The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-04-22
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The International Sunday School Lesson
April e3, 1900. John NV :1.l4.

Jesus, The Way the Truth and Life.
The circumstances were sufficient to
greatly agitate. The apostles had left
all to follow Jesus. He was now about
to leave them. Denial. betrayal, igno-
minious death were impending. The
undetermined Kingdom seemed on
the edge of q vortex. But candor, SYM
pathy. courage beam out of Jesus upon
His troubled followers. His self-obllv-
ion Is divine. Under shadow of His
cross His whole thought Is of others: is
| Of the men who had been given him."
He wants the bud of faith to blow into
the flower of trust. This will be their
safeguard. So lie cries: Trust God!
Trust mel" He lifts their thought
above the material city with its house
of God so soon TO dissolve to the invisi-
bic city whose foundations are secure
| ana In whose countless dwelling places
there Is room for all. There is no illu-
| sion here. He appeals to the candor
| which has maintained between them.
II the case had been otherwise, He
would have informed them. His very
going Is one OF the events which will
prepare the way for their reunion. He
has 4 right to assume that after three
years Of tutelege they know His deSti-
nation, and the way He must take to
arrive at 1t. Thomas. for himself and
the rest. discounts Jesus declaration
and contcsscs. spite of their phcnome-
nal opportunities, their practical ignor-
ance. We can afford to condOnc
Thomas Interruption, for like Martha's
at her brothers tomb. 1t brings out an
| additional and forceful declaration.
Jesus is. the way. The stream not only
indicates the direction Of the ocean, but
he who commits himself to its bosom,
ii Will convey him thither. SO Jesus not
only indicates the way to the Father.
but carries me to Him. He Is the truth
by means OF which one continues In the
course to God. He is the life, source of
immortal and blissful existence. The
life begins immedately-as the stream
to which the traveller commits himself
Is the same element rs the ocean for
which he has set out. The difference
being in degree. And Jesus Is the only
way. There is no other name or founda-
ton. He says emphaticaily. Il and l
only am the way" And now Jesus
Identifies Himself with the Father
affirming that seeing Him is equivalent
to seeing the Father. Again ignorance
and misrepresentation 0btrude them
wants to get to God Eat bound. How
he misses the mark. God speaks and
shows Himself in His Son mora per-
fcctly than when see" by Moses In ST.
mai or Isaiah IN the temple. A revela-
ton in moral attributcS-such rs Jesus
made In His person and is always
greater and more desirable than Il spec
tacular manifestation, however glorious
and overpowering. The excellence and
perfection OF Jesus revelation of the
Father consists in this: He spoke and
acted as God would speak and act in
human nature. So Jesus spoke mot
from himself" not from thoughts oriEi-
Mating in His human mind, but He
spoke as God manifest in the flesh. a
blissful subjective repose. q successful
objective activity. arises from faith in
Jesus as one with the Father. Such
faith will keep one from being troll
blcd," and will enable him to do
"greatc: works"