The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-06-08
Sunday School Lesson
"FoUR DOTS"

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Subject: Helping to Make a Better
World.
Lesson Topic Making the World
Christian.
Golden Textile Earth shall be
full of the knowledge of the Lord, as
1.-THE waters cover the sea-" lisa. XI. 81
4 Devotional Reading for the Opening
Sevice--Isaiah XIV. 1919, "a rs.
Lesson Material Isaiah ii I'd;
Acts /. GIG.
Hints for Study,
| Different languages, different Gus
toms, different living conditions, diff
ference in education, difference in OPP
portunity are many things that make
the nations Of the world appear diff
ferent from us. But acquaintance
with them shows that, at heart, they
are not so very different.
A boy in China hurt his knee. In
stead of cleansing the wound, putting
on ointment and bandaging it, the
native doctors took hot pokers and
burned deep holes in the flesh around
the wound, to burn out the devils,
which they said, had gotten in the
knee. This made the pain so great
that the boy had high fever and be-
came delirious. In stead of cooling
drinks, no water was allowed to pass
his burning lips, nor cool fresh air
tc enter the sick room. In the stuffy
inner room, hired healers made hide
Gus din to drive out the evil spirits,
which, they supposed, possessed the
boy. If a Christian doctor had not
happened by just then, the boy would
have died, for his knee was fearful
sight. When the boy recovered, he
and his parents wanted to know all
about the Christian God, and they be-
lieved our nation to be the most won
derful in all the world. Thousands
of Others like him need us.
Suppose we had taken all the bill
lions we used in the last war to send
doctors to our brothers (there are
only 1011 doctors to more than l.
100000 people in. the heather
world, teachers and missionaries to
open free schools where they are
ignorant. What do you think would
happen if all our fighting billions had |
been used as helping billions?
Some people have remembered the
distress of the world, and have given
freely to hospitals, both in our land
and in foreign lands; Others have
built homes for little children; still
others have taken care of those who
have grown old and are alone and un
Jared for. These and many other
,hings, people are doing because they
want to show their love for Christ,
and all the time the world grows bet
.er because Jesus disciples are work
ng. Not all are working; some are
pretending to be Christians, but have
forgotten our Lords command. If
ust the Christians alone should give
me tenth of their wealth, the whole
world would be changed. 1t must be
,ur program, not to be satisfied I'M
il every child can go to school, I'M
il every child can be cared for by a {
loctor, until every invalid finds room {
n a hospital, every aged person shall
AVE home, and every hayward boy '
II girl shall have a friend. This is y
What Jesus wants, what he has COM !
handed us to do, and what can be
lone if we will forget ourselves and {
hnk of others. {
One way to help the world to be \
etter is to keep our nation from +
ding harm to those other countries. Z
n our land boys and girls know the /
arm that whiskey and tobacco can 8
o. Surely it is not right for us to h
end these same evils to boys and y
iris who think every thing is good @
hat comes from our land. We should h
rork and pray to get enough inter |,
eted to do for other people what is [
God and wise for our own people. r
esus loved all the world, and pos
IDLY wonders why we are Indifferent o
D ills and sufferings of others. n