REY. DR. TALMAGLE.
CHE BROOKLYN DIVINIYS SUN
DAY SKIRMON,
fahjeot: “The Wonders of Athens?
Texr: ‘While Paul waited for them ai
dthens his spirit was stirred in him, when
ie saw the city wholly given to idolatry.” —
hots xvil,, 16.
It seemed as if morning would never come,
Fehad arrived after dark in Athens, Greeos,
pe the night was sleepless with expecta.
, and my watch slowly announced to me
me apd two and three and four o'clock: and
tt the first ray of dawn I called our party to
pok out of the window upon that ity to
vhich Paul said he was a debtor, and to
rhich the whole earth is debtor for Greel
frohitecturs, Greek sculpture, Greok try,
sloquence, Greek prowess and Greek
\istory.
That morning in Athens we sauntered
préh armed with most generous and lovely
tters from the President of the Upnirad
tates and his Secretary of State, and dur-
all our stay in that city those letters
mused every door and every gate and every
emple and every palace to swing open be.
pre us. Tho mightiest geographical name
I earth to-day is America, The signature
if an American President and Secretary of
fate will take a man where an army could
jot, Those pames brought us into the
essence of a most gracious and beautiful
veraign, the Queen of Greece, and her
prdiality was more like that of a sister than
® occupant of a throne room. No formal
w as when monarchs are approached, but
4 cordial shake of the hand, and earnest
juestions about our personal welfare
md our beloved country far away,
But this morning we pass through wheres
the Agora, the ancient market place,
locality where philosopl ers used to mesg
ir disciples, walking while they talked,
md where Paul, the Christian logician,
oz many a proud stole apd got the laugh
many an impertinent Epicurean. The
rket place was the center of social and
plitical life, and it was the place where
ple went to tell and hear the news
Bn ani bazaars were set up for merchan-
Hise of all kinds except meat, but everything
ust be sold for cash, and there must be no
ing about the values of commodities, and
8 Agoranomi who ruled the place couid
flict ssvers punishment upon offenders,
e different s hools of thinkers had dis
ct places set apart for convocation. ‘The
iatceans must meet at toe cheese market,
B Decealians ab the barber shop, the sellers
perfumes at the frankincense head.
parters,
The market place was a space threes hun.
pred and fifty yards lonz and $wo hundred
id fifty yaris wide, and it was given up to
p and merchandise, and lounging and
ilosophizing. All ths you peel to know
pa order to understand thes Bible when it
ays of Paul, “Theres/ore disputed he in ihe
parket daily with tbemx toat me: him.”
fou see it was the best place to get an au.
fence, and il a man feels himself called to
each he wants people to preach to, Bug
‘ore we make our chief visits of to-day wo
pust take a tara at the Stadium. itis a
tide way out but go we must. The Sta.
Bum waf the place where the (oof races oc-
mrred.
Paul had been out there no doubt, for he
Frequently uses the scenes of that place as
igures when he tells us, “Let us run the race
bat is set before us” and again, “They do
} to obtain a corruptible garland, but we an
heorruptible.® The marble and the gilding
ave been removed, but the high mounds
ainst which the seats were plied are still
re. The Stadium is six hundred and
ity feet long, one hundred and thirty feet
de, and Leld forly thousand spectators.
there is today the very tunnel through
Yhich the defeated racer departed from the
ltadium and from the hisses of the people,
nd there are the stairs ap which the victor
pent to the top ol the hill to be crowned with
be laurel
In this place coutests with wild beasts
stimes took place and while Hadrian, the
peror, sat on youder height one thousand
were sinin in one cslebration, But ity
ras chiefly for fool racing and so I proposed
p my friend that day while we wera in the
tadiuom that we try which of as could ran
sooner from end to end of this historical!
ound, and at the word given by the
pokers on we started side by side, but before
; ut what Paul meant
got through I found ¢
fhen be compares the spiritual race with ths
“lar
~tadium. as
wad
Wr
ace in this very be sa5e
side every weight” i heavy oF
md my Ir i's
n ance showed |
iface O YI
We come 1
PCs n 2
e base an! a th
poe at the top and
it has been
frehitecturs and
n su GTi
kind of
Tof Its a
reumlerence at
feet in circum ler.
