statements of simple Gospel truths. We may safely leave such statements to work and take care of them- selves. They are arrows from God's own quiver, and will often pierce hearts which have not been touched by the most eloquent sermon.
The second point we should notice in these verses is the great sinfulness of those who reject the offer of Christ* s Gospel. Our Lord declares that it shall be "more tolerable at the last day for Sodom," than for those who receive not the message of His disciples. And He proceeds to say that the guilt of Chorazin and Bethsaida, cities in Galilee, where He had often preached and worked miracles, but where the people had nevertheless not repented, was greater than the guilt of Tyre and Sidon.
Declarations like these are peculiarly awfiil. They throw light on some truths which men are very apt to ^orget. They teach us that aU will be judged according to their spiritual light, and that from those who have enjoyed most religious privileges, most will be required. — ^They teach us the exceeding hardness and unbelief of the human heart. It was possible to hear Christ preach, and to see Christ's miracles, and yet to remain imcon- verted. — ^They teach us, not least, that man is responsible for the state of his own soul. Those who reject the Gospel, and remain impenitent and unbelieving, are not merely objects of pity and compassion, but deeply guilty and blameworthy in God's sight. God called, but they refused. God spoke to them, but they would not regard. The condemnation of the unbelieving will be strictly just. Their blood will be upon their own heads. The Judge of all the earth will do right.