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SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON
For December 25th-RevieW
GOLDEN TEXT: "Le this mind be in you which was also
in Christ Jesus" Phil 25.
ny DIR. MARION NH. HULL.

out the advantages of the universities of
. the day; He chose as companions the
humble unlearned, fisher. folk. He had
not even the same claim to home that
the birds and foxes have He was so
poor during His ministry that Peter
thought 1t necessary to explain His not
paying the small coin that every Jew had
to pay yearly as the temple tax. Yes, He
humbled Himself. He might have had
everything that earth affords; He actual
ly took nothing.
( The next two steps were In line with
| the former. He became obedient, first to
His parents, then to the proper civil au-
thorities He learned obedience through
the things that He suffered, and became
thus a perfect Captain for us, knowing
how to deliver us out of temptation, see
ing that He had been tempted In az
points like we are yet without sin. His
obedience extended even to death. He is
the Prince of life, but He voluntarily
gave up His life. Death is only the re-
suit of sim If there were no sin, there
would be no death. So that when death
came to Him who was sinless it was I'M
natural, and can only be accounted for
, by His statemen Mt that He gave UP His
life voluntarily for His sheep.
The deepest depths were reached when
He died on the cross 1t was the most
shameful death that could be inflicted.
II was the mode of death OF slaves
who had sinned! The victim suffered
physical fortunes indescribable; but this
was not all; he was stripped and hung
naked before the gaze of every mocker
who passed by Jesus knew all the tor
lures of the vilest criminal; and in addi-
tion He suffered what no other has-He
was forsaken of God. separated from
Him by my sin and yours. That cry on
&C.. 49, 1xr 81 6avNf he
of hell where He had gone for us. The
viIest sinner now may have hope, for
Jesus. our Substitute, has gone deeper
than he. = .i,xt
STEPS IN HIS ExALTATIoN.
What a descent that was. from, the
heighth of heaven to the deepest depths
of hell! And it was for you. But God
exalted Him. AS there were seven steps
down, so there are seven up. God hath
highly exalted Him by giving Him a
name that is above every name-that at
the name of Jesus every knee should
bow, of things in heaven, of things in
earth, of things under the earth, and
that every tongue should confess Him
as Lord to the glory Of God the Father.
What precious name Is that! and 1t was
won by Him through His humiliation.
There's nothing higher in heaven than
that He reached 1.-The deepest depths
of hell, but He had been exalted to the
highest heights of heaven.
Just here is the practical lesson for you
and me. for in this is revealed one Of
the fundamental laws, If not the fun
adamental law, of the kingdom-that ex-
aItation comes through humiliation; that
life comes through DEATH that getting
comes through giving; that we save
ourselves by spending ourselves. Ex-
cept a corn of wheat fall into the grouno
and die-and die-it ab,deth alone; but
II it dies, it multiples itself many fold.
In producing other grains like itself.
Jesus gave us an example that we SHOULD
follow in His steps, Let this mind be
In you which was also in Him. who hum
bled Himself, and God exalted Him.
There's an unholy scramble for power
and precedence and primacy amongst peo-
pie today. Have Hts mind in you. humble
yourself and God will exalt you; spend
yourself and God will ssave you; die and
die to self and to sin and God will give
you eternal life. Follow jesus This is
my message to you on the day celebrated
as His birthday. @'A w