Saturday Qight
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By Rev. F. E. DAVISON
Rutland, Vl.
THE KING OF THE
PHYSICAL WORLD.
International Bible Lesson for
6, '10. (Matt. 8:2-17).
Mar.
The work of C'hrlnt at the bpRln
nl!iR of 'lis ministry . sum:r.:trl.ol in
Mutt. 4:23 undor tho throe howl of
teaching. proachlnK nd hPHllnj. Orio
liriiiich of tho work wo have now .-r
In tho lessons on tho SoniMr.i on Urn
Mount, viz., toahlttK and prrr.r!:'-t.
iiii'l Matthew now poos on to pot forth
ti c other grout branch of I1U wc.v':. In
tv.o chapters of miracle, a pioup of
marvelous works-the f'itiih of t:i
k!'!o!ii.
Signs of the Kingdoti. '
TI:o gradation In n 'ititral. (M.r'.-t
i nine lli'o a woihl thai needed i v re
tiling more than eo-,iiiHel, sulci of
I', i :nl advice and direction. II f .. 1
;i world "where the who'o he ul v ; t
Irk and tho whole hen ! t-:U:'.." Ve,i
i . ('. not only the tciic'if ; vo! ", ?
t;,e Healer's touch, r.ed it was 1 .. j
r .'-'e of til Ih that lie who spo'.'" : j
I .-.or man spoke, proved ! 1 ! :i;i"i i" t'ie j
Kin:; of the Physical world by I '-",'
:..lr:icles of healing. The l.eaii; ' , I
cHMentlal nu the tenchin. I or j
( i:rl.t Is not n mere nmb:i-'Mado:' fro m i
iho court of heaven. !! was IVe
K-.r.f, of Heaven, and n.- such he y.,- j
f .i'.'c divine eredentlali and i ; ... j
that "In Him waj life, and the life j
w;s the light of nun." So the t..:rt-
i '. ! were the Higns of tho Kiie-cl i
it Heaven, not prolines, spell:', i
!ar wonders to startle and daxzlo 1 1.
t'cl olders. They were ne t
forr.'ed for vulgar show, but whenever
;.e opportunity and occasion dennr;!
i , were put forth naturally, tiasi'.y,
wi'hout tt i ruin or Herniation, in a kir.g
ly f ndiion by the King Himself, t's'i
f.vinR that he was by divine right Kin?
In the physical world. He never !co
eat occasions to formally sdiov: hi.;
lower. Ho nteadfsmtly rcfure-- to
work miracles to awe a piping cuwd.
lie never poses, saying. "Watch me do
a startling, mysterious thing." He is
always the natural King from Heaven
with n heart of love and a hand of
power. That heart never was emptied
f Its love, that hand never failed la
It;! touch of power.
Chronic Diseases.
In this lesson we have the account
of the heallnR of two men, and a wom
an. Of the men one was a leper, the
ether a paralytic. The leper was
healed with a touch ;the palsied man
was healed at a distance. One man
begged for healing, the othe- man's
master appeared In his behalf. Onn
patient was defiled, the other was
helpless. Roth were healed Instantly,
both were healed on account of rpr
ftrt faith. Leprosy and palsy were
F.vn.bollc diseases: they represented
fin wholly possessing Its victim, the
one, the case of those entirely defiled
by Fin. the other, the condition of
these who are paralyzed in that part of
their being which constitutes Inward
I'fo, unable apparently to do anything
for themselves in the way of salvation.
They represent the extreme of the un
converted world, whether Je'.v or (lea
tile. Acute Diseases.
Coming into IVter's house at tl:e
close of the dav t'hrtst rounu in.-? dis
ciple's mother-in-law prostrate with a
fover, and immediately relieved the
situation, by healing her on the sj ot.
This third case of healing In one day
was within tho circle of the disclpb'S.
And it suggests the spiritual disown
to which those are liable who are the
intimate friends of the King. Healed
of chronic diseases of the past we yet
are liable to contagion, exposed to . t
tacks of acute diseases, which thoiu'r.
temporary, are dangerous, r.nd v. hl. h
need tho touch of the Croat rhy.-K ! . n.
l'pldemics sometimes sweep thio.:g'i
churches and disciples are ntiac'.:ud
by f 11 kinds of fevers, when the faces
got flushed, and the blood hot, the
voice strident, and tho eye u'.ar'i.s.
t:nd the tongue rattling on in delirious
hptecu. Peter himself took a rmlden
fever several times in his career from
which he was only recovered by the
Master's-prescription.
Representative Cases.
These three miracles in this les-on
are selected to show that the King Is
lord of the body. They are represent
ative cases, they are given in iiet:'
to lead us up to the statement which
follows in tho 16th verce: "When the
even was come, they brought rx'.o
Him many that were possessed with
devils, and he cast out the spirits w.-.h
His word; and healed all that were
sick: That it might be fulfilled whim
was spoken by Isaiah the prophet.
Himself took our Infirmities and bare
our sicknesses."
And thus Christ demonstrated t..at
He Is King of the physical world
No
wmulhl,. harm can come
those
bodies of ours that is beyond his abil
ity. In Christ's day there were no
hospitals in Palestine, the only hosp
tal there was a travelling hospital,
tho Lord Jesus Christ Himself. And
no one ever came to Him to be pro
nounced lucurable, and no one wa3
turned away convalescent, His works
of healing were instantaneous, com
plete, permanent. And why not? If
a man makes a machine, he ought to
be able to repair Jt. If Christ Is what
He claims to be King of tho Kingdom
of God, it ought to be tho easiest thing
in the world for him to banish every
c. 11 thing from that realm, of thoug h
or word or deed. For, of that king
e'om which He set Himself to prepare,
it was long ago announced, "And the
-"phabltants shall not say I am tick.
