(Mark 6:3.) He followed the trade of His father Joseph. -(Matt. 13:55,) As an artisan, he worked with His fellows until he was thirty years of age. His followers were humble men. (Mark 1:16-20.) He was without a place to lay His head. (Mark 8:20; Luke 9:58.) He was scorned as a Nazarine. (Matt. 2:23; John 1:45.) He was maligned as a wine bibber. (Matt. 11:9; Luke 7:34.) He was taunted with being without education. (John 7:15.) He was rejected by His own people. (John 1:11, 7:5.) He came to His own things, and His own people received Him not. He was a friend of sinners. (Luke 15:2.) He took the form of a man. God in the glory, He laid aside His royal robes and became a man. (John 17:5; Heb. 1:3.) He did not empty Himself of His Divinity, but veiled His glory in the garb of,humanity. The Indian says: "Wh en Jesus came into the world He threw His blanket around Him but the God was within." He became a Servant. (Luke 22:24- 27; John 13:4.) He was the Father's servant; a servant of man for the Fath- er's sake. He was a faithful servant. No interest of His Father's was neg- lected. (John 6:39.) He was an obedi- ent servant. (John 6:38; John 10:18.) He delighted in doing the will of His Father. (Ps. 40:8.) He was obedient even unto death. HE died upon the Cross. He is despised and rejected of men; wounded for our transgressions; bruised for our iniquities. (Isa. 53:3-5.) Yet He despised the shame. (Heb. 12:2.) He became a spectacle, as lifted up be- tween two thieves He poured out His life, bearing, the curse of sin. (Gal. 3:13.) s A PICTURE OF THE MAN CHEIST. LESSON 4. Luke 4:16-30. In the old home at Nazareth where He was brought up. Verse 16. Following the habit of His early life going to the Synagogue on the Sabbath. Verse. 16. With His own Book in His hands Verse 17. Beading about Himself and His life work. Verse 18. Here we have an epitome of the Life of the Christ. He preached the Gospel.
What a wonderful Gospel it is; the , Good News. The world, had waited long f for «the message and now, anointed of God, He takes up His blessed work. (Luke 2:8-11, 7:22, 9:6.) He healed the broken hearted. As the Great Physician He came with the balm of Gilead. (Jer. 8:22.) He went about doing good... (Acts 10:38.) Sin wrought awful havoc. The world was full of suffering ones. He was among them as a servant. The broken hearted mother at Nam (Luke 7:11-15); the broken hearted woman at Syro-Phoenicia (Matt; 15:28); the sorrowing sister at Bethanv (John 11- 33-45). He delivered the captives. Those who were bound by Satan He set free. He found Mary Magdalen with seven demons and cast them out. (Luke 6:2.) He went to Gadara and found the bruised and bleeding victim of a legion of demons ana gave deliverance from Satan's power. (Mark 5:1-8.) He gave sight to the blind. The blind men followed Him and cried for mercy and he touched their eyes and they were opened. (Matt. 9:27.-31.) And they were but illustrations of many others. (Matt. 11:5.) Only eternity will reveal how many among the multitudes were healed, helped and comforted by His earthly ministry. The blind Pharisees would not open their eyes to the truth. (Matt. 15:14). Nor their ears to the sweet Gospel message (Matt. 13:15), nor their hearts to the touch of His love (Mark 7:6). And the race is not dead yet who see no /beauty in the Man, Christ Jesus. THE ITALIANS. There are. between eight and ten thousand Italians in this city. So far as we know there is nothing definite being done along spiritual lines in their behalf. Should we not pray that the way would be opened for them to have the Gospel? ANTI-SEMITISM. Here is an illustration from culti- vated Vienna, and it must be remem- bered that anti-Semitism finds no more embittered adherents than among the »cultivated. Muley Hafid, the Moroccan "Bluebeard," lately ordered that any Jew sitting out in the cool of the even- ing on his housetop should be shot. " T h e sight of a Jew annoyed him as he looked off from the pavilion of his palace in Fez."—Becord Christ. Work.
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