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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM.
MENTS FOR MARCH 70.

Review of the First Quarter-Golden
Text, John 1:4-What the Elcv-
en- Previous Lessons Prove
Commentary.
Golden Text-"In Him was life;
and the life was the light OF men,"
John IA.
A.. The purpose of Johns Gospel is
given in John 20:31: But these are
written, that We might believe that
Jesus is the Christ, the Son Of God;
and that believing We might have life
through His name" 1t was to prove
that Jesus is the Christ, the Son Of
God, and to prove it in such a way
that men might believe it in their
hearts and thus obtain life through
His name. Therefore the best review
of the lessons of the quarter will be
to 20 through the lessons one by one
and find out how this great truth that
brings life is illustrated in each les
son.
In Lesson l. this central truth of this
Gospel is brought out in many ways.
We see the pre-eXistence OF Jesus
Christ as the eternal Word, I'm the
beginning with God" and thus plain.
ly declared that He was God. We SET
Him as the Creator Of all things, tbs
One in Whom was life and Who wA
the Light of men. In Jesus of Nazar.
eth this eternal Word became flesh
and the APOSTLES beheld His glory,
glory as Of the only Begotten of tbs
Father. We see Him as the only be-
gotten Son of God, who fully de.
clared God in His OWE person as well
as in His words.
In Lesson II. we have Johns test.
mony received from God and certified
by the visible descent of the Holy
Spirit that Jesus vas the Lamb ol
God, eterDally pre-eXistent, the Ona
who baptized with the Holy Ghost,
the Son Of God.
In Lesson III. we have Andrew and
Philips discovery Of Jesus as the
Messiah, Him Of whom Moses in the
law and prophets did write; and Ma
thaniel's discovery that Jesus was the
Son of God, the King of Israel.
In Lesson w. we have Jesus mani
Testing Himself as Son of God and
Ruler of Gods house by driving out
from it those who were defling it by
making the Fathers house a house Of
merchandise. And also Jesus testify
ing to His OWL deity by claiming that
if they destroyed the temple of His
body He would raise it up again.
In Lesson V. we see Jesus as the
only begotten Son of God giving ete1-
nal life to those who believe on Him.
In Lesson vi. we see Jesus declar-
ing Himself to the woman as the
Christ, Il that speak unto thee am
ognized Him as the Christ because
HE told me all things that ever /
did"
In Lesson VII. we see Jesus mani
Testing His divine glory in Cana of
Galilee by healing sickness at a dis
lance by His bare word.
In Lesson VIII. we see Jesus mani
Testing His divine power by healing
simply by His word a man who had
been in his infrmity thirty and eight
years and who was utterly helpless
and hopeless.
In Lesson TX. we see Jesus mani
Testing His divine power and glory by
feeding 5000 men with five small
loaves and two small fishes, twelve
%basketfuls of fragments being left
over after all were filled. This was a
creative act and a decisive proof Of
Jesus. deity.
In Lesson x. we hear Jesus de-
claring Himself to be the One who
giveth everlasting life, the One WHOM
God the Father hath sealed, the Ons
through belief in Whom eternal life
is obtained, as the. Bread Of Life
which cometh down from heaven, the
One to whom coming we shall never
hunger and upon Whom believing We
shall never thirst.
In Lesson XI. we see Jesus mani,
Testing His deity in healing a man
born blind and declaring himself the
Light Of the world.
In each lesson Jesus shines out al.
the Christ, the Son Of God. True
faith is built upon facts. Here are
facts upon which faith can build and
believing obtain life through His
lame.