trained in them in youth, and they had practised them from their earliest days.

What additional religious advantages had they enjoyed?

Ans. They had been under the teaching and training of Jesus for three years.

After all this teaching and excellence of life, were they prepared for the baptism of the Holy Spirit?

Ans. They were not. -I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. JOHN xvi. 12.

What do we learn from these facts?

Ans. That the Holy Spirit finds a dwellingplace in none but those who have made the largest attainment in holy living; never with bad nor with indifferent people.

LESSON III.

THE WALK TO EMMAUS.

Did the apostles understand the character and mission of the Messiah?

Ans. They did not.

What did they expect him to be and to do? Ans. They expected he would be a king of the Jews, who would have his throne in Jerusalem, and who would secure and preserve the liberty and glory of the kingdom of Israel.

What evidence do the Gospels furnish of this expectation?

Ans. Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children, with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him. And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom. MATT. xx. 20, 21.

And he came to Capernaum; and, being in

the house, he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way? But they held their peace; for by the way they had disputed among themselves who should be the greatest. MARK ix. 33, 34.

How long did they expect he would live and reign in Judea?

Ans. They believed he would never die, but reign forever.

What scripture proves this?

Ans. From that time forth began Jesus to show unto his disciples how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord; this shall not be unto thee. MATT. xvi 21, 22.

What did Peter and other apostles propose to do, after Christ was crucified?

Ans. There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples. Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing. JOHN xxi. 2, 3.

Why did they return to their old business? Ans. Because they were convinced that Jesus was not the Messiah.

How were they convinced that Jesus was not the Messiah?

Ans. They believed the true Messiah could never die; and, as Jesus had died, they reasoned that he could not have been the Messiah.

Who were walking to Emmaus on the day of Christ's resurrection?

Ans. Two of the apostles.

What did they do upon the road?

Ans. And they talked together of all these things which had happened. LUKE xxiv. 14.

Who joined them, and walked with them?

Ans. And it came to pass that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them. LUKE xxiv. 15.

Did the disciples know him?

Ans. Their eyes were holden that they should not know him. JOHN xxiv. 16.

What question did Jesus ask them?

Ans. And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad? LUKE Xxiv. 17.

What did they reply concerning Christ? Ans. Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people. LUKE Xxiv. 19.

Why did they speak of Christ as Jesus of Nazareth and a prophet, and not speak of him as the Messiah or Christ?

Ans. Because his death had satisfied them that Jesus could not have been the Christ.

What did they say they expected of him? Ans. We trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel; and, beside all this, to-day is the third day since these things were done. LUKE XXIV. 21.

What was the nature of the redemption of Israel which they expected he would effect? Ans. Redemption from the government at Rome.

Did they believe the rest of the world would be benefited by the Messiah?

Ans. They did not.

What shall we say of this narrow expecta tion?

Ans. That it was extremely low, earthy, and selfish.

To what did the disciples need to be converted?