El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-11
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON xI, FOURTH QUARTER, IN
TERNATIONAL SERIES, DEG. ~.

Text of the Lesson, II Tim. iv, 1-8, 1918.
Memory Verses, 6-s &C Golden Text, II
Tim. iv, documentary by the Rev. d.
M. Stearns.
1. ct charge thee therefore God, and the
Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the
quick and the dead, and by His appearing
and His kingdom" These are some of
the last words of Paul by the Spirit to
Timothy, his dearly beloved son in the
faith (chapter i, p, of whom he said that
he had no man so dear unto him (Phil. ii,
20, margin). He had been urging him to
be strong in the grace that is in Christ
Jesus; to endure hardness as a good SOL
der and please Him who had chosen him;
to study to show himself approved unto
God.
2. "Preach the word Be instant in
season. out OF season Reprove, rebuke,
exhort with all long suffering and doc
trine." In chapter iii, 10, II, he had said
that all Scripture Is given by inspiration
of God and is profitable that the man of
God may be thoroughly furnished unto all
good works, and now he exhorts him to
use that word faithfully, the word which
he had known from childhood Oil, 15).
Paul teaches to hold fast the faithful word
(Titus !, 81; to hold forth the word of life
u iii. lOJ, anu W rIRuUly ulSlu6 UD0
word of truth Oh Tim. ii, 15).
3. "For the time will come when they
will not endure sound doctrine, but after
their own lusts shall they heap to them
selves teachers, having itching ears" How
long we have already been in those times
l cannot say, but that we are in them no
one can question. Lovers of self, lovers
of pleasure more than lovers of God, hav-
ing form of godliness, but denying the
mower thereof (cha nt i'll LAY thin un
too plainly seen. Some men who have the
rule In church affairs do not hesitate to
ask for pastors who will give them the
thought of the age rather than the word
OF God, and there are pastors who are
more ready to please the people than to
preach the preaching which God bids
them. False prophets as in the olden time.
4. And they shall turn away their ears
from the truth and shall be turned unto
fables" Then because they receive not
the love of the truth that they might be
saved, God shall send them strong delu-
sion that they should believe lie that
they all might be judged who believed not
the truth, but had pleasure in unrig hteous-
ness Oh Thess. ii, 1919. 1t is surely
gather to listen to those who discard por
tions of the word of God and call other
portions myths.
8. "But watch thou in all things, en-
dure Affections, do the work OF an evan
gelist, make full proof of thy ministry"
There Is no pattern for a minister or evan
gelist but the Lord Jesus Himself. He
was filled with the Spirit, led by the
Spirit, spoke the words which the Father
told Him and did always those things
which pleased the Father (John xii, 40;
Will, 29). When He suffered, He said,
Given so, Father" and He finished the
work which the Father gave Him to do
(Math. XII, 90; John xviii, ~.
6. "For am now ready to be offered
and the time of my departure Is at hand"
Long before this he had said, 81 am ready
NOT to be bound only, but also to die for
the name Of the Lord jesus (Acts xxi,
18). 1t was his constant desire that Christ
should be magnified in his body whether
by life or death (Phil.i, 2O). He knew
that to die would be gain and to be with
Christ would be very. far better (Phil i,
s1, e8). But now he seemed sure that he
was soon going home. HE speaks of it as
bis deF6rtqre The body would die; the
tshsrnapls be taken down. hut he. Paul