El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-07

suggestions to the study OF the d1ner-
emu GOSPELS. which after all are but
viewed and written from different
poi ts of view.
Here the speaker referred
to the various views one might
get of the same landscape by cimb bling
Mount Washing tOn on the car line and
standing on the summit rock and
then ascending by the coach
road and viewing the, same
territory from other points, showing
how one of the evaugelists viewed the
gospel from one standpoint while the
other wrote from different point of
view.
Now let US look briefly at each
of the gospels. Matthew was a Jew,
holding the important office of custom
collector. If you will study closely his
gospel you will see more OF the typical
n meet ' abraham. God inspired
an officer of the Jews to write to the
Jews about the officer of b aven.
When you read Matthew you must
hold this in mind that, Matthew wrote
to Jews to convince them that Jesus is
the Messiah, the promised king OF the
Jews. The key words of this gospel
are king, kingdom. kingdom OF heaven
and kingdom of God. skiing is found
% times, kingdom Sc times, kingdom
of heaven SO times and kingdom of God
in this gospel.
Don't 90 to the gospels to learn
about the church. The word church
occurs in none of the gospels except
Matthew, and only three times here;
Nor does Matthew seek to record
events chronologically. He merely
groups events without reference 20
time, e. G. the sermon on the mount
aud other teachings, the miracles, the
pa ables are all put in separate groups
Matthew has genealogy but stops with
the mention of A braham, because the
Jews are great on genealOgy and date
the beginning of their race with Aora-
ham, Matthew's aim is to convince
the Jews that Christ Is
the king promised by the prophets.
with the resurrection because the
Jewish idea was that he was
to be a king on earth; because they
were an earthly people, and there was
no use to try to carry them beyond that
at once Revelations, fourth chapter,
mentions four Giving ones;" the first
like lion, the second like an OK, the
third had the face like a man, and the
fourth like flying eagle. These are
symbols of the four gospels. Matthew
presents Christ as the lion of the tribe
of Judah The lion is the king of the
forest; Christ is the king of the Jews,
king of heaven.
Mark was tthe son of Mrs Mary
Mark. a Jewess who lived in Jerusa-
lem. Her record shows that she was q
woman of such courage as to be willing
to take her life in her hands and If
need be die for the gospels sake. 1t
was she who gathered the Christians
together in erusalem and held a pray
er-meetipg in her house even when
HerOd had threatened to aunihilate the
CHRISTIANS and thrown Peter into pris-
on and killed James with the sword 1t
is thought that Mark was a servant OF
Peter. He had been a servant of Paul
ana Barnabes, and though Paul dis
charged him, on one occasion, Barna-
bias retained him, and later on Paul re-
ceives him in warmest terms for his
| faiuhfulness to him and the gospel in
the closing trials of his, the apostle s
| life. And now God chooses this SER
want to present Christ as servant.
| Tradition says that while his mothe
was q Jewess his father was a Ro-
man. So now half Jew. half Roman,
| he is chosen to present Christ to both
Jew and the gentle as servant-Christ.
Matthew speaks of u hesitancy on the
part of John to baptize Christ, but Marx
says nothing of this, because there
would be, naturally. no hesitancy in
baptizing a servant. He has not a
word about the glory OF Christ: glory
not common to q servant. Write on d
page at the beginning of Mark 'Christ-
servant" Draw as sy M Dol an OK, toll
ing under the yoke, or sacrificed on
the altar.
Luke was gentle and CLASSIC
Greek, a scholar. Luke joined Paul Ia
his first European tour. His gospel
was really the preaching of Paul. AS
physician he ministered to the needs
of humanity aud so wrote of humanity
pel are 'The Son of Man" This
expression occurs 26 times
in his gospel. Luke goes
back in his genealogy to Adam, be-
cause he is writing to gentiles. This Is
sometimes called the ''prayer gospel. "
There are recorded more of prayers
of Jesus in this gospel than in any
other. This shows his humanity.
Luke closes his gospel with the coming
Write at the beginning OF tuis gospel
as key Jesus the man." symbol, tue
picture of man.
John was the "belove d. disciple.
His has been called gospel of the
hearth 'the diamond of hope;" 1.-THE
gospel Of love-" of eternity; of life:
etc. John goes back in his genealogy
to God. Because he is trying to CON
vince the world that Jesus is
divine. See first chapter, sin
the beginning was the word and the
word was God" The key words to this
gospel are "believe," which occurs
1Ol times; life, which we find SO times;
eternal and letter nally" which
occur over and over again
This is supplementary and compile
mentary gospel. But for this
nearly awhole year in the life o.
Christ would be without re-
cord. Only one passage
of this gospel occurs in the synop
| tic COSpels Hera we find the EAGLE