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Helping The Handicapped
Help Himself
An agency may be established at the local hospitals to
teach the students in the pediatric department and stu
dents of school age who have become victims of tragedy.
These students will have to remain in the hospital for the
school year or maybe even longer if necessary.
A good diversified retired teacher could fit in this
type of category to teach academic subjects if the students
are allowed credits for courses taught while they are re
cuperating. The students could then take their places with
regular classmates.
There are several students at L. Richardson Memorial
Hospital who are victims of tragedy which caused broken
bones and other bodily injuries. These injuries will cause
them to be out of school for a large portion of the school
year or maybe the entire school year.
If there were a teacher there to give them instruc
tions they could keep up with their regular classwork of
the school they attended before their accident.
Victims of handicaps should be given jobs whenever
and wherever an employer may hire them. Many people
have been stricken from birth of one or more of their
senses, but have been trained in some vocation. Some of
the most looked upon handicaps are blindness, deaf, and
polio victims. These people are handicapped by the laws
of nature. Many are taking advantages of the services
offered them by the Rehabilitation Centers and are making
themselves useful in their vocations.
Some of these vocations, especially for the blind are
typists, making brooms, clothes brushes, switchboard
operators and many other vocations of this type.
What should be done about many of our professional
employees who are in declining health, and at the age of
retirement, but who conceal their age and illness? They
fall into the same category as the handicapped.
In many of our schools we find cases of such nature,
I think that if the Board of Education, or the city or state
council or parent-teacher associations would set up a re
habilitation center whereby they can offer job opportuni
ties for the invalid and aged teachers, so they may keep
their minds busy and still earn wages, it would help the
problem of business. - .
We don't believe that teachers who complain of being
ill, and who are absent a great portion of the school year
because of ill health should be placed before a class of
healthy, energetic students. Some are suffering from such
chronic illnesses as bursitis, arthritis, rehetrmatism, high
and low blood pressure, strokes, heart conditions, etc.
These illnesses are not only foun<J in the teaching pro
fession. Many ministers doctors, and lawyers, who deal
with a large group of people suffer from the same type |
of illnesses.
It had been told that many of these professional lead
ers are alcoholics and dope addicts. Professional leaders
should be given a thorough examination by the Health De
partment at least three times a year, and where these cases
show up and affect their, routine of work, give the person
the privilege of resigning or accepting some form of re
habilitation service, such as tutoring, filing clerk, switch
board operator, or arranging books In the library. In re
habilitation these persons, consider that they are accus
tomed to giving service to others and place them where
they give service to two or three individuals, bat not ?
large group. s
Many of these invalids have done a good job while in
good health, and still maintain a strong determination to
carry on in their professional fields. But it is a handicap to
them as well as to those whom they serve. If they are re
quired to retire without giving them something to keep
their minds occupied, they soon die.
The colleges are turning out graduates who have ma
jored in every professional field, and there is no need for
This Weed's Sunday School Lesson
, JESUS INTERPRETS
THE LAW
Beginning Where You Are
Many people living in our day
are trying to deal with chang
ing, concepts of "law." Chil dis
obedience and problems of "law
and order" have been in the
forefront of thinking in our so
ciety for several years.
Some have felt that every law
passed by a valid legislative
body should be obeyed. Others
have felt that every citizen is
obligated to disobey laws he
feels are unjust in the hope of
getting these laws changed.
Religious law has also under
gone developments. In the Wes
leyan tradition, there was a time
when the rules of church mem
bership had the force of law.
Two or three generations ago!
church trials were not unusual
for both laymen and ministers
who were charged with violation
laws"6 ?r m?re ?f 016 church'?
Today many churchmen do
not take church law so serious
ly, even though they may re
KSJrlawa,h*vta?~
How is it possible to account
for persons who have an in
different attitude toward church
law but are very much concern
ed about secular law? Can you
think of illustrations in your
own experience that might of
fer some insight?
In this lesson we are to con
sider Jesus' attitude toward the
law. How would you interpret
Jesus' attitude toward the law
ture? 011 U,e f?Uowin? Scrip
Searching The Scriptures
i,M%^rlPtUre fOF 1esson
Matthew 5 through 7; D*u
eronomy 5:1-21; (fci-9; Romans
and 13- Selected verses are
printed below.
Matthew 5:17-20, 38-48
17 "Think not that I have
?me to abolish the law and!
the prophets; I have come not
to abolish them but to fulfil
STL,18 For truly' 1 say 40 you
tdl heaven and earth pass away,
not an iota, not a dot, will pass
from the law until all is ac
complished. 19 Whoever then
relaxes one of the least of these
commandments and teaches men
?o, shall be called least in the
kingdom of heaven; but he
who does them and teaches
them shall be called great in
the kingdom of heaven. 20 Far
I tell you, unless your righteous
ness exceeds that of the scrlbw
?nd Pharisees, you will never
enter the kingdom of heaven.
38 "You have heard that It
'An eye for an eye aad
? 10001 ioT ? tooth.' 39 But I
"J to you, Do not resist one
eviL But If any
?trikes you on the right cheek,
turn to him the other also; 40
and if any one would sue you
?nd take your coat, let him have
your cloak as well; 41 and if
any one forces you to go one
mile, go with him two miles.
