The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-04-01
WOMAN OF CANAAN.
|tionaI Sunday School Lesson
for April 3. 1898.
T1non Peloubet's Select Notes.


Upon Peloubet's Select Notes.l
IESSON.-Matthew 15:A-31. Read
Is and 1 Kings 17:1-24 The paral-
EN TExT.-Then came she and
ed Him, saying. Lord. help me.
e 81 1925
Early summer, A. D. 29, Several
fter the last lesson.
E.-The first miracle was per-
on the borders of the country of
hid Sidon 40 or so miles northwest of
of Galilee Kings 17:S-24 relates
e. amples of Elijah's help to woman
same region. The other miracles OF
VI son were performed in the region of
Ills, on the southeastern shore of the
Galilee mark I'D.
EXPLANATORY.
ssus Retires from Gaiilee for a
". 21. The reason for this
to have been the increasing op-
IN of the Jews as described in the
bus portion of the chapter, and in
DISCOURSE concerning the bread of
khich followed the feeding of the
short time before this lesson
6:6o-71). We learn also from
III that 1.-The Jews sought to kill
The Afflicted Daughter.-V. %.
had gone privately into house,
He could not be hid, and a Syro-
enician woman in her great anxiety
selp had found Him. And she cried:
We mercy on me-" Her daughters
bic was her own. Her daughter
GENEROUSLY vexed with a devil"
torment of this disease may be
ned from the description of similar
Is. One such, boy, is described as
n falling into the fire and often into
water (Afatt. 1918, 49,. The spirit
makes him dumb, land wheresoever
heltaketh him, he teareth him, and he
fodmeth, and gnasheth with his teeth,
and pineth away Mark 9:17, 1S). The
Gadarene demoniac was wild and fierce,
''crying and cutting himself with
stones"
III. The Mothers, Victorious Faith
vs.. 1928 But He answered her not
word" He appeared to treat her with
neglect and Indifference. 1t seems, by
what follows, as if He arose and left
the house. Various reasons are given
for this silence. ~ To test and deep
en- the woman's faith. (2) ut seems
to us that this was not the reason so
much as that He might show His dis
ciples and all succeeding centuries
what dauntless faith this woman had.
Not for her sake, but for ours, she was
put off for awhile F. Schauff1er.
''His disciples besought Him,
saying: Send her away" Cure her and
let Der go. They interceded for her,
but partly because it was trial to them
to<haye her crying after them.
"But He answered." speaking to
the disciples, and presenting the diff
Guilty in the way. The mother may
have overheard it. 81 am not sent but
unto the lost sheep of the house of
Israel" This was His present work,
and, till His death, it was the best means
for finally reaching the Gentiles.
.'Then came she and worshiped
Him." BY prostrating herself before
Him in oriental fashion.
"But He answered." with a compar-
ison probably not Unfamiliar to her
as expressing the Rings of the Jews
1ONdIu bA0 OSutl HIS nut me6I
Citing, proper) to IKE Ito take away
the children's bread, and to cast it to
dogs" The children" are the Jews;
the "dogs" are the Gentiles. ''There
was some reason lying at the base of
tie designation. The heathens around
y, in>the mass, exceedingly unclean-
and ferocious, barking too. inces-
tly at the true God and true godh-
IS. Morrison.
She granted the truth of the prov
ID, but out of its very truth she brings
bn argument for the granting Of her
|request. Yet" it is not in spite of,
but because of the truth of the prov
erb, that she argues for help. 1.-THE
dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from
their masters table," So let me have
the crumbs, what is left over after you
have done all you plan for the Jews.
It will not take anything away from
them if you help me.
80, woman, great is thy faith" Her
faih was great in it's love. being for her
daughter. 1t was great in its earnest
ness. It was great in its foundations,
the power and love of the Messiah,
and His past good deeds to others. It
was great in its humility. conquering
self. 1t was great in overcoming OBJ
stacles. "And her daughter was made
whole from that very hour:" AS she
found on her return mark 7:3o); for
she acted upon her faith and went
home.
Tv.-Christ the Healer and Helper of
Man.-Vs. 29-S1 One example of
Christ's work having been given in
detail general picture is presented,
massing His works together so that we
may see more clearly His character and
what He came to do. After no very long
stay Jesus went north through the ter
I'itory of Sidon Mark 7:31), then east
ward through northern Galilee, across
the upper Jordan, and down on the east
side Of the Sea of Galilee, to the part
of Decapolis (the ten cities) bordering