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“Jesus went with him” (v. 24), but prog ress was slow ,because of the crowds pressing upon Him. Is it not annoying that He should pause to consider other cases when He is so urgently needed at the home of Jairus ? How hard it is for us to learn that His delays are not denials! A woman, for twelve years a Sufferer from a hemorrhage, pressed her way through the crowd that she might but touch the hem of His garment. Mark records that she “had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had and only grew worse” (v. 26). We fear that Mark could not have made himself very popular with the medical profession by such a remark. Luke, who was a physician, records the case with much more consideration for his profession. "She spent all her living upon physicians,” he says, "but could not be healed.” Mark says they made her worse. Perhaps there was some truth in the retort of a half-intoxicated grave digger, to a doctor who threatened to report him. “Better keep still, Doc,” said he; “I’ve covered up many a mistake of yours.” How often we wait until we have "spent all” (Lk. IS :14) before we turn' to Jesus! Then, in our utter sense of helplessness, we find ourselves able to make a perfect contact with the divine source of power. “If I may but touch His clothes” said this poor sufferer, “I shall be whole” (v. 28). A person may be very limited. in knowledge, yet have a faith that is full and absolute. The finest electrical ma chine is useless if its lead-in wire is de fective in its contact. Faith is the soul’s intake. A college profesSor may remain in total ignorance of the power of Jesus, simply because, through lack of humility, he has never made a perfect connection with Him. Faith is the key that unlocks the cabinet of promises and causes its treasures to spill out into the soul. This woman knew enough to put the key into the lock and turn it. When such faith touches Jesus, immediately He discerns the touch and rewards the seeker with a blessing. Straightway she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague." This is one of Mark’s graphic touches. How often we have seen the same thing 1 A be sotted man in some rescue mission has gone to the altar to seek a contact with God. Presently he has arisen with the light of heaven on his face, and the power of God in his soul! Faith not only brings the soul to heaven, but heaven to the soul. We read that JeSus knew immediately that “virtue had gone out of Him”. T(v. 30). The word is used in the old medi cal sense of the power that brings about a certain result. We still speak of the “vir tue” of certain drugs. He turns and asks : “Who touched my clothes?” Did He not already know? Let Rom. 10:10 suggest the reason why He asked. One of His disciples answers Him with a question: “Thou seest the multitude thronging Thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?” (v. 31). Luke tells us it was Peter who ventured this reply—and how characteristic of his impulsive way! But there is food for thought here. Why is it that multitudes throng Him, yet no virtue goes forth from Him? Why is it that people crowd into churches and never feel in their bodies that a change has come? Why so many poor contacts? Are the connections corroded with the love oi the flesh and the world?
him and how merciful God was. Jesus commissioned His church to tell the plain story of Himself and of His love to a lost world. V. 20. "And he went his way, and be gan to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him : and all men marveled." The man’s gratitude led him in the path of strict obedience to the instructions of the Savior, hence he began immediately and told his experience and what God had done for him, throughout the entire region. His case was such a notable one, and the miracle was such a manifest working of God, that all mar- yeled and probably many turned to God because of his faithful testimony. Jesus S tills The Storm. Mark 4 :35-41. Memory Verse : “Even the wind and sea obey him.” Mark 4:41. Approach : Have you ever been out in a big storm, or looked out through the window and watch the rain pour down? Perhaps some have been down on the sea shore and watched the big waves roll in. Did you ever speak to the big waves and ask them to be quiet? We can not make the rain s t o p falling, or causé the waves of the sea to be quiet. In our story today we are to hear about one who could quiet the waves. (Prayer.) Lesson Story: We learned in our story last week how tiny seeds, so (small we could hardly see them, grew and grew until they became large plants. This is a lesson that shows boys and girls the large place they can fill in the world, even though they are young. With Jesus. to lead and guide them, they, too, will grow into men and women who will love and serve the Lord faithfully. In our story today Jesus and His dis ciples have had a busy day, and in the evening they get into a boat to cross the Sea of Galilee. They had hot gone very far when a great storm arose; the wind blew very hard and the great big waves beat into the ship so much that the boat was being filled with water. Now the disciples became greatly frightened, for it seemed the storm was so severe the ship would sink. I wonder where the Lord Jesus was in the ship. Do you think he was at all frightened? No, indeed, for we know
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His Word tells us He made the sea and the dry land. The disciples found him in the back part of the boat, sound asleep on a pillow; so you see He had no fear even- though the storm was raging about the boat. The disciples awoke the Lord Jesus and asked Him if He did not care if they perished? Now, what do you think the Lord did when He awoke and saw the waves washing over the boat and filling it with-water? He arose and rebuked the wind ;and said unto the sea, “Peace, be still.” Did you know the wind and the sea could understand when spoken to? Yes, when the One who made them, speaks. The wind stopped blowing, and the sea became calm. Then Jesus spoke to the disciples and asked them why they were so afraid; they had not shown much faith, for Jesus was in the boat with them. You know, boys and girls, we are like those disciples; we become frightened often; and yet if we belong to Jesus He is right with us, even though we can not see Him with these eyes. He can help us. and keep us in the midst of the greatest danger. Our memory verse tells us that even the wind and the sea obey Him. Is it not wonderful to have such a Savior® Sometimes there are storms in us worse than the storms, on the sea. I saw an awful storm of temper in a little boy the other day, and the mother and father and others tried to quiet the storm, but it only grew more severe. This boy wanted to have his own way, and his way was - a wrong way. Only Jesus can control these tempers and ugly and stubborn wills of ours,: Will you let Him have charge of your life? (Prayer.) FRED S. SHEPARD ’S BLACKBOARD OUTL INES S TORM /C A LM ED p ir it s C o n t r o l l e d Jesus is all powerful.—Matt. 28:18
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hands 'on her and she shall live,” was the heart cry of this anxious father. Sorrow drives men to Jesus when noth ing else will do it. Thousands today would be without a personal knowledge of Him and the experience of His power, but for the mission of affliction. What a pitiable lack of spiritual perception is re vealed in the writings of modern Atheists who seek, by pointing to the afflictions that come to men, to convince us that these permittances demonstrate that there can be no loving Heavenly Father.
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behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name” (v. 22). He pleads for help for his little daughter who was even then at the point of death. "Come and lay Thy
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