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Sabbath Lessons.
Notable Days.
PREACH AND HEAL.


The Epworth League topic for July
- IS Iound IN Matthew iv, %; Matthew
=, t-S.r LIZ the, spirit of the Master
dWel!s IN and rules us, we shall ever
ma In Him our pattern and shall seek
70 form our lives on the model of His.
He "went4 about all Galilee teaching
IN the synagogues and preaching the
gospei OF The Kingdom and healing all
manner of sickness and all manner of
disease among the people" What
wonder that multitudes followed Him
from near and far and that they
brought their sick from great distance
tos be cured!
The apostles did similarly when sent
out through. the land to prepare the
way Tor Him. Even the seventy dis
c1ples who went by twos through the
villages on evangelizing tours found
themselves able to erect marvellous
cures and even to cast out evil spirits.
In the times after Pentecost some at
least OF the apostles were able to per-
form wonderful deeds of healing.
The mission of the church of Jesus
CHRIST IS something more than to
preach that men are sinners and can
be saved through repentance from sin
and faith in God through Jesus Christ
she is to teach sound doctrine and
MAINTAIN the customs and ordinances
or divine worship, but she is to do
more than this. The church has a
duty to the bodies, as well as the minds
ana souls of men,. Miraculous powers
OF healing may not be long continued,
but the curative work is to go steadily
forward. Men had come to regard the
SICK with aversion and to think dis
ease a sign of Gods GispIeasure with
the one afflicted. who did sin, this
man or his parents, that he was born
bllnd?s was "a question perfectly nat
ural in that time, but SHOWS the cur
rent opinion that sickness was a. pun
ishment for sins. Jesus taught men TO
look upon suffering from a different
viewpoints He showed sympathy tor
those in pain and by relieving the af-
1lcted~gaFes ANEW conception of God
in His relation to men. God Is merci-
full and pisAful as well as just.
MedicaH science and all the arts of
san1tat1ons nursing and mereiful help
fulness Of these recent times are di-
rectly in accord with the work of Je-
sus and His commission to-. His fol-
lowers. .Rhe gFeat development of hos
pital science, sasylums Of many kinds
for the unfortunate, deaconess work
and missions of reform OF the fallen
are modern adaptations of the mercy
and helpssWorl7 which the cilurcn has
carried on in some form and degree
from the, first. when Peter and Paul
were the foremost leaders.
NOTABLE DAYS OF THE WEEK.
July, q is the ninth Sunday after
Trinity. 1t is also noSed In the old
church calendar as the festival of the
Seven Sleepers. The Legend is that sey-.
en- Christians of Ephesus refused in
$50 to worship an Idol ser up by the
emperor. To save their lives they fed
to-the mountains and he'd in a cave
The nTfdarnd all tho To
be closed up In 479 q well digger is
said to have broken into the cave and
discovered them. This legend has d
place in the Koran, with the addition
that the sleepers had a dog named
Kratine. This animal, after it's long
sleep, became a prophet and philoso-
pher, and was admitted into the Mo-
hammedan paradise, where it sits by
the ass Of Ba1aam. The other animals
that enjoy this high privilege are the
ant of Solomon, the whale of Jonah, the
ram of Isaac, the calf of Abraham, the
camel of Saleh, the cuckoo of Be1kis,
the OK of Moses, and the mare Of Mo
manned. This day is also celebrated
in many European localities in honor
Of st. Pantheon, patron saint of ply
siciarS. He f1ourished in the fourth
century. In art he is represented as
young, beardless and handsome. He
is often painted in the act Of martyr
dom, when he was bound to an olive
tree and beheaded. AS a patron saint
he wears a physicians robe and bears
an olive or palm, or both. His relics
or portions are claimed to be in a num-
Der of different churches of Europe.
| July % is the anniversary of the
birth in 1768 of Charlotte Corday,"
who killed Marat for the good Of the
French people,. also the birthday in
1918 Of William Mathews, American
author and editor.
July %. is dedicated in the Catholic
church to ST. Martha of Bethany, pa
| iron saint of cooks and housewives.
/ She figures in the gospels as the sister
of Lazarus and the friend of Jesus.
Also the birthday III 1905, of Hiram
Powers, American sculptor.
birth in 1853 Of Samuel Rogers, Eng
ish poet; of William T. Adams,
"Oliver Optic American author OF
children's books.
July 81 is the festival in the Catholic
calendar of Ignatus Loyola, founder
of the Society of Jesus, or better known
as the Jesuits. He was originally a
Spanish soldier Also the birthday in
! 1903, Of John Ericsson, Swedish-Ameri-
can engineer and inventor, and build
er of the Monitor" also the birthday
in 1916, of George HI. Thomas, Ameri-
| can general.
August 1 in the days of Paganism in
England was Lamrnas day, which
should rather have been Loafn1ass, of
which the Saxon name is a corruption
| On this day the ancient Britons ceie-
DRAFTED the gifts the Ceres by Offering
q loaf made of new grain; this custom
was adopted by the early Christians,
who contented themselves with chang
| ing the object of the worship and the
| first fruits were theneeforth presented
at the Christian affairs.
August 2 is the anniversary of the
birth in 1776, of Robert r. Roberts,
known in his day in Maryland, as the
| grandfather of all missionaries" to
the Western Indians.
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