Fairview Republican (Fairview, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, September 6, 1912 Page: 6 of 8
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IfflEKWIONAL
SUMMfSCHOOL
LESSON
VBy E O SELLERS Director of Evenln
Department Th Moody Bible Institute
Chicago)
Enid Maitland a frnnk fr ami un-
spoiled young Fhalladelphla girl la taken
t o the Colo: ado mountains by her uncle
Robert MaHbin'i James Armstrong
Maitland's protege falls In love with l“r
Ilia persistent wooing thrills the girl hut
bie involutes at id Armstrong goes east
on butri m-ss without a deiinlte answer
Enid liears tlie story of u mining engi-
neer Newhold v hoe wife fell olf Q cliff
and was s strioasly hurt Unit he was
coinpelliil (o sloct her to prevent her be-
ing eaten by wdvt-s while he went for
help Kl:kl tie nid guide who teliS the
btorv g!es’ i:n:J n p-fbage of letters
which h t-ns u re found on the fh-ad
woman's b-dy She reals the letters and
at Klrkhv g request beeps then S Idle
tuitlilng In nii-unuiin stream Knid I al
Inekt-d bs a leur which is mysteriously
iiot A slot i u adds to the gitl’-i terror
A suddi n d'dug- transfoiiiiK brook into
raging iitferit which sweeps Knld Into
poige nii’i si- is rea uel bv a mouti-
italn hermit after a thrilling epcri-n--e
t’Hitij'f rs in g' -at eon f usloti upon diseov-
Itig Knbl's i'wneo when the storm
hreaks Maitland und Obi Klrhv go In
ibearoh of the girl Knd discovers that
hfr ankle Is sprained and that who Is un-
ffihle t walk Her mysterious rescuer
carries her to his ramp Kind goes to
leep In the strange man's bunk Miner
cooks breakfast for Knid after which
they go on tour of Inspection The her-
mit tells Knid of bis unsuccessful attempt
to find the M i i 1 1 1 nd campers He udmltn
’that be is also fioni l’hiladelphia The
hermit falls In love with Knll The man
iconics to i nalizatlon of his love fr her
but naturally In tlit strange solitude the
(relations of the girl nnd her rescuer be-
come unnnmrnl ami strained The strang-
er tells of a wife no had who la dead
nnd says he bus sworn to ever cherish
her mctnoi v bv living In solitude Me an 1
Knid howvr eontess their love for
i ’h rdf ei She b-ni ns that he Is the
limn who kilhd 'ds vif in the mountain
) add dis overs the writer of the letters
to N'Wuold's wife to hive been James
Armstrong Newhold de bb s to start to
the set i lenient for help The man is
racked bv the h lb f that he Is unfaithful
In his wife's nu iiorv and Knid is tempt-
ed to tell him of the b iter' in her P l-
pcf-sfon A rmt rang aeeomjviincd by
Kukbv nnd Kheri Maitland find a note
that Newhold I id left In the ds r?‘tl
cnldn uti'l know that the girl Is in his
I coping J'aio brings all the u tors to-
gether CHAPTER XX
The Converging Trails
Whatever the feeling of the others
Armstrong found himself unable to
Bleep that night It Beemed to him
that fate was about to play him the
meanest and raoBt fantastic of tricks
Many times before in his crowded life
tie had loved other women or so he
characterized his feelings but his pas-
sion for Louise Rosser Newbold had
been in a class by itself until he had
met Enid Maitland Retween the two
there had been many women but these
two were the high points the rest1 was
lowland
Once before therefore this Newbold
had cut in ahead of him aud had won
the woman he loved Armstrong had
cherished a hard grudge against him
Tor a longtime He had not been of
those who hod formed the rescue
party led by old Klrkby and Maitland
which bad buried the poor woman on
the great butte In the deep canon
Before he got back to the camp the
4Wbole affair was over and Newbold
Jhad departed Luckily for him Arm-
strong had always thought for he
iiad been so mad with grief and rage
?hnd jealousy that If he had come
across him helpless or not he would
have killed him out of hand
Armstrong had soon enough forgot-
ten Louise Rosser but he had not
forgotten Newbold All his ancient an-
imosity had flamed into Instant life
again at the sight of his name last
night The inveteracy of bis hatred had
been in no way abated by the lapse
of time It seemed
Everybody in the mining camp had
supposed that Newbold had wandered
off and perished in the mountains else
Armstrong might have pursued him
and hunted him down The sight of
his name on that piece of paper was
outward and visible evidence that he
still lived It had almost he shock
of a resurrection and a resurrection
to hatred rather than to love If-
Newbold had been alone In the world
If Armstrong hud chanced upon him in
the solitude lie would have hated him
Just as he did hut when he thought
that his ancient enemy was with the
