The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-12-28
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR JANUARY /.
Subject: Christ the Life and Light of Men.
John. l., Lib Golden Text, John L., 4
-Memory Verses, Ia - Commentary
on the Days Lesson.


-Memory Verses, Ia =. Commentary
on the Days Lesson.
j. Christs eternal existence Tvs. ], q.
/; In the beginning" Before all created
things In the ages Of eternity when only
God existed Was" Not became. He
existed before all creation. "He did not
come into being; He was" "The Word
The Greek term here translated Word"
,S LOCUS" which has the double mean.
sig OF thought and speech. With God"
closest communion, yet distinct from
Him. WAS God In substance and es.
senec God. The Father is God; the Son
IS God: the Holy Spirit is God; God is
One. An unfathomnabe mystery! 1t is
rashness to search too far into it, 1t is
piety to believe it. 1t is life eternal to
know 1t.
.. "The same was in the beginning" God
was eternally Triune, three in one There
was the Second Person in the Trinity be.
lore lie was manifested in the flesh
lie was not created Divine; He existed d.
viue, was one with God
II. Christ the Creator Tvs. 3.j). 3. "A!l
things were made by HIM" Terrestrial
and celestial. visible and invisible, men.
worlds and angels. All things came into
being through Him, by. His agency. lie
exists, but all other things were made.
d. I'm His was life" He was the we'll
spring from which every form of life-phy.
s'GaI, lhteileetetual' moral, spiritual, eternal
e,.lt ~: Inc iignt OF men. There is
sn s,lst me- tnen nght. Dead eyes cannot
0; The light shineth." Christ has re
vealed Himself constantly, by creation,
by providence, by the strivings of the
Spirit, by the course of events, by the
teveIatlons oil the prophets and even by
@ une uiia ihtlmatIohs ma oil heathen conscious
nJ aess' Aha tne nsnt stu shlneth, clearer
anu orlgnter !, gS thli III the past. IN dark,
10, ,hc,;s ne aarNhess on SIN, ignorance and
ulloehei mas ensnrouded the world IN all
%ses: a Hompreheaded 1t not; Did not
iecelse ~ or proHt Dy IL. But another
translation IN the marg OF the X. V.
enahges tne ,meaning-the darkness over
eaiiIe y riot not; .
. dl NJ ne ne, heraId OF Christs coming Tvs.
G9). g. There was man. tSee r. W
l-lLeIaly' there Degan to be q man, IN
contrast Win the WORD who had no be-
SIihhS sent IRON Iod. God gave
nm ms mission and His message, His
e~feueii.lals ~ anu 1is INSTRUCTIONS lie was
messenger; John' Ihe Baptist, An
:. 10 bear witness OF the light" Testi'
mony, stronger mere than preaching,
s.Longer' eyen, than prophecy as hitherto
eH'stshs' oouh appeared nfst as a preach'
er OF repentence' but at the same time
shoWed sh o,l nimseli nm prophet, who completed
II:- ~ NP.,NNS a., 'es'lhiohS'
lils MISSION rose INTO the office OF fore
runner. All men beheve. In the di'
sslne purpose John was to lead oyer the
lalth Oh Israel to Christ, though the Cos
pei was not Tor the jews alone, nor for a
race or classs, but Tor all men, always and
/ everywhere. r,
O. Not mat Ight. John was not the
source source OF light; but only reflector OF the
heht' iamp Hshted. At thus time some
were SUI iiYing who were inclined to place
24hn JI the Baptlst on an equality with
Ohf'st' hence TINS PLAIN declaration. John
was, indeed, a burning and shining
,ieht' or literally, lamp !John .: 35),
Pat ne came only to herald the true
Llsht; ~, That Christ. WAS the
true Llght;, Not that John was false
ilight' put Chrlst was the genuine, perfect
nght, the original source OF light, and His
messenger oniy carried rays oil light from
nm hiGh lghteth every man." Not
an men. Inc Light lllumines each one
sngly, not all collectively. God deals
with men separately as individuals, not in
masses;
"; Christ rejected by men Tvs. 10, lD.
TO- Was in the world. In all the past
ages, IN every manifestation oil God, in
the history OF the chosen nation. but es.