iree ban zh
crowded more elaborate
sculpture than In any
Sher place under whola heavens, |
Friginally a fortress, afterward a congre-
mtion of temples and statues and pillars
ir ruins an enchantment from which no!
sbserver reaks away. No wonder!
bat Aristides tix it the centre of all
biogs—Greece, ine eantre of the world.
irad fest h
oF er
is the cen-
5» of Athens. Earthquakes have shaken it
erres plundered it
Lord Elgin, the English Embassador at
Ponstantioupie, got permission of the Hul-
Bn to remove from the Acropolis fallen
of the building. but he took from the
ilding to England the finest statues, re
poving them at an expense of sight hundred
bousand doliars. A storm overthrew many
the statues of the Acropolis. Morosind,
General, atienptod to remove from a
diment the scuiptared car and horses of
ictory, but the clumsy machinery dropped
and all was Lost
The Turks turned the pullding into a
wder magazine where the Venetian guns
opr a fire that by $aplaion sent the
winmns Aylog in the afr and falling cracked
sod splintered, But after all thas time and,
form and war and iconociasm have effected,
fhe Acropolis is the monarch of all ruine,
ind befors it bow the learning, the genius,
the poetry, the art, the history of the ages.
{ gmw it ae it war thousands of years ago. |
wd read so much about it and dreamed =o
suck about it that {| nesded no magicians
wand to restore it
At one wave of my hand on that clear
norping in 15859 it rose before me in the glory
motre of Attica, and the A
panned it and Phidias chiseled it and Pro.
ogines painted is and Fausanias described
&, Ita gates, which were carefully guarded
by the ancients, open to led you la sad you
woend by sixty marbles steps the provyies,
which Epaminoodas wanted to transfer to
Thebes, hut permission, 1 am glad to say,
wald uot be granted for the removal of this
wehiteotural miracle. In the days when
a cents would do more than a dollar now
be building cost two million g' bree handred
bousand dollars, Sea its five ornamental
ates, the keys intrusted to an offi
po for omly one day, lest the temp
ation to go in and selsapp te the
reasures be too groat for him; its ceiling a
ningling of biue and scarlet and green, and
De Ay lor og onder is temple
hought eolorin »
bp a goddess ier “Victory Without
Vv " Bo many of the triumphs of the
bad been followsd by deleat that the
Soamry for Athens bad coma, Aver Again $0
or ann come, never a
away, and hence this temple to “ietory
ithout Wings =n temple Bol marie, mi
ps, twenty-seven fest high
ngures or norses and men and women and
pode, oxen on tae way to sacriflos, statues of
| the deities Lhonysius, Prometheus, Hermes
| Demeter, Z-us, Hera, Poseidon; in one (riess
tvielve divinities; crataurs in battie; wea
ponary from Marathon; chariot of night;
eoariot of the morning; horses of the sun,
the ines tne fur.es, status of Jupiter holds
ine in his right hand tha thender volt; sliver
footed chair in which Xerzes watched the
bait a of Salamis only a few miles away,
i Here is the colossal statute of Minerva in
full armor, eves of gray colored stone, figure
of a Sphinx on her head, griffins by her side
(which are lions with eagle's beak), spear in
one hand, statue of liberty in the other, a
| shield carved wita the battle scenes, and
| even the slippers sculptured and tied on with
| thongs of Xi Far out at sea the sailors
saw this statue of Minerva rising high above
| all the temples, glitt ring in the sun. Here
| are statutes of equesirians, statue of a lion-
| ness, and there are the Liracea, and yonder a
| horse in bronze,
| There is a statue sald in the time ot
| Augustus to have of its own accord turned
wound from east to west and spit blood;
statues made out of shields conquered in
| battle; status of Apollo, the expsiler of
| locusts; statue of Aaacreon, drunk and
| loging; statue of Olympodorus, a Greek,
| memorable for the fact that he was cheerful
| when others were cast down, a trait worthy
i of sou. pture. But walk on and around the
Acropoifs and yonler you see a status of
i
i
{
i
Hygeia, and the statue of the Theseus tight.
ng the Minotaur and ths statue of Hercules
laying serpents. No wonder that Petronius
aid it wus easier to find a gol than a man in
Athens, On, the Acropolis! Ths most ol
ts temples and statues made from ths mar.
dle quarries of Mount Peatelioum, a little
way {rom the oily.
