Thursday, March 11, 1937
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
Deputy of the Devil
By BEN AMES WILLIAMS
WNU Service.
Copyright, Ben Ames Williams.
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UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
UNDAY I
CHOOL Lesson
S
By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST.
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
© Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for March 14
JESUS PRAYING FOR HIS DIS
CIPLES
him; he turned on his side to face Dan. She saw Professor Carlisle
LESSON TEXT — John 16:5-7; 17:14-26.
her, to speak to her
But she on the veranda, and went out to
—12—
GOLDEN TEXT — That they may be
him.
He nodded, humbly, accepting was not here.
one. even as we are one. John 17:22.
He heard Nancy’s halloo: "Are
“This is better, isn’t it?” she said
PRIMARY TOPIC —When Jesus Prayed
this; and a little later they returned
tor His Friends.
you
all
right.
Father?
”
happily.
indoors.
JUNIOR TOPIC—Did Jesus Pray tor
He shouted: "Why yes, of course
“Sunshine after rain,” he assent Me?
Doctor Greeding that night was I am.”
ed. "Nothing more beautiful.” Then
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—
unable to sleep, but lay with his
“I thought I heard you call.”
he asked slowly: "Where is your Jesus Praying for Us.
eyes open, staring at the ceiling.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC—
“No. I’m all right.”
father?”
Dawn found him with burning
Unity with God and One Another.
He
could
see
Nancy
standing
by
She
looked
out
across
the
lake.
eyes. He went to swim, and found
springboard, looking toward “He swam over to the other shore,
in the water peace and content the
him; his eyes devoured her for a I expect,” she replied.
The assurance that someone is
ment for a while. But later, after moment
more. Then he swam on,
praying for us is an anchor in a
He
said,
in
mild
surprise:
“
That
’
s
he had dressed again, the sultry toward the
other shore.
time of storm. Many a man or
a long swim.”
heat settled down once more, smoth
Nancy watched him, his head a
woman has been on the point of giv
“
Oh,
he
often
does
it,
”
she
as
ering and stifling him. He relieved dark
dot on the lake’s mirror sur sured him.
ing
up in despair, of yielding to
Mary Ann’s vigil by Dan’s side, face, and she watched the approach
temptation, and has been carried
and saw that Dan was better. In ing shower. A veil of rain ob
He looked at her thoughtfully. through to victory by the interces
fection must almost certainly have scured the farther hills and swept “You’re not — concerned about sion of a godly mother or father.
set in before now, if it were to be down to the lake and darkened the him?” he inquired.
Just to know that someone prays
feared at all; and Mary Ann point water and raced toward her. It
She smiled, shook her head. “Not for us is to find strength for the
ed this out.
was a deluge, hiding everything. in the least. He’ll swim back when knees that have weakened and for
“His temperature’s normal," she She saw it reach her father and he’s ready. I’m sure he’s perfectly the heart that has all but failed.
whispered. Dan was still asleep. conceal him from her eyes; and she all right!” And she went into the
Infinitely more precious is the
“I think the danger of complica stayed awhile there on the wharf, house to be with Dan.
truth of our lesson, that the Lord
tions is past."
welcoming the cool downpour on her
Professor Carlisle stayed there on Jesus himself prayed for each one
Doctor Greeding nodded. “I think body, holding up her face to the the veranda for a while alone, look of his followers. John 17:20 makes
so,” he agreed. “It’s only a mat sweet rain, opening her arms as ing out across the water; but Doc clear that while he prayed for those
ter of nursing now, of avoiding though to a lover.
tor Greeding did not reappear. So who were with him at the time, he
complications.”
The shower continued for half an presently the Professor nodded, as also included in his petition all who
“I’ll see to that," she promised. hour; but long before it ended, she though in assent to some remark, ! since that day have come to be
and left him. He recognized the was almost chilled ; end she went up as though accepting the explanation lieve on him because of their testi
fact that his task was done, that to the house to dress. She was in of some matter which for a while mony.
Dan would live.
Before entering upon his inex
her room when the rain ceased, had puzzled and disturbed nim, and
But with this miracle accom suddenly; the shower moved away his brow cleared, and trouble left pressibly precious and beautiful
prayer, the Lord gave to his fol
plished, his life was left complete down the lake withdrawing like a his eyes.
It was in fact impossible, in the lowers a promise which was of vital
ly empty now; and at the thought, curtain, like a wall.
