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Lesson
LESSON V.
MINISTERING TO SPIRITUAL
NEEDS -Mark 2:1-12
Golden • Text. -Son, thy sins are
forgiven, Mark 2;5.
THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING
Tame. -The early summer, A.D. 28.
Place-Capernaum, at the north-
ern end of the Sea of Galilee.
With this chapter begins the peri-
od of conflict in the life our .Lord.
Instead of the superficial enthusiasm
of the people, he has to encounter ,
the growing opposition of their lead- ,
ers. At first, this is aroused by his
extraordinary claims, then by his re-
volutionary act in calling Levi, the '
tax-chlector, to become his personal
disciple (2:13-17), and finally, by his
revolutionary teachings in regard to •
fasting and Sabbath -observance (2: '
18-28). Mark produces this impres-
sion as plainly by his selection of
events as if he had given this section
the title "Period of Conflict."
Proclaiming God's Word"
1. And when he entered again in-
to Capexnaum after some days. Luke
tells us at the close of his account of
the healing of the leper that Jesus
"withdrew himself in the deserts and
prayed" (5:16) and from this we
gather that Jesus had been away for
some days in complete solitude. It
was noised that he was in the house.
.It was alwaysnoised, reported, pub-
lished that Jesus Christ was in the
house. Everybody seemed to know it
as if by intuition or instinct.
2. And many were gathered to-
gether, so that there was no longer
room for them, no, not even about
the door: and he spake the word un-
to them. The phrase "the word" in-
tentionally raises the word of Christ
above the words of all others; it is
the pre-eminent word because of its
eternal truthfulness, because of its
power, because, it comes from God.
Forgiveness of Sins
3. And they come, bringing unto
him a pian sick of the palsy, borne
of four. The word here translated
"palsy" designates a nervous offec-
tion sometimes known as paralysis. It
"commonly denotes loss of motive
power `izi a muscle or set of muscles,
and is equivalent to motor paralysis."
This palsied person was not .borne
in the arms of his four friends, • but,
as the next verse indicates, was car-
ried by them on a bed, whereon he
lay prostrate.
4. And when they could not come
nigh unto him for the crowd, they
uncovered the roof where he was: and
when they had broken it up, they
let down the bed whereon the sick of
the palsy lay. Concerning this incid-
ent Dr. William M. Thomson, for for-
ty-five years a missionary in Syria
and Palestiner has written a very il-
luminating interpretation. The houses ;
in Capernaum "were, I suppose, like
those'in modern villages, low with flat
roofs easily reached by a stairway
from the yard or court. Jesus prob-
ably stood in the open court, which is
the reception -room between two oth-
ers; ... Examine one of these houses
and -you will see that the thing is
natural and easy to be accomplished.
The roof is only a few feet above
the floor., and by stooping down and
holding' the corners of the couch,
merely a thickly padded quilt, the
sick man could have been let down
'without any ropes or cords. And
this I suppose was clone."
5. And 'Jesus seeing their faith.
The pr noun "their" does not refer
only to'these four men, as many claim
but to 211 five, the paralytic and those
who were carrying him. "Surely, his
friend§ did not bring him against his
will, and surely, he must have con-
sented to .'be lowered through the
roof. Where in all the Scriptures is
remission of sins ever obtained with-
out faith?" And yet the faith of
these four men is directly referred
to, and, had they not had faith in the
Lord Jesus, the paralytic would prob-
ably never hale been brought into
the presence of the Saviour.
Saith unto the sick of the palsy,
Son. Literally, this .word should be
translated "my child," and was "an
affectionate address doubtless intend-
ed to encourage the man and
strengthen .his hope." Thy sins are
forgiven. "Here lies the man. His
muscular action has lost its motion.
He lies here helpless as a log. The
Master looks at him, through him,
end, behold, another kindofparalytic
is revealed. The man cannot command
the activities of his own soul. His
body is imprisoned in the palsied
spirit" "In the entire Bible no sweet-
er word meets the sinner's eye than
the word 'forgiveness' or 'remission.'
