St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-02-14
THE HUNGRY SOUL.
It Travels the Road of the Blessed
in Christ's Kingdom.
And Has the Comfort of the Promise
That lit Shall Be Fflled-Ser-
mon by the "Highway and
Byway" Preacher.

copyright, 1903, by A. N. Kellogg News
paper Col
Chicago, January II, 1903.
Text: blessed are they which do hum
ger and thirst after righteousness, for they
shall be filed" Matt. $50
sThe hungry soul is one of the char
acters met with in the Kingdom OF
Jesus Christ. And because it is hun
cry soul it is plainly and self-evident-
~ live soul, a healthy soul and
growing soul. A dead body never
vet hungered and thirsted, and dead
soul is as insensible to desire for the
Righteousness of God as is the dead
body to the tempting viands placed
at it's. side. Jesus declares: blessed
are they which do hunger and thirst
after righteousness, for they shall be
filled" For thirty years the Son OF COD
had walked the pathway OF the
blessed. In Him was found the per-
feet expression of David's outpoured
heart: "Oh, how love / Thy law
(righteousness), it is my meditation
all the day." In the humble home al
Nazareth during his boyhood as lie
learned at His parents knees; in the
first journey to Jerusalem at the age
of twelve, when He sought out the
rabbis in the temple and questioned
them eagerly out of the law and the
prophets; during the long years or
waiting in the rude carpenter shop
at Nazareth, while He wrought with
His hands for His daily bread, Oh,
how His soul hungered and thlrsted
for the righteousness of God! he
learned to know that blessed indeed
was he who hungered and thlrsted
for Righteousness, and the fullness oil
God was His portion as day by day
| His soul sat at His Fathers table
and ate and drank of the spiritual
bounties so lavishly set before him.
And then in the fullness of Gods
time He came to set up His hing
dom, and in the Sermon on the Mount
we have, not the Magma Charta OF
the human race, as it has been false
" called, but the recasting of the in
| flexible law of Gods righteousness as
the declaration of principles OF the
Kingdom of Jesus Christ. The Mag
ma Charta of the human race rang
forth in Christ's words from the
cross: SIT is finished" as He, the
| Righteous One, bore the sins of the
world, and wrought for mankind q
mighty deliverance from sin and
death. but in the Sermon on the
Mount we have the perfect righteous
ness of God made manifest in new
form, and perfectly lived out IN the
life of Jesus. Jesus was practl'
cal theologian, and step by step dur
ing the actual experiences OF every
day life He had come to know that
the poor in spirit, the mourner, the
meek, the hungry soul, the merciful
| the pure-hearted, the peacemaker
were all blessed, and that every prom
Use given to them by God was as
certain of fulfllment as His coming
had been the fulfillment of prophecy
The clear understanding of this
shuts every door of human possible
ity of realizing the lofty heights Of
this towering mountain of God''
| righteousness; but, blessed be God!
it opens the "Via Christi along
which the soul may walk and real
ize all the righteousness and fullness
of Christ Jesus. Man may not lool
through the natural lenses of thu
human heart upon the rare AMI
priceless gems studding this Sermon
on the Mount and appropriate then
to his use. God must fit glasses Il
the eyes of his soul before he cal
see clearly the beauty of these jew
els and understand their true setting
Belshazzar, king of Babylon, appro
priated the holy vessels taken from
the temple at Jerusalem to his owl
use, and the finger of God traced Hi
indelible Judgment upon the walls o
his palace and the prophet DAME
read: 'sThou art weighed in the ba!
ances and found wanting" And it i
, ever thus. If the natural man ap
propriates the holy things of God, h
does so to his own destruction. A
Peter puts it: ssThey that are un
} learned and unstable wrest til
Scriptures unto their own de
J struction." And every verse, an
} every line, and every word, in tn
Sermon on the Mount bears its over
whelming Indictment of the natura
man: "Thou art weighed in the bal
ances and found wanting" But tn
} soul which has been quickened int
life by the touch of Him Who ha
J scaled it's every glistening height an
has measured it's length and breadt
of possibilities may follow over tn
, pathway marked out by Jesus pa
> tent, bleeding feet, and rejoice that h
t can sit in the School of Heaven an
] learn the Divine secrets of the King
!. dom of God.
, And so our text is not for tn
dead soul of the natural man, bu
is message to the quickened sol
+ of the regenerate man, and blesse
is he when he hungers. and thirst
] after righteousness, for he shall b
filed.
There are just two kinds of soul
l dead souls and live souls; the sol
? that hungers and the soul that doe
\ not. The young and democratic SO
) of President Roosevelt was return
Y ing home from the public school q
Washington one day when he wa
: stopped in his play with the othe
boys by gentleman who asked
establishment if he, the president
: son, was allowed to play with sue
common class of boys. The lit
y fellow looked up in wonder, an
said: "Why, my papa says there al
only two kinds of boys, good boy