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LTD.,ulatmdassamaarommosedtuddsunzenisomadvdaor i SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON LESSON XII—MARCH 22 The Forty bays and the Ascension— Luke 24:18-53 Golden Text -Ye are•witnesses of these things. -Luke 24;48, THE LESSON IN ITS :SETTING Time.—Christ's resurrection, Sun- day, April 9, A. D, 3o. Appearance to the Eleven, including Thomas. Some time later in April and 'May,. the othe> appearances., The ascen- sion Thursday, May i8, A. D. 3o. Place:—Jerusalem, the Sea of Gali ' lee, the Mount,' of` Olives near Beth- any. IN. THE UPPER ROOM.. And asthey spake these ” things, Telling of their walk • with the risen Lord of Emmaus and of their dis- covery of. Christ as He blessed their evening meal. It was a. ''wonderful story they had . to'tell, and we can imagine with what eagerness they told it and with what exclamations of', amazement and rejoicings it was re- ceived, Hehimself stood in the mid- st`; of thein. The body of apostles o - a ing pepsins :With Se t se igstead of By ERW'IN GREER "(President Greer College of Automotive Engineering, Chicago) Out of the bitterness of my own +experiences. I am prompted to offer the f chewing advice to : those of hey readers who want maximum , :efficiency from their autbmpbiles; Naturally an automobile oper.-, .,aces at least expense per mile Then it is running in high gear with : the spark advanced. Sometimes,' how- ever,' this owever,,.this is not the ease. When it is running slowly this condition; is a costly one. e First: because spark is then too early which pro- duues a spark knock. Second: be- cause the 'power impulses are fur- `- titer apart andthe action is there- fore less even, power : being eon- Earned on&erred ..in overcoming the inertia of the flywheel which' is very great at an uneven torque. Many drivers try to stay in high gear and keep the spark lever ad- vanced all the way up the tangent as long as possible in elimmbin a hill. Under these conditions, when a change has tobe made, it is ' neeeasary to drop into low gear, whereas second gear would hay° suf$ced with a little more monaen tum, With the engine laboring them is a great strain •on all parts end, of course, too pinch gasoline is being wasted in this destructive effort. . Most drivers who dothis,.; think they are economizing on fuel be- cause theyefigure their engines are turning over fewer timesin a give n distance, and hence, less gasow line is beingpassed into the. engine and burned, ' 'hat is not so, many of thein will be surprised to learn, or if a change twere made into ea�eecond gear cess gasoline would .be consumed Rave you ever watched the ex- pert driver when his ear starts' to -aid? Re doesn't jam down hix feet on the brake and aeeeleratort. Re simply throttles down the en- gine quickly ,and turns his front • Wheels in the rlireotion the ear is ski'ding.:The rear wheels, turning so slowly, in nine cases out of telt pull his ear out of the skid, Their he picks' up again and is gone bee fore you realize he even stented to /arid. It's a mighty hard thilig to tree ,that of keeping your foot away trent the brake . when a: owe 'starts eliding, , but it must be done or you'll end up in a bad. mash. The Cat .starts swaying; the peetaSanta weressrn.; you. lose your head' Blown thoes your foot to lock the Srakees, en-4xash 1 You're afraid of sltidding and so lini I. The way I overcame it on any car was to ge out on a rainy night an a wide, quiet street tend gide astound until I ntttstered th0 It/t. Such an experience was bard On the tires brit WEIR well worth While, because when the uneitpeete ed c>tmo Wee protected. iltlditlii�i�tllliBlliWW(NItlWNNEtiNI • Atop- tch sales- man at a ice -boy wa es! This , salesman, who reaches the ear of the public . quickest, and -. adds the largest num- - ber of . new business prospects - costs you much less than the cheapest office -boy; Add hint to- your sales force! As art investliaent that can bring large returns, encourage your best .salesmen to use Long Distance freely. Each year more than - 50,000 new telephones are added in Ontario and Quebec to the `' list . of those they can do busi- ness with. Costs a family less than 2% of its annual outlay. (tett of thein, Judas being dead and Thomas being absent) were in the upper room in Jerusalem on the eve of the first , Easter Sunday. The door was shut for fear of the hostile Jews 1 (John), but suddenly, seemingly with- out opening the door, Christ stood in the room, In some .Such mysterious and sudden, way Christ had disappear- ed from the room in Emmaus a short time before. And saith unto thein, Peace be unto you. 