1 bave hers on my tabls a block of the
Parthenon made out of this marble, ani on
6 is the sculptures of Paidias, I brought is
rom the Acropolis, This specimen bas on
| & the dust of ages and the marks of explo-
| ton and battie, but you can get from it
iyme daa of the dalicate luster of the Acro-
polis when it was covered with a mountain
{ of this marble cut into all the exquisite
shapes that genius could eontrive and
nriped with sliver and aflams with gold,
{be Acropolis in the morning light of thow
incients must have shone as though it wers
wn aerolite cast olf fron the nooudey sun.
[he temples must have looked like petrified
‘loam, ‘The whole Acropolis must have
{ earned like the waite breagers of the great
| won of time,
Bat we cannot stop longer here, for thers
8a hill near oy of more interest, though i
ma pot one cnipol marble tO suggest a
tutus or & templs, We hasten down the
Acropolis 10 a-cead tae Arsopagus, or Mars
His, as 18 is calis’, It took only about three
pioutes to waik the destance, and tas two
uiltops are #80 near that what [ said in re
ieious discourse on Mars Hill was beard dis
unoly by so ue Eaziish gentlemen on ths
Acropolis, This Mars Hill » a rough piie of
00s fity feet hizh, It was famous long bee
or. New Testainent times,
‘The Persmos easi.y and terribly assaultel
the Acropods from ths hilltop, Here as
wnbiad tas cours to try criminals, It was
weld in toe night Sunes» that the inom of the
iniges could nod be seen, nor the faces of tn
awyers wao made the plea, and so, ins a
of the trial being ous of emol on, 18 wuss
rave been one of cool justioa, Bus tacre was
ue occasion on this alli memorable above
ul others.
A little man, physically weak, and his
thetorio descrioed by himself as contem obi.
de, had by his sermoos rucked Athens with
ommotion, and he was summoned eitasr by
writ of law or hearty invitation to come
ipon that pu.pit of rock and give a speo.
ren of bis theo ogy. All the wiseaores of
Athens turned out and turned up to bear
tim, The more venerable of them sas in an
umphitheater, the granite seats of which
we still Msible, but the other people
warmed & all sides of the Lill and at the
saso of jt to hear this man, whom some
| milled a fanatic, and others called a mad-
mp, and others a bilasphemer, and others
tyled contemptuously ‘this fellow.”
Paul arrived in answer to the writ or in-
ritation, and con roated them and gave
them the biggest dose that mortals ever took.
He was so built that nothing could scare
yim, and as for Jupiter and Athenis, the
rod and the goddess, whose Images wore in
‘ull sight on the adjoining hill, he had not so
nuch regard for them as he had for the ant
that was crawiing in the sand under his
wot. In that audience wers the firs orators
of the world, and they bad voices like Gates
when thoy were passiva, and like trumpets
when they were arouse] and { think they
sect in She sleeves of their gowas as tha
man ros £0 speak,
inn ware
i
x guificoant
In that an Hoeholladts, who
(ow aver ins, or thought they did, and
rom th reus hair on the top
sf their cranium so the sal of the nail on
he longest tog, Shay were with
ryperoritician, and they leansd back with a
mpere Asx in 1880 |
itood on that rock where Paul stool, and a
tab of which 1 brought from Athens by
sonsent of the queen, through Mr. Tricoupia,
ihe prime minister, and bal plod in yon
iar Memorial Wall, I read the whole story,
Bible in band.
What I have so far said in this discourse
| was necesseary in order that you may un-
{ Jerstand the boldness, the deflance, the boly
| recklessness, the magnificence of Paul's
| speach. The first thunderbolt he launched
waite hill-the Acropolis—that
agiitter with idols and temples
“God who made the world.”
sai ol ths On
sdufad
ious |}
to listen.
{at the
| moment a
! He cries out.
