The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-03-20
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chapters of the Acts
GOLDEN TEXT.-"And they that were
scattered abroad went everywhere
preaching the WORKPLACES S:4
Comment and Suggestive Thought.
The period of the past quarters les
sons extends over about ten years.
Three eras are considered in the les
sons OF the quarter.
the work was accomplished: the ever
living Saviour and the Holy Spirit.
e The church at Jerusalem, develop
Ing in four directions.
3. The church extended to six differ
ent places named.
The map will help us to understand
the situation.
The principal persons with whom we
have been concerned: The eleven apos-
Ties, especially Peter and John; the
seven deasons. especially Stephen and
Philip. Accredited by miracles in the
name of Jesus. Barnabas. liberal
giver. The members of the Sanhedrim,
chief priests. Sadduces, scribes-bring-
ing opposition from without Ananias,
Sapphire and Simon Magus-dangers
from within. A lame beggar Ethiopian
prince, Aeneas and Dorcas-examples
OF persons helped. The great and in
creasing multitude of believers.
Constantine's motto in hoe signo
vinces," by this sign tof the cross)
thou shalt conquer" is true of the
church in all ages
No church or body of men which de-
MES the divinity and continued exist
ence OF Jesus has ever been largely
successful in spreading the gospel. or
building up the religious life.
The Holy Spirit coming with new
power and abundance, because the
coming of the Son of God has made
the greatness of his work possible, is
the other force by which Christianity
has made its conquests.
His presence was made manifest to
the senses so that people would realize
the fact and the nature of the power
which transformed the character of the
people, and multiplied the number of
the disciples.
the Promise, the Prayer Meeting, the
Day of Pentecost.
Note the growth of the church in
four directions.
I. The tranformation of character
seen in the apostles, notably in Peter;
and point out the incidents which
show what that change was. Seen
oil In, hn oEor - h. &c Lric
tians. Seen also in their action under
persecution.
g Growth in numbers Note the ex-
pressions which show this progress.
3. Growth in organization. Give the
most marked instance
4. Growth in extent of country
reached by the gospel.
Difficulties and How They Were
Overcome.-State the obstacles in the
way of this progress, and how they
were overcome-from without, from
within. Name the various incidents
which illustrate and express both the
difficulties and the way the early
Christians overcame evil with good.
Literary Test Review.
We give below a literary test re-
view which will prove interesting. The
list of quotations which were either
suggested by incidents in the first nine
chapters of Acts, covered by our les
sons, or naturally suggest them.
Not on one favored forehead fell
OF old the fire-tongued miracle.
But famed DER all the thronging host.
Whittier. in The Meeting"
Truth forever on the scaffold. Wrong for
ever on the throne:
Yet that scaffold sways the future. and
behind the dim unknown.
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping
watch above his own
Lowell. In Present Crisis"
For no falsehood can endure
Touch OF celestial temper but returns
or force TO his own likeness
Milton, in Paradise Lost"
Stone walls do not a prison make.
Nor iron bars a cage.
Richard Lovelace.
In youth beside the lonely sea,
Voices and visions came to me:
In every wind l felt the stir
of some celestial messenger.
It B. Aldrich. in Sea Longings."
The friendly flames of the spring sun
Glanced like the tongues of fire, behel
by apostles aforetime-
Longfellow. in "Evangeline."
Tongues of the dead. not lost.
But speaking from deaths frost,
Like fiery tongues at Pentecost.
--IongfeIlow in Song of the Silen
Land"
The baptism of the Holy Ghost.
whittier, in The Meeting" ls6-i9l.
Stood before him glorified,
Shining and tall and fair and straight
As the pillar that stood by the Beautffr
Gate.
Ia.an In ..Yision of Sir IannfaI >,