woman he now loved with a growing
intensity beside which his former re-
sentment seemed weak and feeble he
hated him yet the more
He could not tell when the notice
which he had examined carefully was
written there was no date upon It
hut he could come to only one conclu-
sion Newbold must have found Enid
Maitland alone In the mountains very
shortly after her departure and he
had her with him in his cabin alone
for at least a month Armstrong
gritted his teeth at the thought He
did not undervalue the personality of
Newbold He had never happened to
-see him but he had heard enough
about him to understand hit quali-
ties as a man The tie that bound
Armstrong to Enid Maitland was a
strong one but the tie by which be
held her to him If indeed he held her
at all was very tenuous and easily
broken perhaps It was broken al-
ready and so he hated him still more
and more
Indeed his animosity was bo great
and growing that for the moment he
took no joy in the assurance of the
girl’s safety yet be was not altogether
an unfair man and in calmer momenta
he thanked God in his own rough way
that the woman he loved was alive and
well or had been wheo4be note was
written He rejoiced that she had not
been swept away with the flood or that
ahe bad not been lost In the mountains
and forced to wander on finally to
starve and freeze and die In one mo-
ment her nearners caused his heart to
throb with joyful anticipation The
certainty that at the first flush of day
he should seek her again sent the
warm blood to bis cheeks But those
thoughts would be succeeded by the
knowledge that she was with bis en-
emy Was this man to rob him of the
latest love as be had robbed him of
the first? Perhaps the hardest task
that was ever laid upon Armstrong
was to lie quietly in his sleeping bag
and wait until the morning
So soon as the first indication of
dawn showed over the crack of the
door he slipped quietly out of his
sleeping bag and without disturbing
the others drew on his boots put on
his heavy fur coat and cap and gloves
slung his Winchester und his snow
shoes over his shoulder and without
stopping for a bite to eat softly open-
ed the door stepped out and closed it
after him It was quite dark in the
bottom of the canon although a few
pale gleams overhead Indicated the
near approach of day It was quite
still too There were clouds on the
mountain top heavy with threat of
wind and snow
The way was not difficult the direc-
tion of it that 1b Nor was the going
very difficult at first the snow was
frozen and the crust was strong enough
to bear him He did not need his
snow shoes and Indeed would have
had little chance to use them iq the
nurrow broken rocky pass He had
slipped away from the others because
he wanted to be first to see the man
and the woman He did not want any
witnesses to that meeting They
would have come on later of course
but he wanted an hour or two in pri-
vate with Enid and Newbold without
any interruption- His conscience was
rot clear Nor could he settle upon a
course of action
How much Newbold knew of his
former attempt to-win away his wife
how much of what ho knew he had
told Enid Maitland Armstrong could
not surmise Putting himself Into
Newbold’s place and imagining that
the engineer had possessed entire in-
formation he decided that he must
have told everything to Enid Mait-
land as soon as be had found out the
quasi relation between her and Arm-
strong And Armstrong did not believe
the woman he loved could be In any-
body’s presence a month without tell-
ing something about him Still It was
possible that Newbold knew nothing
and that he told nothing therefore
The situation was paralyzing to a
man of Armstrong’s decided determin-
ed temperament He could not decide
upon the line of conduct he should
pursue His course in this the most
critical emergency he had ever faced
muBt be determined by circumstances
of which he felt with savage resent-
ment he was in some measure the
sport He would have to leave to
chance what ought to be subject to his
will Of only one thing he was sure—
he would stop at nothing murder ly-
ing nothing to win the woman and
to settle his score with that man
There was really only one thing he
could do and that was to press on
up the canon He had no ftlea how
far It might he or how long a journey
he would have to make before he
reached that shelf on the high hill
where stood that hut in which she
dwelt As the crow files it could not
be a great distance but the canon
zigzagged through the mountains with
as many curves and angles as a light-
ning flash He plodded on therefore
with furious baste recklessly speed-
ing over places where a misstep In
