Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-03-16

(Chicago) Sunday School Asso-
citation on the International
5. S. Lessons.)
Copyright, 1906, by Joseph b. Bowles.)
Golden Text: And Jesus went about all
ialilee teaching in their synagogues and
preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom, and
healing all manner of sickness. Matt.
4:23.
Certainly no mistake can be made b.
making all the lessons Of the quarter
ate around the person and work of
Christ. Indeed the lessons for the EN-
tire year of 1906 are taken up solely
with the life of our Lord rs revealed
in the first three gospel accounts.
Christ as Saviour, Teacher, and Work
er-as Saviour, in His relation to Sill
ners, He is to be sought; as Teacher
in relation to disciples, He is to De
obeyed and followed; as Worker, III
His relation to the needy, He is the eX-
ample of all to be followed in Denefl~
cence and philanthropy.
Jesus as a Saviour.
Jesus is the only man o IN MS
tory who was born with specific refer
ence to the sin Of the human race. He
was not a moralist, not a reformer, not
a p~hilanthropist, at least not primarily
so: He came to be mans Saviour.
Jesus did not come into the world 70
teach men how to live, nor how t?
die: He came to show them how to
get rid of their sins. His name was
the insignia of His office-"Jesus, for
He shall save the people from their
sins The world has no other such
Saviour: Neither is their salvation
in any other; for there Is none other
name given under heaven among men
whereby we must be saved"
A Divine-Human Saviour.
Our lessons teach us the perfect
He was a perfect la He had a per-
feet human nature with all its sinles5
infirmities. He was born of a woman
He grew as other boys grow; He was
subject to hunger. thirst, WEAKNESS.
pain; He slept, cried, suffered, died.
He was subjected to temptations JUS
as we are, yet without yielding to
them. If He was to be the Saviour of
the human race, then lit behooved Hiln
to be made in all things like unto His
brethren" There is not a note in the
great organ of our humanity which.
when touched, does not produce a SYM
pathetic response in the mighty range
and scope of our Lords being, saving
the Earring discord of sin.
Jesus Was Divine. F.,
Not merely in the sense that we
are all divine. He possessed a deity
to which no mere human being could
lay claim. We become" sons of
God John 1:12). Jesus never be
came" such; He always was" the
eternal and only-begotten Son of the
Father. AS a child He was born
but as a Son He was given" Elsa.
500. His miraculous birth; His
power to perform works which none
other man did, save in a delegated
power His power over sickness, dis
ease, demons, Satan, and death; His
prescience, omniscience, omnipo-
tence; His power over man to save,
over demons to cast them out, over
nature to control it-these are incon-
trovertible evidences of the deity OF
the Christ. And such a redeenter is
Gods appointed Saviour of the world.
No man a come to the Father, gain
an entrance into Heaven, spend an
eternity of bliss with God, the angels,
and the spirits of just men made per-
feet, unless it be through Him Who
was God manifest in the flesh"
Christ rs a Teacher.
He was the greatest teacher the
world has ever known. He was the
teacher come from God" He alone
perfectly revealed the Father. His
teaching was with absolute author
ity, and not as the Scribes.' What
ever may be said with reference to the
voluntary limitations of Christ in 9TH
said that He was limited in His teach
ing. God gave not the Spirit by
measure unto Him in this aspect
His comments We're not governed b.
popular opinions, but by direct revela-
ton from the Father. Christ made no
mistakes in His teaching. The disci-
Piles of Jesus Christ will therefore in.l
III His word and teachings the ulti-
mate authority in matters OF faith aH,l
practice. When Jesus has spoken the
last word on any question Of faith or
practice there is nothing more to be
said on that subject. His words are
the court of final appeal. They form
our standard both here and hereafter
the word that | have spoken. the
same shall judge him in the last ,tay."
1t is because Jesus was God, G,vine,
deity, that His words have this final
and ultimate authority. We must not
make the mistake many are making
to-day-that Of seeing in Jesus the
greatest of all merely human teachers.
he was that, and all OF that; but He
was more: He was divine wisdom i'll
carnate. We must value the teaching
because of the Christ Who taught. not