The Brinkley argus., 1910-01-21
TRUE BLESSEDNESS
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pure in heart; for they shall see Goo. Matt. 5:S.
 TIME.-The summer of A. D. 2s near the middle of Christ's ministry.
 PLACE.-The traditional site Is the Horns of Hattin two or three miles west of the Sea of Galilee, where Saiad'1 oe- feated the Crusaders and destroyed all hope of Christian rule in Palestine
 suoqestion and Practical Thought.
 We now come to some of the dis tinguishing marks of Matthews pre- sentation of the life of our Lord, and to distinct eras in the work of Jesus.
 The Beatitudes. The Text of the Sermon, with the Inspiration, the Motor Power, to Living in Accordance with Them.
 The Beatitudes are the Gate Beau tiful to the Temple of Holiness.
 First Beatitude-v. 3.
 1. Wto gre the poor in spirit! "Blessed are the poor in spirit This is not poverty of mental faculties and gifts. It is no mean, abject feeling; no Uriah Heep humbleness, no want of self-respcct-
 2. How does the blessing grow out of this spirit? Because 1t is the same spirit that is required when we are told that we must become as little children if we would enter into the Kingdom.
 3. What is the blessing? For theirs Is the Kingdom of Heaven They be- long to that kingdom. they are ruled by it's laws and principles.
 4. What part has this Beatitude in forming the perfect man, and hence the perfect world? It is the spirit and atmosphere in which all virtues flourish.
 Second Beatitude.-V. 4.
 i. Who are described by the term they that mourn? The mourners whom Christ proneunces blessed are those who are poor il spirit. n Maclaren
 2. Why are those that mourn blessed? For they shall be com forted"
 God comforts those who are mourn ing on account of sickness, sorrows, troubles and losses, by causing them to work flor us more and more ex-' ceedingly an eternal weight of glory @ Cor. AID.
 3. How do these blessings grow out of the mourning? Because to sl1- full beings there seems to be no other way. There is no way to the bless fngs of forgiven sin save by the mourning that leads to repentance.
 4. This is also the answer to the question What part has this Beati- tude in making the perfect man and the perfect world? "A high ideal of life lies beneath all. No man is beg gared who has vision of mans chief end and chief good. Exp. Greek Test.
 5. How is this Beatitude illustrated in the life of Christ? The consola- ton that came to him after the prayer in Gethsemane. His whole life is ex- pressed in Heb. 12:2.
 Third Beatitude.-v. 5.
 1. Who are the meek that shall in- herit the earth? Meekness is dispo- sition of the soul in reference to the wrongs. or seeming wrongs, which come to us from others. It's basis is the control of all earthly tempers by the spirit.
 2. What Is the reward of the meek? "They shall inherit the earth" from their king. They do not earn it, but inherit it.
 Fourth Beatitude.-V. 6.
 1. Who are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness? Hunger and thirst express the most intense of all desires.
 In this Beatitude are included those who have this intense desire to be good, to be righteous; everything else success, riches. pleasure, knowledge must be as nothing in comparison with righteousness.
 2. What is their reward. They shall be filed with the righteousness they desire.
 Fifth Beatitude.-V. '.
 I. Who are described as the nerci full! Mercy Is near of kin to love. T. is love to the needy, the troubled, fhc sinful, even those who have wronge6 us. It relieves spiritual want and darkness as well as temporal; would give the Gospel to the heather as well as food to the hungry.
 2. What is their reward? For they shall obtain mercy" From man and from God. Like begets like.
 3. How was this illustrated by Christ? Christ's coming to save men. his miracles of mercy. his beginning his death on the cross.
 Sixth Beatitude.-V. 8.
 i. What Is 1t to be pure in heart? Real purity "is in the heart. the seat of thought, desire, motive, not in tho outward act"
 3. What blessing comes to the pure in heart? "For they shall see God"
 Seventh Beatitude.-V. 9.
 1. Who are included in the term peacemakers? "Peacemakers are ere ated by having passed through all the previous experiences which the pre- ceding verses bring out"
 The Work and Power-of Salt.-v. IS. Ye are the salt of the earth. Salt seasons food, and preserves 1t from corruption, SO that it can give life to men. Salt cleanses, and sweetens, and gives wholesome flavor to human existence. Their whole spirit, teach ings. lives and influence counteract. are antiseptic to, the unrighteousness which is the great destroyer of indi. viduals ana nations. President Had.