Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1910-10-26
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Lesson V.-Fourth Quarter, For
Oct. 80, 1910.
THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES.
TEXT of the Lesson, Matt. XVI. lie.
Memory Verse, 13-Golden Text.
Mark xiv, 8-Commentary Prepared
by Row. D. NJ. Stearns-

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We are to have five lessons IN this
HAPPIER. the greater portion OF which
IS recorded by Mark and Luke also
The first i've verses and TN last three
IRE in the regular order of events. TWO
days before the Passover. and Jesus
again announces that He Is TO be cru
cited (yerSe - The record says that
aot only had the chief priests. scribes
and elders determined TO kill Him. but
they were actually consulting as to
how they could do II in n quiet man
uer without an uproar. for they feared
the people. Then entered Satan into
Judas, surnamed Iscariot being OF the
number of the twelve. and he went bis
way and communed with the chief
priests and captains how he might be
tray Him unto Them and for thirty |
pieces Of silver he agreed TO do it in !
the absence Of the multitude (verse IL |
Luke xxi. 800. Luke also tells u
that during those last days He was IL !
the daytime teaching In the temple. |
and at night He went out and nl;cdr /
in the mount that is called the GOun
of Olives Xxi. 81. After such rec
ord concerning Him whose witnesSes
we are and whose steps we are to FOL
low shall we ever again complain Il
we are hated for His sake. il one VIII
profeSsed to be our friend joins a..
enemy against us.
The amounting by Mary Is recorded
by Mark and John also. but not by
Luke. In Luke vii. $3.50. there j.
record Of an amounting which WAS ais.
in the house of a man called Simon
! but that Simon was no friend OF Jesus
and the woman is unnamed and wa~
confessedly a sinful woman.
The event of our lesson today wa~
six days before the Passover. and T.
was at Bethany. in the house OF Simon
! the leper. and Martha and Mary and
Lazarus were all present They made
Him supper. and Martha served. ana
Lazarus was one OF them that sat AT
the table with Him John xii. |. y. II
was on that evening that Mary took
the pound OF very precious ointment
OF spikenard and brake the alabaster
box and poured IL both on His head
and on His feet as He sat at meat.
and the house was filed with the odor
of the ointment. Compare the three
records Mary. like the other woman.
wiped His feet with her hair. but the
other wiped her own tears with which
she had washed His feet. while Mary
wiped them after she had anointcd
them with the ointment duke vii 81
John xii. 81. In the one case IL was the
: heartfelt gratitude of truly penitent
sinner. while in the other It was the
devotion of true worShin and az
amounting beforehand for His burial
for He said so. and He knew her heart
and her purpose. My own conviction
] is that Mary had received His words
i concerning His cruel death at the
bands OF His enemies and knew tha
I il would therefore be impossible TO
= His friends to show any kindness t
= His body then. as far as she could see
!. and she had made preparation ant
s had watched for her opportunity
d which has now come. Can any on
= say that he. knowing all things. hat
s not arranged this stop nj Bethany spe
Il cially for her sake? The other womeI
who. like Peter and John and the res
l. of His disciples. had not received I'll
70 savings concerning His suffering:
il bought spices after His death an
e burial to anOint His body when III
D. Sabbath had passed. but they neve
5: used them for that purpose. so tn;
lie Mary was the only woman who wa
W privileged to anoint Him for burial
Of Those who receive all His wore
at have blessings beyond all others. Son
ID one has suggested that In the thre
Martha. Mary and Lazarus. taken t
lie gether. we have what constitutes
IT we'll rounded Christian life LaZarr
the power of a resurrection life. b
ve cause that by reason of him many
We the Jews went away and believed {
e. Jesus (JOhn xii. III; Martha, restf
irl service. because that here we do n
wv read Of her being numbered. as on
a former occasion: Mary. true devoti
m and worship. for such Is always co
an ly. David said. Neither will ! OF
burnt offerings unto the Lord I
God Of that which doth cost me no
}. ing" III Sam. xiv. 24l. Let us pc
AL der. as in His sight. the cost of O
he worship OF and devotion to Him.
he nancially how does 1t compare w
Dm our Worship of self and the world?
nb- we become as devoted TO Him as Ms
red was not ONLY will some Judas CT
ion else us. but many professedly devo
on ones will find fault also. for. while
TO one will. perhaps. condemn our II
re- for self and this present world. ms
M will protest against TOO much de
,rs. ton to Jesus Christ. We'll. let the
the IL only we can have His she b
ovo done what she could" she b