the snow or a slip on the icy rocks
would have meant death or disaster to
him
He had gone about an hour and had
perhaps made four miles from the
camp when the storm burst upon him
It was now broad day but the sky was
filled with clouds and the air with
driving snow The wind whistled down
the canon with terrific force It was with
difficulty that he made any headway at
all against it It was a local storm
if he could have looked through the
snow he would have discovered calm-
ness on the top of the peaks It was
one of those sudden squalls of wind
and snow which rage with terrific
force while they last but whose rage
was limited and whose violent dura-
tion would be short
A less determined man than he
would have bowed to the inevitable
and sought some shelter behind a
rock until the fury of the tempest
was spent but ’there was no storm
that blew that could stop this man
so long as he had strength to drive
against ft So he bent his head to the
fierce blast and struggled on There
was something titanic and magnificent
about this iron determination and per-
sistence of Armstrong The two most
powerful passions which move human-
ity were at his service love led him
and hate drove him And the two
were so Intermingled that it was dif-
ficult to say which predominated now
one and now the other The resultant
of the two forces however was an
onward move that would not he de-
nied His fur coat was soon covered with
snow and ice the sharp needles of the
Btorm cut his face wherever It was ex-
posed The wind forced Its way
through his garments and chilled him
to the bone He had eaten nothing
since the night before and his" vital-
ity was not at its flood but he pressed
on and there was something grand
In his Indomitable progress Excel-
sior! Back in the hut Klrkby and Maitland
sat around the fire waiting most Impa-
tiently for the wind to blow Itself out
and for that snow to stop falling
through which Armstrong struggled
forward As he followed the windings
of the canon not daring to ascend to
the summit on either wall and seek
short cuts across the range be was
sensible that he was constantly rising
There were many indications to his
experienced mind the decrease In the
height of the surrounding pines the
1 increasing rarity of the Icy air the
growing difficulty In breathing under
the sustained exertion he was making
the quick throbbing of his accelerated
heart all told him he was approaching
his journey’s end
He Judged that he must now be
drawing near the source of the stream
and that be would presently come
upon the shelter He had no means of
ascertaining the time He would not
have dared to unbutton his coat to
glance at his watch and it is difficult
to measure the flying minutes In such
scenes as those through which he pass-
ed but he thought he mhst have gone
at least seven miles in perhaps three
hours which he fancied had elapsed
his progress in the last two having
been frightfully slow Every foot of
advance he had had to fight for
Suddenly a quick turn In the canon
a passage through a narrow entrance
between lofty cliffs and he found him-
self in a pocket or a circular amphi-
theater which he could Bee was closed
on the farther side The bottom of this
enclosure or valley was covered with
pines now drooping under tremendous
burdens of snow In the midst of the
pines a lakelet was frozen solid the
ice was covered with the B&me daz-
zling carpet of white
He could have seen nothing of this
had not the Budden storm now stopped
as precipitately almost as it had be-
gun Indeed accustomed to the gray-
ness of the snow fall hla eyes were
fairly dazzled by the bright light of
the sun now quite high over the
range which struck him full in the
face
He stopedt panting exhausted and
leaned against the rocky wall of the
canon's mouth which here rose sheer
over his head This certainly was the
end of the trail the lake was the
source of the frozen rivulet along
whose rocky and torn banks he had
tramped since dawn Here if any-
where he would find the object of his
quest
Refreshed by a brief pause and
encouraged by the sudden stilling of
the storm he stepped out of the canon
and ascended a little knoll whence he
had a full view of the pocket over the
tops of the pines Shading hia eyes
from the light with his hand as best he
could he slowly swept the circumfer-
ence with his eager glance seeing
nothing until his eye fell upon a huge
broken trail of rocks projecting from
the snow Indicating the ascent to &
broad shelf of the mountains across
the lake to the right Following this
he saw a huge block of snow which
suggested dimly the outlines of a
hut!
