paurs Interviews with the Jews.-N
VS.. 1929. IL. after three days." Prob
ably spent in intercourse with the Ro-
man Christians. in procuring lodging,
and in refreshing himself after his long
Journey. paul called the chief of the
Jews together" The non-Christian
Jews, who we're numerous in Rome AT
that time. Paul's object was to gain the
Jews. Hence he would explain how he
came to be prisoner, SO that any preJu-
dice against him might be removed and
any false reports might be corrected.
20. slave called for you:" Better rs
in II. ", "did / entreat you to see and
sneak with me-" This is more in ac-
coriance with their respective circum-
Israel am bound with this chain:" II
was not because he was opposed TO
Isreal, as the Jerusalem Jews thought,
but because he preached the realization
of their hopes, the glory they had been
looking for, the kingdom they had been
expecting. that he was prisoner.
81. Neither received letters" nor
messengers. Not that they had never
heard of Paul. but nothing concerning
his accusation and trial.
% This sect. everywhere.
spoken against:" These ISLANDERS arose
Q) from Paul's seeming opposition to
the Jewish ritual; CD from the strict
morality of the Christians which made
bold and open sinners their enemies,
especially on account of the terrible
: denunciations of disaster and ruin un-
less they repented. (See Matt. 2I. CD
from their necessary opposition TO some
Roman laws and customs, (4) from a
misinterpretation of the Lords supper,
where they were said TO "eat the flesh
and drink the blood" of Jesus; go from
J a misuse of the fact that they defied one
| who had been crucified as malefactor;
Like God. like people" they would
say.
: 90 "Expounded:" He reasoned out
of the Scriptures. "And testified"
Bore witness from his own experience,
in his conversion. in the revelations
n Cod had made to him. in the comfort
Q and help he had received, in the inn
3 provement of his own life, out OF the
9 law of Moses. and out of the prophets:"
These were common ground. All be-
lieved them.
y "a. And some believed" The word
> "believed" il not the usual one inn
: plying real faith. 1t rather means were
convinced" "And some believed not: T"
Owing partly to prejudice. and partly
TO the cost to them If they became
: Oh -stians.
rs. They departed. after that Paul
u had spoken one world" not denounc-
: ing. but seeking to persuade them
4 from their own prophet. Isaiah; and
! to show them that their rejection OF his
81 message was no sign that it was not
: true. "Well spake the Holy Ghost by
ii Esaias:" Isaiah. These verses do not
y mean that God did not want the Jews
u to believe and be saved. but that He
! did want them to, while they themselves
@ hardened their own hearts and blinded
: their own eyes. so that all the love OF
u God could not make them feel, any
more than stone, and all the light
; Of God could not make them see.
I, 2s. "Therefore:" For i must preach
IL The Gospel. and If you will not hear it
le | must proclaim il TO those who will
le "And that they will hear it," This
le has become the fact. This salvation
u tas placed the Gentle nations who re
ceived IL at the head of the world. in
is religion. in power, in happiness. in hope
s. The Jews might have been in this posi-
e ton. but they would not
u Paurs Last Days. - There in M
le doubt that Paul was released at tn,
T. close of two years. Hints in the Epis
r ties and traditions supply all that i
y known or conjectured respecting thi
IN last stage of the apostles ministry. j
y S supposed that, on being liberated
4 writers do not agree as to the prccis'
70 Drder), he visited again parts of ASH
= Minor and Greece; went 10 Crete ant
n founded. or more probably strength
ened, the churches there; made hi
long-contemplated journey TO Spain
m. wrote his first Epistle to Timothy ant
ut his Epistle to Titus; after several year
re of effective labor was apprehende'
x again as leader of the Christian sect
mt was brought second time as pris
ms oner OF Christ to Rome; was trie
lie there. and condemned to suffer dealt
p His Roman citizenship exempted hin
or from the ignominy of crucifixion, an
nd hence. according to the universal trt
is dition. he was beheaded by the a
OF of the lictor."-Hackett.
is PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS.
all Mark how Paul practiced his own pr
les repts of charity q Cor. 13) in the kline
ed ly way in which he spoke OF thot
lid who had brought so much trouble upo
iu- him.
ite In a wicked world. the best thing
sly II they interfere with wickedness wi
he be spoken against. We are not to judl