Oh, may the Spirit of God burn the text into your
hearts to-night. When I got home again my mother told me he was in her
house, and I went to see him. I found him in a rocking chair, with that
vacant, idiotic look upon him. Whenever he saw me he pointed at me and
said: "Young man, seek first the kingdom of God." Reason was gone, but
the text was there. Last month when I was laying my brother down in his
grave I could not help thinking of that poor man who was lying so near
him, and wishing that the prayer of his mother had been heard, and that
he had found the kingdom of God.
The Eleventh Commandment.
There are a great many people who forget that there are eleven
commandments. They think there are only ten. The eleventh commandment
is: "Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven." How many of us
remember--ah! how many people in Chicago forget the words of the Lord
now in his wonderful sermon on the mount: "Lay not up for yourselves
treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where
thieves break through and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in
heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do
not break through and steal." How few of our people pay any heed to
these words.
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