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March 23, 1910.
| Sunday
THE POWE
Matt. 9:18-34.
GOLDEN TEXT.?"All thini
licveth."?Mark 9:23.
HOME DAILY B
M.?Matt. 9:18-34. T
T?Mark 11:19-25. F
* \V.?Acts 3:1-16. S
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SHORTER
Q. 101. What do we pray fo
A. In the first petition, whi<
we pray that God would enable
all that whereby He maketh Hi
dispose all things to His own g
TOPICAL
Three of our Lord's Miracles?
The dead raised, vs. 18-26.
The blind receive sight, vs
The devils cast out, vs.
LESSON C
The grouping of these mira
not mean that they occurred
ministry, nor in the order men
used should be interpreted in a
nose null mothnH
OneVf the synagogue rulers
a little girl twelve years old.
death. Jesus, perhaps, had jus
from the town. Either the chi
father had failed for some rea
was at hand. He ccula not h
Jesus had wrought, especially <
son, and the centurion's servan
the invitations given to Jesus
his extremity he appeals to tt
densed account of the interviev
esting details. His name was
numility of helpless need. He
not mean that he recognized
the great reverence of an infei
Jewish ruler comes to the gi
sented to go with him. Previc
famous in the community and
the narrow street around Him.
whom tradition has named Ver
suffered from a chronic hemori
in modern medical practice pr
the physician's treatment. Sh
tor's bills and for drugs, and f<
vation of sufferings.
She had tried all the "paten
time. She has come to bellev<
faith does not rise above the
in magic. If she can touch H
tassel with the sacred thread
square, shawl-shaped outer gai
be healed. She finally found
trembling fingers touched the n
Apparently it was a "faith cui
explained like similar cures of
wrought the cure, and He is a
her instruction on the plane c
that had anno nn?
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fringe. Faith was the mediui
touch. With kindly tone and te
tion of intelligent faith in her
us is the Master's sympathetic
A messenger came from Jairu
ter's death. It was too late tc
was after the time when the
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tIBLE READINGS.
Ii? Matt. 9:18-31.
?Mark 9:14-29.
.?Luke 7:36-50.
m. 1:1-14.
CATECHISM.
r in the first petition?
ch is, "Hallowed be Thy Name,"
i us and others to glorify Him in
mself known, and that He would
lory.
OUTLINE.
. 27-31.
32-34.
COMMENTS.
cles together by Matthew does
at the same period of Christ's
tioned. The introductory terms
ccordance with the writer's purof
Capernaum had an only child,
This child lay at the point of
t returned from a brief absence
Id's sickness was sudden or the
son to apply to Jesus till death
ave been ignorant of the cures
)f the healing of the nobleman's
t. He himself had consented to
to preach in the synagogue. In
le Lord. Matthew gives a conv.
Mark and Luke sunDly inter
J aims. He came in the deep
"worshipped" Jesus. This does
the Lord's divinity. It is only
rior for a superior person. The
eat Jewish Rabbi. Jesus conius
events had made Jesus very
a great crowd of people throng
In the crowd is a poor woman,
onica. She has for twelve years
rhage, which has in ancient and
oved so stubborn in yielding to
e had spent her money in docnind
no relief, but rather aggrat
medicines" and quacks of her
i that Jesus can cure her. Her
dignity of a superstitious belief
[is clothes, especially the white
of blue, at the corner of His
rmAnt oho wa?.1/I ~ 1?11
?, nuuiu, out: ueneves,
her opportunity. Furtively her
lagic fringe, and she was healed,
re" pure and simple, and to be
modern superstition. But Jesus
wonderful Teacher. He begins
)f her ignorance. The "virtue"
from Him, and not from a holy
ri of contact, and not physical
rnder speech He laid the foundamind.
