The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-03-09
Sunday School Column.
Side Lights on Next Sundays Les
son for Teachers and Pupils.
By CHAs. K. MEYERS

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March Is. Two Mighty Works.
Matt. 8 1884.
For many lessons of the past two
months we have studied the wonder
full talks of Jesus the Christ telling
the great principles of the religion
which He came to inform the world
about. With the lessons Of last Sun
day and today we consider. ssome Of
the miracles Jesus performed as
establishing His power and divine
origin. 1t will be remembered that
Jesus when commenting on the appeals
which He made for confidence and
belief said people should believe on
Him for His Every work sake. y
When the disciples of John came ssto
ask to whether Jesus was the Christ
indeed. or should they look for an
other, He made reply by calling at
tention to what He was doing in that
the dead we're raised, the dumb spoke.
the blind received sight. The mir.
acles told Of in the New Testament
are made known to ue, that we may
know and feei that Jesus was and is
the promised Messiah the Son of God.
The scene of our lesson Of today in
on the Sea Of Galilee and ssthe shore.
It would appear that for the purpose
of escaping from the curious crowd Of
people which throng Him. Jesus took
ship and started to Cross the water
in company with certain disciples.
Being weary. Jesus laid himself down
to rest in the boat and during His
sleep there arose such great storm
that the disciples were terrified and
called on Him for rescue from ship
wreck. It seems strange indeed that
they should have thought for moment
that the boat would 60 down and
harm come when Jesus was on board.
They expected help from Him in a
more than human way when they
awakened Him from sleep. Jesus re-
buked them for their lack Of faith and
by His words caused the sea to be-
come calm. Every christian has the
right to feel that with Jesus as his
savior and guide, no real harm can
come.
The land on the othre side is reach-
ed at last. and here a stirring event
took place. Two men possessed
with what was then called devils''
appeared ard called out. recognizing
that Jesus was their superior, with
power to do with them what he
wished. These demons asked to en-
ter herd Of swine feeding near
and on this taking place the animals
rushed into the sea and persisted.
The people. were much excited and
many came 70 Jesus asking Him I'd
depart. This He did. and on going
to another city performed many
miracles Of healing. We have thought
that the owners Of the hogs were
among those to urge Jesus to 20
away. The loss of the few dollars
weighed more in their minds than
the benefit to the men and the pos
abilities Of other acts Of healing on
the part Of Jesus. Men in our day
support the liquor traffic because
they do not want the money wasted
as they claim which is invested ii
breweries, saloon fixtures. They US,
the same arguments when it is pro
posed to wipe out any evil entrenchet
in wealth. counting the mere none!
as Of greater consequence than RICH
living, removing temptation from th,
young. or righteousness generally
II 10 to be hoped that the study Of
he wonderful mirables of Jesus viii
make all the more plain to the peopl
that He 10 indeed the Christ. that Fl
has p.wer over all things. and tina
the first question to consider is not th
money to be lost, but the gain from
bible point Of view when deciding til
fright and wrong Of problem.
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