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% 'SUNDAY-SCHOOL
LESSON
The Christian's Hope.
In , my Father's house are
. \* many mansions. ^
i Moving Day.
. ' 1. The phrase, "my Father's
house" is full of meaning. It fnrtlcutej
. what Jesus thought of the universe lr
which-we live. It implies thnt w<
should be at home in this world 01
; In the next, fur It is all a part of oui
Father's dwelling pluck When w?
leave the earthly house of our hablta
t!on -we simply moe into one ol
mnny" mansions. Terhaps It will Is
; ,/f like moving froin an old home Into i
*?: new house, Tlie old house is crowded
-ytVlth memories and "associations.* W?
^'^naturnlly hesitate to leav$ It. It hai
. '^-sheltered us.for many years. We nr>
with Its every nook an?
.corner. But, after all, the fl?>ors nr?
' -. ..warped, the beams are sagging, th?
' *" windows are cracked, and brokpn bj
the beating storms of many winters
. It jvll Ibe good to moe into the otliei
-* *.house, where all things are new ant
? fresh and beautiful.
2. It will not be like moving lnt<
a strange environment, where every
thing Is unfamiliar. It will be a pre
pared place. Some of us kuow whai
college after a prolonged absence t<
-V'. '- . find the house prepared for us by th<
; mother who understands us best oj
all. The flowers we like arc on thi
//?T. table. the hooks we enjoy are readj
/ i'.for use. tlie meals are planned to fll
' ' our taste. Eerythlng is made ready
: ^jfor our welcome by one whose lore It
^.-Jsopprehenslve and understanding.
' '|v.y^'j8r;.One of Frederick Faber's pocrnt
< jgS^tlUed "The Shore of Eternity.'
-occurs this stanza: ,
|^?_? ."ATone! : To land alone upon thai
r- \j -shore,
i^' iToJ>egin alone to Jive forevermoro,
f,hare no one to teach
^^W'VTRe;manners or the speech
\ .^.Ofivthat new life or put us at out
vst3P.'
+ >Ohat we' mlcht die in pairs ot
k v' /,* i?>Jeo?9panles!"
F,
of Jesus to his dlsciplw
T _^"^to^Jhe;<*Te of his departure frou
's'JvWi?' seems intended to remove tin
r^;j a?me? fears'expressed In Father's star
V-swi.; Fof ,th new experience of llf<
In to be filled with th<
presence and the preparation of on*
v^bo. knnwg and understands us bet
&Vte?e* fh"an_'anv other, and with whon
. scarcely feel otherwise thar
jHwWtl^otns. .-/ Vi/ '
'.Goapel of John, carries th<
^h^pDrlnu message over from a work
outward. at\d historic fact to ?
V jtyy 1 nibf. 1 n w a r d spiritual experience
^^^TOii^ippeaJ^that the memory, of tin
- /j^&iydtatafprfgence of Christ rpus'
> ^.^Wr^paade to the first disciples was
.t$ *ive "way now to spiritual fellow
They could no longer walk wltli
Hlm",over the hills or hear the tone?
'.or His olee as He taught them. The
opportunity for this kind of Imme
dlate contact hs gone. That "the gospel.-separated
from Its historical beginning*.
was able to continue as s
living. faith Is due mainly to the menVv'
sspe of thta book. The author en
.; j.r.?irsd-,for "all time that the Christ ol
experience should he no Idea
*.' 'Attraction or rapnc fljrtire of th?
JV'V fl'lstorV^naat. but the llvlnjr Master
Ji,nihwilatejtnlritual presence hert
_*Hnd* hereafter. In this world and Ir
he .world to come.
; > French materialist .ton* .??
'V?-p tlyat'",he visited an Hltn?hnue?
(red relative was beloe cared for
JVRlked with her t>?roti<?V th?
^C^^flwrtyard he trl^d to tMnV 'of wt^e
^^^iWvf.\he%.mlRht wy to comfort, her
tftara wemln'ber *nd J"*!!*
hP*y with- the Aart. He. could
e^^yra^yo;"irf- ?-?- benltl;
;^*^5j(ftdyMnt.v-aealn. tEve^ aa, he mused
e,H fnt 1111y of r a n J* wo rtl 3 ol
CV%rfi?Pr*y^ a t Innthe chno 1 *1 n* "crbaaed thi
p'^^ftKtortyc'le'/t'nd./<jf\t^hln*Uhe ;eye ol
fvftltjray Aged _*ry??nrr7*lroply pointed up
latelythe tears' wer?
j?"walle.of p**?* appeared up
l^^^j^&r.cotintenance. By a- mere |te?
