T HE K I N G ’S B U S I N E S S I think, that man preaches hs though he felt the Lord Jesus Christ were just at his elbow.” It is said of Dr. J. Hudson Taylor that when he was writing a letter he always felt that Jesus was looking over his shoulder to see how and what he wrote. He is with us not to criticize merely but to instruct, strengthen and comfort. “He is a path, if any be misled; He is a robe, if any naked be; If any chance to hunger, He is bread, If any be a bondman, He is free; If any be but weak, how strong is He! v. 1. End of the Sabbath. Liter ally “Sabbaths” as if they had all come to a point of termination.—Parker. Began to dawn. It was a new day for t h e w o r I d. COMMENTS FROM Everything was MANY SOURCES to be seen in a Keith L. Brooks new light;—Jow- ett. W h e n Christ comes the light comes. The darkness flees away before the coming dawi^.—People’s Bible. First day of the week. Who changed the day of worship from the original Sabbath to the first day or Lord’s day? Ponder the tenacity with' which 'the Jews held on to their Sabbath given in Eden tmd buttressed amid the thunders of Sinai. Yet in New Testament times we find Jews changing their time-hon ored Sabbath day to the first day of the week and calling that day after a man. We cannot have any effect without a cause. The resurrection of the Lord was that cause.—Evans. v. 2. Angel of the Lord. There by the empty tomb the strong heavenly and weak earthly lovers of the risen King met together and clasped hands of help.—-Maclaren. Rolled jback the stone. He did not roll away the stone for Jesus to get out but for the women to enter.—Torrey. Sat upon it. A pic ture of the easy triumph of God over Satan and all his hosts.—Sel. Sat upon it that it might be known by what power it was rolled back.—Comp. Bitylo. v. 4. Keepers did shake. Is the sepulchre “sure” now, O ye chief priests? He that sitteth in the heavens doth laugh at you.—Jamieson. v. 5. The angel answered. This angel was an ev-angel-ist in the true
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but those who know them best find them very shallow. They have not the living Christ. Living Christ.—“For me to live is Christ,” said Paul. In answer to the question, “What fis life given us'for?” Bishop Creighton gave as his answer, “Life is an opportunity for loving.” This reminds me of what I think the most beautiful epigram- ever written (by whom I do not know). “Love is the perfect tense of the verb to live.” . “There are many kinds of love, as many kinds of light; And every kind of love makes a glory in the night. There is love that stirs the heart, and love that gives.it rest; But the love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best". Christ Pre-eminent.—“He is a Chris tian in whom the ruling idea and image is Christ,” said D t . A. T. Pier-» son. Augustine, in his “Confessions” tells us of a.dream in his early Chris tian life, when as a young lawyer he was intensely absorbed in Cicero, and all his • tasks were Ciceronean. He thought he died and game to the celes tial gate. “Who are you?” said the keeper. “Augustine of Milan.” “What are you?” “A Christian,” he answered. “No, you are a Ciceronean.” Augustine' asked an explanation, and the angelic# gatekeeper replied, “All souls are esti mated in this world by what dominated them in, that. In you, Augustine, not the Christ of the Gospel, but the Cicero of Roman jurisprudence, was the dom inating force. You cannot enter here.” What dominates you? Golden Text Illustration.—Joseph Hume was once twitted for his incon sistency in going to hear Dr. John Brown, the celebrated Scotch preacher;? when he made reply, “I don’t believe all he says, but he does; and once a week at least I like to hear a man who believes what he says. Why, whatever
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