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^ Sunday School Lesson mmm iïiv ISllS WtéWÊÊMÊi •i-fWi'iÿi-H SsMlPSik VÏÿV. ; :" gjPg LESSON ï. CHRISTIAN SONSHIP (1 John, Chapter 3.) Printed Text --1 John 3: 1--6, 18--24. GOLDEN TEXT-- But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children o£ God, even to them that believe on his name. John 1: 12. The Lesson in its Setting Time. -- The first Epistle of John was written about A.D. 90. Place. -- We do not know exactly where this epistle was written, but probably in the City of Ephesus, where it is thought John lived for the greater part of his life after the ascension of Christ. The first epistle of John is nothing nothing less than a love letter, a letter revealing the wonderful love of God to, hi i children, written only for the family of God. Its author was, most appropriately, the apostle John, "the one whom Jesus loved," and the one in whose Gospel the love of Christ is most frequently spoken of. The very vocabulary of this epistle unmistakably unmistakably identifies it as an epistle to those who are in God's family. The Scriptures teach that all who believe on Christ unto salvation are sons of God; not on the ground of their first or natural birth into the Adàmic family, but on the ground of their second or spiritual birth into the family of God (John 1: 12; Gal. 3: 26; Eph. 2: 19; 3: 15; 5: 1). cannot blot them out. If sin is to be put away, another must do it, and that must be one who has no sins of his own, for if he had his own sins to atone for, he could never atone for the sins of others. And so we > read of the One who came to take away our sins that "in him is no sin. "Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither knoweth him."--No one can abide in the Lord Jesus Christ who is not first a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, and a member of his body; or, as the Lord himself said, he is the vine, and we are the branches (John 15: 4--10) If we abide, in Christ, we shall keep the commandments of Christ, i.e., we shall do the things that please him. Love For One Another The apostle, while he has often before before spoken of love for one another, now returns to the subject, presenting presenting it,- in its practical aspects. Love for one another is not a new message but is involved in the whole gospel story, and indéed, is an Old Testament Testament revelation (Lev. 19: 18, 34; Matt. 5: 43, 44; 19: 19; 22: 39; John 13: 84; 15: 12).,. Love is the antithesis, antithesis, the enemy, and the death of hatred. The great supreme incentive to love, and the perfect ideal for of love for others, is found in the very life and death of the Lord Jesüs Christ, who laid down his life because he loved us. Though the apostle John is called the great mystic of the New Testament, Testament, though he writes concerning the loftiest themes that can ever engage engage the attention of men, and though at times he seems to speak to us from the very heights of Heaven, nevertheless lie is exceedingly exceedingly practical, and, in this very discussion discussion regarding the necessity of love in our life, he points out how that no man possesses this world's goods and refuses to share them with his brother who is in need can ever claim to have the love of God in him. "My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue ;■ but in deed and truth."--Love is dutiful in thought and deed. A little child who was asked what it meant, replied: replied: "Love means doing errands." "Hereby shall we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our heart before him. Because if our heart condemn us, God, is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things."--We shall know we are of the truth, i.e., that we are in God, and that we are his children, and our hearts will have assurance in his very presence of our own intimate relationship relationship with him, if we love in deed and in truth, A man will certainly know if he loves, or if he hates his fellow-men, and, if his heart is possessed possessed with true love, it strengthens his confidence in his conviction that he is a child of God. Young Man -- "I'm thinking ot ask ing some girl to marry me. What d< you think of the idea?" Sweet Young Thing -- "It's a greai idea, if you ask me!" Ik (îÿÿs We See God's Love "Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that' we should be called children of God" --It is a very interesting point that almost everywhere in the New Testament Testament where the love of God is spoken of, it is immediat#ly related to the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ, God's son, on Calvary. It is in that sacrifice for us that we most clearly see God's love for us. John 3: 16 is the great statement of this marvelous marvelous truth. Now the apostle goes on to tell us that not only has the Lord Jesus Christ saved us, by his death for us, but that God has become to us our Father in Heaven, and that we are made the children of God. "Beloved, now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested."-- The person person here referred to is, of course, the Lord Jesus Christ. His home always was in Heaven, but once, nineteen hundred years ago, he was "manifested," "manifested," i.e., he revealed himself to men on earth (John 1: 31; 1 Tim. 3: 16; 2 Tim. 1: 10; 1 Pet. 1: 20; 1 John 1: 2; 3: 5, 8; he will bè manifested oncè again, when he comes back to earth the second time, to take his church up to glory where he is. "We shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is."--We cannot here help thinking of the words of the apostle Paul--"For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall 1 know fully, even as also I was fully known" (1 Cor, 13: 12). We will have greater powers for apprehending apprehending spiritual truth when wc are in our hew spiritual bodies,' and then we shall see Christ in all' of his glory (see Jo'nn 17: 24), in all of 1rs love, in'all pf his, infinite power and xvi, • , o of ills. i.: --, • . ,J every one that hath this hope set on him puvifieth himself, even as he is pure."