Was that the place? Was she there?
Ho stared fascinated and as he did so
a thin curl of smoke rose above the
snow heap and wavered up in the cold
quiet air! That wus a human habita-
tion then It could be none other
than the hut referred to In the note
Enid Maitland must be there and
Newhold!
The lake lay directly In front of him
beyond the trees at the foot of the
knoll and between him and the slope
that led up to the hut If it had been
summer he would have been compell-
ed to follow the water's edge to the
right or to the left both journeys
would have led over difficult trails
with little to choose between them
but the lake was now frozen hard and
covered with ano He uo croubt
that the snow would bear him but to
make sure he drew his snow shoes
from his shoulder slipped his feet In
the straps and sped straight on
through tbe trees and across it like an
arrow from a bow
In five minutes he was at the foot
of the giant stairs Kicking off bis
snow shoes be scrambled up the
broken way easily finding in the snow
a trail which bad evidently been
passed and repassed dally In a few
moments he was at the top of the
shelf A hard trampled path ran be-
tween high walls of snow to a
door!
Behind that door what would he
find? Just what he brought to
it love and hate he fancied We
usually find on the other side of
doors no more and no lesB than
we bring to our own sides But what-
ever was there there was no hesita-
tion In Armstong’s course He ran
toward it laid his hand on the latch
and opened It
What creatures of habit we are!
Early In that same morning after one
vain attempt again to Influence the
woman who was now the deciding and
determining factor and who seemed to
be taking the man’s place Newbold
ready for his journey had tefrn him-
self away from her presence and bad
plunged down the giant stair He had
done everything that mortal man could
do for hen comfort wood enough to
last her for two weeks had been taken
from the cave and piled In the kitch-
en and everywhere so as to be easily
accessible to her the stores she al-
ready had the run of and be had fit-
ted a stout bar to the outer door
which would render It impregnable to
any attack that might be made against
it although be saw no quarter from
which any assault impended
Enid had recovered not only her
strength but a good deal of her nerve
That she loved tbiB man and that he
loved her had given her courage She
would be fearfully lonely of course
but not so much afraid as before The
month of immunity' in the mountains
without any interruptions had dissi-
pated any possible apprehensions on
her part It was with a sinking heart
however that itshe saw him go at
last
They bad been so much together
in that month they had learned what
love was When he came hack it
would be different he would not come
alone The first human being he met
would bring the world to the door of
the lonely but beloved cabin in the
mountains — the world with its ques-
tions its Inference Its suspicious Us
denunciations and its accusations!
'Some kind of an explanation would
have to be made some sort an an-
swer would have to be given some so-
lution of the problem would have to
be arrived at What these would be
she could not tell
Newbold’s departure was like the
end of an era to her The curtain
dropped when it rose again what was
to be expected? There was no com-
fort except In the thought that she
loved him So long as their affections
matched and ran together nothing
else mattered With the solution of it
all next to her sadly beating heart she
was still supremely confident that
love or God — and there was not bo
much difference between them as to
make it worth while to mention the
one rather than the Qther — would find
the way
Their leave taking had been singu-
larly cold and abrupt She had real-
ized the danger be was apt to incur
and she had exacted a reluctant prom-
ise from him that he would be careful
“Don't throw your life away don’t
risk It even remember that It is
mine" she bad urged
And just as simply as she had en-
joined it upon him be had promised
He had given his word that he would
not send help back to her but that be
would bring it back and she had con-
fidence in that word A confidence
that had he been inclined to break his
promise Would have made it absolute-
ly impossible There bad been a long
clasp of the hands a long look in the
eyes a long breath in the breast a
long throb in the heart and then— -farewell
They dared no more
Once before he had left her and she
had stood upon the plateau and fol-
lowed bis vanishing figure with anxi-
ous troubled thought until it had been
lost in the depths of the forest below
She had controlled herself in this
second parting for his sake as well as
her own Under the ashes of bis
grim repression she realized the pres-
ence of live coals which a breath would
have fanned into flame She dared
nothing while he was there but when
be shut the door behind him the ne-
cessity for self-control was removed
She had laid her arms on the table
and bowed hor head upon them and
Bhook and quivered with emotions un-
relieved by a single tear— weeping
was for lighter hearts and less severe
demands!
