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SABBATH HELPS.
[After several requests, we have
consented to give in each issue of
our paper an exposition of the
Sabbath school lessons for the
next Sunday. AVo shall gather
these comments from various
■sources, and shall try to keep in
mind always our determination to
make them as thorough and re¬
liable as possible. W e hope that
they may encourage a great many
in studying the scriptures, and in
that accomplish some good.]
This is the fifth comment on
the Sabbath lessons we have pub¬
lished. It is our determination
to improve from time to time those
explanations, gathered from var-i
ous sources with but little regard
to cost or trouble, until they are
epual to any published, except
those in publications specially
devoted to Sunday school work.
Lesson for Fob. 24th 1889.
Subject of Lesson— “The
Teacher and the Twelve. ’
Golden Text—“A nd they went
out, and preached that men should
repent. —Mark 9:12.
Time —Autumn of 28 and winter
of 29. “The visit to Nazareth,
and the sending of the twelve,
followed not long after tho lesson
ami their labors extended through
several weeks of the autumn of
2 S and winter of 29, till the mur¬
4 Baptist, in
der of John the
March ."—Peloubet.
Place —Jesus taught-at Naza¬
reth. The apostles labored
throughout Galilee. From what
town they were sent forth is not
known.
Scripture Text— Mark 6:1-13.
1. And lie wont out from thonce,
and cumo into his own country;
and his disciples followed him.
2. And when the Sabbath day
was come, ho began to teach in
the synagogue: and many hearing
him were astonished,saying, things From •-C
whence hath this man these
and what wisdom is this which is
given unto him, that even such
mighty works are wrought by his
hands?
3. Is not this the carpenter, the
son of Mary, the brother of James
and Joses, and of Judn, and Si¬
mon? ami are not his sisters here
with us? And they wore offended
at him.
4. But Jesus said unto them, A
jSrophot his is not country, without and honor, but
m own among
his own kin, and in his own house.
5. And he could there do
his mighty hands work, save few that sick folk, he laid
upon a and
healed them.
0. And he marveled because of
thefir unbelief. And he went
round about the village ’, teaching.
7. And lie called unto him the
twelve, forth and began to send them
them by two and two; and gave
power over unclean spirits.
J8. Ami commanded them that
they should take nothihg for their
journey, bread, save a staff only; their no scrip,
no no money in purse;
9. But be shod with sandals;
and not put on two coats.
what 10. place And ho said unto .them, In
soever ye enter iiito an
house, there abide till ye depart
from that place,
11. And whosoever shall not re¬
ceive you, nor hear you, when ye
depart thence, shake off the dust
under youv feet for a testimony
against shall them. Verily I say nnto
you, It be move tolerable for
Sodom and Gomorrah in the day
of judgment, than for that city
12. And they went out, and
preached that moti should repent.
13. And they cast out many
devils, and anointed with oil many
that were sick, and healed them.
Review and Connection— In
last Sunday's lesson we were told
about the timid woman who touch¬
ed the fringe of Christ's outer
garment, and was instautly healed
how the great Physician would
not allow his services to go uncon
fessed, but compelled her to toll
the Urge crowd what great things
tlie Lord had done for her; and
how she then received the Savior's
“Go in peace ” Jo-
sus proceeded to the house of
Jairus, and found hia daughter
already dead. He raised the girl
to life, and afterivards healed two
blind men and a dumb demoniac*,
He then, it seems almost irnmedi
ately, wont to Nazareth, the city
in which he was brought up as
a poor carpenter.
“Nazareth is about 14 miles
from the Sea of Galilee, and G6
miles north of Jerusalem in a
straight line. It has now about
5400 inhabitants. 2000 Moham¬
medans, 2500 Greeks, 800 Latins,
and 100 Protestants. The town is
quite a centre of trade for the ad¬
joining districts, and lately a tele¬
graph office has been established
bv order of the Sultan.”—Pelou
bet.
Explanatory:—!. “Out from
thence,” means from about Ca
pernaum. “His own country."
The neighborhood of Nazareth,
for there he was raised; and there
his mother and kindred then lived:
2. “When the Sabbath day was
come,”—he seems to have been
there some days before Sunday—
“lie began to teach in the syna¬
gogue.” Note how punctually
Jesus attendod the synagogue!
the Jewish church, on tho Sab¬
bath day, and that he uniformly
read or taught out of the script¬
ures. “These things,” refers to
liis wisdom, eloquence, power to
work miracles.
3. “Is not this tho carpenter.’’
Of course he was and “tho son of
Mary,” for ho is here indirectly
called a Carpenter, and Jewish
customs roquirod every ono to
loarn somo trade. There is scarce¬
ly auy doubt but that Jesus was a
wood-workman, the word translat¬
ed “carpenter" hero including also
cabinet work. This is all we know
of Jesus from tho ago of 12 to 30.
So far as wo know, tho Savoir of
the world w’as a quiet worker in
wo od. What a lesson for us!
