Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-30
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
For Dec. 3, f922-Luke 9-1O:24.
BY DIR. MARION MCH. HULL

| change the figure of speech and
the laborerS were few. So He sent
seventy others, other than the apos-
ties, to go out into the cities whittier
He Himself would come. You see
the mission of the seventy differed
from that of the twelve in the
spring to some extent. They had
been sent out after being with the
! Master to do just what He had been
doing and to preach the same mes
sage. These seventy were sent out
as forerunners tc prepare the way
for Him as He would soon be along
behind them. They were given the
same power, however, the same in
structiCns, and the same message;
and He identified Himself so COM
pletely with them that He said that
hearing them was hearing Him, and
despising them was deSDiSing Him.
He continued His journey on to-
ward Jerusalem. The seventy fin
lshed their mission and reported to
Him in Jerusalem just before the
They were highly elated because
| they had cast out devils; and we
I cannot blame them, for we would
|
/ brought great joy to the heart of
Jesus, for He offered a prayer of
thanksgiving to His Father RIGHT
then and there as He realized that
this WAS the beginning of the casting
put actually of that powerful arch
angel who had re0eiled against God
and brought sin into the world Il
| behcld Satan fall 9 lightning from
heaven" He could see what the
outcome would be when His follow
ers went out to do His work at His
| bidding. And turning to the twelve
He told them how peculiarly they
were blessed to be able to witness
such sight, as many prophets Of
Old had lonSed to see and hear them,
| but couldn't, for the time had not
| yet come.
Christianity is not a creed, nor a
question of doing this. nor refrain
ing from doing that. Christianity is
a life, to be q Christian means to
have that personal relationship to
the Lord Jesus Christ which makes
you one with Him, which makes you
depend wholly upon Him, yield your
self entirely to Him, put yourself en-
| tirely at His disposal, and put His
interests first in your life; yes, first,
above every other consideration and
interest. His aim is your aim; His
program your program; His friends
your friends; His enemies your enc
mics; His victory your victory; His
life your life, as His death was you'd
death, too.
An institution is judged by the
, quality of its output-a factory by
! the quality of its products; a school
| of medicine by the kind of doctors
! Its graduates are: a church or Sun
day school by the kind of Christians
! that it develops. You must not be
| satisfied with the fact that the most
respectable and influential citizens
Of your community were raised in
your school. What is their relation
ship to Jesus Christ? Are they put
ting His interests first? Are they
Identified with Him as Saviour, Lord
and Life? Is money, or pleasure, or
| position, the first thought and effort
of their lives? Or are they seeking
/ these things only as means to an
end, as a means of advancing
I Christ's interests first?
! AS Jesus Christ views the situa-
ton today He sees as He saw then
+ the fields white unto the harvest,
ana Ills command Is St1ll that we
pray the Lord of the harvest that
He would thrust forth laborers into
His harvest.
| Let us take a good look over the
! field ourselves. Take America first:
| There are some 100000, 900 people in
this country, and of this number
only about 100000, 900 of them who
are members of any church, and this
| includes every denomination, many
of whom do not acknowledge the
deity of Christ the only Savior.
| There are 100000 Mormans included
in this number, whose tenets are
wholly at variance with the prin-
ciples of our government even.
More than half of our population
live in the cities now; and the ever
increasing tide of immigration, the
growing problems of industrial re-
lations, the increasing wave of
crime, the growing Indifference and
open defiance of the institutions
upon which our government was
founded make the city problem the
nations problem, and call for the
best that Christians have. There are