The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-03-05
THE GREAT PHYSICIAN.
International Sunday School Lesson 70
March o, 1890.

LESSON IEXT-Luke 4. S3-44.
GOLDEN TExT-He cast out the spirits
with His word, and healed all that were
,iok.-Matt. s: IS.
CENTRAL TRuTH-Jesus and His Gospel
are full of good works for man.
TIME-A Sabbath in April, A. ID. %.
A week after the last lesson.
PLAcE-Capernaum, on the northwest
shore of the Sea of Galilee.
Jesus between thirty-one and thirty
two years old. He had been preaching
about one and one-half years. John the
Baptist in prison at Castle Macherus
since March. He had preached less than
two years.
PARALLEL AcCoUNTs-Mark /: $3.50:
Matt. 4: 1925, with vs.. 42-44; and Matt.
s: 14-17, with VS.. SS-40.
CIRCUMsTANCEs-Jesu having been
driven from Nazareth, went toward Ca
pernaum, twenty miles to the northeast
During that week He called four OF His
disciples to be permanent followers
Mark /: 1920; Luke 5: LID. On the
Sabbath He preached in the Synagogue,
where the first incident of our lesson
took place.
HELPS OVER HARD PLACES 33. A
spirit Of an unclean deol: demon. Called
unclean because he made the man un.
clean, defled, vile, in body and in soul.
"a. What hare sce to do acah thee: the
works of Christ were exactly opposite to
those of the devil, exalting, purifying,
ennobling body and soul. IS. Jesusre-
buked him: the testimony of bad spirit
would injure a good cause. Even the
truths liar tells are thought to be lies.
And hurt him not: he was sound and well.
3S. Simon. Peter. He was a native of
Bethesda John 1889, but now carried
on the fishing business at Capernaum.
A great .tsrer: very dangerous and dis
tressing. Such fevers were common
about Capernaum. 80. Immediately she
arose and ministered unto them: showing
that the cure was miraculous, for nat.
urally the patient RECEIVERS very slowly.
40. When the sun ao0s setting: after their
Sabbath day was ended; in the pleas
ATTEST part of the day. The story OF
Jesus miraculous power had spread
over the city. AZ. Vent into a desert
place: Mark says that He went to pray
alone. If Jesus needed prayer, how
much more do we. That he should not
DEPART. they wanted the wonder-worker
to make His home with them. 43. Other
cities also: Jesus had the missionary
spirit. 1t was best, both for Capernaum
and for the others, that He went forth
to preach the Gospel
CoMMENTs-That which Jesus was not
able to do in Nazareth to any great ex-
tent, because of the lack of faith on the
part of His townspeople, He did with
great power elsewhere. In our lesson
to-day we are given two instances OF His
power in detail, and then at the close OF
the lesson we are told that He healed all
that came to Him. The first case was that
of a demoniac, who besought Jesus to lei
him alone. This the Master would not do
but commanded the evil spirit to come
out of the man. This He did, throwing
the man down first, but doing him NJ
udTu. uc TtSulUOl UllS dSlC w 90 Uno
all the people wondered at the mighty
power of Jesus. After that the Lord en-
tered into the house of Simon Peter
and there found Peters mother-in-lav
lying very sick of fever. With wore
he rebuked the fever, and at once 1T lef
her, and she was as we'll as ever, so tina
she set about her household cares a
J once and waited on her guests. Tht
fame of the Master spread SO swift.
that the whole town turned out ant
every one brought his sick to the Mas
J ter, who, touched with compassion, laid
His hands upon them all and healed them
There must have been great joy in tina
town that evening, for while the morn
ing saw many that were sick, the even
J ing found every one as we'll as he coul(
be. Such an experience they had neve
had, and the result was that they begget
Him to take up His abode with them
This He would not do, however
for there were others to whom
He had to preach and whose diseases HI
wanted to minister to. All this work o
physical healing performed by tn
Master was only type of that large
spiritual work that He came to perform
in the case of the souls of men. If H
opened the eyes of the blind it was onl
a type of that spiritual sight that mel
needed, which He stood ready to give
When He unstopped deaf ears it wa
| only to make men realize that He coul
, also make them to hear the invitation @
+, God to come to Him and receive pardo
and peace. When the leper was cleanse
it was an object lesson to show that tn
leprosy of sin needed cleansing, an
that He was the one to do that. An
: when He cast out evil spirits we are
l learn that He is the one who is able t
; destroy the works of the devil and t
l deliver us from his bondage. Ths
which is physical, though of great in
], portance, is yet not so important as thu
which is spiritual, because the one
only temporal, while the other is eterna
y We may sometimes wish that the blesse
: Master were here to do for our bodit
} that which He did for the people Of HI
q times. But though that is not now tn
: case, we must not forget that He stand
Q ready to do for our souls all that He di
S for the souls of those with whom Il
y then came into contact Pardon, spiri
= ual strength, grace for the right pc
. Torrance Of all our duties, these II
stands ready to give to all who wish fc
them and are willing to ask for then
q "Ask and ye shall receive" is as ruc
a %bo ru1a nov IA A. was than -Rey A