The Sabbath-School Index: Pointing out the history and progress of Sunday-schools, with approved modes of instruction.Pardee, R. G. (Richard Gay)
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The Sabbath-School Index: Pointing out the history and progress of Sunday-schools, with approved modes of instruction.
Pardee, R. G. (Richard Gay)
Sunday schools
There is such a great necessity for adapting each lesson perfectly to
the age, acquirements, etc., of the scholar, that I add a single
specimen lesson from "The Sunday Teachers' Treasury." It is upon the
same subject as that taken up in Mr. Wells's infant-class lesson--"The
Passover"--and is given that, by comparison of style, the adaptation
of the same lesson to infant and Bible-classes may be seen:
_Specimen Lesson for a Senior Class._
_The Feast of the Passover._
(Exodus xii.)
Circumstances of the Israelites at this time; how solemn, how
stirring, how intense in interest! The institution of the Passover
seems to have a threefold design. It was--1. An act of faith and
obedience on the part of Israel. 2. A memorial of their deliverance.
3. A type of Christ. In the last view we will study it to-day,
looking less closely at those points which we had on a former
occasion, and connecting with the actual celebration of the Passover
that which God connected with it--the feast of unleavened bread and
the offering of the first-fruits of the barley harvest.
The Passover, then, was a type of Christ.
I. The victim was to be a lamb; and this title is applied to Christ
(John i. 29).
The first altar exhibits a lamb slain; the first act of God for
Israel is the slaying of the lamb; the first deed of the new
dispensation was presenting, and then offering, the Lamb; the first
opening of the sanctuary above, shows the "Lamb that was slain."
1. Without blemish (Matt. xxvii. 4; 1 Pet. i. 19; Heb. vii. 26).
2. Set apart four days (ver. 3, 6; John xii. 1, 12).
3. Roasted with fire (Isa. liii.; Ps. xxii.; Luke xxii. 44).
4. Not a bone to be broken (John xix. 33).
5. All the congregation were to take part (ver. 6; Matt. xxvi. 1;
Acts ii. 23-36).
6. The blood was to be shed and sprinkled. Where? On the side-post
and upper door-post; not on the floor, where it would be trampled on
(compare 1 Pet. i. 19; Heb. x. 29).
It is not enough that Christ's blood is shed; it must be sprinkled on
our hearts (Heb. xii. 24; 1 Pet. i. 2). The act of sprinkling it upon
the door-posts was equivalent to a profession, "I am the Lord's." It
was the means of safety, "When _I see the blood_," etc.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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