42 Give to him who begs from
you, and do not refuse him who
would b.orrow from you.
43 "You have heard that it
was said, 'You shall love your
ne.ghbor and hate your enemy.'
ut 1 Sfly to you, Love your
enemies and pray for those who
Persecute you, 45 so that you
may be sons of your Father
who is m heaven; for he makes
his sun rise on the evil and on
the good, and sends rain on the
just and on the unjust. 48 For
if you love those who love you,
what reward have you? Do not
even the tax collectors do the
same? 47 And if you saIute only
your brethren, what more are
you doing than others? Do not
48eY?et^ent,ileS d? the same?
? You, therefore, must be per
ect, as your heavenly Father
?s perfect."
Memory Selection:
Owe no one anything, except
to love one another; for he who
joves his neighbor has fulfilled
6 - ? Romans 13:8
Exploring The Question
One of the questions that must
| have been in the mind of Jesus
as his ministry began was how
to establish some kind of rela
tionship with the religion of Is
thaJSfhPaSt' WC must remember
? m ntUaI sacr??ces of the
Old Testament continued among
the Jews until the Temple was
destroyed in A.D. 70, some forty
years after the death of Jesus.
We may note that Mary and
Joseph followed the rrtualcom
mands of the law when J^s
was brought to Jerusalem T
presentation to the Lord (S~
Luke 2:22-24.)
that one branch
of traditions about the Messiah
said that when he came he
would do away with the law It
all seems so clear and simple
to us, since we have the written
w Testament before us- but
dlToTTvt hlve given a K?t
deal of thought to the will of
God in Jewish religion, as well
U Cnal evictions
might be given to the people
with sympathy and understand
Every person who has ever
been born has had to take up
**me Wn? of attitude toward the
Wst What shall he do with the
thoughts and ways of his an
cestors? Shall he make ? com
Plete break with them? Or shall
he modify them to suit changed
conditions? Shall changes be
peaceful or violent?
Ftadta* Help
With Ymar Questions
What did "the W mean to
the Jew of Jesus' time?
It might be used in several
ways. (1) the Ten Command
ments; (2) the first five books
* 01d Testament; which
they, thought had been written
by Moses; (3) "the Law and
individuals who are suffering from chronic illnesses to
continue their positions.
It is not a shame for an individual who is drifting
into some chronic illness to seek aid to rid himself of it ?
especially an alcoholic.
There are many more illnesses that an individual
brings upon himself such as temper, being contrary, etc.
It has been said from time to time, "Prepare for war in
the time of peace." We advise our readers to invest in
some type of security that will give a return in case they I
become victims of some of the things mentioned in this !
article.
the Prophets" as a phrase that
meant most of what we refer
to as the Old Testament; (4)
the oral law, a body of tradi
tions that had begun as inter
pretations of the written law
but had taken on the same force
as the law itself.
Increasingly in the two hun
dred years before the birth of
Jesus, faithfulness to the cov
enant had meant "obedience to
the law.." All during this period
there was increasing stress plac
ed oh the outward observance of
the law. Circumcision, the sac
redness of the Sabbath (men
chose to be killed rather than
to fight on the sacred day when
they were at war), ritual clean
ness, observance of what foods
could not be eaten, fasting,
tithing, and the like were given
increasing importance.
But it would be untrue to say
that Judaism stood only for out
ward observance of the law.
During the same time, there
were many examples of Jew*
meeting high ethical demands
and observing the law with de
light. Psalms 1 accurately de
scribes the attitude of many
Jews toward the law during this
period.
We see, then, that though
there was widespread disagree
ment as to the precise interpre
tation of the law, most Jews
united in a deep loyalty to it.
They had therefore become
known as "the people of the
Book."
Following the death of Ezra
(whose work is described in
the book in the Old Testament
that bears his name), a body of
men known as the scribes arose
and in time won for themselves
the position of "authorities" to
interpret the law. These scribes
developed traditions that stood
among Jews for hundreds of
years. Later these early teachers
became known in Jewish tradi
tions as "Men of the Great Syn
agogue."
In time another group arose
who wished to adapt the tradi
tions of the past to changing
situations in life. This party
later became known as the
? Pharisees. About two hundred
years before the birth of Jesus,
the Sanhedrin (pronounced san
HEED-rin), a kind of supreme
council, was set up. The high
priest was the president of this
body and carried the most
weight in its decisions. The
scribes were second only to the
high priest.
As mentioned above, an "oral
tradition" grew up that bad the
same authority as the written
law. This oral tradition ? some
times called "the tradition of
the elders" ? interpreted the
law in such a way as to make
clear to the people what might
be done br not done. For in
stance, the written law pro
hibited work on the Sabbath.
But what was "work"? Accord
ing to the oral tradition, work
meant picking up any object
that was heavier than two figs.
This is a sample of the kind
of oral tradition that grew up
around the written law.
If we had space; wr might
also get into the details of Tem
ple ' worship of the time and
the development of the Book of
j Psalms ? which served as the
| hymnbook of the Temple during
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