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International Sunday School Lesson for Sunday, June 7th. JESUS CRUCIFIED Printed verses: Luke 23:33-46. Golden Text: He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities ; the .chastisement of our peace was upon Him ; ahd with His stripes we are healed. T he Lessen And when they came unto the place * which is called The Skull, there they crucified Him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand and the other on the left And Jesus said, "Father, forgive them ; for they know not what ,ihey do." And parting His garments among t'.ni, they cast lots. And the people .uod beholding. And the rul ers also scoffed at Him, saying, "He saved others; let Him save Himself, if this is the Christ of God, His chosen." And the soldiers also mocked Him, coming lu Him, offering Him vinog-r. And saying, "If thou are I the King of the Jews, save thyself." < And there was also a superscription over Him. THIS IS THE KING OF TfiE JEWS. And one of the malefac- : tors that were hanged railed on Him, ?' saying. "Art thou not tho Christ? ' save thyself and us." But the other > answoivd, and rebuking him said, "Dust (hou n even fear G?od, seeing thou an in the same condemnation? ' And we indec.! justly; for we receive i thi duo leward of our deeds: but this ir.r has done nothing amiss.' And he s-aid. ".Jesus, remember me when ii. i conn ' into Thy Kingdom." And h i:ci. "Verily I say unto thee, To ii; hull thou be with me in Para d. And it was now about the sixth h< >.;v. ar^d a darkness came over the whole lanfl until the ninth hour, The sui's light failing: and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst. And Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, "Father, into Thy hands I com momi ;v spirit:" and having said thi.-. i-. ^avt> up the ghost. Comments on the Lesson i.ust Sunday \ye saw Jesus emerge from the Garden of Gethsemane to find his watchers asleep. We witness ed the mob bear down upon him to cany him before the enraged Jews who sought to take his life. Betrayed by Judas, denied by Peter and desert ed by all of the disciples, Jesus was haied before the high court of the Snnhedrin, in the hours of the night, and condemned to death. Todays les son is :t continuation of that study, it is now after sunrise, and there must bo another trial, because of the illegal features of the former hear ing and action of the court. In this court there appeared nearly all of the 71 members constituting "the Sanhe dri!:. In rapid manner the trial was conducted and the sentence of death formerly panned upon Jesus was rati lied. Judas, the betrayer, was near by when the sentence was pronounced, anil li rushed up to the chief priests ;v. .1 e.'.'crx, and confessed that he had sinned when he betrayed the inno cent blood. He handed the thirty pieces of silver to them, but they would not take it. and replied by say ing to Judas: What is that to us? Then Judas threw the silver at their feet, aimed away from them, and went out to a secluded spot and hang ed himself. The chief priests took the silver, aiid because they could not plac> ii back in the treasury, they took '??.tinsel, and bought a pdtter's field with it. in which to bury strang ers, nd that field is still called the Fie!o .if Blood, because it was pur oha.v with the blood money obtained for betraying the Lord Jesus Christ. I'iirte was the Roman governor, and 'he Jews had not the power to execute the death sentence, therefore thy had to t?ke Jesus before Pilate and here obtain official orders for his execution. These Jews knew that Pilat would not be interested in the charges which they had preferred against him ? that he claimed to be the .Von of God. They must use some glVai argument that would appeal to the I". 'man governor, and arouse his ire So he would ord-r the death of Jesus. bo these Jew- 'barged in Pi late's presence that . us claimed to be kiu- of the Jews; t ".t he had said he would set up a king m that would stop payment of taxe ? by the Jews to the Unman goverrr.ient. Pilate knew that these thing would only make Jesus more popular with the multitudes, so this schemo of the Jews failed to arouse the ire of Pilate. Jesus stood in the presence of Pilate and answered him only one question. After that he was silent in the face of the charges that were being hurled against him. Pilate did not want to order the execution of Jesus, because tio evidence had been produced against s;m that would justify such action. It vas customary at that time of the Passover for the king to release untfl ho multitudes a prisoner, and PiU)^ isked them if they would have Jesus eleased unto them. No, they would '.ave Barabbas, a robber, and insisted hat Jesus of Nazareth must be cruci icd. P'llate sent Jesus before Herod, jpon recalling