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| M BIBLE STUDIES.
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Luke vi, 39-49-June 0.

Luke vi, 3949-June Q.
Re ye doers of the Word and not
hearers only. deceiving your own
selves, james /. %
In today's lesson the Great Teacher
emphasizes the necessity of knowledge
ana OF a faith built thereupon. The
blind leading the blind represent The
lgneraht. leading the ignorant into diff
heuities, into the ditch. In the mental
blindness of the past many Christians
assumed that the Master here taught
that the blind leaders and the blind fol-
lnwfrs offs our day would all fall into
the ut of eternal torment, but not SO.
The thought is that they will stumble
and experience injury instead of reach
ing the desired destination.
The destination sought blythe Jews
was fellowship with and relationship to
God, His highest favor mentioned to
Abraham. saying, I'm thy Seed shall
all the. families of the earth he bless
cd st. Paul says of that PROMISE
Israel hath not obtained that which
he seeketh. but the election hath oh
tanned it and the rest were blinded :"
Romans XII. - The entire Jewish
race was blinded and turned aside and
ness, separation from Cod This was
the very matter against which jesus
forewarned them. They were following
the lead of the Scribes and Pharisees
and Doctors of the Law. all of whom
were blind leaders who misled their too
trusting followers The disciple Or
follower will not fare better than His
master or leadersar teacher. he cannot
hope for better results than his leader,
Study the Bible-Discard the Creeds.
How important. then, that Gods peo-
pie Recognize thsf true leader, jesus,
that they hear His Voice, ana Iced not
the Voice of others. In the present, in
the ending If this Gospel Age, we have
Il condition of things very similar to
that Which obtained in the end of the
Jewish Age. We have many great,
learned and wise men In all the Genpm-
nations of Christendom, as the Jews
had i'm jesus day in all their different
seets. It is equally important that We
take heed that we do not follow blind
leaders today-to us it is much more
important. Why should we FOLLOW any
OF the ereeds when now we have the
Word of God in such convenient form
and when all are able to read it? Who
cannot fejoiee that recently the present
pore issued instructions that the Ro-
man catholic bishops should encourage
Catholics to study the Bible2 How it
would rejoice us to find the Protes-
tant leaders similarly urging the Word
of God upon their peoples
Alas ION the contrary, we find that
many Of the great and wise of the prin-
DIN g of
mining the faith Of the people by tell
ing them that the Bible is not Divinely
5inspirysl. that Moses and the Prophets
1tlicin and hence Indirectly saying thai
Jesus and the Apostles were deceived
when they made quotations from the
Old Testament and aseribed them To
Isaiah, jeremiah. Moses. Habakkuk,
etc. These great men style themselves
Higher Critics and endorse the theory
of Evolution, that humanity is under
going q process of evolution from mon
key-likeaess up 10 God likeness They
arc thus indirectly telling their people
that there was no tall from Gods i'm
age and likeness, that there was no sin
coUmitted. no sentence for sin. no Re-
ceemci from sin and it's sentence ard
that.restiaticr is not u IL hoped for
nor Ia he desircd-Aets iii l9-2i.
Surely the Great Teachers advice
not te follow blind lea6ers was never
more needed than in our day. blessed
wiz ti9ey be who heed the warning and
~ 1t .lwil be guided back to a more
t,nreemh study of the words of the
Gsc'f Teacher. His Apostles and the
Prophets.
stiu1ility Character Foundation.
'rlel parable of q man with a beam in
his ai, eye trying 10 pick a mote odt
q, llSf brother'3 eye was a forceful
rietista wheret.f &c Master iscuieated
the afceasity Of hanii!ty on the part of
thoss who would be taught of God. Hu-
hn,iss is here rs, elaeN here put as a
Foundation virtue. The Latin word for
humility is humus, ground This implies
tlat i is the soil out of which other
virtuca are produced. Those Who think
thsv know everything can learn moth
inE. As Chalmers has said, The more
q man does examine. the more does he
discover the inlrnities of his own
ohfsracter,' AS Wheatley remarked,
~ On thousand of he greatest faults in