Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-03-15
CHRISTIAN ENOEAVOR.
Prayer Meeting Topic For the Week
BeginnipG Dee. 16.


Topc-What truth has chiefly appealed
to you from our years Sabbath school
lessons Matt xiii, %; lisa. lii. 1915; lii,
1-12
The Sabbath school lessons for the
past year have been devoted to the
life of Christ. The subject of the first
lesson was an incident connected with
His infancy. and the last subject will
be His ascension Looking back over
an entire year, we may not be able to
select one truth that impressed us
most. If compelled to make selec-
ton | am sure that with one accord
we would choose the death of Christ.
No truth. no fact, has ever appealed
to the human mind and heart like this
greatest fact in all human history
Christs death for the world. 1t was
not so much His death that appeals to
us as the great truth that He died for
us. He was wounded for our trans
gressions and bruised for our iniqui-
ties. This is why His death stands
out as the supreme event In His mis-
sion to this world But we have stud
led not only the death of Christ. but
also His entire life. and It all should
appeal to us, for His death is only APP
preciated and fully understood through
His entire life. We should be familiar
with the life Of Christ throughout. and
in proper proportion it should all APP
peal to us. We should remember it
and apply it to cur lives
After years study in the life of
Christ:
l. We should remember Christs life
itself No more wonderful life was
ever lived 1t is the worlds only ideal
life. Human nature is weak at its
best, and when we see mans proneness
to wander from God and his unfaith-
fulness to his fellow men it is no small
thing to have at least one life to con
template that was without a flaw. Nor
should we only remember it. 1t should
be our ideal and our inspiration. We
should not only admire His life and
character but should initiate them.
2. We should remember the works of
Christ. He did not live an idle life by
any means. He was ever going about
doing good. But, above all, the mar
velous works of Christ should appeal
to us. Nor should we ever doubt that
Christ performed miracles. In this
day, when so many would do away
with the supernatural we must firmly
stand our ground. All we know of
Jesus Christ is told us in the Scrip
lures. and they declare that He per
formed miracles. If the testimony CON
corning the supernatural Is false. can
we accept that concerning the natural?
II one man can strike out the miracles.
cannot another with as much reason
strike out the parallels: If some one
can say that one chapter should be
omitted. cannot some one else say that
another chapter should go? What is
therefore the result? Simply that the
Scriptures all stand or all fall. The
records of the miracles of Christ are
true or we can believe nothing else
written about Him. for His only his
torians record His miracles. And why
should 1t be thought incredible that the
Son of God did few things that an
ordinary man could not do? Could
God make millions of eyes and not
neal lew tudt udu DeCOUle ulSedSeu!
Could God create universe and not
put new life into single human arm
that had become paralyzed? What alb
surdity! Let us accept all the works of
Christ and by His miraculous ones be
convinced of His deity.
g. We should remember the words of
Christ What gracious words fell from
His lips-matchless parallels on Gods
love and human duties, tender words
of invitation to the erring and the
fallen and words OF comfort and good
cheer to the weary. the bereaved and
the discouraged Never n0n spake as
He spake." Therefore let us treasure
His words and be helped and comfort
ed by them.
4. We should remember, above ev-
erything else, Christ's death for us. He
died the innocent for the guilty, the
Just for the unjust the righteous for
the sinful. We were among the guilty.
the unjust, the sinful. Therefore He
died for us. And let us remember
that He died for us In the sense that
He died In our stead. had He not
paid the penalty of our sins upon tie