The Republican., 1923-08-02
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON

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Oar soul hath waited for Jehovah;
He IS our help and cur shield.-Ps.
1920.
THE WOMAN or MYSTERY
Viii is she? One catches mere
glimpscs Of her as she moves in the
shadows or among the crowd so that
her face is never visible. Under the
trees Of Galilee she may be seen tray
cling in the company of Jesus. At
the cross she is just distinguishable
from the throng and in the garden the
gray Of the morning hides her face.
Some say it is the daughter Of the
SyrO-Phoenician woman; others that
it is Mary Of Bethany; still more that
it is the woman of the street who an
nointed her Lord in Jne Pharlsee's
house. But resemblance is not iden-
tity and | prefer to think of her as
distinct from all of these-a woman
syinsOme in her own right rather than
in borrowed garb. What are some
things we know about this woman OF
mystery?
She was a village girl living be-
side the sea. A few mad huts remain
Of what was a place thru which our
Lord often passed and where He found
Mary. She was in the full Vigor of
vonug womanhood, doubtless as fine
of face as of form if we could but
catch a glimpse Of it. She marched
with the men and on the day Of Won
der in Jerusalem ran for Peter and
John with both strength and eager
ness Of youth. She readily responded
TO her emotions for while she started
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the stimulus OF her thoughts about
her Lord, she outWalked them all
and arrived first at the garden. And
her mind was alert and her ObserVa-
tion quick, for she caught sight Of
the rolled-aWay stone, Interpreted 1t
Immediately and raced away on her
quest for help. And when she re-
turned and saw a figure there her
mind said: "Gardener," as the nat
ural conclusion. She was not one to
see things" even in q cemetery. Hers
was an eager, emotionally active soul
and it is probably on that side OF her
nature that her trouble had arisen
so that the seven demons may have
been, in the terms of today, some
form Of meiancholia that may have
grown out of physical sickness and
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