The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-09-20
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Lesson xII.--Third Quarter, For
Sept. 22, 1912.
THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES.

Text of The Lesson, Mark vi, 3o-444.
Memory Verses, al, 42-GoIden Text
John vi, s5-commentary Prepared
by Rev. .. NJ. stearns.
The words Of verse 30 are most prac-
tical and remind us OF our great priv
ilege OF telling all that we do and
teach to Jesus, receiving our messages
from Him and trusting Him to work
In us to will and to do of His good
pleasure. 1t is the old lesson OF Prov.
iii, 6, 'In all thy ways acknowledge
Him, and He shall direct thy paths"
and the new one of Phil. iv. 6, Z. There
is nothing like talking it all orer with
Him both before and after. l am al
ways reminded by this verse in our
lesson OF a little book entitled "Tell
Jesus by Anna Shipton.
The words 'No leisure so much as
to eat" (verse 81 give us some idea
of His day by day busy, crowded full
life, for others. seven days a week,
even on the Sabbath day Mark /,
21-31: Matt. xii, u; John tx. 4, IA.
for he taught that it is lawful to do
well o n-that also. Our own works or
words are not lawful on that day (Isa.
lviii. 10, 14), neither do they count at
any time. "Come apart and rest
awhile" does sound refreshing to a
weary one. but we shall see how they
rested. When the people knew that
He had started across the sea they
ran afoot out Of all cities and outwent
them. and when Jesus came He saw
much people and was moved with
compassion and received them and, as
was his custom, spake unto them OF
the kingdom of God and healed them
that had need of healing verses SO.
"a: Luke *, III. May the mention OF
the kingdom always lead us from the
heart to say "Thy kingdom come. Thy
will be done in earth as it is in heav-
en- CMatt. vi, 10Y, for less than that
will not be the kingdom OF God. John
tells us that it was Passover time. and
that also suggests a phase of the king
dom, for at the last Passover Jesus
said. 81 will not any more eat thereof
until it be fulfilled in the Kingdom OF
God" Ouke xxi, 16). That will be the
time Of Israel's restoration at the be-
ginning of the millennial kingdom.
AS the day began to wear away the
disciples came to Jesus. asking Him to
send the multitudes away that they
might buy themselves bread, and, to
their astonishment, He said: ''They
need not depart. Give ye them to
eat" To prove Philip He asked him.
whence shall we buy bread that these
may eatT' For He Himself knew what
He would do, as He always does. for
He is perfect In knowledge, and every
purpose Of His shall be performed
(John vi, s, 6; Job xxxvi, 4: Jer. Ii, 29l.
Philip might wisely have replied, Lord.
Thou knowest; Thou didst feed many
thousands in the wilderness for forty
years and there is nothing too hard
for Thee der. xxi, 10. But Philip
knew neither his Lord o himself.
and on the night before the c%rucifxion
Jesus had occasion to say to him,
"Have I been SO long time with you
and yet hast thou not known Me, Phil
ip?' John xiv. o. Philips reply in
our lesson story John vi, a shows
that he was capable of and evidently
did some mental figuring, but to him
the case was hopeless.
Andrew, Simon Peters brother, some
how found out that there was a lad In
the company who had Ave barley loaves
and two small fishes, and he ventured
to mention it, but with no hope that
they would be Of any service. He
said. What are they among so many?"
John vi, 8, 81 Jesus said, Bring
them hither to Me-" just as He said
concerning the lunatic boy at the foot
of the mount of TRANSPORTATION, Bring
him hither to Met" Matt. xiv, IS; xvii,
10. The unfailing remedy for every I
trouble is Tell 1t to Jesus, Bring 1t to
Jesus, for He said, ''Come unto Me,
all We that labor and are heavy laden,
and ] will give you rest" Having
made the multitude sit down In COM
panies by hundreds and f1fties on the
green grass oversees 80, 4O. He took
the loaves and the fishes and looked
up to heaven and gave thanks, bless
ing the food, and then gave it to the
AAcNApAV0 W pass Oh " IAS mutuLuuSSs
There would be at least fifty compa-
niles of a hundred each or a hundred
companies Of fifty each, so the disci-
Piles had enough to do to make them
forget themselves for awhile. We
might like to know how He could d.
vide five loaves and two fishes among
twelve disciples and how much each
had to start out with and Just how
the food multiplied as they gave It
out, but we are not told and so must
leave 1t. We are told that they did
all eat and were filled, 5000 men be-
sides women and children Matt. xiv,
21). and that twelve baskets full of
the fragments were gathered up when
all was over A little later He fed
1000 men with seven leaves and a
few little fishes, and they were filed
and seven baskets of fragments gath
cred up (Matt. w.. 1928; Mark viii,
1-99. Yet soon after when crossing
the sea with His disciples they had
only one loaf with them, they thought
from something He said that He was
~upbraiding them for forgetting to take
bread, seemingly forgetting the mirac-
ulous supply of the two great recent
events Mark viii, 1920.
That which a little boy possessed
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