Sin is a word involving our rela-
tionship to God, a word indicating
that things are wrong, that we have
transgressed the law of God, and that
that transgression must be punished
by God. No man can wash away his
own sin, nor present anything to God
that will atone for that sin. .
Jesus Had Critics
6. But there were certain of the
scribes sitting there, and reasoning
le their hearts. "These scribes form-
ed an exceedingly powerful organiza-
tion in the time of Jesus. The scribes
had become a special learned class,
Which charged itself with the care of
the law, as the ,priests and /mites_•
took charge of the temple services.
They were allotted the first seats in
the synagogue; the upper places at
table were reserved for them; and
their dress marked their dignity,
Their .political importance was great,
for it was their instructions which
enveloped the whole Jewish life from
the cradle to the grave inthe pre-
cepts and intensifying its minute
ceremonial observances, and there-
fore were instinctively opposed to a
teacher whose aim was to enforce the
moral ideas which lay beneath the
Mosaic code."
7. Why doth this man thus speak?
he blasphemeth: who can forgive sins
but one, even God? "This is the un-
spoken charge in their hearts, which
Jesus read like an open book. The
word 'blasphemeth' means injurious
speech or slander. It was, they held,
blasphemy for Jesus to assume this
divine prerogative. Their logic was
correct. The only flaw in it was the
possibility that Jesus held a peculiar
relationship to God which justified his
claim.
Why He Was Healed
8. Arid straightway Jesus, perceiv-
ing in his spirit that they so reasoned
within themselves, saith unto them,
Why reason ye these things in your
hearts? 9. Which .is easier, to say
to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins are
forgiven; or to say, Arise, and take
up thy bed, and walk? Jesus did not
ignore the question. He was not
afraid of the question. e Forgiveness
of sin is something that takes place
at the throne of God, and secondly, in
the heart of a man; and forgiveness
can never be touched or seen or •
heard. That this man had truly been
forgiven, and Jesus' words declaring
such forgiveness expressed an actual
condition of forgiveness, we as be-
lievers never doubt; but these scribes
did doubt it, and Jesus is now going
to prove to then that he can do
something that they can see with
their own eyes and judge with their
own natural powers of examination,
something beyond all human possi-
bility, which will prove that he has
power over a human body such as no
mere man has, and which ought to
shock them into at least seriously con-
sidering whether he also "then did not
have power over the heart and spirit
of a man. Nevertheless, we should
remember that Christ healed the
in answer, not to the unbelief of
the scribes, but to the belief of the
man and his bearers.
10. But that ye may know that the
Son of man hath authority on earth
to forgive sins (he saith to the sick
of the palsy), 11. I say unto thee,
Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto
thy house. "We here meet for the
first time in Mark's Gospel the title
which Jesus gave himself: 'the Son
of Man.' That the human nature
of Christ is thus expressed is beyond
question. But 'the Son of Man' lifts
this one man out from among all nen
as one who bears this human nature
in a way in which no other man bears °
it. Here is a case in which Jesus did
not touch the sick man, but uttered
only the word as the expression of his ,
mighty will. As in all the miracles,
the proceeding is astounding and ov-
erwhelming --three short, sharp com-
mands and a terrible disease like par-
alysis is literally blown away, and ,
the man's body made sound and
whole."
12. And he arose, and straightway
took up the bed, and went forth be-
fore them all. Jesus asked this man
to dor thus far, things that would ab-
solutely testify to the fact that his
disease had been removed, that his
paralysis had gone. Men when conver-
ted should show unmistakable signs
to those with whom they work, that
there has been a real change in their
lives. Their talk should be .different,
the places where they go, their
thoughts 'should be different; their
social life should be different; the
• sins that formerly marked their daily
conduct are, put away, and every one
recognizes at once the change that
has come. Insomuch that they were
all amazed, and glorified God, saying,
We never saw it on this fashion.
