Arizona republican., 1909-07-11
LIFE LESSONS FROM
 THE BOOK OF JOHN
Union Meeting ef Young Peoples So
 cities Sunday Night.

The union meeting of the young peoples societies of the Protestant churches of the city Sunday evening. will be held in the Presbyterian church at : pm and will be a conservation meeting It will be led by Bernard F. Miller of the Baptist church. There will be good music and the singing will be led by Mir. Kerr The subject will be Life Lessons For Me From the Book of John" The scripture refer ence will be John 14, 1-21.
 Following is comment on the lesson. taken from a religious paper:
 The fourth Gospel is undoubtedly the best loved piece of writing in all the world. IL contains the highest philosophy. the most helpful comfort. and the most inspiring motives for noble living. If only one of the sixty six books in the Bible could be chosen, this is the one that practically all men would select.
 John himself states the purposes of the Gospel in these words: These are written, that ye may believe that Jesus is Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye may have life through his name" The book is not a biography of Christ. such as Luke's gospel is: it is rather a book of Christian evidences, an argument for the divinity of Christ and a presenta- ton of the character of Christ in all His loveliness. If you read the book in the light of this purpose. you will see that the incidents and the conversations chosen out of Johns vast amount of material are such as fit in with the aim of the book, and that other matter is carefully omitted. The words of Christ that are reported and Christ's deeds, are all such as throw light upon His divine nature and the unapproachable splendor of His character. That is why the book has been so bitterly attacked by the enemies of Christianity. and that is why it is the book that is dearest to the heart of the Christian
 Helps on the Lesson.
 Let not your heart be troubled" This is a command as binding as any in the decalogue.
 Tn my Fathers house are many mansions" A mansion is an abiding place Our heavenly home is no tenn porary residence.
 That where l am, there ye may be also" If this thought does not con tain the chief joy of heaven for us, We are not yet ready to enjoy heaven.
 The way ye know" Jesus is the way Look to Him whenever you are in doubt about anything heavenly.
 How can we know the way" We Aa rrh ha reading of His life. through talking with Him in prayer, through watching the lives in which He exists today and through doing His will and so getting him into our lives.
 q am the way" Wanting to have ones own way is therefore the surest way of missing Christ
 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also" In every possible way Christ identified Himself with the Father. Not to see the Father in Him is to disbelieve Him altogether.
 If ye shall ask anything in my name, l will do it." This is omnipo tence for us-so far as we need it, and so far as we are at one with Christ.
 If ye love me. keep my command ments." Rather. "Ye will keep my for ye cannot help doing it.
 He shall give you another Com forter" Whatever comfort any soul got from the human Jesus we may get from the ever-present Holy Spirit.
 "Ye know him" The Holy Spirit is I., tcf n IQgtIG was known. namely. by association with Him, by listening to Him, by Him at work, and by obey ing Him.
 T will come to you" When the Holy Spirit came. it was Christ com ing We are to think of the Holy | Spirit as our twentieth-centuryC Christ. 1
 God so loved the world. This verse is the heart of the Bible: is it yet the heart of your life.