The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-04-11
The SABBATH SCHOOL.
International Lesson Comments For
April "A.
Subject Jesus Appears TO Mary, John XXX,
ll.l8"GoIden Text, Rev. l., IS'.MemOry
Verses, l6.lS.- Commentary on
the Days Lesson.

verses, lO.l0'IOmmenthry Oh
the Days Lesson.
IL. MARY" This was Mary Magdalen,
out of whom the Lord had cast seven dew
lis. The epithet "Magdalene,' whatever
express purpose of distinguishing her from
all other Marys. STOOD without" Peter
and John going ". l0) compends Marys
staying. To the grave she came before
them; from the grave she went to tell
them, to the grave she returns with them;
at the grave she remains behind then. then.
| To stay while others stay is the world
love; to stay when all are gone is constant
| love. Weeping" She had great love
| for her Lord; He had done much for her.
"Stooped down" Because she was anx-
| ious to see whether she might not, after
| all. be mistaken about the absence of the
| body. She stopped because the top of the
entrance was so low that she could not
otherwise obtain a near view OF the inside
| of the tomb. "The sepulchre." The sep
ulchre seems to have been a square room
hewn out of a rock. partly above ground.
| its roof being as high as the top of the
door, which formed its entrance.
II. Two angels" Peter and John did
not see the angels. The angels presence
showed the Divine hand and care. They
were ministering spirits to comfort those
| who were in such great sorrow and need.
and they gave explanation of what had
been done. no one else being able. The
supposed discrepancies in the number OF
| angels seen is explained by Lessing. The
| whole grave, the whole region about the
grave was invisiblv swarming with angels.
| There were not only two angels, but many
| of them. Sometimes one appears and
| sometimes another; at different places and
| speaking different things I'm white"
| This was an emblem OF purity. See Rev.
| 10: s.
l3. "Why weepest thou?" Are you
| quite sure that this empty tomb does not
| show that you ought to be rejoicing?
Taken away my Lord" While the other
women were terrified Mary seems to have
| had no fear, so wholly was she taken up
| with her great desire of finding her Lord.
| She was ready to brave more heroically
| than ever all danger if only she might find
| the One she loved.
IA. Turned herself back" Still weep
ing she turned away from the angels. She
| turned to go again with the other women
TO Jerusalem, who had already departed.
but she had not as vet gone so far as to
be out of the garden. Mary was so
| absorbed in grief, and her eyes 80 dimmed
with tears that she failed to recognize
| Christ; besides, she was not expecting to
see Jesus alive, as she had no conception
of His resurrection.
10. Jesus saith unto her" This was
peared on this same day to the other won.
en- returning from sepulchre Matt. 2S: 9,
| l0), to Peter uuke "a: 34). to two disci-
pies going to Emmanus Uuke "a: l3-3D,
"Why weepest thou?" She had cause suf.
6cient to rejoice instead of to weep.
| Whom seekest thou" He seeks to comfort
her in her great grief "The gardener"
And therefore servant of Joseph of Ari-
nathea, who owned the tomb, and who.
OF course, would be friendly. No other
person would be likely to be there at so
early an hour. Have borne Him hence"
Thinking that perhaps Joseph had or
| dered His body taken to some other place.
II will take Him away" She would see
that it was done. She would be response
BILE Tor His removal to proper place. To
| think that stranger hands had cared for
Him when she had brought spices for that
purpose was bitter disappointment to
IS. MARY" Jesus stirred the affection
of the weeping woman at His side by ut
tering her own name in tones that thrilled
her to the heart and created the new, sub
lime conviction that He had risen as He
had said. What transports of JOY must
have filled this woman's heart! Let it be
remarked that Mary sought Jesus more
fervently, and continued more affection
ately attached to Him than any of the
rest; therefore to her first Jesus is pleased
"Rabbboni." Ny Master. ' "A ''vSoS, whole
world of emotion and devotion in a word -
As Mary uttered the word she must have
endeavored to fall down at the feet of her
Lord, embracing them.
IL. Touch Me not" "Cling not to
Me-" The translation touch Me not"
gives false impression the verb does not
mean to touch, but to 'hold on to" and
""eiing to-" Il am not yet assembled :"
Mary appears to have held Him by the
feet, and worshiped Him. Jesus says in
now; | am not going Immediately to
hea en-; you will have several opportuni-
ties Of seeing Me again; but go aud tell
My disciples that i am, by and by, to as
eend to My Father and God, who is your
Father and God also; therefore, let them
take courage. Do not rest your new faith
upon My corporeal life, but upon that
spiritual life soon to be consummated
with the Father Then / shall receive
| your love, and we will resume our friend.
ship. One touch through the Holy Ghost
is worth far more than any bodily pres.
ence. To be satisfied with His being re-
| stored to life that she might be in His
presence as before was to lose sight of the
merits of His death. Henceforth He must
be believed in and worshiped as God, for
he was not to remain in a natural body.
60 to My brethren" First servants,
tnen disciples, tnen 1flendSi now, after
the resurrection, brethren. This involves
in itself eternal inheritance. II ascend to
| My Father" / am clothing Myself with
| My eternal form; have laid down Ny life
that i might take it again, and use It for
the highest blessedness of Ny brethren.
MY Father-your Father-My God and
your God" Father Of Christ by nature
and of men by grace. His God only in
connection with us; our God only in con-
| nection with Him. His eternal conscious
ness of the Fathers love digni6ed all His
human relations with the Father, and be-
came the true inspiration Of all conscious.
ness OF God possessed by His disciples
Is. Mary told the disciples" An apos.
tie to the apostles. Mary was the first to
see Jesus and the first to proclaim His
resurrection. This special message was
clearly given to the woman who held His
feet st. Mark tells us (chap. lG: III that
the apostles could not believe what she
said. They seem TO have considered it as
an effect OF her troubled imagination.
But they believed when they saw the
Lord.