anaen secant , Naaman ILLUSTRATED SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON Scripture—II Kings 5:1-27.
Dusrduied by Kung Feancems Sputicne.
Naaman, a highly respected Syrian general. suffers from leprosy. His wife's young Israelite maid believes the prophet Elisha can cure him -with God's help.—Il Kings 5: 1-7,
MEMORY VERSE: “But- without faith it is impossible ‘to pl is a rewarder of them that diligently seek hin."—-Hebrews 11:16.
MAID USES HER FAITH
God Uses Unexpected
(Editor's note: The follow. tng material relating to to- morrow's Sunday School les- son is based on copyrighted outlines produced by the Di- vision of Christian Education, National Council of Churches
submit to
effected. Grateful, Naaman urges rich gifts upon Elisha, who refuses them. —TII Kings 5:18-19.
him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he
care or even the most rudimen- tary comforts of life.
The Scriptures tell us that in one of their raids the Syrians had captured a little Israelite ‘\girl. She was‘ brought to Naa- man, who took her as a maid for his wife. Her faith must have
By R.A. RAMSEY ‘not only willingly accept, but oa ae a. work, for —_
ne we ad hie Pt act upon a child's blind faith in a | she used her trust in God for the derstanding sg ainaie > | God unknown to us? |glory of God and the cure of Na- We Such is the case in today's |#™man’s leprosy. .
for we accept the miraculous | aman powers of our God without ques-, biolgraphical study. Naaman, a i ot ng oes om
tion. However, had we no one |heathen, was brought face to | elisha, he would be cured, dem-
in the U.S., and is used by God, how many of us would fol- lface with the monotheistic God permission.) low the example of Naaman and ‘of Israel. Acting on faith alone, eee pee ewe euuenee Lema 1S oe ie. he — a sharply Pane ar
| ete! cture of a man reward- : .
ed by the faith he possessed. che mete valiel = senahed
Naaman’s ear and even the king Naaman, commander of the |of Syria showed concern for his army of Ben-hadad, king of. nder’s welfare, for he Damascus, is described as hon- | sent a letter to the king of Israel | orable, valorous, a man of great |regarding Naaman’s plight. The ability and unusual military gen- |jetter so much disturbed the |ius much esteemed by his mas- king of Israel that he rent his iter. But... he was a leper. In | elothes, |five words we have, in our) News of the king's concern |
M you believe the primary responsibility for human prog- | minds, changed Naaman from a |reached the ear of Elisha, who great and mighty man’ to an ob-|js described as—''the man
ress rests with man and if you believe in the brotherhood [ject to be shunned as “unclean.” | God." Recetas ak tha aatkon of man regardless of color, culture, er country, then you |, yp called Hansen's disease |ity of a . Elisha said,
s ; ‘ and known to be only mildly |“Let him (Naaman) come now sholnd tnvestignte:.<.«» J infectious, in ancient times it/ to me, and he shall there is Write: ~ ' ' was a dreaded, loathsome dis-’| a prophet in Israel.” So the ease, and those innocents who |ally- equipped, treasure-
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Jordan River. ~ Aggravated that Elisha did
Naaman turned away in anger. To him, washing in the Jordan was repulsive and if he need wash to effect a cure, he would rather wash in the more beau- tiful rivers of Syria.
Naaman’s servants prevailed upon him to conquer his pride and ‘submit to the wil! of Elisha. ‘The miracle of the cure con- vinced Naaman that the Lord is the only God. Filled with grati- tude, he urged rich gifts upon Elisha, but the prophet refused:
Then Naaman asked that he be allowed to take some Israelit- ish earth back to Syria and that, in the future, he be forgiven for accompanying his master into his pagan temples and appear-
of |ing to worship a deity he now |
knew to be false. Elisha granted |
and the evil of greed, it ends
i . s . suffered from it were as al-|Naaman came to the hu m ble | with a typical folk element. One
Unitarian - Universatism [ready dead: They were torn abode of Elisha, of Elisha’s greedy servants fol-
Box 1018 ; from their families, cast out of | Naaman wished to be treated |lower of Naaman begged a gift.
x the community, and condemned |as a great man who happened to |When the discovered
Moncton, NB. to survive as best they could, if be a leper; Elisha, to achieve |this he the servant for
* : |at all—no matter how tender or |the humility necessary for a | his avarice and lies and, making
en a nnn 14° ane their. years— without ‘cure and conversion, treated | the punishment suit the crime, |
: amote him with the very leprosy
: of which Naaman had been cur- ed.
