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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. "do something about the rear end of the GARAGE-ITi SO WEAK IT BARELY STOPS ME.*" "DON’T ANSWER THAT DAD. IT’S ONLY ALVIN. HE CALLS ABOUT THIS TIME AND LETS IT RING ONCE SO I'LL KNOW HE’S THINKING OF ME!" MUTT AND JEFF By Bud Fisher GIVE UP/^ LOOKS LIKE I’LL HAVE TO DO THE WORK MYSELF/ MAYBE HE'S HIDING IN THE CELLAR/ JITTER * By Arthur Pointer SUNNYSIDE by Clark S. Haas VIRGIL By Len Kleis GRANDMA By Charles Kuhn YOU DELIVER MY NOTE.'I HANK, AN' I’LL HAVE A BIO HUNK READY FOR YA WHEN YOU GET BACK- SCRIPTURE: Mark 2:1—3:#. DEVOTIONAL READING: Luke 11: 37 46. Inevitable Critics Lesson (or February 13, 1949 O NCE UPON a time, so the old story goes, there was a cha meleon, a lizard that can change its color to match whatever it stands on. They put him on a black cloth and he turned black; on a red ta blecloth and he turned fed; on a green billiard table and he turned green. Then some mean person set him down on a Christmas necktie Dr. Foreman —and the poor little thing exploded. This is a parable oi the person who tries to please ev erybody. It can’t be done—and it ought not to be tried. “Woe unto you,” said Jesus, “when all men speak well of you.” Jesus Christ himself did not please every one. Not even a per fect personality can be 100 per cent popular. Not that Jesus enjoyed rubbing people the wrong way. There was nothing perverse about him. He was deeply, sincerely friendly, and to lose any friendships must have been more painful for him than for us who are so selfish. Nevertheless he did make enemies, he had his critics; and bis followers may expect no better. • * * Misunderstanding Motives NE POINT on which Jesus met terrific opposition was_his at titude toward the Sabbath. Repeat edly he or his disciples would do things on the Sabbath which (as Jews then understood the law) were quite wrong. It was just that sort of thing that Jesus ran into, more than once. His enemies misunder stood, or at least misrepresent ed, his motives. They claimed that he was "blas phemous,” that is, that he was delib erately making light of God’s law. The truth was that he was acting by God’s highest law—the law of love. Helping people In need was more Important than keeping the letter of the Sabbath law. Jesus’ example may help us here. If our best motives are misunderstood, we have a right to explain ourselves, as Jesus did; but we are not oblig ed to change our ways to please those who persist in misunderstand ing us. • • * Stepping Ont of Bounds W HEN Jesus healed the man with the palsy. It was not the cure his critics found fault with, it was his first saying “Your sins are for given.” "Who can forgive sins but God alone?” they said. In short, the Pharisees thought — some of them perhaps sincerely—that Jesus was stepping out of bounds, pre tending to do something that he had no right to attempt and no power to accomplish. Now Jesus did have both the right and the power to say what he said to that sick and sinful man. And he made no apolo gies for going beyond the limits his critics set for him. So we too may sometimes be ac cused of "biting off too much,’’ of going beyond our powers or capac ities. Our critics may be right, you know, though Jesus' critics never were. But how often they are wrong! If Lincoln had listened to his critics he never would have left his backwoods law office; they did not think him fit to be president If the Wright boys had listened to their neighbors, they never would have flown an airplane, for who would have thought a couple of bi cycle mechanics could do what so many scientists said was impossi ble? Are you sure you are right? Then go ahead, in God’s name! • • * The Company Yon Keep J ESUS’ friends got him into trou ble, as Mark shows us. For one thing, some wer£ the "wrong sort” like Matthew the tax-collector. Then his friends had an unconventional kind of religion, they actually seemed happy about it instead of gloomy like some of John’s disci ples. And to make matters worse, his friends “broke” the Sabbath laws much as Jesus did. All in all, Jesus’ critics complained that Jsus’ friends were a bad lot, and they judged him by the company he kept. But Jesus knew his friends better than his enemies did. He never gave np or loosened a single friendship on his crit ics’ account. Some of his friends gave him up, but he nev er gave them np. (Copyright by the International Coun cil of Religious Education on behalf of 40 Protestant denominations. Released by WNU Features.) 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