214 kind of mountain top experience. When a man gets so high he can’t reach down and save poor sinners, there is some thing wrong.” Be a Good Cheer Christian. “ If your mouth corners go down, your stock goes down. If they go up your credit soars. When the horns of a new moon turn up, it will he a dry month; water bucket won’t slip off. When the corners of your mouth turn up, the bucket of your good fortune won’t slip off. Don’t want you to pre tend or be a hypocrite. Just you turn those depressed mouth corners of yours up where as Christians your mouth-cor ners belong, and you will see that the smiling mouth represents a glorious, abounding reality.” Said the Grouchy Stick of Wood in the fire-place, “ I’m not going to burn, and I advise you, Sunny Stick, not to.” Said the Sunny Stick, “ That isn’t the question; it’s our business to do some thing for all.” “ Our business?' What do we get for it? Only a pile of ashes at the end,” said Grouchy Stick. “ But think what a splendid flame, and crackle, and glow on the way to the ashes,” said Sunny Stick. “ All empty flash! I’m wet and cold. Catch me do ing anything but smoke,” said Grouchy, The Sunny Stick, however, burst into a cheery flame that illuminated the whole room and made everyone smile that looked at it. After a period of smoul dering Grouchy also began to flame. It takes two to make a quarrel. It takes only one to make sunshine. A Persian woman when asked if she regretted all the persecution the Gos pel had brought her, replied, “ I would go through a hundred times as much trouble willingly, for the joy that is in my heart; there was no joy there be fore.” The Golden Text Illustration. Mr. Moody said, that the Christian ought to walk as a cat walks on a
T HE K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S wall strewn with broken glass. Walk circumspectly. We are to walk as He walked. Scales are now made to such fine ad justment that they will weigh the smallest hair plucked from the eyebrow. They are triumphs of mechanism and are enclosed in glass cases. A signature containing nine letters has been weighed and proved to be exactly two milli grammes, or one-fifteenth-thousand five-hundredth part of an ounce, troy. The balances of God are no less exact than these and the true weight of the souls is had in the secret place. v. 1. Laying aside all malice. This exhortation applies to Christians alone, for in no one else is the new nature ex isting which as the “ inward man” (Eph. 3:16) can cast COMMENTS FROM off the old as MANY SOURCES an o u t w a r d Keith L. Brooks thing.— Steiger. It is easy to lay aside malice, guile and evil speaking when we-are constantly feeding on the unadulterated milk of spiritual truth (v. 2). If you have tasted the grace of Jesus, you will not care for the wine of Sodom.—Meyer. Guile, hypocrisies, etc. Each succeeding vice springs out of the one which precedes so as to form •a genealogy of the sins against love. (1:22.) Out of malice springs guile, out of guile hypocrisies, out of hypocri sies envies, out of envies evil speaking. Malice delights in another’s hurt, envy pines at another’s good, guile imparts duplicity to the heart, hypocrisy imparts duplicity to the tongue, evil speakings wound the character of another.-B Augustine. v. 2. As newborn babes. The babe instead of chemically analyzing, in stinctively desires and feeds’ on the milk.- So our part is not self-sufficient rationalizing and questioning but sim ply receiving the truth in love of it. (Matt .11:25.)—-Sel. Desire the sin cere milk. Literally “ having a yearn ing for,” a natural impulse to the re generate. As no one needs to teach a newborn babe what food to take, know ing instinctively that food is provided for them in the mother’s breasts, so the believer of himself thirsts after the
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