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So in a while they rode on again, yet presently Sir Fidelis, meek-voiced, preferred a sudden question, thus: "Lord, fain would I know why thou dost contemn her so " "Nay," sighed Beltane, "here is a tale un-meet thy tender years. Speak we of other things as thus, wherefore didst keep our lives in jeopardy to bring away the wallet that cumbereth thy hip?"
You may be sure that Boanerges did not lecture that Fast-day forenoon in Mansoul on Acts xxvii. 14. We would know that, even if we were not told what his text that forenoon was. His text that never-to-be-forgotten Fast-day forenoon was in Luke xiii. 7 'Cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? And a very smart sermon he made upon the place.
They were absurd enough, but after getting laughed at a few times at home for making them public, I escaped mortification by forming a habit of great reserve as to my Sabbath-day thoughts. When the minister read, "Cut it down: why cumbereth it the ground?"? I thought he meant to say "cu-cumbereth." These vegetables grew on the ground, and I had heard that they were not very good for people to eat.
And then he feareth that he is never fully confessed nor fully contrite, and then that his sins be never fully forgiven him. And then he confesseth and confesseth again, and cumbereth himself and his confessor both. And then every prayer that he saith, though he say it as well as the frail infirmity of the man will suffer, yet he is not satisfied unless he say it again, and yet after that again.
One Sunday, when I had been preaching on the text, "Cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?" he was heard to say, "Thank God, I am not cut done yet;" and then he proceeded for the first time to the after-meeting in the school-room. When I entered I saw him low down on his knees, and said how happy I was to see him there.
It is only after severe and searching scrutiny that the word goes forth: "Cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?" But when once that word is spoken, there is no appeal. The Jewish people had become sadly unfruitful; but a definite period was to intervene three years of Christ's ministry and thirty years beside before the threatened judgment befell.
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