T HE K I N G ’S B U S I N E S S soling these words! As the universal ruler, He gives the command, and as such He promises to go with every dis ciple. They do not go upon their own charges, hut upon His. They do not go alone, hut with Him. This promise accounts for all of those splendid deeds of heroism with which the pages of the church’s history is resplendent. This accounts for the breaking down of the Jericho walls of unbelief and superstition. This encourages to action. .This in spires devotion. “Lo, I am with you.” We never go alone in the least service which we are permitted to perform for Him. He is with us. There will be fiery trials. ■There will be dark days. Sacrifice of self and worldly interest will be necessary; bodily discomfort and loss of life may result; but in every experience, in every emergency, He will be there. As God promised Moses and fulfilled to the letter His precious Word of His personal presence and help, so with the disciple whose ears hear the word “Go”, and whose feet take up the er rand of gospel-giving, there is this most precious assurance, “I am. with you.” If He is with us, what more dp we need? He is all power and Be is all love. “Let us go forth.” PRACTICAL POINTS (1) Fear is changed into cheer at the empty tomb. (2) God uses a,ngels as His agents in removing difficulties. (3) The angel turned the stone into a seat, and sat upon it. (4) The empty tomb voices victory over death. (5) Go and tell the Gospel .story, “Death is swallowed up in vic tory!” (6) The risen Christ is regal in au- *thority. (7) He paid sin’s penalty on the Cross; He robbed death of victory in His resurrection; He represents His own at God’s right hand.
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(8) He will never be satisfied until we . are seated with Him. Subject Illustration.—A soldier tells a story of going on a forced march where the soidiers were compelled to sleep on the bare ground without a tent above them. LESSON During the night ILLUSTRATION it had snowed six W. H. Pike. inches. When he arose early and shook off the snow from his blanket he looked out over the landscape and saw multitudes of little mounds. It looked like one vast cemetery in every direc tion. It was as silent as death until the bugler blew his horn, then every white mound beca"me alive with action. Is not this a beautiful picture of the coming time when the Resurrected Christ will come and the trumpet will sound and the dead in Christ arise? Bible Illustration.—The Feast of First Fruits, Lev. 23:10-14, illustrates the Resurrection of Jesus. The grain had died in the earth, but now it had grown and borne grain and a first sheaf of this grain was being waved - before God. Aaron’s dead rod burst forth into life. Ex. 7:9-20; Heb. 9:4. Not Living Christ.^—In the garden of a house where I once lived, was a walnut tree, much the largest and finest of its kind I have ever seen. All through the summer it was a mass of beautiful .foliage; and when the early autumn came the walnuts fell and strewed the ground beneath. But oh! they were so very small. One day I asked a gardener who understood about trees to explain to me why such a magnificent giant- tree should produce such dwarf fruit. He said, “It is because this is a self- sown tree; it has never been grafted or received proper cultivation.” The tree is like many people, who grow up very attractive in outward appearance— very pleasant and agreeable, they are greatly admired by all who see.them,
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