Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1908-05-20
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Lesson VIll.-Second Quarter,
For May "a, 1903.
THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES.

Text Of the Lesson, John, XIX, 17-42
Memory Verses, SO, 4o-ooIden Text
Cor. XIV, 3-Commentary Prepared
by Rev. D. M. stearns.
copyright, 1908, by American Press Association. ]
The rulers of the Jews having reject
ed Jesus as their king, saying, 1--WE
have no king but Caesar" (verse 49,,
and insisting that Jesus be crucified,
PLATE delivered Jesus to their will
| duke xiii. 25l. 1t is not the will of
God that any should perish Oh Pet. i'll,
81, but it is the will of man and the
devil that, If possible, God should be
dethroned and ruled out of His uni
verse. What rebel against God and
man the devil is. and how wonderfully
patient and long suffering is our God
So they took Jesus and led Him away,
and He bearing His cross, went forth.
two malefactors being led with Him.
Think of the condition of His back
after the scourging and of His whole
being after that night of mental agony
and it will not seem strange that an
other had to bear His cross. 1t SEEM
ed hard day for Simon, the Cyrenian, |
but 1t was really the best day he ever |
came to. All our crosses and disap-
pointments are the best things we have,
but because we see self and not Jesus
we do not always think so. A COM
pany of women bewailed and lamented
His as He passed out of the city, and
He could in some measure forget His
own sorrow in His sorrow for them
duke xiii. 27-3D. There is no record
Of woman being unkind to Him per-
sonally. The name Of the place where
they crucified Him, the place Of a skull,
has at least this uggestion-tbat all
the world has apart from the love Of
God in Christ is as empty as a skull.
In the cross of Christ alone is redemp-
ton, and in Him alone are rest and sat
sfaction.
"They cruci6ed Him" 19 Just
-hree words; but, oh, the agony Of 1t,
md the shame and the farreaching sig
liicance Of it, and it takes in even me.
The Son of God loved me and gave
Himself for me" (Gal. ii, 20). We may
now about it and talk about it, but
lnless there is heart appropriation of ,
Himself there is no benefit. We can
lot explain 1t or understand it. we
re not expected to, but we can receive
nd hold fast the very words of Scrip !
IRE, and the entrance of the word will ,
i've life and light. He was wounded |
Dr. my transgressions and bruised for q
" iniquities. His own self bare nv +
ms in His own body Qsa. iii, 5; Pet
24. This | can believe and thank n
I'm and rejoice that just God will O
)t ask me to bear what He has borne 7
II me, | having truly received Him
my Saviour. Bishop Thorold has I
i'd that to recognize what we cannot |
plain and to consent that it should |
It be explained is the humility of true
lsdom, and TO accept what we could
t otherwise have known on the au-
ority of Gods revealed word is the
edience of faith.
The crowd who passed by and revied |
m, the chief priests and the rulers
10 Knocked and derided Him and the |
diers who parted his garments |
long them and cast lots upon His
Sture and the thieves who also reviled
m give us a glimpse of nearly every
Ssible phase of human nature and
attitude Of the natural heart of
n toward God So It was in the
IS of Noah when He swept them
ay by the deluge, and so it is still.
He bears with man in his mad folly en'
is not willing that any should per. 1t.
WI
he first three words from the cross. iIo
lther. forgive them" To-day thou ua'
If no with Mo IN norodico +" .tpohoI1 boz
son; behold thy mother" duke aI'
ii. a. 40; John xix. 26. %, set be.
: us the forgiveness of sins. the VIII
ne above and all needful care and 10Y
vision in this present life-grace llle
2 and glory hereafter and all that is 10
eSsary in between. Gle who spared lug
His own Son. but delivered Him I'D
US all. how shall He not with Him
freely give us all things?" Rom.
32) AS one has said, He gave His van
after that. Note the say c'e'
in our lesson chapter that the uei'
pture might be fulfilled" oversees ID
%, SO, 80, and His own words. 'ne
O Scrintnre cannot ho hrol,or and Olaf
n, "All things must be fulfilled nllli
ch were written in the law of pea
es and in the prophets and in the WIN
ms concerning Me" John X, 80; Oh 5
e xiv, A. AS truly and literally slDl'
Il were fulfilled concerning His suf- NIX
lgs. so truly and literally shall all Tree
savings he fulfilled concorniro, nit the
:, and He who was born King Of the
Jews and was cruclfed as such kept
yet be seen and accepted by them Iet
nation as their Messiah and shall VIII
over them from the throne Of arou
d. according 70 lisa ~ g. vviv serv
XIV, 8; Luke 1. 80, 80.
you believe it do tell it out and
Him no rest about it Qsa xii. 6. ID
r many believers are foo nncb ike happ
disciples who forsook Him and appl'
while there are few as bold as TART
Josenh and Nicodomnc IN +his prevC
gency oversees 3S-42). We are in Fut
when the word &c oreot1v model sauce
oh We; stand fast in the faith; corhS
Won like men. no etronc,, n Gov -four,
l3, and also that word in Jude SAT-
", Contend earnestly for the sur
which was once for all delivered cuptr
the saints" In that mortal body TASTE
lory Of God was wondrously con. juice.
all those thirty-four years, as three
he glory Of God concealed in the cut a
Of Holes behind the veil in the four
e. See in Heb. K, 20, how the veil bake
ID His body. Serve
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