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another city, each missed the other greatly. '
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evening Anne calls her mother by Long Distance
g after 8,30 p,m, when the low night rates. are
ineffect. During the week they both keep memos
of topics they wish to. discuss. Then there is no
tune lost ... and nothing forgotten.
What if they are 120 miles apart! The telephone
connection . is made in about a minute nearly
always while Anne bolds the line: Their voices are
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.dom of righteousness and peace and
joy. And with him the twelve. Upon
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
l diose twelve men rested a unique res-
ponsibility; they were to carry on
LESSON VIII FEBRUARY 22 the Saviour's work after his death, a
Jorsus Bearing the Good. Tidings.— glorious privilege, a tremendous task.
Luke 8 1 And certain women who had been
• healed of evil spirits and infirmities.
Golders Text — He went about (Orae of the most marked •character-
through cities and villages, preacbmg1' istics of Luke's Gospel is the prom_
and briergang the good tidings of the l inence it • gives to women. They were
13i,>gda=t'of God.—Luke 8:1. idespised and neglected in the East,
THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING. 1
Time.—Autumn, A.D. 28, in the se -1
aimed year of Christ's ministry. p
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.Place.—By the Sea of Galilee..
And it carne to pass soon after-
wards. After the events related in.
chapter seven. That he went about
through cities and villages, - Galilee
among those "who, when in Galilee,followed him, and ministered unto
him." "Who ministered unto them
of their substance." The apostles and
Christ himself had given .up their se-
cular callings, and Christ refused to
work miracles for his own enrich-
ment or comfort.:
The Sower and the Seed
1 "And when a great multitude came
1 together". This was •evidently a not -
labia assembly, and Christ signalized
f
as. they. are to -day except where the the occasion by the presentation of a
influence of Christianity has made new type of public address, introduc-
itself felt.: ing with the parable of the sower his
From whom seven demons had use of parables which became so dis-
bl'
1 gone out. Demon --possession was g '+
i iof every city resortea unto him:" The
"commonly traced to sin, but not nee- `
t
z essarily so. The Bible sinners- against crowd was so great that - (as Christ 1
!womanly purity area nameless. Mesas on the lake shore) he got b
into a boat. and preached from it,
And Joanne the }wife of Chuas 1
hath ears to hear, let hint hear," The
parable I have just spoken to you,
said Christ in effect, sets forth a truth
which will reward your closest thou-
ght, if indeed you have a mind and
soul capable of . entering into its hid-
den meaning.
The Seed in Our Hearts
"And his disciples asked hire what
this parable might be Christ did
not explain ninny of Lis parables, so
far at least. as the record indicates,
but' this one he explained fully, be-
cause it opened up a new form' of
teaching which the disciples were
slow to understand, and it was essen-
tial that they should be able to"un-
fold
n
fold the meaning; of the parable to
inquirers. •
"But to the rest les." 'Ev-
ery parable reveals le of the
kingdom; placed wreach of
those outside the "That
seeing they may n kingdom,
hear-
ing they may : not Christ
put spiritual` truth parables not
in "order to hide it, that only
the earnest -souls m it, and,
grasping it, hold fast. ,parables." principlewithinthe
"Now the parable is this." The e
planation of the parable follows. `Th
seed is the word of God," The sow
er is any one that scatters the see
We are 'to be sowers of the word
but, more than that, "in the inmo
teaching of this parable of the so.
er, man is the .soil, you and• I are t
son.
"And those by the way side ar
that have heard," They hav
heard, but they have not understoo
(Matt. 13:19). A couple of verse
well thought over will do a man mor
good. than whole chapters' swallowe
without thought. "Then cometh th
devil, and taketh away the word from
their heart, that they may not believ
and be saved.". All through the Gas
pels we Have the proof . that Chris
knew of a personal devil, the rulin
spirit of evil, who directs many sub
ordinate agencies, who has man
birds pecking away at the . seeds o
truth on the hard-pressed soil a
worldly lives. •It may be a mocking
word, .a sneer,_ a bit of ill-natured cri-
ticism --such " ugly fowl can ruin the
effect of the wiriest sermon. The on-
ly safety against them is to keep our
heart -soil receptive by prayer and
meditation and social' worship, so that
the seed will sink deep in it at once,
before. Satan's crows have a chance
at it.
"And those on the rock are they
who, when they have heard, receive
the word with joy." They are emo-
tional, quick to hear and as quick to
forget. They respond promptly to
evangelistic appeals, but abandon
their new impulses .as promptly. 'And
these have no root,. who for a while
e Jere, and. in time .of temptation
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I ti netive m his reac122n "And the
fall away." There cotnes perhaps the
rial of a great sorrow, or. the trial
if persecution, Religion, if it is to
c sure and strong, must be pressed
down till it reaches and: grasps a
Jan's inmost self.
