The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-05-26
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL,
Lesson TX. = Second Quarter,
For May 81, 1908. :
THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES.

Text Of the Lesson, John Xxx, f-fs
Memory Verses, IS. f6--Golden Tex,
Rev. f.fs-commentary Prepared b,
Rev. o. M. Stearns.
Copyright. 1905. by American Press Association.
We should certainly be grateful To-
three resurrection lessons In success
sion. but even thirty such would do u.
no good II we do not see ourselves a:
crucited with Him and risen witt
Him and our life hid with Christ In
God. that so our affections may be SCI
on things above and our hearts upon
the appearing with Him In glory iCol
lii. LII The more fully we are grasp
ed by the great truth of His resurrec'
ton the more earnestly will we pray
the prayer that may know Him
and the power OF His resurrection
tphil Ill. 10. lii. for unless our re-
ception Of Him as the one crucified
and risen for us and our intimate ac-
quaintance with Him as the ascended
Christ, our great High Priest, lead to
q reproduction of His life In us lie Is
not having the right Of way In our
lives. as He desires to have. As His
whole life was covered by the one
word submission" so must ours be.
submit to God. Resist the devil"
That there Is no salvation. no for
giyeness Of sins, no gospel to preach.
If Christ be not risen Is fully set forth
In Cor. XIV. The emphasis given to
1t by the apostles In their preaching Is
seen In such passages as Acts II. q.
81: III, 10. 20: ~. 10: v. 80: Xii 81 50,
etc. At His death the sun was dark.
ened. the earth did quake. the rocks
rent. the graves We're opened. and all
nature seemed to groan In adherence
OF such n deed: but, as we saw In the
last lesson. the hardened heart OF sin
full man could scoff ut and deride Him
who was suffering for the sins Of
those very men. He died. the Just
for the unjust His body was laid In
Joseph's new tomb by the kind hands
Of two secret disciples. who tn that
hour Of emergency became bold for
Him. His enemies remembered that
He had said that He would rise again
the third day. and so with Pilates ap-
prevail they made the tomb M sure rs
they could. sealing the stone and set
ting watch (AIatt. xvii. 62-56p. To
mere human eyes ID looked as &c the
devil had the victory and the impostor.
as the scribes and Pharisees thought.
had been finally disposed Of. But at
all mans thoughts and purposes He
that stitch In the heavens shall laugh:
the Lord shall have them In derision''
FPS. II. a. 1
At the appointed time on the third
day He came forth victorious over sin
and death and the grave. and He
showed Himself alive by many infalli-
Bile proofs during forty days. speaking
81 the things pertaining to the king
iom OF God facts 1. b. There II no
topic more plain In Scripture AMI yer
less understood by preachers generally
and. Of course. by the majority who
listen to them than the kingdom o:
God or Of heaven. which our Lerf
Himself described as the viii Of God
done on earth rs In heaven IL Is de-
scribed rs including all the nations
upon earth. nil kings bowling down to
Jesus as King Of kings and all the
nations worshiping Him as the Mes
siah Of Israel. they having become Il
righteous nation at His appearing In
glory and all nations blessed through |
them. Then We who now accept Him
and serve Him and follow Him shall
In our resurrection bodies reign with |
Him IN Ills kingdom. Inasmuch as
our mortal bodies shall be made like |
unto His glorious body. for we shall
be like Him PhII. III. q: ! John iii. p. |
Il becomes 10 Us a matter Of the great. |
est possible interest TO note the pow.
ers and the nature OF His resurrection |
body. Our special lesson to day. al. |
though II mentions only one Of Ills |
really covers fOur-that
to Mary Magdaiene. 10 the other WON |
On, to Simon Peter and 10 the two who |
walked to Emmaus. We have called |
attention 10 the fact Of there being no !
apart from His resurrec.
ton, but redemption will be found TO |
Include our bodies also at the resurrec.
ton Of the just q Cor. Nv. siL Al. |
though lie forbade Mary to touch Him
because, as lie said, lie was tken on
Ills way 70 His Father In Ills risen
body, lie allowed the other women 10
hold Him by the feet and TO worship
Him Matt. xviii. o.: therefore the
body was a real. tangible,
body, as we shall see more
fully In the tive succeeding lessons.
We gather nothing Of the nature Of
that body from Ills appearing to re.
ter, for we have only the record Of the
fact Luke xiv. 81, but from Hls ap-
pearance 10 the two who walked to
Emmaus we learn that lie walked rs
they did and sat &C meat with them In
the house and took bread and blessed
and brake II. Then lie did something
which they IN their mortal bodies
could not ds-TIe vanished out Of their
sight This we shall also be able TO
10 when we have bodies like Ills.
One prominent truth In connection
with His resurrection talks In that we
grieye Him greatly when we fall TO be.