The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-03-25
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL,.
Lesson xIlI.First Quarter, For
March 27, 1910.
THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES.

Text Of The Lessong Mark xvi, ia.
Memory Verses, Q. 7--Gciden Text,
Rev. !, 1s-commentary Prepared by
Rev. o. M. stearns.
Having the option Of review or a
resurrection lesson, we choose the
Easter lesson. as there is nothing 80
grand as His resurrection, by which
He was declared to be the Son OF God.
with power and without which preach
Ing and faith are vain and no one ever
has been or can be saved The resur-
rection, however, must include all Of
His earthly life that preceded His
death, His life as the Son Of Mary,
the seed Of David according to the
flesh. Matt gives the royal line OF
David's descendants through Solomon
to Joseph, who became the husband
of Mary, while Luke lii gives David's
descendants through Nathan to Hell.
whose son-tn-law Joseph became by
his marriage to Mary, and thus Jesus
became heir to David's throne.
The quarters lessons might be out
lined as. first the genealogy and birth
OF. the King: second, the visit. OF the
Magi and the flight of Joseph and
Mary to Egypt and their return to
Nazareth; third, the herald of the
King and the declaration of the Father
concerning Him: fourth, the Kings
victory over the great adversary, His
testimony and the calling of some dis
ciples; fifth to seventh, the laws Of
the kingdom: eighth and ninth, some
samples of the nature of the kingdom.
Now, as the kingdom was postponed
by the rejection and murder OF the
King we in this age must know the
power Of His resurrection lie we would
walk worthy Of Him and manifest His
life in these mortal bodies. The res
of the Messiah was plainly
foretold in Ps. xvi and xii, lisa. I'LL
and elsewhere. 1t was wondrously
In Isaac being given back
to Abraham from the dead in figure |
(Heb. ri, 1910. In His teaching the
Lord Jesus Himself many times spoke
plainly of His death and resurrection.
and the great truth OF Christianity is
that we have at the right hand of the |
Father in heaven risen living Christ, |
truly Man and truly God, in whom |
alone is salvation, the only Judge OF |
ali mankind and the only One who can
set up kingdom of righteousness on
the earth.
The most horrible thing that ever |
happened on this earth and that which
shows the. desperately wicked nature
II the human heart was the cruel muir
Ter Of the Son of God, but God raised
Him from the dead and gave Him
glory and will yet give Him dominion
'ver all the earth, and His redeemed I
shall share the kingdom with Him.
His disciples never received His
words that He was to be crucified and I
Use from the dead the third day CMatt.
*, 1919. but some Of His enemies
remembered them Matt xvii. go, 63).
His mother and some of the other wo-
men who ministered to Him remained
~ His cross to the last, and some Of
hem after His body was buried re-
urned and prepared spices and oint-
nents and rested the Sabbath day ac-
,ording to the commandment. intend
ng on the first day to bring the spices
ind anoint His body duke xiii, SIS,
'6; xiv, u. When they come to the
omb on the first day morning early
hey find the stone rolled away; they
lee an angel, who tells them that He
8 risen and that they must go quickly
md tell His disciples. When Mary
dagdalene saw the stone rolled away
he ran to tell Peter and John, who
an to the sepulcher and saw for them
elves and returned, but Mary remain
ID near the sepulcher, weeping, till
Fesus Himself, whom she thought at
irst to be the gardener, spoke to her
md called her by name. When she
md the other women told the disci- /
lies that He was risen from the dead
hey believed not, and some thought it
IN idle tale oversees IL, Is, IA; Luke
xiv, III, giving Him occasion to up
,raid them with their unbeIief and
lardness of heart Many who now are
old that the same Jesus is coming
gain think It an idle tale and believe
lot, not knowing the Scriptures nor
he power of God and perhaps forget
ing that Jesus said, 30 fools and slow
# heart to believe all that the proph-
It's have spoken" duke xiv, 25). The
Ingels believe and desire to look more
ully into these things oversees 81;
Pet. 1, 12). Dr. Scodeld gives In the
margin Of verse 6 this rendering:
Jesus We seek-the Nazarene, the cru.
fled. He arose He Is not here"
lie also gives in his notes ON Matt
xviii the order of the events OF that
morning and also the order Of the diff
erent appearances during those forty
ays. Note In verse Of our lesson
ow Peter is mentioned by name. the