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"IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY I
chool Lesson
By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST.
Dean ot the Moody Bible Institute
ot Chicago.
© Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for April 17
THE VICTORIOUS SERVANT
(Easter)
LESSON TEXT—Acts 2:22-36.
GOLDEN TEXT—This Jesus hath God
raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. —
Acts 2:32.
PRIMARY TOPlC—Peter’s First Sermon.
JUNIOR TOPlC—Peter's Greatest Sermon.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—
Winning with the Victorious Christ.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC—
The Risen Christ Our Hope of Victory.
"Up from the grave He arose
With a mighty triumph o’er His foes:
He arose a Victor from the dark domain,
And He lives forever with His saints to
reign;
He arose! He arose!
Hallelujah! Christ arose!”
Let the glad chorus swell the good
tidings that the One who humbled
Him'self to become the servant of
all is the “Victorious Servant” —yes,
the Victorious Lord!
Easter is the great holiday—a real
holy day of the Christian church.
We rejoice in the incarnation, for
only as the Son of God identified
Himself with the human race could
He bear our sins on Calvary’s tree.
We keep the cross before us, for
only as He died did He make atone
ment for our sin, but above all we
observe the ressurection, for had
He not risen for our justification we
would indeed have been without any
hope. Ours is a resurrection faith;
let us live it in resurrection power.
Life is so serious in its respon
sibilities and burdens, so often dis
appointing in its trials and sorrows,
that we need to sound the note of
victory. But it must be real victory
and it must be assured at the cru
cial point where all the hopes of
man find defeat—at death. Only the
Christian has the assurance of vic
tory there, but, thank God, he does
really have it in our Lord Jesus
Christ.
Turning aside from our studies in
the Gospel of Mark for today we
consider together the sermon of
Peter on the day of Pentecost. He
declares Jesus to be:
I. Approved by Mighty Works
(v. 22).
Theories may have validity only
to the man who accepts the author
ity of the one who proclaims them,
but facts are stubborn things, the
reality of which no man can deny.
There are those who speak about
the Lord Jesus as though we asked
them to accept Him on the basis of
our claims for Him as the Son of
God. They forget the facts of his
tory—from the hundreds of years
before His incarnation when the
prophets spoke of His coming, down
through the account of His earthly
life, death, and resurrection to
which we may well add the ines
capable argument of Christianity as
it stands in the world today—all
speak of Him as the Son of God.
11. Delivered Up to Die (v. 23).
The cross was not an accident.
Jesus did not die as a martyr to a
noble but hopeless cause. He came
into the world “to give his life a
ransom for many” (Matt. 20:28).
He said, “I lay down my life .
No man taketh it from me, but I
lay it down of myself. I have power
to lay it down, and I have power to
take it again” (John 10:17, 18).
But the fact that the cross was in
the eternal plan of God in no way
justifies those who slew Him.
Though they were fulfilling the
divine purpose, they were acting as
free moral agents fully responsible
for their wicked deeds.
111. Raised Up by God (vv. 24-32).
“It was not possible that he should
be holden” of death (v. 24) —what
a beautifully final and positive state
ment. It was an impossibility that
Christ should remain in the grave,
and it is the absolute assurance of
Scripture that we who “be dead with
him shall also live with him” (II
Tim. 2:11). To the believer, the one
who is in Christ, the resurrection of
the Saviour is the guarantee that
we shall be raised. Christ is the
first-fruits of them that sleep in the
grave. (I Cor. 15:20.)
Peter in his sermon turns to the
Scriptures to prove the resurrec
tion referring to the prophet Joel
as well as to the Psalms of David.
It would be well for us to do like
wise on this Easter Sunday of 1938,
for we have infinitely richer re
sources, for in our hands is the New
Testament with the story of the res
urrection and all the references of
the epistles to this glorious truth.
IV. Ascended and Exalted (v. 33).
"Look, ye saints! The sight is glorious:
See the Man ot Sorrows now;
From the fight returned victorious,
Every knee to Him shall bow:
Crown Him! Crown Him!
Crowns become the Victor’s brow.”
“He humbled himself . . . Where
fore God hath highly exalted him”
(Phil. 2:8, 9). Read Philippians 2:
5-11 as a fitting close to this glorious
lesson.
Gaining Knowledge
“More knowledge of God’s Word
will be gained by a single effort
to obey one of His commandments
than by a year of reading with no
effort to keep the Word of God.”
Atonement
No rush to the battle will atone
for sin in the tent.—G. Campbell
Morgan.
Borrowing Troubles
Do we not know that more than
half our trouble is borrowed?
POETRY TODAY
Edited by
HENRY HARRISON.
Original, unpublished poems by lo
cal poets may be submitteed to Mr.
Harrison in care of this newspaper,
accompanied by a self-addressed,
stamped envelope. On Aug. 1 Mr.
Harrison will award a prize of SSO
to the author of what he considers
has been the best hitherto unpublish
ed poem in this column.
AUREOLE.
I once praised loneliness, and said:
In this way only shall I grow,
By walikng fields no others tread,
By finding lakes no others know.
Deep in my heart I prayed the years
Should grant my spirit be renewed
As Francis’ was, in faith and tears.
And self-immuring solitude.
