The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1905-04-21
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON ", SECOND QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, APRIL 20.

Matt. xXt, documentary Prepared
by Rev. ID. vi. stenrns.
Copyright 1905, by American Press Association.
Multitudes going forth to meet Him
with songs of praise and palms of vic
tory, according to Ps. cxviii,. %. 90.
make the heart rejoice because this
is as it should be and will be in due
time. Although they rejected Him and
crucitied Him. they will as n nation see
Him again, and then will they truly
say: blessed is He that cometh in
the name of the Lord" 10, this is our
God. We have waited for Him, and
He will save us. We will be glad
and rejoice in His salvation Matt.
xiii, 80; lisa. XIV, 81. There is n glori-
Gus going forth to meet Him mentioned
IN Thess. iv, 1918, in which we shall
all take part who are members of His
body redeemed by His precious blood.
The palm branches take us back to Ex.
XIV, 81; Lev. xiii, 40, the cherubim and
palm branches of Solomons and Eze-
kiels temples, and on to Rev. vii, 8.
When the Son of God shall be King of
AhNls lbEA Shdll We blIHO All
these.
The finding Of the ass colt is fully
recorded by Matthew. Mark and Luke
and is most suggestive of many helpful
truths. The colt was found tied where
two ways met, and the two disciples
who were sent for him loOsed him and
brought him to Jesus. 1t is not latter
ing to the natural man to compare him
to an ass colt. yet listen to this: vain
man would be wise though man be
born wild ass colt" Job Xi, 12).
Again it is written that the 1rstbOrn
of asses and men were to be redeemed,
and If the former was not redeemed its
neck had TO be broken (EX. Kill, 49,.
Judge from this the standing of an I'M
saved person, and yet for such Christ
died.
Our Lord rode on that ass colt into
Jerusalem to fulfill that which was
written Of Him hundreds of years be
fore Czech. iX, %, and each Of the four
gospels contains the record of the full
fillmcnt. 1t is written in the same
prophecy that the Lord shall come with
all Ills saints to the Mount of Olives
on the east side of Jerusalem, shall
choose Jerusalem again and be King
over all the earth Czech. xiv, 80; il,
1913, and as truly as the one proph-
ecy was literally fulfilled the other will
be. Blessed are all who believe luke
!, 4J).
According to verses 1910 of our les
son, it was the raising Of Lazarus that
drew the multitude out to meet Him,
and, as we have the option of resur-
section lesson today instead OF this one,
this would be n good place to empha-
size that it is the risen, living Christ
whom we follow and that we seek to
know the power of Ills resurrection,
that His lIfe may be manifest in us.
The desire Of these Greeks, who We're
probably either Grecian Jews or pros
elytes to the Jewish faith (Acts vi, / {;
ii, 10), to see Jesus was a foreshadow-
ing of the time when. as the Pharisees
said in verse 10, all the world will go
after Him and all nations be gathered
to the name of the Lord to Jerusalem
der iii, 10. Compare Matt. ii. l, Q;
viii, II, 10.
The desire of these Greeks should be
the utterance Of every congregation to
every preacher, "Sir, we would see Je-
sus," for the Bible is given to us that
we may know God. and God can only
be known and seen in Christ Jesus,
Neither knoweth any man the Father
save the Son, and he TO whomsoever
the Son will reveal Him" Matt. xi, 20.
He is the Living Word, and the writ
ten word centers about and consum-
mates in Him. He could truly say.
"Lo, come; in the volume OF the book
it is written of Me" ops. xl, Z; Heb. Y,
y, and on one of the resurrection days
HE expounded unto them in all the
Scriptures the things concerning Him.
SELF" saying, GAIL things must be full
filed which were written In the law of
Moses and in the prophets and in the
Psalms concerning Me" duke xiv, %,
Az. He is the Creator of all things,
the only Redeemer, the only Judge Of
all mankind. There is no life apart
from Him q John V, 12).
The association of Philip and Andrew
in chapters and vi and in this lesson
is n most interesting and profitable
study. That they should tell Jesus is
suggestive of what we should all do
and always do. See Matt. xiv, -;
Mark vi, 80; Phil. iv, 6, Z. AS our
Lord hears of the Greeks desiring to
see Him, and recalls that He was not
sent but unto the lost sheep of the
house of Israel (AIatt. XIV, pa, and
thinks of the other sheep not OF this
fold John Y, 1G), and the time when
all kings shall fall down before Him
and all nations serve Him Cps. Xxi,
III, for He ever grasped the whole and
looked on to the kingdom and the
glory, He considers the only way to
this glorious consummation and speaks
of His death and resurrection. for He
knew ali that should come upon Him
and had often told them duke xviii.
81, 34), but they understood not, for
they would not take what He said lit
orally, and there was no other way to