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June 9, igog. Sunday REVIEW I Sunday, Jul GOLDEN TEXT.?"With great | of the resurrection of the SHORTER C Q. 60. How Is the Sabbath A TK ~ OnLL?ii- l- a - * xv. 1UC oauuo.111 is lO Uti & that day, even from such word! as are lawful on other days; a the public and private cxercisi , much as is to be taken up i mercy. 1. Peter and Cornelius. A< every nation he that feareth hii accepted with aim."?Acts 10: 2. Peter Delivered From Pri ?"The angel of the Lord enci fear h'm, and delivereth them.3. Thj Conversion of Saul. "He fell to the earth, and heard Saul, why persocutest thou me. 4. The Gospel in Antioch. "The disciples were called Chi 11: 26. 5. Paul's First Missionary , Golden Text.?"Go >e into all tl to every creature."?Mark 16: 6. Paul's First Missionary Acts 13: 13-16, 33-49. Golden was published throughout all th 7. Iconium and Lystra, < the nations are idols: but th Ps. 96: 5. 8. The Council at Jerusalei Text.?"We believe that throug we shall be saved, even as the 9. Believing arid Doing. J "Faith without works is dead.-' 10. The Power of the To Text.?"Whoso keepeth his mo poul from troubles."?Prov. 21: 11. Heroes of Faith. Heb. ' is the substance of things hot not seen.'-?Heb. 11: I. LESSON C The lessons of this quart opening of the work of Forel chapters of the Acts (last quai ing of the work of evangelizin commission which Christ gave the world." It has told us ho\ Jerusalem, and how they were Now the second quarter op< of Tarsus whom God had sele Gentiles. Necessarily there would be or presenting the Gospel to id into the Church of Christ with of the Jewish ritual. In orde give the very strongest intimat 1. He makes the converslc special appearance of the rise: stances of Saul's conversion v, to his whole mission. Over an the presence of one tribunal effect. *? ^ , THE PRESBYTERS School -ESSON ne 20, 1909. power gave the apostles witness Lord Jesus."?Acts 4: 33. JATECHISM. to be sanctified? lapctifled by a holy resting all y employments and recreations nd spending the whole time in js of God s worship, except so n the works of necessity and :ts 10: 1-20. Golden Text.?"In n, and worketh righteousness is 35. son. Acts 12: 1-11. Gojd.en Text, impetli round about them that ?Ps. 34: 7. Acts 9: 1-19. Golden Text.? I a voice saying unto him, Saul, "?Acts 9: 4. Acts 11: 19-30. Golden Text.? istians first in Antioch."?Acts lourney.?Cyprus. Acts 13: 1-12. lie world, and preach the gospel 15. ' Journey?Antioch in Pisidia. Text.?"The word of the L?ortl e region."?Xets 13: 40. Qolden Text.?"All the gods of e Lord made the heavens."? n. Acts 15: 1-5, 22-29. Golden [h^ the grace of the Lord Jesus y."?Acts 15: 11. ames 2: 14-26. Golden Text.? ?James 2: 20. ngue. James 3: 1-12. Golden uth and his tongue keepeth his 23. 11: 17-29. Golden Text.?"Faith IpH f r?r 1 Ho ovi/lonnn of pntnnro I ?MV V? 1UVUVV UJL (<uill{}0 OMMENTS. er have a grouping. It is the gn missions. The first seven rter s lessons) tell of the openg Judea. It has presented the to the disciples, "Go ye into all v they discharged that duty in treated in consequence, ens with the conversion of Saul icted to be the apostle to the ! much antagonism to the idea lolater3 and to receiving them out circumcision or acceptance r to meet this, God pauses to .ions of his will in the matter. >n of Saul conspicuous by the a -Christ to him.. The circumrere such as to give authority d over does Paul plead this In or another, and always with * < of the south. 2. Almost simultaneou o the fore'gn work, God ca cislon, up to the housetop sheet" and to hear the mesi call not thou common." C thrice repeated record, so And the command to welc Paul, but to Peter, the Je 3. In the last verses nrlclno frniio or? ?-?P ^ "wnafeC ui llie VJ-S Antlcch in Syria. It took t them great pleasure. Thej that "all nations shall flo 4. In the early veises step, which in like manner Gcd. "The Holy Ghost" subject. And the subject Saul for the work" of cai parts of the earth. As tt Holy Ghost, there could 5. God gives us next a must expect in preaching tl they met with the wiles ol reached Perga, on the soi with exposures- so great th iiuu ne au. naonui tnem. V Saul were starting up a uplands of Asia Minor, so could not bo arranged on alternately on the east bai stream every little while swelling the stream into a be utterly cut off, being ui possibly unable to climb s be drowned. We are n failed him. And the prospect bef centuries before, when A1 through these uplands of boldness pf the mountain stole the very camp kettlet in the presence of an ar three lonely evangelists? ' th*?m fnr Pfliil was etnnoH 6. Next cornea the retu from Perga to Antioch in I east to Iconium and L?ysti their steps to PeVga and b to Jerusalem. Everywhere the Gospel gave the great* the Church. 7. Tha narrative tells to leave behind them a w and it shows that the pi followed in the Presbyterl tinctive mark of Presbyte 14: 23, we read, "When t every church." Notice thi of these churches not b> 8. Lastly our course ol the propriety of having ai settle disputed po'nts, and lower courts to respect th For the question whether keep the Mo-aic law was and when it rendered a d to the churches "for to b. sis of our chu-ch govern *5 sly with the appointment of Paul 1!b Peter, the apostle of the circumto receive the vision of the "great sage, ' What God hath cleans?d, that >f this, l!ke the former, we have a as to make it prominent and sure, ome the Gentiles was given not to w. of Acts 11, God records the surpel among the idolatrous Greeks at he Church by surprise; it also gave r saw in it the Dromise of tsntnH > w unto" the Church of God. i of Chapter 13, we have another was marked by the obvious seal of gave a special command on the was, "Separate me Barnbas and rying the Gospel to the uttermost le orders came distinctly from the he no questioning of them, picture of the oppositions which we lie Gospel. In the island of Cyprus, ! Elymas, the sorcerer. When they ith coast of Asia Minor, they met at the courage of John Mark failed V'e are not surprised. Barnabas and . narrow defile, from Perga to the narrow and steep that a footpath either side of the stream, but ran lk and the west bank, crossing the on a log. If a rain should come, torrent, the luckless traveler would sable to gs back or forward, and one very steep mountain side and ot surprised that John's courage ere them was of violence. Some exander the Great had marched Galatia the thievishness and the eers had been so great, that, thev 5 of the anny.If they would act thus my, how would they treat two or The sequel tells how they did treat and left on the ground for dead, rn to Jerusalem. After going north Msidia (here study your maps), and a and Derbe the apostles retraced ack to Anticch in Syria, and thence i the report of their fruitfulness in est joy. It meant the extension of us how careful were these apostles ell organized church in each town, uu was just teat which has been Ian Church, and which is the disrian Church government. In Acts hey had ordained them elders in it they ai ranged for a government > the congregation, but by elders, f lessons th's quarter settles for us i appellate court in the Church to the obligations which rest on the e decisions of this appellate court. the Gentile3 must be required to 3 referred to this appellate court, ecision, it sent down that decision keep." ' And this example is the ment tcday.