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lte: was :Addressing he behald an in-
carnation 'of the Infinite ,Goodness,
One there'is who `is 49oct Ctzu,dness
is God, and is to be obtained (and
with it eternal life) through eoetact
with God, receiving his Spirit, Put
it thou wduldest enter,into life; keep'
tkip, cormnandnteitts. To be sore, if
an'y, one should Perfectly keep all
God's eothmandments, he would: be
sure of eternal life; batwho could
that?' In the next moment tli`e'
young man recognized the insuper-
able difficulty, apart from the Spirit'
cif ` God.
He saith auto hint, 'Which? There
were so many and of ;such various
kinds in the Law; some estimated
them at 419. No one, it was thought,
_ hacl, ever kept them all. Indeed, it
■ was said that if any Jew even for
eg one day completely kept the whole
,Law,-Messias would come," And
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,Jesus said, Thou shalt not kill, etc.
Our Lord, omits, the, first table of the
�.ecalogt>.e, containing the command-
ments relating to God, because one
could notbe so sure of perfect obed-
ience to those as to the moral laws
of the second table; lie was leading
the young man on to retake his fullest
6- claims. -
Honor thy father and thy mother;
and, Thdu shalt love thy neighbor as
thyself. It is to be noted that our
__ Lord stops short of the tenth cont-
• man.dment, forbidding covetousness,
for right there was the young man's
special lack, as Christ proceeded to
show him.
The young roan saith unto him, All
these things have observed. "Froin
= my youth," is added in Mark and
Luke, 'which would imply that' the
• young man was not so very young.
What lack.,I yet? Looking honestly
at his life, and having view only its
exteriors, only the outward require-
ments of the Jaw, the young ruler
could see no flaw.
Jesus said unto, him, If thou would -
est be perfect. Our ,Lord sympathi-
zes with the search for perfection.
He will have no easily satisfied dis-
ciples, no followers content with half-
way attainments. But he makes it
plain that the path to perfection is
not an easy way. Go, sell that which
thou hast, and give to the poor.
Christ bids the young man do, some-
thing, but the deed is only a test of
his sincerity of feeling, a proof of, the
claim he makes to loving his neigh-
bor as himself. And thou shalt have
treasure in heaven, Our Lord was
merely advising the rich young fel-
low to , exchange a very poor, risky
investment for a "gilt-edged" one, an
investment sounder than any other.
And cone follow me. How eagerly,
and lovingly, with what' a sparkle of
the eye and smile , of the mouth and
outstretched hands this invitation
most have been given to the lovable
young nian! Here might have been
another John.
Put when the young man heard the
saying he went away sorrowful.
Mark says, "His countenance fell at
the saying"; Luke, that "he became
__ exceeding sorrowful," He had come
_1 with high hopes; he would become
e famous for his saintliness, for his.
complete fulfilment of the law; he
would win the praise of the great
rabbi, He went' away self -condemn-
ed, with his love of money rather
than of God exposed, to his conscien-
ce, and with all his hopes of saint-
hood dashed 'to the ground. For he
was one that had great possessions.
His great wealth was a snare, If he
ever changed his mind and followed
Christ, we are not told. <His name is
unknown, He stands for all time as
a sad warning of the power ofmoney
to debase a spirit that otherwise
would have gone far and risen high.
And Jesus said unto his disciples,
Verily I say unto you. This emphatic
beginningshows that the' Saviour at-
tached great importance to what he
was going to say. It is hard for a
rich! man to enter into the 'kingdom
of heaven. Christ's saying, of course,
does' not mean that .no rich nian en-
ters the kingdom of heaven. The
word{ has known many noble nteh of
wealth men who have accumulated
riches for the sake of employing them
in the service of, Christ, and who have
dedicated to him all their possessions.
But wealth brings with it many temp-
tatiobs, and it is indeed difficult to
escape them all.
And again I say unto you, Christ
would drive Moine the troth with an
illustration, a condensed parable, It
is easier for a camel to go through
a needle's eye, than for a rich man
to tenter into the kingdom of God.
