The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-02-14

W Eobfuafy H. 1850.
Especially arranged from y. 3. cuasssriy.1
LsssoN Mark 1854. Il sni.e.{ =
GOLDEN TExT--Be not afraid, only be-
lieve. : Mark 8 :88.
CENTRAL TRUTH Faith IN Christ the
means Of salvAtion for both body and soul.
TrMs-Autumn, A. d. 70. Probably In
the afternoon Of the same day that Christ
healed the demoniac at GadarA
PLAcH-Capernaum; on the way between
the house Of Matthew aud that Of Jairus.
PARALLEL AccouNTs-Matt. 0:20-22; Luke
S:43-4S. Jesus nearly thirty-two years old.
John the Baptist in prison at Castle
Macherus.
INTERVENING EvENrs-After healing the
demoniac, Jesus The same morning returns
from Gadara to Capernaum, and Is invited
by Matthew to q feast at his house, where
He discourses with the Phsrisees who as
sembled there During the feast Jairus, o
ruler Of Q synagogue, comes hastily, be-
seeching Jesus to 60 to his house and heal
his daughter who lies ut the point Of death.
Jesus Immediately goes, followed by His
disciples and great crowds Of people On
the way took place the event of to-day's les
son.
HELPS OVER HARD PLAcEs-c5. A certain
Wo'ndn: her name not known. Tradition
says she was q GENTLE of Cesarea-P Philippi,
named Veronica. 81. She had heard Of jesus:
she POUNDS her faith on facts. Jesus had
healed many, and therefore might cure her.
OBSTACLES TO Her FAITH-O Sickness;
C) poverty; (3) she was timid and retiring;
az all former efforts had proved failures;
(5) great crowds around Jesus; Coy Jesus
was busy, Fastening to dying girl. ~.
Press crowd. Touched his garment: rather
Matt. 9:20), the hem or border of His garment:
!. c., one Of the four tufts or tassels at
tached to the four corners of the outer robe.
2S " may touch but His clothes: she showed
true faith, strong, active, reasonable, using
all the means in her power. 1t was not
superstition that red her to touch Jesus
garment, but faith; for in nearly all cases
Jesus touched the one He healed. 20.
Strat0htwaviin iinstan antaneously. Felt mi her body
there was sense of returning health 30.
Virtue: healing power. Who tOuchedf Christ
was not ignorant, but wished to draw out
from her confession of her faith in order
that her soul might be cured as we'll as her
body. 81. His disciples said: Peter and they
that were with himN Luke S:45). SO. Fearing
and trembling: just as was natural that
humble, shrinking woman should, at the
public exposure, knowing also that, accord
ing to the Levitical law, her touch was un-
clean. "a. Daughter: o term of affection, i'm
plying also q spiritual relationship Thy
fdth hath made thee tChols hath cured thee,
saved thee, both body and soul. Christ
saved her. but her faith was the condition.
A Parable Of the Sinner seeking to be
saved Is seen In this woman's circum-
stances. ~ A real, deep seated malady,
exhausting the strength, depressing the
spirits. (0 All efforts to cure it himself
are vain. Morality, good resolutions, cere-
monies, forms, self-inficted tortures, are
all ''physicians Of no value" () Even
when people are so earnest that they spend
all they have in such ways, the effort is
fruitless; though usually men ''are very
far from doing rs much for the health of
the soul as for that Of the body, and from
giving all for eternal salvation as they
willingly spend all they have for temporal
life." az There are many difficulties to be
overcome. "Whoever comes to Christ must
come In the press-amidst hindrances.
They must make their way ythrough o
crowd Of cares, temptations, fears"
WHY FAITH Is NECESSARY TO SALVATION
-N Faith Is the act of receiving the
truth. We can not enjoy forgiveness and
the love OF God unless we believe
the message Jesus brings. (2) Faith in
Jesus leads US to love Him. (3) Faith is
the act Of the soul which gives itself to
Jesus as Lord, and Saviour, and Leader;
this Is salvation. (1 One can not live the
religious life without that faith which
makes eternal and spiritual things real and
trusts In God as Father and Friend.
COMMENTs-This woman was afraid at
the first to come to the Lord in an open
way. But in reality she had no cause to fear
the reception that He would have given her.
There were many reasons for this. Q)
The faith that she had was in itself O recon-
mendation to the Saviour. For no one ever
came to Him in faith who failed to receive q
blessing It made no difference whether
the faith was very great or very small; IL
1t only was strong enough to bring the
sufferer to the feet Of the Master; it was
enough to secure the desired blessing. In
the same way we may argue in our own
great faith, and we also hnd some whose
ask any thing for themselves. Never mind
how great or how small your faith is, IL it 10
strong enough to take you TO the Masters
feet 1t will be enough to save you. For it is,
after all, the Master who must save; and II
little faith can only hold out long enough to /
bring you to Him He will take care Of the
rest. (2) II she had only known 1t, the
very fact Of her sore need was
, Recommendation to Him Had He
not Himself once said: "They that
are whole have no need Of q physician,
but they are that sickP" The more in need
this woman was, the more was the chance
that her case would appeal to His sym
pathies. So she might have taken comfort
from the very fact that no earthly doctor
was skillful enough to deal with her case
What seemed to her, perhaps, q cause for
was in fact o reason for
cheer. Now, In things spiritual the same is
true. II we feel our case to be 80 bad that
here is no help for US with men, all the
more reason that we should go to the
Master, for He came into this.world ON pur-
pose to help those for whom there was no
,ther help. II the sinner had the power to
help himself, there would have been no
sail for the Lord 10 leave Heaven to come
down and give His life for him. The very
helplessness of the sinner is one ground Of
in which he ought to re-
|oice Is your case q desperate onel Then
you are just the one whom the blessed Lord
wants to see and whom He will be willing