The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-02-28
Jesus Feeds the
Five Thousand
Sunday School Lesson for March I. 1908
Specially Prepared for This Paper

passover tnlS year, a. ~. ~, began HpTii
16. At the time Of this lesson the .peo-
Pile from Galilee and beyond were on
their why to Jerusalem.
PLACE.-An uncultivated grazing re-
gion on the outskirts OF Bethsaida duke
9:10, called the Plain of Butaiha. 1t
lay on the northeast shore of the Sea
Of Galilee. at the foot Of the mountains.
Comment and Suggestive Thought.
v. 6. Jesus then lifted up his eyes,
and saw a great company come unto
him." And he had compassion on
them because they were as sheep not
having a shepherd" mark 6:34).
Their bodily hunger and disease were
but types Of the deeper hunger and
the deadlier disease of sin.
He showed his compassion in two
ways. () He welcomed them and
spake to them of the Kingdom Of God"
(2) Them that had need Of healing
he healed" duke GID.
The whole world is a weary and
hungry multitude, and Jesus has com
passion on them lisa. Abb; $751;. 2;
Nal. 3:17; Epb. ga, s; John 3:16;
Psalm 10S, etc.).
The fields are white.
In every land there are many per.
son unreached by the Gospel SO far
as bringing their hearts and lives to
Christ.
In many lands there are millions
who never even heard Of the Gospel,
and yet who need the blessings which
Christianity has brought us.
What are these among so many?
AsEd--sstsszHFT4M tssqEzafsAE1tesstio
Fasa we .sstdn6SlfEsfkS presence IN the
evil to be overcome. the worn Up be
done. the. m%ulttudes to be converted
to Christ,tthe power Of the enemy. If,
indeed, these were all, y there were
no Holy Spirit, MO o%mhfpot9nt Christ
Working in and through them, then
our efforts would be but ito dam the
Nile with bulrushes," or irrigate Sa-
hara with a garden hose.
What a little boy can do. A name
less, poor boy, but his record is i'm
mortal. THANK God there is a lad
everywhere! No scene or incident is
complete to me without a boy in the
foreground. 1t Is the glory and charm
of life that he is always in evidence.
The real h%elpfulness of the average
boy is one of the sublimities of the
universe"
He distributed to the disciples, as a
matter of convenience, and as an OBJ
ject lesson both to them and to the
people. The divine gifts were con-
veyed through human fundamentally,
as in the case of spiritual food
The organization was "a that q the
people. in companies (2) the ~apdstles
a 5 distributors OF the bread, and york
ers together with God.
There are organized societies in
each denomination for the extension
of the Gospel to those in need al home
and abroad. Every: church and each
individual in them should sustain
these organizations to their utmost
ability. The Sunday school should
also give to the great UNCONVENTIONAL
societies regularly, and usually in the
months in which the collections are
taken up in the church. Note also 9TH
er organized methods of extending the
Gospel, as the Young Peoples Mis-
sionary Movement C55 Fifth avenue,
New York;; the Christian Endeavor
movement; both of which are marvel
Gus interdenominational organizations
of great power and usefulness.
1t is said that the Women's Boards
OF Missions are the most e~ffectually
organized societies in the world fol
the spread of the Gospel, excepting
only the Jesuits.
Laymen's Missionary Movement
A movement has been started within
a year to organize the laymen of each
church in each denomination fol
awakening interest in missions, pro
viding q mea Of obtaining from
each layman an increasing amount
given to missions. and thus secure
groups of laymen to promote cam
paigns of intelligent and generous in
terest in foreign missions. with spe
cial reference to the men of the
church, the expense Of these move
ments to be borne whenever possible
by such groups of men, SO that tn,
funds Of the boards shall not b.
drawn upon"
The Young Peoples Missionar!
Movement, organized by the HON,
and foreign missionary boards of tn,
Protestant churches OF the United
States and Canada, less han fiv'
years ago. represents the best de
velopment Of cooperative educationa
work on the part of these boards. Las
year, there were more than G. 100
young people Systematically studying
home and foreign missions. 1t is pre-
posed now to extend the work. whicl
has been so successful among TIT
young peoples societies of thu
churches to the Sunday schools.
Practical Points.
Jesus ave to the uttermost, no
only reaching to the uttermost depth
of degradation, and to the uttermos
wandering from God, but to the utter
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