Evening star., 1923-03-24

! During the last six months our
; studies have been drawn from tue
! .,,.,,l of I.rkp. They have been
! focused upon the greatest personality
i,f history. cur lessons were all
taken from the work Of a scholar ana
scientist who claimed that he f'au
; Traced thu. course Of all things arcu ,
atafv from the frat" The beloved
nhysician's motive in writing. what
,ritics have declared to be thc most
beautiful book in the world, was 10
enable gentle convert I" satlslS y
! himself concerning lile ACCURACY OF
: mo story which ''he had heard from
the Iip~ of others.
, The Internal eNidenc" OF th's COS
Z p-I points IL the fact that lhe com
, i,iIer was without doubt Luke. VINO
tr.ynled with the apostle Paul. as ms
! personal phySician. throughout nis ls
n,issiprary Journeys in Europe. lie
brought To his work the knoWitasr
I Of a trained scientist and the attltuae
!! f =, ,.-ntiIe mind This has made his
! biography of Jesus different from
! that of the two other sSnoptlc
! writers. lie aims to present the Mas
te.. a. thu Savior "f the world he
! traced the senralogy along the me
. Of his human ancestors until IL Fe"'h-
! ell Adam. tn. son Of God.
/ Luke recognized the relation OF the
; u,enatal life. hoyhood and youth TO
! rhr character and career ot Jesus.
/ We owe most of our kn"WledSe OF
! those silent years Of our Lord to the
; rornpaniou "f Paul. who preserved
: them for the believers of later ages;
; FIa linked up the relationship ana
/ ministry Of Jesus with that OF John
: the Baptist. whose mission prepared
! M way for the entrance Of the
christ as preacher. Luke is pre-
femfnrrtly the gospel of humanity. he
: il the only one that has recorded the
/ frst sermon that Jesus Delivered IN
the synagogue at Nazareth. When the
: Master selected the passage from
; Isaiah as outlining the program OF
| t'hriStIa!Iity claiming that He mad
| been appointed by God to preach good
) tidings /" the poor, release captlNes'
! give sight to the blind. set free the
, bruised and proclaim the LORD ac-
ceptabIe years. He pointed out that
! the Lords rejection was due to the
F, Masters attitude toward the gentle,
| citing the grace bestowed upon the
! 3Zarephath widow and the healing OF
: the Syrian leper as causes for MS old
, neighbors refusing to accept the Lord
Jesus. He ia the only one who re-
! fers to the sending out of the sew
| enty who were appointed to carry the
! gospel everywhere. Seventy was the
| recognized symbol OF the gentle
] world as twelve was for the Hebrew
| nation.
+, Luke is the only one that has rec
orded in his gospel the Masters story
(; Of the good Samaritan. which has
taught the world the lesson of philan
! inropy and brotherhood. Te beloved
: rhysician had learned from his fell
lowship with the greatest interpreter
of Jesus to look upon the Christ as
the ambassador to the gentiles pro
; claimed Him to be-the Savior Of the
/ lost Faithful is the saying. and
worthy of all acceptation, that Christ
Jesus came into the world to save
sinners" not among one race or class
but to be the Savior of all men. He
pointed out the broad sympathies OF
the Master and emphasized the world
mission Of Christ as one of the causes
of the conflict that separated Jesus
from the leaders of the Jewish peo-
ple. who refused to recognize Him
when He appeared as Isaiah had pre-
dicted. 1sa., 53.2. 81
The breach between the Lord AND
first study of this year, when the
Master sought to break the chains
that had held them to a formal OBJ
servance of the Sabbath. Jesus
pressed the spiritual significance OF
the law The simple fact that the
they thought it ought to be observed
invalidated His claim as the Mes.
sah in their eyes. Their rejection
grew out of their historical method
of interpreting the Scriptures thai
emphasized the external and formal
while Jesus insisted upon the spir.
itual and inner meaning. Their in.
terpretation would have prevented
the healing of diseases on the Sab.
| bath. while the Savior of the helpless
who had been an invalid for eighteer
year by insisting that 'it is lawful te
do good on the Saba tn
Another evidence OF the Lords Will.