The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-01-28
SOM, LAWS OF
THE KINGDOM
Sunday School Lesson for Jan. 80, 1910
Specially Arranged for This Paper

LESSON TEXT. Matt. SHIPS, 49, IS.
Memory verse II.
= GOLDEN TEXT.-"Be We therefore
perfect, even as your Father which is IN
heaven Is perfect."'-Matt. 5:4S v
TIME.-The summer of A. D. %, near
the middle Of Christ's ministry.
PLACE.-The additional site is the
Horns of Hattin, two or three miles west
OF the Sea Of Galilee. =
Suggestion and Practical Thought.
To-day we have a vision into the in
nermost spirit of the commandments
illustrated by a few examples. 9
The Underlying Principle-Vs. .E2o.
think not that am come to destroy
the law, or the prophets" their moral
teachings, their promises, all they
stood for in the nation, for these were
Gods teachings through them. All
the glory and the hopes of the nation
and of the world were built on the law
and the prophets. The Pharisees had
already accused Jesus of abrogatlng
the law of Moses mark 2:24; John
5:16, 18). Jesus denies the accusa-
ton in the strongest language.
"Abrogate the law of Moses? Never!
You Pharisees have abrogated it by
your false interpretations and misap-
plications. have come to fulfill It.
Is. "For verify say unto you, till
heaven and earth pass away, one jot
or one title shall in no wise pass away
from the law, till all things be accom-
plished.." Because the moral law is as
eternal as natural law There Is no
repeating clause in the New Testa-
ment that sets aside the Old Testa-
ment."
The Sixth Commandment, Thou
Shalt Not Kill--Vs. 21-26. "Ye have
heard" in the synagogues and from
the teaching of the scribes. Said by,
better to- "Thou shalt not kill,
commit murder In danger of the
judgment" Not in the commandment,
but in accord with the Jewish laws.
"The judgment" was the properly con-
stituted authorities. In this case the
local court established by the SAN
hedrim in every town Of Palestine
I(Deut. 1919 for the trial and punish
ment Of capital crimes. &
%. But 1. The .'1' is emphatic. Say
unto you. The court punished after
the crime; Jesus would prevent the
beginnings that led to the crime.
The Principle Illustrated by the
Third Commandment VS.. 1887.
There are two ways Of breaking the
command: Thou shalt not take the
name Of the Lord thy God in vain I
4 Il BY not keeping the promise made
in Gods name for this dishonors the
God whom you pretend to serve. (2)
/ BY "a careless and trivial use Of the
4 name Of God and religious things,
which cultivates irreverence, dimin-
j fishes their power over VI men, and
4 makes them trivial and unreal In the
\ minds OF both speaker and hearer.
The Scribes interpret alton Of this
Z commandment was: Thou shalt moi
.lforswear myself, but shalt perform
Iunto the Lord thine oaths, " with the
1 emphasis on the Lord &. &
The Principle Illustrated by the
a Law Of Retaliatio 38- 80 u . g
u eye for an eye. A rule for punishment
! Of offences coming before the civil
/ |Ecourt, and founded in Justice, much
4 more SO than the mod Tern system d
4 fines, which favors the rich This ruiz
q is found in the lately discovered
Z Cod e; Of. Hammurabi G. zoos,
tooth for tooth eye for eye; limb 70
limb, son for son, u etc.
! 39. But i say . Resist not evil
or him that is evil /, The Greek5cal
be read either way resist not evi
by evil, but overcome evil with good
'smite thee on thy right cheek
turn to him the other also, B not liter
J. ally, for that would be like the raj
! bis interpret alton, but act IN tha
! spirit exactly as Christ did to th
!; man in the trial who struck Him Wit
& Ia rod.
& ]. any man Will II " Ills Il
2. proposes to she thee at Law has som
quarrel with you Or thinks you hay
8 wronged him, and wants to go to laN
q about it, and would ake away I'll
8 coat let him have thy cloak also. 's
Love the Fountain and Source /
J, :, All These Manife stat tons of the Chri
! tian Life Ye# have heard
3 ISIt Is the common teaching no
l shalt love thy neighbo r Lev u IT'S
a 4. Good teaching as FAR as II wen ri
n II was limited ~ their dednitio
of sneighbor' as apply wing Hto those.
~ their own race and relig ton, and d,
: extending to all IVA th whom they can
81 IN contact; and * ~ by their addftic
% of s.a'and hate thine Se1en !, ssa
u rhe Ideal and the g o. 81.
q I've thereto Der ect. n TheS b