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text meets them with the truth, that He became flesh and did not merely clothe Himself in it. Still others have confounded the two natures, mixing them up and pro ducing a third thing unlike either of the two, as when an acid and an alkali are compounded together; and our text over throws them by keeping the two terms, the Word and flesh, side by side. And there have been those who, while keeping the natures distinct, have douiblled the personal ity, and said that He was both a human person and a Divine Person; and our text repulses them by the fact that the one HE who dwelt among us was the Eternal Word who became flesh. Such is the fact of the Incarnation; the Word, the Son of God, the Filial Deity, becoming all that belongs to the essence of man, without regard to sex or race or time. And this fact is historical, not an unsubstantial legend, but a veritable oc currence. If there were nothing else as proof than the historical character of Jesus Christ, towering heaven-high above all at tainments of mankind, blooming afresh in every succeeding age, and filling the world with fruit, thus demonstrating that He came to be of men among men not as any other man began to be, it alone would be proof unanswerable .—Bishop Nicholson. “God resisteth the proud but giveth grace to the humble.” The picture of the moth ers pressing into the presence of the Saviour with their children is one of the most ten der and touching in His whole life. It is one of the chosen themes of the artists. Some may have come with their sick chil dren for healing; others for the magic touch. The disciples rebuked these good women who sought blessings for their children. How slow they were to learn! They had forgotten the lesson their Lord had given them when He set a little child in their LESSONS FOR 1914. L esson I. —J anuary 4, 1914. J esus and the C hildren . Golden Text.—1 Peter S:5.
midst and said, “Except ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven” (Matt. 18:2-3). The Lord loves little children. He longs for them. His arms are out stretched for them. “Bring them to me,” is His command. We hear very much about the child problem, but it is easy of solution. Bring them to Jesus, He will take them into His arms and bless them and if he, blesses the children will He not bless those who bring them? How sad to know that in so many instances the Church has ignored the children, has doubted their ability to trust in the Lord. It is not enough to bring them to Sunday school or to Church. Many drift through both of these places and never come in touch with the Lord. Bring them to Jesus and by faith put them into His arms and they will be safe. If it is true that the Lord loves little children it is equally true that the Devil hates them and longs to keep pos session of them. Not more than forty per cent of the children of this State are in the Sunday schools and not more than that per cent of those in the Sunday schools are won for Christ. What becomes of the more than eighty per cent ? The child prob lem is not difficult if we could but see it. Why do we fail to see those outstretched arms, and why do we fail to hear those beseeching words, “bring them to me?” A little girl was turned loose in one of the upper counties of New York. Six generations of her descendants produced a large number of idiots, imbeciles, drunk ards, lunatics, paupers and prostitutes, and two hundred known criminals, costing the State hundreds of thousands of dollars. Suppose some one with unveiled eyes had seen the outstretched arms and with un- stopped ears had heard the loving voice saying, “bring her to me,” and had tenderly carried her to the Lord? What then? L esson I I— J anuary 11, 1914. T he M ission of the S eventy . Golden Text.—Matthew 10:20. The Lord appoints seventy missionaries.
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