_Keep the Passover._ THE YEARLY FESTIVALS The darker side of the Jewish religion was more than relieved by its outlets for joy. It identified in a marvelous manner the holy day and the holiday (see the, two words translated “feast” in Leviticus 23:1, meaning, the one “holy convocation,” the other... [ Continue Reading ]
_Save when there shall be no poor among you._ RURAL POVERTY These two sentences (Deuteronomy 15:4; Deuteronomy 11:1) seem, at first sight, to contradict one another. There are three ways of reading the fourth verse. “_Save_ _when _there shall be no poor among you,” says the text. “_To the end that... [ Continue Reading ]
_Remember that thou wast a bondman._ REMEMBER In an autobiography of William Jay we read that on one occasion he called to see the famous Mr. John Newton at Olney, and he observed that over the desk at which he was accustomed to compose his sermons he had written up in very large letters the follow... [ Continue Reading ]
_Eat it before the Lord thy God year by year._ MEMORIAL DAYS “Year by year.” It might seem at first sight, antecedent to experience, a surprising thing that the mere mechanical movement of the earth through the heavens should have any special relationship to man’s mind and spirit. Yet we know that... [ Continue Reading ]