This saying has beeneXpla.ined by
referring. to the word for rope or
c,ble, which soundslike "camel" but
that is unlikely,` Also, unlikely is it
to refer the saying to the small door
i'tt.the great city gate, through which
a than "night pass when the gate was
shut, 'brit Iiot•a camel, This door was;;
called' "tire tieelle's , eyen ire, later
tiri'tes; but not .in Ch'fit,es day. The
proverb. is to ;be• taken11teraiiy, acrd
expresses, Wltli Oriental, exaggeration
the Oettbttx c'Yifficu[ty .of a Sieh man's
etyti'abee 'into the kitrgdont of God.,
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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON and knelt reverently before Jesus.
LESSON XVII—April 27
Giving Up All for the Kingdom.--
Matt.
ingdom.-Matt. 19:1-29
Golden Text.—Lay up for your-
selves treasures;. in heaven.—Matt.
6:20.
THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING.
Tile, -March, A.D, 30, in the last
three months' of Christ's ministry.
Place.—Peraea, the region east of
the lower Jordan,
!-Parallel Passages. --Mark 10:17-30
Luke 18:18-20,
THE CALL TO STEWARDSHIP,.
And behold one came to , him:
Mark tells us that he came running
in his eagerness and his fear that
He was a young mail (verse 20), and
he was rich (verse 22). Luke alone
tells us. that lie was one of the rulers
of the local. synagogue, • And said,
Teacher. According to Luke, he ad-
dressed Christ • as "Good Teacher,"
the conventional title of a rabbi
V1Vhat good thing shall I do, that I
may have eternal life? "Oh, that
more young 'men would ask a similar
question! It was a very sttl'ta`ble.in:
quiry for an earnest person; lsucli as
he undoubtedly was, He sought eter-
nal life, and .could not be _content.
with the honour's of the hoar."
And he said unto hint, Why aslcest
thou- me concerning that which is
good? The purpose o:f Jesus in his
reply was to lead the yoting. man ,to
think more deeply about the mean=
ing and origin of goodness, and also
to suggest to hint that in the Person
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When they. heard Christ's conversa-
tion with the rich young ruler, and
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the poor. They were astonished ex-
ceedingly. The teaching ran counter
to all they liad been taught and to
the current practice. Saying, Wlio
then can be saved? If a ruler of the
synagogue, an honored 'religious lead-
er, a man of personal godliness, is
held outside of the kingdom of heav-
en, who is to be admitted to that
kingdom? What chance has an or-
dinary person?
And Jesus looked upon them. The
Greek "denotes a look of observation
and sympathy." Said to thein, With
men this is impossible; but with God
all things are possible. God can save
even a rich man, God can give to a
marl loaded down with worldly
wealth and beset with worldly temp-
tations even enough grace to enable
,'tarot tc1 conquer his t ptations and.
lits riches for God.m
Then answered Peter and said unto
hirn I t'er "acisweted" Christ's words'
about the difficult, o£ saving a rich.
man clahning,that no such difficulty
existed: in the case of the Twelve.
Lo, we have left all, and followed.
thee, We have not, turned away front
thee to our poasessionrsn, ce that riclt>
young ruler, We have left our fish-
ing boats, our homes, our dear ones,
and for three years have trudged .af-.
ter thee along the stony paths of
Palestine, 'What then shall we have?
We are a little ashamed of .Peter?.
As Arnot says, "hiseye we's on the
main chance." To be sure, Christ
wants to reward all his followers, to
bless them richly; but surely for ;Pet-
er those three years with Jesus were
glorious and all -sufficient rewards in
themselves. To any Christian, Christ-
ian life' is reward enough without any
extraneous recompense.
And Jesus said unto then, Verily
I"say unto you. He would leave no
doubt' inf their minds no this point.
That ye who have followed rate. Pet-
er and all other faithful disciples of
Jesus. In the regeneration. Tn the
new birth of all things toward which
the Jews had looked for so long and
which Jesus himself so clearly fore-
told. When the Son of Man shall
sit on the throne of his glory. Re-
turning to earth in visible form and
in a glorious splendor very different
from the lowliness of his incarnation.
Ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones,
judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Not Judas, of course, but Matthias,
his successor (Acts 1:26), The dis-
ciples would share Christ's work of
judging men.
And every one that hath left
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lowers, in all ages and all lands. Or
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ther,
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dem. Shall receive a hundred -fold.
Not' literally, of course, but spiritual-
ly; he shall receive many times as
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