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OUR HEAVENLY FATHER.
LESSON XII, SECOND QUARTER, IN
TERNATlONAL SERIES, JUNE o2.

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| %. and He said unto His disciples, There
| fore | say unto you, Be not anxious for your
| life, what We shall cot; nor yet for your body,
what ye shall put on (R. W The previous
verse, which is the last verse of the last les
sou, contrasts treasure in this world FOR ones
self, and treasure with God, wIarh is endur-
ing Men who live only for MS world will
naturally seek treasure here; but dsciplos Of
| Christ who are no longer of this world should
seek to have their treasure where they be-
long. His disciples may have thought, as lie
told Of the man building larger harms in
which TO store his corn, well, we shall not be
| troubled that way; but the question with us
| is, now that we have left all to follow Him
| what about the necessaries of life, our food
! and raiment which we actually need. If these
| were their thoughts He read them, and met
| them with the command, Take no thought
| ar BE not anxious even for these things
| Obedience to this command would take out
| of many lives about three-fourths of all their
trouble. Then in Phil. ~, d, is the command
to be anxious about nothing, WHICH will Ger
| tanly cover the other fourth so that there is
no permission for single anxious thought in
| the life of a Christian.
%. the life is more than meat, and the
| body than raimcnt' When He, after fast
ing forty days, was tempted to turn stones
| into bread, His reply was, MAN shall not
| live by bread alone, bat by every word that
| procredeth ont Of the mouth of Godn Matt
| iv, f. And again when weary, hungry, and
| thirsty, He suit on Jacobs we'll and the dis
! ciples brought Him food He said Il have
meat to eat that We know not Of
a Consider the ravens; God
feedeth them" In the sermon on the mount
l.1 l,ait 1I,.
| but here He selects one kind and that an I'M
CLEAN bird, cLssed among those which God
had said were to be an abomnation TO Israel
| G.cv. XII IS, l5). This Is the only place where
| the word is used in the New Testament. In
job XNxviii, ii; Ps. cxlvii, 9, God is said to
| provide for the raven its food and hear the
| cry Of its young. And in ! Kings xvii, A.,
| it Is this unClean bird which brings Eli ah his
! food morning and evening. There is surely
! >omethinS very special in this command to
| cOusluor the ravens. Are we not reminded
that He maketh His sun to rise on the evil
ans on the good, and aende,h rain Oh the Just
and On tie unjust; and uIaketh the wr&th Of
man to praise Him Matt. Y, 10; lx.1yi, TO-
| If God cares for aud can make use Of even
the ahomiuable raven, surely He Will not fail
to supply the need of those who have been
made whittier than snow by the precious blood
OF Hi, dear Son
'Oi how much more value are ye than the
BIRDS. The sparroWS, two OF which are sold
Tor Il farthing, or five for two farthings
l.iatt Y. ~; Luke vi, o are cared for by
Hun; how much more viii He care for those
VINO are bought with such price.
-. and which Of you by being anxious
can add cubit unto his STATURE Or w. Or
age as in the margin: To add a foot and Il
half to ones height would certainly be a
great matter; aHd rs the next Verse indicates
| that what Is here referred 10 Ii some small
matter, II must b" that the meaning IS "Who
| by anxious Thought can add even mali step
10 the length of his Ike" Nh" can with all
his care proiong his life Single moment un
les God 80 Wis t.: or If 1t III lul1 possibly
signify Increased Importance IN III" eyes OF
others IN TINS world, such as might come from
great stature, even then we must remember
that "lromotlon cometh neither from the
east nor from the west. nor from the south;
Tut God Is tie Judge, lie putteia down one
aud SettetA up another rs. l1Nv o..
20. IF, then, We arc not able to do that
which Is least, why a"o We anxious concern
| ing the rest:' The little child resting IN q
mothers love, entirely d-l audcnt on moth