"And that which f .II among the
Ior. ns, these are they that have heard
and as they go on their way." They
cave the sanctuary with its ennob-
ng influences, and mingle in the cur-
rent of ordinary. life.. "They are
choked with care" (Matthew: "the
care of the world") and riches (Mat-
thew: ''the deceitfulness of riches")
and pleasures of this life, These in-
terests occupy the souls of worldlings
entirely, crowding out their higher,
eternal interests. "And bring no fruit
to perfection' . So far as results go,
the seed might as well not have been
own. Cares, 'riches, pleasures, --
ase are all necessary and useful
ements of life. We are sent into this
world to work. Business, or wealth,
or pleasure' interferes with the per-
formance of a plain duty:,' then it is
like a quick -set • hedge which has
raven too tall, it must be lopped,.
"And that in the good ground, these
c such as in an hdriest 'and good'
art, having heard the word, hold it
st" It is necessary to hear the
ord, but it equally eiceesiary to re -
ember it. "And bring forth fruit
th patience," Resolve to be honest
Jth yourself, and not to throw away
the messages of, God, which will come
to you day after day. Resolve not
to stifle your conscience, when it hap-
pens to command what is not pleas -
you to do. Resolve not to
any other thought be higher with
yo
than the thought of, duty.
In the tune of Christ was much more i Herod's steward. This man's office ? o g f a 1 ttl way fromlad He it
.densely i office, by a parable". A parable is a
populated than it is to -day, manager: of the business affairs of IittIe storyfrom actual life(so des-
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though it is still full of villages:' Herod Antipas, Seas one of high re- f tin ui bed from a fable told for the
Preaching and bringing rhe good tid- spectabil ty, and it has been conjec 3 s )'
!purpose of presenting a spiritual
,dings of the kingdom of God. "Good i tured that he was the nobleman
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troth
tidin is the literal meaning of the Iwhose son Jesus had miraculously (- „ li
The sower went forth to sow iris•
Greek word usually translated "gos-1 healed at Capernaum (John 448);,
pet." The "good news of the king -1 And Susanna. , Her ;sex d." As Christ faced his audience,
Ire could see all that he was describ-
,dom of God" was indeed both good name means "Lily;" and she is men- i ;,
ing, The sower went forth from
arid hews; it was. thy: announcement boned onlyhere. And many others, `
that the Son of God had come"to Among whom may have been, er -;his home to his farm, which may have
earth in the power of His Father, to has the penitent of chapter seven f been several miles 'front his house,
haps, p P ' since, for the sake of security, the
show the Father to men, to announce and almost certainly Mary the moth- °farmers live in villages.
the Father's free offer to salvation, t er of James and Joses, and Salome, 3 g
and to establish the Father's king- whom St. Mark specifies 15:40 as :' And as he sawed, some fell by
(. ) • the way side; and it was trodden un -
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der • foot." Palestine grainfields are
not fenced, and common paths run_th
through them, on which some of the
seed would certainly fall, to be. trod-
den under.the next careless foot that
carne along. "And the birds of the
heaven devoured it." The grain would
stand out on the hard -peeked earth
'and would be easily seen and pecked g
up by the birds.
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"And other fell on the rock." A he
portion of the filed where the soil fa
shallow, with a layer of rock w;
near the surface. "And as soon as it m
grew, it withered•away,.because it
had no moisture." The' rock beneath wi
the shallow soil reflected the heat of w
the sun, so that the seed soon sprout-
ed artd sent up shoots; but the roots
could not make their way down to
the water reservoirs beneath the rock
d the hot sun quickly parched the i let
young grain, so that it dried up.
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And others fell arntdst the thn
orns
There are at least eighteen Hebrew
words used to express different kinds
of prickly shrubs or weeds which oc-
cur in the Hebrew scriptures. ".And
the thorns grew upwith it, and chok-
ed it," Like the tares the thorns
couldnot be uprooted without pull-
ing with them the grain.
"And other fell into good ground".
The fruitful soil, deep, rich, and free
from both stones and thorny plants.
"And grew, and brought forth fruit
a hundred -fold.." This is by no means
an unheard -orf increase in the West,
where vegetation is less luxuriant.
s he said these things, he cried."
In order to settheistto thinking a-
bout what he had ,said, Bindles; that
te
lurwas � a, more in the matter than
appeared r,n the surface, "Hr• that
IWhom death; a little, while alone div-
ideth,
And cannot end the union hent; begun.
O happy home! whose little ones are
given
Early to Thee, in humble faith and
.Prayer,
1"o Thee, their Friend, Who from the
heights of heaven
Guides thein, and guards with more
than mother's care,
O happy Borne? where each one serves
Thee, lowly,
Whatever his appointed work may be,
rill every common task seettts great•
and holy,
When it is done, 0 Lord, as unto
Thee.
O happy home? where Thou are not
forgotten, •
When joy is overflowing, full and
free;
O happy home l where every wound. '
ed. spirit
Is brought, Physician, Comforter, to
Thee -
Until at last, when eartli's day!'s-wor
is ended,
All meet Thee in the blessed horn
above
From whence: Thou earnest, wher
Thou hast ascended,
Thy everlasting home of 'peace an
loire,
Amen.
