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its faith, is alien from the spirit of Christ. Of the three, Love is the greatest becauseishe is immortal:
A pril 7. '"His disciples came unto Him and he
taught them.”
Matthew 5:1-2. ?■A THE Sermon on the Mount was not preached td the multi tude, but to the Disciples. Christ’s choicest utterances are-Always reserved for His own immediate followers:. He has many things to say to us which are not for t-^e’common ear. Our discipl-eship must, however, be definite and self-sacrificing; np; mere profes sional or fashionable Christianity will suffice to enable tis to ■receive the special revelations of. our Lord. The day. will come when He will ascend the mountain and to follow Him we shall be called to separate ourselves from the common crowd, perhaps to sever acquaintanceships that, are precious or profitable, to the flesh. Moreover we must be. ready to.-„“endure hardness” that the Beatitudes may be ours. The mountain needed climbing: it were easier far to remain in the vale at ease; ,we should prefer to be led along some smooth pathway of flowers whilps'He taught ,us the lessons of His love and of His grace:’„But no ! it is essentia) we should climb; there must be “excelsior” upon our banners though the feet may bleed and . the back belie, ■For.: we. must needs follow Him “whithersoever He goeth,” .or we shall miss alike the message and the blessing it. involves./.' The formalist and the, worldling laugh at us for our pains,- but who that has once been on the. mountain top with ¡His Lord ever regretted either the sacrifice or the toil?
“Faith cannot scale the. jasper walls; She bows and dies before the gate'.’SH
Hope will be lost in full fruition when we tread the golden streets; but love will abide. Nay, love is heaven, and heaven is love; without her, the upper courts would be but a splendid repetition of earth—more glorious; but not more happy—while any wilderness below may be transformed into an Eden by the power of love. Faith is but a creed, after all; cold and com fortless by itself; Hope is a coy nymph who sometimes deceives and often disappoints; but Love “never faileth”-; .“therefore give us love’S in d we shall be, akin to God, and carry in our hearts a foretaste’Of heav'em even as. we .journey through‘'earth’s deserts wild.
A pril 9. “A golden hell and a pomegranatefk-yEx. 28:34. “Golden bells and rich pomegranates Fringed the High Priest’s robe on earth; Telling us of heavenly graces, ' .Fruitfulness and holy mirth.”
BEAUTY, fruitfulness, joy; these are the things which our High Priest comes to bring to men, now that His great atoning sacrifice has been made; these should be .the characteristics of every believer’s; life. A religion that is -spur, repulsive, barren, dole ful, is out of harmony with His purposes and fails to promote either His glory Or the good of men. He. is the bringer of glad tidings^—tidings of hope and happiriess-4-büt to judge, by the faces of Some of His followers, one might imagine thát He had come to lead them to execution, rather than to fill their lives with sunshine and their hearts with song. The bells and the pome granates were made of gold-; the beauty and the joy which Christ gives are not only pure and precious, they are indestructible. They >yere hung upon the seamless robe of blue; our joys-and our graces/depend upon and are sustained by the eternal and undivided love of Christ: in themselves they are not ours, but H is; nothing but His presence can endue us with the heavenly ornaments; only as He blesses us may we hope to live, to fructify, and to rejoice.
A pril 8. "The greatest of these is Love. ’M -i ¿ o r .13:13.
“FAITH, Hope; Love” : we should probably have said that “the greatest of these is -Faith,” so essential is the latter to our salvation and our peace. But the real Queen of the Trip is Love. She- is greater than faith in that, while the latter is a means to life, she is life itself,;'for she is a manifestation of Him Who is “the resurrection and the life.” Faith is the portal through which we enter the realm of the spiritual, but all true religion is love., Christianity is but a conjugation of the verb “to love;” the loveless heart, however correct its creed and however strong
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