Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-11-17
Sunday School Lesson
Bu DR.. Marion McH Hull

he reached the three-fold side of their
nature. The result OF his work was
thar some of them believed and others
did not. Finally, turning to those who
did not believe, and they were In the
majority, he quoted to them from
Isaiah as follows: Go unto this people
and say. Hearing ye shall hear and
shall not understand, and seeing We
shall see. anu not perceive; for the
Geart of this people is waXed gross and
| their ears are dull OF hearing, and theiI
eyes have been closed; lest they should
see with their eyes and hear with their
ears, and understand with their heart
anu should be converted, and l should
| neal them"
ne mad done his duty. He had given
them an opportunity; he could go no
| further. He could not make them be-
| lleve. We do not know just when has
| trial occurred. but we know that for
| two more years following this he dwell
IN his own hired house, and while he
was not privileged to go out and
| preach, We do not know how many he
reached OF those who came TO him to
hear the message from day to day
! Thus Tor four years Paul mad been shut
| up away from active service. These
four years meant much to his life; they
| meant much to the church.
lHey IHean much to US. for durins
| HAT Imprisonment at Rome he wrote
The letters to the Galatians, Philippians
iIpheslans and Calossians. the letter &c
. Philemon. the first letter to Timothy
and possibly the letter to the Hebrews
/ The other letters of the captivity wert
! written in a subsequent captivity il
Rome, for he was released and after.
| wards arrested, imprisoned and be
headed
| SEEING BUT NOT SEEING.
1t IS terrible thing to see and not
! TO see. TO hear anu not hear. The curse
loI God came upon His chosen people
because OF this; and yet again Pau
! calls attention to IL in this portion
oI his message. Wherever he went hi
preached to the Jew first, and wher
they would see and not see and neal
and not hear, he would turn to the Gen
tiles. Subsequent history reveals tina
The Gentles VINO accepted the message
have been marvelously blessed by IL
and have been great blessing to the
wolrd. whereas the people who hearC
IL and did not hear It. who saw ii AM
did not see it have. as a people, retro
gradew. although there are Individual
amongst them who have attained much
| As this lesson closes our studies o
Acts, study whicv ives have been pur
lsuing all of this year, II might be wei
Tor us to glance rapidly backward anC
see what 1t is that we have learne,
rom it. In the first chapter we learneC
of the King and His coming again Il
Iestabl ,sh the kingdom. In the second
we learned of the power which come.
with the spirit OF God and OF the saliva
lion which is to be had by believing
in the third we learned of the power
to heal which comes with this blessed
spirit. OF His power to keep. in the
fourth. OF Gods hatred of sin in tn,
fifth. OF the necessity of division o.
labor, In the sixth. OF how to die. II
] the seventh. OF the leadership of TIT
spirit. in the eighth. or the vision
which changes a mans life, IN tn
ninth OF The reward which God gives
% the man who seeks Him. in th'
tenth. That nothing is common or un
clean. in the eleventh. OF Gods powe
to deliver. in the twelfth. OF His guild