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

of The Republican.
SUNDAY. JUNE 9th.
The New Covenant and its Meaning.
Mark 14:10-72. Read Matt. 26:14-75;
Luke 22:1-62; John 10: 1-1S:27.
Watch and pray. that We enter not into
temptation. Mark 14:38.
U. S. WRIGHT.
The MEN.
HE was never mistaken in man, :"
wrote contemporary of Lincoln in de-
scribing the great Emancipator. Ger
tsinly this is overdrawn but it was true
Of Jesus Christ. The clear discerning
OF motives. the appeal to particular
bents of disposition, the differing
methods used, all proclaim it and make
the Gospels an indispensable handbook
for the desk of Big Business. Judas
could not hide his treachery with all the
skill that kept the eleven in ignorance
Of his failing fealty. Peters struggling
courage that was so often beaten IN
the fight with his timidity and yet re-
fused to abandon the field was open as
the day. The vindictiveness of the
Rulers and its inevitable outcome for
Himself was guaged as accurately as
tho He were party to their council.
And He knew Himself the Master of
them all and able to match wits, words
or deed with them all together and yet
He was to be overborn by such crowd
and beaten by weaker hands. Beaten"
cried big Hugh Macdonald as he lifted
his quaint. bony hands trembling for
very weakness. beaten by a man no
equal of mine, and I'll never be able to
look him in the face and say as much
to him." That was the bitterness of
the huge lumberman of whom Ralph
Conner writes and it marks the feeling
of US all for while we are good sports
and cheer when beaten by our betters
if we know they are we bleed inwardly.
Suppose German Kulture should master
Christ's culture would God survive or
His church live? Yet Jesus faced this
thing and there is not a line of bitter
ness even with Judas for He washed
the dust from his feet travel-stalned by
his. bargaining trip. The more one
sees the bigger grows our Lord who
could hold His spirit steady where we
know we would fail. No wonder He is
King of all the worlds.
THE MINISTRY.
1t is against that background of sure
knowledge of the men that the events
of this Thursday CLEAN like sudden
stars. Jesus knew men and their pos
sibilities as we'll for good as ill. They
had been under His training for months
and were yet MISUNDERSTANDING of His
meaning. They quarrelled even in the
supper room over place and power. He
staged that great sacrament of service
in response that He might change their
spirit for He believed their better selves
would emerge. Judas was told plainly,
as they all were, of the coming betray-
al so that they were shocked into sud
den uncertainty about their own posi-
BILE loyalty. He daredtell them all that
He would be forsaken. He dared check
Peters loud cry Of incredulity by the
clear warning of detection. He played
surgeon that night in desperate fashion
that He might heal but we would have
passed all that over that the cause
might have right of way. His plan is
to make men worthy of the cause and
then they will carry it to its intended
goal. A one-legged soul will limp after
the greatest cause. He would heal the
legs of the marchers that night And
he did it because He knew men and not
a section of man. George CIak Peek
writes in Men who Missed the Trail,
Usually good sized wart or wen suf-
fees to distract attention from an other
wise lovely face. God is so different.
AS the record says: His eye beholdeth
every perfect thing! That is the kind
He stresses. He woulu rather behold
the beauty than the blemIsh. And He
lives to help US discover our own good. J"
Jesus believed in His followers and
even hoped that final door would be
entered by Judas and his murderous
self-destroying policy be abandoned.
And this is the hope of US all and the
object of His ministry, the bringing out
into the light our possible sell es.
Wednesday had been spent in quiet
as was Thursday until the gong of the
group into the city for the meal in the
house of Mark. Individuals had been
at work but he had rested Whether
it was the Passover meal or not is an
open question. if He was the slain Lamb
then this could not have been eaten at
the Passover hour tho it gathered into
itself all the significance of the historic
feast. 1t was not born in the Disciples
demand so much as in the need of Jesus.
He would share the closest comradeship
of these men about the table where
both body and soul should feed. For
Him it contained no consciousness of