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provide for their necessities. Hence He hath said : “Look, what he layeth -out, it shall be paid him again.” We shall lose no joy by our expenditure of sympathy,. “For the heart grows rich in giving; All its wealth is living grain;” and the soul that feels its brother’s care shall have its own sorrows healed by “the God of all consolation,” and its happi ness multiplied a thousand-fold. Nor shall we be impoverished by our temporal gifts. They shall be paid us again—not meta phorically, but literally—and they shall be repaid by a Pay master Whose arithmetic is not of earth. The measure of thè return shall be “pressed down, and shaken together, and run ning over,” so that our pound shall become ten pounds and we shall be amazed at the liberality of God. No man ever yet lent to Him and had cause to complain that He was a forgetful or niggardly debtor. THERE was room for all besides. Room for feasting and for merchandise; room for gossip and for rest; room for music and for dancing; but there was no room for the new-born Christ. The maid and the merchant, the traveling musician and the Eastern story teller so filled the place that the Son of the Highest must needs be denied an entrance. How typical of many human hearts. Their owners have room for all things of earth, for all the interests of this life, but they have no place for the Messiah. Sad, indeed, is the condition of such a man. The inn was the place of common life and into it He was not allowed to enter. Alas for us if we have no place for Christ in our everyday affairs! When we shut Him out from our daily concerns—though we relegate Him to a church instead of to a stable—we impoverish our existence and endanger our spir itual safety. To be so engrossed with our pleasures and our cares that Jesus of Nazareth is an encumbrance, to be excluded, is not only sin, it is folly of the highest kind. For His com panionship means the sanctification of our common life. All that surrounds and befalls us is irradiated and glorified’ by His presence. There is nothing common or unclean; there is noth ing sordid or trivial to the man who has received Christ, not only into his heart, but into every detail of his daily life. The place of true glory and real dignity that night was not the guest-chamber but the stable. There was more joy in the manger than at the festal board. ■¿I*. 84» O ctober 15 “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.’’-+- Ex. 20:8. , THE Sabbath is not merely to be a day of rest, it is to be kept holy. That is, it is to be set apart for the Lord; for it is the Lord’s Day, not ours. True, we are to rest on that day; but we are to rest, not only from labor but from all earthly concerns ; from business, from secular pleasures, yea, even, as far as possible, from earthly thoughts. This is no arbitrary commandment, it was enacted in the.highest interests of men. The Sabbath rest is necessary both for the recruiting of our physical strength and for the renewal of our spiritual vigor. It gives us leisure to draw nigh to God, to meditate upon His Holy Word, to take stock of our spiritual attainments and short comings. It comes as a weekly reminder that this life is not eternal ; that there are higher things than those which engross us on the six days of the week; that we have spiritual affinities and relationships to cultivate. No man can neglect the Sabbath day save at the peril of grave injury both to his body and his soul. It is a great mistake to imagine that a Sabbath rightly spent is a day of all funereal gloom. It should be the brightest O ctober 14 "No room for Him in the inn .”—Luke 2:7.
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