{ Why, they thought that Prometheus made it,
| that Mercury made it, that Apolio made it,
| that Poseidon made it, that s made it,
{that Pandrocus made it that Boreas
made it, that it took all the gods of
{ the Parthenon, yea, all the gods and god.
| dowmox of the Acropolis to make it, and
| here stands a man without any scclesiastionl
| title, neither a DU. D., nor even a reverend,
| declarin that the world was made by the
| Lord of heaven and earth, and hence in-
| {erence thas all the splendid covering of the
| Acropolis, 50 near that the people standing
| on the steps of the Parthenon could hear it,
| was a deceit, a falsehood, a sham, a blasphe-
{ my. Look atthe faces of his auditors; they
are turning snd then red and then
wrathlal. had been several earth.
| quakes in that region, but that was the se
| verest shock theses men had ever fait.
Toe Persians had bombarded the Acro >
terrific. “What” sald his bearers, ‘have
| we been hauling with many yok of oxsa for
| centuries thess blocks from the quarries of
| Mount Peptelicum, and have we had our
| arobitects putting up these structures of un-
| paralleled splendor, and have we had the
| greatest of all scuiptors, Phidias, with his
| mén chissling away at those wondrous pedi.
| ments and cutting away at these friezs and
| have wo taxed the nation's resources to the
utmost, now Lo be told that those statues see
| nothing, bear nothing, know nothing?
Oh, Paul, stop for a moment and give
| these st and overwhelmed suditors
| time to catoh their breath! Make a rhetorical
; pause! Take a look around you at the inter
wting landscape, and give your hearers time
to recover! No, he not makes even s
d, or so much as a colon or semicolgn,
t launches the seeond shanderbolt right
and in ths same breath goes
“dwalleth not in temples
Oa, Paul! ls not deity
| more in the Parthenon, or more in the The
INA Urano ani Sophooles and EuripiQes ani
Eschyius an | Pericles aad Phitias and Mil
inden bool just like the Persians like tie
Lurks, like the Eovptiang like tne eommiog
herd of humanity? “Yes” says Paul, “o
pne blood all nations.”
Surely that must be the closing para-rany
pf the sermon, Hiwesw {tors wuss let uo
from the nervous straill, Paul has smashed
the Acropolis and smashed the national prids
pf the Greets and what rore ean he sav!
Those Grecian orators, standing on toat
ace, always closed their addresses with
omething sublime and climacterio—a peror
tion—and Paul is going to give them a
peroration which will eclipse in power and
majesty all that he has yet said, Hereto.
fore he has huried one thunderbolt at a
time; now he will close by hurling two
once. The little old man, under the
bis speech, has straightened
his shoulders, and looks about
three feet taller than when he began: and
his eves, which were quiet. became two
in the introduction,
wind of emotion ashe ties the two thunder.
bolts together with a cord of incousumsldy
sourage and hurls them at the crowd now
derbolts of Resurrection and Last Judge
mont. His closing words were, “Because
He bath appointed a day in the wach He will
judze the world in righteonsusss by thas
man whom He hath ordainsd,
hath given assurances unto all men in
He bath raised him from the dead,
Remember those thoughts wers to them
soval and provooutive: tnat Christ. the de
ipised Nazarena, would come to be their
judge, and they shoud have to get up out
of their cometeries to stand before Him and
ake their sternal doom, Migatiest burst of
viocutionary power ever heard, Tae ance
lors of soms of those Greeks bad heard
Demosthenes in bis oration on the crow,
that
jor immortaidty =f
heard Socrates on bis death.
