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He who from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky ✓ thy certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright.” The futility, of this excessive anx iety for worldly things was very forcibly expressed by Dr. Talmage in one of his sermons. His argument ran something like this: ‘‘One who has worn himself out in the effort to amass more money than be needs suddenly drops dead. His pastor tells a group of sorrowing friends that, by a mysterious dispen sation of Providence, death has claimed the departed. Why not tell the truth about it? Why not say that the man was kicked to death by the golden calf.” Tolstoy emphasizes the same thought in another way. He pictures a man greedy foi; land who, having bought all that his means would purchase, sells it to buy a larger quantity. Then he sells this and buys a still larger tract at a low er price. Finally he hears of a savage chief tain who offe4|§ to land hunters alb that they can walk around in a day for a hundred rubles. He puts the money in his purse and seelfs to make this'new addition to his posses sion. THE COMMON ALLOTMENT OF THE GREEDY He finds that the promise is bona fide and is told to put the money on the ground and that he will be given all the land that fie can encompass between sunrise and sunset The man starts out, eager to get as much land as possible. He walks faster and faster AtiU; by the time he begins the second side more than a fourth of the time has elapsed. He increases his speed and does not turn again until after the sun has vcrossed tile meridian. Then he must hurry still more to make the remaining sides, and befdre he reaches the starting point he is alarmed for fear sunset will overtake him before he has finished his journey. But by constantly increasing effort he reaches the end of the fourth side just as the orb of day is sinking be low the horizon. He w ns the race, the land is his, but he falls exhausted on the spot and then he needs the common allotment^ for the dead— only six feet of ground. But the / two lessons preceding would not have their full force with out the third—"Seek ye the kingdom of God.” . , ' If Christ had only rebuked, those who desired to follow him might have lost their way. But when Christ admonished, He also directed, and so, after He had spoken of the fool ish man who glorified in his bounti ful crops and planned to spend his time in ease—after converting the birds, grass, grain and the flowers into teachers of spiritual truths. Christ set before His disciples that which should be the real purpose of life. "Seek ye the kingdom of God,” or, as Matthew records it. 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