It had swept away the hot, stale, bright radiance of the sunshine, to importance.
great weariness oppressed him. He
who all night had been unable to stifling air which had oppressed believe that in this world so newly
I. A Promise (16:5-7).
sleep, suddenly surrendered to deep them for so long. Then suddenly washed and cleansed, any dark
Persecution is coming, and Jesus
slumber. He went to the couch in the sun shone, wetly, smilingly; the blemish could remain . . .
will not be with them to meet the
No trace of Doctor Greeding ever trying hour. He is about to enter
the billiard-room and lay down; and world was washed bright and clean
when presently Nancy came and and beautiful. Nancy had a great was found. He had vanished as if upon that final scene in his earthly
found him there, she covered him sense of well-being, of security. She withdrawn by some superior power life, which will bring it to its end
over tenderly. He slept till almost came downstairs.
after he had served his purpose.
in “a place called the place of a
Mary Ann and Jerrell were with |
(THE END)
noon, while the others moved quiet
skull.”
ly so that he might not be dis
How then can he say to them that
turbed.
it is expedient for them that he go
Almost
Impossible
to
Create
Synthetic
And he woke to peace, a content
away? Because he will send the
and ordered mind . . .
Comforter, the Holy Spirit. Students
Diamonds;
Rubies,
Sapphires
Not
Difficult
Dan was fretful that afternoon.
of the Scriptures recognize in the
The heat irked him, and returning
Holy Trinity an inscrutable mys
While it is almost impossible to little different in color from the real tery, but receive the teaching of the
strength gave him sufficient ener
gy to resent it. Nancy was dis create synthetic diamonds, which sapphire.
Bible concerning the ministries of
The success that followed the the three persons in the one God
tressed by his mood, till Mary Ann are pure carbon, the making of ru
bies and sapphires, two oxides of making of artificial rubies and sap head with glad and thankful hearts.
jubilantly reassured her.
present far less diffi- phires turned the attention of manu It is a subject which cannot be en
“It’s the best possible sign,” she corundum
facturers to emeralds — another tered into here, but which richly
said. “When a sick man begins to culty.
As far back as 1877, two French high-priced stone. Powdered beryl rewards careful study. Suffice it
be sulky and bad-tempered, you
may know he’s well on the road to men, Fremy and Feil, met with such (emeralds being silicates of beryl) to say that while the Holy Spirit
success that a portion of one of their was treated by the Verneuil pro has always been active in the earth,
recovery.”
So Nancy was amused. The early crucibles containing ruby flakes is cess, chronic oxide being added to he did enter upon a ministry of a
afternoon she spent with Dan—Doc on exhibition in the Natural History color the stone green, and good special nature when Jesus had gone
tor Greeding was in his room, and Museum of South Kensington, says a imitations of true emeralds were to be with the Father.
The essence of the work of the
she and Dan found themselves in writer in Tit-Bits Magazine. The made, each one even being provided
volved in one of those arguments old method of making rubies was to with a flaw, since it is almost im Holy Spirit is to glorify Christ (16:
without either a beginning or an fix together a number of particles possible to find a genuine emerald 14), and in so doing he convicts the
unbeliever of sin and guides the
end, which may arise between two of natural rubies. This method de that is flawless.
When first put on the market the believer into all truth. The mark of
people who are close to one anoth stroyed a great deal of the natural
er. He was flushed with something color, so a little bichromate of po synthetic rubies fetched over $30 a a Spirit-filled Christian is that he
like anger when Mary Ann returned tassium was added, and this largely carat, but this rapidly fell to $7.50, permits the Spirit to glorify Christ
and found them so, and Nancy said revived it. In 1904 Verneuil invented and is now $1.25 and even less. This in him and in his service for God.
II. A Prayer (17: 14-26).
laughingly:
a system whereby he made drops great difference in price between the
When one enters the sacred
"Mary Ann, you stay with him for that after cutting vied with the best real and the synthetic stones makes
substitution a great temptation. Let precincts of John 17 he feels that
a while. He’s unbearable! I m go natural rubies.
By Verneu’l’s methods—in use al your motto be, “Look before you he has come into the holy of holies,
ing swimming." She spoke to Dan.
and that he would not only loose
“Don’t you wish you could? It will most unaltered today—the manu buy.”
Paste gems have no relation to the shoes from his feet, but also
be sc beautifully cool."
factured stone has the same density,
the synthetic stones that are de stand silent in worship and in
Dan growled, hall angrily: hardness, refraction and other scribed
here.
praise. He prayed for me—for me!
“That’s right, make it tough for characteristics as the real stone.
Each student of this lesson will
Paste, derived from the Italian
me Go on, get out of here!”
Careful examination under a lens,
to enter fully upon the mean
She kissed him on the forehead. however, shows the synthetic ruby “pasta,” food, is a plastic material wish
of these words as he re-reads
“I’m going!”
to have a number of tiny air bub that can be made to resemble pre ing
cious stones, but in appearance only. them, in the illumination of the
“Kiss me right,” he demanded. bles beneath the surface. The suc It is generally composed of glass, Holy Spirit. May I suggest three
cess
attending
the
manufacture
of
“Don’t peck like that.”
and the resultant stone is so soft things which Jesus sought for His
“You don’t deserve it,” she pro rubies tempted their makers to try that it can be scratched with ordi children?
tested. “But—there.” And she left to produce sapphires. At first they nary window glass.
1. Consecration (w. 14-16). No
could not get the color right; the
him with Mary Ann.
