Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-04-15
The :HS0|N FOR. R SUNDAY ] !.
Some Things Of the; Piblle. &. About lll!!|
thtmpoftance Of REk.
NECESsY: TO-. JOYFUL EXISTENCE
God ,Worker-Jesus Was Work:
er ring His Life on Earth-ss:
Pa,Never Knew Anything Else
Alien Divided Into the Clauses OF
fers and Strikers.
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is lesson in the value. necessity
a Importance of. work that. we have
SUNDAY. We shall learn that Jesus
.'ked and that Paul worked and we
all learn that work in some form is
,solutely essential and necessary, to
eace in this world and joy in the next,
The Scripture lesson for Sunday is
AIKEN from the Gospels according to
st. Mark and St. John, and from Paurs
second letter to the Thessalonians.
Nearly all Bible writer's dwell at length
on the matter Of work in some form or
another. Our lesson in Mark which
we study for Sunday is dated in the
winter of A. D. 20 the third year Of
Christ's ministry at Nazareth. The les
son in John is dated in the spring Of
A. D. %, the second year Of Christ's
ministry at Jerusalem. Pauls second
letter to the Thessalonians was writ
te nfrom Corinth, A. D., 81 or SO.
The Scripture Lesson.
Here is the Scripture lesson as found
in Mark GLIB; John .5:17; Thess,;
3:6-l3.
Mark 6:l And he :Went out from
thence; and he cometh into his own
country: and his: disciples follow him:
2. And when the Sabbath ;Was.come,
he began to teach i'm the synagogue
hoo ortn him taSfnniSh.
ed. saying, Whence. hath this, man
these things? and, What is the wis
dom that is given unto, this. man. and
what mean such mighty works wrought
by his hands, ~. I .,;<
8: Is not this the carpenter, the SON
of Mary, and brother ofrJames; and
Joses and Judas and: >Simgn? and are
not his sisters here with u.s.; And they
were offended in him. " g
John SIT. But Jesus answered them.
My Father worketh' even until now,
and 1 work.
. Thess. 3:G. Now we command you.
brethren, in the name of our Lord Je-
sus Christ, that ye withdraw your
selves from every brother that walketh
disorderly, and not after the tradition
which they received US. 1
Z. For yourselves know how ye
ought to initiate us: for we behaYe not
ourselves disorderlyl among you;2
s. Neither did we eat s:bgead for
nought at any mans hand, but In Ia
Dor and travail working night and day,
that we might not burden any Of you.
=. Not because we have not the
right, but to make ourselves an exam
pie unto you, thatye should initiate us.
10. For even when we were. with
you, this we commanded you, If any
will not work, neither let him, eat
IL. For we hear of some; that walk
among you disorderly. that work not
at all, but are busybodies. :,
-. Now them that are such we com
mand. and exhort in the Lord Jesus
Christ, that with quietness, they work;
and eat their own bread.
49, But ye, brethren, be not weary
in well-doing. -,.-.'
Powerful Argument.
What 4 powerful argument and
striking lecture on the value. of work
are these quotations from three books
of the New Testament; my friends.
In the text it is shown. clearly that
Christ during his whole life upon earth
was a worker. an indefatigable work.
er. AS a boy he worked in the carpen-
ter shop of his father. Joseph. Jesus
is said to have been especially skilful
in making wooden yokes; (see Matt.
1929, 3O), and Justin Martyr tells us
that in his time (the middle Of the Sec
ond century,, 'rakes. harroWs and other
articles were preserved which were
said to have been made by Jesus.
God Worker.
It is pointed out in the lesson for
Sunday that God is q worker and it is
So From the first day OF creation up
to the present God has been u worker
and will be until the end of the world.
He is forever working guiding the lives
of all the billions of human beings so
far as they will allow themselves to be
guided and endlessly planning and Ia
boring for the salvation and better
ment Of man.
Paul Was Worker.
Saint Paul, the Apostle, was one of
the greatest workers who ever lived.
tent maker by trade, ST. Paul after
travelling around preaching all day
would sit long into the night sewing
the harsh goat hair cloth of which
tents were made And it is said that
the craft of tent-making was poorly
paid although Paul made sufilciency
from his manual labor to preserve his
independence and his self-respect,
however.
Workers or Strikers.
Everyone of us on earth. my friends,
belongs to one of two classes Of people
workers or shirkers. There is no
getting around that fact. TO which
class d. you belong? No matter what
your occupation or station in life, it is
YOUR tuty as u Christian and as a man
to engage in some useful work in ic-
cordalcc with your ability. You re-
member the parable Of the talents
and low among the three servants
there. were two workers and one shirk-
er.
Ypu have noticed this. just looking
at from q practical standpoint: The
shi'ker never gets anywhere. he neV-