Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-20


stearns.
Compiled from Lesson Helper Quarterly by per.
mission Of II. s Hoffman, publisher Philadel
phia
H. "And it came to pass on a certain day
as He was teachingn Our last lesson. Con
corning the miraculous draught Of fishes. is
recorded only in Luke; then follows the heal
ing OF the leper, recorded by Matthew, Mark
and Luke as a result of which there came
great multtudes to hear and be healed, inso-
much that Jesus could no more openly enter
into the city, but was without in desert
places. Then Luke says that He withdrew
Himself into the wilderness and prayed
Verse l6). Notice the seven other occasions
recorded by Luke on which Jesus prays wi,
H. ID; tx IS, 20; XII, 1, 2; xxi, 49, Al, Al, and
let us all sincerely ask ourselves how much
we know of the power Of prayer.
There We're Pharisees and doctors of the
law sitting by, which were come out of every
town of Galilee, and Judea, and Jerusalem. ="
80 that here was gathered convention of
all the leading and influential religious peo-
pie of the land, and they were being address
ed by this humble carpenter of Nazareth up-
ON topics with which they ought to be very
familiar, and Of which the wonder in their
eyes was that He should know anything.
Is. "And, behold, men brought in a bed 1.
man which was taken with palsy" Mark
says that four men carried him. His trouble
was paralysis he was utterly helpless, all I'M
done, not thing could he do for himself
Other cases of this disease are recorded in
Matt iv, pa viii, g; Acts viii, 4 tx 80, the last
case being that Of man who had kept his bed
for eight years. This mans physical condition
was an illustration Of thecondition of all men
uV.iri oil q
without strength, ungodly, sinners, enemies"
and that was just the condition of those Phar-
isees and doctors Of the law who were sit
ting by, but they knew it not.
49, "They wentiupon the housetop, and let
him down through the thing, with his couch,
into the midst before Jesus. " The discourage
ments were many and great 1t seemed sim
ply impossible to get their friend to Jesus
~. And when He saw their faith He said
unto him, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee. "
The great people present may have felt like
Directing very decidedly to this rude inter
ruption; or some hateful ones may have
laughed in their hearts at the meeting being |
thus disturbed; but the quiet camness and
dignity of Jesus would overawe them and as
all was still again. the helpless man living on
his couch in their midst, these most unex-
pected words fell from the preachers lips:
"Man, thy sins are forgiven thee" AS the |
skillful physician seeks carefully the source of .
the more manifest symptoms, the seat of the
disease, and attends TO that, knowing that il |
the cause is removed all will be we'll, so Jesus
goes at once to the cause Of all sickness and
suffering and death, and in the case of this
man grants him first his greatest need the
forgiveness OF his sins At the same time He
indicates to the Pharsees their need.
AI,, 10 A. l.
miesl Who can forgive sins but God aloneso
Thus these sin sick Scribes and Pharsees be-
gan to reason in their hearts, not knowing
that God Himself stood in their midst and
uttered these words.
%. Jesus perceived their thoughts R. ".
reasonings said unto them, What reason We
in your heartsP They must have been
startled at having the thoughts of their
hearts thus told out before all, and one would
think that this would convince them that
Jesus was more than man. If they were
well versed In their own Scriptures, as they
should have been, such words as these would
have come to mind, 81 know the things that
come into your mind, every one Of Them"
1.-THE Lord seaTcheth all hearts, and under
standeth all the imaginatious of the thoughts"
Thou understandest my thoughts afar off"
%. whether is easier to say, Thy sins
be forgiven thee; or to say Rise up and
walk" Each was equally easy to God mani
lest in the flesh, but from their standpoint
simply to heal the man of his sickness would
not imply the same power of God as to grant 8
forgiveness of SINS and would not have led
them to accuse Him of blasphemy
81 "The Sonof Man hath power upon earth
TO forgive sins" And lie will have them to 7
know it, But who is this Son of Man? This I
40 ftr Ct 1 h., ,
but we shall find it about twenty-five times
as wo so on, 1t is at least thirty times in
fourteen times in Mark and ten
times in John 1t seems 20 be our Lords
favorito title of Himself, and is found outside
Of the Gospels only in Aoks vii SO; Heb. ii, 6; i
Rev. /, 10; xiv, II. or Che eighty times He v
uses it i'll the four Gov.N2ls He uses it in refer
ence to His resurrection and future glory q.
about thirty times, and that reminds us of p
Ps. viii, 4; Xxx, II; Dan. vii, 49, where the +
Son OF Man is tho one to whom dominion On il
'arth is given. He has power TO remove sin O
md sickness, and does it even now in the case +
If individuals lie removes sin rs to its .on- a
sequences and power from every ore who
ruly seeks Him. He removes sicEsess and r.
differing whenever it is for our good and His Il
glory, but not until the resurrection will He n
1--WE His people bodies forever free from all =
nflrmity. Tho time viii come when He shall n
ave removed from the earth forever all
races of sin and the curse; and He shall do it !,
IS Son of Man, David's Son, Abraham's Son, II
n association with redeemed Israel and the =,
,lorited church. n
%. And Immediately he rose up before
hem, and took up that whereon he lay, and
epartod to his own house, clarifying God"
The Word of the Son of Man, God manifest
n the flesh, did it. He forgave his sins, He II
called his body. We would as a rule have All
ealthior bodies if we had healthier souls, 81
urer hearts, hearts in which the Word of 70
Tod dwelt richly. If our bodies were tenn y"
les filled with tho Holy Spirit, who can tell q
that He, the Quickener, Teacher, Comforter,
'ould do for us, in us, through us, to the ~
lory of God. BY the Word of the Lord W
ere the heavens made and all the host of Ia
lem by the breath of His mouth (Ps xxxiii,
, and that Word in which the Spirit dwells W
Iohn vi, G3) has lost none of its power Tura III
moment to the man and his friends as they
turn home in triumph, clarifying God ~,
That praise meeting it was; a true Halle i''
Iiah chorus And all because of faith in the III
on of Man.
&c, acknowledgements God-filled with
'ar-We have seen strange things to-day" DR.
ssus is the Lord God Of tho holy prophets FRI
Rev. xxi, q, 1G, and if our hearts looking up th
} Him in childlillo faith should say, 'Ah, eli
ord God behold, Thou hast made the heaven TO
I'd the earth by Thy great power and an
retched out arm, and there is nothing too 10,
lrd for Thee der, xxi, IN, We too would la
; amazed at the results Of faith, and should W.