"How can we stir the outside world
to wonder and praise? We must first
of all arouse their attention. Men's •
minds must be compelled to turn their
eyes and look and think, and how is
it to• be done? They must be made
to see something .very extraordinary
in the commonplace. Out of the
church of Christ must go forth vigor-
ous, healthy men and women t tho
went in paralyzed.
Insurgent Deserters
GIBRALTAR. - Increasing deser-
tions and uneasiness in insurgent
Government's capture of strategic
Teruel, were reported this week by
impartial foreign sources.
The insurgents have installed an
armed cavalry patrol in the no -man's
land separating British Gibraltar from
insurgent -held La Linea in an effort
to check the desertions from General
Franco's army.
Windows and doors which close
automatically as soon as it begins to
snow or rain have recently been ex-
hibited in a Continental 'exhibition.
Automatically
Refrigerated
Automobiles
Engineer Forecasts Sumner Driv-
ing Scan to Be Com-
fortable
The automatically refrigerated auto-
mobile to nuke summer driving com-
fortable will not be long in making
its appearance. h. W. Child, air con-
ditioning engineer, said last week in
a paper prepared for delivery at the
annual meeting of the Society of
Automotive Engineers,
Form Is Unknown
He suggested the use of a non-
toxic gas and an engine -driven cora-
Pressor,
ompressor, which like the system in the
average household mechanical refrig-
erator, to give the motorist a cool ride
in 100 •degrees of temperature at mid-
day.
"Just what form this system will
take," ho said, "depends upon future
development work. However, it is ser •
-
Iain that in the near future (some
form eaf safe, economical, automotive
refrigerating system will appear, and ,
when it does we can go merrily on '
our way, laughing at the weatherman
and our notoriously variable climate."
Cooling Difficulties
Air conditioning the average auto-
mobile
is not a simple problem, Child
explained,
Air leaks in car bodies are a major
problem, he said, and the older the
car the worse the leaks. Tlie . sieve-
like qualities of car bodies vary too •
with speed, wind velocity and direc-
tion, Child continued. The trick in
air conditioning is to make air leak
out instead of in, he said.
In both summer and winter, Child ,
said, the engineer must take account
of the amount of vapor given off by
automobile passengers. He said a nor-
mal adult exudes 75-1000 of a pound
of water an hour. Other points he
mentioned are the regulation of the
cubic flow .of air through the car and
maintenance of .enough humidity for
comfort,
Passengers Give Off Vapor
''A *human," saki Child, "is some-
thing like an electric percolator, in ,
Chat he -gives off heat by convection,
because be is hotter than his sur•
moundings, and he gives off heat by
c porating water because he evolves
steam at a higher pressure than the
surrounding water pressure."
'Whiter air conditioning Child found
to be relatively simple because the
primary requisite was heat, controlled'
by the quantity of liot water passing
through the heating system's coils.
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Honored by Her King
Gracie Fields, talented British ac-
tress, was made a Commander of the
British Empire, a noted British Or-
der, on the New Year's Honor List.
Miss Fields is shown in her London
home as congratulations poured in.
The FARMER'
Conducted by PROFESSOR HENRY G. BELL
With the co-operation of the Various Departments of the
Ontario Agricultural College
1. -Q. --"Would you please advise
us the value per ton of farm manure,
well rotted, all cut straw used for
bedding on dairy farm, as compared
with commercial fertilizers?"-G.R.,
Grey Co.
