I want to thank my customers for their liberal re sponce to my March] advertisement I sold of the good* advertised more than three thousauds yards. The demand for the 2^cieny y childrens slip ers are all here, they are as cheap in proportion as the ladies and I have many shoi tyles to you TRY SCHOOL Lesson ? Second Quarter, For May 5, 1912. THE i ERNATIONAL SERIES. Text of Lmon, Luko vi. 20-M; xvi, 19-31- mory Vtran, Luko yl, 20. 21 ? Go. n Ttxt, Luke xli, 15 ? Com - montar, Prepared by Rev. O. M. Stoarns i These t< it verses 111 Luke vl are, a part of 11. < discourse la the presence of His ill* .^ee and a great multitude of .people who came to bear Him and to be healed of tbalr diseases as. He came down from the mountain and stood In tbe plain. The teaching Is somewhat similar to that In last week's lesson, but tbe poverty and hunger and weeping . and k? we think of the Bethlehem manger, the Nazareth home and the hanger and thirst and homelessnesa of His life ofttlmes In His public ministry we may perhaps Imagine something of ordinary poverty; but who can tell the foil meaning of the emptying, tbe service, the humility and obedience of Phil. 11. 7, & R. V.? The literally rich are often poor In spirit, meek and lowly at heart while the literal poor are often proud and self centered. We Bust always remember that the Lord looketh on the heart and trleth the heart (I Sam. xvL T: Jer. xvll. 10). The "woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you" of verse 25 seems not to be a very popular verse In some quarters, for even preachers and evan gelists have been known to hold bark tbe truth on certain great topics so as to have the approval of men. a very prominent worker having recently said publicly that he aimed never to hurt the feelings of his fellow ministers Hu ? i pi .i ? different from. Him who said. . "I do always those things that please the Father." and also from the apostle whose principle was "not as pleasing men. bnt God. who trieth our hearts" (John Till, 29; Thess. II, 4). Concerning the topic of our lesson. "Poverty and Riches," Luke abound* | In records of rich men, as in xll. 1C: xvl, t; XTiil. 23; ill, 2; xxL 1, besides | the rich man and Lazarus of the' last part of our lesson. From these pas sages we note that a man's life con sisted not In the abundance of the things which he possesseth, and some | would do well to ask themselves. "Then whose shall those things be?" Hlches sometimes make It difficult for the owners to enter the kingdom, and yei Zaccheus, who was rich, did enter Sometimes the gifts of the rich did not count as much In Hia sight as the gifts [ of the poor. We are simply stewards. [ whether Intrusted with mysteries 07 money or other things, and we tnnsi give an account of our stewardship I We may so use that which la Intrusted I to us as to become rich toward God (Luke U, 21). and those who have been helped by us to know the Lord will make greater to us the glory In His kingdom, while the Lord Himself wi re ward all BUs faithful ones at the resurrection of the Just (Luke ztr. 14; Rev. nil. 12). Our Luke xvl lesson study reads like a statement of facts, and there Is no reason why It should be called a parable. It la the one occasion on which onr Lord drew aside the veil and gave us to see the unseen realltle> after we leave these bodies, plainly teaching that-for each one It wfll be happiness or torment, not tbe highest degree of bliss which will be tbe be liever's portion only after the resurrec tion of the righteous nor the deepest woe which will be the unbeliever's portion sfter the Judgment of the great white throne, but a conscious existence in bliss or woe. with no possibility of passing from one to the other. The reason of the rich man's condition aft er death was not because he had been | rich, but from the last verse of tbe chapter It la evident that when on earth he had no nse for Moses or the prophets. Be was not a believer In the Scriptures, bat evidently proud and self satisfied. After death he proved the rt^utf nt ? pi?<~f nt torment and became anxious that bis brethren should not reach the same destination Re pleaded that If one went from tbe j dead tbey would believe, but was told that the writings of Moses and the I prophets were all sufficient. We know | from John xl and xll that another uian named Laiarus did rise from the dead bat while some believed otners sought to kill him again (John xll. 10, 1X1? Our I blessed Lord Jesus Christ, by whom [ and for whom all things were created, knew tbe unseen realities as no, one else did. and we. may count on every word He said as being literally so. Br his death for our sins and resurrection from the dead He has provided for given ess of sins, eternal life, eternal | redemption, a joint heirship with Him self foe "whosoevsr will," end only those wbo'recetve Him are the truly rich for time and eternity (Prov. vlil. 18. Bar. ifl. IS). All other* at* poor In deed. Oh, the multitudes of rich poor 1, Almost t Miracle. One of the moat startling ^changes ever seen.tn any man, acconJTag to W. B. HulW'aw; Clarendon. T*x., >u effected. yeaVago in his brotKer "He had such a dimflftil cough, "/he vrritej, "that all our ra&jv though* he fo as Riv ing into caniummon, buy lie Kgau to use Dr. K infra Ne\ Dib^m rv/ and was completely cured ? uii bo t ties. Now he is sound and we?f and Weighs 218 pounds. For manyVsara air family has uaod this wr the nomination for the Legialatuy>aubiect to the ac tioo of the Dewcratrv primary and ?convention to t# held MiKj8th, 1912. Jas. A l F, H. 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