His position after all was the easier
of the two As of old it was the man
who went forth to the battlefield while
the woman could only wait passively
the issue of the fight Although he
was half blinded wjth emotions he bad
to give some thought to bis progress
and there was yet one task to be done
before he could set forth upon bis
journey toward civilization and res-
cue It was fortunate as it turned out
that this obligation detained him He
was that type of a merciful man whose
mercies extended to his beasts The
poor little burros must be attended to
and their safety assured so far as it
could be for it would be impossible
for Enid Maitland to care for them
Indeed be had already exacted a prom-
ise from her that she would not
leave the plateau and risk her life on
the icy stairs with which she was so
unfamiliar
He had gone to the corral and shak-
en down food enough for them which
If it bad been doled out to them day
by day Would have lasted longer than
the week be intended to be absent of
course he realized that they would eat
It up in half that time but even so
they would probably suffer not too
great discomfort before he got back
All these preparations took some lit-
tle time It had grown somewhat late
in the morning before he started
There had been a fierce storm ragiDg
when he first looked out and at her
earnest solicitation he had delayed his
departure until it had subsided
His tasks at the corral were at last
completed he had done what he could
for them both nothing now remained
but to make the quickest and safest
way to the settlement Shouldering
the pack containing his axe and gun
and sleeping hag and such provision
as would serve to tide him over un-
til he reached human habitations he
set forth He did not look up to the
How Shark
Trick by Which Sailor Pays Debt to
Merciless Member of the
Finny Tribe
The shark’s Jaws are pried open to
the fullest extent a stout eight-foot
spar of tough timber four inches by
four in cross-measurement is fixed
transversely far back In the angle of
the jaw the ends projecting on either
side A strong rope leading from the
ends of the spar 1b drawn close and
tightened with a clove-hitch round
the fish’s tall behind the wide tail-
flukes It Is thus the sailor harnesses
his enemy
The clamp of the cruel Jaws drives
the two-inch long teeth deep into the
tough spar The tight line holds it In
place and struggle as he may the
shark falls to move the spar an inch
from its position As a finishing
touch the sailor drew his knife-blade
across the shark’s eyeballB and let
him go
Bitted and bridled blinded with
Jaws wide-gaping he swam through a
limitless sea In never-ending fatuous
circles The queer furnishings he
bore scared away others of bis kind
Lonely and silent he passed like Cain
among the flsheB till starvation and
sheer misery ended his existence
Cruel? Of course It was But sure-
ly like the Venomous snake the shark
has long put himself beyond the pale
of human mercy Soft-hearted as he
usually is the sailor-man baB a long
memory The shark has followed for
weeks In the shadow of his ship and
has watched each man of the crew
with greedy malevolent eye There
Is a heavy debt against all the shark
tribe for many a lost mariner and
when the chance comes to settle old
scores the sailor pays it to the full
Besides the thing has the sanction of
immemorial custom It was some old
Phoenician trading out of Tyre to the
far CasBitorides who probably first
put the trick in practice— Wide World
Magazine
Just a Manl
In the long line of cabs and automo-
bile In front of a big New York hotel
was one car around which a few ldlen
bad gathered Something waa wrong
hut Indeed he could not have seen It'
for the corral was almost directly be-
neath It but If it bad been tn full view
he would not' have looked back he
could not trust himself to every In-
stinct every Impulse In his soul would
fain Jrag him hack to that hut and to
the woman It was only his will and
did he but know It her will that made
him carry out his purpose
He would have saved perhaps half
a mile on Ills Journey If he had gone
straight across the lake to the mouth
of the canon We are creatures of
habit' He had always gone around
the lake on the familiar trail and un-
consciously he followed that trail that
morning He was thinking of her as
he plodded on In a mechanical way
while the trail followed the border of
the lake for a time plunged Into the
woods wound among the pines at least
reaching that narrow rift In the en-
circling wall through which the river
flowed He had passed along the trail
oblivious to all his surroundings but
as he came to the entrance he could
not fail to notice what be suddenly
saw In the snow 1
Robinson' Crusoe when he discov-
ered the famous footprint of Man Fri-
day In the sand was not more aston-
ished at what met his vision than
Newbold on that winter morning For
there in the virgin whiteness were
the tracks of a man!