'This was a corn mon salutation among the Jews; re- member Christ's 'commands as He sent out the seventy (Luke xo:5, 6). But they were terrified and af- frighted. Two words of fear, to ex- press the greatness of their- terror, And • supposed that they beheld a spirit. It will be recalled that` mon- ths before, as Christ came to the dis- ciples walking on. the .waves of the Sea:of.Galilee; they cried out -in fear, thinking He was a ghost. They still had the same fear of the supernatural, though one would think they would have become More familiar with it during the three years of Christ's mir- acle -working, wo gr And he said unto them, Why not ye troubled? If .:we face 'our fears and troubles resolutely, and force our- selves to analyze thein and see how little basis of reality and reason they have, we are far on our way toward overcoming them. And wherefore do. questionings arise in your heart? We may be sure that if these tremors and terrors did not actually occur, the wri- ters of theGospels would never' have recorded them, witnessing as they did tri the weakness of the apostles' spir- its and to their lack of faith. They were evidently totally .unprepared for Christ's resurrection, it Was the lost event they were ;lookieg for or; could imagine. :'.l'o say; as sceptics do,,that Were e el wraagAm AIWA eee x'esurreclion story was born of dei; HFts follows desires and expectations of a set a:. 'I To Mary Megdelen, df credulous disciples is to run coulee 2. To fits: (Alva women, 11 as to a 3. ']'o Peter (Luke 24;e1; x Cor, tteight:for- 15:5). 4. To the two of i rmnaus. 5.. To the ten apostles, ',Moines ab sent,' These five appearances were on Easter .day, 6, A week later, t the Eleven;' Thomas present. 7. To seven apostles by the Sea of Galilee, 8. To five hundred on a hill in. Galilee. 9. To James, the Lord's brother (r Cor. z5;7)" 1o. At the time ;of the ascension, forty days after the resurrection. Sonie divide the references to this last, regarding it as two appearances, one in Jerusaleni and one on the Mount of Olives. Final Appearance and Atcension And he said unto them, These are my words which I:spike urtto you In St. Luke's Gospel these words seemed to follow and, to be a part of the scene in the upper room on the evenings of Easter Sunday;" but Luke's own account. in Acts x:3 tells us of the forty days between the re- surrection and ascension, with numer- ous appearances of the risen Christ These appearances and -words Luke is here summarizing, having passed without note from the first of the for- ty days to the last of them. While I was yet with you. Before My Cru- •cifixion, while I was . with you daile and as a comrade, teaching and work - 1 C,E..TIMES. etterenettertene er to all probabilities as manifestly honest and ward :narrative, Sat:" ally hands and my ;feel, that it is 1 thyself; Christ allowed them to place their fingers on the nail-37rints itt ,His hands and His feet. 1-1e never refused full proof to honest doubt, and; lie does not now, Writing per- haps fifty years after this, the apostle John referred to the scene: "That which we beheld, artd oar hands hand- led concerning the Word of life" (x John 1:i). This is the precise evi-, Bence and experience which Thomas afterwards demanded for himself, Handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye behold me having. Christ's risen body seems before His ascension to have been much if nbt altogether like His 'body before crucifixion, and the great change to a spiritual body came in the moment of ascension. Tobe. sure He had just passed through the dos- ed door; but that was a miracle, ana- logous to His walking on the water, which proves that in His _ earthly bo- dy He ebuld transcend material limi- tations. And when lis had said this, _ he showed ;them his: hands' and his feet. Very likely also His spear -pierced side, as later to Thomas. It is one of the most moving scenes in Bible history, , And while they still disbelieved for joy, and wondered, In the Gar- den of Gethsemane we find the king by your side, Even before His apostles asleep froth grief; here, seep death, in His ; prayer in the upper room, our Lord spoke as if He had already departed from the world and from Hisdisciples. d serp es. That all things must needs be fulfilled. " Which are written in the law of Moses, and the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me. This was the Jewish division .of the Old Testament, the