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Sunday Study.
The Resurrectton


The International Sunday school lesson
for April 7, Easter, is found in Luke
XIV, 1-12. The Date is Sunday April 9,
a. D. 30, and the scene is Jerusalem The
golden text is, How is Christ risen from
the dead" from l. Corinthians, XIV, 70.
The Christian church bases it's faith
mainly upon the resurrection of Jesus. 1t
relies upon other proof of His deity, given
III His words and works, but depends
chiefly upon this CT. Cor. 1910. Jesus Him
self, While He pointed His enemies to His
works as proof of His being sent of the
Father John $685. etc), designated be-
forehand His burial and rising from the
dead as the claimed sign of His being ali
that he claimed Matt. 1898, 40; 16:4)
The resurrection from the dead. ac-
cording to Gukie, was, indeed, an article
Of the current Jewish theology =
Some Of the preachers in the syragogues
Qaught) that Israel alone would rise;
others, that the resurrection would in
clude the cody heather also, who had
kept the seven commands given to the
sons OF Noah; some, that all the hefkaen
outside the Holy Land would be raised
but only to shame and everlasting con-
tempt before Israel; while still others
maintained that neither the Samaritans
nor the great mass of their own nation.
who did not observe the precepts of the
ton. The lesson impresses the fact that
the resurrection was the dawn of new
day OF hope for the world. Those who
wish to consult texts relating to this
question should consult Luke X, 3S-42;
Lake, vii, $3.50; Amos, vi, 8; Matt. vi, II;
Exodus, xxx, '22-S0
e d Alive
The Christian Endeavor topic for the
week beginning April 7, is found in
Efhesians H.. 1-1O In the assage,
dead to sin alive to Christ" we have
what has been called the spiritual his
tory of the Ephesians. All through this
passage Paul attributes to God only the
power to change from spiritual death to
spiritual life God" he SAYS
hath Quickened us together and
raised us up together and made us sit
together in heavenly places in Christ
Jesus. by grace are We saved through
faith and that not of yourselves; it is
the gift of God. Not of works, lest any
man should boast. For we are His work.
manship, created in Christ Jesus unto
good works, which God before ordained
that we should walk in them"
PalI also calls to our attention in this
lesson the attributes of God that led Him
to raise men from death in sin to life
ir Jesus Christ. Q) Tt was Gods mercy.
But God, who is rich in mercy" Mercy
is undeserved favor. ~ It was God s
love. For His great love wherewith He
loved u.s. God is love-" and He 80
loved the world that FIe was willing
that Christ should die to raise men from
death to life. 60 1t was Gods grace.
by grace are we saved" % It was
Gods kindness. "In His kindness toward
us through Jesus Christ
The important question that comes to
us as individuals in the consideration of
this topic, is, Am dead to sin and alive
IN Christ? Have 1 passed from death
to life? And, if I have, am 1 showing
it in my life? Am 1 living a new life
in Christ Jesus, or do the grayeclothes
OF sin still cling to me? If dead to sin.
let us not live in sin; if alive in Christ
let US live Christ life that will show
that we have been born again and are
living together with Christ"
I'D to Sin-Altve to Christ
The Epworth League topic for the week
beginning April Z will be found in Ephe-
slams, Ii, lilo. Easter comes after holy
week, after all the ministry of Galilee
and miracles of healing, after all the
speaking as never man spake, after
Gethsemane and Calvary. After the
gloom and darkness, after the death of
all life and eclipse of faith when only
love held firm, then comes the burst of
Easter joy. Easter Sunday! Highest fes-
tival of earth! When the old century
passed and the new one came, men well
coined the advent with pealing of. bells
and booming of cannon. Music, speech
and festivity expressed the joyousness
felt at the suspicious omens Of the
times. But the beginning of all these
recent centuries, the center of all time,
the key Of all earthly good and pledge Of
eternal benefits lies in the resurrection
morn. Now is Christ risen from the
dead and become the first fruits of them
that slept"
Men had through all past ages since
Abel looked in the face of death and gone
into the graves silence A few had. like
Lazarus, returned to the old fe, but with
the same mortality upon them and DOOM
ed to yield again to the power of death
Their experience had given them no
knowledge of the world beyond the grave
But this Christ hath conquered and
abolished death. He has not returned
through the same gate He entered. He
passed through and rises in the power Of
an endless life. He is no longer living
soul merely. He Is the life-giving spirit
NOTABLE DAYS OF THE WEEK.
On April occurs the greatest feast