in hand, leave
great too bear;
Dionysins, at the
{the ruins
and the
meen
macted toe tragedios of Hachyius and Sopao-
ties, but neither hal the ancestors of thew
he soul, had
tin hearers in smotion too
theater of
of the Acropolis
its piled up amphbitoenter
loot
4
At those two thoughts of re
1 their [eel Some moved they adjoura to
oa tas same
heme, but ostiers would have torn the sacred
As in Athens, that evening in 1850, we
down the pile of slippery rocks,
hall way betwesn the
in the gataering
watows of eventide, I see ned 10 hear those
ng
vm chiefly of the past” said toe Acropolis
the iuture:” replies Mars
Tho Acropolis sai; “My orators are
My poris
My architecss are deal, My
am a roonunens of
I shall never again hear a
I will never again see 8 co.umn
fitted, 1 will never azain vebhold a goides
wowned.™
Mars Hill responded: *“L too, have a his
ory. I had on my heights warriors who
paver arain unsheath the sword, ani
ire dead,
ea. But my influence is to be more in the
lutare than it ever was in the past
words that missionary, Paul, uttered that
nen and the populace on my rocky shoulders
mve only begun their majestic role; the
swrotherbood of man, and the Christ of God,
tion of resurrection and last
Tarrian orator
wowd shall yet revolutionize the planet, Oh,
Seropolis! have stood heres long enough
your gods are no
Your vas couid not con
Your Neptune counid not
Y our Apolio never evoked
y muscsl note. Your gol Ceres never grow
Your goddess of wislom, Min.
wva, never knew the Greek alphabet. Your
aol the winds
But the (God whom [ proclaimed on the day
ssemblage on my rough heights is the Gol
wisdom, the Gol of
the God of lova
dod of storms, the God of sunshine, the
of the land and the God of the ma, the
forever.”
#1
he {
ike and anid, as
My Plato argued
the soul, and my
and my Mi'tiades
Marathon drove beck the Persian op
“Yoo said Mars Hill, “your
Then the Acropolis
Ge ans
the soul but my Pilato, divinely in
ipired, declared it as a fact straight from
Your Bocrates praised virtue, but ex.
sired as a suicide. Your Miltiades was brave
sgainst earthly foes, vet ha died froma
wound miniously gotten in after defeat,
But my Paul challenged all earth and all bell
with this battles shout, "We wrestle not
igainst flesh and blood, but nt principal
. the ralers of
the darkness of this world, against spiritual
wickedness in high places, and then on the
given one keen stroke, took the crown of
After a moment's silence by both hills
i= moanad out in the darkness,
“Alas! Alas!” and Mars Hill responded,
“Hosanoah! Hossnoah™ Theu the voloes
of both hills became discs ahd ar 1
passed on and away in the twilight 1 seam
0 hear only Te sounds fragment
Pentalioon marble trom ne arg Aras of
the A in on ne
. Sha otaer sound sesmaod
io coms from the rock on Mare Hill, from
which we had just descended. But we werd
by this time so far off that the fragments of
wntences were unaller when dropping from
Mars Hills than were the! ts of fallen
marble on the Acropolis, 1 occald only
boar ta of disconnected sentences waited
am es night air—"God who made the
world” -* one blood all nations” “ap
pointed a day in which He will judge the
world” —"raised from the dead.”
As that night in Athens I put my tired
head onmy pillow, and the pincer soon
‘passed throughymy mind, though*
on the same subject on which, as a 1
made my Sommnesaamnt
SCIEN TIF LU, i
A torpedo costs £1670, |
lft
tome will be | hited Ly electricity.
There are ubout sixly species of
shai ks,
On a still dav the report of & rifle can
be heard at 6300 yards,
————
It has been discovered In England
shat smokeless powder is unsafe for smal
arms,
The barking of dogs on the earth can
oe heard in a balloon at an elevation of
four miles.
The Government is about to bagin the |
work of preparing hydrographic survey
of the Great Lakes, i
The salmon placed in the
fliver by the {ish commission
pleasing very rapidly.
——— AP ————
Dr. Higgins, the celebrated English
sstronomner, says the starsure red, waite
and blue, secording to their age, the
frst being ule oldest,
Sst —
The human voice, speaking in ths
open air when it is calm, can be heard
at a iIstance of 460 feet; the ieports of
a nuthet 16,000, and many guns 479, -
LOO feet,
Hudson |
are Iin-
s—————
Among recent invent ons we notice
Mut elec city 18 now in use for heat-
ing flatirons used by tailors, and its
employment in therapeutics is con-
stanily on the increase,
if lf——
improvements
Penn, ’
ine
is
Owing to the recent
at the steel works at Braddock,
the output has been so greatly
creased that a n-w scale of wages
shout to be es abli-he tf,
an ———
In building a sewer between Ponty.
pridd and Y tradyfodwe, Wales, it
was found necessary 10 cross the Tall
liver seven times, To do this, ine
verted sypbons of cast lion wee
used,
Farmers should be cireful in #kine.
ping dead asnuuals about alsnbiuyg
virus shirough sores or cuts on the hand,
A pli sician in receutly
di=d of b ood po soniug resulting {row
fissectiug a cow,
Conpg-clicut
In dry alr st ninety-two dezress
or
about 775 miles per hour; In water,
40 0 fect per second; in iron, 17,500
feet; in copper, 10,573 feet, aud wood
from 12,000 to 16,000 feel per sec-
ond.