Law signify- ing•the Pentateuch, the Prophets in- cluding most of the historical books, and the Psalms including the re- mainder. Then opened he their mind. The. Holy Spirit had not yet .come with outward manifestation and in power, for Christ had not yet ascended; but His Spirit moved upon their spirits giving them clearness of apprehen- sion. That they - might understand the scriptures. He took up one by one the great Messianic passages of the Old Testament, and showed how they had been fulfilled by Him, es- pecially by His atoning sufferings and death and His • resurrection. And he said unto them, Thus it is written, that the Christ should suf- fer. Read, for instance, Isa. J3, and find in it a marvellous picture of the 'sufferings of Christ at His trial and on the cross. And rise again from the dead the third day. And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached, John the Baptist, whose work is described in such prophecies. as Mal. 4: 5, 6, the closing words of the Old Testa- ment, preached repentance es his main theme, and Christ to)sk up the exhortation. His death was a cruci- fice for the remission of the sins of all believers. In his name, "No other name." Christ, . the unique'' glory of the Christian religion. Unto all the nations. The Jews were the most ex- clusive of nations, and yet God im- bedded in their Scriptures numerous prophecies of the world-wide reach of the salvation that should cotne through one of their race. Begin- ing from Jerusalem. Christ con- stantly insisted that "salvation is frons the Jews; He came primarily to seek out "the lost shed ,.of the house of. Israel," because He knew that a world -winning religion must first gain a strong foothold in some one part of the world, and no other dation or race was so close to God. as the Jews, having been providen- tially prepared for this very work, from the beginning of their history. Ye are witnesses, . of these things. The apostles took this command to heart, and it is well for us that they did, 'since we receive our knowledge of Christ through them and those to whom they passed on the good news. And behold, I send forth the prom- ise of my Father upon you. But tarry ye in the city, until ye be cloth- ed with power fronton high. In Acts 1:4 Luke repeats the command not to leave Jerusalem e is lem until the out- pouring of the Spirit had empowered then ,,to preach the gospel and meet all the persecutions that were certain to come. This .power" of the Holy Spirit was a wonderful garment, and they were nal• ed and unprotected till they were wrapped in it. And he led thein out until were over against Itcthany. tical from joy—one of the psychologi- cal touches of which St. Luke is fond, profoundly. true to nature Before this, grief had iinade unbeliev- ers of them; now, joy. Belief is the result of calm and reasoned thought and : they were as yet too excited : for that. He said unto them, . Have ye here anything to eat? They had been eating supper together, and the dishes were probably still • on the table around which they were reclining. And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, Jerusalem, we are told in the Talmud, received regular sup- plies of fish from the Sea of Galilee. Which swarmed with then. It was probably a fish from those .well- known and well -beloved, waters that Christ ate. And he ' took it,' and ate before them. It was striking' proof of the reality of Christ's resurrection, and one that they could never forget. Peter, in his sermon before the com- pany in the house of' Cornelius, re- called the scene. THOMAS, THE SEVEN, AND THE ELEVEN John's Gospel alone, the Gospel of faith, tells us that Thomas, the doubt- ing apostle, was absent from the ga- thering of the `Eleven when Christ first appeared to them, and refused to believe the entire ten when they re- lated what had happened, asserting that he would never believe Christ's resurrection .without the , same evi- dence of sight and touch that had been granted to the ten. Therefore our Lord, always glad to meet genu- ine doubt with indubitable proof, came again a week later under the same .conditions, Thomas ,this time being present; ' and when He bade the doubting apostle place his fingers on the ,nail, prints and the spear wound, Thomas did not make the test, but in one of the bitrsts of splendid nobility which "seemed characteristic of him, cried out' with all ,his soul, "My Lord and my God!"' That exclamation expressed the cli- max of faith in the Gospel ,records, It reached to the full realization of the divine