The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-12-16
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Lesson xlI.-Fourth Quarter, For
Dec. 10, 1910.
THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES

pared by Rev. %. NJ. Stsarns.
Those who know nothing OF a risen
Christ know nothing of faith or for
giveness Of sins or life eternal and
have no gospel to believe or preach
q Cor. XIV, 1910. 1t was the enc great
topic OF Peter and Paul in all their
preaching. This Jesus hath God
raised up" ''The Prince of Life, whom
God hath raised from the dead"
with great power gave the apostles
witness Of the resurrection Of the
Lord Jesus" THE God of our fathers
raised up Jesus" Him God raised
up the third day and showed Him
openly" ''God raised Him from the
dead" (Acts II. "a. 80; iii, Is. %: iv, 10.
80; v, 30; K, 40; Kill. %, 80, 33; Rom. 4.
~. Hear the Lord Himself to John
in Patmos long after He had assembled.
Fear not / am the first and the last;
/ am He that nveth and was dead,
and behold I am alive forevermore,
amen. and have the keys of hell and
OF death" (Rev. |. II. 49,. In Col. iii, /.
believers are spoken Of as risen with
Christi and are exhorted to seek those
things which are above, where Christ
stitch on the right hand of God.
After He died Joseph Of Arimathaea
went to PLATE and asked for His body.
and he and Nicodemus took 1t and
wrapped it in clean linen cloth. with
shout 100 pounds weight of spices, and
laid II in Joseph's new tomb and rolled
a great stone to the door and depart
ed. The women from Galilee, having
seen where His body was laid. return.
ed and prepared spices with which to
anoint His body when the Sabbath
should have passed and rested the
Sabbath day. Was there ever a gloom
Ter Sabbath TO any believers2 He in
whom they had trusted as their Mes
siah. to whom they had lovingly min
lstered. for whom they had forsaken
all. had been taken from them and
cruciied by the authorities as a wick
ed person, and now they were in great
darkness. without any hope, for they
looked not for His resurrection. "Hav-
ing no hope and without God in tho
world" Eph. Ii. 12) is the condition of
80 many religious people today be-
cause they know not a risen Christ.
The first day Of the week having
come, they are found very early at the
tomb to do what they had purposed
for His dead body, but the tomb is
open, the stone rolled away. and there
is nobody to anoint. for as the angel
from heaven said TO the women: Eye
seek Jesus who was crucifed. He is
not here, for He is risen. as He said
Mary Magdalene, who came with the
other women, seems to have run TO
tell Peter and John as soon as she
saw that the tomb was open and the
body gone. While she was gone the
other women saw the angels and
heard their message and went to tell
the other disciples. Peter and John
ran to the tomb. and. having seen for
themselves that it was empty. the
linen clothes lying just as when the
body was in them, they went away
again unto their own home (John TX,
$40. Mary Magdalene returned to
stopping down and looking in, she saw
two angels and heard them say, 'Wo-
man, why weepest thouT Even as
they spoke to her / think that she
saw them looking beyond her, and,
turning around. she saw a man whom
she supposed to be the gardener, who
also said to her: Woman, why weep
not until He called her by name did
she recognize Him. THUS He appear
ed FIRST to Mary Magdalene even be-
fore He had assembled TO the Father
John Xxx, 16-10 In His resurrection
body. AS she went to tell that she
had seen Him He. having assembled
and returned, met the other women
and allowed them to hold Him by the
feet and worship Him (verse 81. Part OF
the angels message to the women was.
go your way; tell His disciples and
Peter Mark xvi, y, the only one men
toned specially by name. Some time.
somewhere, on that day He appeared
70 Peter alone Duke xiv, S4l. In the
afternoon He appeared to the two who
walked to Emmaus, and He walked
with them and opened to them the
Scriptures. In the evening He appear
ed to ten Of them CThomas being abb
sent, comforted them. showed them
His hands and His feet and ate q
piece of broiled fish and honeycomb
before them luke xiv, 36-43). Thus
He appeared five times on that day.
and we know that He appeared on ut
least five other occasions during those
forty days. HE showed Himself alive
after His passion by many infallible
proofs. being seen of them forty days
and speaking OF the things pertaining
to the kingdom OF Cod facts /, 81.
At the end OF fhe forty days. hav-
ing commanded them to wait In Je-
rusaIem till He should send them
the Holy Spirit. He visibIy assembled
from the Mount OF Olives, and when
He shall come again to that same
mount. bringing His saints with Him.
Israel shall receive Elm, and He will
set up Ills kingdom facts L 1912:
Zech. xiv. 4. 5. 81. Our commission
during His absence Is 20 be His wit
nesses In the power of His Spirit. In
all the world. In the consciousness Of
His presence and the manifestation
OF His power. that from all natians
may be gathered His body. the church.
that so He may come again facts /, 81
Matt xxviii, 1920; Acts iii. 1921.