The Brinkley argus., 1910-07-22
The Transfiguration Sunday School Lesson for July 24, 1910 Specially Arranged for This Paper

LESSON IE.AI.-Mdititn ii-t-ot IT " Memory verses. l. 7.
 GOLDEN TEXT.-"This is my beloved Son. in whom I am well pleased: hear ye him. Matt. -17:5.
 TIME.-Autumn of A. D. 2. A week after our last lesson.
 PLACE.-One of the spurs of Mount Hermon, and a village at it's foot
 Suggestion and Practical Thought 1. The Prayer Meeting on the Noun tain Top.-V. L Luke 9:2S-29. And after six days Luke counts the parts of days before and after these SIX These six Gays were period Of incu bation. of specialization, of the sud den revelation of the way Jesus must act his part as the Messiah, and that they must share a cross instead o1 throne. which threw them into the gloom of the dungeon of Giant De spair.
 Jesus taketh Peter. James, and John" It was the sane favored three who few months later were nearest to him as he prayed in Gethsemane and still later were recognized as ''pil lars. of the church Gal 2:9).
 Luke to:2s-29) tells us that Jesus went up into the mouDtsin to pray; and thai tes Transagafation took rIafe while He prayed
 What did they rray for2 It. must have been fer light, fer strength, for guidance for help.
 The answer.-Thropgh the Trans figuration.-V 2-4 While he was praying CLuke) and in answer to his prayer. he was transfgured before them.
 And his face did shine as the sun. Nothing less than the brightest and most glorious of all objects within knowledge-so bright that it destroys the eye to gaze directly upon it--t ould express the radiant glories of Jesus face. when his heaycnly nature sfcne through the veil of his fiesb,-one oi the few hints as to oar resurrection bodies Compare the description Of Jesus in Acts 9:3 and in Rev. 1:f6.
 And his raiment was white as the light" i. C., luminously white, "as no fuller on earth can white them" (Mark) i e., with a supernatural whiteness; white and glistering QLuke)
 Then answered Peter" not to any question, but to the feelings the scene awakened Lord. it is seoi fer Us to be here" Peter spoke tie truth. The experience was good, and would make him better and more useful man all the rest of his life Ii widened his outlook IL gave him a new idea of the glory that awaited the faithful. It exalted his knowledge of Jesus power and glory, and gave strength to his trust in him.
 The Divine Testimony. "-Vs 58. While he yet spake," was speaking. "A bright cloud, revealing the divine presence, an incarnation of the inef- fable light of God yelling it's glory, yet making it visible to man, as the cleudj that veil the sun enable us who cannot gaze into his face yet to see his beauty and glory"
 And behold a voice out of the cloud" The same voice which had been heard once before at his baptism. This is my beloved son." Adding the voice of God to the attestation of l the scene itself, anl interpreting the 1 scene. This truth must be impressed upon the disciples so that they should neser lose their faith even in the 1 dark times that were to follow; and while others were calling Jesus a criminal and blasphemer the disciples could always see him in his true 1 glory. Hear ye him." For he is the ambassador of God. bringing the mes sage of love from heaven. Hear l implies faith and obedience. 1 Some lessons from the Transfgura tion.-1 Our richest and most heaven ] ly experiences come in anl through l prayer, and often from united prayer
 Tell me your prayers and I will write the history Of soul
 Coming Down from the Mountain: and the Work Awaiting Them There { -Vs 9-1S. On the way down the dis oipies asked Jesus about a subject which perplexed them. They could not understand how it could be true that Elijah was a gloiifled spirit, and Jesus the Messiah, and yet the prom ise be fulfilled that Elijah must como before the Messiah. Jesus explained that John the Rsftist cening in tho spirit ard rower of Elijah, was ths fuiflnent of that pro- heey.
 Jesus for@ade them tc tel the wis