News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-02-21
THE |. S. S. LESSON.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR
FEBRUARY "a.
Lesson Text: ''The Great Teacher
and the Twelve" Mark. vi,
1-13-GoIden Text: Mark
", 1-13-Comm

| 1-13-Golden Text: Mark
", 1-1S-Commentar
J. "And He went out from thence" that
| is from Capernaum where He had just
healed the woman who had been twelve years
sick, the little girl II years cd who had just
died, the two blind men and the dumb de-
mon &C; where also he had on previous &C.
casions healed the man in the synagogue
with an unclean spirit, Peters wife's mother,
| the sick with the palsy, tho nobleman's son.
the oenturion's servant and many others not
mentioned individually Mark l. w.; Matt
tx. Luke vii. John iv.) How highly privi-
works were done there! Read what He says
| in Matt. XII, 2+24. Remember your own
privileges, and ask yourself if it will be more
tolerable for some one who never heard of
| Christ than for you in the day of judgment.
''And came into His own country" After
| the people of Nazareth rejected Him and
sought His life He made Capernaum His
home if He could be said to have a home),
and it was called ''His own city" Matt. tx, l.;
| Luke, w., Is 81: hut Nazareth was His own
| country where He had been brought up. How
| patient, forgiving and long suffering He is,
| and how earnestly He continues to seek those
who reject Him, if perchance they may re-
pent.
Ibis disciples follow Him." Some follow
fully and some follow afar off some seek and
| serve Him with the whole heart and some do
| anything but that Unless we are as earnest
| as He was i'll seeking the lost, as patient and
| forgiving towards our enemies, and as faith
full in witnessing for God, can we be said to
| follow Him fully and serve Him with all the
| hearth
2. - hen the Sabbath day was come, He
| logan to teach in the synagogue" He had
| been at it early and late all the week, teach
| ing, healing and journeying on foot or by
| boat from place to place; but every Sabbath
day is filed a SO, and it would seem that they
| were among his busiest days If we serve
| HIM only on the Sabbath day, or if our
work through the week is such that We cam
| not heartily serve Him even on that day, or
If we find the one day given wholly to Him
| a WEAKNESS, is it worth while to call our
| SC. yes His followers or profess devotion to
| Him.
| ). is not this tie carpenter!' They had
| known Him many years as the carpenter,
and The carpenters son Matt xiii, Sol; His
mother also they knew and HIS brethren and
sisters, and while they could not but wonder
at His wisdom and His mighty works, it was
too much for them TO receive HIM of the
humble home their Messiah, and they were
o.. ended at Him. Their blindness is but a
type of the blindness of multitudes of pro-
Tossing Christians to day. who, not hee ling
the plain statements of Scripture, are look
ing for results which they will not see and
are blind to the things they are told to look
for. As to these hers and sisters being
Mary's children, the language of the text in
dictate it, and Is. Xix, {, toretells and con-
firms it.
4. "A prophet is not without honor, but in
his own country, among his own kin, and in
his own house" On two other occasions did
He speak the same truth luke iv., "a; John
w., 44l and John vii, 5, tells us that at one
time even His own brethren did not believe
in HIM. therefore, if any enc reads this who
is called of God to be a teacher in Sunday
school a preacher of the Gospel and God
has sealed the call by showing you results of
your work, let not the opinions of your
neighbors, or friends. or kindred, as to what
they may deem your lack of fitness for the
work, in the least deter you; but seeing Jesus
only and aiming to glorify Him, go forward
remembering l Cor j., 2G-31.
). HE could there do no mighty work"
With the exception of healing few sick
folk, His power was not manifested in His
native town because of their unbelief, Matt.
xiii, IS. How gladly He would have healed
all their SICK and magnified the name of the
Lord among them If they had only received
Him; how His heart must have warned to
tell them more fully the good news of tie
Kingdom, but their ears we're stopped, and
they compelled Him to turn away. and lie
marveled because OF their unbelef."
He went round about the villages teach
ing" Matt. tx, IS, says that He taught in
their synagogues, preaching the gospel OF
the kin ydom and healing every sickness and
every disease among the people; and that the
sight of the multitudes, who were as sheep
without shepherd, so touched Him that He
~
harvest to send forth laborers
z. He called unto Him the twelve and
began to send them forth The praying
ones are now going forth to answer their own
prayers, and then He sent forth over seventy
also, still encouraging them to continue pray
ing for more laborers luke X, In. He
gave them authority over all devils and to
cure diseases: He sent them to preach the
kingdom of God and to heal the sick. They
went forth III His name to show forth His
power; to proclain$ that the King had come,
the kingdom was at hand and to prove it by
such deeds in His name as the prophets had
said He would perform They were sent only
to the lost sheep of the house of Israel not
to Genti!es nor Samaritans Matt. K, 5-6), for
Jesus bad come as lsraers Messiah, and had
they received Him they would have become
as nation center of light and salvation to
all the world. These m ssionaries went forth
seeking only to make Him known.
8, " Nothing for their journey, =
no scrip no bread, no money, no extra coat"
nor going TO make much out of this fnan-
cially They were on the Kings business,
and He would not fail to pro- ide for them
by the way nor to recom' ense them for their
work but they must Simply Lave all that to
Him and fulfill His commands.
10. I'm what place soever we enter into an
house, there abide till ye depart from that
place" They were not to enter any or
every house. but to inquire for a worthy |
house, and if after entering they should find |
the HOUSE not what it was said to be, they
were to leave it. Matt X, ll-13l The fol- |
lower of Christ is not to EXPECT that either |
He or lis message will be We | received by |
all nor is he TO trust himself where he is |
not wanted, nor seek help from those who |
know not the Lord; but lovingly and |
patiently is he to go in his Masters name.
bearing his Master message of peace and
good will, content to be faithful to Him, !
beaI ing ali things for His sake, and coveting |
above all things His approval
II. more tolerable for Sodom AMI Gomor- |
rha in the day of judgment, than for that
CITY," Although this sentence Is not in the |
Revised Version, yet it is found IN Matt. x, |
Is; XII, 81 and shows us The greater resLon- |
sibility of greater privileges, and how fearful |
will be the doom of those who refuse to hear |
or receive the Lord Jesus Christ, those |
whom He sends forth as His witnesses. Matt. |
X, 40) We are also taught here that the
p ople of So1om AMI G NORMA have yet to |
come into judgment for the Judge Himself |
has SAID it with His Verify, | say unto YOU
II. And they went out and preached that |
men shou repent" Between this verse and |
the last the whole of Matt. x, 1912, seems |
to come in with its warnings, instru tons
and exhortations to proclaim the truth |
boldly and to fear no man, nor death itself,
Is. They cast ont many devils, and
anointed with oil many that were SICK and
healed them The Lord wrought through |
them and His name was glorified. His power
through them was as il He had been present |
Himself and it should be so still: but we |
must remember that these miracles were
tokens of the kingdom then at hand, but now
postponed till His return; and yet the apes
ties continued to work miracles in His name
long after He had assembled hack to the
Father hnd if there was more faith and whole
hearted separation unto Him now on tho |
part of His followers there would be more |
manifestations of His power. Let every
Christian obey in simple reliance on Him, |
and how soon would the whole world be |
evangelized.-Lesson HeiDer.
THERE is q young lady in De Land,
Fla, who is collecting all the mus
taches she can get and weaving the
hairs thereof into watchguard.