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along for a shine. will havé 2 | dime, bright and inviting, Wing im ' his palm. ‘ . Thirty-five years ago me one What's he going to do with that in the mountain area around De- dime? As he sits in the sun, visions is ee caw teeatodan of Chntst. dance in his mind. He could buy candy, Today there are thousands ice cream, a new magazine. He could oo even save it_for Sunday School... but as ego “a ie “The language is Kaho, and i then what good could a dime do, . ‘ {fe Seen than, 50 years pines. Suddenly Johnny remembered 2 —— Sunday School lesson. ° Jesus had told SS how precious was the penny effering of Many of the Christian young @ poor widow. ges peseie, have ein ae vi eee $s or Ne, Sunday Jelmny | prondly ae ot eee sae Johnny’s cift amet vaoe weak i } story [i = cae won't do a great deal to help the Church Bec : around the entire area, bringing meet its financial needs. The important Sean tae teak
thing is: It helped Johnny! Going to ‘ \An elderly Vietnamese regret- Sunday School has put him on the road ted that he had . : : . Christian earlier s s
to becoming a real Christian busimess- since won seores of others to oa Christ, but often thinks how _} much more he could have done
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DAILY BIBLE READINGS
- Sunday, Nov. 21: Micah 6. Monday, Nov. 22: Habakkuk 2 Tuesday, Nov. 23: Habakkuk 3 Wednesday, Nov. 4: Malach 3.
Thursday, Nov. 35: Psalms 1 Friday, Nov. 26: Psalms 23 Saturday, Nov. 27: Psalms 27
Return Urged Of Doctors From The U.S.
WINNIPEG (CP) — Opportu- nity, money and equipment must be provided to bring back to Canada medical graduates who have moved tq, the United States, David Kilgour, president of the Canadian Heart Founda- pond said in bis annual report
“We fall far short of using an adequate scale of attack against the number one cause of disability and premature
death.’ ' Kilgour eaid tt Is ex-
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Mr. tremely important that re- search being carried out in Canada be multiplied and re- a infinitely stronger sup-
Two compelling reasons for sing Canada’s responsi- bi » he said, are that about
one < quarter of the graduates from Canadian medical schools
‘|move to the U-S., and that the.
“gigantic estimates” of the cost of a government medical care
im “serve only to under- ne the economic folly of skimping preventive research
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The Guardian, Charlottetown, Sat, Nov. 20, 1965. 7
‘Que
MONTREAL (CP) — “It's a
the Quebec magazine editor. " is established; it wins in the end.”
“One does not build on the jbacks of others,” wrote another in his lead editorial. ‘In order for independence not to lead to chaos, Quebec needs a compe-
tent elite, able to acquit itself posi- When Gehazi, a greedy servant, lies | The voices were not those of | ebout begging gifts of Naaman later, political analysts, professors or Elisha smites him with Naaman’s Propagandists, but leprosy.—II Kimgs 5: 20-27. Catholic
honorably in leadership tions.”
of priests. The first is a
Dominican father and the sec-
ond a member of the Sulpician
teaching order.
| The Sulpician, Rev. Guy Pois-
him as a leper who happened ©0n, edits the monthly Monde religious to be a great man, refusing to Nouveau (New World), and the Poisson argued in bis discus- see him personally and sending |Ma¢azine's expression of sym- sion of Quebec message that to be cured he pathy for Quebec separatism ‘that the question of the prov- began turning out Maintenant. should bathe seven times in the {last summer brought it wide |ince's future has its place in a STAFF QUIT
Roman:
Needs Competant — Elité RC Priests Claim |
‘ i \other priests "| |, confrontation of two mentalities but at the general public. | —the right and the left,’’ wrote
or parish groups All three sell on newsstands
for 30 cents a copy and each
claims circulation of about 20.- 000, half through subscription. The Monde Nouveau stir was loud but brief, and since its separatism number the maga- zine has confined its special- issue treatment to the more customary religious topic of —— reform within the
magazine is the organ of
Pius XI Institute, an adult.
