Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-01-26
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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL,
LESSON vi, FIRST QUARTER, INTER
NATIONAL SERIES, FEB. 6.

| MA llONHl SChlCSy TG0' W.
| Text of the Lesson, Math. vi, 24-34-Mem-
| ory Verses, 25, 26-Golden Text, Pet.
| Commentary by the Rev. ID. Nj.
Stearns.
| "a. "No man can serve two masters, Tor
either he will hate the one and love the
other or else he will hold to the one and
despise the other. Ye cannot serve God
and Mammon." There arc but two mas.
ters, 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 chilu
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, p, ever seek
ing to please Him who hath called us.
25. Therefore say unto you, Take no
thought for your life, what ye shall cat OF
what ye shall drink nor yet for your body
what We shall put on. Is not the life more
than meat, and the body than raimentr'
This wonderful II say unto you" is tho
New Testament equivalent of "Thus saith
the Lord" and should carry with it all
weight, for there is in it all power.
think you will find it IA times in this ser
mon,
| 20. "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 they9 Are not five sparrows sold
for 3 farthings, and not one of them is for
gotten before God?" (Luke xii, 81 He who
gave life will not withhold food for the
life, and He who made the body will sure
| ly supply raiment to clothe it. Do people
who worry about these things remember
that they have q Father in heaven who
spared not His own Son, but delivered Him
ND for us all. Now shall He not with
Him also freely give us all thingsy (Rom.
viii, 32.)
81 (which of you, by taking thought,
can add one cubit unto his stature? We
can neither add one inch to our height
nor q moment to our life but by the will
of God. We are wholly dependent upon
Him for everything, just US much as the
birds and beasts and fishes, flowers ana
plants and trees. He is the God in whose
hand our breath is, and whose arc all our
ways. He opens His hand and satisfies
the desire of every living thing,
2S. "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 we'll rooted they grow. Thus If we
will but abide in quietncss, and, like the
plants, trust the husbandman' s care, Ho
will see to it that our clothing shall 10
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 tho moments power as it needeth.
! 90. "And yet say unto you that even
like one of these" His glory was all put
on, but the lilys glory is part of itself.
Our Lord Himself is the true Lily OF the
valley. His glory was in Him and shono
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.
80. 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 clothc you, o ye of little
faith?" If He clothc the pcrishable 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 penitcnt sinner, just as when the
Lord God made unto Adam and to his
wife coats of skins and clothed them (Gen.
lii, 21). How much more will He provide
the temporary clothing needed by these
bodies!
81. "Thereforc take no thought, saying,
What shall We eat, or what shall we drink,
or wherewithal shall we be clothed"'
Worry not in your heart nor give utterancc
to your thoughts Fret not is command
found three times in Ps. xxxvii, l, Z, g.,
alongside of "Trust in the Lord and do
good; SO shalt thou dwell in the land, and
verify thou shalt be fed" In Phil. iv, g.,
it is, "Be careful Tor anxious) for moth
ing" DR.. Weston says: Anxiety for the
things of thiSlifc is unnecessary and prof
itlcss. God knows, and God loves" He
will provide, for His name is Jehovah
jireh (Gen. XIII II, margin).
80. "(For after all these things do the
gentiles seek), for your Heavenly Father
knoweth that We 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 If our
children seemed worried and anxious lest
we might not feed and clothe them and
still more so if they should 60 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 De added unto you" If un-
derstand this, it means that having become
an heir of God through faith in Christ
we are to make it 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 When in-
diyidual believers and churches and Sun
day schools live not for their own benefit,
but to obey the great commission Of
Math. xviii, 10, 90; Mark xvi, Is; Luke
xiv, Al, then We shall see His exceeding
abundance Of blessing in every necessary
way.
| Make thou His service thy delight.
| He'll make thy wants His care.
81. "Takc therefore no thought for the