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Saslsy School Lesson fss Nay ,. 1908
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GOLDEN TExT.-"In my Fathers
house are many mansions. John 1872.
TIME. ThurHiBy evening. April 9. A.
-. 10. jesus farewell discourse with his
disciples WHs spoken the evening before
his crucinxion
PLACE. An upper room In Jerusalem.
Comment and Suggestive Thought.
The world and everything In II, Ii
a bundle of needs. Everything Ia hun.
cry. The ground greedily drinks In
the rain and the sun. The tree
stretches It's hungry roots into the
soil and It's hungry leaves into the air.
Your house is a focus for incoming
supplies, Of coal, and food, and n
thousand Injuries. Every man Is hun.
cry for bread, and air, and knowledge,
and love.
This sense Of need in man Is a
good thing. without II, there could
be no life, no growth. When "A child
Is not hungry, It's parents justly begin
TO fear for It's health. When the soul
does not see It's needs, It 10 in a sad
condition.
Perhaps the chief cause OF the dis.
cipleS' trouble was Christ's predicted
departure into the Great Unknown.
Sea, John 1896. All hat have seen
their dear ones slipping from sight nm
dr.s'anh th"' one " the principal hu.
man needs and desires Is to know
whittier thrv have gone, and II there
In ~ be u reunion.
Christ answered that question for
them and for US.
J. By revealing heaven NJ 4 place.
his Father house. Heaven Is a home.
Xix" place. familiar and dear, with
lights shining for ~ In the windows,
and the Father waiting for us at tho
open door.
2. Ty revealing heaven m "A place
uf private, personal aboh"s, not n va8t
caihvnnaary IN II ar" many man.
Einns,' "ahIdiHG %lacrS," "manSiuns"
coming from man"r". TO remain. These
az" permanent homes. not transient
tbOdrH lih" pIr& on earth.
3. by revealing heaven ns a large
place, with many manb.yna-rOUm for
all "II"nvcn viii contain Immense
ihronrs without being crowded. Ita
children viii be ~ the grains Of sand
that bar the oceans waves, or the
stars that brFcm tho vault Of night.
Yet there * room, The many man.
HiOnH arc not all tcnantcd."--F. -.
Meyer.
4 Hy rcY"al'ny heaven ~ q pre-.
pared place, prepared moreover, by
the II best able TO make H. delight.
ful, since b." IL the creator Of all de.
ligHLtLl things on earth, and thor.
ourhiy knows our tastes and desires.
:. ny revealing heaven IA the place
~ communion with Christ. That wa8
III" rnrpos" Of his going, which sad
drnrd his disciples to mah" ready a
plhc" TO which b" cUuid bring them
for "A fellowship without any mare
parting.
g. ~ insisting thai what was left
nnr"v"Hlrd concerning the hereafter
Is 10 b" thought Of as iryful and not
Eri"vuus. IF It w"r" NOT ru," If h"av.
on w"r" not this warm loving, home
Ike, beautiful place. i would have
told yOu,' "Ui!h have warned sou and
prepared you.
II Ii not enough to know the truth
about God or be In the way TO God, o,
ever TO have the divine life in us; the
human soul longs after God himself
Our Lord met this need by diBclos
Ing the final. supreme truth, that ht
vas God: ~ yc had known me-
recognized my true naiuIc-"yt
should hay" known my Father also.
For Christ was the complete Image o
th" Father. But this answer did no
satisfy Philip lie wanted some mar
Ycloug vision Of God such as Nose
"A" on HOrcb. "Perhaps ~ all tn,
disciples Philip was the least Icrcu
five and the Blowcst 10 comprchcn'
the Master. lie waa IN" m~atrriaiiat o
the COmpany."-Itcv. j. G. Green
hUuph.
Christ emphasized the great truth
his oneness with the Father.
I, by reminding Philip 81 the lon
lime he had been with chrisl for h
had been among the Ara, disciples
, and Of all the evidences he had see
, II ChrISt's divinity.
I 2 by specifying theS" cyidcncei
beginning with the words" he ha
, ,pokcn, the wonderful PARALLELS, tn
bcati'udes. the model prayer, the ge
mons. the private conversations
words 30 gracious. wise. and powcrf,
. that they must come from God.
3. lty naming also the works he ha
tone. the long series ~ convincin
I Miracles. showing such "A mastery
laturc. disease, and death al only Go
,nnIt p1aaihIv pnaunua