Imitation paste diamonds need no one is Christ’s child without regen
blue
tended
to
form
blotches
instead
She swam, then lay on the wharf,
coloring matter; for rubies, sap eration, but, sad to say, there are
half-asleep. The afternoon was sti of an even hue. Once again Ver phires, emeralds or amethysts suit many children in his blessed house
flingly hot; but to the northwest, neuil came to the rescue, and he able metallic oxides are fused with hold who are not obedient, not spir
clouds were banking, and she heard succeeded in producing a stone very the paste.
itually well and strong. They are in
a far roll of thunder, and thought
the world, they must be here, but
a shower was near, and was grate-
alas too many of them want to
fu for the approach of this relief.
be as much like the world as pos
After a while she saw her father
sible. He prayed that we might be
come down to the beach and go into
kept from evil, separate from the
the water, and she called ironi-
world, kept by God even in a world
Unexpectedly,
she
kissed
him
with
clinging
cally: “Beautifully cool, isn’t it?”
that hates him and his truth.
warmth . ..
“Great,” he agreed
He said:
2. Sanctification (w. 17-21). This
“I believe there is a shower com-
means to be set apart and cleansed
ing!"
THE BRIGHT STAR BECAME STEADFAST!
for God’s service. How is it ac
complished? Through the truth. His
She nodded, and watched him
It zily, through half-closed eyes. He
Word is the instrument of sanctifi
swam slowly, strongly, out into the
cation. Little wonder that there is
lake. He often did this; often swam
so little holiness of living when
from the island to the mainland
the Word has so little opportunity
half a mile away. That he should
to touch and cleanse the life.
do so now was not remarkable; but
This separated life brings God’s
she called out to him: “Are you
people into that unity of love—all
in Christ, and he in the Father—all
going across?”
bound up in that “one great bundle
He did not answer, probably did
of love.”
not hear her. She thought of join
ing him for the long swim, but was
3. Glorification (w. 22-26). When
too much at ease.
Jesus came into the world in the
flesh he voluntarily laid aside the |
The clouds yonder came racing
glory which was his, and which still
toward them a dark wall streaked
Mary Schumann
is his, and which he prays that we
now and then by lightning's flame.
may behold. “But we all, with open
She watched these flashes, thrilling
face beholding as in a glass the |
to the beauty of them, waiting ar
dently for the slashing of rain across
glory of the Lord, are changed into
A glowing love story
the same image” (II Cor. 3:18).
her body.
that bursts with life
Thus in beholding his glory we
Doctor Greeding swam straight
also may enter into his likeness.
away from shore, yet not with any
and vitality
purpose in his mind save to commit
tale of a great dis*
City Versus Country
himself to the embrace of the cool
It cannot escape even a casual
water. Once or twice he paused,
appointment that was
floating on his back, utterly re-
observer that the Bible begins with
culminated by a new I '
laxed. resting. The island, the
a scene in the garden to end in a
world, was far away. Floating thus,
city: one may be “nearer God’s
happiness, a new
heart in a garden than anywhere
he thought, suddenly, that Myra
bright star that re
else on earth”—but certainly “the
was here beside him; and this was
absurd, because Myra had never
dwelling-place of God is with men.”
mained steadfast!
been a strong swimmer, never ven
tured far from shore. Yet it seemed
Giving and Taking Orders
to him that she was here, smiling
He who will not accept orders has
tenderly, her eyes full of the sub
no right to give them; he who will
lime and forgiving love of which on
not serve has no right to command ;
Starts
in
the
Next
Issue
of
This
Paper!
ly women are capable.
he who cannot keep silence has no
It was treacherously beautiful and
right to speak —Hubbard.
comforting to think of her close to
CHAPTER X—Continued
Bright
JI
Experiences of Life—
Their Significant Interest and
Some Ways to Meet Them
HE journey through life is
filled with experiences from
the time we are born to the day
we die. Without them life would
be dull and uninteresting. The
more experiences are crowded in
to our lives the fuller and more
interesting they become.
When we are in the midst of
events that have elements of dan
ger or when they are of momen
tous proportions with matters at
There is no age limit to the series
of experiences.
Learning by Experience.
The benefits of our life experi
ences come through our way of
taking them, and on our wisdom
of decisions when these require
our consideration. If we think of
ourselves only we become selfish,
hard, and difficult. If we decide
with a larger vision of results, and
of the best good to others as well
as to ourselves, we become fine
and strong characters. By the ex
ercise of good judgment and by
making the best of things we
learn to develop well by experi
ences.
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"Quotations"
—A—
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There are two insults which no
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the doubly impertinent assertion that
he has never known trouble.— Sin
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I prefer the happiness of our un
organized imperfection to the gloom
of organized perfection in other
countries.— Mayor F. II. LaGuardia.
There is no reason why education
against crime should not be a pri
mary factor in our common schools.
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War is not an act of God, but a
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