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ters, horizontal lines for the road, and so on. The first will show the two on th e ir way to Emi-
v. 27. Beginning a t Moses and all th e prophets. Here our Lord both teaches us th e reverence due to Old Testam ent Scripture and th e g reat bur den of it—Himself.— J-. F. & B. Mark th e wisdom Christ displayed in dealing w ith men. He brought them to the w ritten Word and He left them there. — Gray. He began, as we can hardly doubt, w ith th e first promise, th e seed of th e woman, who should bruise the serpent’s head.— Sel. v. 29. Abide' w ith ns. It is th is beautiful verse which has furnished the idea of Lyte’s dying hymn, “Abide w ith me, fast falls th e e v e n tid e .g .^ ® ^ ® p v. 30. S at a t m eat w ith him . The humble table where Christ is invited to sit becomes a sacred place of revelation. He hallows common life and tu rn s the meals over which He presides into holy things.iirH enry. Something in His manner of doing th is was His own ap pointed means for th e ir recognition of Him.—Alford. No instance given illus tra te s more strikingly th e adaptation of th e risen Savior’s self-disclosures to the requirem ents of His disciples. Their minds were first enlightened and their h earts warmed un til th ere was no longer a danger of affecting th e ir senses only, bu t a security of intelligent impressions left by th e discourse they had heard.— Geikie. v. 31. He vanished. A marvelous change had passed over Him. He was th e same and y et different. He was known only when He revealed Himself. He conformed to th e laws of our present life and yet He was not subject to them. — Westcott. v. 32. Did n o t our h ea rts b um ? F rom th is episode I learn th a t Christ is willing to be th e Companion of my life-journey. Blessed the man whose h ea rt burns w ithin him for th e con sta n t presence and inspiration of th e Savior.— Cuyler. A W alk W ith Jesus. Luke 24:13-31. (E aster Lesson.) Memory Verse.—- “ I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore.” Rev. 1:18. Approach.-—Draw on blackboard or large sheet of paper six squares, which you will fill in as the story proceeds, simple, up righ t strokes for the charac
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maus, slanting two yellow strokes in the direction in which they are going. In th e second add a red m ark to rep resent Jesus, in the th ird make a square for th e house, w ithin which is an ob long for th e table and horizontal m arks for th e th ree reclining a.t th e meal. In th e fourth, th e same, bu t Jesus has vanished. In the fifth, the two going back to Jerusalem , slanting in opposite direction from first drawing. In the sixth a square, for th e upper room, strokes for th e eleven disciples (blue for John, green for P eter) and for the two from Emmaus. Peloubet’s Notes. Lesson Story.—Now th is morning we have a wonderful story, and if you will be real quiet you will remember every p a rt of it, and you will have such a good time, you will ju st w ant to go home and tell the folks who did not come to Sunday School all about it. On the first day of th e week, which is our Sunday, two of th e friends of Jesus were walking along th e road to a village called Em maus, and they were sad, as they talked about th e death of Jesus., Now we will make two yellow m arks for these two men, and draw the road on which they were walking. As th ey were walking along, Jesus came near and went w ith them , but they did not know him. Now we will m ake a red m ark for Jesus. He asked them what made them so sad. One of th e men asked Jesus if he was a strang er and had not h eard of the things which had happened in th e la st three days? He said, “W hat th ing s?” They answered him, “ Concerning Jesus of Na zareth, who was a prophet, and did g reat miracles before all the people; how the chief priests and rulers had taken him and crucified him ; and besides all this, today is the th ird day since he was put to death, and it is reported th a t he is
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