The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-01-18
The
Sunday School
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM
MENTS FOR JANUARY %.
Subject: True BIessedness, Matt. So
1-16-Comrnit to Memory
Verses 80.


EXPOSITION.--I. How to Be
Happy, 1-12. In this lesson Jesus
answers the great question that man
is ever asking, How to be happy
Jesus points out eight classes whom
God pronounces happy. They are not
those whom the world esteems happy.
Indeed they are in part those whom
the world esteems most unfortunate.
But time has justified, and eternity
will more abundantly justify the
declarations of Christ. % The first
class are the poor in spirit, j. e., the
lowly in heart, those who recognize
their need and are contrite and humf
BILE in spirit Comp. Ps. 34:18; 511
II; Prov. 1923; lisa. 57:15; 66:2s
Phil. 3:3). Theirs is the kingdom OF
heaven. The good of this present.
evil age belongs to the self-assertive
and self-esteeming; the good of the
coming age belongs to the self-re-
nouncing and self-abhorring. The
door of the kingdom is only open to-
those who realize their utter moral
poverty and humble themselves in
the dust GAS. 40, 10; Pet. 5:6;
Luke 1914; 1:53). The spirit of
the twentieth century is utterly ops
posed to the poverty in spirit here de-
scribed. (2) The second beatitude
sounds equally strange. The worlds
estimate is blessed are those who
are not called to mourn; those who
have no bereavements and no sor4
rows mot so," says Jesus, deep
sorrow Is one of the greatest blessings
of the life that now isl All who
have learned to know the deeper joys
that are in Christ, have been led into
them through great heart-aches. The
reason why those who mourn are
happy is because 'they shall be CONF
forted." 1t is H'the God of all com.
fort" Himself who comforts them
@ Cor. 1.3, A.. CD The third class
who are happy are the meek /. e..
the humble, gentle and mild as dis
tinguished from the self-assertiva
and contentious and harsh Il Cor.
4:21; GIL; Eph. Az; Tim. 1923:
Tit 3:2) The worlds thought is
that there is no chance for the meek
man in selfish, hustling age like
this; and that his gentle voice can
never be heard amid the universal
clamor. Jesus says, they shall in-
herit the earth Comp. Ps. 37:1Ts
lisa. 57:13). Certainly they are the
most fit, and it will be happy day
for the earth when they do. Even
now the words of the meek travel
farthest and are remembered longest,
Many man who has had a message
has failed to get the world to listen
to it, because of his self-assertive and
censoriGus manner in declaring it.
How we cry to God for something
more, something higher, deeper.
more perfect! How we long to ba
perfectly like Him, between whom
and ourselves we see so wide q diff
ferencel Jesus says, you shall be
filed" But if one is satisfied with
present attainment, there is nothing
more tor him (Luke 1880. I'D
THE mercifui" Mercy is that genu.
inc loving kindness toward the needy
that leads to helpful action in their
behalf. The man who helps others in
their distress will be helped of God
in his own distress (Luke 1868; Ps.
AID. On the other hand, he who
has a deaf ear to the cry of the
needy will find that God has deaf
ear when he cries to Him prov. 81:
49,; Matt. 18:23-35). (6) The next
kappy ones, the pure in hearts
Theirs in the supreme blessednesS.
they shall see God" God is infinite
beauty and infinite glory in personal
manifestation. The joy of beholdina
the greatest masterpiece of art, the
most wondrous landscape, the face OF
most matchless beauty, is nothing to
the Joy of gazing into the face of
God. The pure in heart and they
alone have this ineffable joy (Heb.
11:14. A sinful heart makes
blind eye. The pure in heart all
ready see God (Jno. 14:19, 81, 23).
but ''in glass darkly," but in the
coming day face to face" Il Cor,
1870. ~ Peace Makers 2 their
blessedness is because they shall be
called sons of God'' (R. w. The
God of the Bible is 1.-THE God OF
peace" Gro. 1873; 1920; Phil. A.:
81; Heb. 1920. Surely then the
peace makers are justly called His
sons. On the other hand one who
stirs up strife must be son of the
devil. All discord and strife has en-.
tered the world through the devil,
The wisdom that leads to bitter envy.
ing and strife lis earthly, sensual.
devilish.' Those who are prosecuted
for righteousness sake, upon them
two-fold happiness is pronounced.
III. The Disciples OF Jesus the Salt
of the Earth and the Light of the
World, 1916. Believers in Christ
are the salt of the earth, it is they
who keep human societ from spoil
ing and who give a proper SAVIOR to
it. Salt loses its SAVIOR by becoming
mixed with earth The Christian
loses his SAVIOR by compromising with
the world. They are then good for
nothing but to be cast out and trod-
den under foot of man. Believers are
not only salt that preserves but light
that illumines. Jesus is the Light OF
the world" (John 8:12), and we by
receiving Him ,ome lights to the
world also. 1t is our business to let
our light shine before men. We do
not need to make it shine, God does
that. but we SHOULD let it shine.
saved Brother's Life.
With his right foot nearly severed
John Thomas, woodchopper, was
carried four miles on the back Of his
brother Frank out of the woods to
the nearest telephone at night, and
his life was saved. The brothers were
chopping wood near Harry Payne
Whitney's game preserve near Pitts. !
field, Mass, when Johns axe slipped
and nearly cut off his foot. The
snow drifts were from four to six feet
deep, but Frank picked up his
brother. who weighs lao pounds, and
Dlowed his way through the snow
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