The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-17

The Internal fonal SUNDAY. school Les
son for March 8 is a Review The
Golden Text is, "And Jesus Went
about all cfalilee. teaching in their
syna gogues, and preaching the Cos
pei of the kingdom, and healing al
manner Of sickness. Matt. 4:2S.
BY WILLIAM Il. BILLS
~ERE the course of Interna-
tiOnal Sunday school les
sons halts for a week, in or
der that we may look back
over the ground 50 rapidly
covered I'm three months
STUDY. All a breathless pace the sun
day schools have been racing through
thu COMPACT record Of the words and
works of Jesus. 1t took him more than
1hsrty-One years to live what has been
studied in ten Sundays. Ihs bird s
eye view of the great Life which this
=syiew permits may give a needen per
within the lessons Of the past ten
weeks have been included the birth Of
the Babe with Its attendant wonders
+ the appearance Of the twelve -year-Dld
BY ia the Temple, learning Of the
doctors; the eighteen silent years at
+ Rgasareth. when our Hero proved his
greatness at the carpenters osnch, a1d
thus established those ties with the
toilers which no Theological criticism
can ever weaken or break As TIE ia
niliar meditation Of the old carpenter
has it.
.. Isn't this Joseph SOM Aye. it is He.
Joseph the carpenter, same trade as me-
Z thought as I'd ind it, knew it was
But ny sights getting queer.
81 don't know right where as His shed
But '' often. 20 as I've been a-planing my
I've took of my hat just with thinking
At the same work as me.
''He warn't that set up he couldn't stoop
And Work in the country for folks in the
And I'll warrant he felt bit pride like
I've done
At a good Job begun
'.The parson he knows that TN not make
But sS on Sundays I feel as pleased as could
When I wears my clean smock and sets
Ana has thoughts not a few.
Fl think as how not the parson hissen,
As is teacher and father and shepherd OF
Not he knows as much Of the Lord in
Where He earned His own bread"
Into this first quarters study has
been crowded the dramatic story Of
Jesus entrance upon his great work,
and all the startling events Of the first
year and a half of his ministry, when
he went about Judea and GaliIee, doing
wonderful works and speaking wonder
ful Words-a period covering almost
half of his public life. Even to sum
Marie chronolOgica1ly these events
only few of which have been included
in the portions OF Scripture assigned
for study, is impracticable here.
A Lies Touch Upon Life.
One angle from which the Life may
be viewed is with respect to the diver
sity of characters with whom Jesus
came into contact. Every mans assO-
cations shed food of light upon his
nature. First it was in connection with
special messengers sent straight from
the celestial realms that we saw Jesus:
from beginning to end his relations
with heaven were peculiarly intimate.
His earliest association was with the
plain peoples-his own parents, the
humble sojourners at the inn, the shep-
herds and the Bethlehem and Nazareth
townspeopIe-
Then his life touched that Of seekers
after spiritual truth, Simeon and Anna
in the Temple and the wise men from
the east. His attitude toward those
VINO frankly place themselves in the
position Of his subordinates as John
the Baptizer, and the disciples, is a pro-
dtable study Nor do we lose any Of
our admiration for the Master as we
see him in converse with the aristoc-
racy. as represented by Nicodemus and
the Capernaum nobleman; no cringing
or fawning or fear or lack Of self-re-
spect can the minutest examination
find here. The interview with a vo-
man at sychar (and she was of a de-
spised race, and a sinner at that) shows