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dnd --- la, Sunday School Lesson | LESSON IV. MINISTERING TO PHYSICAL NEEDS Mark 1: 2945 Golden Text-- And he healed many that were sick--Mark 1: 34. THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING Time--April and May, A.D. 28. Place--The events recorded in the greater part of the lesson, through verse 38, occurred in Capernaum. The preaching tour, and the healing of the leper, took place in Galilee, though where we are not definitely told. The miracles of healing which took place on this particular day in Cap- ernaum are recorded also by Matthew (8: 14-17), and Luke (4: 38-41). 29. "And straightway, when they were come out of the synagogue." This is still the same Sabbath day during which Mark tells us, in the preceding paragraph that Jesus had taught with such astonishing power in the Capernaum synagogue and had delivered one possessed by an unclean spirit. Undoubtedly the whole city was in commotion that day because os what had taken place in this house <¥ worship, and centainly in every home that noon the one subject of conversation was Jesus of Nazareth, his teaching, and his miracles. "They came into the house." Jesus went with them, He had come to teach men the way from the synagogue to the house. The Christ of the synagogue is the Christ of the house. "Of Simon and Andrew, with James and John." Zhe house belonged to Simon Peter, as Matthew and Luke tell us, though possibly Andrew also was living there. James and John were simply invited to the home that day. Peter had not yet given up his home on the Sea of Galilee, though he had undoubtedly given up his fishing business. The Touch of His Hand 30. "Now Simon's wife's mother." Peter wag the only apostle whom the New 'Testament definitely states to have been married. "Lay sick of a fever." Fevers are common in the Orient, and they would be especially distressing in such a hot climate as prevails around the Sea of Galilee, which is five hundred feet below the level of the sea. "And straightway they tell him of her." Dr. Lenski has very sympathetically suggested that "most likely when Jesus came into the house and did not see the women, he asked where she was, and then heard of her ailment." She was no doubt confined in an inner apartment. With 'Jesus, the greatest man that ever lived, it was so easy to confide anything and everything. : L 31. "And he came and took her by the hand." Have you ever made a careful study of the hands of Jesus, of all they did, and, finally, of their piercing on the cross, and the benedic- tion which they symbolized as they were uplifted that day when he as- cended into glory? The hand of Jesus was as warm as love could make it, It was thrilling with tenderness and vibrating with compassion, The touch' upon the fevered hand of that old woman in Capernaum was as a con- densation into one act of the very principle of the incarnation and of the whole power which Christ exercises upon a fevered and sick world. "And raised her up; and the fever left her." The Fevers Of The Soul "It is not illegitimate to allow our minds to pass from the fevers of the body to the fevers of the soul. In- deed, that is one of the authorized ways when we seek to interpret the miracles of the Lord. The Saviour's miracles are the outer and visible types of inner and greater wonders. They are done in the body in order that we may infer the deeper eman- cipations of the spirit. 32. "And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were sick, and them that were poss- essed with demons." 33. "And all the city was gathered together at the door." 34. "And he healed many that were sick with divers diseases, and cast out many demons; and he suf- fered not the demons to speak, be- cause they knew him." "The strict laws of the Jewish Sabbath gave a few hours of rest to all, but the blast of the trumpet which announced {ts close was the signal for a renewal of the popular excitement, now in- creased by the rumor of a second miracle; 'all that had any sick, with whatever disease," brought them to the great Healer. The whole town was in motion, and crowded before the house. / 35. "And in the morning, a great while before day, he rose and went out, and departed into a desert place, and there prayed." In the present in- stance, ag the context indicates, it was Jesus' resolve to preach the gospel of the Kingdom all through Galilee. Jesus prayed because he wag man. His prayers were communions with his Father. 36. "And Simon and they that were with him followed after him." The word here translated "followed after" means, literally, "to hunt down," and "glves the idea of hard, persistent search." The Work of Preaching 37. "And they found him, and say unto him, All are seeking thee." No i ' A--C a. doubt these disciples who went out to search for Jesus knew why he had gone off to be by himself. Realiz- ing that the sinless Son of God, who had power to heal all diseases, needed prayer so keenly that he had to rise early in the morning to find time for it, they should themselves have gone out to be alone with God ag their Master was that morning. Instead of that they were burdened with the immediate demands of a great multitude, and they did what so many Christian workers do, they put work before prayer. 