The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-02-01
The
Sunday School
INTERNATIONAL LESSON CONF
NIENTs FOR FEBRUARY 6.
Subject: AImsgiving and Prayer,
Matt. 6:1-152Commit to
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PLACE.-Horns of Hattin.
EXPOSITION. How to Give
Aims, IA. We should avoid doing
our righteousness to be seen Of men.
If we do it to be seen of men, it will
be seen of men and we will have our
only reward in their praise, the high
er reward from our Father who is in
heaven will not be ours. This does
not necessarily forbid all gifts in pub
lie q Cor. 1871, %. Our Lord Him
self commended gift made in public
| (Luke 21.1-4). But while lie gift
may be in public, the object should
not be to be seen of men. God knows
the gift of which no man knows. He
seeth in secret ". 4 CT. Heb. abb.
We should avoid to the uttermost all
ostentation in our giving ". 3D. We
need not fear that our aims will not
be rewarded We may not have re-
ward here, but we shall hereafter
/ (Matt. 1851, 80, 37-40; Mark 10:i
III; Acts 10:1-4). The best reward
IS in the very giving itself (Acts 2O:l
S5). The reward will be in propor-
ton to the bountifulness of our Civ
Ing Il Cor. 9:6). The reward that
God gives for well doing is a legiti-
mate motive (cf. Heb. 11:6, 26), but
1t is not the supreme motive for the
Christian e Cor. 5:14 l Cor. TO-:
31)
III. How to Pray, 5-15. Hypocrites
love to pray in such way that their
prayers shall be noticed The race is
not dead yet. Many man who prays
in public has more thought of what
the audience will think Of his prayers
than of how they will affect God. To
be seen of men is the hypocrite's
motto, to be heard of God is the true
believers aim. Our Lord by His
words here does not condemn all pub
lie prayer (cf. John GID. What
He does condemn is that kind Of pray
ing in public that seeks the notice
and admiration of men. Those who
pray in that way receive their full re-
ward in the notice they get. That
sort of reward is not worth much.
The choicest place of prayer is in the
inner chamber with the door shut,
shut in with the Father, the world
shut out. There are times when pub
licity in prayer is a duty (Dan. 6:1O).
but it is bad sign when man prays
more in public than he does in pri-
vate. Our prayer should be to 'tour
Father" ". 81. He is in the secret
place; while He is everywhere, it is
In the secret place that He especially
manifests Himself He sees in secret.
The prayer offered in secret He rec
ompenses openly He recompenses it
by giving what we ask (Matt. IN; I
John 5:14, 15), and by giving far
more than we ask (Eph. 3:20). We
should not babble in prayer, multiply
ing words for the mere sake~of words.
This does not forbid the repetition
that comes from intense earnestness
matt. 26:44), that is meaning
fuH; 1t does condemn the use Of
words that are meaningless We have
an illustration of vain repetitions in
1 Kings 1926. There is no need of
using many words; our Father knows
our every need before we pray; but
lie would have us utter it to Him that
we may realize it too. and that we
may realize Who it is supplies the
need. In verses Gil Jesus gives us a
model prayer. Not that we are all
ways to use these words, but we are
TO pray according to this plan. The
characteristics of this model prayer
are: First, it is offered to our Father
IN heaven; second, that it seeks first
OF all His glory, His kingdom and His
Will; third, that it is brief; fourth it
is to the point; fifth, that it is hum
pie, the expression of one who real
ICES his own proneness to sin. This
ought not to be called the Lords
prayer. The Lords Prayer is
found in John II. This is the disci-
pie s prayer, taught him by his Lord.
GOD is to be addressed as ''Father:',
the thought of the Fatherhood of God
lies at the very foundation of the
Christian doctrine of prayer. God is
everywhere, but the chief place of His
manifestation is in heaven (cf. Ps.
1853; Is. 66:1; John 1928: Acts
1:9; Mark 1:11; John 1929. Gods
Kingdom is coming when the King
comes Grew. 11:15). One of the
sweetest prayers true child of God
can offer is, Thy will be done" No
one has right to offer it who is NOT
making Gods will the absolute rule
OF his life. We can ourselves answer
this prayer in so far as we do Gods
VIII in everything. The time is COM
ing when Gods Will will be done on
earth as perfectly as it is now done in
heaven. 1t is right to pray for tenn
poral things. We should seek from
God so much food as we need fc- the
present moment. We should live a
DAY at time ". I'D. The only one
VINO can properly ask God to forgive
MIN his sins is the one who is forgiy-
ing those who sin against him. For
one who is not forgiving others to Of
Ter this prayer is for him to ask God
TO damn him. God in His infinite
wisdom may bring us into the place
OF temptation for our highest good.
but any one who has realization OF
his own weakness will cry to God not
to bring him into temptation. This
prayer is utterly opposed to that spirit
that PUSHES into places of unnecessary
temptation (cf. Cor. 10:12). There
Is an Evil one" and we need to be
always on our guard against his wiles
(cf. Pet SIS; Eph. GIL, 12).
Overcome by Heat Dur1 Gold Wave
Within forty-eight hours of the
time when Boston was shivering at
temperature Of five below zero, Will
liam f. Quinlan, of Roxbury. was
overcome by the heat. Clad in a
heavy coat, Quinlan attended a rally
at the Vine Street Church in the inter.
est OF John S. Fitzgerald, one of the
Mayoralty candidates. The crowd
was wedged together closely. and the
young man became faint. He was
removed to the open. "A doctor was
summoned, and pronounced Quinlan
overcome Nv the he9-,
Dies After. 0Anov Eaar4