The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-08-05
TIRE sabbath SCHOOL LESSON.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR AUGUST 8.

Golden TexG John xtv., . COms
mentary by Rev. DIR. ID. M. Stearns.
0. "But as touching brotherly love, We
need not that write unto you, for ye your
selves are taught OF God to love one another"
The epistre is addressed to the church OF
the Thessalonians in God the Father and
the Lord Jesus Christ. those who, having
heard the gospel, received the word and
turned from their idols unto God, to serve
the living and true God and to wait for His
Son from heaven, even Jesus who delivered
them from the wrath to come (chapter l., /,
8, 6, 9, 10). He exhorts them to walk
worthy OF God, who has called them to His
kingdom and glory, and to seek in all
things to please God and not man (chapter
H., 8; iv., ~.
10. "And indeed ye do it toward all the
We beseech you, brethren, that ye increase
more and more" There is always room
for increase in love and In all the fruit Of
the Spirit. for we can never manifest the
fruit as fully as Christ did, and yet He Is
our only example. He is ever seeking much
more fruit, for no branch is bearing all that
It might.
II. "And that ye study to be quiet, and
to do your own business, and to work with
your own hands as we commanded you"
In later epistle he said that II any would
not work neither should they eat QI Thess.
ill.,, 1O). The word here translated study"
(philotimeomaD is'used only three times.
The other two places are Rom. xv., 20; III
Cor v.,9. The late DR.. A. J. Gordon loved
10 call attention to the truth that the word
signifies "to be ambitious" or to us ones
utmost endeavor to accomplish thing and
that in these three passages we have a law
ful threefold ambition for every believer
VIZ, to mind ones own business, be well
DlanS sing tn God and nrpaah fhn
where Christ has not vet been named.
~. THAT ye may walk honestly to-
ward them that are without, and that We
may have lack OF nothing" Weare to pro-
vide things honest in the sight of all men
from. xii, 10, but we should take special
pains to be in every sense upright before
unbelievers. They will not read the Bible,
but they will aud do read people, and they
ought to be able to read something of the
Bible in the life of every Christian. Ono
has said that n Christian ought to be a large
print clear type Bible that any one can
read easily. Such upright people cannot
lack any good (Ps. lxXxiv., lD.
Ii. "But l would not have you to be igno-
rant, brethren, concerning them which are
asleep, that ye sorrow not even rs others
which have no hope" While teaching them
how to live on the earth as Christians
the fact was ever before them that some
were PassihS away. Do"tn was uoihS MS
stuel WORK ana WHAT aoout those VINO
uie IN ,ne LORD, Wnlie hey. NV l3' mas
speciai reference 10 those VINO IN the DAYS
Of the manifestation of satans greatest
power will rather die than deny Christ, yet
1t is always true, blessed are the dead who
die in the Lord" There is the gain, and
the very far better CPhil. L., 81. 23).
II. "For II we believe that Jesus died and
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