In the hippoptamus the eyes, ears
and nostrils areall set on the sume
plane, which enables the animal to
sink 1ts body entirely below the suriace
keep thorougnly
——
John C. Hulston, of Huls'on Mills,
Mo., recently killel a pelican that
inches across
the wings and was five feet six juches
tall. Its bill was 15 Inches long. Dat
large as the bind was, 1t weighed only
26 pounds,
sco ——
The French have panned works at
flavre for utilizing t b and dow of
the tide to work Tarbize wheels Lo ge 2»
grate power fur the dynamo to supply
Paris with light,
———
ia ab
Blood travels from the heart through
the arteries, ordinarily, at the rate of
about tse ve inches par sscobu; is
speed through the capillaries is at the
rate of thres one-hundredihs of au ineh
per second.
a -
Sir William Tanner, who has made
that one of eighty feet in leagih, in
an hour, would have to exercise a pro-
AM
A system of photo rraphing in colors, |
following that of M. Lippman, pro
coeds on the theory that there are four |
primary colors—green, red, blue and
violet. Four pictures are taken simul. |
taneously by means of four different.
lenses, in front of which Is a screen of
the color originally used. Pictures are
produced which include the colors of
the original.
ml A—
The earth travels on its orbit around
nineteen miles a second, Owing to the |
revolution around its own axis a point |
on the surface of the earth al the equa- |
tor travels at the rate of seventeen miles |
a minute and In our latitudes about |
eleven miles a minute, i
An Italian engineer has originated » |
system by which he proposes to utilize |
the power of trains running down grade. |
He perfected a machine for com- |
pressing air as the train goes down |
grade, which can be used to actuate # |
motor at the will of the engineer, and
be used to assist the locomotives on uy |
grades,
For measuring coal ofl and gelatine
there has been recently invented a
faucet that measures each quart that |
passes through the cylinder of which
the apparatus is made. A lever is
attachad to the eylinder, ad by one
movement of it the oll Is ischarged,
the cylinder refilled and the quantity
registered on a toothed disk.
The honey of the Malta bees has long
peen noted for Its purity and for ibs
delicious flavor, A writer in the Med:
iterransan Naturalist says the flavor
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, |
FUNDAY, DECEMBER 13. 1431.
Christ Risen.
LESSON TEXT,
(John 20 : 1.18, Memory verses, 14.14.)
LESSON PLAN,
Toric or THE JUARTER:
Son of God,
Jesus the
Gorpex Texr vor tHE QUARTERS:
1 hese are written, that ye might be.
liewe that Jesus is the Christ, ihe Son
name, —J ohn
through his
: 31.
Lesson Tovic: The Son Triumph.
r 1. The Empty Tomb, vs
1-10
The Angelic Vision, ve
113
The iiving Lovd, vs
14-18
Govoes Texr: It is Christ that died,
yea rather, that is risen again. —Rom
KX : 34.
And they rehearsed the things that
happened (Lmke 24 : 85)
other disciples ,.. mil... . We
huve seen che Lord (John 20 : 25).
Verse 1.—*On the first day of the
week cometh Mary Maglulene early.”
(1) The first day; (2) The first hours;
(%) The first visitor; (4) The first_re-
wards,
Verse 2 —1hey have taken sway the
Lord ont of the tomb.” (0) The ab
sent Lord; (2) The misjadged facts; (3)
The pungent grief.
Verse 4.—*“And they ran both to-
gether.” (1) An nrgent call; (2) An
earnest response,
Verse 8,— “He saw, and believed.”
