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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON vii, SECOND QUARTER,INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, MAY 22.

LESSON vii, SECOND QUARTER,INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, MAY %.
! Text of the Lesson. Math. XIV, 31-46-Mem-
ory Verses, 34-46-Golden Text, Math.
xvi, e7-Commentary by the Rev. d. III.
Stearns.
ICopyright, 1898. by D. M. Stearns.1
81. "When the Son of Man shall come
In His glory and all the holy angels with
Him, then shall He sit upon the throne OF
His glory" Concerning the coming OF
the Son of Man in glory see also Msth.
xvi, 81; xiv, 80, and compare Zech. xiv,
s, 9; Jude xiv, 10. We must keep in mind
that up to this time in our Lords min
istry there was no command to 60 to every
creature, but only to Israel, and that the
beginning and end of the story Of the
church, which Is His body, is found chiefly
in the Acts, the epistles and Revelation.
The church, or called out company from
all nations, being His body, we would ex-
pect to find Him in His body when He sits
upon His throne, and these are the assur-
ances given us in Col. iii, 4, and Rev. Ill,
81, where we are told that when Christ
our life shall appear we shall appear with
Him in glory and sit with Him on His
throne. We are also told in Cor. vi, Q,
that we shall Judge the world, and this Is
in accord with Ps. oxlix, 80. That the
Son of Man shall come in glory Is as GER
tain as that He once came in humiliation.
SO. "And before Him shall be gathered
all nations, and He shall separate them
one from another, as shepherd divideth
sheep from the goats" In the context Of
the passages quoted concerning His COM
ing in glory we cannot but notice that the
Spirit always speaks Of deliverance for
Israel and Judgment upon her enemies
and blessing for her friends, and that Is
Just the story here, in perfect accord with
the testimony of the prophets, "Surely
the Lord God will do nothing, but He re-
vealeth His secret unto His servants, the
prophets (Amos i'll, y. Therefore If
we would know His purposes we must go
to those to whom He has told them. We
therefore inquire, "Have the prophets said
anything about His judging the nations
or about sheep and goats?" AS we cannot
understand the first verso in the Now les
lament without a considerable knowledge
of the Old, so there arc many other things
in tho New Testament which require the
light of the Old Testament, and this judg-
ment Of the nations is ono Of them. Any
one familiar with Joel iii, Zeph. Iii and
Eek. xxxiy will feel almost at home in
our lesson and will not confound this
Judgment of living nations either with the
Judgment seat of Christ or that of the
great white throne (Rom. xiv, 10; II Cor.
V, 10; Rev. Xxx, 12), the former for belieV-
ers only and the latter for the rest of the
dead, who take no part in the first resur-
rection, at the end of the thousand years.
83, 34. "Come ye blessed of My Father,
inherit the kingdom prepared for you from
the foundation of the world" 1t seems
to me that our Lord must have had the
words in Ezek. X1xiv in His mind, for
there we read of sheep and goats, and o.
the i'll treatment Of the diseased and the
sick, and of blessing that shall come to
other nations through Israel because they
were Israel's friends. The blessings of the
church in her oneness with Christ are
spoken of as prepared Before the founda-
tion of the world" John xvii, "a; Pet. i,
90; Eph. /, A. while the blessings Of other
nations through Israel seem to be From
the foundation Of the world" Rev. kill,
s; xvii, 81. But without pressing this l
only ask that you distinguish between the
millennial kingdom of blessing to nations
through Israel and the kingdom Of God
the Father to follow it.
35, &c. These are good works prepared
for all believers ut all times, and there are
always plenty of opportunities for such as
are ready. Even Job testified that he de-
livered the poor and the fatherless and
such as had none to help.
87-39. We do not need to keep count OF
all tho things we do for Him. We only
need to hold ourselves ready for any man
ner of service, wholly at His command
ment, and just do as occasion serve US, as
the moments come and 60, believing that
He prepares evory occasion and notices
whether we are watching His way and
ready for His every call.
40. "And the King shall answer and say
unto them, Verify say unto you, 1nas-
much as ye have done it unto one of the
least of these, My brethren, ye have done
1t unto Me-" Some of US think that we
would have been very glad to have minis
tered unto Him personally If we had lived
when He was on the earth. We would
have followed Him like the true disciples
and have hung upon His words. We
would have ministered unto Him like
those women, and kept open house for
Him, like Martha and Mary. Let us learn
from His own lips in the words of this
verse that whatever is done to one of His
for loves sake is the same as if done to
Himself
fl. "Then shall He say also unto them
on the left hand, Depart from Me, ye
cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for
tho devil and his angels" He tells what
He Himself will say, for He is the King,
and there can be no mistake about it, and
whosoever would teach that there is no
devil and no everlasting fire is in partner
ship with the father Of lies himself, for he
is liar and the father Of it John viii,
AZ, and began his work by questioning
the word Of God and making God liar.
Notice that this awful place was not pre-
pared for man, but for the devil, for God
willeth not the death of a sinner.
42-45. "Inasmuch as ye did it not to
one of the least of these, ye did it not to
Me-" While we are reading, as we believe,
of judgment Of living nations with ref
erence to their good or bad treatment Of
Israel, yet there are principles here which
are always the same. At all times it is
true that whatever is done or not done to
child Of God is looked upon as done or
not done to Christ Himself The only
way to show love to God is to show love
to proople for Christ's sake The only way
to prove our submission to God is by SUBJ
mission to circumstances and to people
not only to the good and gentle, but also
to the forward Il Pet. ii, 1S).
46. "And these shall 60 away into ever