Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-18
SABBATH
SCHOOL LESSON
For November 21--2O Matt. 10
DIR. MARION NTH. HULL

Golden Text: "And He said unto
them, pray We therefore the Lord of
the Harvest that He would thrust
forth 1aborers unto His harvest"
Matt. 9:23.
the condition of the multitude who
were as sheep having no shepherd. 1t
was like a harvest ripe, but with
no5 enough laborers to gather it. SO
He told His disciples to pray the
Lord of the harvest to thrust forth
answer to their prayers, He thrust
them forth. 1t is great thing to
| pray; it is dangerous unless you are
ready to help answer them If He
| calls. So He sent them forth, for
| they were willing, and gave them
ease.
The Twelve Representative
| 1t is interesting to notice the type
| Of men He chose and sent forth. 1t
gives us some idea of what His plans
are for us, for they constituted the
nucleus about which His church
, grew. Note that they were no two
men such as you will meet today;
and that in sending them out, He
grouped them in twos, each pair be-
ing compliments. In the lists as
given us by all the evangelists, there
are always three groups-the first
Philip, and the third by James
Junior. The order in the groups
varies slightly, but the grouping
here given by Matthew seems to have
been the usual one.
| Peter-his nickname has become
the one which he is best known to-
day---is always paired with his BROTH
er Andrew. Simon Bar-jonah, and
Andrew Bar-jonah-Simon and An
drew Johnson-were eopposites,, as
same father Peter was impqlsivee
and unstable. Andrew was cool and
calcula ting. Peter spoke first and
thought afterward; Andrew thought
first and spoke afterward. But II
| Peter was impulsive he had initia-
thing and make a mistake occasion
ally than not to do anything at all.
And when the Holy Spirit came upon
! him at Pentecost He sanctified that
made him the leader of the group.
God needs cool, calm, thoughtful
men like Andrew as we'll as Peters,
and so the two opposites are sent
out together.
other two in that group. Their IA
Their was in good circumstances and
their mother was an ambitious Wom-
an fer her boys. They were both
hot-headed, and ambitious them
! selves, and had a strong tendency TO
look out for number one. James was
a good deal older than John, for
John lived for at least sixty-t1ve
years after Jesus edath, and must
have been very young at TINS tlne;
while the other James was called
| the younger Cor junior) to dStln-
gu;sn him from this Older. one or
| James senior. James was the, first
to die, John the last. God needs the
| older and more mature ones, ana
with them He must have also the
young and immature ones. 1t is no
| ficeable that these sons of thunder
| became the apostles of love. John
four times speaks of himself as the
disciple whom Jesus loved, Du9
never once as the disciple who l4 ~; ed
Jesus; but he wrote we loVe HUI
because He first loved us"
These four are best known-three
| of them were most closely associated
| with Jesus, and all four once.
Philip heads the, next SroHp OF OF
four He was paired with Hathanate!t
to the Christ. Philip was dull bur
| loyal, while Nathaniel was quick
1 witted and with a tendency to skeptf-
cism. When Philip told him OF the
| Christ, Nathaniel asked, Can any
good thing come out OF Nazsre IN
GONE Cor and sees But Nathaniel was
quick. It didn't take but two ques-
| fions on his part to convince MN
that Jesus was the Christ. God needs
both the man of slow wit and the
man of quick wit; and He sends them
| out together.
Thomas Didymus, or the twin, and
| Matthew the tax-gatherer were the
| other pair in the second group OF
| four. From the fact th2t mona a1nG1s
grouped with Matthew, it has been
| Thought they were brothers. This
; nav or may not be true. Matthew
/ alone is the one who speaks of him
self as the taX-gatherer: He never
forgets how low he had fallen when
Jesus called him; but the others
seem to have forgotten it in what
he became. These two were op-
posites, too Thomas was an non,
est doubter He was always from
| Missouri" and had to be shown; but
when shown he was out and out toI
his Lord Matthew was a man, OF
fearless faith. When called, he; let1
everything he had-money and al
ess enough to invite his old asso,
ciates to a feast which he was Civ,
ing to his new associate, in spite OF
what they might feel or saw about
it. God needs the honest doubte'
rs well as the man of fearless faith
He sends them out together.
James Junior heads the THIRD
group of four. He is. paired witt
Judas, not Iscariot, all the evengel.
lists are careful to say. They were
also brothers, the sons of Al
phaeus Iof Cleopos or ClopcS. IS the
Greek sorm Of the Hebrew alphaeus
is written). James is called the
Less or Junior to distinguish
him from the other James, and Ju'
das is called Lebbaeus Thaddeus OIL
(the loyal hearteO, to distinguish
him from the traitor. They were
sons Of Mary, the sister of the
Virgin Mary, and therefore first
! cousins Of Jesus sometimes called
by Hebrew usage the brothers OF
the Lord. They too were oppOsites
Both were authors of the epistles
which bear their names. James en-
, phasized the practical side of right
J eousness as showing the real life
while Jude was stickler for the doc
trinal side. Roth are needed by
God, the man of practical righteous
ness and the man of doctrine. They
are sent out together
The last two are opposites-more
50 than any of the others --Simon
he Zealot and Judas Iscariot. Simon
belonged to a party whose motto
vas, "The National any cost. "
When he became a follower of Christ
that same zeal would have made his
motto now, Christ, at any cost" On