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early church to th e Acts of th e Holy Spirit. (8 ) There will always be th e conver sion of souls when th e Spirit con- | trols th e church. (9) To bring about a g reat revival the church needs th e bended knee; the believing soul; the broken h ea rt; th e bestowal of th e Spirit. (10) L et us pray for th e outpouring of th e Holy Spirit upon every be liever. This is ano ther lesson comprised of a conglomeration of disconnected Scrip tu re verses having no relation to one another. We find it impossible to tre a t th is lesson in the COMMENTS FROM regu lar way. A MANY SOURCES ' full trea tm e n t of K eith L. B rooks the passage in Deuteronomy 6 will be found under th e May 1st lesson where th e same portion has already been used. R egarding 2 Tim. 3:14, 15, Dr. Tor- rey says, “ These verses do not describe the early life of Saul a t all b u t th e life of Timothy. W hether P aul had been brought up in exactly th e same way Timothy had is doubtful. T hat he had been instructed according to th e strict m anner of the law we know (Acts 22: 3 ), bu t th a t th is instruction was, as in Timothy’s case, . from his m other and grandm other (2 Tim. 1 :5 ) we. do not know: N either do we know th a t Saul had been as carefully train ed “ from a babe.”—Torrey. 1sis Subject I llu s tr a tio n .^ “‘The New Zea landers were alike objects of fear and hate, when th e devoted Marsden pleaded th e ir cause w ith th e Church Missionary Society, and laid LESSON ILLUSTRATIONS W. H. P ike th e basis of one of th e most successful missions of the b ru tal m urders revenged th e treachery and violence of white men who touched th e ir shores. When the mission was first projected, no clergyman could be found ready for an en terprise so heroic; were perpetually modern era. They a t war,- and w ith
A t least twenty-five tim es is mention made of th e “preaching of th e Word,” th e “ searching of th e S criptures,” the “ effect of th e W ord,” th e “ grow th of th e W ord,”- th e “ prevailing of the Word,” etc. The Holy Spirit filled these early believers; He anointed th em ; He filled them ; He worked in them and through them. The whole book reveals the g reat tru th th a t when th e Church subm its to th e will and Word of God, and depends upon th e Holy Spirit for wisdom and guidance and direction; is w illing to endure testing, trials, h ard ships and suffering; th is same Holy Spirit will work out His wonderful plans and purposes in and th rough it. If th e Church could forget a thousand things it is now try ing to promote, and devote itself to th e one g reat essential as in th e days of th e early church, th ere could come to th is land of ours, and to a needy world, a revival of the pure, un adu lterated religion of Jesu s Christ, accompanied by such manifestations of the power of th e Spirit in th e breaking of the h earts o f men and women, as would enable H im to do, in a year’s time, w hat has no t been done in fifty years. Let every Sunday School teacher bring th is message close to th e h ea rt of every Sunday School scholar a t this very time. PRACTICAL POINTS (1) Begin a t Jerusalem , b u t journey on to th e u tterm o st parts. (2) P eter and P au l are th e chief hu man agents in th e Book of Acts. (3) Our Lord’s promise of th e pres ence and power of th e Sp irit was fulfilled a t Pentecost. (4) The giving of th e Gospel to every creatu re is th e command and com mission to every believer. (5 ) The early church prospered through persecution. (6 ) When th e Lord sends fo rth labor ers, He looks a fte r th e ir living. (7) We credit th e achievements of th e
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