The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-05
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON VI, FIRST QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, FEB. 6.

Text of the Lesson, Math. vi, ea-s4-Mern-
ory Verses, 25, 26--Golden Text. 1 Pet.
- Commentary by the Rev. ID. M.
stearns
"a. "No man can serve two masters, for
either he will hate the one and love the
other or else he will hold 10 tho one and
despise the other We cannot serve God
and Mammon." There are but two mas
tiers, Christ and satan, God the Father,
Son and Holy Spirit who in Christ have
manifested their love for US and seek our
eternal welfare, with all we need here made
sure to us, and the devil, who controls the
world and the flesh and seeks our eternal
ruin, giving us as a bait some of the pleas
| ures of sin for season. The child Of the
kingdom, having received the Lord Jesus
Christ and being made in Him u child
and heir of God, Is expected, like Abra-
ham, to be looking for the city, and, like
Moses, TO have respect unto the recon-
pense of the reward and be laying up
treasure in heaven and not on the earth,
affection set on things above, not on
things on the earth (Col. iii, y, ever seek
| ing to please Him who hath called US.
| 25. Therefore say unto you, Take no
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what We shall drink, nor yet for your body
what We shall put on. Is not the life more
| than meat, and the body than raimentf"
This wonderful II say unto you is the
| New Testament equivalent of "Thus saith
the Lord and should carry with IL all
weight, for there Is in 1t all power.
think you will find it IA times In this SER
mon,
90. "Behold the fowls of the air, for
they SOW not, neither do they reap, nor
gather into barns, yet your Heavenly Fa-
ther feedeth them. Are ye not much bet
ter than theyp Are not five sparrows sold
for Q farthings, and not one Of them Is for
gotten before God?' duke xii, g. He who
gave life will not withhold food for the
life, and He who made the body will sure
ly supply raiment to clothe 1t. Do people
who worry about these things remember
that they have a Father In heaven who
spared not His own Son, but delivered Him
up for us all. Now shall He not with
Him also freely give Us al thingsp (Rom.
viii, 3d.
81. Which of you, by taking thought.
can add one cubit unto his stature?" We
can neither add one inch to our height
nor a moment to our life but by the will
of God. We are wholly dependent upon
Him for everything, just as much as the
birds and beasts and fishes, flowers and
plants and trees He is the God in whose
hand our breath is, and whose are all our
ways. He opens His hand and satisfies
the desire of every living thing
20. "And why take ye thought for raj
mentP Consider the lilies of the field how
they grow; they toll not, neither do they
SPIN" They are simply planted, and be-
ing well rooted they grow. Thus If we
will but abide in quietness, and, like the
plants trust the husbandman's care, He
will see to it that our clothing shall do
Him honor.
Just TO let thy Father do what He will,
Just to know that He is true and be still,
just to follow hour by hour as He leadeth,
Just to draw the moments power as 1t needeth.
go "And yet / say unto you that even
Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed
like one of these" His glory was all put
on, but the lily's glory is part of itself
Our Lord Himself is the true Lily of the
valley. His glory was in Him and shone
out through Him in all His words and
deeds. We may put on that which to some
may seem very beautiful, but the Lord
looketh upon the heart, and the thread of
this whole sermon is reality, the'reality of
the heart that is right with God.
30. Wherefore if God SO clothe the
grass of the field, which today is and to-
morrow is cast into the oven, shall He not
much more clothe you, o We of little
faithY If He clothe the perishable flow
ers, how much more will He clothe man,
whom He has redeemed by His precious
blood! He has, by sacrifice indescrib
ably great, provided redemption clothing
for every penitent sinner, just as when the
Lord God made unto Adam and to his
wife coats of skins and clothed them (Gen.
iii, 21). How much more will He provide
the temporary clothing needed by these
bodiesl
81. Therefore take no thought, saying,
What shall we eat, or what shall we drink,
or wherewithal shall we be clothedY"
Worry not in your heart nor give utterance
to your thoughts. Fret not is command
found three times In Ps xxxvii, 1, z, 8,
alongside of "Trust In the Lord and do
good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and
verify thou shalt be fed" In Phil. Nv, 6,
1t is, "Be careful Tor anxious) for moth
Ing" DR.. Weston says: Anxiety for the
things Of this life Is unnecessary and prof
itless. God knows, and God loves" He
will provide, for His name Is jehovah
jireh (Gen. xii, IA, margin)
81. "(For after all these things do tho
gentiles seek) for your Heavenly Father
knoweth that ye have need of all these
things" Leave all worry and care to those
who have no Father in heaven, but trust
thou in God. 1t would grieve us II our
children seemed worried and anxious lest
we might not feed and clothe them and
still more so If they should go to others for
these things, for which they should look to
US alone.
33. but seek ye first the kingdom Of
God and His righteousness, and all these
things shall be added unto YOU" If un-
dcrstand this, it means that having become
an heir of God through faith in Christ
we are to make 1t our one great business
TO hasten His kingdom and the time when
He shall reign In righteousness by letting
Him use us as He may please for any
manner of service in the matter of making
Him known to all the world w, IN in
dividual believers and churches and Sun
day schools live not for their own benefit,
but to obey thssgreat commission of
Aath. xviii, 10, 20; Mark xvi, 10; Luke
xiv, AZ, then we shall sec His exceeding
abundance Of blessing In every necessary