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 rorbelrs Teachers Guide To The In-' .ernational sunday school Lesson Tor ls0s. No Sunday School commentary an be more complete than this.
 The lesson of April 18th has for its iubject Jesus Power over Disease ana Death The text given, is Luke VII l-H The additional lesson to be read IS Matthew viii. verse 1, 5 to IS. The verses suggested for committal to mem ory are:
 And he came and touched the pier' and they that bore him stood stiii, , And he said. Young Man. I say unto thee. Arise. And he that was deao sat up and began to speak. And ne delivered him to his another.
 The Golden Text" chosen for the day is: Jesus said unto her. am the resurrection and the Life" -
 The time was Jesus's 2sth year. .le place Capernaum--Nain. The Geogra, Dhy lesson makes the place very rear to the student. Every word anu phrase which a scholar might faii to < fuJ1v understand has its line Of expia- nafion "A centurian' the scholar IS informed was a. Roman omcer con, manding century, a company oa .hs or hundred men. ''The Elders or tns Jews" were those Jews who managed the synagogue The student IS m formed that Instantly" in the texs is used in its elder meaning pressins < ly." from the Latin insturo. am sos worthy that thou shouldst come unuel my roof" Here follows the expiana tion that the Jews regarded all cen tile houses as unclean, merely 10 entei one was to become unclean.
 SuRrestive thoughts taken from the words of helpfuI writers are given For this lesson the passages are .an en from the writings of Henry Burton Wiiliam E.Ibcy Curtis, T. H. Wright.
 several pages of Light from Orien- taI Life. follow. these are from the pens of such scholars as Eder Scneim anu James Stalker.
 In .The Approach to the Lesson. a : striking story is given as an Hiustra- ton to the younger pupils:
 ..Mr Moody was once talking to a number of street boys. and trying to explain to them what faith meant. lie had a beautiful book with him, and he held 1t out to one of the boys saying. This is yours if you take The boys only laughed. tney could not pc lieve that so good and desirable thins was to be just given away.
 MT. Moody repeated his offer, one bov at last stepped forward and re- ceived the book The others asked II that boy was really going to keep It. Of course, it is his book. offered to give it to the one who would take is ana he has taken it. said Mir. Moody"
 No simpler illustration could be giv- en of the way God offers gifts which we dare not. out of unbelief, to ae- cept.
 Lesson Thoughts and Stories Illus trative ensue. First upon Great !. Faith" From G. H. Knight are par agraphs containing the harvests or Little Faith" and Great Faith. Surely Little Faith is not what might be expected from one who has so great a Lordv' Knight calls to mind John Bunyan's many varieties of doubters pictured in1cPilgrim's Progress: Lr- tie Faith. .'tgtt.Ready- to-Halt," Feeble. Much afraid" But Bunyan has his "Great Faith" also reaping great ana abundant harvests. Wonderful old story, "Pflgrim's Progress" one or the . worlds alphabet books, of, which the Nbeeinner can take hold and, nevar lay down however scholarly he grew
 This story of soldiers faith in the great Napoleon is given. Napoleon. receiving his troops in Pans, dropped the rains and his horse dashed on A private down the line sprang forwara seized the rein. and drew up the horse
 f'MeTci. CdpId1n. Sdiu ANdP~AOOs'. Quickly the soldied asked; "Of what regiment?" The quick unfalterinR faith delighted Napoleon and he said; "Of my guards"
 LessonI thoughts upon Compassion follow. The interesting story of mes sage of sympathy from the Saddle Mountain indians to the agent whom they loved, Colonel Roadlett, Is given. Heipful words upon the worth of sym pathy from Phillips Brooks teach this lesson.
 The third group of lesson thoughts are of the Resurrection and the Life.
 There are extracts from the works of Frederick D. Maurice, from A. c. Dixon Ca brother of the novelist and playright Thomas Dixon). from the poems of whittier all illustrative of Mans abundant joy in one most bless ed hope and assurance: The Resurrec- ton and the Life. The argument of the old Indian chief, an Omaha, taken from The Youths Companion we quote He had been asked by an officer why though old and suffering he was yet content. He answered: 'The bird that builds it's nest in the tree near my