; ‘theological school run by
the Sulpicians im affiliation
with the University of Mont- real.
Accordingly its content »usu-
ally deals with church and
affairs, but Father
independence
jattention outside the province. |theological journal too.
| The Dominican, Rev.
|Maintenant (Now). an i jthat got less publicity outside |Quebec but drew this comment from yet another priest-editor in the Jesuit magazine Rela- tions (Chronicles): “We can only hope that an will be reached jwhich will permit Maintenant to tejoin us, for the space its ab- sence would leave cannot be filled by any other magazine in Quebec today."
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| The three magazines are part \of a press that plays a continu- ling role in Quebec debate— \Magazines written and edited
iby the clergy but dealing with
public issues and aimed not at
The Kirk 0
The Rev. Malcolm A. Director
Minister:
Christopher Gledhill, M.A., B. Mus., ARCCO
SUNDAY, NOV, 21, 1965 Sermon: : “THE MEANING OF BAPTISM” Anthem, : “Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring’ —Bach
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First Baptist Ch
Cerner of Prince ‘and
Henri| The church leaves her mem- were the themes that have been not heal him with a demonstra. |Bradet, was commenting on his bers free to be separatists or associated with the late Pope tion of divine power, and that own dismissal from the editor-|not, Father Poisson said, and|John and the ecumenical coun- the cure should be so simple, Ship of anothér monthly called |he personally urged that some cil and with Paul-Emile Cardi- ident join the movement to assure|nal Leger in Canada: contact
Catholic representation at the
|head of a possible future inde- |
pendent state, although in an, interview he said he doubted
‘such a state would come about.
DEFENDED BY BOOK Maintenant did not reappear ,
‘after Father Bradet’s dismissal |
on orders from Rome in July. But the incident inspired
Paul a
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We Seen Feather Commenting about the order from Dominican Superior-General Aniceto Fer- nandez. said “apparently it is still the fash- ion in Rome to diamiss people without telling them why.”
The... priest... mentioned. the “general orientation’’ of the magazine as well as its side activities: At a pane! discussion organized by Maintenant at the Dominican monastery in blighted St. Henri district. a railway worker told the assem- bly: “our clergy never liked the worker _. . and now the worker im general doesn't care for the clergy.’ He also called for the elimination of capitalism as the only solution to working class problems.
Before 1962 the Dominican or- der in Montreal published an academic mublication called ‘a Revue Domicanine. That year the mountainside Cote Ste Catherine house of the order undertook to replace the review with a more popular and topical magazine and Father Bradet
. Thomas J Canadian superior of the of St Dominic, wrote an letter to the press to explain the “nuances’’ of the contro- versy
“It is true that the magazine has been blamed for lack of care and of a certain object:v- ity in it ‘judgment on the church and church events,” Father Rondeau wrote. ‘This ie not new ~ .A running dialogue was car- ried on in letters-to-the-editor eslumns of newspapers, with @ Protestant. Rev Jacques Beau don of the French-language St Jean United Church in Mont real, writing to Le Devoir te worder if the ‘‘greater theolog- ieal rigor’ prescribed for Main- tenant by Father Rondeau “doesn't mean theological con- formity.”"
Montrea! novelist Yolande Chene wrote a 1!7-page polemi which publisher Jacques Heben brought out early in Septembe: under the title of The Brade/ Affair :
“Just a priest receiving as order from his’ superior or a ‘eft’ priest reduced ai lence,’ she asked in her pref- ace. “Isn't the Bradet affais really the problem of freedon of expression? Or of the priest hood of now? The Bradet affais is more than the Bradet affair.”
Relations is characterized by the Jesuit tradition. of vigilant championing of the church and detailed scholarship. Its ar- ticles may discugs an interna tional situation or examine & Quebec strike down to the fringe benefits, ee well as taking up religious questions.
iil
The themes of the magazine
with non-Cathalics and concern for: the mass of lay members of the church—‘‘left” themes, Father Bradet calls them
ey were expressed largely by
@ lay staff under his direction When his removal became blic July 17, his staff, includ- ng another Dominican, Rev. Doucet, quit Maintenant
paperback book in his defence
‘and much comment in the rest
of the Quebec press. And the magazine announced
|there would be a November is- | igue put out under a newly-
appointed editor, Rev. Vincent Harvey, a former newspaper- man.
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