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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE GOOD PORTION THAT IS NEVER TAKEN A WA Y. LUKE X : 42. Mary Hath Chosen That Good Part Which Shall Not Be Taken Away FROM HER. Tins commendation was passed by Jesus while visiting at the house of Martha in Bethany. On this visit, it seems that Mary, desirous above all things to receive the gracious instructions of her guest, sat humbly at his feet to hear his word. But Martha, though, as appears from other parts of the history, she was a friend and disciple of Jesus, was so anxious to spread her table with a profusion of dishes to gratify the bodilv appetites of the social circle, as that she lost in a great measure to her soul the spiritual advantages which she might have derived from the word and presence of her divine visitor. This worldly anxiety, as is its usual result, betrayed her into impatience: and she came into the presence of Jesus and Mary, interrupting their holy communion with this querulous language: " Lord, carest thou not that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me." But as is usually the case with one who is censorious and petulant, she was herself the person most needing reproof. Jesus, in order to call off her attention from her sister and fix it on herself, repeats her name : Martha ! Martha ! and then briefly contrasts her worldli- ness with the spirituality of her sister. "Thou art careful and troubled about many things"-the things you will prepare, the manner of preparing them, your own hard service, and what you think your sister's sloth and indifference-things relating to the wants of the body; "but one thing is needful "-to beings who have a soul there isone thing of which they have absolute need ; which forms a supreme concern : for which they mav well relinquish their worldly anxieties;-the enjoyment t
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Sermons, practical and descriptive
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