The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-06-27
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
Especially Prepared For Readers
of The Republican.
SUNDAY, JUNE Both.


Is. God so loved the world that He
gave his only begotten Son. that who
soeyer believeth on Him should not per-
ish, but have eternal life. John 3:16.
Thou art the Christ, the Son of the
living God. Matt. 1916. l am not
ashamed of the gospel; for it is the
power of God unto salvation to every
one that believeth. Rom. lilo.
U. S. WRIGHT.
THE Book STUDIED.
We have found Mark characterized
by vividness and action. The addresses
which appealed to the business man,
Matthew, and the conversations which
attracted the friend, John, are absent
and we see Jesus doing things rather
than saying things. But the picture is
that of the Teacher who is never sur
prised by a sudden change like the storm
but alertly improves its coming to drive
some lesson home in the minds of the
twelve. Every word and activity is
conditioned by that class upon whose
understanding rests the destiny of the
principles and life which He came to
offer to the world. We may arrange
the material by its geography as simply
as by any plan.
introduction. lib.
2-Capernaum. 1:14-5:43. From this
city as center He made some short
excursions about the lake but was never
far away.
3-Galilee. 6:1-7:23. Wider circuits
with widening influence. Johns death
and its effects are included.
4-Tyre. Sidon. etc. 7:24-9:5O. He
is breaking Jewish influence off the
lives of the twelve. The transfgura-
ton and the announcement of the cross
come here.
5-Perea. 1O:1-59. This is part of
His last journey to Jerusalem and fol-
lows the raising of Lazarus given by
John.
6-Jerusslem. l1:1-l6 Is. This is an
ordered account of the week of Passion
and the dawn of the Resurrection.
7-Conclusion. 1920. This covers
the Forty Days and may have been pen
ned by another hand.
Or we may go thru the book by it's
chapters and each one will be found to
reveal slightly differing picture of
Jesus and by combining them we can
see the Christ Mark knew. ! is the
healer. 2 is the challenger as He pro-
poses to forgive sin and free the Sab
bath for mans use. is the organizer
of the twelve. is the story-teller be-
side the lake 5 is Master of demons,
disease and death. 6 is the helper of
hurt hearts and hungry bodies. 7 is
the traveller who carries his kindness
along s is the teacher by bread, ques-
tioning and confession. is the lllu-
mined by the TRANSPORTATION and by the
disciples failure 10 is idealist who
counts service as the reality of riches
or office. II is the King. u is the de-
batter whose swift parry and unanswer-
able questions confuse and madden the
rulers. Is is the prophet who proclaims
the certain outcome of world tendon
cies. IA is the friend who shares the
social meal and then beeds in sorrow
for the world. Is is the surrendered.
sscrificial life and 10 is the face of God.
All these are in this wonderful picture
that gripped the heart of John Mark.
and should be understood by our classes.
PRIMARY TOPIC. JESUS A HELPER FOR
ALL.
The world of these little people is
bounded by the home and their ideal of
helpfulness is caught from father and
mother, big brother and sister. The
older ones have touched school a bit. So
we must pick the Christ helping the
hurt bodies of the sick, helping the hurt
hearts of the folk in trouble, helping
the disciples with their questions and
their work, etc. Make clear that PRAYER
is our means of asking Jesus to help us
and that He always does tho like father
it may be the refusal to give US the
thing that could hurt US.
JUNIOR Topic. MARKS STORY OF JESUS.
If you wish to make the story pre-
sentation fashion it about a title like,
"How Captain Jesus made a winning
Troop" This links it with ideas of to-
day and with the gang instincts. The
early days are the answer to the draft
that carried men thru many sorts of
tests along the lake until there came
the day of acceptance because twelve
of them had made good. Then their in
tensive training began under His eve.
there were talks around the camp fire,
scouting two by two, the great DAYS in
Jerusalem when He did the most daring
deed of all on Calvary Hill and thew
failed to support Him, and then their
new attempt under their old Leader
when they dared the desperate odd of
the Roman Empire and won. Now he
is asking for recruits again and wants