The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-04-10
THE RAISING
OF LAZARUS
Sunday school Lesson for April IL, 1905
Specially Prepared FOR This Paper

LESSON TEXT.-John ni-5i. Memory
verses as a.
GOLDEN TENT am the rssurrec-
ton and the nfe."-John HES.
TIMF-January or February. A. ID. 80 |
One or three months after the last les
son And two or three months before
Jesus crucinxion.
-Bethabara OR. ". Bethany
In Perea Bethany. a small VILLAGE on the
Mount OF olives. about two miles rom
Jerusalem.
Comment and Suggestive Thought
AT the feast OF the dedication. In De
cember. Christ had so plainly assert
ed his deity that the Jews had sought
10 stone him for blasphemy; but ne
had escaped to Bethabara (Bethany)
IN Perea. the country east OF the Jor-
dana town in the north over against
Galilee.
Christ's promise OF resurrection
did not satisfy Martha IL 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 bereaVeo'
and will do so while time and NOR
tality endure. "-Geikie.
THE living breathing friend,
whom you love.
AM-Am now; no vague sometime;
no postponement
THE RESURRECTION power
OF the resurrection. the resurrection
embodied.
AND THE LIFE-to conquer that
grim DEATH which has come 50 ter
ribly TO your home.
HE THAT BELIEvETH IN Me
believing what Martha FASTENED to
confess. that Christ was Gods Son,
his messenger OF love TO the world
THOUGH HE WERE DEAD-as TO
his mere body.
YET SHALL HE LIvE-in every
point that constitutes life. having even
a body. and far better one.
AND WHOSOEvER-yes, though he
were the chief OF sinners.
LIVETH-with this higher life In
him.
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 thai
surround us-perils OF the disease
germs floating everywhere; perili
Of earthquake on this thir
earth-crust over hidden fires
periis OF accident In our csa,c.'i''' -
.--z--..---r- 80 81 times, yea, ever
perilous moment. God saves us from
dying. Phillips RfUUfS ----s-zzsal
2. BY turning our minds away IRON
the physical death we must all die
length. to him and his life. I'VE ar
All passing into the likeness OF thai Il
which we believe. A man who woE
ships money comes 70 wear the like
ness OF a money-worshiper down 7
the tips OF his fingers The Hindu VIII
worships Brahma sleeping on IN
stars In immovable calm, gets TO wea
fixed expression. Theodore
Munger. ID. ID. So the continue
thought of Christ, who overfowe
with invincible life. implants that If
within US.
9. BY upholding us in the yer
hour OF physical death. When con
munity OF religious women in Pari
during the fury OF the French Revolt
ton. were condemned to the gull
tine. the youngest victims passed
their execution raising In seren
voices the sublime hymn. "yeni CT
ator." The celestial song did not ceas
when they assembled the stairs Of Il
scaffold. and the work Of butcher
went on. Voice after voice had
drop from the chorus. as face aft'
face bent under the ak; and at lengi
one voice was heard alone sustainir
the holy strain. even while the blood
blade fell and sealed the last ma
tyr's testimony" Huntingto
u 4. BY awaking us. when we die. in
u endless life The time will seem !
"a longer than the four days whit
IL passed before he awakened Lazsru
D. We shall have no consciousness OF h
o tarrying. He comes as in a momer
10 awake us out OF sleep. "-Thomi
8 Arnold. the head OF Rugby school
, 5. BY freeing US from the spiritu
s. death, from sin. Massillon, the gre
r. French preacher. justly sees in q
lg dead Lazarus an image OF the 81
he ner: Become a mass Of worms al
IL and corruption. he spreads infecti'
n and stencil: and behold the profoui
corruption of a soul in habitsal 81
n A gloomy napkin covers his eyes al
Id his face: and behold the fatal blir
Id ness OF a soul in habitual sin.
* appears in the tomb bound hand a
es foot: and behold the melancholy 81
n lection of a soul in habitual sin" Ere
IT, dom from this dead body" OF s
n As Paul called it. Is the most diffic'
Id resurrection; but Christ accomplish
I'd even this. He comes into our soul. a
Id sin must fee Christ In you 10 I
no hope OF glory
"Isidore OF Potassium thinks that G
70 Saviour did not mourn for his frie
40 Lazarus because he was dead tfor
IN knew that he was going to raise h
d. from the dead. but because he was