The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-02-28
Sn01cStions.

| Suggestions.
1. The young should seek Christ
| 2. Be not satisfied with being anything less
| than total Christmas
3. Honor parents.
! 4. Do not trust entirely in earthly posses
| sions.
| 5. Do not court hattery.
8. Be practical, not merely theoretic. OPP
| pose sntiuOmianism.
| Z. Adopt the catechetic style Of teaching
! question and answer
s. One may be eager, even run TO church,
Chamber to get front seats asservices, tire them
selves getting to the preaching, but yet lack in
| tial for salvation.
The story OF this young man teaches us that
persons may earnestly seek salvation, and yet
| fail. They are perhaps unwilling to reliuquish
! some one thing. Everyone must make some
| sacrifice in order 10 be Christian. 1t may be
money or passion, or pleasure. May God help
us to give up everything that interferes with
| piety.
| 3. The teaching of Christ is very plain.
Nothing must come between the soul and God.
| Everything must he devoted lost by consecra-
! ton. All property must be given. with all the
| heart, to God, and used for Him. This will
| not save; it will be the sign of faith and love,
of devotion to Christ who saves. Since money
represents SO many interests, the way in which
| VIC uSc IL, WHeCDer we nave DucH or little, 10 d
| good indication of our character"
| 10 Christ appreciates all the good there is
| In one, and is concerned il there be anything
wanting. The young man was only moral, as
| we say-not exactly Christian in the sense of
| the churches-and yet Christ loved him; loved
him because he was as he was. Rev. Daniel /.
Jones, OF Cincinnati. once declared: 1t used
| to be said that God hated everything an un-
cody man did. That cannot be. God cannot
hate what ia pnod rhneuar does Christ did
not love this youug man because he was
Christian. God loves honesty and Truthful
ness in every one. This man loved his neigh
Dor, but he lad not learned to love God more
than his neighbor and more than himself"
IL. Be charitable. Help the needy. Share
your wealth. st. Mark 10: 81. "Giying goes
with love. If we do not give we ought, 1t is
because we do not love as We ought; and that
is sin. Then even that we keep may turn
against as, as with this man."
IL. Come and follow Me-" st. Mt, 10: 81.
st. Mark, 10: 81, says, Come, take up the
cross md follow Me-" st. Luke, ID: %, has,
Come, follow Me-"
The injunction "is manfestly intended to
bring out the fact that the young man had
made an idol of his riches. and hence that he
utterly contrsvened the spirit even of the first
commandment"
We may suppose the young man went TO
Christ sincerely, disposed to be anything re-
CURED. He was conscious Of his own moral
state. He knew that truth and goodness as he
understood them, were dear to him. 1t was
probably a revelation to the young man HIM
self when he discovered that he loved his pos
sessions so much to prevent the degree of
charity which tire standard of Christ demanded.
There was no special virtue in the requirement
made by Christ, and it was made in this par
ticular instance because it was the weak point
in the young mans character.
II Z. IL Ill.
OF That young man led to his repentance. An
ME Rix MiIitz wrote: without doubt he be-
came a Christian, for such jealous devotee
would not stop short of the goal. The very
fact of his sadness is significant of his intention
to renounce." But we cannot determine the
question
Illustrations
81 must write upon your soul what George
Whitfeld wrote upon the window-pane with
his diamond ring. He tarred in an elegant
house over night, but found that there was no
God recognized in that house. Before be left
his room in the morning. with his ring he
wrote upon the window-p pane, One thing thou
lackest.' After the guest was gone the house,
wife came up and looked at the window aud
saw the inscr Upton. and called her husband and
her children; and God through that ministry
of the window-glass brought them all to
Jesus"
James a. West wrote the two stanzas below:
When unto Jesus In the way
The rich young ruler drew,
Saying, Good Master, obeyI
Whist good thing shall do?"
Jesus this voice of warming cast,
Lest other aims allure,
o earnest soul. sell all thou hast,
And give ii to the poorl"
Not loss to-day the Voice, to tho,s
Who fain would follow Himi
No other star Ist interpose
To dull the eye dim.
With single heart, with single eye
Christly diadem-
Must be pursued through Eastern sky,
The star OF Bcthlciemi
When Garrick was one time showing John.
son through his magnificent home palace, it ia
said Johnson--philosophe as he wss-remarked |
to Garrick, "Ah, David these are the things l