The Detroit times., 1910-07-30

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Master was met by mothers desiring
10 have His blessing upon their chii'
dren. The Apostles, realizing 'ne
greatness OF their Master and the I'M
nortance of His time. forbade TINS
and rebuked the mothers. whei
Jesus heard. he called them and saia
"Suffer little children, and 1orpiu
them not to come unto me; Tor Oh
such is the kingdom OF heaven. ana
he put His hands In blessing upon
their heads.
From this we are not to understand
that the Kingdom of Heaven VIII De
composed OF little children. This er-
roneous idea has gone broadcast ana
such an impression respecting the
Kingdom has thus resulted. On the
contrary no little children can get
into the Kingdom. Only those who
have the hearing OF faith are even
called" 10 the Kingdom and its
glories. Our Lords blessing upon
little children merely signified His
sympathy and love and His apprecia-
ton of the purity and innocence OF
childhood. Those who Will be OF the
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children In the sense OF being simple
hearted. true. honest and trustlul OF
their heavenly Father-of such-like
will be the inheritors OF the King
dom.
Another account tells us OF Jesus
further words to the erect that all
who would be his disciples must be-
come as little children--must be like
little children in guilelessness, faith.
etc. But those who viii be heirs or
the Kingdom will all be "overcom-
ers." Such take up their cross and
follow the Lord whithersoever He
leadeth. AS our Lord could not have
taken up His cross when He was
boy or nine, so likewise children can
not become the followers OF Christ
In the Scriptural sense until they have
reached the age of discretion. which
with some may occur much earlier
than with others. We have known
children Of twelve years or there
abouts to give excellent evidence OF
faith. obedience and conservation or
the Lords will and evidence OF being
begotten of the holy Spirit. These.
of course, but no other children. could
have hope OF sharing with Christ In
His Millennial Kingdom.
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costed by one who said, Good Mas
ter. what good thing shall / do that
I may have eternal life?" He had
The right idea: namely. that eternal
life is the grand desideratum. the
grand hope of all hopes before the
human family. We are glad Of the
question; for It brought forth the in
spired answer In which everybody Is
interested. What is the value of the
present life, except as 1t leads US up
the passageway- to eternal life? How
utterly lost we should feel IL assured
that at death we would be blotted out
forever! How little In this life would
be worth consideration-how little 1t
could do toward filling the longing or
our hearts, which yearn for eternal
life!
Our Lord parted the question, in
order to draw out the Young man anu
make him commit himself. why do
you call me good?" Why do you
acknowledge me as a good teacher?
I nm either the Messiah. as l claim,
or else an imposter and far from good.
Do YOU accept My Messiahship? II
you do not how can you call Me good
or acknowledge that anything could
he good that does not proceed from
God the Fountain of all goodness?
But answering your question: IL you
would enter into eternal life, keep
the commandments. The young man
replied Which? The Master answer
ed Thou shalt do no murder, nor COM
NIT adultery. nor steal. nor bear
false witness, but honor thy father
and thy mother and love thy neigh
Tor as myself The young man re-
Piled. "All these things have I OBJ
served from my youth. What lack I
YETI"
lie was n model young man and
Jesus loved him. Evidently he was
keeping the Jewish Law to the extent
OF his knowledge and ability. He
thought that he was loving his neigh
Dor as himself; but this was a mis-
take which the Lord disclosed to him
by the following suggestion: III thou
wouldst be perfect, go sell all that
thou hast and give to the poor and
thou shalt have treasure in heaven"
instead OF on earth; sacrifice also
your earthly reputation and become
MY follower
All, how the Lord knew to put his
finger on the sore spot! The young
man had come to Him very boastful,
very sure that II any one In the world
was seeking to be In harmony with
the Divine arrangement he was that
one. He came for the Masters ap-
proval. that he might hear Him say,
"You are the one exception to the
rule" The Lord did not say. IF you
love your neighbor as you love your
self you will at least put forth an eff
fort to make that neighbor as COM
Portable as you desire to be comfort
able" He was content to be very
gich while some OF his neighbors
whom he thought he loved as he loved
himself were very poor-abjectly. SCR
rowfully so. When Jesus discovered
TO him the difficulty Of his situation,
he grasped II at once. He saw him.
self as never before. II became a
new test with him. Thus II Is with
all. previous lesson showed us the
Kingdom as a great prize pearl OF
great value, a treasure, which TO pos
sess, will cost all that we have: and
this lesson points out the same fact.
Let us not make the mistake made
by some. and suppose that the young
man who lived so honorable life and
failed to gain heaven, would be thrust
down into eternal torment because