The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1914-04-08
Sunday School Notes
Side Lights on Next Sunday, Lesson
for Teachers and Pupils.
Edited by Charles K. Meyers

| caster Lesson.)
Our minds are turned this week to
the joyous Easter time. 1t is the seas
on of year when all nature is aWaklng
from winters sleep and coming into
beautiful life. 1t is the happy time
when the children go searching in the
woods for the crocus, blood root and
trailing subutus, when buds swell on
the trees, the grass renews its coat
of green and springs forth to beautify
and enrich it's earth. The cold of win
ter is over, and with joy all look for
ward to season of growth in garden
and field, and harvests thereby. SO
| without regard to the religious bear
ing of the day and time, there is joy
BUSINESS and delight at the Easter.
When it is considered, however
that Easter day is remembered the
world around in honor of one OF the
most important events in all history,
its significance becomes the more
marked. 1t is an old story which
needs no repeating, that death and
decay are ever before us, and that 1t
seems the way of all things observ-
ant to the natural eye, to die and per-
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gent human beings, has been strug-
gled against in thought by men In all
ages. A plan, a hope, theory, has
been imagined or dreamed out of an
existence in spirit world and hand
cd down from generation to genera
ton. Crude it is found among the
men OF low intelligence, and refined
with the thoughtful All these have
however, been inconsistent, lacking
authority, but yet the evidence of the
hope of life after physical death.
How comforting it is to turn from
the uncertainty of the sayings of
those but struggling for light, to the
triumphant positive words of Jesus
the Christ, who declared, IF any man
liveth and believeth in me he shall
never de-" 81 am the resurrection
and the life;" God is not the God of
the dead, but of the living" 81 go to
prepare place for you, and will come
again to receive you unto myself that
where | am we shall be Also" These
words and many others are reinforced
by the words OF the great Apostle
Paul who said But now Christ rises
from the dead and becomes the first
fruits of them that slept 20 death
where is thy sting, o grave where is
thy victory
The Easter time and the event it
commentaries give us the promise
of life after death, of uniting with
the loved ones gone before us. The
resurrection of Jesus means to US
that the grave cannot contain our i'm
| al cnirifc. that face
to face, mother, father, son, sister,
wife, friend. Jesus said to those who
Him as to things in heaven that they
put doubling foolish questions to
knew not the power Of God. Jesus
then added as found in Luke 20 1915
these most wonderful words, They
which shall be accounted worthy to
; obtain that world, and the resurrec-
ton from the dead neither marry nor
are given in marriage, neither can
they die any more; for they are equal
unto the angels and are the children
Of God, being tn echildren Of the res
direction" 1t was in the 3Sth verse
of this chapter where it is said, For
He is not the God of the dead, but of
the living for all live unto Him." |
consider these verses in Luke as most
important, being the direct words of
Jesus in answer to questions as to
conditions in the resurrected life.
Our lesson for this week relates as
to events just after the resurrection
of Jesus OF course His disciples
were in alarm and CONSERVATION over
His death and apparent defeat at the
!. hands OF the Romans and His Jewish
enemies. While hearers Of the words
of Jesus as to rising after death, and
knowing to the words of the Old Test.
ament as to His birth, life and i'm
mortality they did not understand it
all. Their hopes were blasted, things
had not come out as they expected.
Our lesson tells us of two followers OF
Jesus who took their departure from
Jerusalem toward a little city named
inmmaus They were talking of the
subject uppermost in their minds, OF
the death of their Master and the re-
port which had come to them of His
rising from the dead, as reported by
the women who early visited the
sepulcher. They were joined on the
way by a stranger with whom they
engaged in conversation, and to whom
on his inquiry, they told their fears
and hopes. When they were through
the stranger began to talk, and to
their surprise seemed we'll posted on
the Old Testament scriptures, and
event near at hand. The stranger de-
clared as the result of his understand
ing of the scriptures Ought not
Christ to have suffered these things
and entered into His glory?' He then
reviewed the scripture concerning the
promised Messiah. The record reads
that the stranger was invited to tar
ry with them, which he did for time,
disappearing from their sight after
the prayer at the beginning OF the
humble meal. The two discovered that
it was indeed Jesus with whom they
had talked. Now they delayed not to
make haste to return to Jerusalem
to tell the other disciples as to their
guest and that indeed and in truth
Christ is Risen.
Let us all spread the glad news as
did the disciples of whom we read
Christ is Risen" t is the most joy.
Gus message which could be told
then and is equally precious now. II