I did not know that those who walk
From year to year, dear love, alone,
Often grow bold-eyed like the hawk,
Or undiscerning like the stone.
Now to my pleace I understand
That none may reach the heaven’s
height
Unless he go there hand in hand
With one who likewise covets light.
Helene Magaret.
SIC TRANSIT.
The cities of the plain are dust,
Assyria is foxes’ plunder;
Sidon and Tyre to silence thrust,
Nineveh fallen with fire and thunder.
Across the margin of the world
The drift of Babyllon is swirled.
And centuries of rot and rust
Have gnawed Capernaum asunder.
Stone crumbles, but more staunchly
fares
A dust incredibly translated:
Judas still haggles at his wares,
Cain is forever new-created.
Delilah, in a Paris frock,
Goes out to tea at 5 o’clock.
Salome climbs the subway stairs,
Potiphar takes the elevated.
—Sara Henderson Hay.
YOUNG DAUGHTER.
You lie here with me in the starlit
hour
Softly like an upcurled flower.
My hope made manifest,
The lovely quest
Os woman everywhere. I lie awake
And dream for your young and yet
unblossomed sake.
May you be all I never could become.
May you be tender as the hum
Os your own tiny voice.
May you rejoice.
You lie here with me —infinitely
young.
A poem yet unwritten and a song
sunsung.
But beautiful with promise and de
light—
And I am happy here with you to
night. Lucia Trent.
OLD ADAM.
She knows him well, she says—a pal
try creature,
An animal inherently polygamous
Inclined to ogle female form and
feature;
Promiscuous, unwed; once married,
bigamous;
Crass in his tastes, unthinking, far
from subtle;
Seen at his best purveying things
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THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1938
material,
Suited to groom or garden, chauff or
buttle,
Untouched by aura feminine, ethereal;
Lacking in gratitude, in generosity;
Inordinately vain, immensely mulish;
Inclined too soon to senile adiposity,
To boring fads and reminiscence fool
ish;
An incubus that hustles, frets and
harries one—
And then, sweet inconsistency, she
marries one!
—Harold Willard Gleason.
LAUGHTER.
I never laugh when I’m alone,
For mirth is for the many;
In youth I sold my funny-lbone
For something like a penny.
I never weep when I’m abroad,
For tears are for the few;
I save my sorrow so the Lord
Who was a weeping Jew.
—Vivian Yeiser Laramore.
V
THE PESSIMIST AND THE
OPTIMIST.
The sun shone suddenly upon the
day;
Two people paused and viewed it
from afar.
One said, “How dark the shadow
that it casts!”
The other said, “How gold the sun
beams are!”
—Ethel M. Brainerd.
These poems appear in the follow
ing books published by Mr. Harrison:
“Ohio Poets,” “American Women
Poets 1937” and “Contemporary
American Men Poets.”
BERRYTON BAPTIST CHURCH
DESTROYED BY FIRE SUNDAY
BERRTYTON, Ga. (Special).—The
Berryton Baptist church was totally
destroyed by fire shortly before mid- j
night last Sunday night.
None of the contents of the church
were saved. Trion Trion fire depart- j
ment was called but arrived too late
to be of any assistance.
The loss is estimated at about $4,-
000.
Felt, a Cloth
Felt is a cloth made oi
hair, or fur, either singly or rr
compacted by moistening, her
rolling, and pressing. Sohip f(
are woven, but true felt is made
compression only. Wool posses:-
the highest felting properties, anc
the fur or hair of the ox, goat, hare
rabbit, or beaver are readily felted. |
The principal hat felts are made of
rabbit (known in the trade as “co- I
ney”), beaver, etc., says London
Answers Magazine. Cow-hair is
mainly used in making felted mate
rials for covering roofs. The origin
of this process of manufacture is 1
not clear, as felting is probcTbly
older than weaving. Its discov
ery is sometimes ascribed to Ori
ental shepherds.
Early Advice on Oxen
Twenty-seven centuries ago, the
Greek poet Hesiod, in his “Works
and Days,” the oldest-known work
upon agriculture, gave this advice
as to the oxen on the farm: “For
draught and yoking together, nir.e
year-old oxen are best, because, be- [
ing past the mischievous and frolic- i
some age, they are not likely to
break the pole and leave the plowing j
in the middle.”
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Tax Receiver’s
Rounds
I will be at the following places on days and dates mentioned below for the pur
pose of receiving Tax Returns for State, County and Poll Tax, for the year 1938.
Please make your tax returns as early as p ossible to avoid the rush. Georgia Law re
quires to close my books May 1, 1938, and double-tax all defaultei s.
TRION March 7, March 21, April 4, April 18
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HOLLAND, Ratliff’s Store March 17th
SUBLIGNA, Self’s Store March 23rd
Alt Taxpayers of Chattooga County, b oth white and colored, who have not been
giving in tax and owning taxable property, please give it in and make it easier on all.
It is a law for all to pay tax, same as for o ie. If you or your wife or minor children
have property, cars, stock, motorcycles please make a return by May 1,1938.
On account of Dempo Dalton’s illness, I, the under
signed, will make rounds for the purpose of receiving
tax returns for the year 1938. I will be in the office on
all days except the dates mentioned above.
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Mrs. Dempo Dalton