The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1908-04-10
Sunday School Lesson for April IL. 1908


Specially Prepared Tor Fil' fafcf
LESSON TENT.-John Ii.l-5I Memoir
vflses g. o.
GOLDEN TEXT am The resurrec
tion and Tire lfe John il.-5.
TIME January or February A. ID. 81
One or three months after tne last les
son. And two or three months bef0r
Jesus crueihxion.
PLACE. Befhnbara Ni. w. Bethany
In Perea. Bethany. "a small VILLAGE on ih'
Mount Of olives. about two miles iron
Jerusalem
Comment and Suggestive Thought.
At the feast Of the dedication. 10 De
cember. Christ had so plainly assert
ed his deity that the Jews had sought
10 stone him for blasphemy; but he
had escaped TO Bcthabara bethany
in Perea. the country east Of the Jor
dana town In the north over against
Galilee.
Christ's promise of n resurrection
did not satisfy Martha II was too
general too vague. TOO far ahead. She
wanted her brother back that min
ute. Christ met that longing by one
of the most magnificent Of his utter.
ances that wondrous sentence
which has carried hope and triumph
TO millions Of the dying and bereayed.
and will do so while time and NOR
tality endure tickle.
THE living, breathing friend
whom you love.
AM-Am now; no vague sometime;
no postponement
THE RESURRECTION-The power
Of the resurrection. the resurrection
embodied
AND THE LlFE-to conquer that
grim DEATH which has come so ter
ribly 10 your home.
He THAT BELIEVETH IN ME-
believing what Martha FASTENED 10
confess. that Christ was Gods Son.
his messenger of love 10 the world.
THOUGH HE WERE DEAD-as to
his mere body
YET SHALL HE LIVE-in every
point that constitutes life. having even
body. and a far better one.
AND WHOSOEVER-yes, though he
were the chief OF sinners.
LlyETH-with this higher life in
him.
AND BELlEVETH IN ME - ION
me-" says the Revised Version.
SHALL NEVER DIE-No, NEVER:
for. though his body may perish, that
will be but an incident in
his continuing and triumphant LIFE. |
Jesus, Our Resurrection and Our |
Life By preserving our lives daily, |
through countless unseen perils that
surround us-perils of the disease
germs floating everywhere; perils
of earthquake on this thin
earthcrust over hidden fires:
perils Of accident I'm our complicated
life. "A thousand times. yea. every
perious moment God saves us from
dying "-Phillips Brooks.
2. BY turning our minds away from
The physical death we must all die al
length. to him and his life we are
all passing into the likeness Of that in
which we believe A man who w0r-
ships money comes to wear the like.
ness Of a moneyworshiper down TO
he tips of his fingers. The Hindu who
Brahma sleeping on the
.tars in immovable calm. gets TO wear 9
) fixed expression. Theodore T
Munger. d. d. So the continual I
bought Of Christ. who overlooked
With inyincible life. implants that life s
within us. n
3. BY UNFOLDING MS in the very
Iour Of physical death when a com
nunity OF religious women IN Paris.
Turing the fury OF the French Revolu.
ion. were condemned 10 the guillo-
Inc. the youngest victims passed 10
heir execution raising IN serene
oices the sublime hymn. "Veni Gre
tor" The celestial song did not cease
hen they assembled the stairs of the
oaffold. and the work Of butchery Z
'ent on. Voice after voice had 10
rop from the chorus. as face after
zee Dent under me ak: and at length J
l. BY awaking us, when we die. into
ndless life. The time will seem no
niger than the four days which
assed before he awakened Lazarus
re shall have no consciousness Of his
lrrying. He comes as In moment
, awake MS ont Of sleep. Thomas
rnold the head of Rugby school
3. BY freeing ms from the spiritual
cath. from sin. Massilon, the great
rench preacher. justly sees in the ?
cad Lazarus an image Of the sin
en-: become a mass Of worms and
nd corruption. he spreads infection
nd stencil; and behold the profound
eruption of a soul IN habitual sin.
gloomy napkin covers his eyes and
is face: and behold the fatal blind =
ess of a soul in habitual sin He .
ppears in the tomb bound hand and
Dot: and behold the melancholy sub
sction of a soul in habitual sin" Free
ON from this dead body" Of sin.
s Paul called It. IS the most difficult
but Christ accomplishes
ven this. He comes into our soul, and
in must fee. Christ in you is the
ope Of glory
eIsidore Of Potassium thinks that our
saviour did not mourn for his friend /.
.azams because he was dead Oior he
new that he was gang 20 raise him
rom the dead. but because he was 90
i've again. and to come from the ha'
zen where he was arrived back again
nto the waves and storms; from a
.rown which he had enjoyed. 10 a new
.ncounter with his enemies If thou
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