The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1898-06-15
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
lEssoN XII, SECOND QUARTER, IN
TERNATloNAl SERIES. JUNE 10.

Text of the Lesson. MAIN. XVIII, o-So.
Memory Verses, is-2O-Goiden Text.
Rev. 4, Is-Commentary by the Rev. ID.
M. stearns.
copyright. 1898, by ID. NJ. Stearns.l
8. "And they departed quickly from the
sepuloher with fear and great JOY. and did
run 10 bring His disciples word. y The
women who In love, but not In faith. had
come TO anoint dead Christ find the tomb
open and empty, the stone rolled back
from the door and an angel sitting upon
&c who speaks To- them, with the result
stated In this first verse Of our lesson.
Angels know when we seek Jesus, and
they are glad Verse and Luke XIV, lO).
They, like their Lord, would dispel our
fears. 1t is very helpful to make "A special
study of the "fear nots" from Gen. XIV, l,
onward. Having believed, we are to "go
quickly and tell" and the burden OF our
preaching is to be that Christ is risen and
is therefore, the one who fulfills all Scrip
ture.
o. "And as they went to tell His disci-
pies behold, Jesus met them, saying, All
hail And they came and held Him by
the feet and worshiped Him." 1t is writ
ten in lisa. Xiv, 8, "Thou meeteet him
that rejoiceth and worketh Righteousness. "
A little earlier in the morning He had met
Mary Magdalene and had dried her tears
and given her message for the disciples,
but He did not allow her to touch Him, be-
cause He had not assembled TO His Father
John Xxx, 10 But now He allows these
women to hold Him by the feet, SO that
He must have assembled and returned since
meeting Mary. l doubt not that He was
ever ascending and returning all those 40
days until His visible ascension, since
which time He has not yet returned, but
He will, and it may be soon acts /, 3, III.
10. Then said Jesus unto them, Be
not afraid; go tell My brethren, that they
go into Galilee and there shall they see
Me" The angel said, Fear not; go and
tell; He goeth before you into Galilee, and
now Jesus Himself says just the same.
II our message as His messengers Is in
strict accordance with His word, without
adding unto or diminishing aught from 1T
(Deut. iv, y, we need have no fear but
that He will indorse it all, but how we
will be ashamed Il John ii, 2S) if we have
in the least altered or diminished His
word through fear of man or for any rea-
son whatever. Let us, like Samuel, be-
lieve and tell every whit, that, like him,
we may be established as the Lord s mes
sengers Il Sam. iii, 1920. Believing all
things that are written in the law and in
the prophets, let our unwavering attitude
toward all Scripture ever be Il believe
God that il shall be even as it was told
me" (Acts xvii, 25).
IL, 10. "This saying is commonly re-
ported among the Jews until this day. "
That is the saying that His disciples came
by night and stole Him away, which was
a lie that the soldiers were paid 20 tell.
1t is still true that some people will lie
and do even worse if they are paid for 1t,
for the devil has n great many children,
and lying is part Of their business and
badge of his service. He Is liar and the
father Of it John viii, Az, but he would
have us believe that God is liar (Gen. iii,
4; ii, II; John V, 10). 1t may bring
little money just for the present and pos
sibly enable one to do little more bust
ness for time if we are willing to lie
and practice deceit as many do, but the
end of such is the DEVILS portion which is
the lake of fire and the torment forever
and ever.
49, "Then the ii disciples went away
into Galilee into mountain where Jesus
had appointed them. He had said, after
am risen again, will go before you into
Galilee' (Aiath. XVI, 82), and it would
seem that He had designated some special
mountain where He would meet them.
They will tell us some day what mountain
il was, and we may also then know why
He preferred TO meet them in Galilee, but
one great and precious lesson for us Is
that He alw avs does just what He says He
will do
II. And when they saw Him they
worshiped Him, but some doubted. He
has nowhere told us that all will believe,
but, on the contrary, has plainly taught
us in the parable Of the sower the various
results Of the seed sowing. In the parable
of the tares He has further taught us that
not all the grain I'm the field will be true
wheat. There came time in His own
ministry when many went back and
walked no more with Him John vi, 66) !;
but He was not discouraged, is not now,
nor ever will be lisa. xiii, ~, and If we
are workers together with Him" there Is
no room for us ever to be discouraged.
Until He come it will be, according to
Acts xviii "a, "Some believed and some
believed not, but He shall see of the
travail of Ills soul and shall be satisfied.
u And Jesus came and spake unto
the, sayin'~ All power is given unto Me
I'm heaven i.Vd in earth. :" To John on
Patmos He said Fear not, am the first
and the last / am He that liveth and AS
dead, and behold am alive for evermore,
amen, and have the keys of hell and of
death" (Rev. /, II, 1S). Through Jere-
miah He said: Behold, 1 am the Lord,
the God Of all flesh. Is there anything too
hard for Me?" (Jer. xxi, ~. When in
response to His question, "Whom shall l
send and who will go for usY' we are led
to reply Here am /. Send mei' lisa
vi, 81, then our only responsibility Is TO
go oheerfully where He send U.S. do just
what He tells US and speak faithfully and
lovingly His messages, sure that He will
not fail to accomplish all His pleasure lisa
lv, III.
10. "Go ye therefore and teach all ma
tions, baptizing them in the name of the
Father and of the Son, and of the Holy
Ghost. These are the three who in Isa
vi, g. say, "Who will go for usS" When
we go for them, we may and should al
ways find strong consolation in the blessed
assurance that God is for us, Christ is for
us, the Spirit is for US (Rom. viii, 81, 81,
26). What we are to teach Is simply stated
Il l. II. lit 80