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money and God will end by loving money and hating GodA^Torrey. The hypocrite thinks it good to have two strings to one’s bow.—Henry. In the last resort there are but two classes, those who are serving God and those who are serving the world.— Dumme.- low. Mammon. A word used iif the East, signifying material riches. It is here personified as a kind of god of this world.—Morrison. The word stands for all that mostly estranges men from God. Compare covetousness which is idolatry. (Col. 3 :5 .)— Camb. Bible. v. 25. Take no thought. We are naturally anticipative. Self-respect con strains us to the wisdom of foresight. To be careful is good but to be full of care is ruinous.—Harries. Worrying is virtually denial of God.— Peloubet. 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.’*9—Babcock. If we are anxious about our life, our food, our drink, or our clothing, it ia positive proof that the whole will is not surrendered to God.— Torrey. There is no argument here against forethought or labor. In one sense “ trusting providence” is idle ness and sin. God has appointed labor • as the means whereby man provides for his wants. Even birds show fore thought.— Carr. The promise of suffi cient maintenance is made not to the idle and the vicious but those who seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness. These can never be idle or impoverished.— Adeney. v. 26. Behold. There is a great deal of good to be learned from what we see every day if we would but behold it.— J. F. and B. Fowls of the air. The brut£ creation, devoid of reason, are incapable of sowing and reaping or storing, yet the heavenly Father suffers them not helplessly to perish but sustains them without any of these processes. Will He, seeing His o#n children using all
good, I will take it and read it to my mother.” When he opened the Book, what was his great surprise to find in side it a forty franc piece. “ Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and all these things shall be added unto you.” y. 19. Lay not up treasures on earth. Earthly treasures are precarious at best. Think of COMMENTS FROM the risks. Riches MANY SOURCES of grace and ever- Keitli J j . Brooks lasting peace and happiness are in Christ, which are the true and lasting wealth and glory of the Christian.— Harries. v. 21. Where your treasure Is. No man ever went to heaven whose heart was not there before.— South. v. 22. If thine eye be single. The idea conveyed by singleness of eye is threefold: Oneness, the contemplation of, one object, the heart bent on one thing. Clearness—when the eye is di rected singly and steadily towards an object, all becmes clear and distinct. Concentration— concentrating all power in one direction.-—Horn. Com. It is the great secret of a happy, holy life to have made up your mind once and for all to live for one thing, the glory of God.— Vaughan. v. 23. If thine eye be evil. The eye which is sharp for self-interest is dimmed for spiritual insight.— Jackson. As the conscience is the regulative fac ulty and a man’s inward purpose, scope and aim in life determine his charac ter, if these be not simple and heaven ward but distorted and double, what must all the other faculties and prin ciples of our nature be, which take their direction and character from these, and what must the whole life be but a mass of darkness.—-Brown. v. 24. No man can serve two mas ters. To offer God second place is to offer Him no place.— Ruskin. Those who begin by trying to serve both
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