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Hypocrisy is a thing which is hated by everyone, and when Christ used it in speaking to the disciples, the word was undoubtedly as distasteful to them as to us. There came up in their minds the picture of the Pharisee, a man saying one thing and doing another, a man who made much of his religion, and at the same time was unsparing of the poor and friendless, a hateful man in every...
Notwithstanding the connection between the first three books, there is, in each, a marked individuality. According to an old conception, they have been divided as follows: Matthew wrote a Hebrew Gospel, Mark a Roman, and Luke a Hellenistic. In Matthew's writing we find a genealogy of Christ, extending back as far as David and Abraham. Later there are statements which are fulfillments of ancient prophecies, and all through his writings Matthew is intend in showing to the Jews that Christ is the long-looked-for Messiah...
...point in all his Gospel. He attempts, in presenting an idea, rather to brand it than to picture it. In his book are more Latinisms than in any of the others. He shows, further, that he is writing for foreigners by translating exactly the words of Christ, and by explaining usages which would be entirely out of place in writing to Hebrews...
...Phillips Brooks spoke to a crowded meeting of the St. Paul's Society last evening, upon the coming of the disciple Nathaniel to Christ. He had been following John but had come to wish for more than John could give him, and when Phillip told him that the Son of God was found he hurried to the new leader and at once opened his life wholly to the new influences of Christ...
...good lives if they only opened their lives to these influences as completely as Nathaniel did. A man seems, without these influences, to be blind to the fact that by living an honest, temperate, straight-forward life he is not alone developing himself and becoming a better servant of Christ, but he is exerting an influence for good on all around him, the effects of which will be apparent to him all through his life. Dr. Brooks said that lives of this kind are, if possible, even more beautiful in their close than in the time before; and an example...