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1878.
International Lessons.
FOURTH QUARTER —LESSON VI. —NOV. 10
"WHOM THE LORD RECEIVES.
Luke xviii: 9-17.
Golden Text. —Verily I say unto
you, Whosoever shall not receive the
Kingdom of God as a little child,
shall in no wise enter therein. Luke
18: 17.
Notes. —In point of time, this les
son follows the fourth one of the
quarter. It seems that it was spoken
by the Saviour to certain followers or
disciples of his, for he takes the Phar
isee as an illustration, which he would
not have done if he had been talking
to the Pharisees. Publican. —A tax
collector appointed by the Roman
government, and held by the Jews in
about the same estimation as the mil
itary tax collectors and rulers of the
South were, just after the war. Fasts.
The law did not require these fasts,
but tradition fixed the days on Mon
days and Thursdays. The smiting
the breast was a sign of grief and
pain. Justified. —Atonement being
made for his sins, which is the moan
ing of the original. Pharisees. —They
derived their name from a word
meaning to separate. They believed
themselves better than other people.
They left the spirit of the law, and
obeyed customs and traditions and
church rules. They developed into
the High Church of the Jews—nar
row, exclusive, bigoted, self-righteous.
1. The two Prayers. —Roth these
men fulfilled the requirements of the
the law, in going into the court of the
temple to pray. The one stationed
m a conspicuous place, and in a clear
voice, made his boast before all the
people; the other, in his humility,
witii downcast eyes, smiting his breast,
says, God, be merciful to me a sinner.
One claimed to be righteous, better
than others; while the other confess
ed himself a sinner. Abbot says:
“ The former, a type of orthodox be
lief, and a vigorous, but legal morali
ty ; the other, a typo of the justly
condemned, and the outcast.
2. Self-Righteousness. —This sin
is as old as the human race ; it pre
vails to-day in all the churches. We
preach humility and self-abasement,
while in heart we are Pharisees. We
behold a drunken man, an open vio
lator of God’s law, and we, in our
self-righteousness, thank God that we
are not as bad as others. The lesson
plainly teaehos that we should carry
the grace ,
and not go there to exalt ourselves
and accuse others.
3. God , be merciful to me a sinner. —
If Paul could call himself the chief of
sinners, how much more should that
be the burden of every prayer of every
repentant sinner to-day. It is ac
cording to the plan of salvation that
confession of sins shall precede for
giveness. “If we confess our sins, he
is faithful and just to forgive us our
sins, and to cleanse us from all un
righteousness.”
4. Pride and Humility. —The dis
ciples of the Saviour no doubt began
early to show signs of self-righteous
ness, and it is no wonder, for the Phar
isees had been setting a notable ex
ample, and they were a respectable
people, and stood high in the church.
When a church becomes popular be
cause it is aristocratic, or fashionable,
or even respectable, humble, self-sacri
ficiDg devotion is apt to take leave of
the worshippers. God is no respecter
of sects or churches. With him the
prayer of the humble, self-accusing
Publican is more acceptable than all
the formulated and systematic service
of the Pharisee. Self-righteousness
is displeasing to sensible men, and
hateful to God ; humility makes
friends in this world, and opens the
very door of heaven.
5. And they brought unto Him also
infants. —These Jewish mothers, with
their little children, shed a gentle,
mellow light on all the pictures of the
Saviour’s incarnation. They are gen
erally in the background, scarcely
visible in the multitudes that passed
around him, but they are always
there. From his first appearance in
his public ministry to his crucifixion,
when they would crown him king
with loud hosannas, and when, -with
thorns, the mothers, with their in
fants, were always near. Now and
theD, as in the present instance, with
woman’s devotion aud woman’s inspi
ration, they would step boldly to the
front, and the strong, self-reliant men
would be thrown far into the back
ground. These blessed Jewish moth
ers stand up before all mothers of
every Christian land, as an example
worthy of imitation. Carry the little
ones to the Saviour in prayer and
consecration. He may not touch
them and take them up in his arms,
but he will as surely bless them as he
did eighteen hundred years ago. The
boldness, and faith, and confidence of
those mothers brought blessings to
their children. If yours are unbless
ed to-day, it is because you are lack-
SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE.
ing in these graces. The Saviour
stands with open arms to receive
them. Carry them to him, and lot
them receive the blessing.
6. The Rebuke. —These disciples of
the Saviour fell far short of perfec
tion. In their zeal to hear and learn,
and be first in the Master’s opinion,
| they sometimes became rude. In this
J case there was no need for it. We
! show the same spirit to-day, when we
say to such as we consider unworthy
that they must stand back, and let
their superiors manage all church
matters. Let us keep our rebukes
for sin, and not for our brethren.
7. Little Children. —Suffer them,
that is, permit them, to come freely.
Do not say you are too young, wait
until you are older, wait until you can
uederstand fully the plan of salva
tion, as laid down in our catechism, j
Many children have been deprived of
the offered blessing, because tho older
church members rebuked them, and
kept them back. “ Forbid them not,”
says the blessed Master, and every
Christian mother says the same.