--The hope here spoken of is. of course, the hope of our Lord's return, and the hope of seeing him again face 1 to face. The effect ®f the hope of the return of the, Lord Jesus upo* us is to be likened to the effect upon us of a letter we receive from our dearest loved one who has been away, saying that he or she will be back again in'the home on a certain certain day--everything in the home is made ready, and the very, heart of the waiting loved one is also made ready, and all its thoughts anAlpng- ings are toward the one retunnng. "Every one that d»eth sin doeth also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness." lawlessness." ' "And ye -tnow that he was mani- Tested to take away sins; and in him is no sin."--Two glorious things are here said about the- Lord Jesus Christ. In the first place, he came to take away our sins. Every man has sinned. Sin shuts us away from God and merits the wrath of God. If we are to be the children of God, our sins must be dwelt with. We could not deal y with them ourselves, we cannot cleanse ourselves from sin, we cannot pay the debts they incur, we A MAN HONORED IN HIS OWN COUNTRY Fellow citizens of Gwillimbury Township, who know Earl Rowe best, are enthusiastic, admirers of Ms sterling character and gift for leadership A Public Servant For 22 Years ! If you had a large scale map of Ontario, you would find Gwillimbury Gwillimbury Township marked in the County of'Simcoe. But you would have to possess a very large scale map indeed, to locate the town of Newton Robinson. This little dot of a town is beginning to find itself in print frequently these days. The citizens citizens feel that this is onîy to be expected because one of their own boys, Earl Rowe, is going to be, they are confident, Premier-Elect Premier-Elect of Ontario the night of October 6th. Soipe of the old-time proverbs are wearing a little thin these modern * days and that well- known one--"A prophet is not without honor save in his own country" means nothing-, simply nothing, to these sturdy citizens of Gwillimbury. , They honor Earl Rowe because they know and admire him; the oldsters have been watching him' for twenty-two years, ever since he was elected a Township Councillor Councillor on his 21st birthday. Readies Cabinet Rank They start them young in public public service in these Ontario towns but only one in ten thousand forges ahead to the Provincial Legisiature-r-only one in a hundred hundred thousand keeps going until he reaches Cabinet rank at Ottawa. Ottawa. Such a man is Earl Rowe ---and Gwillimbury Township has followed, with pride, every step of his progress. The most important events in this young jman's twenty-two years of public service can be briefly summarized: 1915-- Ejected to Council of Gwillimbury Township. Township. 1916-- Elected Reeve -- reelected reelected each year for five years. 1923--Elected to Ontario Legislature. 1925--Elected to Federal Parliament. 1930--Re-elected. 1935--Promoted to the Cabinet Cabinet by Honourable R, B. Bennett, then Prime Minister. Re-electedto Federal Parliament. 1935--Unanimously selected as leader of the Ontario Ontario Liberal-Conservative Liberal-Conservative Party. A Happy Family Earl Rowe, whenever his public public duties will permit, hurries back to Newton Robinson. For there 1 he finds awaiting him his sturdy red brick house--his wife and three fine children--his 225 acres of farm land--his purebred purebred Yorkshire swine, Durham cattle, registered Clydesdales-- his old Township friends. One cannot hope to understand understand a public man solely by observing observing him in the midst of public public affairs in Toronto or Ottawa, Follow Earl Rowe back to New-1 t,on Robinson--have a meal with . him in his big, kitchen--walk with him over his fertile acres-- ' see him feeding his swine and his cattle -- talk with his aged parents, parents, who live across the road. : Then you would realize even more fully than ever before how completely this man possesses , that something without which all else is go much chaff--and that something is CHARACTER. • Heredity must get some of the credit. The Conservative leader comes from old British stoek which settled in Simcoe County many, many years ago. His father, still active at 88 and his mother, eight years younger, were farm folk, and Earl Rowe, when little more than a young- ■ ster, bought his farm from his father on credit and paid every cent of his debt from his profits as a dirt farmer. Virtues of the Soil On his typical Ontario farm-- in his typical rural Ontario residence--Earl residence--Earl Rowe leads the • regular routine erf a farmer when his Parliamentary work does not call him_to the cities. His is a friendly home--made:happy by the presence of his wife, and his children, Jean àged 17, Bill aged 13 and Lennox aged 8. Here are enshrined the homely virtues of the soil -- those virtues which since earliest days have given strength of character to so many of Canada's greatest public servants. servants. HON. EARL ROWE mm I in : 1 ; iflgg A Wqrrn Personality This has been written of Earl Rowe by a long-time associate: "The wàrmth of his personality personality 'is contagious. One cannot come into his presence presence without feeling his force and sincerity, tempered tempered by a natural kindliness kindliness and interest in his fellow-men fellow-men and their problems. problems. With his splendid ideals, backed by long and honourable Parliamentary experience, he is uniquely equipped to make a great contribution to the public life of Ontario." Newton Robinson isn't seeing much of Earl Rowe these days. It is a blessing that he is still in the prime of life and health, for he has mapped out a speaking speaking program which will keep him moving back and forth throughout throughout Ontario until the eve of October 6th. His friends are glad of this because they know that every man or woman who sees and hears Earl Rowe, who shakes his hand, who comes . under the influence of his warm personality, will say, "This is the type of leaderOntario needs." " For.that's the kind-of man Earl Rowe is--likeable/sincere, earnest-- earnest-- a statesman whose good character and good judgment are written indelibly in the record of his twenty-two years of public service. You Can Trust R.OHVE VOTE CONSERVATIVE Issued by the Liberal-Conservative Party ot Ontario. mmsmrnwmmsmmtw