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his father had been with him all the way in another car, planning for his comfort and sending, helpful persons to him. v. 24. No man can serve two mas ters. Those who begin by trying to serve both money and God will end by loving money and hating God.—Tor- rey. He who offers COMMENT EROM God a second place MANY SOURCES offers Him no place. .Keith L. Brooks —Ruskin. The hyp ocrite thinks it good to have two strings to one’s bow. He hopes to make his religion his secular interests, and so turn to account both ways. Christ does not say we must not or we should not- serve God and mam mon, but we cannot love both. See 1 John 2:15.—Henry. It is a common idea that virtue shades off into vice by imperceptible gradations, and that the majority of men are neither good nor bad. Our Lord pronounces absolutely that in the last resort there are only two classes of men, those who are serv ing God and those who are serving the world.—Dummelow. God and mammon. The word “mammon” stands here for all that mostly estranges men from God. Compare “coveteousness which is idol atry” (Col. 3:5).—Cambridge Bible. v. 25. Take no thought. Worrying is virtually denial of God.—-Peloubet. This is one of the sins which does so easily beset us.—Henry. Anxiety has no place in the life of one of God’s children. A life lived by the faith of the Son of God will find His word kept —“My peace I give unto you.”—Bab cock. If we are anxious , about our life, our food, our drink, or our cloth ing, it is positive proof that the whole will is not surrendered to God.—Torrey. Literally, “do not be anxious.” There is no argument here against forethought or labor. In one sense “trusting to Providence” is idleness and a sin. God has appointed labor as the means
whereby man provides for his wants. Even birds show forethought and search for the food which God has pro vided for them.—Carr.' There is a thought concerning the things of this life which is not only lawful Dut duty, such as is commended in the virtuous woman (Prov. 31).—M. H. Observe that the promise of sufficient mainten ance is made not to the idle and the vicious, but to those who seek first the kingdom and God’s righteousness. These can never be idle or impoverished (v. 33).—Adeney. v. 26. Behold. There is a great deal of good to be learned from what we see every day, if we would but consider it (Prov. 6 :6 )—Brown. The fowls of the air. The brute creation, devoid of reason, are incapable of sowing, reap ing and storing, yet the Heavenly Father suffers them not helplessly to perish, but sustains them without any of therfb processes. Will He, seeing then His' own children using all ,the means which reason dictates for procur ing the things needful for the body, looking up to Himself at every step, yet leave them to starve?—J. F. & b . Your Father feedeth them. God is the maker of the birds, and He is our Father. He who feeds His birds will not forget His children.—Sel. v. 27. Add one cubit. Can your solicitude alter the case or unravel The intricacy of human events?—Blair. v. 28. Consider the lilies. The Son of God, the busiest man who ever lived, had time to consider a lily. He gath ered His disciples also about Him, and called their attention also to the lily. Oh, the wealth we miss because we do not consider!—Victoria Booth-Clibborn. Why take thought for raiment? The birds are an example of God’s care in providing food, the flowers of His care in providing apparel.—Camb. Bible. v. 29. Solomon not arrayed like one of these. The wonder is that we too may be rooted in the power from which the lily draws its grace. We may draw
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