The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-05-01
THE RULERS DAUGHTER.
International sunday-School Lesson for
May 4, 1890.

CENTRAL TRUTH = Jesus the victory over
death, both natural and spiritual.
TINE-Autumn, A. D. 2a Two or three days
after the last lesson
PLACR-Capernaum The house OF Matthew
ana the home OF Jairus.
PARALLEL AccoUNTs-Matt. S:1s, 10, 2S-9ol
Mark ;s1 ~, 864S.
INTERVENING HrsroRY-At the close Of tho
eight parallels, Of which our last lesson was
one, Jesus crossed the See Of 0alilee with His
disciples in the evening, stilled tempest that
threatened them. saved the demoniac Of Gadara
the next morning. returned to Capernaum, and
won't TO feast given by Matthew, where He
was when Jairus came to Him.
HlLps OVER HARD PLAcBs--41. A ruler Of the
syndgo0ue: or church Of the Jews. The syna-
gogue Yves ruled over by number Of leading
men, chosen for that purpose. <2. Bx& az ~
| Oenk: Jesus Immediately arose from the feast,
and went, together with His disciples. 20.
Thy douehter q dead; trouble not tAs Xdss~:
they thought Jesus could heal the sick, but not
raise tho dead. Only one case OF this kind had
occurred, and that fer on in the little village Of
Main. 10. Beiieps only and che shaA b made
sohols: Jairus had foundation for his faith In
what Jesus had done before.
JAIRus' FAITH-O) 1t was strong faith, OK.
pecting Jesus to raise to life one almost dead
| and beyond human help. O) II was an earnest
| faith. (O 1t was benevolent faith, seeking
blessings for others. (D 1t was an intelligent
| faith, founded on o knowledge OF what Jesus
had already done. (0 II was q tried and tested
| faith, for no small faith would have impelled Q
leader Of the Jews to break through restraints
Of custom, prejudice and social ties to go to .
| publcan's house and ask O favor OF one rejected
| by the Jerusalem leaders. (6) 1t was wisely.
directed faith, for Il was faith In Jesus his only
hope. (D It was faith joined with works, for 1t
led him TO 60 to Jesus and pray with the utmost
earnestness. 81. Suffered no man TO 90 In! to
the room where the sick girl was. Saps Peter
and James and John: the three nearest disci-
ples, to be witnesses. Three times Jesus So
lected these three for special favors. &c. Au
Uepf and 6etodiled her: the room was full Of
| friends and hired mourncrs, making loud lamen-
tations with wild gestures in Oriental fashion
She ts not dead, but sleepefh: spoken hgurstive-
ly, because He was to bring her back to life, IS
one is awakened from sleep. 80. Laughed him
| TO seorn: they ridiculed the idea that He did
not know death from sleep. This II reported
TO show that the girl was really dead. Is She
aroas: and walked MARK. Gtos her meat:
food: showing that she was fully restored from
disease, as well as death. 80. Tell no man: lest
too many call for Him in the same way. and
leave no time for teaching; or lest the crowd
should try TO make Him temporal king, and
thus injure the true spiritual kingdom, and
draw upon them the power Of Rome, as upon
rebels.
BLESSINGS ACCORDING TO OUR FAIrH-C)
helps from God Is their effect upon the soul
and the spiritual life All Christ's miracles
are illustrations Of spiritual truths. C2) 1t Is
necessary, therefore, in comforting these earthly
blessings that the soul recognize God as the
giver, and be drawn toward Him In love and trust
Faith in Him is thus the means by which the
spiritual blessings are made to flow from the
temporal. (3) This union makes every earthly
gift Of God doubly blessed. (Q BY insisting on
faith as the condition Of receiving, we are
pointed to the natural and necessary effect OF
true faith. Faith is an essential to the great
est success. Creduhty, superstition and un-
warranted expectations are often the ruin Of
men In worldly things, but true faith that leads
to courage, activity, undaunted perseverance
and o steady, calm mind, is one Of the essential
conditions Of the largest earthly life. And the
samo principle applies to the spiritual world.
CoMMENTs-We have only three re-
corded instances where Jesus raised per-
sons from the dead, viz: the one in our
lesson, the widows son and Lazarus.
The widows son we have had. This,
therefore, is good opportunity for
drawing analogies between physical and
spiritual death. A far better Golden
Text than that chosen by the committee
would be: Sand you hath He quickened
who were dead in trespasses and sins"
(Eph. ely. This can, however, be woven
In with the Golden Text, since, by "be-
| lieving," we who were dead are made
alive in Christ Jesus. The generic
statement of our theme, then, is: BY
nature all men are dead spiritually.
Adam died in the day he ate Of the for
bidden fruit. His body lived after that,
but spiritually he died as soon as he
broke the Divine command. So every
man who sins is dead to all spiritual
things He is just as dead to them as .
corpse is dead to temporal things. He
listens to spiritual truth and hears 1t
not; he sees spiritual things and per-
ceives them not. Talk to him about
the things pertaining to the kingdom,
and you might as we'll speak to a mum
my from Egypt. Like the bones In
Ezekiels vision which were very dry,
30 is the natural man. Moreover, he is
80 dead as to be unable to help himself.
The reformations which men practice
are no more like spiritual living than
were the oorpses in Ezekiel's vision, be-
fore the breath came into them, like
living men. There is no breath in them.
BY nature man is powerless to feel, pow
erless to hear, powerless to do. Why?
BeodsIse he Is dead.
We readily grant this in the case Of
open, vile and hardened sinners. But
how about your nice, moral, yet worldly
young lady Of society with cultivated
tastesp How about your exemplary man
Of science, whose erudition has made his
name household word, but who rejects
the Bible? Are they dead also3 As
suredly, for God says: "There is no Diff
ference. All have sinned and come
short Of the glory Of God" (Rom. 8:23).
The sinfulness Of these persons and
their spiritual deadness may not be as
apparent as in the case of open and hard
ened sinners, but 1t is none the less real.
| Rev. A. r. Schauffler.
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS.
/. Sorrow often leads to Jesus, and
brings acquaintance with Him and spir-
itual blessings.