8. Of such is the Kingdom of God. |
The Saviour plainly tells his disciples i
that they must receive the kingdom j
of God as a little child, or they can j
not enter. Tho meaning and force of!
this cannot bo even partly understood j
unless one knows and loves children, j
Every person who studies thoroughly i
the character of one child, throws a |
light on these verses relating to chil
dren that is better than can be ob
tained from any commentator. Be- |
fore children learn the ways of wrong j
\ doing from their elders they are frank, |
! honest, truthful, full of faith, without ,
\ prejudice, or malice, or envy, or self
ishness. They abound in love, and
while they may not like certain per
sons, it is because these persons are
not worthy the love of a little child.
They are not respecters of persons,
loving the poor, the ragged, the col
ored, with as much warmth and affec
tion as they do tho rich and favored.
They love the person, and not his sur
roundings. It has always seemed
that children incline more to the poor
than the rich.
3.—The practical question for each
is; Have 1 received the kingdom of
God as a little child ? Have I sought
the Saviour with confession and hu
mility, as did the Publican ? There is
no middle ground between the Pub
lican and the Pharisee. One must
either be an humble, trusting follower
of the Saviour, or else a self-sufficient,
' proud man, standing by, with'ail bold
ness proclaiming his own good deeds
and merits.
Christian World.
The colored Baptists of South Caro
lina have appointed Rev. N. H. Bouey
a missionary to Liberia.
The Primitive Methodists of Eng
land during tho past year raised mis
sionary money to tho measure of
nearly SI per member, or about $150,-
000.
Tho Rev. John Dunmoro Lang,
D. D., the first settled minister of the
Presbyterian faith in New South
Wales, died recently at Sidney. He
was born in Scotland in 1799, and went
to Australia in 1822. No man devo
ted moro time and labor to tho incul
cation of good morals in a convict
community and to induce immigration
of good, industrious colonists.
The General of tho Jesuits is re
ported to be seriously at variance
with the Pope, and it is thought that
this accounts, in a great degree, for
the serious diminution of the amount
of the Peter’s Pence. It is hinted
that tho condition of the Papal Ex
chequer may induce the Vatican to
accept the handsome stipend offered
by Italy, which the present Pope, like
his predicessor, has hitherto refused.
The union of Methodist churches in
Ireland has brought into existence a
new piece of governmental machinery,
known as a general committee. It
has charge of the home mission, edu
cational, and other church funds. It
has just held its first session in Dub
lin. Another change in contempla
tion is the making of a sort of presid
ing elder of the chairman of each
district, who, in order that he may
give constant oversight to the circuits
in his district, is to be relieved of a
pastoral charge.
Civilization continues to make head
way in Japan. A Chamber of Com
merce has been organized at Tokio.
The government has interfered to
prevent the deportation of its sub
jects to Peru for industrial purposes,
not being minded to see them subjec
ted to the same pains and penalties
which Chinese coolies have under
gone. A domestic loan for $12,000,000,
which was put upon the market last
May, has been fully taken by the peo
ple, notwithstanding tho derision of
the attempt by English speculators,
who wanted to get the loan for them
selves. The failure of the loan was
generally predicted by foreigners, and
its success is tho more gratifying aud
encouraging.
Recently in England Rev. Dr. E. C.
Wines related a remarkable story of
the son of a professional thief. While
in prison he was converted. After
serving his time out he worked at his
trade, studied the languages, and en
tered a seminary, where he formed
the acquaintance of an earnest Chris
tian student. The two resolved to be
come missionaries to the heathen,
and plunged into the heart of India,
where missionaries had never been
seen. After eight years’ labor among
the Santhals the result is 30 churches,
40 schools, 2 training-schools, 2,100
communicants, a Christian population
of 6,000, and a grammar and a diction
ary of the Sauthal language
Bishop Wiley has lately been on a
missionary tour through China and
Japan. Twenty-five years ago he first
came home from China disheartened,
after a period of unfruitful labor. But
on this visit he found a marvelous
change. He says that where he left
five preachers, there are now five hun
dred and eleven, and that he could
set out from Peking and travel across
the entire Empire, a distance of 2,000
miles, and stop every night at a mis
sion station with a Christian family.
He speaks of Japan as a whole nation
breaking away from the past and
reaching after modern ideas. If the
Church meets its opportunity, Dr.
Wiley thinks Japan will boa Chris
tian nation before the close of the pres
ent century.
Monseignor do Ilaorno, of the Eng
lish College of Burgos, has compiled
statistics showing tho progress of
Catholicism in Great Britain and the
United States. In England in tho
last twenty years the number of Cath
olic places of worship has increased
from 894 to 1,315; of priests, from
1,115 to 2,087 ; of religious homes for
men, from 21 to 78; of convents for
women, from 97 to 239. In 1855
thero were 44 sees in Great Britain
and its colonies. New there are 88
archbishops aud bishops. In Canada
since 1869 tho number of Catholic
churches has increased from 779 to
1,171. In the same period the num
ber of religious homes has advanced
from 73 to 19C. Thero are 3,139
schools, being one school for every 600
of the population. In the United
States there only one female
academy in 1800. Now there are over
400. Of the 56 bishops, 30 are of Irish
birth.
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