The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-03-31
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Lesson Second Quarter, For
April 3, 1910.
THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES
Text of the Lesson, Matt. tx, 1885,
Memory Verses, 23, 2s-Goiden Text,
Mark tx, 23-Commentary Prepared
by Rev. D. M. Stearns.

lis iSSSOh SiNtS an dNNOulI VI lOul
different acts Of healing upon five diff
! ferent people-the rulers daughter,
twelve years of age; the woman twelve
years sick, the two blind men and the
demon possessed dumb man. Matthew.
! Mark and Luke record the first two,
| but Matthew alone tells of the others
All are equally easy to Him to whom
| nothing is difficult when there is conf
dence in Him. The principle of verse
% holds all through, According to
| your faith be it unto you." But we
! must always remember that these
were samples Of the kingdom which
was then at hand, but because of His
! rejection postponed till He shall come
/ again. As | understand it, we cannot
| expect kingdom manifestations in this
/ age of His rejection except as He may
| in great grace see fiji to grant them.
| But as the age draws to Il close, which
it is rapidly doing. we may look for
greater signs as the kingdom of
heaven again draweth nigh. May we.
like Stephen, be fun Of faith and Of
the Holy Ghost full of faith and
| power.
The other accounts Of the first two
! healings are found in Mark and
| Luke viii. There we are told that the
mans name was Jairus; that he was
ruler of the synagogue; that he fen
down at Jesus feet and besoUght Him
greatly. for his little daughter was
lying at the point of death. aud she
WAS his only daughter. Jesus arose
and followed JairuS. AMI SO did His
disciples, and much people also fol
lowed Him and thronged Him. Con
slider the anxiety Of the fathers heart
and his expectation, for. although he
had not heard the words Il wil come
and heal her viii, -, was not the
Lord Jesus Christ with him. and
was not that assurance enough for
Jairus?
But in the throng that pressed upon
Him there was one desoldte heart-a
woman who had been ailinG for twelve
years and, having spent all that she
had upon physicians, was nothing bet
tered but rather grew worse. She,
having heard Of Jesus. had such conf
dencc in Him HAT size said within her
self IF / may touch but His clothes
l shall he whole" She accordingly
pressed through the crowd behind
Him, touched the border of His gar
ment and was instantly healed of her
Illness Of many years.
Most gratefully and gladly would
she have Slipped away without trou-
bling Him further, bet He had more
for her than she had dared to expect.
He had a personal word for her heart
full of peace ana assurance. Before
she could get away Jesus. knowing all
things. asked who touched Him. for he
knew that virtue had gone our Of Him.
The disciples We're surprised at His
question, seeing So many touching Him,
but the woman came with fear and
trembling. fell down before Him and he
fore all the people declared why she
had touched Him and how she Lad been
Immediately healed. Then came to heI
the added. unexpected blessing in Hi
precious words to her heart. "Daugh
ter. be of good comfort. thy faith hath
whole Of thy plague" Instead Of the
unrest she might have had because
she had. as it were. stolen a blessing
she had His own word of peace.
Then she might have had some symp-
toms of a recurrence of her trouble.
and the devil would be sure to be oD
hand with some unreStful suggestions
but now she had not only an expert
ence. but His infallible word that She
was healed. ana had He not called her
daughter" ard wasn't that WORTH
while? Let all secret believers confess
Jesus Christ publicly and see what ad-
ditional blessing will surely come to
them.
But all this delay mas seemingly
made Him too late to help the little
girl. for before He reaches the house
messengers come, saying that she is
dead As soon as Jesus heard it He
said to JHirus, Fear not. believe only,
and she shall be made whole" luke
viii, JW And quickly il is even SO. ana
she is alive and wen and eating like
any well child. Only the father and the
mother and Peter. James and John We're
present at theraising to life-just seven.
including Jesus and the little girl, the
unhcheving ScornerS all without. Let
US Toe most surely believers, knowing
the certainty" Of all His words luke
i, LII. He is never too late, and moth
ing is too hard for Him who created
all things.
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