^'*h? -.hand.-expreaalve of the
'hope, .the-prlettr.had beer
***** Ahi?'fn do what all the* philosophy
% / ..
TUB Ft'
and wisdom ?.f the scholar itnild not ^
poxsitdy suggest. *5
?? ft
The Christian View of ft!
Eternity. *
1 1. How appropriate that ou the
last Sunday of the year we have a ^
lesson on Immortality! Of course, we 4
can say that the end of the yepr Is Jg
? only an arbitrary and superficial ar- ft
' rnngemcnt of the calendar; yet It Is ?
' true that as one year ends, and an;
other begins, we turn our ininds more *
r than at any otlier season of the year ^
r to the passage of time, to the reallxa- ff
i tlon that we have only a limited nitm- J
" tier of years. And then we think, even ft
f If only fleetluply, of the long tonior- ?
- row aftef death. ? ^
1 2. In that mood, then, let us look m
' at the Christian view of Immortality. 1Q
* It may lie worth while to begin with SJ
' the strong affirmation of faith In |J
* personal Immortality as an insepar- a
' able part of Christian teaching. There J
' was a time when such a reminder ^
was not necdssary. It Is necessary to- m
; day with lnrpe numbers of people. ^
- The emphasis on the future life .he- 5J
r yond the grave has swung from one "
I extreme to another. There hnve been *.
long periods of time when the chief J
* Christian emphasis was otherworld- ft
llness. Attention was deflected away m
from this life to the life that whb to ^
f come. One reason, perhaps, was that SJ
" for vast numbers of men life was a "
terribly hard and difficult struggle, ft
They regarded this world as n sort j
r of unpleasant prison house, from ft
? n*h 1/>k aw?f]tui **-oo iIooIpoKIa vt'oii lr? s
the memory of people now living a
' chief emphasis In the churches was #
on heaven rather than earth. . Q
1 3. Today the situation is very dtf- K
ferent The emphasis on this world ?
| and Its poods, the Influence of sd- (j
ence in maklnp the world more "comfortable,
the preoccupation of people Q
In material advantape, has caused a ?
' swing to the opposite extreme. Ira- V
mortality does not hulk large in peo- h
pie's minds. It Is often kept In re- 2
serve, even among Christians, as a |l
consolation for the mourner and even m
then Is .ofteii handled timidly. The
result Is thst the Christian religion 4J
has become what is called scculnrlt- "
ed.' It is made to lie largely a mat- ?.
ter of this lif^ and the hope of eter- J
' mil life Is put Into a place In the ^
1 background. Dut there can be no pom- m
i plete Christian faith about Cod and
man without the doctrine of eternal JJ
i life. When the first evangelists went ?
i out to spread the Christian gospel, h.
i we are told In the Acts, -dhat what 1
they preached was the 'gospel of ^
' Jesns and the Resurrection. Our cos- 4
1 pel la still the gospel of Jesus and 2!
the Resurrection. The hope of eternal jg
life Is centered In the Christian is
faith. That hope. In simple terms, la ?
the faith tliat human personality Is ^
eternal, that life Is carried on In an ?
eternal world. This faith Is not to $
he rnnfuaed with any elaboration of ff
details of what the future life la like, *j
The New Testament does not encour- h
ape us to jrn into details about the 2j
1 wo* ' *?*'?nd. True, there are sym* n
' hollc ficures of speech in the hook of *?
Revelation. Rut very evidently, these q|
are from the nature of the writing,
symbols by which profound spiritual V
truth can be pictured. h
4. What are some of the grounds
of Christian eternal life? n
f () The first ground Is belief In *
i ??n<i. IT we neuee in a t?o<i wno is
' llktA Jesus. who love* each child he. f
. has created, and who cherishes, above J
' nil things. truth and love4 and a.
i righteousness, then we must, believe J
that find nrepserves the children nnd R
" nines he has created. For how CQuld m
' a r,?sl of Jove fling Into nothingness ^
. the children that he-loves? 5
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: So^nmores Win In J
Debate Over Freshmen {
I vAften a . heated discussion ' on itta $
I question. Resolved : That. Negrq Ool:
r leges are Superior to Inter-Racial In- J
t stltutinna In Developing Race Dead- a
t era." the Sophoroorea'of-'A. and vT. 2
College, who defpnded the qoestlori 1
' for the affirmative, pHfekaip points *
In the rebuttal to gain s dWon over $
the Freshman repreaentatnBiUnt.l| fl
^losely fought debate held in the an- ?
dltnrfum of the Dudley'BntldlngTjlast gj
Monday. * J
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