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v. 31. Love thy neighbor. To love another is to have a des.ire for and delight in his welfare. It is not a mere emotion or affection but the attitude o f the whole man.—T orrey. v. 32. Said the truth. W e should speak so as to compel those who ' hear us to acknowledge that our word is true. We lose half our power if we neglect to appeal to the spirit o f man as itself the best wit ness o f God.—People’s Bible.. ,v. 34. Not far from kingdom. Like so many in all ages, he had an intellectual hold o f principles which he had never fol lowed out to their issues nor ever enthroned as the guides o f his life. There is no greater foe than the hazy, lazy half belief o f which its owner neither knows the grounds nor perceives the practical issues. —Maclaren. v. 41-44. Poor widow—cast in all she had. It is.,not so much what we give as what we have left that the Lord takes notice of. You may give without loving but you cannot love without giving.—Sel. Real consecration regulates the use o f one’s money.—Fowler. The will and not the gift makes the giver.—Lessing. One must be poor to know thq luxury o f giving.—Geo. Eliot. The heart o f the giver makes the gift dear and, precious.—Luther. He gives not best that gives most but he gives most who gives best.—Warwick. The longest chapter in the Bible (Num. 7) is' about giving.-—-Simpson. Some say—give till it hurts—but it hurts some men to give a nickle.—Selected.
enjoyed the blessings di peace and then to refuse to help lift the common burden pressing upon the nation in time o f war. To be perfectly consistent, the Christian who thus refuses to do what he can, ought to live on a desert island where there would be no government to need his assist ance or to give him assistance when he should need it.—Pettingill. Christians are not OF the world but they are IN the world, and it is our Christian duty to bear the burdens that the situation forces upon us in a spirit o f meekness and in the fear o f God.—Gray. He who fulfills his obligation to God, fulfills them also, of necessity to man. Religion does not hold governmental obligations in contempt. Prayer and taxation must go together so long as we are citizens and subjects as well as saints.—Jos. Parker. v. 28. Which is first commandment? Rabbis counted 613 precepts o f the Law and divided them into “weighty” and “light,” but the sorting caused much debate. This Scribe asks for a principle o f classification.-—Camb. Bible. v. 30. Love the Lord thy God. To love God is to have a supreme desire for and delight in God’s glory so that everything else is secondary to that. To have failed to do this is to have committed the great est sin a man can possibly commit, and all have at some time broken this first and greatest commandment (Rom. 3:23). There is therefore no hope for us except through the atoning blood o f Christ (Heb. 9:22. Rom. 3:22-26).—Torrey. U
“MY GIRLS”
By Mrs. H. J. Baldwin.
T T AVE you noticed how many questions children ask? Why do they do it? Are all questions asked with the same motive? . Christ’s sending the thieves from the temple grea’tly aggravated the Sanhedrin. This High Court o f the Jews was com posed qS seventy-one leading citizens, Jaw-
yers and teachers. They decided alT do mestic and civil questions and were author ity on everything religious; the temple, its service, and the interpretation o f Scrip ture. The next day they came challenging Christ by what right He had driven them from the temple. Had they come for, the truth, Christ would gladly have answered
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