that he was from Gali ee, in order to dodge the responsibil ty himself. Herod was glad to meet lesus, and insisted that he perform some of the miracles for which he had iccome noted. The day of this was )vor, however, and Jesus refused to Thereupon Jesus was sent back Pilate, who was sorely troubled ?out the whole affair. Pilate's wife advised the Roman governor to have i^hipg to do with this man Jesus, - tuuse she had suffered in her i'oams about him that day, and with :? wcinans intuition was convinced that Jesus was the Christ, the Son GoJ. Pilate took Jesus aside, and in private conference with him be rime convinced that Jesus had no in n of establishing an eartKTy "."c.om, and that all references " to kingdoms concerned a spirit ual1 ' ingdom. This Pilate passed on fhe milling mob of angry Jews, but their only ai\swer was a still louder and more insistent cry to Crucify Him. When Pilate still hesitated, the shrewd leaders among the Jews inti mated to Pilate that he would lose his governorship, perhaps his life, if he t'ai'ed to order the crucifixtion. Ther Pilate took water, washed his hands i:i public as a token that he saw noth ing in Jesus that would justify his crucifixtion, and that he was wasHing "ls hands of the whole sordid affair asserting that the blood of the inno ccnt Christ would be upon theii hands. And the mob accepted this mandate by saying: Let his blood b< upon us, and our children. Then Jesus was taken by the fran tic mob into the common hall, when the whole band of soldiers gathered and at last they had Jesus where the; wanted him. They striped him, an! put upon him a scarlet robe in mod d-nsion of Christ's claim to being th king of tfie Jews. They platted i crown of thorns and pressed it dowi upon his precious brow, as a mock cry of the crown of the king. The "laced a reed in his hand, and stoo him there in that attitude, while the; bowed about him in mockery, as i bowing before an earthly king. An they adrdessed him with mockin words: Hail, King of the Jews. Thei hatred then went beyond control, an mockery was turned into abuse, a they struck Jesus Christ, and spit up on him, and bet him over the heac Then took the mocking clothes off o him, reinvested him with the gai ments of which he had been divestet and led him away to crucify hirr Jesus had to bear his own cross, a the journey was started toward th spot where the world's greatest even was to take place. On the way a ma of Cyrnene, named Simon, was press ed into service to carry the cross fo oosus. And the procession continuec with great multitudes following, som jeering, some laughing, some weeping many women in hysterics, a proces s:on that has had no equal since tha day. and had none to compare wit! it in all the history of the world be fore that day. It was this kind of : ?scene that our lesson talks about ii the opening verse. Let us read th lesson : '?'ho narthauake was of such violen nature that the veil of the temple wa lent in twain from top to bottom, aifi great rock cliffs were split in two graves were opened and saints cam torth. A centurion, and thoise wit! Him watching Jesus saw all thos things, and were convinced then tha Jesus was. indeed, the Son of God. t man by the name of Joseph, a mem ber of the Sanhedrin, and also a se cret disciple of Jesus, went to Pilat that evening and begged to be per mitted to bury the body in his owi tomb which he had carved in th stone. Pilate gladly granted the re quest and Joseph, with the help o Nicodemus, took the body and wrap ped it in clean linen cloth, and buriei the body in the tomb. Mary Magda line, and the other Mary were sittinj by the tomb, grieving for their friend The next day the chief priests an< Please take notice anyone caught fi?h ing on our Thompson River land will be prosecuted to full extent of the law. Gennett Lumber Co. V Pharisees came unto Pilate and xe- i minded the governor that Jesus had | predicted that he would arise again, and they begged to Pilate to have the tomb sealed in such manner that the stone could not bo rolled away. This they wanted done, they said, so the disciples could not roll the stone away, take the body of Jesus out secretely, v and then claim that he had risen, as n he said he would do. Pilate granted ? t the request, and the tomb was thor- r oughly and carefully sealed. N6t only i did they seal the tomb, but left soN t diers to guard the grave, as a still 0 greater precaution. And in that dark t tomb we leave him, until the next les- I son reveals subsequent events ? we q leave him in a tomb hewn in the stone, j with a great stone placed at the en- b trance, and this sealed and thorough- 1 ly so, by those enemies who had put j him to death, and with a guard from j the enemy's camp keeping watch, to see to it that none released him. Friends, we could