Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-04-14
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON III, SECOND QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, APRIL IS.
Text OF the Lesson, Mark v, 22-24, So
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We are given the choice of an Easter
lesson, but as the regular lesson happens
to be a resurrection lesson and brings
before us in the act of raising the dead
Him who is the Resurrection and the
Life, we viii be content with it.
-. "Jairus, when he saw Him, fell at
His feet" According TO the harmonies,
this incident took place not in the order
in which we have ii here, but after near
~ every other lesson OF this quarter. As
we have said before, the order of events
is not the main thing, but to see Him and
know Him as truly God and truly man,
God manifest in the flesh, lsraeFs Mes
siah, the worlds Redeemer. After He
had healed the demoniac at Gadara and
had commissioned him to tell his friends
at home how great things the Lord had
done for him, the Gadarenes having be-
sought Jesus 10 leave them. lie recrossed
the sea and found the people all waiting
for Him verses 1921; Luke viii. 400.
II door of usefulness seems for any or
for no reason closed, another will surely
open.
%. "a. He states his need and his re-
quest briefly and earnestly, and Jesus
went with him. SO did His disciples and
much people The sick child was an only
daughter about 10 years Of age. and she
was dying luke viii. ~: Math. tx. 19l.
Our Lord might have said to Jairus as
He said at Cana to the nobleman from
Capernaum. Go thy way, thy child liv-
eth" John liz, 50). but for some reason
He went with Jairus. We must not
think that our Lord has bat one way of
doing things and that because one has
been heiped or has had prayer answered
in certain way we must expect the
same, but with perfect confidence in Him
leave it all to Him. How gracious is our
Lord; how ready TO listen to the cry of
DISTRESS
35. while He yet spake there came
from the ruler of the synagogue's house
certain which said: Thy daughter is
dead. Why troublest thou the Master
any further?" He was speaking to a
poor woman, who, as He walked toward
the rulers house, had pressed through
the crowd behind Him and had touched
the hem OF His garment and been made
whole. She was poor physically. for she
had disease which for II years had
been sapping her life. She was poor
financially. for she had spent all her liv-
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Her living was gone and her life almost
gone, but one touch of the garment of
Him who is the Resurrection and the
Life made her whole. She was timid
and weak but had perfect confidence in
His power and willingness to heal her,
and not only was she not disappointed,
but He called her out and surprised and
comforted her with the beautiful words:
Daughter, be of good comfort. Thy
faith hath made thee whole. Go in
peace" duke viii, 4S). 1t was the only
time, as far as we know. when He adj
dressed any one as daughter"
36. BE not afraid, only believe" As
soon as Jesus heard the people give Jairus
the sad news this is what He said to him.
Precious words for every troubled soul.
What comfort they have been to me.
Compare III Chron. Xxx, 20, and John ii,
40; Xxx, %; Luke i, As. Luke says that
our Lord also added. "And she shall be
made whole" luke viii, 50). Jairus
therefore had the assurance that his de-
sire was or was about to be granted.
However impossible the thing may seem,
faith says, 81 believe God that it shall
be even as it was told me" (Acts xvii.
25) and is fully persuaded that what God
has promised He is able to perform
(Rom. iv, 21. He that cometh to God
must believe. Without faith it is impos-
sible to please Him CHeb. ii, O..
81. The favored three who were also
with Him on the Mount OF Transfigura-
ton and in the garden are here the only
witnesses among the disciples We may
live as near to Him as we are willing to,
but it is narrow way, and few there be
that find it. The risen life with Christ is
costly, for it means deafness to this pres
ent evil world, and but few believers
think they can get along without good
deal of that which we are told to love
not q John ii, 15-1T. Yet the command
of Col. iii, 1-3, is very plain.
80, 80. "The damsel is not dead, but
sleepeth." Thus He said to those who
wept and walled, and in like words He
spoke of Lazarus John xi. IL, 49, Death
is the sleep of the body. The soul sleeps
not, but is in conscious existence between
death and resurrection, as is plainly
taught in ii Cor. V, 8; Phil. i. %; Luke
xvi, %, %: xiii 43, and a comparison Of
Acts xiv, 10, with III Cor. xii, IA. He
who keeps us in our natural sleep and
wakens us morning by morning can just
as easily waken the body from the sleep
of death.
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Man laughing in unbelief at his Maker,
the creature laughing at the Creator, but
they knew not what they were doing.
Even Sarah was guilty of an unbelieving
laugh. and so also was Abraham Gen.
xvii, II; xviii. 12-15). The disciples them.
selves, when they heard that Christ was
risen, did not believe it. for it seemed to
them an idle tale Mark xvi, II. 10; Luke
xiv. IL. Contrast the laugh of faith in
Gen. xxi, 6; Ps. cxxvi, 2.
Al, AZ. "Damsel. say unto thee arise.
And straightway the damsel arose and
walked" What word is this. 1t is the
same word and power by which the
worlds were made, by which the sea was
divided, the storm stilled, the lepers heal
ed, the demons cast out. The same word
is still giving life to dead souls and shall
yet bring all the dead from their graves
and from the depths of the sea and from
wherever the ashes of the dead have
heen scattered Rplipvest thou thisp II