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Sunday Study
"No REsPEcrER "a pERsoNs. ;,

NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS.
The international Sunday school lesson
for April 20 is found in Acts X, 34-4S.
The Golden Text is the thirty-fourth
verse. The story of the Bible is that
God had no preferences and it is SO de-
clared in the beginning of the lesson.
Although the Lord had commanded be-
lore His ascension that the gospel be
preached to every creature and unto the
uttermost part of the earth, the preach
ing mad up to this time been to the Jews
only, and Peter had to receive a special
vision TO teach him that God was no
reSpecter of persons.
his work began in the home of Cor
menus under the direction of Peter. Even
IN order to enter the kingdom Of God
and Peter had to bring to Cornelius the
message by which he and his house
might be saved, for there is no salvation
apart from the reception of Christ and
falth in His atOning blood.
IN the thirty-ninth verse it is declared
mat We are all witnesses. The witness
need not indulge in guessWork He need
only tell the truth concerning his love
Tor the Master. If all the redeemed were
true witnesses, what glorious testimony
would E5f. be ever going forth concerning
Him VINO is altogether lovely,
lie commanded US to preach unto the
people and to testify that it is He which
was ordained of God to be the Judge Of
quick and dead
In all their preaching these witnesses
iall not to declare that although the Jews
killed Jesus, God raised Him from he
oead and showed Him openly to chosen
witnesses, and now Peter declares as
Paul afterWard does, that He is the God
appointed Judge Of all mankind
10 him give all the prophets witness .
N the way to Emmaus as he talked
win those two that resurrection dav.
lie expounded unto them in all the Scrip
lures the things concerning him
Sc and taught that all things concerning
Il5Iro IN the me law the prophets and the
+" nile nile Peter yet spake these words
heard the word
The message was not Peters message
but the Lords own message through
refer, and Cornelius so recr gnized it
lor ne, IN verse 20. said to Peter: I'VE
are al mere present before God to h5ar
Inc things that are commanded thee
Of God"
They heard them speak with
tongues and magnify God"
IL was at Pentecost, except that there
was no waiting. for the Spirit having
come as our Lord promised there is 10
longer any need to wait. but where the
heart is open and the Lord truly recaiv,
ca there may be also the filing of the
sPiIlt Ihere came with Peter six Jew
lsh brethren from Joppa (Acts XII. 12).
VINO, although believers were astonisheG
W Mhen they saw the Holy Ghost given
70 tneSe Gent,les. It is to this day diff
hcult for some believers to think that
any people can be blessed outside of
their so-caIled churches, but they need
70 earn that God is no more a respec,er
OF denominations than of persons.
lie commanded them to be baptized
in the name of the Lord
Here IS something helpful for those
VINO MAKE baptism with water essential
to the new birth, for in this company
IN Cornelius house some saved and Spir
1t flled people who have not Vet bann
paptlzed with water and are thus bap
tlIed after they have received the gift
Of the Holy Ghost So