The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-29
Sunday School
Lesson
for
September 80.
Third Quarterly Review

lNTRODl CTION The lessons OF the quarter
have been in that interesting period Of Chrst's
ministry which extended from the spring to the
autumn of the year % They are taken in near
~ chronological order from all the gospels, Mark
furnishing but one lesson. In them aye treated
four miracles, but by far the greater part of the
narratives deals with the teachings Of Jesus. As
lie was nearing the end Of His earthly career,
the last lesson being but six months from the
cross, His words assume a more personal and
penetrating form, and their deep spiritual inn
port must arrest the attention OF the student.
FIRST LESSON.-,mIy |. Jesus Walking on
the sea" CNatthcw, xiv, 22.23D This miracle,
following closely upon that ot the feeding ot
the five thousand, was evidently intended To
deepen the impression already made upon The
mind, Of tine apostles. As they were fishermen,
accustomed to the sea, it appealed to them in
a peculiar manner. II LEFT no room to doubt
His divinity and their confession was prompt
and hearty. All the dctalS-thc storm, the ship
tossed by the waves, the venture and failure OF
,,rr, the supposed spirit, the great calm all
aided the general effect
SECOND LESSON.-mly $ "Jcsus the Bread
Of Lite" lIolm yi, 22.4OD This lesson is the
sequel to the last. II Jesus was the son Of God,
as Ills power over nature showed, what WAS lie
10 men, especially To those who might believe
ON Him? Thi, was very proper question. Was
lie a dispenser of temporal and physical good
as in the distribution Of the loaves and fishes;
So the multitude might think who had been fed
by Him. Now that they are all again in Ca
pcrnamm, lie may answer lie is the source Of
spiritual uouriShmcut, a divine man come TO
supply food for hungry souls,
THIRD LESSON-Iuly Is. "Thc Gentle Wo-
mans Faith" MARK, VIII 2i.3oD The scene is
now shifted TO distant foreign country. The
opportunity to show forth the Christ will he
given not to the Jews but to a Syro'Phoencian
woman lie is not to be confined TO the race
from whom he descended Ills mission is much
largcr-Ile il TO be the spiritual support of all
mankind, but only upon one condition by and
one method. AS the heart ycarnS after Him
and trusts in Him, so is tie 10 he appropriated
by Jews and by GcntilcS alike
FOURTH LESSON, July %, Peters Comics,
sion and Christ's Rcbuke." Matthew, xvi, 1926.
But this principle Of faith may he misunder.
stood, and so the method Of Christ may not he
adopted. In another place a lesson must he given
concerning the origin aud possible weakness OF
faith, II does not spring mp in the hcshly OF
canal heart but under the influence Of the
holy spirit II is liable to mistake and there
fore need, to be guarded and developed, Botl
facts were shown in Peters confession and IN
his suggestion. BY the first he wa, told how
| he came to bclicye-by the second that the evil
was not wholly removed from him when h'
| believed in the Sonship of Christ,
FIFTH LESSoN.-July %, "Thc Transhgura
| ton" U.uke, iX, 2s.3G) How is this Jesus
the divine man and spiritual support Of believers
| related to the mon Of other dispensations? Doe
lie stand apart from them or is lie their asso
ciatc? The question is one Of much importance
now, because its answer determines the mat
| ter Of religious continuity through the centuries
| the unity of movements in various ages, TIN