Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-13

don't worry text. Now don't worry"
"be not anxious" Is excellent advice where
1t can be followed, but there are many sit
uations in life where anxiety, and anxiety
of very intense sort. cannot be avoided.
Thus understood, therefore, the injunction
is hardly practicable injunction.
Besides, this Interpretation misses, In my
view, the whole point OF The lesson of which
our text is the summing up. That lesson
runs all through the sermon on the mount
and constitutes the real burden of the gos-
pei message. 1t is to the effect that we are
living In moral universe. where life is
conditioned by immutable laws which we
cannot dodge escape. that the great pur-
pose OF the government under which we are
held is the development in US of charac-
ter that shall put us at one with ourselves
at one with the good in our fellows, and In
tune with the Infinite in whose image we
are. and into whose moral likeness we are
destined to grow. The Beatitudes are sim
ply statements of these great laws of moral
being, as perceived by Jesus; laws which
cent grasp These laws do not concern con-
duct alone but motive as we'll They reach
to the very roots of our being and require
q purpose and spirit a one with the purpose
and spirit that animate the universe
In the passage of which our text is the
conclusion. Jesus cautions His disciples
against allowing the less important goods
of life to acquire commanding influence
over their affections. Things that concern
the life of the body. important as they are,
must never be permitted to usurp the place
OF those that concern the life of the real
man. Life in the human sense of the word
means more than existence-more even than
existence in physical comfort and luxury.
Men had existence, and many of them exist
ence In affiuence and ease. when He came
10 teach But He came He said that they
might have life. and have 1t more album
dainty than they had ever known. Life in
the large and human sense of the word
means the joyous and harmonious activity
OF all those powers of mind and heart that
bind us indissolubly to each other. and
contemplate communion and fellowship with
the life OF the Highest. Therefore Jesus ex
horted His disciples 10 lay up heavenly
rather than earthly treasures. to hold all
things that minister to the body subordi-
nate TO those that make for manhood. and
to value the lower chiefly means of de-
veloping the higher.
mo man." He said. can serve two mas
tiers. such as God and mammon. II he holds
Loyalty to one he will think lightly of the
other" Such was the message OF Jesus to
the men who had gathered to listen to the
gospel Of the kingdom. 1t contemplated a
radical change In the whole purpose and
spirit OF their daily lives-such a change as
seemed in their view to involve loss Of
position. OF employment; and of all means
of support.
This was asking. as they felt. too much.
But the purport OF Jesus reply to this was:
IF you are sick of the wrongs and injus-
tees OF the present; II you desire to see and
TO help bring about iuster and happier rela-
lions in human affairs then give yourselves
wholly and fearlessly to this cause of the
kingdom. Take thought of what We
shalt eat or what ye shall drink, or where
withal ye shall be clothed The life is more
than meat and the body than raIment. Tho