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For their instruction and reproof, these examples are selected and described. It is not necessary to suppose that the parable pointed exclusively to those who were Pharisees, or exclusively to those who were not: it concerned all who were self-righteous, to whatever sect they externally belonged. We know that within the circle of Christ's devoted followers much of this spirit still lingered.
Christ's charge to John to 'tarry' did not only, as his brethren misinterpreted it, mean that his life was to be continued, but it prescribed the manner of his life. It was to be patient contemplation, a 'dwelling in the house of the Lord, a keeping of his heart still, like some little tarn up amongst the silent hills, for heaven with all its blue to mirror itself in.
It is Christ's testimony, as he is "the faithful and true Witness, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;" or it may be understood as bearing upon Christ in his person, offices and work. Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them.
The picture being suspended as before described, we proceed thus: Q. What is this? A. Jesus Christ raising Lazarus from the dead. Q. Who was Lazarus? A. A man who lived in a town called Bethany, and a friend of Christ's. Q. What is a town? A. A place where there are a great number of houses, and persons living in them. Q. What do you mean by a friend?
This was an uncomfortable saying. There was a pause after it, as if everyone were willing to let his neighbor speak first. "Are we not taught to follow Christ's example, Dr. Vince?" asked the boy. "Hardly in that sense, Samuel," said the terrified doctor. "Christ was God. And we can hardly be expected " "Ah, that is a subterfuge!" broke in Samuel, passionately.
Now Christ's first appeal to this sense of insignificance is this, that in the sight of God there is no such thing as an insignificant life. Taken by itself, looked at in its own independent personality, many a life is insignificant enough. But when we look at life religiously and recognize that it is a trusted agent of God, then the doctrine of the trust redeems it from insignificance.
To her he dedicated the first poems that he published; and she, too, was a poetess, excellent in her simple way. Thus was Charles Lamb's life saddened by a great affliction ever impending over it, and sanctified by a great duty which he never for a moment forgot. It was his good-fortune, while at school at Christ's Hospital, to become acquainted with Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
'O God, she cried, 'do have mercy upon me, and make me good again, if it's possible. Help me to be a good girl to mother. God forgive me for Jesus Christ's sake! She sobbed out this prayer over and over again, until her voice fell into a low whisper which even Meg could not hear; and so she lay upon the floor beside the mattress until her mother came back.
The Flight into Egypt Herod's cruel Proceedings and Death Mary goes to Jerusalem with Joseph on their Return their Child is missing they find him among the Doctors he returns with them the Feast of Cana Christ's treatment of his Mother when she desired to speak to him her Behaviour at the Crucifixion she is committed to the care of John valuable Lessons to be derived from this touching Scene.
Neither your first or any subsequent communions are to be made unless you are satisfied as to your own fitness to come to it. If you are in doubt you are advised to go to God's minister, lay before him those sins that make you afraid or doubtful of coming, and seek his advice. This is not pleasant, but it is useful. Many people speak against it, but it is Christ's appointed way.
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