Christ labored with his hands;
how much moro ought we! James
here was not tho apostle, but
“Janies the Just, “bishop of Je
rusalein, and was tho author of
the epistle of James. Somo think
that Juda was the author of tho
epistle Judo. “Wore offended" in
the Greek moans thought they
wore scandalized.
4. This verse shows how hard
it was for those who had known
Jesus as a plain mechanic to be¬
lieve in his divinity. That a poor
Nazareue laborer should claim to
be tho Sou ot God, seemod to
them too absurd to be allowed.
Seo also Luke iv. 22-30. This
fact recorded here about Jesus is
wonderfully true to human nature.
In all ages of tho world people
have been prone to underestimate
those men and things with which
they were familiar; and the con¬
verse is also true, that they fre¬
quently overvalue those things
and men with whom they are not
well acquainted. A thought in
harmony with this verso is ex¬
pressed in tho proverbs, “No man
is a hero to his own servant," and
breeds
5. “Ho could there do no migh¬
ty work,” and Matthew adds “be¬
cause of their unbelief.” We
must not understand this to moan
that ho did not have the power:
abstractly speaking, to heal the
unbelieving; it was not according
to the plan of salvation he was
setting up—it was contrary to the
will of the Father—hence he
could not. In every recorded case
of Christ’s healing, there was faith
somewhere eithe-i expressed or
implied. So it is now: it is
through faith wo are saved. Note
that lie did a little “mighty work”
—he healed a feiv sick people.
This is the meaning of the verse.
6. Marvel is an old word per
haps covering about the same
ground as both the familiar woidri
wonder and surprise. Christ was
human as well as divine, and
hence was sometimes said to mar¬
vel; here, because of unbelief; in
Matt. viii. 10. because of the great
faith of a Roman centurion.
7. “Called unto him the twelve.”
We do not know at what place
this was done. He “began to send
them forth.- They had now boon
with him nearly two years as dis¬
ciples or learners. He had taught
them about the nature of the king¬
dom that was soon to be set up, w
the manner and means of its
growth, and had set them an ex
ample of work and self-denial,
The time has eome when they
must have some experience in
trying to evangelise the world;
for in this they would learn both
their strength and their weakness;
and they must do this under the
°y e of tbe M ** ter bimaelf ' He
had taught them the rule, and had
solved many examples for them;
they must now’ work out some for
themselves.—It is said by those
who have studied the subject, that
to this day the most effectual w ay
to do missionary w’ork is by “two
and two.” “Two are moro than
twice one.”—Peloubet.
8. The chief idea in this verse
seems to be that they must go
just as they were, relying upon
the open hospitality of the people
for support. Moreover they were
laboring for the good of the peo¬
ple, and therefore deserved a sup¬
port at their hands. “Scrip” is an
old word gone out of use, and
means wallet; perhaps the soldier’s
haversack is more like it than any¬
thing else in us? at this time.
9. 10. The ninth verso continues
the idea to go as they were.
“There abide." We know not the
reason of this injunction, but
quote from The Land and the
Book. “When a stranger arrives
in a village on an encampment,
the neighbors, one after another,
must invite him to eat with them.
There is a strict etiquetto about it,
involving much ostentation and
hypocrisy. The evangelists were
sent, not to be honored and feast¬
ed, but to call men to repentance.”
11. The new version reads, “And
whatsoever place shall not re¬
ceive you, and they hoar you not,
as you go forth thence, shako off
the dust that is under your feet
for a testimony unto them.” The
remainder of the verse is omitted
here, but retained in Matthew x.
15. “More tolerable for Sodom,”
etc.; because they had einned
against less light,
j2. "Again they went out,” two
and two, “and preached that men
repent.” This lias boon
the sum and substance of all true
preaching from the day ; of John
tho Baptist till now, Bible re¬
pentance is the end striven for by
all truly Christian workers in any
age of tho world. The great ne«d
of the world to-day is that men
should havo new hearts, uew prin¬
ciples, new lives.
18. This verse given something
of the manner of works, and of
the suooess of the disciples, hence¬
forth vory properly called apos¬
tles, or evangelists; for they were
sent forth in the world witfi & mes¬
the of
RKMARj{B.--ftinoa Jesus was the
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penter himself, it may bo'interes¬
ting to remombor tho following
facts:—Moses was the son of a
poor slave Levite; Gideon w as a
tbroBber; David was a shepherd
boy; Euripides was tho son of a
fruiterer; Virgil, of a baker; Hor¬
ace, of a freed slave; Tamerlane,
of a shepherd; Ben Jonson, of a
mason; Shakospoaro, of a butcher;
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an of the Reformation was an
armorer; Luther was tho chil-1 of
a poor minor; Fuller was, a farm
servant; William Cary the- great"
Indian missionary and translator,
was a shoemaker; Robert Mom
son, the first Protestant mission¬
ary to China, and who first trans¬
lated the Bible into the Chinese
language, was a last maker; Dr.
Milne, who assisted Morrison in
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Whereas A mold Whitaker p,
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CITATION.
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To all whom it may concern; Whereas
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This Jan. 28th 1889.
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GEORGIA, Rockdale county—
To all whom it may concern; Whereas
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