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â-º «3m Sunday School Lesson LESSON VI CHALLENGING THE SOCIAL ORDER â€" Mark 2:13-22 Golden Text â€" “I came not to call the righteous, but sinners." Mark 2:17. The Lesson In Its Setting Time â€" Early summer, A.D. 28. Plate â€" The teaching recorded in verge: îli and the call of Matthew took plage along the shore of Galilee, pre- sumably near the city of Capernaum; the least given by Matthew in honor of Jems took place in Matthew’s home in the city of Capernaum, at the north- ern -(fid of the Sea of Galilee. “Aid he went forth again by the sea to the sower, the lily, the bird. He custom, when teaching, was to point to the sower, the liliy, the bird. He is m pale recluse emerging from a library to instruct, “And all the mutl- t udr resorted unto him, and he then taught them.” A Follower of Jesus "AM as he passed by, he saw Levi, the sen of Alphaeus.” This man is cer- tainly to. be identified with Matthew, which is the name he uses In his own Gospel in referring to himself (9.9). A liuHfoer of men in the New Testament had two names; generally one was used in speaking of their life before Christ found them, and the other of their life after they became disciples of Christ, though not exclusively so, “Sitting at the place of toll.” Matt- hew was a tax-collector, located in a city through which passed a great deal of traffic, long caravans carrying the rich goods of the Orient down into Egypt, and returning to Mesopotamia laden with Egypt’s treasures and agri- euHwral products. There was a tax awd duty upon all imports and exports and on all that was bought and sold, bridge-money, road-money, harbour- dues, town-dues, etc. The taxés of Ju- daea were levied by publicans in Ju- daea, and paid directly to the govern- ment, the officials being appointed by toe provincials themselves. The publi- cans were chosen from the native pop- ulation because they would know the Ways of the people better. For this position they had to pay their super- iors a certain sum, and everything @!fee they could squeeze out of the people would go into their pockets. Jesus of Nazareth, the carpenter s swu, knew Matthew the publican quite Well. Perhaps only too well. He had often been in Mathew’s tollbooth with Me mother’s taxes and with other poor people’s taxes. ‘‘And he saith unto him, Follow me.” Possibly Matt- hew had come to loathe the life ol: dis- honesty and blackguardism in which he lived. He had long heard of Jesus and had seen the mighty works he did. He had caught sight' of a higher and nobler life, and that vision had created such a disgust with his pre- sent existence, that, he loathed him- self. Jesus’ standard of life was one et; honesty, purity, a life free from all hypocrisy and insincerity, empty of graft, marked by kindness and unsel- fishness. . Now Matthew, himself, mands to know that, if he should ever accept this invitation, it would mean walking out of the tollbooth never to come back again, and giving up at once the profession which was his; liv- ing. “And he arose and followed him.” From this simple statement we see that Matthew had absolute confidence in the Lord Jesus Christ; he believed that the ideals and principles of Jesus were, though he was not living them, absolutely right, the very truth of God and he was a man of quick decision; he knew that there were things more important in life than money. Sitting At a Feast “And it came to pass, that he was sitting at meat in his house.” From Luke’s account we know that this feast was not in Jesus’ house, but in Matthew’s hôuse. “And many publi- cans and sinners sat down with Jesus and his disciples; for there were a great many, and they followed him.” ‘Publicant’ is a Latin word meaning the great officers who farmed the Ro- man revenue arid paid into the public treasury the sum agreed upon by con- tract with the government. They sublet the tax-gathering to agents, and these agents engaged local officers, the publicans of Scripture to collect the dues. The sinners who were here were citizens of Capernaum who pro- bably kept away from the synagogue more or less of the rabble of the town. A ‘disciple’ was fundamentally a learner, one who especially attach- ed himself to a teached and became one of his ardent pupils. Question His Conduct “And the scribes of the; Pharisees." The Pharisees were the sect that ad- hered. not only to the law, hut to the rabbinical interpretation of the law, which gradually formed a traditional Ski Wedding Party in Switzerland code by the side of the unwritten law. Their scribes, therefore, would he the rabbis of the party that specially be- lieved in the rabbis. “When they saw that he was eating with the sinners and the publicans, said unto his dis- ciples, How is it that he eatet.h and drinketh with publicans and sinners?” in the Orient, if two men vol- untarily broke bread with each other, dividing, say, a loaf between them, then they became, as it were, united, One with another, in friendship. Con- sequently when Jesus sat down and actually ate with publicans and sin- ners, the significance of it all was that he was willing to make them his friends. The Pharisees refused even to come in contact with the type of men gathered around Matthew’s table that day, and for Jesus not only to have contact with them, but to actual- ly sit down and eat with them, in- stantly marked him, in their sight, as one outside the law, unworthy of their confidence. “And when Jesus heard it,” The criticism of the Pharisees was not spoken to Jesus, hut to his disciples, but their words were uttered In a tone loud enough for Jesus to hear them. “He saith unto them, They that are Whole have no need of a physician, but they that are sick; I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.” Je- sus admits that the people with whom that day he is eating and drinking are ‘sick,’ i.e. they are ‘sinners.’ The Pharisees never lifted a finger to heal sinners of their sins; for this purpose had Jesus come, and by his so doing these Pharisees themselves would have to'acknowledge that .his right- eousness was far above theirs. Why They Fasted “And John’s disciples and the Phar- isees were fasting; and they come and say unto him, Why do John’s disciples anil the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but they disciples do not? The Pharisees fasted of their own accord twice in the week In their pretense of holiness. In not asking his disciples to fast Jesus of course in no way con- tradicts the law. From Matt. 6:17 we see that Jesus was not opposed to fasting as such, when done for the proper purpose and in the proper way. The disciples of John really asked for enlightenment. The Pharisees wanted to discredit Jesus, “And Jesus said unto them, Can the sons of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom Is with them? as long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.” John the Bap- tist himself (John 3:29) said that he was the friend of the bridegroom, and by saying this he designated Christ as the bridegroom himself. The bride- groom was now with them. It was no time for the disciples to mourn and to manifest their spirit of mourning. ‘‘But the days will come, when the bridgegroom shall be taken away fi om them. And then they will fast in that day.” The Greek word here translated ‘taken away’ implies a violent death. Jesus had previously hinted at his death and here he directly points to it, though it. will yet be two years before lie shall die on the cross. “No man seweth a piece of undress- ed cloth on an old garment; else that which should fill it, up taketh from It, the new from the old, and a worse rent is made.” Discard the old entire- ly, ançl accept not merely a bit of the new, but all the new in its complete- ness. Not a new patch, but a new robe. The old robe Is the Judaism of that period. It was useless to try to patch this up with a bit of the teaching or practice of Jesus. “And no man putteth new wine Into old wine-skins; else the wine will burst the skins, and the wine perish- eth, and the skins ; but they put new wine into fresh wine-skins.” The con- tainers referred to were made of the skin of the goat. When these were new, they were elastic, hut the old â- skins were dry and hard ; hence the folly of putting wine which would fer- ment into, skins which did not expand. The patch illustration gives the out- ward aspect of the truth that Christ- ianity cannot be tacked on to the old law. Where Christ comes, there comes change; old forms and ceremonies will not suit. Old things pass away and all tilings become new. Even man becomes, a new creature. Life must be different where Christ is found. The new faith, the new attitude to God, will require new forms. To confine the new in the bonds of the old is certain to mean trouble, per- haps disaster and loss. Having been wed in the snow in the Engadine, Switzerland, this couple skis through the arch provided by the Wedding party. â-  ___ ________________ Movie JSJ * > Radio ÜÉL By VIRGINIA DALE ^ These are stirring times in radio, motion pictures and newsreels for all three have reached a new high peak of achievement. With the ‘Toscanini symphony concerts the National Broadcasting company have deserved- ly won the greatest audience response and the highest tributes from, music critics, composers and musicians. Infinitely less pretentious, but gen- erous in the array of public idols it introduces is Repub- lic’s “Merry Go Round.” Gangsters led by Leo Carrillo take over a recording company, and then the fun and noise begin. Mixed up in the proceedings are Joe DiMaggio, base- ball star, Gene Au- try and his cowboy band, Kay Thomp- son and her radio chorus, Cab Callo- way and Ted Lewis and their bands, singing Phil Regan and Tamara Geva. The -story never tries to make sense, just goes jocularly along its way with blasts of music from crooning to hi- tie-ho. expert modeler In clay, a crack swim- mer, a fair swordsman, and a topnotch golfer ........ Harriett*' Widmer, femin- ine emcee on “Cabin at the Cross- roads” on the NBC coast-to-coast net- work, was recently complimented oil her negro dialect work by no less an authority than Roark Bradford. DiMaggio May Know Secret Of Keeping Fruit Process Used By Winnipeg Man Does Not Indde Chemicals Or Freezing In the field of fictional motion pic- tures “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” Walt Dis- ney’s first feature- length fantasy, is a glittering and shin- ing milestone. Any day now, Dopey, the little dwarf who ne- ver learned to talk because he had no- thing to say, will take his place in your hearts along Walt Disney with Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. 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Fibber McGee is an. inventor of numerous household gadgets, including a device which enables Molly to open the ice- box door with a foot, lever when she approaches it with loaded platters in both hands ..... Frances Carton, the leading woman in “Attorney at Law,” is the granddaughter of John Carton, first man ever to print the poems of James Whitcomb Riley ......... First Nighter -star, Les Tremayne, is an Hope that a retired farmer of Win- nipeg has hit upon a process of pre- serving fruits and vegetables so that they will retain life and freshness for a period of months, without freezing or without use of chemicals, was ex- pressed to the concluding session of the Fruit and Vegetable Jobbers’ As- sociation convention at London by Harold Smith, Winnipeg. Mr. Smith, who said he thought this man, Joseph McCandless, native of the British Isles “might have something,” point- ed out that if true this method might greatly increase the use of Canadian grown products, making many impor- tations from the south unnecessary. Mr. Smith said he did not know what the process was. But he said it would be Investigated and assured the convention that it found sound, no-ef- fort to keep it out of use would be tolerated. The Stars And You V y â-º;< 0 >ÿ By A. R. WEIR WHAT THE STARS FORETELL FOR THOSE BORN FEBRUARY 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9' and 10 ON Aquarius is the sign under which those whose birthdays are 'ahiwa wprp hnrn TIipsp npn> nip Via. vp 1c in <rL sweet dispositions, are B â€" J> Fish have sensations of discomfort, but their pain nerves are not devel- oped to as great a degree as in high- er forms of life. For this reason, they suffer very slightly when hooked or speared. 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