we do not want to have our own wi'il— then we will find He will keep us in perfect peace. Be careful for nothing, be prayerful in everything, be thankful for anything, and He will garrison your soul against all worry. POINTS PRACTICAL. If you deposit your securities with your Sovereign, in heaven, you can sleep soundly. Your heart will find its home where its treasures are housed. What you give to the Lord, is gain. What you lay up on earth, is loss. Periods of plenty are followed by seasons of scarcity. Put your trust in Providence. • Make Mammon your servant and compel it to glorify God. Anxiety for tomorrow will sap your strength for today. The foremost thing is the will and work of God. Put first things first. Who lives for the world to come will find it well worth living for. LESSON v m . February 20, 1910. THE GOLDEN RULE—TEMPERANCE LESSON. Matt. 7:1-12. Golden text—7:12. OUTLINE. (1) Seeing Your Sins 1- 5 (2) Selecting Your Message 6 (3) Supply Through Supplication....7-ll (4) Square Deal | 12 The lesson is a continuation of the Sermon on the Mount and presents some searching and striking truths. (1) SEEING YOUR OWN SINS. "The beam out of thine own eye." This first paragraph can only be understood when we understand what the word judge, as used here, means. The word has various shades of mean- ing—sometimes it means condemn; again, to pronounce guilty or to accuse, to pass sentence. Here it has the thought of expressing an opinion of another in a censorious spirit. The motive that actuates and the spirit in which it is given, is the thing the Lord condemns. ' Do not always be judging. The judicial element is in us all. We are prone to sit as jurors, not always unbiased; not distinguishing between the necessity of forming an opinion, and passing judgment. Christ is the ruler in the Kingdom and alone conpetent to judge, because He, alone, knows what is in the heart of men. •
do the rest. "How much more are ye than many sparrows." If God sows, reaps and gathers for the fowls of the air, will He not do as much in behalf of those for wham Jesus Christ died? God clothes the lilies, and their gar- ments transcend, in beauty, the most elaborate vestures of a Solomon. Will He not clothe His own children? Has He not already clothed us with His own righteousness? Has He not as- sured us that we will be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven (2 Cor. 5:2-5)? When He has prom- ised us our resurrection bodies, will He forget or forsake us now? Can He? A man can receive nothing except it be given him (,Tno. 3:27). Having given unto us His Son, how shall He not, with Him, also freely give us all things? Will He be likely to stint us? If, when we were rebels against His grace, He gave His Son to die for us, now that we are His children, will He cast us off or neglect us? Is it not sad to hear Him say, "O, ye of little f a i t h ," when He said to the Syro- pheniciari women, "Woman, great is thy f a i t h "? To worry is to do great injustice to God, who has proven, in a thousand ways, His faithfulness. It is a base reflection upon His love—and His love passeth understanding. A reflection ¡upon His power, as though God was not able to do exceeding abundantly above all we would ask or think. A reflection upon His faithfulness, whose Word declares. My God shall supply all your need (Phil. 4:19). The Father knows. The antidote for worry is trust! The foundation of trust is knowledge. We trust in proportion to our knowledge. If we know Him. we will trust Him. The worrying Christian is one who does not know the Father. We are not to trust in ourselves (2 Cor. 11:1-9; 1 Cor. 4:7); nor in riches (Prov. 11:24); nor in secular or religious alliances. These are a refuge of lies, and will be swept away in the storm—but we trust in the living God. We trust Him because we do know Him as a God ,of love, a God of merey, a God of power, a faithful God, and we will trust in Ilim forever. He says He will keep in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Him. What we need is settled ¿onvictions concern- ing God, His Word, His works. Settled affections, centering our affections upon Him, with a settled will. Abandoned to. Him, surrenedred alisolntoly, so that
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