Who took his b r o t h er by t he throat. Xix forbids divorce of wife; Tells how to gain eternal life; How hardly rich men e n t er heaven; And their reward whose all is given; Th en xx of t he equal pay The l a b o r e rs got for t he unequal day; How Christ mu st be delivered up; And Zebedeans drink His cup; How whosoever chief would be Must gain his crown t h r o u gh ministry. And of the blind men's piteous cry Who heard t h at Jesus passed by. In xxi behold t he King; " Ho s a n n a" hear t he children sing; See how He cleansed His house of prayer And healed the poor who sought Him there; And smote t he fig; nor deigned He To say by wh at authority; But told of sons who, bade to go, The one said "Yes," t he other "No "; Of renters, too, who killed a son; And of a chosen corner stone. In x x i i 's a feast and one Who had no wedding g a rme nt on. Of wh at does iii and xx t r e a t? Of Scribes t h at sit in Moses' seat; Of woe on woe to fall on them, And desolate Jerusalem. On Olivet in xxiv, Christ sketched the course of things in store; Arid chapter v and xx notes The virgins, talents, sheep and goats. In xxvi and xxvii, The story of t he cross is given; The suppers; and Gethsemane; The arrest; t he trial; and the Tree. . And while t he Roman watch did say The twelve had stolen Him away, They gathered all in Galilee, And saw the risen Lord. Said He, "All power is given unto me; Go f o r th arid teach; baptize t he lost, Th r o u gh F a t h e r, Son, and Holy Ghost. "An d ," said their ever-living Friend, "Lo, I am with you till t he e n d ." Th us Matthew's Gospel proof affords That Christ is King and Lord of lords. CREATION Lesson I. J a n u a ry 5. Genesis 1 - 2 : 3. r. BEGINNING. 1. " In t he beginning." (1) Astound- ing thought, " t he b e g i n n i n g !" There was when t he world was not, t he heavens and all t he host of them. Alone! In His habitation of eternity. But He, in xxviii, was seen Alive! by Mary Magdalene;
"in t he beginning was God." Jno. 1:1. Geology,' astronomy, physics, biology (life), all prove t he s t a t eme nt of this first u t t e r a n ce of inspired revelation beyond a reasonable doubt. 2. Men we re i g n o r a n t, until recently, of these sciences, and could have writ- ten t he facts of this account, so h a r- monious with them, only by revelation. The record stood for millenniums, as to detail, only on its own testimony. Modern science is t he attestation of t he word, " The Lo rd spake u n to Moses." Men unsurpassed as scientists declare t h at Moses' order of creation is t he sci- entific order, t h o u gh not in scientific terms. Th e re was (1) created ma t t e r; (2) a formless, chaotic condition; (3) cosmic light; (4) a separation of vapors by condensation, and elation, " w a t e r s" and atmosphere; (5) eme r- gence of land; (6) vegetation; (7) sun and moon appear (late, " t he f o u r th d a y " ); (8) l i f e ,—( a) in the sea, (b) flying things, (c) land animals, (d) last of all, man. Such is the> sketch of Moses, parallel with the scheme of Science. Moreover, " He m a d e t he s t a rs also," and science teaches t h at t he same ma t t er composes and, therefore, t he same laws prevail in t he most distant stars as in our own system; t h at our sun is a star, and all together one Uni- verse. II. THEOLOGY. 1. Our chapter was written not to tell how the world was made, but Who ma de it; not how it goes b ut -whence it came; not to teach science b ut the- ology, in order t h at we mi g ht worship the Creator not t he creature (Ro. 1 : 1 9 - 2 5 ). Gen. 1-3 is a treatise against idolatry; both pagan and civilized "Christian." 2. Every beginning has necessarily a beginner. The first Beginner could have had no beginning. The F i r st Cause mu st be uncaused. Reason com- pels us to believe in t he E t e r n a l, how- ever impossible for her to explain Him as such. . 8.. T he account teaches: (1) God's existence in the Beginning, "in t he be- ginning God"; (2) His independence, His apartness f r om nature, "God cre- a t e d "; (3) His triunity (seen clearly only in later l i g h t ), for t he word "Go d" is plural and the word " c r e a t e d" sin- gular, as if one should say, "Gods was the Creator." God is plural, yet sin- g u l a r; we find here at work t he God- head, the Spirit, and t he Wo r d. (4) The account teaches, for this follows,
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