Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1916-01-27
SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON
Comments BY
Rev. Ernest Bourner Allen, D. D.
Pastor Of the Washington st.
Congregational Church and the
Marion Lawrance Sunday
School, Toledo, Ohio.
For Sunday January 80

LESSON leNt. AcIS D. MemOrlZel
verses 3, 10.
Golden Text: "Peter said, Silver and
gold have I none; but what have,
that give / thee. In the name of
Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk" Acts
8: 6.
l. The Worlds Lame Men.
There are great many lame men
in the world. Some are lame in body,
some in brain, some in morals. A few
are lame in all three ways and must
be kept safely in institutions. They
ought not to be allowed to perpetuate
their kind. Some are lame in two
particulars and this is dangerous
combination which often brings troub-
lie. Such folks need isolation and re-
straint for the protection of society.
other people are lame in one partic-
ular only: if in body or brain we send
them to physician or an institution
to be cared for.
1t is curious thing that in our
civilization, when men are "lame" in
morals, the most dangerous and far
reaching Slam, run
to go
ess to think
tnere is no cure for moral lameness!
Christianity claims and proves that
there is! There are unnumbered
thousands of people whose moral
lameness has been cured by Jesus
Christ. That is greater miracle
than making man walk. A habit of
lying is harder to overcome than a
weak ankle. Christ can cure bodily
ills and sometimes he does so. His
strength is not all used up, however,
in curing bodily ills. DR.. Cowan well
says: "The story of The Lame Man
Leaping' was written to stimulate us
to make some lame man leap. Who is
he? How are we going to do it? You
have to find the man; but the way to
make him leap is not to stick a pin
into him, but to stick big, blessed
truth into him."
What is that "big, blessed TRUTH"
That Jesus Christ can help any man,
in body, or soul! Will you do it?
III. Medical Missions.
Half of the world-think of i'll
half the world is out of any possible
reach of a doctor or any institution
like hospital In his boyhood, my
father was run over by lumber wag
on and his limb broken. His friends
rode forty miles to call doctor and
then found that he had gone forty
miles farther away. Eighty miles
and back again, then, to get doctor!
The roads were poor and it was the
fourth day before the boy received
medical attention! But half the world
cannot reach any doctor at all. 1t is
shut in to the curious, often danger
Gus customs, even if well-meant, of
primitive peoples,-the medicine-man
of the Indian, the witch-doctor of the
African savage, and others like them!
Why do we send missionaries Be-
cause we cannot be christians and do
otherwise. We are taught and COM
manded to share. Christ is sick, in
the person of these sufferering ones,
and we must "visit" them, carrying
all the help and comfort of our med
icines and scientific ministry. Half
the world cannot read or write. There
fore we take to them christian teach
ers and schools of every sort. Not to
do so would be unchristian. Strange,
isn't it, how some people criticise the
church for doing the very thing which
proves that it's religion is genuine and
that it takes it seriously. Watch how
somebody grumbles when the next
missionary collection is taken and you
will see what | mean!
III. What is Better than Gold?
What is better than gold? Healh.
Don't worry because you are not
rich. Thank God that you are
WE'LL! Health makes you "well off"
The most of US have relatively good
health for the major portion of life.
When we do not, it is often due to
our own ignorance, or carelessness, or
some exposure involved in the line of
our duty. Many others have i'll health
but fight it and conquer it and live
useful lives in spite of it. Paul did,
with his "thorn in the flesh" DR..
Trudeau did, victim of tuberculosis
at twenty-five, yet living for forty
years by vigorous, out-of-door treat
ment. By his camp in the Adiron-
dacks he taught myriads the medici-
nal value of fresh air and gave hope
to many people who have been cured
of incipient consumption simply by
careful diet, rest, and out-of-d door hab-