The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1904-06-10
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON xl. SECOND QUARTER, INTER
NATIONAL SERIES, JUNE ~.
Text of the Lesson, Mark Nv, 1880.
Memory Verses, 25-27-Golden Text,
Cor. Nv, 3-Commentary Prepared
nv Rev. Id. NJ. steurns.

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He is now wholly in the hands, by
His own voluntary will and by the will
Of His Father, of those who for the
time being seem To be. possessed by
demons. Verses Is To 90 the section be-
tween the last lesson and this one, be-
gin and end with the words, And the
soldiers led Him away, . . led Him
out to cruelty Him." Between these
two sentences comes all the history
OF Jesus in the hands of the soldiers,
the mocking. the shifting, the splitting
the browning with thorns. But who can
describe it? Who ever heard of pris-
oner, even though justly condemned to
die. subjected to such inhuman treat
ment?
But ii was all foreseen and written
by the prophets: "They CAPPED upon me
with their mouths. rs Il ravening and a
roaring lion, for dogs have compassed
me. the assembly of the wicked have
inclosed me-" "Reproach hath broken
my heart, | am full of heaviness." Ops.
xxi, Is, 16; Xix, 20)
In John xix, L. it is written, and
He, bearing His cross, went forth" 1t
would appear that Jesus Himself bore
His own cross ms they started forth for
Calvary, but for some reason they laid
: hold upon this Simon, a Cyrenian, and
compelled him to bear the cross. either
wholly or in part, after Jesus duke xiii,
26). Consider the physical condition Of
our Lord after the agony and bloody
sweat of Gethsemane. the long night
Of knocking and buffeting, the merciless
scourging and all that He afterward
suffered at the hands of the soldiers,
and was it not wonder that He could
stand at all, much less walk or bear
His cross?
No other mortal ever did or can en-
Joy the privilege of this Simon, but
where was Simon Peter, who said he
would die with Him rather than deny
Him? He is not ready, and this APP
| parently unfortunate but truly blessed
African has the honor. Consider Rom.
xvi, IS; Acts xi. %; Xiii, 1, and the pos
sible connection with this event. Mat
thew, Mark and John call the place
| where He was crucifed Golgotha,
while Luke calls 1t Calvary, which is
the Greek equivalent and has the same
! Specification, 1.-The place of skull.
Only Luke mentions the fact that a
great company Of people and of women
followed Him out of the city, bewail-
ing and lamenting Him, and that He
! turned and spoke TO the women, telling
them that they had more cause to weep
for themselves and for their children
than for Him because Of the judgments
! that would come on the city. 1t is also
in Luke only that we find that the two
malefactors were led in the procession
with Him duke xiii, 1882.
1t is written in Ps. Xix, p, They
gave Me also gall for My meat, and in
My thirst they gave Me vinegar to
drink" This also was fulfilled. If
this was a Supplying potion mercifully
given to lessen the sufferings, 1t is
manifest that Jesus would take moth
ing to tighten in any way that which
He came to endure "And when they
had crucified Him."
Who can tell the agony contained III
that sentence? 1t was the most igno-
minious and painful punishment
known. The anguish caused by the
nails tearing through nerves and ten
dons, the Inflammation caused by the
exposure OF these wounds to the air
the violent pain from the least motion
all caused inexpressble misery from
which there was no relaxation or rest
till death ensued. Another Scripture
was fulfilled, They pierced my hands
and my feet" and yet another, They
part my garments among them and
cast lots upon my vesture' ops. xxi, 10
49,. for when the four soldiers divided
His garments, to every soldier part
they found that He wore also seam
less coat, and for that they cast lots
John xix. %, pa.
How minutely all was foretold and
how literally all was fulfilled! Just as
literally all unfulflled prophecy shall
yet be fulfilled. AS you see Him en-
during these untold agonies and re
member that it is written, Cursed Ii
every one that hangeth on a treev
does your heart say with great sym
patty with Him, but with gladnes:
because of Him, Christ hath redeemed
me from the curse Of the law, being
made a curse for me?" Deut. xxi, %
Gal. ill, 49,
The two thieves were crucified, one
on His right hand and the other on His
, left, and thus another Scripture wa:
fulfilled, which saith, And He was
T numbered with the transgressors" Qsa
lii, ~. His enemies sat down to watcl
Him, and both they and the passersb,
reviled Him and derided Him and rail
: ed on Him. The thieves also revileC
Him, but one of them afterward be
? lieved on Him and was saved. The su
prescription Of His accusation was sc
up over His head in Hebrew and Greel
[ and Latin duke xiii 3S), and thu
was proclaimed to all the world tn
truth yet to he made manifest to al
nations that the despised and crucifie'
Nazarene il indeed the King Of tn
Jews, who as an immortal man shall
sit on David's throne and reign owe
; Tho borca az Iacob and over all FIN