A. -I hasten to say that a ton of
farm manure from dairy farms where
the liquid manure is retained will car-
ry approximately 10 lbs. Nitrogen, 5
lbs. Phosphoric acid, and 10 lbs. of
Potash. A conservative estimate of
the value is $2.00 per ton. A ton
of 2-12-10 fertilizer will carry 2%
Nitrogen, 12% Phosphoric acid, and
10 % Potash, or 40 lbs. Nitrogen, 240
lbs. Phosphoric acid and 200 lbs. Pot-
ash. This will cost approximately
$34.00, or for $2.00 you would be
able to make an application of 117.6
lbs. per acre or $2.00 worth contains
2.3 lbs. Nitrogen, 14 lbs. Phosphoric
acid, and 11.7 lbs. Potash. The man-
urecontains a considerable amount
of very valuable organic matter
which fertilizer does not contain. On
the other hand, you get nearly three
times as much Phosphorus and con-
siderably more Potash in the fertil-
izer for $2,00.
2. -Q. ----"We have recently been
discussing the 'advisability of mixing
our own fertilizer for treating aspara-
gus beds and have wondered what to
use as a filler. What would you sug-
gest? Is it advisable to mix your own
fertilizer for say a 5-7-10 'ratio, us-
ing Nitrate of Soda, Superphosphate '
and Muriate of Potash? I under-
stand that mixing this ourselves
is more economical and just as ef-
fective as purchasing the same thing
from a manufacturer already mixed."
-P.F., Halton Co.
A. -It is true that you can either
make or have made a fertilizer of the
analysis 5-8-10. This would call for
the following mixture:
Nitrate of Soda 667 lbs.
Superphosphate (16%) .....--875 lbs.
Muriate of Potash 400 lbs.
Hello everybody, haus you listened
to Toronto's 'treasure Hunt program
yet? If you Haven't, you're the only
one, for judging from the number of
telephone calls which pour into the
studio every night the program is on,
every radio owner in the city seems
to be following the Treasure Bunt
ear. During the first two broadcasts,
there were from ten thousand to
fifteen thousand telephone calls. This
game, which has caught the interest
of so many listeners, is really very
easy to play. The announcer takes the
audience on an automobile tour of
Toronto and mentions certain corners,
streets, buildings, traffic lights and
other landmarks which serve as clues
as to the direction the car is travel-
ling., When the destination is reached,
a whistle blows, and then the first
person to phone in the correct loca-
tion receives a handsome prize from
the sponsors. And by the way, folks,
they don't announce the phone num-
ber over the air. There is a special
number, which you can obtain quite
easily by visiting the sponsor's store.
And then, you're all set to win a
prize. The program is broadcast every
night except Saturdays and Sundays,
from 7 to 7.15 p.m,, over station
CKOL.
Total 1942 lbs.
Thisewould leave room for 58 lbs. fil-
'' ler elo, the ton. You, can either use
fine sand 'or fairly finely ground lime- '
stone. If you use the °latter, it
would be well to put in 900 lbs. of
Superphosphate to overcome any re-,
version of the soluble phosphate that
may occur from coming into direct
contact with the lime.
As to the advisability of mixing
your own fertilizer, -this will of •
course depend upon your knowledge'
of figuring out the mixture that you
wish to make and upon your equip-
ment for mixing the materials. If
you have a small cement mixer and
if the materials that you are com-
bining are given time to be thorough-
ly nixed in this machine, chances are
youwill, get a fairly good uniform
distribution of Nitrogen, Phosphorus
and Potassium throughout the mix-
ture. If your mixing is done with a
shovel on an average floor, I doubt
very much the thoroughness with
which the plantfood carriers are dis-
tributed uniformly throughiout the
pile. I 'do not know..of any firm of-
fering 5-8-10, hence you can have it
made by written application to any
firm, 'in accord with the Fertilizer ,
Law,.' as shown 'in section 9 (a) on
page 5 of that pamphlet.
My impression would be that un-
less you have considerable cheap la-
botir available, you would do well to
buy this mixture under specifications
from some standard fertilizer com-
pany and have then mix it up for
you.
Princess and Husband Lured by Hollywood
Princess Baba,. daughter of the Rajah of Sarawak, and her husband, Bob
Gregory, 'are headed for Hollywood, Cal,, :and a .poL•sible film career.