discuss the de- g tails of this great event in the world's history from now until sundown, and ? then have made but a start upon it. I Writers, preachers, teachers, lectur- t ers have been writing and speaking t and preaching on this one subject for t centuries, and it remains as yet an,r ever new subject, so big that it chal- c lenges the pigmy mind of man, and i causes him to feel his insignificance c and his nonentity, and the only thing i about it that encourages one to try f to plumb its great degth of meaning ' is the fine, sweet fact that Jesus suf- 1 fered as herein described for us in- i significant, pigmy-minded men. We 1 could give this time to a discussion of 1 whether or not old Judas did the right 1 thing in committing suicide, or talk < about how the soldiers took the gaj- i ments of Jesus and divided them, cast- < ing lots, or shooting dice, for the one < garment that could not be torn or di- ] i vided; we could go into detail and 1 i describe the formation of the court ' i of the Sanhedrin, and give the names < i of each member of that court, with 1 . some interesting feature of each mem- 1 i ber's character. In fact, we could ' ; spend not only these few minutes of , our lesson time on any one of the . many phases of these scenes, but we ? could spend the whole day on even i one of them, and then not exhaust ; the study or discussion. But, after all, these instances and particular ques . tions are more or less non-essential > when the one big, outstanding truth , stares one in the face. There is in this t lesson the one foundation of all Chris 1 tian religion, and that is the Cross { of Christ, the instrument upon which e he died for you and me, the one big a purpose in his coming to earth to li v ? n among men, to the end that he might . die for men. Unless we accept and y believe this story of the cross, d there is no need to accept or bo y lieve any other portion, word or syl f lable of the whole Bible. d The prophets of old told or the com g ing of this one event, and historians r since that day have described it. The d whole theme and scheme and plan of s the Christian religion is hinged upon i- this one thing ? the Cross of Christ, i. Wp may never know just why the f Father chose this one method of suf ?- fering and torture for His only son 1, as being the means of salvation for i. men. It is enough for us to know that s He did choose this way, and made it e the one and only way for us to reach t the Father, for no man cometh unto n the Father except by Christ, the i- Christ who died' on the cross to pre r pare that way. Every great and good I, thiQg that has ever come to any one e has come through sacrifice, and it is but fitting and proper that the great i- est gift any man can receive is made t possible through the greatest sacrifice h ever recorded on the pages of history and written in the hearts of men. In a this lesson today is the test of men's n belief in the whole plan of salvation, e If any one doubts this story of the Cross, then that one should discard t the whole Bible and pay no more at s tention to any portion of it, for the d cross is the kernel in the whole thing, ; the magnet that draws' all else per e taining to the Christian religion to it. h Had Jesus Christ been anything else e or less than the Son of God, his death t on the cross would not have drawn ^ the millions of men and women to - the foot of the cross to accept _ his - teachings and receive his blessings e that have marked the growth of - Christianity all over the world. 1 i Pilate saw nothing in Jesus to con 9 demn, but when he was threatened J with the loss of his office he handed ' the Master over to the mob. We con- ' * demn him for that, yet how often do * we hand him over when our business . " is threatened. How often do we fail ? to stand by the right simply because ? we fear it will hurt us personally to * take such stand. Pilate washed his I ; hands of the whole affair, and made lit plain that he wanted none of the blood of Jesus Christ on his hands. ?The Jews said all right ? let his blood i be upon us and upon our children. It ha$. It is still upon their hands. Tp* day the Jews are the richest people in the world. They have kept their race more intact than that of any other race. Inter-marriage with other; races is something rare among the Jews. They control the wealth of the world. Their numbers Bre countless. Yet they have no home, no nation, n6 flag. Nor will they ever have until they accept Jesus ChriBt as the Son of God, and worship him as such. They crucified him on the cross, and to the cross they must go for redemp tion, as a race, and a? jn4iyiduajjs, Pere's a cross ffoir every mgn, .fer# Gentile. And thireY no other place jto go for eternal lift. Without the 'cross, the Christian religion would be i nothing more- than a Kiwanis club, or any other group or organization hav ing for its purpose the assembling of imen in a given community at a given jhour for purposes of little real im ! port. The cross of Christ ought to be the biggest thing in every Christian's life, "for it was the one big thing in Christ's life. It ought to mean more than a mere form of worship ; it ought to mean more than fraternal lodges; it ought to mean more than political parties. | We need a spirit of Christianity | that is bigger than self, bigger than money or vthe love of money, a Chris tian spirit that is stronger than poli- 1 tics or political affiliation. A Chris- '? 