W BENEATH GROUND.
r
In a British Columbia Gold Mine.
When tho manager of a gold mine
at KoHshmd offered to lake ug down
we accepted readily, and tt was only
when we were invited to "step In''
that we thought of tho light summer
milts which most of us were wearing.
We had left tho boat at .vobson and
come on to uoHslntid to learn some
thing of that vast mineral wealth up
on which, with lumber and fisheries
and fruit growing, the commercial and
Industrial future of llritlsh Columbia
is to bo Imllt. At tho Centre Star tho
Slant of Iho shaft Is one of alsmt !
degrees juid the body or tho skip slopes
hack to tho rails Ujmn which It falls
Into the depths. Which means that
when tho eight of us are p:icied tight
ly in the Innocents who nave entered
Urn find themselves tilled on Iholr
heels, their backs upon the cold, wet,
rusty iron, and held fast uy the ov
erlying strata rf human avoirdupois
which fills the skip
It was at the third Hour window
th.it the man stood who heard tho Op
timist, hurrying by on his long fail
lrom the roof of tlie twenty utoi y
Skyscraper, l.r.itniur to himself thai it
was "All rl n.. far," It Is nt about
that staite of downward journey,
probably, that the man who dcsceliua
n Mine for the tir.-t lime Ir-'Miis to
t'tke tho t-ln rf-il h w. His earlier
mind Is complex. !"sivo and ilili'n ult
of analysis, but at any rale it Is not
cliei rl'ul. Siuhb-n blackest darkness;
the feeling of falliii',' of ( tie's hair;
the whirling (able that mav snap;
! Hi" engine man who may Ic.:" control;
j an upward clancin of tho sou! to till
! ricu'iiding Powirs; and th' n oMivii; l
j an oblivion cloven as It were, in
I p:e t tho opt nines, one below the oth-
er, of tho dimly lit p.alleries at decp
! er and deeper levels. 'I he s..'.p slac'i
j ore 'peed, hovers hesitatingly f r a
moment ami then conns to a s.aud
and we step n,it.
"You'll want cam'l .'.. :.-y I he
manager, ami en the ttires'iotu nt tins
new world wo light them propitiator
Uy, as upon an :ltar. t In a world of
gray. The walls bej'or" us and the
roof above, upheld by huge timbering,
ar. gray, nlieveil only at a neaier
view by the shlmnn r of the Imprison
ed metals. Tho (-allei ies that extend
to right and left, tho cars waich pass
us laden and the men who nend be
hind them are gray as tho ore which
they dump between the rails Into a
chamber below. The eleetrio lamps
which line the roofs of the galleries
burn gray, as it seems, and the very
air Is gray. On the mountain above
the sun is shining, and thank God
for tho green world that one can look
upon thence.
"Ollabo'd!" cries our guide. Obedi
ently we clamber into the little sq.ire
trucks which have been brought up
In a row to carry us through the
mine. Each man has his truck, rides
alone upon his own plank and lights
himself with his own particular can
dle. In a moment we are in the gallery.
As we meet tho sharp current of air
the hot wax gutters over onto our fin
gers and. we slant the candles back to
the horizontal.
At the end of a long gallery, where
a second shaft descends, we ciimb out,
penetrate a gl omy, narrow parage
In which heaps of ore lie waiting to
be trucked away, and eiouc.ng enter
from below a little chamber, some 8
by S feet, blasted In the rock.
Here, where the air Is still full of
tho odor of gelignite, Is a driller at
work with his machine. We suuoozn
ourselves flat and bend low agaiust
the sloping walls and watch.
The heavy Iron arm hoots out and
in, striking the face of the rock full
square perhaps fifty times a minute,
every Idow falling with the weight
of 1.000 lKiunds, twisting as It strikes
ns If to bore through what it cannot
break away. The man behind the
drill turns on us an impassive face.
No one speaks or would be heard for
the echoes of the thrust and thud and
the vibration of the machine. We
wonder that beneath such blows and
amid such din the sleeping masters ot
pray underworld should not awake
and bring tho foundations down up
on us.
At the bottom of the shalt we wait
while the men of the night shift flash
by im, skip after skip, to melr work
In the lower depths, and then we
are drawn out of tho void as we came.
London Daily News.
Bread in Sixty Minutes.
Reaping began on a field of wheat
at Hlockley, in Worcestershire, at 9
o'clock in the morning and was serv
ed as bread Just CO minutes after.
Tho "coon hunters of Three Springs
Huntington county this state, recent
ly treed a 'coon, shot it, ana then had
a dog fight under the tree, and all the
fun and excitement belonging to a
genuine 'coon hunt, only to find later
that it was somebody's tabby cat.
There are now In Germany 110
cities with special schools for back
ward children. Tho total number or
ti,c-e schools is 203, and tne number
of pupils Is 13,100. Berlin has 31 or
these accessory schools.
If you are prosperous you will be
envied and if poor despised; get in the
middle of the road and turn on steam.
C'ucro Record.
How fast docs your automobile
gi' can't say," replied tho motorist.
"H all depends cxi how many sher
iff we meet on the route."
Many a girl surrenders at the pianoforte.
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