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that her love was far above that of the rest of the disciples; and real love never seeks compensation for service rendered. The little child of the slums, whose mother was a drunkard, had learned to love the Saviour at a nearby mission, and was al ways singing about Him. Her unnatural mother threatened to beat her if she did not stop singing about Christ. And after a brutal whipping she.toldAhe little one that if she did not stop it she would beat her to death. But the child would forget and burst again and again into song. One day the mother, not so thoroughly stupi- fied by the drink as she was commonly, returned to her wretched room and’ caught the child singing the hymn, “Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.” But this time she called her to tier, and the trembling creature came up ex pecting her mother to kill her, as she said she would. But instead of that she asked her, “Why do you continue to sing about Jesus Christ, when you know I will beat you? I don’.t understand why you will continue to disobey me.” The weeping lit tle one sobbed out, “ Oh, mother,” placing her hands over her heart, “it is down here, an’ I can’t help it; it sings itself.” It is the old, old story, the love of Christ in the heart is something vastly different and above and beyond mere human love, and well may we exclaim, “We love Him be cause He first loved u s!” What we do for Him we should do unselfishly, as did Mary, and all such acts will receive due reward when “ He comes to make up His jewels.” LESSON II.—October 11, 1914. Golden Text,—1 Cor. 11:26 "A s often as ye eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye proclaim the Lord’s death till H e come." In this golden text, for it is truly golden, we have much to ponder over. There are at least seven precious thoughts connected with the Lord’s Supper. The first is, sins put away. This is what brings real joy to the heart of the
It is evident, therefore, that misconcep tions will prevail up to the time of the second advent, just as they did at the .first. In fact the'W ord of God plainly declares that not only the world, but a large portion of the professing Church, will be taken by surprise, as completely as were the Anti- deluvians, when' at the close of their hun dred and twenty years of .scoffing, the flood burst upon them; or, the citizens of Sodom and Gomorrha, when the judgment fire of God fell upon them, in the midst of their buying and selling, and destroyed them. How solemn the lesson for all ' of God’s children! How absolutely, necessary that we “watch and wait and work,” so that we may be sure that no man take our crown. Lessons of the Fourth Quarter LESSON I.—October 4, 1914. Golden Text,—Mark 14:8 “She hath done what she could." In this portion of Scripture we have the plot to put Jesus to death. Mary of Beth any appears on the scene, with the precious ointment to anoint Him for His burial. Not only is there a pathetic touch connected with this striking incident, but, as ever was His wont, our Divine Lord taught the gracious truth that all self-sacrifice in His Name and for His sake was sure to bring reward, even though, like Mary, we may be sharply and unjustly criticised by our own brethren, as did His disciples this act of Mary’s. Have any of us in us the spirit of censorious selfishness that may be characterized as Iscariotism? Dr. Torrey has well said that “Judas Iscariot was the leader in the harsh criticisms (John 12: 4-6). The Iscariots are usually the leaders in criticising the acts of others. But the whole Apostolic company were carried away by the bad spirit of Judas (Matt 26:8). Censorious criticism is more con tagious than smallpox.” Whatever we do as unto Jesus, will have its reward. Yet, Mary, in all probability, never once thought of reward. It appears
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