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T HE K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S . Approach.—I have something in my hand that every one of you have seen and know what it is. (Show piece of motley). What is money good for? Do you remember in BEGINNERS our story last week AND PRIMARY about some men Mabel L. Merrill who were given some money by ^heir master to use until he came back? (Review). Yes, we see the master praised the man who had the two tal ents just as much as the one who had five, for each one had done the best he could with what he had. Helen, can you guess what is on my handkerchief as you hold it close to your nose? Per fume. Pass it around and see if the rest can smell the perfume on the handkerchief. Can you see anything on the handkerchief? No, but even if your eyes were shut you would know there . was sweet perfume on it. We can not see love, but we can see the things that love does. Now we have such a beautiful story for today, that happened a long time ago, and because there was so much love in the heart, its sweetness has come down tp us all through the years, just like sweet per fume. Prayer. Lesson Story.—We remember Mary and her brother Lazarus. Mary re membered how often Jesus had visited them in their home, and how when her brother was dead and buried, Jesus came and made her brother Lazarus alive again, and she loved Jesus, and wanted to do something to show her love for Him, because He had done so much for her. She had remembered Jesus’ words, and knew that he was soon to suffer and die. Mary was not rich and did not have much to give Jesus, but she gave the best she had, and she loved so much that she paid as much as a whole year’s wages for the gift she brought to Jesus. She bought a vase or jar filled with sweet smelling ointment, such as was used in those
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do but in the inward things we are.—rChapin. The heart that gives its best to Christ does the best by fellow men. There is no true love to man until ft is first poured out on Christ.— Sel. The word translated “good” has prominent in it the thought of beauty. —Gibson. v. 11. Have the poor always. Op portunity would never fail those who were so zealous of the poor.—Exp. Bible. If there were no poor claiming our sympathy and kindly ministry, what a lack there had been in the training of Christian graces.—Horn. Re view. Me ye have not. There are fixed dates for breaking alabaster boxes. Some opportunities never come but once. Other duties may be per formed any time.—Echoes. _v. 13. I say onto you. Christ pro hibits interference. He announces it as exactly seasonable. He accepts it as divinely useful. Mary did more than she thought.—Johns. This Gospel. The Lord passes a higher commenda tion on this than on any other act recorded in the New Testament. It implied the faith that enabled Mary to se© as no one else then did, the truth of the kingdom. She saw that Jesus was still a King though destined to die. The same thought, the certainty of the death of Jesus, that estranged Judas, made her devotion more intense. —Camb. Bible. This woman hath done. He who works from a sense of duty generally seeks to get off with doing as little as he can and will not under take anything that is not prescribed. He who works from the impulse of love is constantly trying how much He can do for Jesus. Had Mary waited for a precedent she had never done this action which so gladdened the Re deemer’s heart.—Taylor. Memorial of her. The honor which attends well doing even in this world is sufficient to balance the reproach and contempt that are cast upon it.—Henry. A good deed is never lost. He who plants kindness gathers love.—Basil. Never mind if your deed is not labeled with your name and address. God knows to whom it belongs.-—Exp. Bible. Showing Our Hove For Jesus. Matt. 26:6-13; 25:40. Memory Verse.—"She hath done what she could.” Mark. 14:8.
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