Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-04-28
BACK TO THE BIBLE
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO
ST. MATTHEW
CHAPTER s


before men, to be seen Of them: other
wise We have no reward OF your Father
which is in heaven.
, Therefore when thou dOest thine
aims, do not sound trumpet before
thee, as the hypocrites do in the syna-
gogues and IN the streets, that they
may have glory of men. Verify sa!
unto YOU, They have their reward.
3 But when thou doest aims, let not
thy left hand know what thy right
hand dOeth:
4 That thine aims may be in secret:
and thy Father which seeth in secret
himself shall reward thee openly.
And when thou prayest, thou
shalt not be as the hypOcrites are:
for they love to pray standing in the
synagogues and in the corners OF the
streets, that they may be seen OF
men Verify | say unto you, They have
their reward.
But thou, when thou prayest,
enter into thy closet, and when thou
hast shut thy door, pray to thy
Father which is in secret; and thy
Father which seeth in secret shall re-
ward thee openly.
Z But when We pray, use not vain
repetitions, as the heather do: for
they think that they shall be heard
for their much speaking.
s Be not we therefore like unto
them: for your Father knoweth what
things We have need of, before we ask
him.
8 After this manner therefore pray
ye: Our Father which art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name.
10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be
done in earth, as it is in heaven.
II Give us this day cur daily bread.
IL And forgive us our debts, as we
forgive our debtors.
l3 And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil: For thine
is the kingdom, and the power, and the
glory, for ever. Amen.
II For if ye forgive men their tres
passes, your heavenly Father will also
forgive you:
Is But if We forgive not men their
trespasscs, neither will your Father
forgive your trespasses.
16 Moreover when ye fast, be not,
as the hypocrites, of sad countcn-
auce: for they disfigure their faces,
that they may appear unto men to
fast. Verify say unto you, They have
their reward.
II But thou, when thou fastest,
anoint thine head, and wash thy face;
IS That thou appear not unto men
to fast, but unto thy Father which is
in secret: and thy Father, which seeth
in secret. shall reward thee openly.
10 Lay not up for yourselves trea-
sures upon earth, where moth and
rust doth corrupt, and where thieves
break through and steal:
20 But lay up for yourselves trea-
sures in heaven, where neither moth
nor rust doth corrupt, and where
thieves do not break through nor
steal:
81 For where your treasure is, there
will your heart be also.
% The light of the body is the eye;
if therefore thine eye be single, thy
whole body shall be full of light.
% But if thine eye be evil, thy
whole body shall be full of darkness.
If therefore the light that is in thee
be darkness, how great is that dark
ness.
"a No man can serve two masters;
for either he will hate the one, and
love the other; or else he will hold
to the one, and despise the other. lie
cannot serve God and mammOn.
% Therefore | say unto you, Take
no thought for your life, what ye shall
eat, or what We shall drink; nor yet
for your body, what ye shall put on.
Is not the life more than meat, and
the body than raiment?
IS Behold the fowls Of the air; for
they SOW not, neither do they reap,
nor gather into barns; yet your heav-
enly Father feedcth them. Are ye not
much better than they?
% Which of you BY taking thought
can add one cubit unto his stature?
rs And why take We thought for
raiment? Consider the lilies of the
field, how they grow; they toll not,
neither do they spin:
20 And yet say unto you, That
even Solomon in all mis- glory was not
arrayed like one of these.
80 Wherefore, if God 80 clothc the
grass of the field, which to day is, and
to morrow is cast into the oven, shall
he not much more clothe you, o ye of