Gregory is an English wrestler.
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Applause Meters Decide
From puzzles to swingsters! Fu-
ture Tommy Dorseys and Benny Good-
mans will have a chance to show their
wares in a series of contests to be
broadcast on Tommy Dorsey's pro-
gram over the NBC - Blue Network,
beginning Friday, January 21st, at
9.30 p.m. E.S.T. Applause meters will
be used to judge the studio aud-
ience's choices, and cash prizes will
be awarded to the winners. Contest-
ants will be allowed to choose their
own instruments trumpets, trom-
bones, saxophones, tin whistles or any
other swing band instrument, and
those who go on the air will play
choruses with Dorsey's orchestra. The
resulting melodies should be worth
listening to! If you would like to try
your luck, write to Tommy Dorsey,
care of the Amateur Swing Contest,
NBC, Radio City, New York.
* * 4.
Right on top of all this discussion
Around
The Dial
RADIO HEADLINERS
OF THE WEEK
By FRANK DENNIS
of the values of swing as compared
to the good old fashioned waltz, we
find that, after all, none of these Mas-
ters of Music really know what will
gain the public favor from one month
to another. At least that is what Paul
Whiteman must mean when he says:
"Any musician able to predict what
kind of music will be popular next
year ought to give up music and go
in for races and the stock market."
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Day -to -Day Happenings
Carlton E. Morse, author of One
Man's Family on NBC, is another one
that can't predict the future. He
claims lie doesn't know very far in
advance what will happen to his char-
actors. Although Morse writes the
serial two or three weeks ahead, he
keeps the script open to revision so
that he may bring in up-to-date com-
ments on important happenings of the
day that any family world be likely
to discuss.
* * *
Charlie McCarthy must be quite a
help to Edgar Bergen in more ways
than one. Edgar, who is naturally
shy, says his shyness doubles when
he is talking to a member of the fair-
er sex. But with Charlie on his knee,
should he stumble over a word, he
throws his voice to Charlie, who first
reprimands Edgar, then carries on an
impish conversation with the young
lady in the well-known McCarthy
manner.
"Your Melody Singer"
A program that has caused much
favorable comment is the Sunday af-
ternoon quarter-hour over CBL fea-
turing a young tenor known as "Your
Melody Singer." His singing of sac-
red songs and familiar melodies of
the more restful type has occasioned
many requests for an extension of the
allotted period, and now his sponsors
have doubled the time of the pro-
gram. It now runs from 4.15 to 4.45
and in addition to the Melody Singer
the program will include Olga Bere-
zowska, brilliant young soprano, and
an instrumental ensemble of real
quality. The extended program will
be heard over CBL and also through
CBM, in Montreal. These programs
are sponsored by Thomas J. Lipton
Limited.
Campus S1a guage
Becoming Fixture
Planting the Hardware Might Get
An Unwary Victim Conked In
Parlance of Western University
Students and Co-eds.
Something like the automobile,
slang is here to stay, according to
Prof. J. A. Spenceley, Professor of
English at the University of Western
Ontario. Regardless of the rantings
of purists, slang has a place on the
campus, the professor said. Here are
some conversational excerpts from lo-
cal Collegians:
Jam session -A noisy argument op-
en to all comers.
To jell -To make an engagement
for coffee and cigarettes.
`Turning it on -A professor warm-
ing up on his subject.
Spreading it A rambling conversa-
tion.
Hardware - Sorority or fraternity
pin or ring.
Plant the hardware -Exchange of
fraternity or sorority pins.
Conked -Engaged to be married.
Cooing -Endeavoring to make peace
with a professor.
Wrestle -An informal dance.
A boiled shirt A severe professor.
Earliest mechanical time measure
was a water clock, containing water
which was allowed to escape through
a small hole; marks on the side indi-
cating the lapse of time.
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