HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-02-22, Page 2THS GREATEST SUCCESS.
Not the Uving, I :the True
Measure of Success
The life is n ora• than n eat. Istat i'
This ie a Vet -rang against overemplue,
si-elesee the rtiatepiad. • It is equivalent ,o
sayaie that get,ting a Tie ;is sacra int -
pet tent then € ett.ms e. living.
nlaaterkat gee i • is stet le be •4ieepi'ed.
Acgeire+i. by right means and use; flit.
'x rthy ends it is• a real good. But even
under tit -se circuni3taatdres, .it is. not 'the'
highest good. A mind full of useful
knowledge is better than a box full '!t
steeps and bonds. A heart • full of noble
principles is better than '.a bank full of
dollars. A life full of good deeds is bet-
ter than a life full of "good tunes."
The greatest success of life is moral.
success, The greatest failure of life is
moral failure. It is better to live a cleat)
life in obscurity than a soiled one in
prominence. It is better to be art;•honest
man on a small salary than a dishonest
one with a large . income. it is better,
true husband;. an :arl'e tto>riate father,
a sincere and earnest Christian. ,And he
who beeoree all This. .may feel that tae
13 mat tng . sncceas • of We regardless
of what he leas or has not,
It is always right to 'seek an alone t
enoteria1 reward. rat the sense three titer
.SitouFl be iegard 'ref higher ;interests.
The work, of life hue a 'amoral ` ieweft.
We are called to tie\ elop the Things
about 'us, because in see'doing we develop
ourselvees.0 '
An architect who stood. (admiring a
great building he had planned was ad-
dressed by a friend thus:
"You think you made that, but you
did'nt. It made you."
THERE IS A SUGGESTION HERE
as to what the work of hand and brain
should do. It should make men as well.
as things. Any course of Taction which
interferes with this result, which robs if
to spend all one's days in a rented house' time, slrengih or taste for the better
Arid raise a family that. does something things of life, is wrong. Itis a mistake
for the world than live in a palace ,j to become $o absorbed in business or
one's own and raise a . family with no study or any other good thing as to . get
higher aaiin than that of eating, drinking out of touch with the great world about
and being merry. us. Any success purchased at a °sacri-
THE OUTER CIRCUMSTANCE lice. of the heart's best feelings is too
• costly. What thougta one does climb to
is always . the minor consideration, It 14 the top if in doing so he slights that side
what men are and do, not whatthey of his being given him to bring him into
,have, that weighs most in,:heaven's fraternal relations to all mankind?
scales. If, by being true tee a high ideal, What though one do build up an im-
position, fame and wealth came, rneuse business . if in doing so he ne-
should' be thankful' for ., them : and use gleet to ilius himself . up in ,ell that goes
them In a conscientious stunner, But If to make a true man? • '
by `being true to such an idedl they, come One of the greatest failures of life is
not, we should continue' sweet and failure to getggood from good, And one
trustful of spirit. t of the saddest sights of Iife is that of a.
The best filings of Tife are within reach, manso intent upon getting that which
of all. Every man who . will become a he must one day leave as. to have ne
conscientious citizen, a thoughtful neigh•. time or taste for that which..be might
• bor, a' Ioyai friend, an honest workman, takeewith him' for an eternal possession.
SUNDAY 1llOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, :
'FEB. 25.
Lesson VIII. Jesus' Power -to Forgive✓,
Golden Text, Mark 2. f0.•
LESSON :WORD STUDIES.
Tote. --These Word Studies are based
on the text orthe the- Revised 'Version.
Popularity, Silence, Conflict.,=-The'day
of, miracles at Cupernaum (compare last
lesson) brought esus into sudden and
to' ,him unwelcome ,popularity. , A short
absence from 'the city, during. which he
made a tour throughout all. Galilee
.. preaching and healing: the sick'(Mark-•1.
85-45), did not diminish the enthusitteut
of the Canernaum populace, upon whore
,e ess: of :th:at. first notable Sebballi,
day had .tnaide a profound andeindelible
impression. BLit to :testis this popularity
was ; most unweleoroe,. It hindered
rather than helped the work. in 'cvtiich he
was engatgedl,., le .sought, earnestly to
avoid it, and even, forbade some whom
he had,;,healed froin publishing the- fact
abroad. The. , miracles she .performed
' were; primarily works of benevolence,
the, spontaneous` 'breaking, forth '•of ,tie
supernatural power of his divine leer-
sonaallly in the presence of great suffer.
ing and need, and not a display of super-
naturalism'
upernaturalism' intended to establish his
L authority.
With the second chapter of Mark's..
narrative begins the account of the long
period of •, con tlict • with the Jewish
authorities which citlinanatedultimately
in 1lie . 'tragedy of his death. Many
things •about the character and• .method
of his public, activity tended to arouse
the hostility of the self-righteous and
bigoted scribes: and Pharisees. His .exp
frhordinary claims, (he -aharacler of the
men whom he s chose Os his discinles
(common laboring men, 'including even
a deseisecl taxgatherete, his revolution-
ary teaching- with regard to:,l'asting and
Sabbath 'Observance; and chis utter .ig-
,'noring. r .of precedent' and rabbinical
teaching ' and authority, all° made inevi-
table the hostility and conflict. This
Marie has - brought out vividly by tale;
selections and grouping of events.. Luke
gives the same grouping. Matthew, oh
the contrary, distributes these. events. •
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Verse -I. Ile entered; again into .Caper-
taunt -After an absence of some days.
during wbfch he made the preaching
dour of Galilee referred to above.
It was noised -The ranter that he had
returned and "11,a4 again' in the house
(that is, probably tate House of Sinter)
and Andrew, where he hath • hist been
seen) spread quickly through the city:
2. Spoke the word unto them --The.
Message of truth and ofthe gospel which
he hard cotyle to bring .to the world.
3. And they ethnic- i'hat is, certain
ur,nny(:d persons, a leer cope warty `Ulan:
Piet ',the four me;n•''. ithe their burden
The fahcidenl;•:, vhioh follows •1i introduced
into the 'narrative to illestrate how th;
vvordls end work , of .esus aroused they
antagonism
and hatred of "certain,
a',d;i ibex " ,(varae 6)
A bean sick of the palsy -Literally, .a
paralytic. '
4. iJncdavd the' roof -The roofs of
i'"aia tiniars houees were flat and covere.1
with tile3 Or, in ell', of the tild=e modest
f1_ -11I'%, with thatch.
5. Their faith --More especially the faith
of tab' four nice who would teat be de.
de-
1't)y any dillicultiee, hoavever great,
f1';,, •i bringing,their friend to ,the notice
of ,Td.at1S, 'Thoy.sick., oan doubtless al o
ever" i:,ed faith, batt' tis. antecedent tedent of
the pronoun yylihey is cl€�ariy the word
folic in verse 3.
SOU Gr. eltild.
Gd •.r!rta n 'if tete sa;1il es I'halleeee
and lawyers present for the expre'Er
t►ui°lie� • of watching, and, if ,possible.
Mang cativo *or legal, accusation
against Ian. DoubtleS5 some of those
referred to were etrr is ,+ a.rid froth the
he,sa't' party at Jeruraalent. ly , whore
the •testa d 1 .Jestee bard probably aalreedy
been determined upon (comp. s. Luke i.
'V and John 5. 18).
7. ire bira phometh-F r strir;t d rule
Ileie laws ;"...o rejected the •Claims of
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Jesus to be the Messiah there was no
alternative verdict, •for the claim :