The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-06
READING FOR THE SABBATH.
Do Thou Thy Will.

READING FOR THE SABBATH.
Do Thou Thy Will.
Do Thou thy will with me.
/ am convinced that thy mysterious ways
Lead ever up to goals of peace. 1 see
In looking back DER discOntentcd days
When rebelled at paths Thou ledst me in
/ see how for my good it all has been.
Do Thou thy will.
Do Thou thy will. find
That when 1 wept because some barrier stood
Between me and nv lOngings, L was blind;
For Thou hadst placed 1t there for my own
And when in chosen paths 1 could not go,
1t was to guard me from some needless woe.
Do Thou thy will.
Do Thou thy will. feel
The calm of realms toward which my feet are
Across my fevered, restless spirit steal.
The blind rebellion of my heart is dead.
Or in the valley or on the nights above
The hand that leads me is the hand of Love. : ---
Do Thou thy will
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in Independent.
Sunday-School Lesson for Jan. IS, 1889.
A SABBATH IN THE LIFE OF JEsUs.-Mark
iv, 21-3.
Golden Text-As His custom was, He went
into the synagogue on the Sabbath day.-IMke
w., 16.
Mon.-Matt- iv, Ill. The Temptation of Jesus.
Il,
Wed.-Luke Nv. 1870 Rejected at Nazareth.
Thurs.-Mark i, 21-34 A Sabbath in His Life
Fri.-Matt. v, 5-ls His wonderful gil Teaehings
Sun.-Luke xiii, 11-3O Jesus Lord OF the Sabbath.
We know very little of the hOme-life Of
Jesus. but all that we do know is most in
teresting. and instructive. The first year
of His ministry, after His baptism, was a
homeless one, and was spent mostly in Ju-
dea, and preaching to the Jews. He was so
cruelty and shamefully treated in Nazareth
that he could never make that place His
home again, and SO, on His return from His
Judean ministry recorded by john He
passes by Nazareth, and, entering Caper-
naum, He makes that city His new home,
and from that point He began His Galilean
ministry, that is SO fully recorded in Mark.
He selected Capernaum because it was ON
the great highway of travel through Pales-
home of several of His disciples; for Beth
saida, the residence of Peter and john was
a suburb of Capernaum, and was probably
the name given to that quarter of the city
places of business, the name meaning Fish
town. There was much in this first Sab
bath that made it wonderful and memoir
able day to the people.
WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES
The first thought of the lesson is that
Jesus went to church on His Sunday
There are few who wonder what is the
they say, Ito hear man talk from half to
three-quarterS of an hour. / can get more
good out of the Bible at home" Such a
one rarely reads his Bible to start with. If
poor let him get up a service of his own,
anything as long as Christ is his first motto.
There is plenty of room In the church for
fresh layman blood. Only let none criticise
the preacher too severely until he has tried
it himself
In the church he taught. Preaching isn't
the only way of teaching in church. You
can teach by paying strict attention to the
service, joining in heartily with the sing
Ing the responses and every audible priv
nestness in prayer, of reverential atti-
tude, of an evident appreciation of the
truths the preacher enfOrces may be pecul-
larly potent. LOlling, coughing, yawning
rustllng, whispering, reStlessnesS, a sort of
a piOus blase air are baneful and harmful
to the cause.
1t does require certain degree of great
ness IT not originality to present truths in
quality in a full degree. When the natural,
simple and terse habit of attractive teach
ing isn't Unborn it can be cultivated. An
exhaustive study of Christ's style will
teach one how to express truth entertain
ingly.
AS soon as Peters mother-in-law was
cured she began to hustle about and care
for them in return. There is no truer ex-
preston OF gratitude than by rendering
those comfortable who denied themselves
for you.
On the whole the mass discriminates and
Justly. Is a man unpopulars He probably
deserves it. Does the crowd gather at the
door OF another, he has what they need
must come and have health. is your church
empty, your mission unsuccessful, your
school languid? You are at fault, you
haven't proper food for them. Get it. If
hnv will ind N
surging for the bread that strengthens the
water that invigorates, or the word that
heals.
One of the most wonderful facts of the
what is the trouble it can be remedied.
Christ could heal the divers Diseases
None was battling to his touch. So don't
be afraid to attack any thing. Il can do all
things through Christ which strengthened
me-"