The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-11-08
prepared by II. c. Lerington1
THE LESSON TENT.
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%. But Abraham said: Son. remembc,
that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy
! good things. and likewise Lazarus cvi
things. but now he is COmiorted, and thou
art torm,nt,d.
&c. And beside all this, between us and
! you there is a great gulf fixed; so that
they which would pass from hence to yot
cannot; neither can they pass US, thai
! would come from thence.
"a Then he SAID | pray thee therefore
father, that you wouldeSt send him to my
/ fathers house:
Is. For have 1--WE brethren; that he may
testify unto them, lest they also come into
| this place of torment.
/ -. Abraham saith unto him: They have
Moses and the prophets; let them hear
| them.
30. And he said: Nay. father Abraham
but II one went unto them from the dead
they would repent.
81. And he said unto him: If they hear
not Moses and the prophets. neither will
tEcy be persuaded, though one rose from
the dead.
GOLDEN TENT-Lay up for your.
selves treasures in HcaNcn.-Mntt.
6:2O.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The teaching Of Jesus regarding the
mammon COR money! worshipers
touch the pharisecs in tender spot,
TOR, us Luke l6:lt tells us, they "wcre
lovers Of money" They scoifcd at
Jesus and His teaching. and this
brought out the charge OF Jesus that
'ye are they which justify yourselves
in the sight of men," but He adds
Hod knoWe'h your hearts, IL is to
r'entorce hiS previous teaching re
garulhS money ana the pcrils that lie
'herein that l.r gives us the story of
'he rlch man al" Lazarus. The lesson
may be outlined as follows:
The Rich Man and Lazarus. 1921.
IN" rate OF Each...................vs &-2i.
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(b) The lmpassable Gulf f'.,,',..'','vs %
lc) Truth Apparent In This Llfc.vs. 21-3l.
The Rich Man and Lalarus.-A
sharp contrast is presented. We have
the worldly man at his earthly best,
and the Cody man at his earthly
worst. The one is a self-seeIing, self
gratifying, sordid man, whose whole
thought is for the coarser things of
life. lie is The man who mas made
mammon his god, and money the
whole end OF existence. The other is
Cody man with clean. clear con
science, but who has met with mis-
fortune such as seldom falls to the
lot of honest men.
The Fate of Each.-In the course
of time both died, as IN the course of
time all must. But existence does
not end with what we call death.
There is that within us that continues
to live, and il continues on the same
course in which it has started here
on earth. In the spiritual world
the man who had been rich here found
there was nothing that could satisfy
the wants and wishes of his nature.
lie had pandered to the body, and
dwarfed the finer qualities which
could have been brought to pcrfec-
tion in the life beyond the grave. The
desires of earth had not left him, but
only grown the more intense, so that
he would have even the dcspisrd Laz-
arus bring him but a drop of water
on the lp of the finger.
Some OF the Lessons.-(D Jesus
has before laid down the rulo Illus
tratcd in verse 25. In the sermon ON
the mount, He had said of the hypo-
cries: Verify say unto you. they
have received their reward"
(b). The Impossible Gulf.-There is
never n greater or more impossible
gulf than that between a character
rightly builded and one built upon
weak foundations and nimsily CON
structed. After lifetime of training
and habit of Thought and oction n
goo" man Gun commit no great wrong,
nor can bad man do righteous act.
We have reason tp bplipya that tbaCa