Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-23
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.
Continued from Seventh Page.)

has removed every doubt concerning
His diety and has revealed Jesus aS
Our Lord and Our Cod
Christ revealed the practical issues
of faith in Him, as the Messiah, IN the
gracious instruction that He gave TO
His disciples, which have been the
basis of study in four of the quarters
lessons. They contain His complete
unfolding OF the Christian life and
work, that was opening before His
to purify. strengthen and elevate by
His revelations of His coming cruel
fixion and conquest over death. he
revealed His deity in His claims to be
the Good Shepherd who lays down
His life for His sheep.
In the parable in action, when He
washed the disciples feet. He taught
the disciples, who were diVided over
their desire for place position and
mower. the lesson of humility by per-
forming the mental task of slave so
that He could fill them with the desire
of service This lesson was more I'M
pressive by His claims to deity MADE
in His assertion of pre,exlstent IRE
with the Father and the claim that the
Father had intrusted all power into
His hands, which preceded His washing
of the disciples feet
In the lesson upon Jesus. as the true
vine, the Master insisted that He was
not only the source OF me- put also
Him could one live a fruitful Christian
life. In this the deity of Jesus ap-
peared in His assertion OF His pre-
existence and His promise to send the
Holy Spirit. who would comIort tnem
in their trials and guide them into all
truth. Vital Christianity depends to-
day upon the presence OF the Holy
Spirit with the followers OF the Christ
With the departure OF the Lord, the
source of spiritual life and the
sustainer of spiritual power, among
those who received Christ. is the Com
forter whom Jesus promised to send
and through whose presence the Lord
proposed to continually be with His
people.
John never loses sight of the fact
that Jes,Is was received by men to
WHOM, He gave the right to become
the sons of God" In the lessons of
the quarter it has been made clear
from the first lesson when the man
born blind received Jesus WIN gov
ing faith, first as the man Jesus. then
Lord. and finally as the Son of God.
unto the last lesson. where John, Peter
and Mary come to believe IN the reSur-
the grave. there has been a record of
how MANY received Jesus. There was
n division among the Jews after Christ
had spoken concerning Himself as the
Good Shepherd who lays down His
life for His SHEEP Many , 81 the ho Jews
Him bringing. by the power of His
word. His friend. Lazarus. from the
dead. Mary proved that she mad re.
celved Him when she naniIesIed not
only her love for Christ, put also her
perception of His messages concerning
coming events by amounting the Mas
tor for His burial at the feast made
in His honor at Bethany.
Two prominent. weaithy-men' VINO
had heen secret disciples. came forth
and proved that they had received
Him when they PROVIDED the TOMB
and prepared His body Tor purial;
The welcome that greeted Jesus
when He made His triumphant en-
trance into Jerusalem fiied me mari
sees with alarm. because eNIuehtiy 1he
,ossses had recognized that the Lord
vas fulfilling the scripture ey 'ne way
IJa had entered into the city and at
the same time proclaiming f1inlseiI 10
be the King of Israel. ne aetItua
If the masses toward thrist maoe
them determine how they wouiu De-
stroy His influence and power my
headed the movement TO REJECT inc
Master 49, ,,.or;.,
Christ was rejected by the material
lists and the religfonists ne ma
terialists who rejected hltst Mers
tbe POLITICAL zealots who had pieueed
themselves to start reNolutlon
against the Roman power. lhey wound
have welcomed Jesus II ne had peer
willing to become politlcai essiah.
They lacked the spiritual VISION 70
understand the miracles ana messages
OF Jesus who rejected their plans ZOE