12 THE CHURCH OFFICERS’ GAZETTE
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| Meetings
The Greatest Teacher of All— Jesus |
(Program for Week Ending March 7)
BY @. R. PATTIC
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Notes To JUNIOR SUPERINTENDENTS: Discuss with the boys
and girls what it means to be a teacher, See the dictionary
efinitions, but even these do not give terms adequately sug-
Josting the broad scope of tho teachings of the great Tcacher
about whom we are to study today, Help the Juniors to think
of themselves as teachers under the supervision of the greatest
teacher of all—Jesus. (Read notes to leaders in Senior pro-
gram, p. 8.)
A Picture of Jesus As He Taught, in a prominent place will
add interest, “Tho Boy Christ in the Temple,” by Hofmann,
or “Christ Blessing Little Children,” by Plockhorst, given as
Junior and Primary Reading Course awards, would be appro-
priate,
“Christ's First Eaperience As a Teacher,” may he told in
story form by one of your Juniors. Luke 2:40-52, See also,
“The Desire of Ages,” pp. 68-83.
For Roll Call, ask each Junior fo come prepared to give a
verse selected from the sermon on the mount, Matthew 5, 6, 7,
which he considers especially helpful to boys and girls. In
order to bring in helpful comment, you should have studied
“The Desire of, Ages,” pp. 298-314, or “Thoughts From the
Mount of Blessing,” including the preface,
The Begtitudes are one of the memory requirements for the
elass of Companions, If your Juniors ean complete this memory
work for today, repeat them in unison.
‘Suitable Songs: Nos. 258, 55, 481, in “Christ in Song.” The
tiny tots might give the motion song, “The Boat on Galilee,”
from “Sunshine Songs,” No. 25,
| Bible Symposium: The Great Teacher
I. Where did Jesus teach?
Mark 3:7, 8—By the seaside.
Matt, 5:1, 2—On the mountain.
Mark 2:1, 2—In the homes.
Mark 6:1, 2—In the synagogues.
2, Whom did He toach?
Matt. 5:1; Luke 11:1—Jis group of diseiples.
i John 4:1-26—A lone individual (story to be told
by a Junior).
Luke 4:16—Those congrogated in the synagogue.
| Matt. 15:10; Luke 13:1, 2—The multitnde,
3. How did He ofttimes teach?
Mark 4:1, 2, first clause—In parables.
+. How great d'd He hecome as a teacher?
John 7:46,
fi.l What was Jesus’ understanding of His work?
Luke 4:18 (to be given from memory).
G. R, ¥.
Like Jesus
I want to be like Jesus,
So lowly and so meek;
For He no eross or angry word
Wag ever heard to speak,
I want to be like Jesus,
i Obedient when a child;
Who kent His parents’ words, and was
So holy and so mild,
I want to be like Jesus,
So frequently in prayer;
Alone upon the mountain top,
He met His Father there,
I want to be like Jesus,
For T rever. never find
That he, though persecuted, was
To any one unkind.
I want to be like Jesus,
Engaged in doing good;
So that it may be said of me
That I’ve done what I could.
Alas! Pm not like Jesus,
But I will pray to he:
Kind Saviour, take my sinfnl heart,
And make ms more like Thee.
—Author Unknown.
The Most Wonderful Doctor
(Program for Week Ending March 14)
BY JULIA A. LELAND
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Noris TO JUNIOR SUPERINTENDENTS: “The voices of children
and youth .. . blended in thanksgiving and praise” for the
retiet from suffering given by our Saviour while here upon
earth. It is very fitting that we should become befor ac-
quainted with this great Healer of body and soul, .
Advertise.—The week before this program is to be given,
have your artistic member make a poster showing a sick bed
with pationt, by an open window, with a nurse standing near,
with the heading, “Who Is the Most Wonderful Doetor#”’
Give the date and hour of meeting, and an invitation for all
to eome and bring another, .
