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ILLUSTRATED SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
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MEMORY VERSE:—“Then saith only shalt thou serve.”—Matthew. 4:10.
~ CHRIST'S VICTORY
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by turning stones to bread and feed- ing Himself. Though hungry, . , ‘Man does not live by~ bread alone.”’—Matthew 4:3, 4.
Jesus unto him, Get thee hence Satan: fof it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy. God, and
refused, saying
‘Satan
The
ren wilderness,
retreat,
Fails In Intimidation
Lord alone, in a bleak and bar- weakened by prolonged fasting, confronted by the devil and all his temptations.
Djebel. Quarantal—‘‘the Moun- tain of che Forty Days’’ —tradi- tionally associated with Jesus’ though not far from Jericho, is one of the most for- bidding places in the Judean desert. It is composed of chalk and its dull white slopes are riv-
Scriptare—Matthew 4:1-11.
Satan challenges Jesus to prove God's protection by leaping from a temple parapet Jesus refuses, quoting a Scriptural passage forbidding trials of God.—Matthew 4:5-7.
Jesus
Satan offers the world and its riches, but is flatly and finally rebuked. He withdraws and angels appear to tend Jesus.—Matthew 4:8-11
Cross Bearing Theme Of Christian Teaching
By CARDINAL. MeGUIGAN
members of His Body.
The limbs must go the way of the head; the parts may not choose one way of going to the Father while the whole chooses
needs feeding, too, on the word of God and obedience to that word.
‘sugg®bted. that Christ should throw Himself from the Tem- ple parapet to test God's prom- ise tha: the angels in' charge of vine plan and purpose. Under His servants would not permit the guidance of the- Holy Spirit. , then to come to harm. Jesus went into the wii@ercess| The leap itself had no terrors to find the Devil; and the same | for Jesus. Had it been requ:red Spirit that urged Him to che! py God, He would'have done so conflict with Satain strengthened | without hesitation, and escab- Him for it and carried Him |}ished His divinity. immedistely. through it. Yet, He chose the other route, Satan's first temptation was {again turning away temptation an appeal to Jesus’ physical | with the Old Testament passage needs, namely His hunger. | specifically forbidding the trial, Bread is absolutely indispens- | or testing, of God. able for human existence, and = Satan, who probably wanted Christ had been without it for | no part of this temptation bit, 4 days... |anyway, is by now bewildered He could have satisfied His | by the futilixy of his attempts hunger in many ways, including |to inveigle the turning of stones into bread, | ing God's will. So he offers Him as suggesed by Satan, but He | the ultimate in material wealth
of fasting and soli-/ was suffering according to God's | and glory: all the kingdoms of
own program; and to break His | the world and all their riches if fast He would have had to dis- | He will but bow down and wor- obey God's will. So Jesus turned | ship him.
away the temptation with the| Even if Satan had the right oft-quoted
Old Testament state-| to trade the world and its riches ment that “man does not live | for one act. of adoration from by bread alone.” Man's spirit
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make. For Christ is the Kink of kings and Lord of lords; destin- ed to subdue all the kingdoms of this world to Himself, and
they will become the Kingdom
another.
What Christ endures, we en- dure; what Christ enjoys, we en- joy There is only chis differ- ence: He does it in His degree, we in ours.
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of the Lord Jesus Christ. | THE DIFFERENCE Additionally, in his proposed | Admittedly this difference is way to kingship over the na-|& Very considerable one and will tions of the world, Satan de-| Show itself in each’ separate ceives himself, for even an orci- | Person's experience. But it does nary man—le alone the Son of | not alter the principle which God Himself—though he were a| Our Lord Himself lays down in | slave to sin, would not will‘ngly | the words quoted above. } worship the devil. Christ also said ‘if any man, Though Christ’s answer came | Will come after Me, let him) from the Old ‘Testament word of | take up his cross... and I, if I be | God, He spoke to Satan in‘ the | lifted up, will draw all things to language of His authority,- an | Myself... He that takes not up authoricy created by the testing | his cross’ with Me is not worthy of His moral strength. He com- | of Me.” mands him, ‘‘Get thee hence,| Not only was cross bearing to Satan!’’ for, according to the | be the condicion of discipleship, Scriptures, only the Lord of God | it was to be able also the theme is to be worshiped and served. |of Christian preaching. St. Thus, repulsed in every temp- | Paul’s “I preach Christ crucii tation, Satan withdrew and/ fied can be extended to the angels appeared to minister to | whole Christian apostolate. the needs of the Son of God. Certainly whereever ~ Christ
Pope's Sermons Long Claims U.S. Cardinal
im Rome beat back ea vote, fa- vored by Cardinal Ritter and other prelates, on the religious liberty schema. He and the other cardinals took their case to the Pope but lost.
Following the Vatican defeat, the peppery litt’e prelate re. , | turned to St. Louis and told_a press conference: “We were very angry at the delaying tac- tle by a small—very small— minority of the bishops.”
