The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-05-18
INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY
SCHOOL LESSON, MAY 10

Mes Lie.
Text He that loveth his neigh
Dor hath fulfilled the law" Or. W
Rom. les.
Ne haze. first, he original LAW
und i which Adam was placed on
trial lie had privileges and bless
in2, ana blessings To begin with
/ lie peace, happiness. and every
rcedilll thing. These it guaranteed
him 20 long as he would remain
Cbcdlrnt TO his Creator; and a death
penalty was attached to disohcdirncr
Dying. thou shalt die" and this
penalty extended in a natural way
to his postcrity Hence, from the
time Of Adams transsression. he WAS
culprit a convict. deprived of life
hopes previously enjoyed; deprived
Ci his Eden home: deprived of his
former fellowship with his Creator.
The unprepared earth was his grea,
penilentiary, and the tomb his per-
petual prison The law which reigned
over him previously had now come
to an end. in the sense that ii no
longer held out to him any hopes or
prospects of life. but had already
sentenced him to death. lie was No
longer under the law OF life. nor
were any of his children born under
that law of life, or with any hope or
prospect of attaining everlasting life;
they were all prisoners.
The apostle suggests that il was
not possible that God should give
to our fallen race law OF life. They
were justly sentenced. and so long as
that sentence remained no law could
be given them. the keeping of which
would secure them release from
death Before any such law Of life
could be given to the human family,
the sentence of the first law must be
met. and its curse or condemnation
must be lifted; then other arrange
Nlents might be made, including Of
itrs OF eternal life upon conditions
hut not until that atoncmrnl for the
FIRST transSrcssion, and that canrcla-
ton of its sentence had been effect
cd. The Lord gave intmal ions Of
His intentiO to effect some such
aloncmrnt tor sin, in order To give
t. mankind another opportunity for
eternal life. instead Of the one given
10 Father Adam and lost by him for
himself and for all of his postcrty
One of these limitations of an
atOncmrnt, etc, was given in the
Lords words at the time Of pro
bouncing the sentence, when He de-
ciarcd that the seed of the woman
should ultimately bruisc the ser
penis head Gen. 3:l5., In this
dark and iiguratiyc language tn
Lord spoke Of. the reversal of the
powers of evil; of a victory tina
should come through, as Well as to,
HE Adamic family This seed of the
woman, as we are all aware, reached
fail 4 h,iA al
years after tn" degradation God son
forth Ills Son, born oi a Woman.
End thus Il member of, and identified
with. the condemned race, tina, He
by he grace II God should taste
death for every man shouid meet
th penalty iur every man, shuulG
roll back from every man the curse,
cr sentence OF death
FIRST of all to Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob God gave promises OF NOR" or
less eXpleiinrss. informing them OF
Hi bcncNolcnt intentions 10 bless
all the families of the earth Such
:, message To come from HE great
Jude" who had condemned the race
:9cant much, il meant either the
violation of Justice, in the lifting o.
the curse, or sentence, or else that
the great Supreme Court OF the uni
verse had a plan by which IL could
be just and, nevertheless, exercise
mercy toward such members of the
race as should show themselves
worthy of il. by coming into har-
mOny with His righteous arrange
mcnts. The Patriarchs rcjOced in
these promises, and more or less
clearly realized future life by 3
ssurrection OF the dead. which
should be profitable not only to them
and to their pos'erty. but which
should mean eventually blessing to
every creature OF the race.
II was in view of this promise to
Abraham that the Lord placed a spe-
cial law upon his children, the Is
raelites, at Mount Sinai. That law
was the basis of covenant with
them. II they would keep that law,
then all the promises should be
theirs. That law was recognized as