THE K I NG ' S BUS I NESS away, I saved; What I spent, I used; What I kept, I lost.” “Giving to the Lord,” says onei “is but transporting our goods to a higher floor.”—Henry T. Williams. v. 13. A desert place apart. It was the incessant coming and going of the crowd that had driven Jesus to seek seclusion (Mk. 6:31) but He did not escape them. He COMMENTS FROM was not vexed to MANY SOURCES. have His solitude Keith L. Brooks. thus broken in upon. He w a s moved with compassion (Lk. 9:11).— Torrey. v. 15. Send the multitude away. A happy idea has occurred to them. They have been measuring the situation with their calculating eyes. They go up and tell the Master what to do. Surely they spoke one word for the multitude and twenty for themselves. Theological suggesters, and preaching men and per sons who have theories to propound, take care lest the Master overhear you and account you the children of folly. How much better to have gone to Him and have left the case in His hands. It is wise to trust Omniscience.-—Parker^ v. 16. But Jesus said. His answer consists of an apparently incredible as surance and an obviously impossible command.—Maclaren. They need not depart. Let none of us dare to think anything too hard for the Lord or take upon us to advise Him with respect to His doings.—Lewis. You need not de part from Christ in search of any good thing. All is in Him.—Meyer. Give ye them to eat. O that the church would hear Jesus saying concerning the un shepherded multitude in all lands, “Give ye them-to eat.”fti-Torrey. v. 17. We have but five loaves. You never know how much you have until, you begin to give. Let us take up our two talents to Christ. We shall bring them back two hundred. Let us take up our resources to Christ and we shall come back multiplied into an army that cannot lose a battle.—People’s Bible. v. 18. Bring them to me. That will be multiplied to the service of men which is by faith passed through the hands of Christ. Faith and love with little can do much.—-Sum. Bible. v. 19. Took the five loaves/ The Bi ble, so little in bulk, like the five loaves and two fishes, what thousands upon
1168 cess, overhearing the -conversation and seeing the woman’s tears, said, “You have made a mistake, my good woman. My father is not a merchant, hut a king. His business is not to sell, but to give.” So saying, she plucked the coveted grapes, and placed them in the happy woman’s apron. Jesus Is a Beautiful Giver.—An old man once said, that it took him forty years to learn three simple things. The first was, that he couldn’t do anything to save himself. The second, was that God 'didn’t expect him to. And the third, was that Christ had done it all, and all he had to do was to take what He had accomplished for him. Jesus Saved as Well as Gave.—One day Carlyle suddenly stopped at a street crossing, and, stooping, picked up something out of the mud, even at the risk of being knocked down and run over by passing vehicles. With his bare hands he gently rubbed the mud from it and laid it down on a clean spot on the curbstone. “That,”’ said ,the old man in a tone of tenderness he rarely used, “is only a crust of bread, yet I was taught by my mother never to waste anything, above all, bread, more precious than gold, and' Xam sure that the little sparrows or a hungry dog will get nourishment from this bit of bread.” If I had heaps of yellow corn And fields of waving wheat, I’d quickly send a cargo where They’ve not enough to eat. I’d load a ship myself, alone, With grain of every kind, And make my harvest offering The best that I could find. Or, if I had just money, why, That, too, would do much good, For it should go to India To buy the childrenis food. Golden Text Illustration.—There is truth and instruction in the inscription on an Italian tombstone: “What I gave
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