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THE SABBATH DAY.
IATORY NOTES BY REV. GEO.
P. HAYS, D. D., LL. D.
m IX of the International Series
■nirth Quarter) for Sunday. Nov. 27.
i>xt of the L.esson, Matt, xil, 1-14;
Golden Text t/n att. xii, 12.
We have J$ere a remarkable indication of
ha po verty of Christ and his disciples. They
seem to have been far away from the
HH&tions of men: yet they seem to have
Hm so poor that this morning they had had
■ breakfast, Their plucking of these ears of
■n was to satisfy hunger and not for amuse
■nt. In the Mosaic law this eating by the
Biyside BLiii, was made lawful, as we see in Deut.
25. This act of the disciples was not
fifty stealing in the light of this provision,
fijvas j| no more stealing than is the picking
the small coal thrown out upon the waste
Bmp Bighborhood. of a coal mine by the children of the
The Pharisees do not raise
B question of theft, but only the question
B^abbath Bl'be Sabbath.—In work. this lesson have
we set
■tli the two types of lawful Sabbath work:
Brks of necessity and works of mercy,
two things are to be noted just here. If
L Sabbath was to be abolished, now was
Brist’s time to make some indication of that
It. Neither here nor anywhere else does he
Bgest that the Sabbath was a Mosaic insti
■Aon, and therefore terminated its obser
Ipce id with his coming. In all the Pharisees
Ity its perpetuity is assumed; and its perpe
Irist is just as confidently assumed in all
said in reply. He did not discuss its
Istence and obligation, but commended and
■arced both. He only discussed the right
ithod of its observance.
■Still further, verse 8 is a specific declaration
lauthority on his part over the Sabbath day.
Extremes.—Men are very prone to run to
■remes. This is conspicuously shown in
lard to the Sabbath day. One class of peo
[0 abolish it by saying that every day is
ply and should be kept sacred. This, in ex
menco, has simply resulted in destroying
BpSacred Sabbath. Another class says that
I day is holy, and that what is right on any
iy is right on every day. These also de
roy the Sabbath by their laxity. Others
Ml Py destroy it by the rigidity with which
exclude everything that requires bodily
1 ‘tivity. This was the line of argument of
Bl ifese Pharisees. Plucking the ears of corn
B*ist, eating required some physical exertion.
in his reply, covers two classes of la
and justifies them as right upon the
libbath. The one was that kind of labor
■mired for health and life. Such was the
He of David when he entered into the house
If God and did eat the shew bread. The
BRmonial law would have prohibited him
Bd his men. The law', however, was not the
pd Beans of of its own to existence, promote the but spiritual merely' life the
llhose grace
that kept it. Therefore Christ jus
B5es David, as God had previously justified
Bn and his followers in this formal breach
I] ments the law. We work are not the to make Sabbath arrange¬
for extra on in the
[ijj&ction plea, of providing sometimes food, and done then by justify
p on this as is Sun
lay visits. But that work to provide food,
|(Iiich is reasonable and fairly unavoidable,
l Lot improper on the Sabbath day.
Jffork |pwork in worshiping.—The other kind
which the Saviour justifies is that in
■ved in the worship of God. The priests
■ not rest on the Sabbath day, but went on
■ ■rist’s h their work in the service of the temple.
introduction of this additional illus
■tion is an adroit answer to a form of the
Hstion which was not included in the ol>
Bpion made by the Pharisees, but was cer
&in to come up. In his future church more
kp}ess ®r£of of his effort ministry; would and be that involved which in is nec- the
B 1 / f° r them in their work is as proper as
.necessary work of the priests in the tern
kit is not unlawful work for the sexton to
|Hhe Rtf God fires comfortable. which are needful to make the
■■s of mercy.—Tbe second type of law
BBhath work which the Saviour approves
HfiO-12) l^ing is deeds of mercy. God's method
a commandment is to use a typical
[as inclusive of till of its kind. When ho
hid fit require honesty he simply says, “Thou
not steal;” when he would protect
Iracter he says, “Thou sbalt not bear false
witness.” 80 both in this case and in the pre¬
ceding part of the lesson a typical case is
given in order to include all of the kind.
