The Detroit times., 1916-06-08
The international Sunday School
4 Lesson for June II, Is Sowing
and Reaping. CHI. 6.


4 aside. We have outgrown then
& Hut The Bible, like the mercy O
= God, II fresh every morning an
|in<w every evening. This Is De
cause the Bible goes down deep
deep. deep into the vital principle
or life. Its teachings pertain to al
= places and all practices in all times
In every reform movement tins
s Bible exercises a corrective and re
etraining influence because II con
3 tinnalIy calls men back TO funda
4 mentals. More than one Jealous
Il temperance advocate has wished
that the Bible were more exphcl'
I. and detailed In its treatment OF the
liouor evil. not seeing that II II
! were. the Bible would soon be as
ont OF date as last years temper
8 ance pamphlet. The power OF the
B Book is that it establishes all It's
I teachings upon the bed rock OF
4 eternal principles.
A declaration of interdependenee
(. Is the substance of the portion OF
q Dcripture which has been designat-
"a . Temperance lesson for the sun
nilay schools. The idea OF mutual re-
EapOnsibility. OF mans obligation to
man. pervades Paups letter 10 the
sChristians In Galatia. This letter
|s3l VIII be recalled, was written TO
'y1he Callahan churches at lconium,
rDerbe, Lystra and Antioch, about
which we have been studying. The
rev Christians were singularly do
(. of1e In matters OF faith and prac'
ztfce. They wanted TO know how TO
I'VE In the way that would please
oUus. So they were hungry for in
sctfuction from the Apostle who was
their father in the faith The pres
at passage is a series of somewhat
hotnched injunctions strung on the
Unread OF the obligations which
christians have one to another, and
~ Old.
&CDnaes eoards On LIES Highway.
what Paul himself wrote is more
'&Goctive than any comments upon
I 4, apd quote the lesson passage:
brethren. even II man be over
s1n1on In any trespass. We who are
}oD1r1tual, restore such a one in a
1rit OF gentleness; looking to thy
|N01G iost thou also be tempted. Bear
~ enc another's burdens, and so
MN the law of Christ. For IL a
80 thinketh himself TO be some
Ahing when he Ii nothing. he de-
I0oovofh himself But let each man
1--WE hts own work. and then shall
~ have his giorying in regard Of
/ llmselx alone, and not OF his neigh
4 ~. FOR each man shall bear his
6WA burden.
& ssDut let him that IN taught In the
Tvogd communicate unto him that
{ noheth In all good things. Be not
ogelved: God Ii not Knocked: for
F1AntSoewer q man soweth. that shall
K ~ also reap. For he that soweth
&M4o his own flesh shall Of the flesh
J 4oop corruption; but he that soweth
ITO the Spirit shall OF the Spirit
!. eGoy eternal life. And let US not be
Woofy IN well doing: for In due sea
80 We shall reap, II we faint not.
I % then. as we have opportunity. let
~ work that which is good toward
4 IN men, and especially toward them
that are Of the household OF the
faith."
When . Man StumbIes.
The badness OF good people lies in
their censoriousness. IL is hard for
them to make allowances for others
mot 30 correct as themselves. Ian
. 4aciaran drew this type to perfec
4 Hon In his portrait of Lachlar
( Campbell. who drove his own daugh
\ tor from his home In his hardness:
( q selfrighteousness. To be so en-
& o1oeBed In ones own goodness tina
- y intolerant Of another's weak
nees, IL the very essence of Phar
|. isaiah, and the one sin agains
watch Jesus contepded more thar
xany other. The exceeding sinful
& nsss Of this sin consists in it's pow
~ 70 harden the heart so that tn,
divine plant Of love is starved t,
Z 6eath.
Big-hcarted Paul, who knew tina
among the new Christians Their,
y would be many to stumble, babe tn,
brsthren restore such q one in
eDirit Of meekncss. Thus the.
fwould save the offender and serv
4 tboor own souls. This kind OF min
1etry used to be called "the cure o
opulss snd applied to the pastorate
~ friend. Dr.. Robert Hume, a
4 4hmsdnaser. India. has his shingI,
x6ot - Maker and member OF mel
md boys in the name OF the Lore
Z @oous." The program of Christ con
tempiates the greatness OF sou
: among His disciples which can b,
bafient and forgiving.
The Book Of Paradoxes.
Within a few words of each othel
y thsre are two contradictory injunc
: tious In this letter. Bear ye one
{ nnctber's burdens. Every man
HAIL bear his own burden" Both
i are, true: obviously so. The para
y Cog stagsers nobody; for each in II:
1 ovn sphere II a binding law.
81 Christians are commanded TO full