The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-10-23
Sunday School Notes
Side Lights on Next Sundays Lesson
for Teachers and Pupils.
Edited by Charles K. Meyers
October 27-Wanderings in Decapo.

October 27-Wanderings in Decapo-
lis. Mark Z, 81 to $40.
We learn this week of further mir
acles performed by Jesus while on
earth. The scene of those spoken of
at this time was in that part OF Pales-
tine west of the Sea of Galilee and the
Jordan river. This would be further
back in Asia, and away from the
Mediterranean sea. Many will re-
member of the casting out of evil
spirits from maniac, and the request
that the spirits pass into herd Of
swine, and that afterwards the people
asked Jesus to depart from their To-
cality. 1t is recorded that the man
made whole asked permission of Jesus
to go with Him, and that his request
was refused. Jesus told him to go to
his home and tell his friends the great
things which had been done for him.
In Mark $50 it will be found that the
man did as commanded and began to
publish in Decapolis all about how
Jesus had helped him. 1t was to this
country, made ready by the story OF
the healing of the insane man, that
Jesus went as told about in our lesson
of today.
Jesus soon found work to do, for
there was deaf and dumb man who
was brought for healing. The record
says that Jesus took him apart from
the crowd, put his fingers in his ears
and touched his tongue and the heal
ing was accomplished. 1t is result
of christianity that seeming miracles
are done today in the way of healing.
1t can be trutnfully said that only
where the gospel of Jesus is taught
and made the standard, do medicine
and surgery flourish. 1t is now so
common as to cause little comment
when an announcement is made that
an eye has been removed from it's sock
ct, treated for disease, and replaced;
that ones stomach has been opened
and helped by certain things being
done to it, and that heart has been
sewed up when injured and kept 1T
work. These seeming miracles come
to bless mankind only where the bible
is preached.
Not long ago there came to Deni-
son and spoke in the Baptist church a
medical missionary. He had left fine
practice in the state of Connecticut
to enter the foreign mission fields,
and to give the negroes of the Congo
valley, on the west coast Of Africa,
the benefit of his high medical educa-
ton. He is surgeon in chief in hos
pital at the mouth of the Congo river
and to it are brought hundreds of
patients every year by boat down the
great stream. He has few of the con-
veniences found in American hOspi-
tails, but with what he has he is doing
q great work from the surgical point
of view, and at the same time teaching
the gospel of the blessed Jesus. His
salary for a full year is less than he
could earn in a month in any city of
the United States. The inspiration
of the gospel in his heart made this
course of action and sacrifice possible.
Our lesson also tells us of Jesus
having compassion on the multitudes
about Him and feeding them with
bread and fishes. At this time seven
baskets full of unusued food were TAX
en- up. In talking on the miracle of
feeding the people, not many weeks
ago, attention was called to the spir-
itual bread which Jesus was ready to
give and how he likened His body to
bread which, if eaten, would give ever
lasting life. This lesson can again
be drawn for the benefit of all study
ing the verses of this week.
After the healing of the deaf and
dumb man the people about cried out
with enthusiasm, HE has done all
things WE'LL" This can be said of the
entire career of Jesus. Viewed from
every point it can be in truth said HE
hath done all things we'll" This is
the verdict of the years since His
death and resurrection and can well
be our opinion of Him today. Let us
then put our trust and faith in Him.