Vol. 23. No. 3 SYDNEY, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1919 Christian Hope
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Segistered at tie* &mere rem Vol. 23. No. 3 '411tee, fiydney, for trassalsette SYDNEY, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1919 4 Pest as a llimpapm. Christian Hope My back to the smiters, 'and My ourselves. Think of it : In this gen- Mighty is the foe advancing ; cheeks to them that plucked off the eration we are called to be the lead- Courage ! brother, join our band. hair ; I hid not My face to shame and ers, teachers, of God's people. We We are children who are marching spitting." Who is speaking here ?— are to lead them into the kingdom of To a far-off better land, For the light of hope is shining, Jesus. And in verse 4 He says : God at last. We are to lead them And it makes the pathway bright ; " The Lord God bath given Me the in devotion, in consecration, in victory Love and faith will always help us tongue of the learned, that I should over personal sin, in the subduing of In the hour of darkest night. _ know how to speak a word in season every passion of the flesh, in the sub- Let your sad heart not be troubled, to him that is weary ; He wakeneth jection of our will to the will of God Gentle sister, do not fear, morning by morning, He wakeneth We are to lead the people to God. But believe that God will help you, For He gave His Son so dear ; Mine ear to hear as the learned." And we cannot teach these things to Just to lead us on to friiedom Now Jesus studied with a purpose. others save as by the grace of God we Was our loving Saviour sent. He wanted to know how. He stud- are first taught them in our own ex- Courage, sister, we must follow ied to know how. The revised ver- perience, being taught of God. In the pathway which He went. sion reads, " The Lord God hath given Jesus knew that if He was to do Soon the weary march will finish; Me the tongue of them that Until then we cannot rest. the work He was called to do in this There's a narrow pathway leading are taught." Sometimes we think wicked world as the Saviour of men, To the mansions of the blest, of Jesus as one who never needed to be He must first of all be taught, and so There's a love-light always shining taught. He was the great Teacher, He said : " The Lord God hath given From a lighthouse on the shore ; and almost unconsciously we feel that Sin and sorrow cannot enter, Me the tongue of one that is taught, There temptation is no more. Jesus knew everything just naturally, that I might know how to speak a —Will Wild. knew how to do the work without word in season to him that is weary. any study or effort. Well, if that He wakeneth morning by morning, Jesus Christ, the Model for the had been the case with Jesus, then in He wakeneth Mine ear to hear as Christian Worker* one thing at least He would not have one that is taught." been like unto His brethren. But I Morning by morning, day by day, LET us consider Jesus as the am glad that Jesus is the model we must learn these lessons. We model for the workers. He is the learner, model student, for we, too, cannot get so much in a blessed con- model for those in every de- need to know bow to learn the right ference like this that we can go out partment of the work. He was methods. and live on the aggregate good we the model preacher ; even His enemies Jesus wanted to learn how ; and have received. To-morrow we must said, "Never m an spake like this man." He studied, He was, taught, that He have more, and the next day more. He was the model for the teacher ; might know how. He emptied Him- Morning by morning Jesus was Nicodemus said, " Master, we know self and came down into this world as wakened to be taught, that that day that Thou art a teacher come from man, subject to all the infirmities of He might go out and teach others. God." He was the model for the human flesh ; He had to study. We He so wanted to help that He studied. medical missionary worker ; He went read that He increased in stature and Morning by morning as He awakened, about doing good, ministering to the in wisdom, and in favour with God He was a student studying in the physical needs of the people. and man. He grew up just as any school of His Father, so that He But let us think especially of child grows up, and He increased in might know how to help the weary Jesus as the model student, the model knowledge and wisdom. How 2—By ones that day. The disciples came learner. In Isa,. 50 :4 we catch a studying. First of all He was taught once to Jesus and said—was it, glimpse of the student life of Jesus. so that He might know how to teach "Master, teach us how to preach" ? We know that it is Jesus speaking others. (Voices, " To pray.") " Teach us how through the prophet in this chapter. It is the same with us, in every de- to pray ; " that was it. They had In the sixth verse we read : " I gave partment of the work; we cannot caught the secret of Jesus' teaching Talk given during the late Union Conference held at Avondale. teach others what we have not learned and of Jesus' preaching. They had 2 AUSTRALASIAN RECORD 3/2/19 seen Him working among the people, Lord God gave it to Him,—gave yourself. It is for you, too." And I teaching, ministering, helping, carry- Him the tongue of one that had been drank for myself. 0, it was good ! ing their burdens getting under the taught that He " might know how It was good ! And I knew the loads that were bowing down hearts. to speak the word in season to him water of life was fresh that morning, They had seen Jesus working to the that is weary." for I had been drinking for myself. limit of human endurance, until He And He found so many weary My dear fellow workers, cares was weary and worn,—just at the ones. You remember the description come, and perplexities come, and point where we get nervous and in " Desire of Ages " of this world at tangles come ; we get nervous, we irritable, just at the point where we the time when Jesus came. Men get strained, and things get dry and make many of our mistakes; then staggered hopeless, the burden press- hard. 0, let us drink for ourselves. those disciples saw Jesus turn aside ing them down, a sad, dreary -proces- Every day let us be careful to come alone, and they heard His voice there sion of lost humanity, when Jesus from God to the work ; and then we, in prayer to His Heavenly Father as came. He had to know how to help with Jesus, shall know how to help anew He went into the school of His them. The scribes and Pharisees with a word him that is 'weary. Father and submitted Himself to be could give long exhortations and Jesus knew how ; but it was not taught ; and the apostles saw Him make long prayers, but they did not without effort ; He had studied. He come back from these seasons with help the people, and the people needed says in the next verse, " The Lord the Father fresh for His work, with help. And Jesus said, " Father, You bath opened Mine ear, and I was new help for souls. must teach Me how." Morning by not rebellious, neither turned away With the new day He had new morning He was awakened to be back." It shows that in that experi- blessings to give out, and they taught, that He might go out and ence of learning there were some understood where it was that He re- help people. And what a blessed hard lessons to learn. You know, ceived the help that He passed on to time when He came, was it not ? even though He was our Saviour yet others. They caught the secret of How He did lift the burdens and let " learned He obedience by the things His wonderful teaching, as they saw the oppressed go free ! that He suffered." The Captain of how He turned aside to be taught That is the work for to-day. our salvation had to learn just as we Himself that He might go out and Everywhere are burdened hearts, dis- have to learn. But He was a good help those that were weary ; and they couraged souls, people who feel that student. Sometimes in our experi- came and said, " Master, teach us they would like to go the right way ence when we have come to a hard how to pray. " Teach us the secret but they have not the strength. We place we have turned back, or we that is yours. Teach us how to must have in our own experience the have skipped that lesson. We have come to the day's task with a fresh victory that lifts the load, that brings shrunk from the hard experience. experience of blessing and teaching courage, and we must go out and Jesus did not do that.