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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. 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