The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-11-30

may be found in Acts xiv. 1922.
INTRODUCTION.
Here is an experience more or less
familiar to teacher and preacher. We
all of us have had our attention called
10 some individual in the class or con
gregation TO whom we have more Gi-
rectly addressed ours elves. The homi-
letical professor sometimes advises
such course. The alert or convicted
listener certainly strs the speaker tc
new and unwonted interest. The writer
recalls the experience OF a classmate, &c
which he has been more than once
prompted TO make reference. Il was
preaching along" he said-i was in the
sort of trial preaching Of student days. -
lin dull, heavy way, trying TO find my
bearings, and. with no help from my
audience, pulling myself along by main
strength. All at once from over back
OF the stove, on the left of the house,
there came a sonorOus 'Amen!' You
ought TO have seen me go for that man!
He walked ne up, and from that time on
/ had n good time" More than one
hating discourse las teen saved in this
way-God bless the good deacon! And
more than one of us has glimpsed the
responsive t, ar in the eye of conviction
or persuasion, and has gone on to new
illumination OF the truth. May the man
ready to BE- healed be found ana felt in
church and Sunday school to day.
WHAT THE LESSON SAYS.
There sat, or was sitting. Imperfect
tense. --Impotent A direct transa-
ton from the Greek (by way OF the
Latin; literally, unable. He was a
partial paralytic. Walked. From the
Greek here comes our peripatetic.
Speak, or speaking, talking, present
participle. -Steadfastly beholuing.-
Looking with fixed attention. A word
of frequent occurrence in The New
Testament. Luke 4: 20; Acts 3: 4
Acts IL: c, etc.-Faith to be healed
l. e., saving faith. Ininitive with the
article
Loud voice. Greek, great voice.
Upright. Placed last in the Greek, more
emphatic. And he leapod and walked.
Stronger in the original: ieaped up and
went to walking.
What Paul had dore. AS the world
saw ito us The proposition OF
nearnesS or association: !. e., 10 dwell
with us.
Jupiter. Gree'l: Dies or Zeus.-
Mercurius. Greek: Hermes. The Latin
Technology Is used in the translation.
Mercury was the son of Jupiter and the
messenger and interpreter OF the gods,
the patron OF eloquence, etc.
d. Before the city, /. c., his temple was
there.-Would have done sacrifice.
Or wished to do sacrifice. A complacent
and accommodating religion, ready TO
adopt innovations. Christianity is, on
the contrary, uncompromising.
Stood aroun about him. Or, encir-
cled. A pathetic touch. IL would wake
up good many fainting pastors to have
the church stand about.
Taught many. The word means to
make disciples.
Confirming. Signify ng genealogical
~ ID cause TO rest or lean upon, TO set
| tie upon.-We must. Or, il is neces-
sary. Thus eorewaIning and so fore
arming The word and before exhorting
i added 10y the translators. The sense
is rather tt at the scipies were con-
hrmed 10y means of This wise exhorta-
| tiCn.
| WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES.
Faith to be healed. Let us not make
n mistake. IL was not quantity but
| quality OF faith; it was not faith enough
TO be healed, but rather was it healing
| faith. The Christian herald does not
,
In proffering salvation. Degree of faith
counts for something. but later on.
! Here il is kind OF faith, genuineness and
reality of faith that is scrutnized, The
woman who touched the hem of Christ $
| garment had very little faith, but it
was the real thing; and that is wonder
| fully efllcacious under God. SO here
| this lame man had but one thing, a
small thing but specific, deinite-he
| had faith to be healed. Let faith keep
pace with need. This is the simple,
humble life in Christ. Believe and
keep on believing.
The gods are come down to us in the
| likeness Of men. What il they had ac-
cepted the homage, and settled down to
enjoy their advantage, making the most
out of it, it has been done. Our
| brother pastor has been telling us OF
the Unitarian missionary dispatched to
some part of Japan. The word pres
emily comes back, Send us another:
this enc has turned Buddhist" Likely
enough, il there be no divine Christ to
cohstrain. The test came to Paul and
Barnabas, and right there they proved
the divineness and other worldliness OF
their faith. IL is a common missionary
| experience. There comes time when
by Welding, DuJ llllle; III WOulu seem,
TO the Pagan spirit he can apparently
win much for his cause. But beware.
| Witness Catholicism abroad, and its
wicked conformities and perversions.
Nay, do not these things. Worship
Cod"
He left not himself without witness in
that he did good. Gods goodness is his
Prevailing witness. SO long as men live
| they have testimony of God in the daily
mercies enjoyed. in this sense there is
no man without the ever-present and
persistent proofs of Gods guard and
guide. Only sin dulls US to the appre-
hension of 1t; and SO Savior is sent
suited to sinners, fitted TO arouse them
out OF sins lethargy. But here is q
truth that ought oftener to be empha-
sized. The natural man Is without ex-
Cuse. Gods speech is all about him.
| God besets him behind and before, His
mercy endureth. To accept Jesus, as
intimated in last Sundays lesson, sug-
| gestively at least, is but TO continue in
the grace of God" Does not the good
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