Into the still - This is the natural sense of the passage. For it can hardly be supposed that grass or flowers should be thrown into the oven the day after they were cut down. Neither is it the custom in the hottest countries , where they dry fastest, to heat ovens with them. Every microscope in which a flower is viewed gives a lively comment on this text. Let us not be so ungrateful to him, nor so injurious to ourselves, as to harass and oppress our minds with that burden of anxiety , which he has so graciously taken off.
Every verse speaks at once to the understanding, and to the heart .
We will not therefore indulge these unnecessary, these useless, these mischievous cares. We will not borrow the anxieties and distresses of the morrow, to aggravate those of the present day. And thus instructed in the philosophy of our heavenly Master, we will learn a lesson of faith and cheer. Seek the kingdom of God and his righteousness - Singly aim at this, that God , reigning in your heart , may fill it with the righteousness above described. And indeed whosoever seeks this first, will soon come to seek this only.