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Show TRAINING THE TWELVE International Sunday School Lesson for March 20, 1949 Memory Selection "Every one who asks receives, and he 'who seeks finds, and to him who knocks, it will be opened." Luke 11:19. At the time of this lesson, the twelve disciples had just returned from a preaching tour of the countryside and, full of enthusiasm for the things which they had witnessed, wit-nessed, they were anxious to tell Jesus "all things, whatsoever' what-soever' thev had done, and whatsoever they had taught." vice. Ah, that God's will were but done on earth as it is in the material heaven overhead, in perfect order and obedience, as the stars roll in their courses, without rest, yet without haste; as all created things, even the most awful, fire and hail, snow and vapor, wind and storm, fulfill ful-fill God's word, who hath made them sure for ever and ever, and given them' a law which shall not be broken. But above them; above the divine and wonderful order of the material universe, and the winds which are God's angels, and the flames of fire which are his messengers; messen-gers; above all, the prophets and apostles have caught sight of another divine and wonderful order of rational beings, of races Jesus, ever solicitous for i their welfare suggested ,that they go with him to a quiet place, where they could rest and have time for private consultations consulta-tions with him, for the popularity popular-ity of Jesus had grown to such a place that there was no time for leisure, or even time for them to eat. The rest and quiet was not for long, because the eager crowds seeing that the disciples had taken a boat4 and gone over to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, Gal-ilee, followed by land and soon arrived where the little group were. Jesus, moved with sympathy sym-pathy for the people, ministered unto their needs and preached unto them until the eventide and then followed the feeding of the five thousand. Probably realizing that their lives lacked the power that was evident in the life of Jesus and seeing the wonderful result which came to Jesus as he prayed, the disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray. While they, as devout Jews, had been required to recite daily 18 sets of prayers of considerable length, or, if hindered by press of business, a summary of them, the followers of Jesus realized that they did not know how to pray. In reply to their request, Jesus tells them how his followers follow-ers ought to pray. What we have come to call the "Model Prayer," or the "Lord's Prayer" is given more fully in the sixth chapter of Matthew. After warning against hypocrital prayer, pray-er, Jesus says, "When ye pray, say: 'Father'." This suggests a filial relationship of the believer with God, an intijnate father-son father-son consultation. "Hallowed by thy name" is a request that the name of God, his revelation, or our conception of God, is to be holy, reverenced, or so exalted, on earth as it is in heaven, j Charles Kingsley says if God's will were done on earth as in heaven, "it would abolish all the vice of the world, and therefore the misery which springs from |