The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-26
WEEKLY SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
REVIEW LESSON
By HIGHT c. MOORE

muCn ullllSuily.
At Corinth, Paul spent a year
and a half in fruitful ministry,
and later he wrote them a letter
in which he magnified hristianity
as Love (leSSon -.
THE CHURCH AT EPHESuS
Paups third missionary journey
was characterized chiefly by his
three years stay at Ephesus. In
this populous pagan city Paul il
Illustrated The Christian Warfare
(lesson 81 about which he wrote
the Ephesians so graphically, foi
he faced the forces OF evil as ne
fulfilled his ministry Of teaching,
preaching, evangelism and miracle.
PAUL'S LAST VISIT TO
JERUSALEM
Following his ministry at Ephe.
sus Paul made a tour Of the
churches he had founded in Made.
donia and Greece, wrote some OF
his epistles, raised q collection for
the poor saists of Judea, and then
made his last journey to Jerusa-
lem.
Here Paul exhibited The Hero.
ism of Christian Faith (lesSon ~
being mobbed in the Temple, res
cued by the Roman captain, made
two addresses Zone to the mob and
the other to the Sanhedrin), and
was sent under guard to the gov
ernor at Caesarea. o..
THE MISSION TO ROME
An Ambassador in Chains (les'
son s. Paul finally realized his
hope to preach the gospel in the
city of Rome, but stony was the
path and stormy the sea that bore
! hi mthither. After his arrest at
Jerusalem, detention for two years
at Caesarea, and wreck on the is
land of Mclita, he reached Rome
in chains. For more than two
years he remained a prisoner, tho
able to accomplish great work
by teaching, preaching and letter
writing.
| One Of these letters magnified
| Christian Brotherhood (lcsson 81
emphasizing the philanthropy OF
Philemon, the petition Of Paul. the
profit of Onesimus, and the part
nership of the Apostle with his
ColosSian friends.
Before going to Rome, Paul had
written to Romans his epistolary
matcrpiecc from which we had ouI
lesson on Law, Love and Temper
ance Qesson 81 for international
Temperance Sunday. .-.-. ..
When at last Paurs case came
before the Emperor, the charges
against him were not sustained
and he was therefore set at lib
erty. Whether he now went on hi:
proposed visi ito Spain is uncer
tain, though asserted by tradition
but it is evident from his later lat
ters that he visited his forme,
fields in Greece, Macedonia anc
Asia Minor. But the persecution
of Christians by the Emperor Nero
would not overlook Paul. SO afte,
about three years Of freedom, the
Apostle was again apprehendec
under the new law, making the
advocacy Of Christianity a capita
crime. Straight to Rome he was
carried and a second time cast in
to prison.
Lying in the dungeon, looking
for death, and longing for eternaI
deliverance, Paul, in the last of all
his letters, wrote his Parting Coun,
sells (lesson 10) to Timothy his be-
loved son in the gospel. Within
few months at most the great
Apostle was taken out of his dun.
geon and with n stroke of the lie
tors axe, oeheaded.
THE LATER MINISTRY
OF JOHN +
During a period of fiery per-
secution and probably near the
close of the first century, John
was banished to Patmos. a small
island in the Aegean sea. Johns
Vision on Patmos (lesson ~ pre-
faced his matchless Apocalypse to
the seven churches. of Roman Asia.
The Supreme Gift of Love (les-
son l2) as defined by the beloved
Apostle in the first of his letters
magnified the program, the privil-
eye, the perfection, and the fellow
shin of love.
THE CHURCHES IN THE -
ROMAN EMPIRE
AT the close Of the first century.
despite difficulties manifold and
prosecutions dire, churches, ap-
gregating q membership supposed
to be at least 100. 900. were estab.
lished in many cities of the Roman
Empire-in western Asia from the
Euphrates valley to the Aegean
sea, in North Africa as far up the
Nile as Ethiopia. and in Southern
Europe from Scythia o nthe Cas-
plan sea to Spain on the Atlantic
ocean.
GOLD IN THE GOLDEN TEXT
The kingdoms of this world are
become the kingdoms of our Lord.
and of his Christ; and he shall
reign for ever and cver.-Revela-
ton 11:15.
The reality of the "kingdoms of
our Lord and of his Christ2 are
veritable at the present moment.
for he is on his throne and the
scepter is already in his hand.