When in 1685 the Revocation of th
Edict of Nantes made it dangerou
any but Roman Catholics to re
side in France, a Heugenot famil
connected with the old nobility nam"
ed de 1'Hopital, fled from that coun
try to the kingdom of Hanover
There the family name Hopital, o
Hospital, became changed into it
German equivalent Spite! or, Spitte!
and this after a time was abbreviated
In 1801 Lebrecht Wilhelm Gott
fried Spitta was -making a living there
,fried
book-keeping and teaching French
lOn August 1, in that year a son, Car
Johann Philipp Spitta, was born to
him, who was destined to be one of
the most famous hymn -writers Ger-
.many has produced. Four years later
his father died, and only the kindness
of relatives enabled the Widow to
keep the wolf from the door.
However, she determined to give
her sons a training for professional
lives. But, when ten years of age,
Carl developed a serious illness which
laid hint by for four years, and the
mother- decided that at the end of that
'period he had lost too much time to
be able to catch up with his scholas-
tic Work, had him apprenticed to learn
the trade of 'watchmaking.
This ♦i as not an occupation the: 'lad
could bring himself to like, but he
stuck to it uncomplainingly for three
or four years. Then he was terribly
di tressed by the death of his young-
er brother, who was training for the
work of the Lutheran ministry. A
friend, trying to comfort him, discov-
ered bis disatisfaction with his trade,
and his family then suggested that he
should take up his'brother's' college
course. So good •astudent did he be-
come that. by 1824 be graduated at
Gottingen University.with honors,
Four years later, after. acting as tutor
in the.fancily of :a Judge,: he was or-
dained as assistant pastor and in 1'830
became assistant prison chaplain at
Hamelin,,, but. was refused the chap-
lain's position because. the military
authorities feared that he was a piet-
ist and a, mystic.
However, he received several pas-
toral appointments in Hanover, mar-
ried in 1839, received the degree D.
D. in 1855 and died almost sudden-
ly from heart trouble in"1889.
Spitta began writing poetry when
only eight years of age, and while at
college, was one of a gay band of
young :poets who wrote purely secular
songs and poems, One of these was
Heinrich Heine, and it gives us an
idea of Spitta's'character that he. re-
ceived no bad influence from that bri-
lliant genius, who swung the whole
circle from Judaism through secular-
ism to practical atheism. It was in
1826 that Heine visiting him made
jests about sacred things before his
pupils. That ended the friendship be-
tween the two, there and then.
Writing to a friend he declared: --
"In the manner in which I .formerlyY
sung I sing no more, To the Lord 1
consecrate my life and my love, and
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ikewise my song, His love is the one
seat theme of all my songs; to praise
and exalt it worthily is the desire of
the Christian singer. Ile gave to me
song and melody, I give it back to
Him." Henceforth his spare time was
devoted to hymn writing. German
hymnbooks show how successful he
as in catching the popular favor,
nd toady over a hundred of his by-.
ns or canto's from theta are in corn -
on use by German Lutherans.
Numbers of them have found their
ay into English and United States
ymnais and great musicians have
ompeted for the honor of setting
hots to music. His beautiful "Angel
f Patience," translated freely by
Yhittier in "'!'o . weary 'hearts, to
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mourning homes," as "A gentle An-
gel walketh," by Miss Borthwick, has
been set to tunes well nigh -innumer-
able
nnumerable by composers of nearly every na-
tion. •
In 1826 Dr. Spitta published -sev-
eral hymns in a little collection entit-
led "Psalter and Harfe." This ran
through several enlarged editions,
and after his• death was made to in-
clude most of his hymns. The effect
of this. book upon German hymnol-
ogy has 'been greater probably than
that of any . other publication since
the days of Luther.
It was in the 1833 edition that oair
hymn, "O Selig Haus," appeared in
five S line verses, comprising a beau-
tiful description of a Christian house-
hold, reflecting the happy home life
of its author. It speedily became
popular,
There livedin Edinburgh at that
time two talented girls, daughters of
James f3orthwick, manager of an In-
surance 'office,—Jane born in ' 1813,
and Sarah, born ten years later. Both
were highly educated, knew German
perfectly, and had poetical ability. To-
gether they translated and published
a large selection of German hymns
in 1854; ander the title '.`Hymns from
the Land of Luther." This book has
been enlarged and republished many
times and • has • been . very largely"
drawn upon by compilers of hymnals.
In the edition of 1858 the translation
of Spitta's "O Selig Haus," into 'the
hymn given above appeared, which
Miss Jane Borthwick informed the
world was made by her sister Sarah,
who had married the Rev. Eric John
Findlater, of Loch.earnhead, Perth-
shire. Mrs. Findlater died in 1886.
Perhaps it is not exactly a hymn
as we have it in English, but it cle-
servedly•.ranks as a sacred song very
suitable for home use. Popular taste
appears to .prefer the tune "Hallelu-
jah," written by Dr. E J. Hopkins
for another hymn, and that is the one
chosen for this article.
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