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us an example that we should follow in His steps.—Farr. The use of great men is to serve little men.—Theodore Par ker. He only is great a t heart who floods the world with great affection.— Hitchcock. The greatness of lowliness to which we are called is His own great ness. He came not to he ministered un to but to minister.-—Sel. He who win- neth the true greatness does not win it at the expense of others.—Taylor. Shall not be so among you. The utter condemnation of the miserable maxim, “Every man for himself.” - The world’s first question, “What shall we have?” is made the last. The world’s last ques tion, “What shall we give?” is made the first.—Gibson. v. 28. Came to give His life a ran som. The verse brings out His pre-en- istence and voluntary entrance into hu man conditions. “He came.” His death as the price paid for our liberty, “ran som.” His death as substitionary, “for” (instead of). The wide sweep of the purpose of His death, “instead of many.”—Maclaren. Jesus came not to Parade His holiness but to bear our sin fulness.—Sel. Crucifixion is not a sad incident in a great career but the mark toward which Jesus moved, the power by which He redeemed the world.—Exp. Bible. For many. The word “many” is not put definitely for a certain num ber but for a large number, for the Saviour contrasts Himself with all the rest of men. In this, sense the word is used in Rom.‘5:15 where Paul does not speak only of a portion of men but of the whole race.—Calvin. •SHS Wanting More Than Our Share. Matt. 20:20-28. Memory Verse: “Whatsoever is right I will give you.” Matt. 20:4. Approach: One day I was invited into a home of some friends to eat din ner with them. In this home were a lit tle boy and a little girl. The little girl was about seven BEGINNERS years old and the AND PRIMARY boy. not quite six. Mabel L,. Merrill Just a little while before dinner was ready, the children came in from their play, and pretty soon they spied the cake, and wanted a piece. The mother told them the cake was for dinner, and
that it would not be good for them to have any now. The little boy, although he was the younger went back to his play, but the little girl teased and teased, and really acted so ugly that mother gave her a piece, and told her she could not have any more when she came to dinner. It was very wrong for the little girl to act this way, and when we came to the dinner table, and it came time for the cake, what do you think this little girl did? She wanted another piece of cake, and when mother told her she could not have any more, she acted so naughty th a t mother had to send her away from the table. The little girl had a pretty face, but you know children when I saw how selfish she acted, and wanted more than her share, her face did not look pretty to me any more. What did this little girl need in her life? Besson Story; Boys and girls, we have a story today that we all need to hear, for if all the people in the world would listen to this story and believe it, a great deal of the suffering would have to come to an end. Now let us be very quiet and see if we know some people who want more than their share; for that is what our story is aboflt. Jesus had been telling the disciples about how He was going up to the city of Jerusalem, and the wicked people would make fun of Him, scourge Him, and hang Him on the .cross to die, but that on the third day He would rise again. One day the mother of James and John came to Jesus with her two sons, and we remember Peter and James, for they were disciples of Jesus. Jesus asked her what she would like to have Him do for her, and she asked that He would save the place on His right hand for one of her sons and on His left hand for the other son to sit in His kingdom. Jesus told her that it was not His to say who should have cert.ain places, but that each person would have just the
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