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stanzas:
Thou art gone, the abyss of heaven
Has swallowed up thy form; yet
. on my heart
Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou
hast given,
And shall not soon depart.
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
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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. "Seek ye first
the kingdom of God.”
There must be a paramount pur
pose in life to which all other pur
posses should be made subordinate
and by which all other plans must
be regulated.
What the north star is to the
mariner. Christ’s teachings are to
the voyagers on life’s uncertain sea.
There are many stars in the heav
ens, but there is only one by which
the pilot can steer the ship—one star
that will give us our direction and by
which we can locate the other stars.
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poses are made subordinate—one
rule by which all life’s activities can
be measured.
“Seek ye the kingdom of God:”
those who go in this direction cannot
go astray.
Not only are such protected from
wanderings that waste time and con
sume energy, but all other good
things are added.
There is no promise that we shall
find the kingdom as a result of the
seeking of other things, but we haye
the assurance that we shall find all
other good things that are needful
and beneficial if we first seek the
kingdom of God.
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While I have commented on the
verses suggested for the Christmas
lesson by the Internat'onal Sunday
School Committee? I have not forgot
ten that Christinas Day lies jusi
ahead.
Only one birth is “celebrated by so
many hundreds of millions—proof
sfifffcient that Christ was more than J
man.
On Dec. 25 we bow in humble rev
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man and manifest our gratitude in
gifts of affection to family and
fr'ends and gifts of impersonal love
to those less fortunate than our
selves.
]\lay the Heavenly Father impart
to us all the Christmas spirit as we
greet the anniversary of our Savi
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