38. "And he saith unto them, Let us go elsewhere into the next towns, that I may preach there also; for to this end came I forth." By the phrase "came I forth" we believe that Christ refers definitely to his coming from the Father, Therein we discover the strength of his purpose. The strength of hig service lay in the complete abandonment of the Servant to the One who commanded. He moved ev- erywhere with the dignity of the auth- ority under which he served. He was in the world for a purpose. In this sentence is the key-note of his confi- dence, the secret of his strength, the infilling of the power that made him the prevailing Servant of God. 39. "And he went into their syna- gogues throughout all Galilee, preach- ing and casting out demons." 40. "And there cometh to him a leper." Leprosy was regarded as the most loathsome and terrible of dis- eases. It existed in various forms, but its invariable feature was its foul uncleanness. The leper was an out- cast, '"Beseeching him, and kneel- ing down to him, and saying unto him, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean." 41. "And being moved with com- passion." Of the three words trans- lated by "being compassionate" this is the strongest, for it means not only a pained feeling at sight of suffering, but, in addition, a strong desire to re- lieve or to remove the suffering. "He stretched forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou made clean." 'In so touching the untouchable we have a sign of fearlessness: there was no appendix of diseases called hopeless in Christ's list of ailments. We have also the sign of friendliness. the leper was a sort of human island washed by lone- ly seas which no friendly mariner ever crossed. 42. "And straightway the leprosy departed from him, and he was made clean." The one thing that the man needed most was the one thing he wanted most, and it is exactly the thing that Jesus gave him, ie, a cleansing from his foul disease, So many men in suffering the conse- quences of sin and of disobedience to God want the consequences removed, such as poverty, suffering, social shame, loss of position, but do not ask God to remove the love for sin, nor do they ask him for cleansing and forgiveness. No man unclean in sin ever sincerely came to the Lord Jesus for cleansing but he received it immediately. 43. "And he strictly charged him, and straightway sent him out, 44. and saith unto him, See thou say nothing to any man: but go show thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing for a testimony unto them." Jesus thus orders this man to carry out in due form the ceremonial requirements "the things Moses commanded," and thus to have himself officially rein- stated as clean of leprosy. Jesus has not come to detroy, but to fulfill, the law and the prophets (Matt. 5, 17); and by his orders to the leper he had healed fulfills the law of Moses in the present case. This helps to explain the things which Moses commanded, | Society Glamer Girl Off on World Cruise Gloria Baker and her mother, Mrs. Margaret Emerson, are visited in their state room aboard the Franconia by George Vanderbilt, Mrs, Emerson's som, as the couple sail fom New York on a cru'se. Sl F arm Problems Conducted by ; PROFESSOR HENRY C. BELL A with the co-operation of the various departments of Alt Ontario Agricultural College ; | d| 1.--Q.--"I sell cream to a local creamery and am unable to under- stand why the test varies from time to time. On the last statement which I received, the test was 32 per cent, while the test on the previous ship- ment was 35 per cent. My cows are on the same feed and I do the separa- tion myself so that the separator is turned at the same speed each time. Why should there be this difference in tests? J.S.--Oxford Co. A.--It is to be expected that the per cent of fat in cream will vary with each shipment and with different separations. A number of factors may influence the test and it is quite impossible to control them all com- pletely. Tests made at the Dairy De- partment, O.A.C., show that slight differences in the temperature of the milk, the amount of water or skim- milk used to flush the separator, var- iations in the amount of milk in the supply can, the speed at which the separator bowl is driven, and the per cant of fat in the milk, will all have an influence on the test of the cream. Too much emphasis should not be placed upon the variations in the per cent of fat in the cream. The import- ant point is the pounds of fat paid for. Many times when the test is up, the weight of cream is down or vice versa, 2.--Q.--*"The butter from my last two churnings has a very strong, bit- ter flavour. I have never had this trouble before and my customers are complaining. I take every precaution to have everything clean and the cows are fed mixed hay, corn silage, roots and oat chop."--R.T., York Co. A.