nature of Jesus Christ, and adequately expressed that realization. Thai was a great moment with. Thomas. • He had attained to the full condition of all trite blessedness. His triumph of faith was complete, The Disciples by the Sea • Christ 'appeared next to the discip- les—five named—and others ' by the Sea of Galilee, where. He held Hie - touching conversation w.itli Simon Peter, On a Mountain in Galilee Jesus selected Galilee, so dear til Him, the scene of most of His labors and the hpnie of most of His' disci- ples, as the place for the largest ga- thering with His followers. He nam- ed a mountain, possiblythe mountai n of the Beatitudes.. There about five. hundred al Christ's disciples carne to- gether—the Eleven, possibly the Seer- cnty, Christ's faithful women follow- ers, and many of those whom Christ had healed ---Peter's mother-in-law, the cerltttriou of Capertnaum, the wie. dow of ,Neinand her son, the`wonati healed on the way, Aires's daughter, the deaf mute of becttpolis, the this mean that the risen Jesus led His grateful leper of Samaria, and "how disciples through the crowded streets many others! And when they saw of Jerusalem, down tfle "Chiron Val Il int they worshipped Him. Other Appearances In all, ten or eleven appearances of the risen Christ are recorded in the Gospels and by Pahl in r Car. x5; 5-8. These are, in their probable at - y !f�INIIEtltlIMImIINNWI1NIYiNIW81Wl` INNiI�II�NgNNtl9itIMWGutIIaNiNllieroNNi'rJNli!YdY!nNgauuaiidliBIthi tm !WWI NiuNdNNNNflIBNYNiiiWuVliuGuNeeiuuuw!Po!xuulim!lxuw AIM ley, past Gethesemane, and up the slope of Olivet toward Bethany? I1 so, it was one of the most significant and triumphant' walks in all history. The central summit of Olivet is the traditional $cene `of the ascension, but auuu�aufam.!ail,u6.arxa�u u LORD AND LADY ALLENBY IN THE GROUNDS OF TI-JMJZR QI+,s'ICIAL RESIDENCE It wail recently. reported that Lord"Allenby had' resigned. his office) as Lord High Commissioner for Egypt, which he has held since 1919. No official confirmation has been obtained, but: the source from wbtp k.l the information comes leaves no doubt that the resignation has been ,tendered, This is an exclusive photograph of: Lord and Lady Allenby in the garden of their Cairo residence. it may have taken ' place on some quiet upland near the beloved village of Bethany on the eastern slope o eof the famous hill. May we not imagine that Christ's mother was there, and Mary Magdalene, and the three of the Bethany home? And he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. It was His pierced hands, '.pierced for them and for all men,' which He lifted up in blessing over them. We should re- joice to know those words of bless- ing, for they must have been freight- ed with the richest love. And it came to pass, while be blessed them, he parted from there. Literally, "He stood apart from them," implying a definite and final act of separation. • And was carried up into heaven. The Greek tense implies that He was gradually borne up into heaven. The account in Acts states that a cloud came be • tweea • the• disciples and the rising Saviour, hiding Him freta their eyes. And they worshipped flint There was no longer any question in their minds that He was God, and to be worshipped,' Andreturned to Jeru- salem with great joy. This "great jo'y," on first thoughts, is singular till we read between the lines, and see how perfectly they now grasped the new mode of ,the. Lord's connection with His own. • And they were continually in the temple, blessing God. The temple, the place that . was dear to Jesus above all other spots on earth, His Father's house, the place of His first recorded words, the scene of His la- test public teachings, the religious' centre of the Jewish race, was equally clear to Christ's disciples, and became the most natural place for the dissem- ination of the new religion. VICAR: "How did you get on whir the temporary- Rector when l was away?" VERGER: "Not very well, sir. 'E preached a long sermon and then 'e said 'e must stop 'cos it was so cold." VICAR "I hope you rectified that the following Sunday?" VERGER: "Aye, sir ---I left the fire out altogether."' —The Passing Show. alyze NALYZE carefully themoney you have been spending. Yo will find that quite a large proportion of it mighthave been saved with little or no inconvenience. Decide now that you will deposit: in the bank regularly that portion of your earnings which your analysis shows you can saw, A, WALLA:CE, lintretitelitellialietainotilittaleatatenleatemenkiniatee ANl-1, Matta