Anecdotes Matthew 5:5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. A poor Christian man, illustrating this text, said, "I went through my lord's park, and the great house looked so grand. Well, I said, 'Bless the Lord, it is a fine house.' I didn't envy it, bless the Lord! but I seemed so to enjoy the great house. I said, 'That's mine, surely; I enjoy it, I do.' Then the sheep looked so nice, and the cattle and the horses; and I said, 'Bless the Lord! they are all my Father's, and they are all mine.' I didn't want to have them, but I did enjoy them so. And the trees, and the grass, and the plantations, all looked so beautiful, I appeared to enjoy them so. I said, 'Lord, they are all Lord —'s; but they're all mine, too.'" And so they were. Well indeed would it have been for their proprietor, an unconverted man, had he been capable of enjoying them in the same sanctified manner. A missionary in Jamaica was once questioning the little black boys on the meaning of this text, and asked, "Who are the meek?" A boy answered, "Those who give soft answers to rough questions." (Anecdotes.)How different from the teaching of Christ is that of the great apostle of infidelity — David Hume!" Nothing," says the latter, "carries a man through the world like a true, genuine, natural impudence." The religion of a man whose morality is loose like this, could scarcely assume any other character than that of an unblushing scepticism and licentiousness. Parallel Verses KJV: Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.WEB: Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth. |
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