The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-01-08
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON u. FIRST QUARTER. INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES. JAN. 8.

d. n. Stearns.
tcopyright. 1885. by D. NJ. Stearns,l
80, sc. Again, the next day after John
stood, and two of his disciples, and look
ing upon Jesus as He walked, he saith,
Behold the Lamb of God . 5ohn was
preaching and baptizing in Bethabara, be-
yond Jordan, and spoke of Jesus as one
standing among them whom they know
not. The next Gay he seeth Jesus coming
unto him and saith, Behold the Lamb of
God, which taketh away the sin of the
world (vcrse 29). The next day of this
verso therefore was third day in the
story. He does not now speak of taking
away sin, but only of Him who takes it
away. He Himself must occupy our at
tention, not as mortal man, but as He
who, having purged our sins, is at Gods
right hand, a risen immortal man, who
was and is and Is to come. The phrase
las He walked" makes us think of Him
as He walked in the garden of Eden in the
cool of the day, for He is the same Lord
God who said to Adam, Where art thou?''
and who has ever been seeking the fellow
ship of man since first He created him in
His own image.
speak and they followed Jesus When
we, as His witnesses, SO speak that those
who hear will follow Him. it is well, but
if they follow us it is not we'll, for there is
no man worth following except in SO far
as he follows Christ. When He is by us
lifted up, He will draw unto Himself, and
He was lifted up on the cross that all who
look unto Him might be saved.
3S. Rabbi, where dwellest thou?" As
Jesus turned and said, What seek yes"
this was their reply. l think He is al
ways saying that to us every day that we
live. What seek ye in the. house of God
on His holy day? Whap seek ye in His
book when ye read it, or when We read any
other book? What seek We in your daily oc-
cupation in home or store or office on land
or sea, at home or abroad? Is your an
swer like that of the Greeks, I'VE would
see .Jesus?" If SO, He is always ready to
reveal Himself to such, but it is in the old
way of 1 Sam. iii, 21-''The Lord revealed
Himself to Samuel by the word of the
Lord" Where dwcllest thou9 might be
answered by Isa. Xvi, 2, and lvii. is, He
dwells in the lowly heart where there is
broken and contrite spirit
80. "He saith unto them, Come and see
They came and saw where He dwelt and
abode with Him that day, for it was about
the tenth hour" 1t was about the sixth
hour when before the crucifxion on that
same morning PLATE said, BEHOLD your
King" (.John xix, 14), and as He was
crucified at a. m, as we reckon time it
must have been 6 a. IN. when Pilate said
those words. At the same hour of the day He
talked with the woman at the well (.Iohn
iv, 81. Supposing that John uses the same
reckoning in all his gospel, it must have
been 10 a. m, when the two disciples went
with Jesus
40. lone of the two which heard John
speak and followed Him was Andrew,
Simon Peters brother. =" 1t is probable
that the other of the two was John, the
author of this gospel There is an incident
in each of the other gospels in which the
writer probably refers to himself as the
unnamed party. Wearc sure that it was 50,
in the case of Matthew. See Math. IL, 10,
and compare Luke " 90. The others are
Mark xiv, 81; Luke xiv, 1S But it is.
Jesus whom We must sees not John Or
Andrew or Matthew, Mark or Luke
Al. He first fndeth his own brother
Simon and saith unto him, We have found
the Messias, which is, being interpreted,
the Christ" BY the testimony of John
and the teaching of Jesus Andrew was
convinced that Jesus was indeed Israel's
tell the glad tidings 60 his own brother.
AZ And he brought him to Jesus, and
when Jesus beheld him He said, Thou are
Simon, the son of iona" He Herewith
gave him a new name, Cephas, which
means stone. He did not need to be in
troduced to him to be told who he was,
for He knew all men, and He knew what
was i'll man (.John ii, "a, 25). There is
much pretty talk about Jesus which does
not bring Him to the heart as the one al
together lovely, nor docs it bring people to
Him as the only one who can meet the
souls need by taking away our sins
43. 1.-The day following Jesus would 20
forth into Gnlilec and fndcth Philip, and
saith unto him, Follow Me" We seem to
have set before us the events of consecu-
tive days, and if so this would be the
fourth day of this series. Why He should
go and seek Philip we do not know, but
He know. for He always knows just what
He is doing and why He is doing it. and
some day we shall Sc that He has never
done without cause anything that He has
done John vi, g.; Eek. xiv, 23).
44 Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the
city of Andrew and Peter" Perhaps the
three, with James and John, were all,
like Simeon and Anna, looking for the
promised Messiah. The eyes of the LORD
run TO and fro throughout the whole earth
to show Himself strong on behalf of those
! whose hearts are perfect toward Him I'll
Chron. xvi, o.
As. Phillip findeth Nathaniel and saith
unto him. We have found Him of whom
Moses in the law and the prophets did
write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Jo-
seph." These men were students OF
prophecy. They had probably talked man.
"a time of Him of whom we read in Gen.
lii and xix, in the prophecies of BalaanA
in Dcut. xviii and xxxji, in Ps. ii and
lxxii, in lisa. tx and xl, in Ier. xiii aid
Ezck. xxxvii and, in fact, everywhere.
46. And Nathaniel said unto him,
Can there any good thing come out Of
Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Conle
and see" When he came and saw and
heard Him for himself, then he cried
rabbi, Thou art the Son of God, Thou ar
the King of Israeli (verse 49)- Micah had
said that the Messiah would be born al
Bethlehem Hosea said He would come