The religious '‘iberty docu- mem proposed that each indivi- dual could worship God accord- ing to his own conscience even if he were “in error.” The church at present maintains of- ficially that Roman Catholicism is the only true faith
“I beiieve now that even those Catholics who opposed the v»te the
- Says. in- | “And I 4o not believe that the Pope supported the action of the more conservative bishops.”
When Cardinal Ritter. Albert Cardinal Meyer of Chicago and Paul-Emile Cardinal “Leger of Montreal took their plea for a vote to Pope Paul, the pontiff was at lunch.
POPE CORDIAL
“His Holiness was very cor- dial and gracious,”’ Cardinal Ritter recalls. ‘But,
ST LOUIS (AP) — Contro versy clings like clerical cloth to: Joseph Cardinal Ritter, but
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taken part person- in civil rights protests, and’ he adds: “I definitely support civil’ disobedience for a just
Cardinal Ritter doesn’t like fong sermons, saying they should be only 10-15 minutes— 20 at the maximum. ‘You know, Pope Paul VI is* really: long- winded,” he chiickles, ‘He often
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the vote on religious liberty. He
has been preached apart from His Crucifixion the preaching has came td nothing. In the same way, whereever Christians have thought to livé the Chris- tian life without reference to suf- fering, they have fai as Christians.
OBEDIENCE
This is not to say that the whole of Christ's teaching is con- tained in the single subject of the Cross. Nor is it to say that the Christians whole obligation
It is, however, to say that just as Christ is obedient unto deach, even to the death of the Cross, so we have to follow His exam- ple: fidelity and subnyission to be judged in terms of willing
is summed up in suffering. 7
6 The Guardian, Charlottetown, Sat., Jan. 8, 1965.
get stampeded into panic or de-; ‘nstead of ear there is trust, spair or rebellion or defeat. | instead o hopelessness. there is After ‘a while, sometimes aft-| hope, instead of revolt there is
er only a very long while, they| pace, instead of defeat there is find that the grace of swiffering | the sense of che triumph of produces the’ opposi- fect. grace..
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sacrifice.
First to be borne in mind is the doctrine of Divine Provid- ence. It would be the greatest mistake, for instance, to imag- ine that God wants us to lie down under every suffering that comes. ]
Neither stoicism (the bite-the- bullet - and- don't- cry out ap proach) not fatalism (the not because God- has decreed-it approach) is Christian perfec- tion.
The Christian ideal is shawn us in the Garden of Gechsem- | ane: Our Lord asking that the suffering might pass from Him | while at the same time being ready to bear it if this is the Fa- ther’s Will.
As followers of Christ, we have to-récognize that our pur- pose is a quite different one (from that of the materialist, the |
The Kirk of S. James
The Re nd T. H. B. Somers, M.A., S.T.M., Minister anist and Director of the Choirs Gledhill, M.A., B.Mus., A.R.C.C.0O. 9:45 a.m.—Church School and Minister's Bible Class 11:00 a.m.—Churchtime Nursery and Nursery School 11:00 a.m.—DIVINE SERVICE CONDUCTED BY . THE REVEREND ROGS A HOWARD, B.A., B.D. SERMON BY THE REVEREND T. H. B SOMERS, M.A., S.T.M. “GOD MAKES ALL THINGS NEW” (Revelation 21:5) “Anthem: “‘From the rising of the sun'’ (Ouseley)
“SERVE THE LORD WITH GLADNESS: COME ,BEFORE HIS PRESENCE WITH SINGING’
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hedonist, the worldly.
OUR AIM
Our aim is not to get through this life with the maximum of | pleasure and the minimum of suffering.
Our aim is to handle every-
SPRING PARK UNITED CHURCH
Dunkirk & Kirkwood Rev. Clayton C. Lewis, Minister Organist: Mrs. Ron H. Atkinson Director: Mr. Rey M, Smaliman
thing in this life, whether pleas- urable or painful, in such a way that it becomes matter for the love of God,
Pleasure accepted with with thanksgiving— it does not very much matter which. The
whichever it is with love.
Those who love God, as in- stinccively as others, flinch when the Cross comes along but they do not allow their flinching to upset their perspectives.
As soon as it becomes clear to them that this particular suf- fering is what God evidently wants suffered they stop flinch-
ing Their habitual state of sur- render to God's will has a
Cardinal Ritter said the Pope told them that “the delay would give the chance to formulate a stronger religious liberty doc- ument with no theological faults.”
“Most cardinals and most modern Roman Catholic theolo- gians support the idea of reli- gious liberty,” Cardinal Ritter says. ‘I think the schema will
the Vatican council by an over- whelming majority.”
One of the things Cardinal Ritter didn’t discuss with the Pope was the archbishop’s per- mission — and the resulting con- troversy—to allow an ecumeni- cal marriage in St. Louis.’
“We talked. about - several things -for the St. Louis arch- diocese but the Pope didn't
for 40 minutes.” said he did not believe he should ANGRY OFTEN inject himself into the action of Cardinal . Ritter’s anger |the College of Cardinals.”
did during the last session of Vatican council, tt was | heard around the world. That happened whe2 a move by some conservative cardinals
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