He stopped dead with a Budden con-
traction of the heart Humanity oth-
er than he and she In that wilderness f
It could not be! For a moment he
doubted the evidence of his own sen-
scs He shook his pack loose from his
shoulders and bent down to examine
the tracks to read if he could their
Indications lie could see that some
one had come up the canon that Bome-
one had leaned against the wall that
some one had gone on Where had
he gone?
To follow the new trail was chlld’e
play for him He ran by the side of
It until be reached the knoll The
stranger had stopped again be had
shifted frem one foot to another evi-
dently be had been looking about him
seeking tome one only Enid Mait-
land of course The trail ran forward
to the edge of the frozen lake there
the man had put on his snow shoes
there he had sped across the lake likfe
an arrow and like an arrow himself
although be had left behind his own
snow shoes Newbold ran upon his
track Fortunately the snow crust up-
bore him The trail ran straight to
the foot of the rocky stairs The new
comer bad easily found his way there
With beating heart and throbbing
pulse Newbold himself bounded up
the acclivity after the stranger mark-
ing as be did so evidences of the oth-
er's prior ascent Reaching the top
like him he ran down the narrow path
and In his turn laid his hand upon the
door
He waB not mistaken he beard
voices within He listened a second
and then flung it open and as the oth-
er had done he entered
Way back on the trail old Klrkby
and RobertMaltland the storm having
ceased were rapidly climbing up the
canon Fate was bringing all the ac-
tors of the little drama within the
shadow of her band
TO BE CONTINUED)
Is Harnessed
Prone upon the ground lay an animal
of some kind A dear old lady hap-
pened along She saw the little knot
ot people and put up h$r glasses to
observe the cause Then she saw the
brown fur of the thing on the Icy as-
phalt "Poor creature poor creature!" said
she aloud In her compassion "Is Its
leg broken?” She pushed close to
the prostrate figure in the brown fur
It moved The dear old lady took a
closer look Then she made a sound
approximating a ladylike snort It
was the chauffeur of one of the taxi-
cabs clad In his brown fuzzy coat In
the usual attitude of flatnesB tinker-
ing the under part of his machine with
a monkey wrench
The dear old lady all her sympathy
curdled hurried on
American Girl Supreme
The women seen In the German res-
taurants while better groomed and
better looking than the average Eng-
lish women do not look anything like
as chic as they do In America Their
clothes do not fit as well and they
seem to not possess the air of confi-
dence or the vivacity and merriment
of the American women — they appear
to not be sure of themselves not
wholly accustomed to the new life
This contrast Is very noticeable In
Herlln and much more so ' In other
German cities This is why a pretty
up-to-date New York or Chicago girl
never falls to become the center of
attraction In Germany and Immediate-
ly she enters a restaurant she Is the
cynosure of all eyea — National Food
Magazine
Floating a Rubber Company
The best rubber story Is the latest
reserved for the telling by the secre-
tary of state for the colonies Mr
Harcourt at the British North Borneo
dinner said that a city friend of hla
was approached with a view to float-
ing a rubber company His friend
was quite ready "How many trees
have you?" he asked “We have not
got any trees" was the answer "How
much land have you got?” "We have
no land" “What then have you
got?" “I have a bag of seeds”— Lon
don Saturday Review
LESSON FOR SEPT 8
THE MISSION OF THE TWELVE
LESSON TEXT— Matt 9:J5 to 10:15 and
10:40 to 11:1
GOLDEN TEXT— "He that rece veth
you recelveth me and he that recelvettt
me recelveth him that eent me"— Matt
10:40
The first verse of our lesson Is A
vivid picture of the life of our Lord
Going shout from village to village
he taught healed and preached the
good tidings or his new kingdom
Why? Not only because of his com-
passionate heart bb revealed In the
second verse of the lesson but also
as a proof of his claims and "that be-
lieving ye might have Hfe through hla
name" John 20:30 SI This does not
however lessen the -force of this seo-
'ond verse for Jesus as the true Shep-
herd was Indeed "touched with a feel-
ing of our Infirmities” Seeing the
multitude thus without a shepherd so
faint and weary as to lay down and
knowing that his great work was to
be carried on by bthers after he had
"finished" It upon Calvary he makes
