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F a th e r is very wonderful, and our memory verse is asking Jesus to teach us how to pray, for prayer means ta lk ing to Jesus our Heavenly F ather. Closing P ra y e r:— Dear Heayenly F a th e r teach us to always remember to th a n k Thee for our food and all th a t we have.
and m other has been led_ to Christ by a child insisting on grace a t table.) A fter Jesus had given thanks, He gave it to th e disciples and they passed it , to all the people, and they had all they wanted to eat, and th e re were 12 baskets full le ft over. This beautiful sto ry about talk ing to our Heavenly
JUNE 22, 1019 LO V E Golden Text: “And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these th ree; b u t th e g reatest of these is ch arity .” 1 Cor. 13:13. LESSON TEXT 1 Corinthians 13.
(1) Though I speak w ith the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, X am become a s sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. (2) And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so th a t I could remove moun tains, and have not charity I am noth ing. (3) And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though X give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it proflteth me nothing. (4) Charity suffiereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. (5) Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, think- eth no evil; (6) Rejoiceth not in ini quity, bu t rejoiceth in the tru th ; (7) B eareth all things, believeth all things, To get th e force of th e Apostle’s teaching regard ing “Love” it is neces sary to read th a t which precedes it, the teaching regard ing “G ifts,” in th e t w e l f t h chapter. LESSON The most notable, EXPOSITION apparently, was the Jo h n H. H u n ter “ tongues.” There was quarrelling and dissension over it, and disturbances in th e assembly. The Apostle ta u g h t th a t th e “ g ifts” were wholly a t th e bestowal of the Holy Spirt' who divided “ to each one severally as He w ill,” and th a t every g ift th u s given was for practical usefulness and n o t for show or boast ing. Then afte r all he has said about
hopeth all things, endureth all things. (8) C harity never faileth: bu t w hether there be prophecies, they shall fail; w hether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. (9) Bor we know in part, and we prophesy in part. (10) B ut when th a t which is perfect is come, then th a t which is in p a rt shall be done away. (11) When I was a child, l spake as a child, 1 understood as a child, 1 thought a s a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. (12) F or now we see through a glass, darkly; bu t then face to face: now I know in p art; bu t then shall I know even as also I am known. (13) And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. “ g ifts,” and “ the best gifts,” he goes on to teach about something th a t is im m easurably b etter th a n even the “ best g ifts.” This b etter th ing is th e subject of our lesson-. I. The Im portance of Love. To show th e importance of love, the apostle con trasts it w ith five other phases of Christian living, or manifes tation s of sp iritu al power, which are more app aren t and th erefo re a ttra c t more" attention. 1. Tongues. The Corinthian Chris tian s were much carried away by the exercise of "this gift. The ability to communicate though ts in strange for eign languages appealed to th e ir imma-
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