T HE K I N G ’S B U S I N E S S the streets, in their synagogues, in the temple, in the city, in the wilderness. No wonder that Nicodemus said, “Rabbi, we know that Thou art a teacher from God.” John 3:2. The Teacher’s Zeal. Someone has said, that “the teacher is like the candle, which lights others in consuming itself.” This. Paul did. “A teacher, who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on cold iron”, said Horace Mann. Jesus knew the multiplication of in crease, when one is sowing truth. If you plant a seed it will bear thirty seeds. Each of the thirty will bear thirty more, and it would take only four seasons to have over twenty-four million seeds. As the planting of a truth multiplies in this way, Jesus was the Master Sower. It is a wise thing to win a soul by God’s truth, for in three generations, you may have won a million.- And if you win a hundred in a lifetime, the chances are that a million will have heard of Jesus through your lips. A young Sunday School teacher, a poor seamstress, one Sunday gave to a rough street arab, a shilling to induce him to go to Sunday School. That boy; Amos Sutton, was converted, went to work as a missionary among the Telugus, and after twenty-five years ten thousand converts were won in a single year. The Source of Truth Spurgeon said—“O, young man! build thy studio on Calvary; there raise thine observatory, and scan by faith the lofty things of nature. Take thee a hermit’s cell in the garden of Gethsemane, and. lave thy brow with the waters of Siloaih. Let the Bible be thy, standard classic, thy last appeal in matters of contention; let its light be thine illumination; and thou shalt become more wise than Plato,- more truly learned than the seven sages of antiquity.” _ Golden'Text Illustration A sailor just off to a whaling expedi-
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disputed with Stephen. Now Saul dis putes with them.—Lumby. Went about to slay him. What would the church and the world have lost had this plot succeeded? The church would have lost its greatest missionary, its most elo quent preacher and most influential writer. The world would have lost its foremost pioneer of civilization, its no blest philanthropist, its most gifted teacherlrtrLeonhard. Thus was he made to feel throughout his whole course what he himself had made others so cruelly to feel, the cost of discipleship. —J. F. & B. Subject Illustration Bishop Tucker of Uganda was in early manhood an artist and exhibited at thé Royal Academy. The call to the min istry came to him in a remarkable way. One day he was LESSON | painting a picture ILLUSTRATION of a poor woman, W . H . Pike struggling w i t h a baby in her arms against a storm of sleet with every door closed against her, and the thought came into his mind that, instead of painting pictures about the poor, it would be far better to do something to help them. At once he dedicated him self to God. After a course in Oxford University, and a term spent in work among the slums in England, he pro ceeded to Uganda as a missionary, reaching that land in 1890. After twenty-one years of service, he return ed, leaving a church of 70,000 mem bers. Bible Illustrations The greatest of teachers was Jesus Christ- Of Him it was said, “All bare Him witness, and wondered at the gra cious words, which proceeded out of His mouth”. “And they were astonished at His doctrine: for His word was with power”. Luke 4:22,32. “And they were astonished at His doctrine: for He taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes”. Mk. 1:22. Luke 19:47- “He taught daily in the temple”. Jesus taught from a ship, in
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