New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-06-08
INTERNATIONAL,
SUMNYSQlO0L
LESSON
(By f. o. SELLERS, Acting Director OF
the Sunday School Course OF the Moody
Bible I%nstitute.)
(COpyrIGht, 1917, Weatern NeMsna ner Irnion
LESSON FOR JUNE 10
S ~CRUCIFIED.

Iliates judgment hail. Pilates weak
kneed subservience to custom and the
cry of the politician Is one of the black.
est pages In history. His scourging of
the man whom he. himself, declared
innocent, Is practically without paral-
lei. After the hooking and the scourg-
Ing, PLATE said unto the people, Be-
hold the man" ". 81, and later in sar-
casm he said to the same people, "Be-
hold your king" ". 14). Teachers
should emphasize at the beginning and
all through this lesson that Jesus
suffered and died for the sins of all
men, ours as well as those of his own
day.
|. The cruciHxion Of Jesus wv.
1929. 1t was about nine o'clock in
the morning when PLATE gave his infa.
nous order that Jesus should be cru
Gifted. 1t was indeed a sOrrowful pro-
cesslon which moved itself along the
via DOlOrosa" (the SorrOwful Way),
consisting Of the Roman soldiers, the
%tottering, physically exhausted man of
Galilee, and, Luke adds, Borrowing
women" They took him to the place
of a skull, Il hill about sixty feet high,
at the foot of which was the rock
hewn sepulcher In which his body was
later laid. The place was called in
Hebrew "GOlgOtha," the Aramaic for
skull. Calvary is the Latin for the
same. On either side of him were
crucifed the robbers, which was an
evident effort to add to his shame as
well as a salutary warning to the Pass
over pilgrims. Over the cross PLATE
wrote u title on Il wooden tablet. Fol-
lowing the usual custom, this was
forth his crime. The words it bore
were, Jesus Of Nazareth, King of the
Jews" as though PLATE would take
malicious revenge upon the mob which
had made him perform a deed he had
sought to avoid. Literally this sign
meant "Thls man Is the kIngllest Of
all Jews, and see what they have done
to him." In response to Pilates Ques-
tiOning, Jesus said, II am the King of
the Jews" PLATE knew that he was
innocent, and sought to let him 90 free,
but, rather than incur the hatred Of the
authorities, he yielded to their
demand for his blood, and became a
party to the murder of the Son of God.
Men today take a part in his cruel
rather than surrender wholly
to him, and pay the price Of open con
"They crucified him." How
these words laid the pride of men in
the dust. Human nature Is the same
today as 1t was two thousand years
ago when the worlds bitterest hate
wreaked not upon a bad man but
upon the best man, the perfect man,
the Goldman. The pain Jesus suf-
on Calvary was no Imagination.
He suffered it all for us Elsa. 53 :6),
cut the physical suffering was not the
most severe agony he bore FPS. 60 20;
Matt. q :48). The crucifixion of Jesus
vas part of the eternal purposes of
iOd's love and redemption.
II. The Worlds Darkest Hour wv.
Each Of the Gospel writer's re-
'ers to the part the soldiers took in
lots for his garments. They
we're uncOnsciously fulfilling the
prophecy of Psalm % :18, and it was
rom their number that one Of the SUP
IRENE testimonies to the character of
'hrist came (See Matt. 27:54). The
irst three evangelists tell us of the
hrong Of pilgrims who passed along
highway from the north, close at
and, and who wagged their heads in
imitation and mOckery of the agony
f the one who was being crucified.
'ut there were others who were spec
ators of this event, a group of Christ
,vers ". 25). Joseph, Mary's hus-
and. had doubtless died long before.
he sister here spoken Of was prob
bly, SalOme, the mother of John, the
vangelist. Mary, the wife Of Cleophas.
no was the mother of James the Less
nd Of JOses and also Mary Mag
alene, the grateful one Jesus, look 6
lg upon this company, remembered :
he coming loneliness of his mother,
nd her lack Of protection. Turning
JOhn(, the evangelist, he tenderly
the mother to his keeping wv.
27). OF the two malefactors were &
by his side. n gave himself
D to the Christ. The other died I'M =,
,pentant. To the one who was re- !.
Jesus made ready answer, u
Id held out a loving promise of Para e
Sc.
1T Is finished" These are remark Fl
I'D words. He had finished his suf- W
ring; he had finished that for which n
came into the world when he be- Il
his ministry; he had finished the
IssiOn for which his father had SEN h
m into the world; he had finished r,
ID fulfilled the prophecies concern c,
g his suffering and death; he had q,
mpleted the work of the redemption : ff
e atonement was finished, and Sa- n,
MS power was finished; the Mosaic Ia
was finished as far as its claims n,
the believer were concerned n
.om. 1914; Col. 2:13; Eph. 2:15 and o,
}. Outwardly 1t seemed to be Sa- h,
rs supreme hour. II vas the worlds n
rkest hour, but in that hour, Christ,
the cross. struck the death knell of /"
and won his .mightiest victory
days later when he arose from
!. dead. Bowling himself in submits ga
to the father, he gave up his tn
rit. 1t was not wrested from him m
Satan, the c%onqueror. but he freely
re it up willingly. Ike was the con-
eror Of Satan (Heb. PA; Col.
81. tb
rhe seven last words. These would 90