...common sense, it is not so ; they are not one, but two of several flesh. Christ saith, (Matth. vi.) " Ye are the salt of the earth, ye are the light of the world." The words are plain, yet indeed the Aposth.s were neither material light nor material salt. Christ...

...their good, they were to be the benefactors of the world, when He himself should have quitted it. ' Ye are the salt of the earth.' ' Ye are the light of the world.'* The life, and the discourses of Jesus, were one great lesson of charity. He declared that all gifts...

...into peril, and also the Gospel itself into reproach. And hence the Saviour's words to his Apostles, " Ye are the salt of the earth, — ye are the light of the world." In a world that " lieth in wickedness," and where the indulgence in any of its seductive pleasures,...

...you out of darkness into his marvellous light :" m or, in the figurative language of our Saviour : " Ye are the salt of the earth ;" "ye are the light of the world."" The nature and extent of the authority so described, must necessarily depend upon the source from which...

...his immediate disciples, and of all who hereafter should believe on his name, Jesus thus continued, "Ye are the salt of the earth. Ye are the light of ithe world." To you as a community of holy brethren, is entrusted one great branch of that moral conservative...

...upon myriads who are without religious principle, the thousands who possess it must do their utmost. " Ye are the salt of the earth, ye are the light of the world," said our Saviour, — not to his ministers alone, but to his disciples. Accordingly, what is mainly required...

...opened his mouth and spake, the principle implied in that parallelism is exactly true. 2. The words, " Ye are the salt of the earth, ye are the light of the world" — the exhortation to see that the salt possess that quality by which it hinders putrefaction in other...

...of such conduct. Can we suppose that those important and expressive words of the blessed Saviour, " Ye are the salt of the earth, ye are the light of the world," were intended merely for the ministers of the Gospel ? and did the apostle refer to these when he said,...

...duties which that station involves. Our Saviour, in describing the station of his disciples, says, " Ye are the salt of the earth — ye are the light of the world." These two images vividly illustrate the same truth. Let us then inquire what is expected of each member...

...opened his mouth and spake, the principle implied in that parallelism is exactly true. 2. The words, « Ye are the salt of the earth, ye are the light of the world" — the exhortation to see that the salt possess that quality by which it hinders putrefaction in other...