--Bitter and rancid flavours in butter are quite common at this sea- son of the year. It is very likely that one or more of the cows in your herd are advanced in their lactation period and producing milk which con- tains abnormally large amounts of an enzyme known as lipase. The objec- tionable flavour is not noticed on the fresh milk and cream, but if it is held for a day or two it becomes very no- ticeable. The cows causing the trou- ble may be detected by holding a sample of milk from each cow for 48 hours and then examine the samples. Cows producing defective milk should be dried off. However, if the cows in question are producing well and it is not desirable to dry them, the cream immediately after separ- ating may be heated to 145 deg, F., and heid for a churning. This pas- teurizing inactivates the enzyme, thus the 'development of the flavour is cheokad, --Dairy Department, 0.A.C. the final phrase, 'for a testimony for them." 45. "But he went out, and began to publish it much, and to spread abroad the matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter in- to a city, but was without in desert places: and they came to him from every quarter." This verse explains the strange meaning of Jesus in the preceding verse in definitely forbid- ding the healed leper to tell others what had happened to him, Our Lord enjoins silence because he did not, as yet, wish to draw on himself the public attention. When "his own" had been prepared to receive him, then, but not before, he would court the publicity from which, as yet, he shrank. There are about 65,000 different languages in the world. Granite is a fine-formed rock which has been exposed to great heat and pressure. Canadian Poultry Had Bumper Year OTTAWA.,--More Canadian dress- ed poultry was exported in 1937 than in any other year, the department of agriculture reported with figures which showed a 79.96 per cent. rise over those of 1936. Exports in the year just ended to- talled 88,996 boxes, compared with 49,452. Weight of the 1937 ship- ment was more than 2,678 tons, There was also a record export movement of live poultry from Can- ada to the United States in 1987. In the first 11 months of the year, Am- erican buyers took 1,157,768 live chickens and fowl, compared with 344,937 birds in 1936 and 85,547 birds in 1985. The increase in 1937 over 1986 and 1935 represents 812,- 831 and 1,122,221 birds or 235.65 per cent. and 3,157.01 per cent. res- pectively. ~ College Student Awarded First Trophy in Pinehurst Golf Title Hepon Maples, left, young college student, accepts the first prize in the mid-winter golf championship at Pinehurst 1 S.C., from Guy Pierce, as the runner-up. Maples downed Harlow in the finals. Around The Dial RADIO HEADLINERS OF THE WEEK By FRANK DENNIS A new fifteen-minute radio pro- gram, called "Hollywood Spotlight Review," presents an all-star review, featuring such favorite Hollywocd en- tertainers as Phil Harris and h's or- chestra; Bob Burns, the Arkansas traveller; Larry Burke, the Holly- wood troubadour; and a different guest star every broadcast. It took the air over stations CFRB, Toronto; CFPL, London CFCH, North Bay; CKGB, Timmins; and CJKL, Kirkland Lake; everp Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 7.45 to 8 p.m. com- mencing Monday, January 10th. "Hour of Charm" Phil Spitalny and his popular all- girl orchestra featured on the "Hour of Charm" program over an NBC net- work including CBL, Toronto, and CBM, Montreal, are now heard every Monday night at 9:30. Mr. Spitalny and his orchestra are illustrated above, while the inset shows Miss Ar- lene Francis, dramatic star of radio and stage, who is Mistress of Cere- monies on the "Hour of Charm." "Cats", the term describing peo- ple who follow the swing style of popular music, will certa'nly enjoy lis- tening to the guest band on the pro- Jap Home Minister Admiral Nobumasa Suetsugu has seen appointed to succeed Dr. Eiichi Baba as the Home Minister for Japan gram "Styled Music," heard every Sunday from 5:15 to 5:30 over CK CL. The regular band on the pro- gram is that of Eddie Duchin, and the guest band selected by the re- quests sent in, If you want to hear your favourite orchestra, just drop a note to "Styled Music," care of CKCL, and we understand the boys will be only too glad to play all re- quests. Amateur Auditions Another new show started last Friday, featuring amateur and semi- profess'onal talent, over CFRB. The sponsors are asking for applications for auditions to appear on this pro- gram. Each act chosen will receive regular professional fees for the en- gagement. We understand that reou- lar vaudeville units will be formed, and will be sent on a coast-to-coast circuit. Jack Murray, producer of the show, informs us that all who wish auditions will be given them, the age limit starting at fifteen pears. Of course, there will be one or two very exceptional circumstances where the age will be less, but from what we have seen of the program, they would have to be very exceptional indeed. The program is heard over CFRB from 8:30 to 9.00. It gives us pleasure indeed to say a few good words for Bob Kestan, who does the "Early Bird" program every morning from 7:45 to 8:45, over CK CL. Gags galore and music that win really wake you up, and have you on the tips of your toes by the time yow reach your place of work, is the sort of business that comes out during the program. It really was quite surprising to us tc learn that a Cana- dian announcer can do such. It you have any numbers you would like to request, and we don't mean "Asleep in the Deep," just send them along to Bob, and he shall be most happy to play them. Heard Over Canadian Network Stars of the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York will be heard over the Canadian network on Satur- day, January 22nd, from 2:00 to 4:45 p.m. as an NBC-CBC internati- onal exchange feature. The perform- ers will be presented on their regular Saturday afternoon performance di- rect from the stage of the famous Opera House. 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