The significant thing to
treatment of an ignorant faith,
s' home announcing his daugh)
bring Him now! Perhaps this
widow's son at Nain had been
N OF THE SOUTH.
raised from the dead. Jairus is e
came to the house, where the ou
gled with the hollow forms of th
of mourning which the fashions
put the latter out of doors, app
and in the room where the dead ?
stricken parents, and the three r
own friends, and with great tendi
girl, and she arose at His commai
This deed soon became famou
standing the Master's injunction
One day Jesus was followed I
plead for His pity. They called
plied to the Messiah, "Son of Di
first to openly recognize His M
house" (whose, we know not), an
in. He questioned them concen
They expressed full belief, as, li
action in persistently following II
reason reluctant to grant their rei
less some error or fault in them v
cate. He finally gave them the
them with an unwonted sternnei
it." This command they heede<
secrecy in the matter can onlv
spiritual welfare of the men th?
probably the political expedienc;
condition, or the immediate circ
quired it. Jesus commanded silt
haps in the name of gratitude,
want to do what is forbidden.
A demonized, dumb man was bi
the demon, and the dumb man spi
impressed the multitude most fa
was great and increasing. The
leaders at Jerusalem, finding tha
plained as fraudulent, decided th
power of Beelzebub, the prince <
inated this explanation, which tl
would be the explanation natural
THE CALL F
Grave responsibilities rest up
challenge them t<-> T 1V
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work to be done is not easy. ]
easy. The fight for righteousness
dora of God in this world, is frau
risk, with the certainty of wearisc
with danger to all who are feebl
cause of this very fact that the
the most daring spirits, should
call them to the life of effort ai
of heroic temper undertake the g
the very reason that the work thi
sacrifice of self-interest. Heroic
struggle, and we ask for heroic
them. The trumpet call is the m<
cause it summons men to spur
timidity, and bids them forth to t
on/1 A~ J ~
>uu uu auu uie at need. So now
this great spiritual adventure, th
mankind, should ring in the ears
of heart and gallant of soul, as a
life of labor and risk which is so
Theodore Roosevelt.
No boy is more thoroughly mist
that he may be discourteous to hi
be manly. A blustering, independ
HO kind Of snnprinrHv ConHo ^
thought for others, is always es
manly boy never fails to show it.
Sin is more serious than the
affected the soul that the whole pc
is enmity and rebellion.
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encouraged to hope still. They
tburst of genuine grief is minle
conventional manifestations
Of thfi HmO T
?v uvhkuiucu. jesus
arently with some opposition,
uhild lay He ushered the griefnen
of the inner circle of His
erness spoke to the little dead
[id.
s in all the country, notwithto
secrecy.
>y two blind men who loudly
Him by the Jewish title apavid."
They were among the
'essiahship. He entered "the
d the blind men followed Him
ling their faith in His ability,
ndeed, was manifest by their
im. Jesus appeared, for some
luest. This reason was doubt
mien tie was seeking to eradirelief
they asked and ordered
58 to "see that no man know
1 not at all. His reason for
be conjectured. Perhaps the
jmselves demanded it. More
r of the times, or some local
umstances of Jesus' work reence
and was disobeyed?perTo
obey is difficult when we
ought to Him and He cast out
ake. This, and other miracles,
vorably, and Jesus' popularity
Pharisees, influenced by the
it His works could not be exlat
they were wrought by the
Df the demons. They dissemiiey
doubtless believed Tkot
to evil-minded men.
W. D. Hedleston.
OR MEN.
on them. Danger and work
te challenge be accepted. The
Mo work worth .doing ever is
t, the effort to realize the kingght
with infinite hardship and
ime labor and discouragement,
e and faint-hearted. It is bebest,
the most resolute, and
listen to the summons which
ndconflict. We ask that men
reat adventure. We ask it for
is undertaken necessitates the
deeds are to be done In this
men to come forward and do
ost inspiring of ail sounds, beease
and self indulgence and
he field where they must dare
the call of duty to undertake
is work for the betterment of
i of young men who are high
challenge to turn to the hard
infinitely well worth living.?
aken than the one who thinks
s mother and sisters and still
ent disregard of others shows
:ourtesy, which is but kindly
.pecitia irom strength, and a
/erage man thinks. It has so
>sture of the heart toward God