The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-17
INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL
 LESSON
First Quarter. Lesson VII. Mark i2l-34. February IS, lsoe' A oR nafnnnInn an 6.nnnHnauul.

Marks spirited narrative describes
 Jesus as going in the synagogue as
 soon as the doors were open. By com
 mon consent. He takes the speakers stand, and utters words that have principle of life in them. The most
 eminent scribed that ever occupied that desk never approximated to the self assertiyeness of the present speaker.
 Hear His T say unto!P T am the way
 the door, the vine, the shepherd, trutn, life, resurt ection. Before AoranAhi was I amt" No wonder the audience was dumbounded. Moses and the pro- phets were not authorities to be ap- pealed to, but servants to deck the | speakers brow with aureola Of dlvinlty' | Tn the very midst of that fervid ser mon, the breathless stiffness or the audience is broken by the piercing cry of terror and astonishment with wnich | the underworld recognizes it's SoVeT- eian Master; "Ah.' Woe is mel!
 | Mine hour of doom is .come.r It was | just such a cry as the condemned l felon might raise at the sudden. u1- i expected appearance of his executioneE.
 The seed of the serpent recognizes the | seed of the woman. But even Jn its | terror the unclean spirit sees an op- | portunity to damage his mighty op- ponent He falls not to avail htmseff 1 of 1t. He will patronizingly acknow- | ledge the new Rabbfs exalted claims, l so that there shall be the appearance | of collusion. The venomous Jews snail | be furnished with some color for their l damaging accusation that Jesus IS l himself possessed. and by that means | exercises His authority over demons. | The Master checkmates that devil ip | A single move. He silepces him and l expels him. The demon gives an ex- | ample of his malevolent ferocity by l giving his unhappy victim "a last fling" before he leaves him . In that l synagogue by the sea is witnessed 2 sharp encounter between the powers of 1 light and darkness, and heavens final 1 triumph is there ditmbrated No won l der that the fame of 1t flew with wing | ed feet. The scene of Jesus tireless
 activity issat once transferred from the l publicity of the synagogue to the | sweet privacy of the home of the
 chiefest of His Apostles What Peter l has just seen of the Masters power | emboldens him to call His attention l to an instance of sickness in his own 1 house-a low. consuming fever. The domestic miracle will produce no such
 sensation as that wrought in the sYaa- gogue; but love for His disciple, and a desire to confirm this somewhat unstab- | le character, as we'll as sympathy for | the sufferer, leads Jesus to give the touch word of power. What God does
 is well done" No tedious convaleseence
 succeeds the wreaking of the fever, Az
 a token of gratitude the sick woman in
 stantly rises from her couch and pre-
 pares savory meal. All unconsciously
 she gives a convincing evidence of tht
 perfection of her cure; at the same time
 she refreshes the Master after the tolls
 of the day, and fortifies Him for tho i overwhelming exactions of the early
 evening. For scarcely was the mes
 finished before the street in front oi | Peters house was converted into hos
 pital. That miracle in the synagogue
 had been a silver bell whose notes oi
 hope had sounded in every shadowee
 home. Tn obedience to its encouragtne
 call, when the setting sun had absolxe- the people from their overstrained no
 tions of Sabbath observance, they caalt
 with confidence to Him whose sovef'
 eign power had had such conspicuou'
 exemplifcation. From one sufferer
 mat to another Jesus walked in tha'
 hastiIv-ex laEar-house un
 der the stars. Nor did He eesist al
 long as there was tiny sufferer lef
 upon any mothers gentle bosom. Nov
 we know how Capernaurn was lifted t' heaven in point of privilege. No othel city had such a perfect exhibition o
 Jesus power. Tn single night every
 diseased person was made every wht whole. The sun that went down upoE