night and day. 'What are you
doing?' 'I have a large family of children; and I am endeavouring to
lay up a portion for them.' 'Why then do you not in truth lay up a
portion for them! What! will you lay up a little dust, and call that
a portion? Is that a portion for an immortal soul? You are rather
hanging a millstone about the necks of your children which may sink
them deeper into ruin. You may thereby tempt them to plunge into the
world: and there they may scatter what you have treasured up, and
called a portion! 'The Lord is my portion, saith my soul,'--is the
declaration of David; and till you lead your children to this
portion, you are making no real provision for them'" (Cecil).

[9] "Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his
life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But
whoso hath this world's good, and teeth his brother have need, and
shutters up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love
of God in him?" (1 John 3. 16, 17). And "how dwelleth the love of God
in him" who can behold his fellows, by millions, perishing with
ignorance--that hunger of the soul--, without putting forth every
effort, and making every sacrifice, that they may receive the bread
of life.

[10] The Christian Motto should be--Labour hard, consume little, give
much, and all to Christ.

[11] "Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity
of my heels shall compass me about? [Revised Version "iniquity at my
heels", that is, enemies who would work iniquity.] They that trust in
their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a
ransom for him; (for the redemption of their soul is precious, and it
ceaseth [faileth] for ever;) that he should still live for ever, and
not see corruption. For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool
and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever,
and their dwelling-places to all generations; they call their lands
after their own names. Nevertheless, man being in honour abideth not:
he is like the beasts that perish. This, their way, is their folly;
yet their posterity approve their sayings.--The upright shall not be
ashamed in the evil time; and in the days of famine they shall be
satisfied. I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the
righteous forsaken,