THE K I N G ' S BUS I NE S S The blind and unhappy sovereign was traveling in his realm on a sultry day and his attendants searched for a shady place. The king sat down under the trees, while they went to find water. While they were absent the king began to grope about and found strawberries. He ate and quenched his thirst. Be cause of this refreshing fruit the King ordered the wilderness to be cleared saying, “Here I will build a town that shall be called Eperies (strawberries) in remembrance of that day. .-»fe - m v. 15.” Beware of false prophets. Who can imagine words more positively contradictory than “ false prophets” ? It is in this line that lying does the most mischief.-—Park- COMMENTS FROM er. Mere talent MANY SOURCES. ought not to at- Keitli L. Brooks. tract us. Carrion well served on Palissy ware, is still unfit for men. As we should not be fascinated by the azure hues of a serpent, so neither should we be thrown off our guard by the talents of an unsound theologian.— Spurgeon. In sheep’s clothing. They and their er rors aro gilded with the specious pre tenses of sanctity and devotion.—Henry. Men coming as expounders of the mind of God, persuading men that the gate is not strait nor the way narrow and that to teach so is illiberal and bigoted. — J. F. & B. Ravening wolves. To tamper with truth in the guise of liber ality is to play the wolf in sheep’s clothing.— Gibson. v. 16. Know them by their fruits. Those opinions come not from God that lead to sin.— Sel. If we cannot know them by their fruits, we must have re course to the great touchstone the Word of God. “ To the law and to the testi mony.” Do they speak according to that rule?—Henry. As in the natural world, so in the spiritual. Every species brought forth “ after its kind.”—Har ries. Grapes of thorns. Many have had their fingers pricked by the thorns and thistles that were supposed to be grapes and figs.— Torrey. v. 17. Every good tree. The worth of the Gospel has been tested all down the ages by the characters it produces
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toward heaven a sigh of bitterness and true repentance— and looking round to assure himself of solitude he falls down to pray without words; then I see a dim outline of the image and likeness in which he was created. I begin to see the man that accounts for the cross.” Either my sin or repentance bears fruit that 'influences my neighbor for good or bad. Our Fruit Bearing a Curse or a Blessing. This palm tree grew beside a stream far back from the dwellings of men and yearly dropped its cocoanuts into the passing waters. Years passed by-and never a man passed to pick up its fruit. But far out at sea was a ship wrecked. The crew and passengers were cast upon a coral island. Here they were kept alive and were able to shelter them selves because of the palm trees on the island. They made huts and thatched them from the leaves. They ate the co coanuts for food. They drank the co- coanut milk instead of salt sea water, all because this lonely tree dropped its cocoanuts in the little stream by its side, and they floated out to sea, and then sprang up to beautiful palms on the is land. We Bear Fruit Everywhere. There is a peculiar kind of club moss, the “ Selagmiller Convoluta.” It grows in the sandy places of South America. When the sun has. drunk away every particle of moisture from the surface of the sand, this moss does not send its roots deeper— it simply rolls itself up into a ball and waits for the winds. They dash it along, often great dis tances, into some damp place. Here it unrolls itself and strikes out its roots upon the surface to carry on its fruiting. So the Christian moves from place to place bearing fruit. Golden Text Illustration. Eperies is a most picturesque Hun garian town surrounded by beautiful gardens and fruitful fields. At the time of King Bela it was only a wilderness.
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