The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1899-06-16
THE NEW LIFE IN cHRISr.
snternationsa sundn. school LesseA
fortune -. IsoD-Tent. Goiossians
3si-I5-Me mory Verses Ia

hHUfflAIAF AA4lhNA 80
GOLDEN TEST.-Let the peace Of God
rule In your hcarts.-col Sla
READ Ephesiansil 1 10 5:2i-
TTME-Written during Faul's first Ro-
man imprisonment. about A. p g.
ILACE-faul's prison az Rome
RuLERS-Nero. emperor Of Home: Al
blnus. governor OF Judea.
PLACE IN BIBLE HlSToFY-IauTs
Imprisonment is referred 70 IN Acis-N ~ 81
There Is no mention OF the 'o!osslans IN
the Acts. but II Is probable that the ohureh
there was founded while Pau was Al
Ephesus. In that nelghborhood (Acts lD.
DIVISIONS OF THE BOOk.-l The In
PRODUCTION dI-l3. including the greeung.
thanksgiving and prayer for the Coiossiah
church. 2 A doctrinal section uls 20 20.
q A controversial section 1:s o 5D against
certain errors. 4 Moral application cSto
40. Z Personal greetings t:1-lD
explain ATOkf-
|. Crucifed with Christ. The Old
Life Dead.-It has been wisely said that
Ito learn what to love and whatto hate,
what TO honor and what 10 despise,'
Is the purpose Of education. IL may
be added that what one is alive to, and
20 what he is dead, are the test Of char
acter: SO that he who loves what he
ought 20 love and hates what IS ha'eiui
TO God, who honors what Is honorapie
and despises what is unworthy, who
fears 10 do wrong and delights in what
ever is pure and holy, who is dead TO
sin and alive TO righteousness-he is
1.-THE perfect man in Christ Jesus" and
is "made meet to he %partaker OF the
inheritance of the saints in light, no
has been translated by God into the
kingdom of His dear Son" Ole, l3).
ii. The Resurrection with Christ to
. New Life.-vs. Ia. Blu he that is
dead to sin is not a dead being Thus
Paul saws of himself: Il an crucified
with Christ; nevertheless l live; yet
not /. but Christ liveth In me; and the
life which | now live in the flesh live
by the faith OF the Son of God, who
loved me, and gave Himself for me
(Gai. 2:20. See also ROM. GA, 3. 9, 10;
Eph. 4:22-24; Col. 2:l2). Disciples are
branches of the True Vine. Their life
Is the same as the life Of the vine. The
same life flows unseen through vine
and branches. "In Cod" "As the in
finite sphere of all your life, your love.
your aspirations, your voluntary &C
tivities."-Cowles. When Christ =
. . shall appear" II. v, shall be mani
tested. in this world by the coming OF
: His kingdom. by the fruits Of His life,
and at last 10y His glorious coming in
the clouds of glory. "Shall we also
: appear with Him in glory both in
this present time. in the fruits which
. grow from the inner life, as the clusters
cover the vine and show what it is and
: manifest the glory Of its life, and also
= T. II. l..1 ,npt,.rv IN nlnry
= III. Putting OF the Old Maj and
: His Deeds.-Vs. 50. These verses con
tain the negative side of Paul's appeal
Barry.
O Intemperance is one of the worst am
! most typical manifestations of the oil
y and worldly nature. 1t fosters all tn
" evils spoken Of above, as d~ampness an
= darkness foster crawling insects an
&c verinin. II is the hot house of crim'
~ "When our Judges tell US from til
= bench that nine-tenths OF pauperisl
g and crime are caused by drink. and on
physicians that If only irregular I'll
!. pling were abolished half the currer
- sickness OF the land would cease, an
- our statesmen that n ravages {
. strong drink are equal to those Of II
&c historical scourgcs Of war, famine an
pestilence combined. surely TO swa
= low such "A glut of spoil the appetite {
- hell must have beer still more enlarged
~ and the mouth Of he'll made yet wider
- George Adam Smith.
- ~. Putting on the New Man and III
Deeds.-Vs. 1918, v. IL. Put on Their
y fore:' As the necessary result OF II
81 --- t.f- ~ Nf~.1oro~ xn.oIE ~ tho
= verses as a description of "the g7rmen
:. Of the renewed SOUL" and the war
:, robe OF the consecrated SOUL
Temperance stands among these vi
= tues. They flourish in its atmospher
Note. Is this list Of virtues practic,
- and noble. and worthy? Yes, for
who has these has the elements of VIII
are called the heroic virtues. These a
the household heroisms, the daily al
~ hourly cultivation of the qualiti
which make heroes and martyrs. Ma
:: laren well says: by the side of
- sincere and lofty beauty, the hero
virtues embodied in the worlds ~
~ Of excellence show vulgar and glarin
=. like some daub representing a soldi'
~ the sign-post Of a public house, by I
side Of Angelico's white-robed visio
on the still convent walls. More Sc
command. more heroic firmness, mo
contempt forthe popular estimate, mo
IA of everything strong and manly, "
~ find q nobler deed in subduing passi'
~ and cherishing forgiveness, which 7
- world thinks folly and spiritlcss. tn
les any"nere eise'
spirit 'nah ne Ia
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