fulfilled. In the interprcto.tion of this verse, ealcm will pass A.way, Lut my words which o. verso which has occasioned much per- told of their coming ruin will remain. All plexity to students, o.ny non-naturo.l sense this vast creation, earth, and stars wi II dis- for "genere.tion " (-yeve&), auch e.s being nn appear in their turn, but these sayinas of equivalent for the Christian Ohurcl, (Origen mine, ~hicb pr~dict their future pa~ing nnd Ohrysostom) or the human race (Jerome J away mto nothmgness, will outlive both must be e.t once set aside. reve,i (generation) earth and heaven." denotes roughly a period of thirty to forty Ver. 34.-And take heed to youraelves. yce.rs. Thus the words of the Lord here The !\foster ended bis discourse with an ~imply asserted that within thirty or forty earnest practical remin<ler to his disciple" yearo all he had been particularly detniling to Ii ve e,er with the sure ex pecto.tion or I: is would be fulfilled. Now, the burden of his return tojuclgment. As for those wlio heo.rd prophecy had been the destruction of the him then, conscious of the oncoming doom of city and temple, and the signs they were the city, temple, and people, with the solemn to look for as immediately preceding this procession of signs heralcling the impending g1"0at catastrophe. This was the plain and ruin ever before their eyes, no passions Ocr simple answer to their question of ver. 7, cares of earth surely would hinder them from which asked" when these things should come living the brave, pure life wort,,y of his to pass." The words he had added relative servo.nts. As for coming geneutions-for to the coming of the Son of man did not the warning voice of Jesus here is equally belong to ti.ie formal answer, but were addressed to them-they too must watch spoken in passing. This mighty advent for another and far more tremendous ruin the Lord alluded to as probably a very falling upon their homes than ever fell upon remote event-an event certainly to be post- Jerusalem. The attitude of his people in poned, to use his own words, "until the every age must be that of the ·'watcher" times of the Gentiles be fulfilled." Not so till he come. the great catastrophe involving the ruin of Ver. 37.-And in the daytime he was Jerusalem and the temple, the prophecy teaohing in the temple ; and at night he concerning which occupied so much of the went out, and abode in the motL"lt that is Lord's reply. Xliat lay in the immediate ca.lled the Mount of Olives. 'fhis brief future; that would happen in the lifetime picture of the last days of public work is of some of those standing by. Before forty retrospective. This was how our Lord spent yeA.rs had elapsed the city and temple, now "Pa.Im Sunday" and the Monday und lying before them in e.11 its strength and Tuesday of the last week. The propheti~ beauty, would have disappeared. discourse reported in this twenty-first chapter Ver. 33.-Hee.ven and earth shall pass was, most probably, spoken on the afternoon away: but my words shall not pass away. of 'fuesday. After Tuesday evening hG A general conclusion to the whole prophecy. never entered the temple os a public Teacher "No word of mine," ea.id the Master, " will again. Wednesday and Thursday were ever pass away unfulfilled. Some of you spent in retirement. Thursday evening he will even live to see the terrible fulfilment returned to the city to eat the Inst Passover of the first part of these utterances. All with hi.H own. that mighty pile of buildings called Jeru-
HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vers. 1-4.- Worth in the est-imate of wisdom. What is the real worth of II human action? Surely, to us who are acting every wakeful hour of life, a very serious ques- tion. How sha.ll we decide that an action of ours is worthy or unworthy, and what is the standard by which wo shall estimate the comparative excellence of worthy deed~? Our text gives us one principle by which to judge. 'l'hero are, however, two others which are essentially Christian, that should be placed in the foreground. Acts are worthy- I. As THEY ARE USEFUL; as they tend to promote well-being. And here we should note that their usefulness is greater: 1. As they o.ffect character rather than circum- stance. 2. As they are free from drawback; for the usefulness or many a course of action is the difference between the intentional good and the incidental evil that is wrouo-ht. 3. As they are permanently influential and therefore reproductive. Many a deed, being done, is done with; it has no appreciable results; but many another is as seed in the soil-there is a fruitful harvest to be reaped from it iu the after-time. JI. ACCl.ll1D1NG TO 'l'HE SPIRIT DI WHICH THEY ARE D0:)!E. If useful things are done in tho s1,irit of ril'alry, ar for the purpose of display, or iu the hopo of social or material 1S8 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO S1'. LUKE. [err. xxr. 1-38.