The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1916-10-18
oUNDAY SCHOOL NOTES
|siSideaI tphts . on Next Sundays
Lsssonlfor Teachers and Puplls
Edited ~ Charles K. Meyers.

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President %. Sears McHenry, Denisor
sxcoutivs committs. '
| F. L. Hoffman, Denison;. VIM. Lind berg
| kiron; r., L. VanSlyke, Manila: H. J
Cook, Denison; Frank Woolston, Deni,
son; E. G. . Wigsi.ss; pow City
Miss Susie Craft Denisor
Secondary Grade, F.. L. Hoffman, DcnisoE
Adult Department pra, 3 ! stii, Manil,.
'oe D.pa MIS- f. W. Pierce i; :Deniisor
le ..."... Rev. 5. G. rourteiiot. Denisor
temperance Miss Manetta jorsensen, Val
| Missionary Department 49,. }. ......
........ Mrs. Anna williams, Denisor
Oct. 22-Paul Before Agrippa.
Our lesson is a. continuation of the
history of St. Paul. We will remem
Der that after a number of long mis-
sionary journeys he returned to Je
rusalem and while worshiping quietly
| in the temple was seized by the Jews
and would have been killed had not
the soldiers from the Roman garrison
frescued him. Al .a. -.s. a..
The record as we find 1t in Acts tells
lus that Paul had three trials or hear
| ings before Roman governors. The
first was before Felix, the second be-
fore Festus and the third before Agrip.
/ pa with Festus present. 1t is of this
last hearing we will learn today. Al
though the great government Of Rome
controlled the land of Palestine at
/ this time it suited the government to
recognize the kings and princes which
had held sway before the days of con.
quest by the Roman legions. There.
fore King Agrippa, a grandson OF
Herod the Great, was given kingly bon.
ors by Festus when he came to make
ON his becoming the new governor of
his prisoner Paul, that in the eye of
the Roman law he had done nothing
wrong and therefore he suggested that
his visitor have the noted prisoner
brought before him and that he might
by reason of his Jewish knowledge be
able to detect same reasons for con.
|tinuing to hold Paul in bonds.
1t was great day in Caesaria when
King Agrippa and Bernice and Festus
with the chief captains and the prin.
cipal men of the city gathered in state
to see and hear i, the noted prisoner.
Heretofore Paul had gone from, place
to place among the common people
Little did the Jews at Jerusalem real.
ize that their opposition to Paul at
this time would open up before him
great assemblies composed of the most
powerful and intellectual people of the
times; but it was so. Another strik-
ing evidence that God makes the wrath
of man to praise him. 5.,ts i
Paul when called upon to speak be-
fore Agrippa related his life history.
He told how he had been brought up a
Pharisee of the strictest kind; that he
had thought it right to persecute the
christians till he had vision of Jesus
on. the waypto Damascus, when he had
been shown the right way and was told
that his life in the Future should be
dedicated to telling the world about
Jesus.
+ We now come to the most important
thought of the lesson. Paul said: Il
was. not disobedient unto the heaven.
ly vision."' 1t is the fact that when
Paul knew what to do that he did it;
which made him the power for good
which has made him famous. Every
one of us have at timel been shown
our christian duty, but alas we have
not, like Paul, held fast to doing 1t. 1t
were we'll to let this point sink deep
as the great thought of the lesson.
Paul spoF/ with such earnestness at
this time that Festus called out that
he was mad and Agrippa said almost
thou persuadest me to be christian"