The Republican., 1922-11-02
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON

can by Rev. U. S. Wright, D. D.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER y
JESUS THE GREAT TEACHER
Luke 6:1-49. Read Matt ST.
As We would that men should do to
you, do ye also to them likewise
Luke 6:31.
RULES AND LIFE.
Madame Grundy is hard taskmis-
tress. Think Of the necessity forced
upon a prominent Washington woman
of making more than hundred calls
in a single day. Yet we criticise
some of the Pharisees Of the days of
Jesus and laugh at their folly in
caring SO much for the rigid rules
that fenced off days and doings Per-
haps the woman or the man who
dared live ones own life today in
spite of the demands of Dame Gus
tom would make a good interpreter
of Jesus. For He faced something
of the same sort as He refused to
be bound by the conventions of His
own day. "Hopelessly eccentric, ,"
must have been the term applied
many times in the discussions about
Him in many quarters. Naturally a
conflict came over the change in the
Sabbath from protection for the
poor to a day whose tasks robbed
them of what it was meant to give.
In the grain fields the hungry Dis
ciples dulled the keen edge of appe-
tite by chewing some of the kernels
that hung over the path. Lashed by
the verbal scourges of some on-look-
ers, Jesus leaped to their defense
with clear knowledge of the Book
and with the far-more disconcert-
ing claim, following hard after that
Of the forgiveness of sin, that "The
Son Of Man is Lord also of the Sab
BATH Later in the synagogue He
pressed the matter as a man, reported
by some as being a mason whose
withered right hand prevented his
working, worshipping with them was
called to the front and they were
asked, as it lawful to do good on
the Sabbath Day?" Angered at their
callousness He healed the man with
a word and faced the deepened hos
tility of the ruling class, so that He
knew there must be some modification
of His work. SO intent upon the
problem of His prayer that the hours
slipped by unheeded until the stars
paled before the dawn, when the sun
rose upon the hills of Hattim and the
throngs came He chose twelve men
from among them all who were to
become His intimates and so catch
spirit and ideals that they would be
able to carry the message unladed
with the ritual of Phariseeism. So
resourceful was this Man that al
ways if one road were blocked an
other path was found and His life
was a continuous advance. 1t was
perhaps a year and a-half after His
baptism, during all of which time
He had appealed for a hearing in
Judea, in Samaria, in Nazareth, and
in Capernaum to find at the end of it
growing and determined opposition.
Now He would give all His time to
the intensive teaching Of these few
rather than continue the former
mode. And to them first, although
all the crowd heard, was given that
charter of the Kingdom found in the
Sermon on the Mount.
THE SPIRIT OF KINGDOM MEN.
They are to be joy carriers. "Hap-
py are ye," is its earliest phrase.
Under all circumstances they carry
that lifting note in soul and voice,
for are they not heirs of the King
dom? Poverty can not still it, perse-
cution can not silence it, TO be cast out
as evil can not hush it. On that
night in the upper room, fully con-
scious of the sale of Judas and of
the impending cross, Jesus lifted that
voice Of music in song. With backs
raw from the rods, feet locked in
stocks and hands fettered, Paul and
Sias reused the entire prison with
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