Visiting the unfortunate.—On the other
hand, visiting the sick and the sad and the
tempted is precisely in the line of what Christ
here approves. In the modern church the
Sabbath day is not much used for this pur¬
pose. It is well worth considering whether
any time is more suitable for the visiting of
the poor and sick, or more likely to find the
visited in a proper frame of mind than the
Sabbath day.
The success of the miracle here was the
vindication by omnipotent power of the
Saviour’s teaching. These miracles and this
reasoning made Christ’s position unassailable.
The Pharisees, however, Instead of being
converted to his views, sought to destroy him
(v. 14). It is a very hard thing to surrender,
when it involves on our part a confession
that we were wrong.
REMEMBER.
1. Christ’s disciples are poor.
2. Jesus defended his disciples.
8 . Christ is Lord of the Sabbath.
4. Christ never abolished the Sabbath.
5. Christ did good on the Sabbath.
HINTS FOR PRIMARY CLASSES.
BY ALICE W. KNOX.
V. 1. “Jesus went on the Sabbath day
through the corn,” etc.; read the verse. Not
corn like ours, for they had none of that kind,
but all grains were then called corn; perhaps
it was wheat. Children like to eat wheat be
fore it is ground or cooked. It was lawful
in that country for people to take grain in
that way when passing through the fields.
V. 2. Read it. The Pharisees pretended to
be very pious, and were exceedingly particu¬
lar about many little forms and ceremonies;
but they were unkind, selfish and proud.
They often, came to hear Jesus preach, but
they were fond of criticising him, finding
fault and objecting to what he said. They
objected now to what the disciples did. In¬
stead of relieving their hunger they found
fault because these good men ate their simple
meal while walking through the fields, pick¬
ing the grain as they went.
Vs. 3, 4. These Pharisees believe<l in David.
They thought he was an unusually good man;
and so he was. So Jesus referred to David,
and said, “Have ye not read,” etc. This was
when David was fleeing from his persecutor,
Saul, at the time Jonathan warned him to
escape. See I Samuel xx, 6 . This was one
example of an exception to the general rule.
Only the priests were permitted ordinarily
to eat the shewbread, but in his extremity
David did what was right when he ate it.
The Lord never reproved him for it, and now
Jesus Christ quoted it as a proper thing for
him to do.
V. 5. Jesus also referred to the work the
priests had to do on the Sabbath day in
offering sacrifices and attending to temple
duties. From this part of our lesson we
learn that works of necessity may be done
on the Sabbath day.
Vs. 6 - 8 . Another reason why It was right
for the disciples to do this was because Jesus
was Lord of the Sabbath and had a right to
let them do it. He made the Sabliath for the
good of man, and he made the rules for
keeping it. He was with the disciples, and
as their Lord and Master had a right to tell
them what to do.
Verses 10-13. After this kind and import
ant talk and explanation to the Pharisees
Jesus and his disciples went on to worship.
The place where service was held was called
a synagogue. Finding a man there with a
withered hand, the Pharisees began again to
talk about what was right to do on the Sab
bath day. They said, Is it lawful to heal,
e tc. They were anxious to find fault with
the blessed Jesus, and it is a wonder his
patience was not exhausted. But he knew
men and women would ask just such
questions about the Sabbath as long
as the world should last, and he kindly
and patiently explained all about it,
go that any one can understand who will
honestly study the words of Jesus. Instead
of answering yes, of course it is, Jesus asked
them a question about their animals. If
your sheep falls into a pit (or great hole),
where it is likely to suffer or die, on the Sab¬
bath day, would you pull it out? Is not a
man much better than a sheep? Worth more?
Is it not more important to save a human
being from suffering and from death than
to save a sheep? You see then, it is lawful
to do well on the Sabbath days. Works of
mercy are right on the Sabbath day.
