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a mistake; or if we do wrong we will do all we can to make it right. Mark tried again and succeeded. God used him later to write the gospel or Mark, which we have in our Bible. Here is just the right place for our memory verse. "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." That means to do it the best we know how, and we cannot do it our best, un– less we have Jesus with us. We are His helpers. What kind of a helper are you going to be, beginning today? Closing Prayer.
have to bear sorrow and trouble if they loved God, but to always trust Him. Now after Mark had been home for a while, he felt sorry because he had not stayed and helped Paul and Barnabas, and later on he went to work again. Boys and girls, we can learn a won– derful lesson from Mark. Even though he made a mistake and failed the first time, he did not give up but tried again and made good, for Paul said of him later that he was a splendid help to him in the ministry. If we are truly brave, we will try again when we make
SEPTEi\ffiER 16, 1923 LUKE, THE BELOVED PHYSICIAN Golden Text: "A friend loveth at all times; and a brother is born for ad– versity." Prov. 17:1 7. LESSON TEXT Luke 1:1-4; Acts 1:1; 16:9-15; Col. 4:14; 2 'Tim. 4:11. (Read Acts 20: 5-21; 19 and Chs. 27 and 28). Devotional Reading-Psa. 9:9-16. Outline: ( 1) Luke's History.
ing the early life of Luke, whose Greek name was "Loukas" a concentration or the Latin "Lucannus,"-as "Silas" was a concentration of "Silvannus." How· ever, certain facts have been gathered from tradition, and-together with the suggestions given in the New Testa· ment-a fancied story has been com· piled, in which Theophilus, a govern· ment official in Antioch is pictured as possessing the home where Luke was born-a slave boy. Being favored with a keen intellect, he was given the ad· vantage o~ an education by Theophilus in a medical school. While at the school he is supposed to have become acquainted with Barnabas and Paul and became a convert to the new reli· gion, and from that time was associ· ated with them. We hear him saying (Acts 16:10) "We" showing that he accompanied Paul to Jerusalem and to Rome, and when Paul was in prison he writes or Luke as one of his "fellow-laborers" (Philemon 24). In writing to TiDJ· othy Paul tells of being deserted bY all
( 2) Luke, the Historian. (3) Luke, the Herald.
Introduction: This will be a difficult lesson to teach It the teacher is confined to the few passages of Scripture given for study. The time might more profitably have
been employed in an oµtline study of the Book of Luke. How- ev4r, to adapt these p a s s a g e s to the
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younger classes we would suggest tak– ing some of the passages which present Luke as a missionary, or as an associ– ate with Paul, and making some prac– tical application of how a splendid and capable man could be willing to serve as helper to a man like Paul; and how such service enabled him to write a Gospel which has carried the story of our Lord's life to millions of people. (1) LUKE'S HISTORY. Outside of the statements in the New Testament, but little is known concern-
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