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BEGINNERS AND PRIMARY
By Mrs. A. L. Dennis. (Jesus and the Deaf Man.)
lVTEMORY VERSE : “He hath done ^ V all -things well.” Preparation .—Let us be very still and see. what we can hear. (Let the children tell you—the clock, someone talking in another room, a bird, the cars). Just see how far away we can go by hearing. God has given us bur ears not only to hear pleasant sounds, but to help us take care o f ourselves. Some people hear more than sounds. The Lord Jesus said there were people who had ears but could not hear. I think he meant the kind o f people .who could hear things without thinking of God. Shall we bow our heads and thank Him that we have the kind o f ears that let everything tell us o f God and His love? W e feel sorry for those that have ears and cannot hear in this wonderful way, - but we feel sadder still for those that can not hear at- all. We know that the Lord Jesus! felt sorry for them, because He helped many o f them to hear, and the people said, “ He hath done all things well.” We know He had power to do these things because He was the Son o f God. Presentation :— The Lord Jesus and His friends had been travelling for many days. They had been in a part o f the country where people lived who were, not Jews. They were coming home to Capernaum and were walking through a part o f the coun try they had never visited before. Some o f the people there had heard o f the Great Teacher who went about doing good. In one o f the little towns in this part of the country there was a very sad home. Years before, it had been happy, because a little baby boy had come to live in it. As he grew, they found he could not talk as other
children, so > their home became sad. He could not hear, so they could not teach him to talk in the right way. When he grew to be a young man, he had:never heard the birds sing, nor the sweet sound o f his mother’s voice. His father and mother heard o f the Great Teacher who could make sick people well. We like to think how happy they must have been one sunshiny, summer day, when the Lord Jesus and His friends came to this town. Somebody who loved this young man brought him to Jesus. We think it might have been his father and mother. They went up to the Master and begged Him to put His hand on him that he. might be able to hear. There were a great many people crowding around to see what the Master would do. He took the young man away from the people and there on the yellow hillside, in the bright summer sunshine, He made the young man know what He was going to do for Him by touching his ears and his tongue. Then He looked up to heaven. No, I do not think He was looking at the white clouds floating across the blue sky. I think He was—yes, praying. Then . He said, “Be opened,” and the young man’s .ears were opened so that he could hear, and always after this he could' sp.eak plainly. We know that this young man must always have heard in that better way, for every sound must have helped him to remember the first thing he ever heard, for that was —the voice o f Jesus. -D o you wonder that these people said, “ He hath done all things well ?r Prayer .—Thank Him for hearing o f that better kind, that speaks to us at all times o f God’s love.
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