special provision by choosing the
twelve and telling them definitely how
to carry on his ministry
Jesus realized that no one man can
minister to all others except as ho
multiplies his perspnallty In the lives
of others So It Is that he gives the
church of today a powerful example of
how to answer the prayer of verse 38
by hts practical methed suggested In
verse 1 of chapter 10 His vision of
verse 3d Is the passion of his life and
he Intends It to he the passion of our
lives Truly the harvest is bountiful
the opportunity Is tremendous All
that Is needed Is helpers hence our
first duty Is to pray and our second to
accept his enduement for service
Jesus sends forth those whom be tells
to pray
Disciples Restricted
Following this Introduction we find
a list of the peculiarly chosen ones
who are to be his vice-gerents after
his passing and from verse 6 on we
find the charge he delivers to them
There Is In this charge first the note
of limitation verses 5 to 15 secondly
the note of warning verses 16 to 23
and thirdly the note of comparison
verse 24 to the end of this chapter
and Including 10:1 True in this les-
son we have only the first section the
limitation together with the final
words of the charge which In reality
amounts to a complete Identification
6t his apostles with himself
Notice the grouping of the names
of these disciples First the three
who formed that Inner circle Peter
James and John and with them An-
drew who first brought Peter to Jo-
bus (John 1:41) After these the
names are in groups of two and It
was as such they were afterwards
sent out Mark 6:7 So we today are
not alone Matt 28:20 Acta 1:8
Let us observe the restriction placed
upon these disciples They are to
minister not to the Gentiles nor even
the Samaritans though Jesus did both
during his life John 4:4 and Matt
16:22 but not so these whom he now
Is sending at least not till his work Is
oomplete and Israel has had Its day
of opportunity After Calvary this re-
striction is removed as we can see
from the book of Acts Of course
this restriction Is not Incumbent upon
us We must net however forget that
the removing of this restriction does
not remove our obligation to the Jews
The duty to evangelize the Jew Is still
incumbent upon the disciples of
ChrlBt
Another restriction Is tn the mes-
sage and the method The message
Is to he the good news of the king-
dom They are to “herald forth" that
It Is at hand That the Messiah has
come We are told that they are not
to force the acceptance of their mes-
sage That in Its proclamation they
shsl! receive cl! certs of opposition
That they must look well to their
own character they are to be as sheep
amidst wolves they shall be haled
before courts and potentates but such
persecution shall be a witness against
their persecutors for “bis sake" Yea
they shall be hated of all men and
compelled to flee from one village to
another but a wonderful reward shall
be theirs If they endure to the end
Bearing of Disciples '
What Is to be their method? First
It Is to be that of absolute depend-
ence upon the Father It Is true that
Paul labored with his own hands hut
at the same time he accepted the
bounty of the churches and urged that
such fruit might abound Phil 4:10
16 17 Jesus Is here teaching us the
other lesson that the "laborer Is wor-
thy of Mb' hire” The dlBclple Is to
heal The ministry of hospital nurs-
ing and godly physicians is a marvel-
ous fulfillment of this command Ob-
serve well the ministry of medical
missions There is no greater Inspi-
ration to the Christian church What
Is to be the bearing of these disciples?
It' Is to be that of dignity and sdlf-
respect see Luke 10:6
While It Is true the disciple Is to
offer and not to force his message
upon the people yet for Israel to re-
ject was Indeed a worse state than
that of Sodom and Gomorrah The
overthrow and scattering of the Jew-
ish nation Is a byword In history
As to the note of compassion we
should read all of this chapter
Remember the dignity of our work
Remember that we go In the name ot
One who came to "shew forth the Fa-
ther” Remember that as we thus
“forth-tell” and shew forth our Father
and that as we receive others and oth-
ers receive us we honor the Father
Social service is good but let It he
done in the name of a disciple and to
the glory of God the Father Such
Indeed Is the practical life of the
called ones who follow In the step
of him who came to minister and not
to bs ministered unto
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