Here is the rule for us all. It is 'lawful to
do well on the Sabbath days.
V. 14. The wicked Pharisees were angry
with the blessed Jesus and went away to con¬
sult how they might destroy him. Was
that a work of necessity? Was it a work of
mercy ? Plotting and planning how to destroy
a righteous man. Poor Pharisees, how self
deceived and how wicked they were! Taking
counsel how to destroy the Son of God! How
much wiser, better and happier were those
who believed on Jesus and tried to obey him.
The Sabbath well kept is one of the great¬
est blessings to men. Iu countries where
they have no Bible, or where bat few have
it, people pay no attention to this holy day.
They work, they build, they visit, they buy
and sell as on other rlays; and very painful it
is to the Christian heart to see such a state of
things.—Sunday School World.
Cowardice of Carnivorous Animal*.
The prevalent idea entertained by those
not familiar with the real nature of our large
carnivorous quadrupeds, believing their in¬
stinctive ferocity impels them to assault
jvery person they meet, is not sustained by
practical experience. Those animals appear
much more formidable in the distance than
when approached in their native wilds.
Bnt few eastern sportsmen would, it is be¬
lieved, voluntarily attack a bear, wolf or
panther, yet I have seen and killed many of
those animals, and not one of them ever
turned upon me. And in further corrobora¬
tion of this, my guide, “Little Bat,” who has
during his lifetime killed over eighty griz¬
zlies, assured me that all he ever met with in¬
variably ran from him.
Bo confident was he of his ability to cope
with these much dreaded monsters that he did
not hesitate to hunt them when alone and on
foot, and only two years ago he encountered
four grizzlies eating a dead elk ujx>n Casper
mountains, when ho crawled to within short
rifle range and shot every one of them with¬
out moving from his tracks; and upon another
occasion, while we were hunting in the valley
of the Big Horn, he went out alone during a
moonlight night and shot two grizzlies from
behind a tree.
Panthers and wolves are most arrant cow¬
ards, and the traditional story of Gen. Put¬
nam having performed an extraordinary feat
of courage, by entering a cave and shooting
a wolf, is supremely laughable when con¬
trasted with the fact that my wife, upon one
occasion, in the night time at a frontier post,
when a large black wolf had purloined one of
her turkeys and was dragging it off, hurried
out with a stick and made him drop the bird
and run away.—Brig. Geu. Randolph B.
Marcy in Outing.
An Artful Shopper.
A woman entered a dry goods store and
approached one of the clerks. “Please do
these n;^’ she said, handing him two old
newspapers.
He looked surprised, and she explained:
“I ain’t out on a reg’lar shopping tower,
and ain’t a-goin’ to buy anything; but there’s
that Mrs. Simpson, that has half of our j>ew
at church, just loaded down with bundles.
Shall never know the difference.”
As the clerk was tying up the newspapers
she said in a low voice:
“Make it look as much like a silk dress pat¬
tern as you can, mister; it’ll worry her more.”
—Detroit Free Press.
Farmer ainl Lawyer.
A New Jersey farmer makes it a practice
to thrash his lawyer every time ho loses a
cas»s for him, and the way that attorney gets
ipand melts court and jury with his plea
sails in a crowd from all over the country.
—Detroit I-Yeo Press.
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Tbe __ Austrian . giant , w Winckelmeier, . . , , who ,
was recently exhibited in Paris, measuring
eight and a half feet, may be regarded as a
specimen of the highest stature ^attained by
the human species.
A Swedish peasant, cited by Buffoon, was
eight feet and eight inches in height, and the
stature of the Finnish giant Cujanus was the
same, while Frederick William, kingof Prus
sia, had a guard of nearly equal stature.
At the opposite extremes may be found
numerous dwarfs not more than twenty
inches, and some even as little as sixteen and
even twelve inches in height; bnt such
dwarfs are only monsters with atrophied
limbe or twisted backbones, or stunted in
fants wboee age is usually exaggerated by
their Barauzna.^
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