The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-14
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 r,~.. o..rter. Lesson xI. March io
 nos. John h 1--fi
 JESUS HEALS A MAN BORN bLiND'
 "A tbe thirty three narables the thir- ,v-,hres miracles of JeAus may De aa- dea. for the, later were. in fact, Fate- bies too--deeds packed with an iheN- haustibie symbolism. ... The upIifted stones. the glaring races of thoae who thirsted for His blood. has just forcibly reminded jesus os s the rapid approach of the nlght 2. death, in which He must cease Iroi., these symbolic deeds. He will crowd ths Savv remaining hours full of thenls
 Among the Iazzaroni crowding the anproaeh to the temple stands the weII- -known beggar blind from birth. PfenninRer, with the instinct or noet imagines a discussion among the apostle as they half-halt in passing; Judas began. His parents must nave reaviiy sinned.' Thomas replied. or God foresaw great sin m nm nm. ,, sUnll adds. I know not what to think there on Peter finally breaks out. Mas ter, tell us who.
 fhe words of Jesus may have fallen upon the ears of the unfortunate man. ail the more alert because the other sense was lost. Those words may have been the seeds of that faith which was so soon to shake like Lebanon.
 Neither this man nor his parents
 What ioy to be rid of the odius inns putation cast at him from his child hood, that his phenomenal suffering must be penalty of phenomenal sinF' Nov. that he Is in this sad and, hu- manly speaking, remediless plight, he furnishes a rare-subject for the dls- play of My Divine power. l will make him a new. indubitable. and lustrous
 seal upon My claim to Messtahshi It pleased the Master to condescend to the use of the crude nerica of the
 day in order to strengthen the grow- l ing faith of the unfortunate man, and l to make the cure the more conspicuous l Across the city he goes, holding the | pouitiees of clay to his sightless eyes | followed by an ever-tnereasing crowd | of curiosity-mongers. some of whom | no doubt. gibed at his creduiity. ae went; he washed;; he saw. As the | clay losenges dropped. Ssloam's mir | rored surface reflected for him the | beetling crags of the temple-crowned mount, and over all the azure dome. what wonder that his very neigh. l bors doubted the identity of the mar | upon whose expressionless face the | light of the soul was now pouring l through his opened eyes! The man | himself has passed into new world l but has no doubt about his being tho 1 same man who once cried on the tenn. | ple steps, "Pity one born blindr NoI | has he a shadow of doubt as to whc wrought his cure. Mayhap some hired l and over-alert emissary of the San. 1 hedrim hales him before that august | body. It was, for them, the most un. 1 fortunate catch" they ever made | The man deposes like a 'self-posseset I witness. He rests the irresistibis l lever of his logic upon an indisputabis l fact, and bears down upon 1t with tht l vigor of true manliness. Behold you | the ancient, vaunted, colossal super.
 structure of an effete eeclesiasticisn l topples to its fall There is a wild
 scurrying to it's rescue. l The attempts is made to terrorize the mans parents into the lie that his biindness was not congenital. Their very tinidity enhances the value of ltheir testimony. The man himself is | now recalled. and, as as If in his pres
 ence a foul plot had been discovered
 to foist Jesus upon the nation by meanl | of a fictitious miracle, he Is adjured by | all the pains and penalties at discre. I ton of the Sanhedrirn to deny theval' idity of his cure.
 Like a pillar of Hercules this hum. | ble man stands while the highest court of his nation frsts itself into a foam oi rage against him. He is soverborne1 al length, and swept contemptouslyt out like so much filth and outscouring
 But he is quickly found of Jesus and