1 0. W. LOG ROLLING : PRONOUNCED GREATj , > Many men and women in. Transyl ania county attended the semi-an ual Log Rolling association conven- . ion held in Canton last Friday, and eport an unusually enjoyable session. S. Keever, president of the associa ion, expressed keen pleasure because f the intense interest manifested by . he various camps is the district. W. 1 I. Grogan, Jr., district manager, is uoted as saying that the Canton neeting was one of the best ever held iy the association. At the business session, the follow ng officers were elected for one year: 'resident, N. B. Rhodarmer, Canton; ice president, Dr. E. L. Holt, Mur >hy; secretary-treasurer, 'VWH.. Gro ;an, Jr., Brevard. ian spirit that is stronger than na ional patriotism, and will enable us .0 recognize the rights of men of all lations and all races. A spirit that :rowns Jesus Christ king of all kings, ibove the president, emgeror, dictator >r pope. For all these things pass iway. Kings die and rot in the jround just like the strangers b iried n the field of blood rot and decay. Presidents and political leaders pass :rom the earth and marble slabs nark ;he spot where their bodies dec~y,in ;he ground. The one and only ever asting -and eternal thing that can :ome to us, comes through that old rugged cross upon which Jesus Christ lied that we might have this one ;verlasting blessing that comes to the nan who lives with Jesus and for him. I point you today to the cross, which is the key to Christ, and the jnly key that will unlock the portals Df heaven to you. Pisgah Forest News " June is here, not only the month of brides, but also the month of roses, | the month beautiful, and with the us ual hot w^atbfr. Mr. and Mrs. (Bill Hawley and j daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Royce Haw ley; and, Mr. and Mrs. Dunn of Gas tonia, spent Sunday with friends and relatives in this section. itfr. and Mrs. Henry Sentell and children were shopping in Henderson ville Friday. A good' many people from thii sec tion attended the services at Turkey Creek Sunday. ' Miss Louise Price of Charlotte is visiting Miss Clara Barnett. Mr. and Mrs. McKinley Ross and Miss Nellie and Mr. Reuben Mackey attended the Cherokee Indian school commencement at Ravensford during the week-end. Mrs. Carland of Mills River, is vis iting her daughter, Mrs. Tom Bar nett. Mr. Bill Nicholson of Mills River, spent Sunday with his brother, J. W. Nicholson. ? Several young people from this sec tion attendefi a farewell dance at the home of W. Taylor at Boylston Mon day evening in honor of Misses Bu nea and Lola English, who will leave Wednesday with Mr. and Mrs. Clar ence Hall for New Mexico. Mr. E. P. Carland is visiting his uncle, Tom Carland, on Mills River. Mr. and Mrs. H. Hedrick and son, Sunday, and Roy Carter, were Sun day evening guests of "Dad" Twitch ell of Blantyre. The Pisgah Forest baseball team defeated Penrose on the local dia mond Saturday afternoon in the first game of the Carolina Valley league with a score, of 7-1. , Miss Frances, and Mr. Cecil King of Boylston, were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Sid Bariiett. Miss Jane Terry of Brevard spent the week-end with Miss Elizabeth Mc Coy. Mrs. T. E. Patton, Jr., and daugh ter, Rebecca,, haye returned to their home here after' spending a week with friends and relatives in Char lotte. * Mr. an# Mrs. J. Bockner and chil dren are visiting at Rimes Creek, i Mr. Emmett Reese has been seri ously ill for the past two weeks. 1 Ralph Reed of Blantyre was a vis I itor here Sunday, The Carr Lumber company's saw mill closed Saturday afternoon for an indefinite time. I Three converts of the recent TflfcJk key Creek revival will be baptized^ here Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. We Pay Cash for Chickens and Eggs Heavy Hens 15c Light Hens 13c Broilers 22c Roosters 7c Eggs 17c Corn ? Cash 85c B. & B. Feed & Seed Company BREVARD, N. C. Prices subject to change any tin? Goodbye forever to cooking drudgery Now . . . i.u uiuie drudging ovei not kucIicii stoves. No more stirring and watching over steaming kettles of food. 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