The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-06-23
lie QuarterIY Review.

The person around whom all these
events are grouped is pledge of their
Importance. The epoch in His life
when they occur is an extra guaran-
tee of their transcendance. 1t is
Jesus who is the towering personal
ity, and the time is the last six months
Of His life. geographically, these
~events transpire in Galilee, Perea,
and Judea-more specifically in Ce-
sarea-Philippi, Mt. Hermon, the
transJ ordanic region, and Jerusalem.
In rapid and cumulative order these
pictures flash out. The confession,
TRANSPORTATION, the seventy par
ables concerning prayer, watchful-
ness, the prodigal and humility, the
Last Supper, PLATE, Crucifixion,
Resurrection. No page in all the
volumes ever written is worthy of
closer attention. Aside from religion
az purely biographical study, it
would command respect For it con-
tains the ultimate teaching and the
last events in the life of one who
without question has effected the hu-
man race more universally and per-
manently than any other; affected
them, too, not in the superficial ac-
cidents of life, but in the deepest
realm of ethical and spiritual being.
The Teachers Lantern
(For Lesson |, see Lesson KILL
In his last year, Jesus turned from
the multitude and concentrated His
energies upon His disciples. His
ministry to the throng had proved a.
failure. His pearls of word and deed
had fallen before a british people. /
To perpetuate His Church after
His departure, He turns to trim and
square and polish His apostles-as
the foundation-stones that are to
bear aloft the uperstructure. With
this in view, He led them to Decap-
oils and Tyre and Sidon and C8sarea-
Philippi, localities where He was COM
parativey unknown. In such places
His course of private instruction
would be least interrupted by public
demands. Philips >C3sarea was 10
what has aptly been called 1.-The Swift
erland of Palestine" There was the
ever-startling contrast between Arc
tic white and tropic emerald. AS
they walked amid the oleanders and
beside the gushing fountain, source
of the Jordan, they could lift their
eyes to snowclad Hermon and Leb-
non. 1t was schoolroom worthy
once of teacher and taught. 1t
was this glorious sanctuary of nature
which first rang with the simplest,
spblimest credo of all the ages, as
the mouth of the apostles" cried,
Thou art the Christ, the Son of the
living God" In that word, Peter
burst the shell of an hereditary and
universal misconception of the nature
of the Messiah. He first spread the
wings of a true Messianic faith, and
scared above the temporal ideas of
throne, army, and conquest
Lesson II.
The TRANSPORTATION is the heaven
ly Amen to the earthly confession of
the Divinity and Messiahship of
Jesus. Hardly had that comprehen-
siye creed framed itself on Peters
lips, and been consented to by tn q
apostles, than they were all shaken
I by the revelation of the ignominious
death in store for the Messiah. That
ineffable scene on Hermon fixed and
settled faith that was tottering to
its fall. 1t nerved them for Geth-
semane and Calvary. 1t was fitting
that they should see the celestial evil
dences of His eternal Godhead and
glory on the hither side of the cross.
Before they saw His yisage marred,
they were privileged to see it trans
figured.
Lesson III.
In the last six months of His min
istry and life, Jerus made system attic
and determined effort to announce
Evidence is not wanting that He had
we'll defined plan of operation and
that the thoroughly Oriental and
consequently spectacular "triumphal
entrance" to Jerusalem was the de-
nouncement of the whole In this
plan the mission of the Seventy is an
important feature. There is an uu-
doubted significance in the number.
As Jesus had the twelve patriarchs in
mind when He appointed these evan
gelists. 1t is also an old tradition
(see Genesis X that the number of the
nations was seventy as the number
OF metallic substances is also suppos-
ed to be. The time of this circum-
stance was also the Feast of Taber-
nacles, at which seventy bullocks
were offered. AS the Talmud SAYS,
there were seventy bullock to cores