Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-10-24
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Amid this thronging human need

seeking succor. ...".
Amid this thronging human need
Jesus went ministering. He was not
SO busy seeing the sights of the won
derful Greek cities that he had not
time for the poor and miserable and
outcast. He ministered to people be-
cause he loved them and wanted to
help them; and also because his minis
try interpreted his message. In the
needed healing tn word of love could
be read.
Chambers Of Silence Opened.
Sensational beyond all men was this
humble. gentle Nazarene. Not in the
cheap, petty. self-seeking fashion of the
occasional pulpiter, but seeking to
focus mems eyes upon himself. AS
we see, he set people to thinking and
to talking about great deeds and
great words and their significance.
His work created sensation. When
Dr. Charles Lewis. Of China. removed
huge goitre from a peasant woman's
neck and face, and sent her back to her
native village, she was at first re-
jected as being different woman en-
tirely. That was creating sensation.
In this fashion the healing and help
fulness of Christ set the countryside
by the ears and gave the Unsuitable
Greeks something new to talk about
A deaf and dumb man was brought
to Jesus. Nobody understood quite
what could be done for him. but they
quickly learned the wise habit of talk
ing problems to Jesus. The friends of
the afflicted one did not understand
that he was dumb because he was
hok No
opened his lips would be unsealed.
Most dumbness is due to deafness.
With fine symbolism, Jesus made him
to hear and thus taught him to speak.
Using some signs to strengthen the
mans faith the savior spoke the word
true to all with muffled ears, "Ephathas
that is be opened" The miracle set
men to marveling, and the story could
not be kept from the world. The
common opinion found voice in the
words, "He hath done all things well;
He maketh even the deaf to hear and
the dumb to speak,"
The teaching lies on the surface that
the spiritual dullness Of mems precep-
tons is being removed by Christ. He
is making men to hear, and, hearing,
to speak Even as there are sounds
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range OF the human ear. so there are
notes in the spirit realm to which
Christ attunes the hearts of those who
come to him for healing. The new
world OF sound in which he who had
so recently been deaf found himself
was no more wonderful than the
choice music of life to which the re-
deemed spirit is introduced.
The Shared Meal.
One other event Is chronicled in
this lesson, that of the feeding of the
four thousand 1t is like the miracle
recently studied of the feeding of the
five thousand, yet with important
points of difference. The message is
the same, illustrating the Responsible
ty Of them that have for those that
| have not. 1--WE that are strong ought
also to bear the burdens of the weak"
The simple fact Of mans need gave
him a claim upon Christ. His hunger
brought him within the range Of the
miraculous ministry of the master.
Underlying many teachings in this
story lies the timely truth that those
who are Christ's cannot be indiffer-
ent to human need. Our powers are
for the worlds service. We that have
cannot escape an obligation to those
who have not Even as Jesus went up
and down the land that we call holy,