The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-28

INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY-SCHOOL LESSON
Copyright, Davis W Clark.)
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reveals that God. and calls them to re. pentance.
 February 1. 1908 Acts xvii:22:s4.
 VI. The Church at Corinth founded. The beauty of the city was the veneer of It's moral leprosy. Art and philosopshy had proved impotent to reform. But the penniless tentmaker preached a gospel there which had Gods saving power in It. The Star of Hellas" took new luster. The cross soon gleamed above the Temple of Venus. ..-s
 February 8. 1908. Acts xviii. lii.
 VII. Christian self-control--Wisdom was Paurs day. But 1t left them rather worse than better. Christians had a wisdom" also. Divine its source; pre- cious its contents. In light of it they saw an idol to be a nonentity. With such knowledge, they could eat meat offered to an Idol without scruples. But some Christian novices could not. For sake of such. the better informed must forego advantage of their knowledge, and deny themselves for sake of others. Principle still maintains
 February 16, 1903. 1 Cor. viii, 4-13.
 VIII. Christian love--Paul addresses himself to the philosophic question. the highest good. Result Is this Psalm of IIe uiHST0ntidtcS lONu AS tHC essential basis of character from acci- dents. He affirms and describes it's qualities. It is a fruit of the Spirit; 1t is Christianity epitomiyed.
 February p. 1903. Cor xiii. 1-13.
 TX. Paul and Apollos. incident of Apollos is a little narrative in parenthesis. APollos is a type of the popular teacher or preacher who, though himself not fully instructed, has a subtle enthusiasm which gains him an auditory where the other wise more fully furnished man falls. Yet his enthusiasm was teachable. His in- structors were Iaymen Thus early does the lay worker come to the fore.J The sancified strategic instinct of Paul shows itself in his successful approach to the disciples of John Baptist.
 March i, 1909. Acts xviii, 24; xix 6.
 X. Paul at Ephesus.-see Pauls strategy in seizinK Ephesus. It was next to Rome in influence. His courage in at tackinE the Acropolis of heathenism. Paul struck organism; yet was no icono- clast. He overthrow ldolism by the in- troduction of a new love. which exercised its own expulsive power. Paul's fellow countrymen sought to block his way; but the very means they used really advanc- ed his cause Exorcism was put 10 an open shame, and the spell of sorcery was broken.
 March 8. 1903 Acts xix 1920
 XI The riot at Ephesus-Next to Rome. Ephesus was the most influential metropolis In the world. Paul showed dauntless courage as well as strategic skill in his assault upon this Acropolis of organism. Effort was made to head him off by labor agitation. one of the earliest of which there is record. De- metrius was the clever leader The sii- versmths were the craftsmen involved. But the uproar came to nothing. except to furnish another illustration of the vanity of opposition to the truth.
 March l5. 1908 Acts xix. 2s-H.
 XII PauFs message to the Ephesians- The Epistle remarkable, a trumpet-call, and rapturous; written by Paul in prison in Rome. A. D. 5s-62; possible an encycli- cal; full of local allusions to the environ ment of the Churches addressed; likeness to Epistle to Colossians; motif. the DOT trayal of the glory of the Church in Christ-the ground extent. course. object and destiny of the Church. The par tlcuIar paragraph presents a vivid double portraiture: First. of believers as they were; second. of them as they are.
 March 9. 1903. Eph. fl, 1-10.