What moved Jeremiah to Jerusalem? He had at last realized that God had not sent him to earth to be as separate from the life of man as 'a musing man is from the river flowing past his feet. God had sent!
The trade routes in those days were dotted along their course by earavanseries or inns where traders and travellers could put up for the night.. There would be men coming' and going, hurrying on their music ness or pleasure, nierchants, officials, tourists. There, thought Jeremiah, he could be at home, he could content himself with letting things 0 unchallenged. He wanted evidently to be no more than a looker on at life, simply an indifferent: spectator, to walk on the promenade senger. deck of the world, an outside pas-
Pythagoras was once asked cantemptuously by a Greek tyrant who he was and wat was his particular business in the world... The philosopher replied that at the Olympic Drizes, some to dispose of their mer-Games some people came to try for
chandise, some to enjoy themselves and meet their friends, and some look on! said Pythagoras "T am cne of those who come to' look on life!" "Bacon, in telling the story, adds: "But men' must know that in this: theatre of minn's life it is' reserved only for. God and -angels to be Lookers on." cony, but leaping down to share it. Not to live in an hotel where a man. is not even responsible for the housekeeping but to pay his bills. God made Jeremiah a citizen, He had begotten him into a nation, Jeremiah had been forced to grow fam-lur with men, to find out by living with them, to see habits grow slow-lly and falsehood slowly betray itself, and father's evil descend to All this was by Divine Providence decreci that Jeremiah might be ly identified and sympathize with his people and bring them back to God.
"What is your life?" When the: question came to Isaiah "Whom shall T send, and who will go for us," his, answer was not like Jeremiah's, "Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaris No, he responds at once. "Here am. I, send me." My, brethren, a new Divine call comes to each ove of us, do, we: tespord; "Here am T, send /me?" Are we like faithful Abraham; father of the faithful, prepared to
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