~(1) ¥unets beheld ; (2) Couvietion pro-
dueed,
Verse 10.—*Bo the disciples went
away again unto their own home,” (1)
The discouraged disciyls; (2) The dis-
couraging facts; (3; The despondent
departure,
Verse 11.—**As she wept. she stooped
and looked into the tomb,”—(1} Weep-
| ing; (2) Blooping: 8) Looking, —(1)
Tearful; (2) Humble: (3) Eager.
Verse 18. T} ey have taken away
my Lord, snd | know not where they
have laid him. (1) An empty tomb;
(2) A yearning love, (4) A erushing un
eeriainty"
Darmny Hove READINGS:
M.-John
risen
T.— Mait
narrative
W. Mark
rative
To—Liuke
TRiive
F.—1 Cor. 15
Lary
8,1
the resarrection.
S.—rhil 3:1-2]
resurrection.
2 : 1-18
Matthew's
Mark's nar-
Imke's nar-
Paal's sum-
q8 ar et
Cor. 10 15-08,
LESSON ANALYSIS,
I. THE EMPTY TOME.
I. The Furiasl- Place:
The tomb (1).
«l 1 In
59, 60
i
is
ar
wd
Joseph
{ Mat,
They made
ing the stone Matt, 27
He laid Lim in a tomb
hewn 10 stun (Lake 23 : 53)
I. ThaStons
Mary scoth the stone taken awsy
rom the tomb (1).
An angel came and rolled away the
stone (M sft, 2% 51,
Who shall roil
(Mark 16 : 3.
They found the
(Luke 24 : 2
27 : 63.
Removed:
us away the stone?
stone rolled away
Carrving the Nows
She ranneth therefore, and cometh
to Simon Peter (2
Go quickly, and tell his disciples ( Matt,
28 : 7
fo bring his disciples
i #
- 2 Oo
ran
word (Matt
Certain women of our company smazed
us (Lake 21 : 22
iv
Peter
Naw Witness os
went forth, and the other
toward the tomb (3).
Peter arose, and unto the tomb
(Loke 24 : 12
They ran both together (John 20 : 4).
Then entered io the other, and
be saw, and believed (Joha 20 : 8
V Important i
Slooping and looking in, he seeth the
1 x gk v] bs
iinen coll
ran
isCoveries:
ying
Looking in, he sereth the linen cloths
by themselves (Luke 24 : 12
The papkin, that was upon his head,
by itsclf John 20 : 7
beboldets two sngels 10
20 : 12).
f5.
white
She
(John
Vi. ignorance of the Scriptures:
For as yet they knew not the serip-
Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures
{ Matt. 22 : 20).
not the Christ to suffer
these things? (Luke 24 : 26).
been raised... . according to
the scriptures (1 Cor. 15 : 4).
IL. THE ANGELIC VISION.
She beholdeth two angels in white
in a
white robe (Mark 16: 5)
Behold, two men stood by them in daz
zling apparel (Lake 24 : 4).
They bad also scen a vision of angels
{Lake 24 : 23).
They say unto her, Woman, why
weepest thon? (13,
Fear not ve : for 1 know that ye seek
Jesus (Matt. 28: 5).
He is not here : behold, the place
where they laid him! (Mark 15: 8).
Why seek ye the living among the
dead? (Linke 24 : 5).
ifi, THE LIVING LORD
I. Josus Sean.
She turned herself back, and behold-
eth Jesus standing (14).
Jesus came to them and spake unto
them (Mats, 28: IR).
He was manifested in another form
unto two of them (Mark 16: 12).
He himself stood in the midst of them
{Lake 21 : 26).
He appeared to above five hundred
brethren at once (1 Cor. 15: 6.
1 Jesus Heard:
Jesus saith unto ber, Mary (16),
a8 : 9).
He said |. O foolish men, and slow of
heart (Luke 24 : 25).
He maith... Simon, son of John, lovest
thou me (John 21 : 17),
Josus saith... What is that to thee?
foliow thou me (John 21 : 22).
fii. Jerus Honorad:
Mary cometh and telleth, ..1
have soon the Lord (18),
And they. . ran to bring the dised
word Matt. 28 : 8). Pies
Verse 15. — “Woman, why
thou?” (1) The Questioner:
questioned; (3) The question,
Verse 17.—**Tonch not; for I am not
vel ascended.” Mary's effort; (2)
The Lord's prohibition 3) The grand
explanation.
