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THE SUMMARIZES SON.
LESSON TX, FIRST QUARTER, IN
TERNATlONAL SERIES, MARCH (.


John v, c1-Commentary by Rev. j..
VI. Stearns.
Compiled from Lesson Helper Quarterly by per
mission OF II. S. Hoffman, publisher, Philadel-
phia
After the dividing of the Jordan TO allow
Elisha to recross it and the healing of the
waters of Jericho, both of which events
were in last weeks lesson, another miracle
in connection with water is recorded in
chapter iii. In the beginning of chapter iv
we have the record of miracle in connection
with sil and these three miracles of the
spring healed, the bitches filled and the
oil multiplied were all wrought by God
through Elisha on behalf of the peris hing
the troubled and the needy. The God of
Elisha is our God, and OF Him it is written
my God shall supply all your necd' phil.
~, TO-
25. $50 she went and came unto the man
Of God to Mount Carmel"
Our lesson begins in the midst Of the
story of this woman who dwelt at Shunem,
a village a few miles south of Mount Ia
Dor and southeast from Mount Carmel
%. "Run now, pray thee, to meet her;
and say unto her, Is it well with thce?'
The man Of God saw her altar off and
thus commanded his servant to meet her
and make inquiry for the health Of herself,
her husband and her child. The meaning of
the word well" az used in this story, is
seen in the margin Of verse u, and also the
margin of chapter Y, 2l-ls there peace? See
also the text and margin of Gen. xxx, 6;
xiii, p; Ex. xviii, :; Judg. vi. n.
And She answered, 1t is well. The soul
in which the Prince of Peace rules shall
have peace at all times, even in trbua-
ton lisa. tx, q, Z; XVI. .; Jer. xxx, II;
John xvi. 33)
y. And when she came to the man of
God to the hill she caught him by the feet '
Let her alone, for her soul is vexed
within her, and the Lord hath hid it from
me-
Gchazi would have thrust her away ms did
the disciples of Jesus many a time Matt.
xiv, -; XIV, %; xix, 13); Gehazi had so little
OF the spirit Of his master, the disciples
so little of the Spirit of Christ. And what
shall we say of ourselves?
2S "Thon she said, Did desire n son Of
my lord? Did l not say, Do not deceive
me-"
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