The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, February 11, 1949, Image 7
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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