Verse 18 seen the Lord.”
The Lord seen (1) By 1atural vision:
(2) By mental vision; 3) By spiritnal
vision
weepest
(2 The
ied 5%
i Lave
i —
LESSON BIBLE READING
MARY MAGDALENR.
One whom Jesus
B32;
| A witness of the erncifixion (Mark 15 :
40 : John
A wit ess of tre burial (Matt 27: 61 ;
Mark 15:47.
| Resdy to anoint the body (Mark 18 :
1; Luge 24: 13.
| Early at the tomb (Vatt. 28:1 ; John
20 : 1).
{Baw t e vision of angels (Matt. 23 : 5:
Mark 16 : 5).
{ Carried the news to
20 : 2).
| Baw the risen Lord (John 20 : 14-17).
| Declared his resurrection (John 20
:
23
had healed (Luke
1G “or
cris}
others (John
|
. -—
| LESSON SURROUNDINGS.
IxTERvEXING EVENTS. —A number of
| rem«rkable evens atteusded the death
of Jesus; namely, the rending of the
vuil of the temple, the quaking of the
| earth, tue rending of the rocks, and
{ the opening of the tombe. All three
{ synoptists iell of the efleet upon the
; centurion, and also refer to the Galile-
an women who witnessed the end. Luke
mentions the grief of the multitudes.
| John alone tells of the request made to
{ Pilate by the Jews, that the bodies be
| taken down from tue cross, of the
| breaking of the legs of the two robbers,
i and of the piereing of the side of Jesus.
| The request of Joseph of Arimathea
for the body, and the burial, are nar-
rated by all four evangehsis; but John
mentions ius, and gives some
i additional details about the sepulcher
The watching of the two Marys followed
the bs nd siso the placing of a
| Roms rd at t etomb. During the
i Jewish Sabbath the women rested, but
| prepared spices for a more complete
| en ming of the boly. On the early
{| morning of Sunday the women come tc
| the sepuicher, probably in two different
j companies. In any cise, Mary Mag-
{ dalene was one of the earhest The
| earthquake and the appearance of the
angel to the guards preceded her oom-
ing.
Praoce. ~The garden in which the
tomb was sitasted; the home of Peter
and Jobn in Jerusalem; the tomb it
self, and some spot ontside, but near
the entrance fo it.
Trius. Karly on Sunday morning, the
17th of Nisan, A. UU. C. 783; that is,
April 8, A.D, 30,
Prnsows, — Mary Magdelene (not to
be confounded with Mary the sister of
Lazarus, or with the woman who was a
sinner); Simon Peter John: two angels;
the risen Lord himself
Incinesys, May, coming to the
tomb, sees the stone taken away. She
rans to tell Simon Peter and John, and
they run to the tomb and find it empty;
both go home. Mary stands without,
weeping; then sees, first, two angels,
and then Jesns, whom she recognizes
by his voice. He forbids her to touch
him; sends her with a message to the
disciples, announcing his ascension.
Mary returns, and tells the disciples.
Paravimr Passaaes (but with many
different details). Matthew 28 : 1-10:
Mark 16 : 1.31; Lake 24 : 1-12.
§
COURAGE.
Though the day be aark and dreary
Freres the storm snd rough the way |
The' thy feet be worn and weary,
And thy heart no longer gay;
Thouoh the flowers, pale and dying
Fall beneath the tempost's might,
And the wild slouds, madly flying,
Vell the sky and shroud Hight
Faint not thoweh rode wind aeail ve,
Doubt not in the Binding rain;
Truth and courage still avail ye
For the sun will shine again
Hope In this dark world of ours
1s the light tant makes its day,
Pointing to the budding flowers,
Like an angel on our way,
The! the storms of dondt assaiiing,
And the clouds of Tn and fears,
Bweep Tite's shy, fie {
Like the rain, with blinding
SHI, mm darkest hours of sorrow
Love shall songn g s
ith a ni Lhee to to-morrow,
When The an shall shine again.
The fronvn of a friend Is batter than
the smile of a fool.
Toar which 1» good to be
not be done too . one Sen
looted