The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-10

Cure of a crippled Woman
| Once He was teaching on the
| Sabbath in one of the synagogues
! where a woman was present who for
eighteen years had been a confirmed
| invaFid: she was bent double, and was
unable to lift herself to her full
l height But Jesus saw her, and calling
to her, He said to her,
woman, you are free from your
| weakness"
And He put His hands on her. and
| she Immediately stood upright and
began to give glory to God.
Then the Warden of the Synagogue,
indignant that Jesus had cured her on
a Sabbath, said to the crowd,
There are six days in the week on
which people ought to work. On
those days therefore come and get
yourselves cured, and not on the
Sabbath day"
But the Lords reply to him was,
'Hypocrites. does not each of you
on the Sabbath unite his bullock or
his ass from the stall and lead him to
water? And this woman, daughter of
Abraham as she is, whom Satan had
bound for no less than eighteen years,
was she not to be loosed from this
chain because it is the Sabbath day?"
When He had said this. all His
opponents were ashamed, while the
whole multitude was delighted at the
many glorious things continually done
by Him.
THE Mustard Seed and Yeast
This prompted Him to say,
what is the Kingdom of God like
and to what shall 1 compare it? 1t
is like a mustard-seed which man
drops into the soil in his garden, and
it grows and becomes a tree in whose
branches the birds roost.''
And again He said,
ITO what shall I compare the
Kingdom of God? 1t is like yeast
xrrhf oh 70 tho hf1rfpS in a
bushel of flour, to work there till the
whole is leavened."
Earnestness demanded
He was passing through town after
town and village after village, steadily
proceeding towards Jerusalem, when
someone asked Him,
''Sir, are there but few who are to
be saved?
way in through the narrow gate, He
answered; for multitudes, 1 tell you,
will endeavour to find "a way in and
will not succeed. AS soon as the
Master of the house shall have risen
and shut the door, and youzhave begun
to stand outside and knock at the
door and say,
ct do not know you He answers;
you are no friends of mine
''Then you will plead,
" we have eaten and drunk in your
company and you have taught in our
Streets
but He will reply.
-" I tell you that you are no friends
of mine. Begone from me, all of you.
wrongd oers that you are
There will be the weeping and
crashing of teeth, when you see
Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all
the Prophets in the Kingdom of God,
and yourselves being driven far away.
They will come from east and west,
sic
down at the banquet in the Kingdom
of God And tell you that some now
last will then be first. and some now
first will then be last
Herod Antipas
Just at that time there came some
Pharisees who warned Him. saying,
Leave this place and continue your
journey; Herod means to kill you.''
CO. He replied, land take this
message to that fox;
"a See, today and tomorrow I am
driving out demons and effecting
cures, and on the third day 1 finish
my course
Jesus grieves over Jerusalem
yet I must continue my journey
today and tomorrow and the day
following; for it is not conceivable
that a Prophet should perish out
] Jerusalem, thou who n1urderest the
Prophets and stonest those who have
been sent to thee. how often have 1
desired to gather thy children just as
a hen gathers her brood under her
wings, and you would not comet See,
your house is left to you. But I tell
you that you will never see me again
until you say. Blessed is He who
comes in the name of the Lord!' Cps.
cxviii. 26)." Il
Dropsy cured on Day of Rest
One day-it was a Sabbath-He was
taking a meal at the house of one of
the Rulers of the Pharisee party, while