Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-26
In The Religious World;
oREv1EW OF SUNDAY SCHOOL LEssoN1

I and which, far more marvellous, have
| increased power in this distant day,
| in nations then unknown. He spoke
! with authority; and his deeds at
tested his words At his command
| inanimate nature gave obedience,
and human life and death yielded to
his sway. Six great miracles were
studied by the Sunday schools dur
| ing this quarter. The students were
a., brought face to face with the unique
sovereignty of /. the son; who prov
ed his unity with the father by do
ing works which belong only to God.
If we accept the record Of the new
testament, we are bound to &C.
knowledge Jesus as more than
peerless religious teacher; he must
have been the accredited plenipoten-
These miracles, which include
by the master, the feeding of the
five thousand. the stilling the temp
est, and the raising of Jairus
! daughter, set the countryside at
gaze. They have been the wonder Of
mankind ever since. The natural
mind has found them hard to believe;
they were beyond the natural order.
| But so was Jesus. The occasion and
need were unique. AS the Kings
seal was proof of Cyrus authority,
so these wonder-works were the au-
Identification, the SEAL the sign of the
sovereignty of Jesus Christ. The
coming of God to earth in the person
of his son was itself miracle of
such astounding Importance that,
alongside of it, nothing else seems
impossible. ...
| The Immortal Stories.
How little has survived Of the
| worlds literature! Since a period at
least thousand years before Hero
dotus, men have been writing his
tory, religious instruction and fic-
ton. Yet President Eliot engages to
put what is most worth while of it
all on f1ve-foot shelf. In this collec-
ton, much is unknown to the aver
age intelligent person But nobody
in all Christendom is ignorant of the
words of Jesus. How largely his
utterances bulk in the worlds
thought illusions to his sayings
are in newspaper editorials and politi.
cal platforms in novels and in phil
osophies, and in the common speech
of every day. W.
| Eight of his parallels were studied
! in this quarter. They were tales
and incidents Of common life filled
with larger spiritual meaning.
Jesus saw in everything about him
a reminder of :. the eternal verities.
The grass, the flowers, the birds, the
sea- the farm, all were filled with
spiritual messages to him, and all
helped to make vivid his good news
from the father. What parallels he
would draw from this wonderful life
of today, with its radium, it's X-rays,
its wireless telegraphy, it's talking
machines, moving pictures, airships
electricity and other many inven-
tons!
If vindication were needed for the
popularization of the gospel-for it's
presentation through daily newspa-
per and readable story-we find it in
the parallels Of Jesus. He never
amazed people by his big words, but
always by his simplicity. Unlike
the religious teachers of his day, he
did not drone learned discourses
drawn from musty books. The vib-
rant life Of his own time, the
speech of the common people, the
present needs of the men and women
about him, the simple truth Of the
father--love of God--these were
his equipment.
Therefore 1.-The common people
heard him gladly" One who studies
sermons and services is impressed
with the fact that many persons do
not expect to understand the preacher
They like or dislike him for his