Daily Bible illustrations : being original readings for a year, on subjects from sacred history, biography, georgaphy, antiquities, and theology : Especially designed for the family circle . ingdom of God—that is, the Messiahs kingdom— TOUR IN PEREA. 365 would come, and the parables of the Impnrtunate Widow, andof the Phari.^ee and Publican, mark the farther steps of thisimportant journey. Farther on, some mothers brought tbeir little children forhis blessing—probably as lie was leaving some vilage—butthe women were churlishly repulsed by the disciples, whowere listening to a discourse on the
Daily Bible illustrations : being original readings for a year, on subjects from sacred history, biography, georgaphy, antiquities, and theology : Especially designed for the family circle . ingdom of God—that is, the Messiahs kingdom— TOUR IN PEREA. 365 would come, and the parables of the Impnrtunate Widow, andof the Phari.^ee and Publican, mark the farther steps of thisimportant journey. Farther on, some mothers brought tbeir little children forhis blessing—probably as lie was leaving some vilage—butthe women were churlishly repulsed by the disciples, whowere listening to a discourse on the too common practice ofdivorce, which must have been of deep interest to them. WhenJe-us noticed this action, He told them, with some severity, toallow the children to come to Him, for of such, He said, isthe kingdom of heaven. And He drew them to Him, takingsome in his arms, and bestowed upon them his blessing—a bless-ing of more worth than the spoil of empires, but the full valueof which was, probably, not well understood by the were, it is likely, such women as still in the East covetgreatly for their little ones the blessing of some great teacheror holy It was farther on that a rich young man came to Jesus, pro-fessing his readiness to follow Him, but went away greatly dis-heartened, when he was told to sell all he had, and to distrib-ute the proceeds among the po>r. To cast aside the worldto this extent, he was not, with all his zeal, prepared ; nor didhe count our Lords assurance t1iat he should have treasure inheaven a sufficient compensation. Yet he went avvny sorrow-ful to find a bar opposed to intentions which his faith was not 366 THIRTY-EIGHTH WEEK THURSDAY. able to surmount. Jesus looked after him with concern as hedeparted, and said— How hardly shall thny that have richesenter into the kingdom of God ! For it is easier for a camelto go thiough the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enterthe kingdom of God. This metaphor has se
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