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He Will Show You a Large
Upper Room; There Make Ready
For Us MARX xiv, l5).
The
Upper Room at
Jerusalem

to leave them not only desolate in
heart themselves, but desplsed by their
neighbors us deceived fanatics. This
is the anniversary, dear friends, of q
day that was very sad to our brethren
of 1877 years ago.
Moses and All tho Prophets"
How different Is our attitude of mind
that we are able to see, to praise God
and to rejoice that Jesus died; that
he suffered, the Just for the unjust"
that his death might constitute the
Ranson-Price for Adam and all his
race This light upon the sufferings
Of Christ began to shine into the hearts
of the Apostles on the day of our
Lords resurrection. corresponding to
tomorrow The oil for that light lay
hidden in the words of Moses and all
the Prophets of Israel. But 1t was
necessary that our Lord, having risen
from the dead to be the great anti
typical High Priest, should trim the
lamp of Divine Truth that the light
might shine out to all of his people,
all, of his members" all of the Royal
Priesthood" all who are In the con-
secrated condition of heart, symbolical.
ly represented by the holy" of Israe's
Tabernacle.
Mark how gently and how wisely
the Lord permitted the light to shine
in gradually upon his faithful few.
The eyes of their understanding must
not be blinded by an instantaneous
flash. Gradually, as they were able
to bear it, the good tidings of his
resurrection from the dead to glory,
honor and Immortality on the divine
plane must be made known to them
The first intimations were from the
| women of the company who had gone
with spices, after the high day." on
the morning of the third day to CON-
plete the work of embalming the Lord.
They reported first, that he was gone
from the sepulchre, and secondly. that
they had seen some angels who told
them that he was risen from the dead.
And later Mary had reported that she
had seen the Lord and clasped him by
the feet and that he had said to her,
II am not yet ascended to my Father;
but go to my brethren and say unto
them, ascend unto my Father, and
your Father; and to my God. and your
God" tJohn Xxx, ~. Jesus said to tell
the disciples that he would meet them
In Galilee, as he had said to them
! before, These bewildering experiences
were merely leading gradually on. pre-
pairing the disciples for the fuller
knowledge Of the facts.
1t was the same day corresponding
to tomorrow afternoon) that the Lord
overlook two of the sorrowing disci-
pies as they walked into the country
to spend the night. Here again he
would not shock them and overpower
them by vision of his glorious pres
ence such as smote down Saul of Tar
sus on his way to Damascus, shining
above the brightness of the sun at
noon-day;" on the contrary he as
sumed body of flesh and travellers
clothing and talked sympathetically
with the two sorrowing ones. After
hearing their woes and sorrows he
must have .astonished them with his
/ knowledge of the Scriptures, as well
as by his sympathy, saying to them,
10 foolish and slow of heart to believe
all that the prophets have spoken!''
duke xiv, 25J They had been willing
to believe something of what the
Prophets had spoken-the glorious
things. the happifying things pertain
ing to Messiah's Millcnnial glory. But
| they had been slow to believe the
prophets other testimonies to the eff
feet that the Redeemer must I'VE lied
as a Lamb to the slaughter" must be
the sin-offering, must be despised and
rejected of men. must be lifted up on
the cross as the antitype of the "braZen
serpent" and must be raised from the
dead by the power of the Father to
the glory. honor and Immortality Of
his great station as Prophet, Priest,
\ Mediator King. the antitype OF Mel
chizedek. for the fulfilment to Israel
and the world of all of Gods great
| promises.
Then said Jesus. In view of these eX-
positions, "Ought not Christ to have
suffered these things and to enter into
his glory" What else should be eX-
pected? DID he not foretell his own
death? And did he not foretell his own
resurrection? And were you not too
confused to understand his teachings
to the full? Did not your minds run
more to the coming glory than to what
he said to you respecting the necessity
that you should "watch and pray lest
ye enter into temptation" and lose all
your part and hope under these trying
! conditions? A little later, In the same
day, he appeared In the upper ROOM
traditlonally this very room-the doors
being shut for fear of the Jews-bar-
red, we may be sure, because the poor
disciples felt that the envy and hatred
which had led to the cruclfixion of the
Master might easily be transferred
now to them because of their sympa-
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