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Show JESUS' MINISTRY TO HUMAN NEEDS International Sunday School Lesson for March 13, 1949 Memory Selection "I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly. ' ' John 10 :10. Three times we are given records of Jesus rescuing a human soul from death. In the case of the 12-year-old daughter of the ruler of the synagogue of Capernaum death had just come. The body of the widow's son of Nam was met in the funeral procession. When Lazarus was resurrected, he had been dead in the grave four days. As in the case of his less striking miracles, all of "these were accomplished without any great external display of emotion or power. be done with this world of ours if its human inhabitants would only believe. Improvements and reforms are delayed and often prevented by the unbelief of those who are too quick to conclude con-clude that existing conditions cannot be changed. How much better would our world be if commerce, politics, diplomacy, and all affairs could be reshaped by great souls inspired with a trusting faith. Lacking such a j faith we will still endure the evil results of greed in business, selfishiness and privilege in government, gov-ernment, hatred and hostility between be-tween nations all because we lack faith. Notwithstanding the importance import-ance of the mission of Jesus and the time limit of only three years in which to plant the foundation for his doctrines, Jesus was never too busy to tarry and administer ad-minister help wherever he encountered en-countered humanity In distress. No matter how urgent his business busi-ness of the moment was, as, for example, when he was hurrying to the bedside of the daughter of Jairus, he stopped long enough to plant true faith in the heart of the woman who had shown her belief in him by her act. It was said of Jesus that he "went about doing good." That was his life, and he was never too busy or too engrossed with his affairs to accept an opportunity to do good. Two of the greatest emotions of humans are pride and love. As a ruler of the synagogue Jairus was doubtless proud of his position and religion. Yet, in the hour of sorrow and need he forgot himself far enough to humble himself before the wandering teacher who was regarded re-garded as a heretic by the ecclesiastical ec-clesiastical authorities and the priests. Love for his daughter overcame pride for his caste, and Jairus was very richly rewarded. reward-ed. Many people today are preventing pre-venting spiritual blessings by clinging to a false pride and dignity. dig-nity. In the case of the woman who cured herself by surreptitiously touching the robe of Jesus we have two other human emotions in conflict. In this case the woman, practically an outcast from society because of her malady, mal-ady, struggled with her fear to presume enough to approach the great teacher, yet she had greater great-er faith, which persuaded her that by doing so she would be cured. Jesus did not let her go, however, without making it plain to her that it was faith in him and not any wonder-working qualities of his garments that benefitted her. In both of these cases we see the result of great faith. For Jesus to accomplish his miracles mir-acles there seems to have been a necessity of faith in him. When the messengers came to Jairus saying his daughter was dead and it was useless for him to trouble the teacher any more, Jesus quickly intervened lest the faith that had brought Jairus to him might be weakened, and said, "Fear not, only believe." The woman who was cured likewise like-wise possessed an energetic faith in the power of Jesus. Without faith, Jesus performed no great works. He marveled at the unbelief un-belief of Nazareth, his childhood child-hood home, and because of this condition performed no mighty works there. We often wonder what might |