4 Quartet of Juniors could sing the verses of “The Great
Physician,” while everybody joins in on the chorus,
Dialogue: Who Is the Most Wonderful Doctor?
Jack: Hello, Jerry, it seems that we're the first ones here at
the Junior meeting. I just came from seeing Bob, and he’s
feeling vight spry after his operation yesterday. He said that
you'd come in to see him this morning on your way to Sabbath
school, and he was sorry he eouldn’t come with us fellows to
meeting this afternoon. Dr, Kind surely operated on his leg
in the right way, and Bob said the doctor told him le could
run and play as well as ever in a few weeks. That was a bad
break he had, though.
Jeray: Did you notice yesterday that before Dr, Kind oper
ated he knelt down and prayed? I never saw a doctor do that
before, aud when I saw that I knew Bob would get along all
right,
raex: You know what the doctor told me when I told him
he was a fine doctor to fix up Bob’s leg so casily? Hs said that
he didn’t deserve any credit for it,—the Lord had slipped that
bone back into place. He said that he wouldn't dare to operate
without asking the “most wonderful Doctor” to eontrol the
knife and his hands during the operation. He scemed to think
that Jesus was a real Person right by his side.
Jerry: That reminds me of something OI’ Bill, the garage
man, said the other day. I stopped in to look at his new ear,
and he wanted to know how Bob was getting along, and won-
dered if Dr. Blunt had operated. I told him that Dr. Kind
was the doctor. Then OI Bill smiled sort of aueer like, and
said that le’d trust Dr. Kind any time, beeause he had learned
from the “most wonderful Doctor in the world” I asked him
who that was, and where He was, He said that Satan makes
people sick hy being disobedient to the laws of conduct and
health, but Christ makes them well. Dr. Kind spends two or
three hours every day studying the Guidebook which this Great
Physician has left him, and asking Christ to help him in oper-
ating, That’s why Dr, Kind has never lost a case,
Jack: Well, when the most wonderiul Doctor was here on
earth, IIe spent several hours every day in prayer, asking His
Pather for help, and if Dr, Kind, who is such a busy man,
finds time to pray two or three hours a day and read his Bible,
surely we boys ourht to take an hour a day to study and pray.
JERRY: Jesus didn’t spend all His time in healing sick people
when He was here on earth; He spent much more {ime in just
showing people how to live and work and do things. I helieve,
Jack, that we could be real missionaries right here in [leity],
by taking Jesus with us in everything we do. Dr, Kind gets
bis help froin Him, and sce how he gives eredit to Jesus, and
that helps peonle. How can we help folks to realizo who ig
the most wonderful Doctor $”’
Jack: Here come Cecil and John. And they have their
Bibles, let each of us soe who can find a story of Jesus’ life
to show He is the “most wonderful Doetor.”
(After greetings are over, Jaek repeats this suggestion and
all join in. Jaek looks up and tells the story of the raising of
Lazorus, John 11:41-45. Jerry tells about blind Bartimsus
in Mark 10:46-52, - Cecil tells of casting out the devils from
the demoniac of Gadara. Mark 5:1-13, 18-20. And John tells
the story of the man sick of the palsy. Mark 2: 1-12, Ae the
boys sean and tell these stories briefly, they eomment upon
what Jesus, our Doctor, ean do for them, here—today.)
J. A. Lu:
Story: An Unprofitabhle Servant
“Poor Old Parkes,” he was generally called when we were
follow students at 8t. Chad’s Hospital, and by those who knew
him hest, “Poor Old Tom.” He was an original sort of fellow
—a queer mingling of the casual and the hard working. It
was several times more than hinted to him that he might he
wiser to adopt some other than the medical profession; but he
always shook his head. “No, mo! It’s the finest profession
in the world, and I'm going to stick to it.”
He had some lofty notions about a doetor’s work and the
See Junior Studies for Missionary Volunteer Week on pages 21-23.