October 1871.
St Matt. xxv. 34-37. "Then shall the King say unto them on his right
hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you
from the foundation of the world: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me
meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye
took me in: naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I
was in prison, and ye came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer him,
saying, Lord, when saw we Thee an hungred, and fed Thee? or thirsty, and
gave Thee drink?"
Let us consider awhile this magnificent parable, and consider it
carefully, lest we mistake its meaning. And let us specially consider
one point about it, which is at first sight puzzling, and which has
caused, ere now, many to miss (as I believe, with some of the best
commentators, ) the meaning of the whole--which is this: that the
righteous in the parable did not know that when they did good to their
fellow-creatures, they did it to Christ the Lord.
Now there are two kinds of people who do know that, because they have
been taught it by Holy Scripture, who would make two very different
answers to the Lord, when He spoke in such words to them.
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