T H E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S
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of the spotlighted'area. As the Reader stops speaking, the lad steps into the light.) TABLEAU. The lad. (Lad steps to one side.) Reader, ffe raised Jairus’ daughter from the dead. (Maiden appears.) TABLEAU. The little maiden. (Steps to one side.) ■ Reader. He blessed the little children. (Little children take their place in front of the lad and maiden and dis ciples.) Reader. Peter and Andrew, James and John all heard the Lord Jesus Him self tell of His death and resurrection, but they did not understand. (Disciples step’ into light.) Peter. “Then he took unto him the twelve, and. said unto them, Behold, we go up. to Jerusalem, and all things that, are written by the prophets 'concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished. For he shall be delivered unto the Gen-- tiles, and shall be mocked, and spite fully. entreated, and spitted, on: And they shall scourge him, and put him to death; and the third day he shall rise again” (Lk. 18:31-33). Andrew. “And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days, rise again” (Mk. 8:31). James. “But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous gen eration seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” (Matt. 12:39, 40). John. "Jesus said . . . I am the resur rection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though-he were dead, yet shall he live” (John 11:25). (All leave platform together.) v Reader. But wicked men hated Him, and planned His death. On the last night He would have with His disciples, they ate and .talked together in the close fel lowship of the dipper"room. STEREOPTICON PICTURE. The Last Supper. Reader. From there they went to Gethsemane, where Christ prayed with such agony that His sweat “was as it were great drops of blood falling dove to the ground.” • PICTURE. Christ in Gethsemane. Reader. Judas, on e’ of His disciples, betrayed-Him, and the mob .took Him. All night long, the Son of God was beaten and abused, and .at last He was unjustly sentenced to die. But Christ came to die for sinners. He was bom to die. He laid down His life willingly— no man could take it away from Him. On that awful day, three crosses stood on Calvary’s hill, and on the middle cross hung Christ the Lord.
PICTURE. Calvary or the Crucifixion. .SONG : “The Old Rug-.ed Cross.” Reader. He laid down His earthly life. Your sins and my sins and the sin of all the world were laid upon Him there at Calvary, and the Father turned His face away from His beloved Son because-He had become sin for us, that we might have life through Him. That night friends took the body of the Lord, and loving hands buried it in Joseph’s new tomb. It was night in the hearts of the disciples. It was the dark est night the world had ever seen, for fallen man had crucified the Lord of light. It was hopeless'night. But -very early in the morning on the first day of the week, the women came to the sepulcher bringing the spices they •had prepared for embalming the body of the Lord.. TABLEAU: The women. (Lights on.) Reader. But the stone had been rolled away, the grave was empty, and angels brought thje message that the Lord is risen! ANTHEM. “Unfold, Ye Portals!” •(Gounod). Reader. “But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrec-
tion of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made' alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming” (1 Cor. 15:20-23). SONG. “Christ the Lord Is Risen To day.”, Reader, For forty days Christ ap peared to His disciples and other be lievers, and then one day He walked’out with His disciples to the Mount of Olives. And as He talked with them, He was parted from them and ascended into heaven out of their sight in a cloud. Two men in white stood beside them,' and promised that Christ—this same Jesus—would return even as they had seen Him go. SONG. “He Is Coming Again.” Reader. Since that day, three men have seen Christ while yet in the flesh. They are Stephen, the first martyr; Paul the apostle, and John the beloved disciple. (While Reader speaks, the three men take their places oh the platform.) Stephen. “But he, being full of the Holy Ghostj .looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God” (Acts 7:55, 56). Paul. “Am I not an apostle ? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord?” (1 Cor. 9:1). John. “I . . . heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: . . . And . . . I saw . . . in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt "about the paps with a golden girdle. His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword: and his coun tenance was. as the sun shineth in his strenjgth. And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, be hold, I-am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death” (Rev. 1:10-18). Reader. “But this man, because he continueth. ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them” (Heb. 7:24, 25). SONG. “Crown Him with Many Crowns.” (All stand.) BENEDICTION.
Prayer in Springtime By HELEN FRAZEE-BOWER
Now, when the sap is rising and the tree, • ,By drowsy dusk, or early morning * hour, Is shaken with a wonder yet to he— The swift presentiment of fruit and flower, - From unproductive ways that I have trod, Lord, let me turn and feel, through ' branch and root, The life that has been hid with Christ in God Mount up to crown this barren soul with fruit. Now, when the frozen streams, with one accord, Burst icy sheathes and smile to greet •the sun, Break up, break up, this frozen heart, O Lord: Breathe on it with the memory of One Death could not bind. Oh, let it he a place To hold the shining glory of HIS face.
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