HIDDEN THINGS SHALL ALL BE MANIFESTED-OBEDIENCE TO GRACE MERITS MORE GRACE.

presently scandalised. And he that received the seed among thorns, is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts after other things, with the cares and riches and pleasures of this life,entering in, choke the word, and it is made fruitless. But that on the good ground, are they who, in a good and very good heart, hearing the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit in patience.This is he that heareth the word, and understandeth, and beareth fruit, and yieldeth the one an hundredfold, and another sixty, and another thirty.

Доти a candle come in to be put under a bushel, or under a bed, and not to be set on a candlestick? For there is not any thing secret, that shall not be made manifest; nor hidden, that shall not be known and come abroad.

If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. Take heed what you hear. In what measure you shall mete, it shall be measured to you again, and more shall be given to you. For whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, that also which he thinketh he hath, shall be taken away from him.

PARABLE OF THE COCKLE-ITS INTERPRETATION.

THE kingdom of heaven is likened to a man that sowed good seed in his field. But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheat, and went his way. And when the blade was sprung up, and had brought forth fruit, then appeared also the cockle. And the servants of the good-man of the house coming, said to him: Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? whence then hath it cockle? And he said to them: An enemy hath done this. And the servants said to him: Wilt thou that we go and gather it up? And he said: No; lest perhaps gathering up the cockle, you root up the wheat also together with it. Suffer both to grow until the harvest; and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather up first the cockle, and bind it into bundles to burn; but the wheat gather ye into my barn.

He that soweth the good seed, is the Son of man. And the field is the world. And the good seed are the children of the kingdom. And the cockle are the children of the wicked one. And the enemy that sowed them is the devil. But the harvest is the end of the world. And the reapers are the Angels. Even as cockle therefore is

PARABLE OF THE SEED OF THE MUSTARD-GRAIN.

gathered up, and burnt with fire; so shall it be at the end of the world. The Son of man shall send his Angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all scandals, and them that work iniquity. And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the just shine as the sun, in the kingdom of their Father. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the earth. And should sleep, and rise, night and day, and the seed should spring, and grow up whilst he knoweth not. For the earth of itself bringeth forth fruit, first the blade, then the ear, afterwards the full corn in the ear. And when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.

To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? or to what parable shall we compare it? It is like to a grain of mustard-seed, which a man took and cast into his garden, which when it is sown in the earth is less than all the seeds that are in the earth: but when it is grown up, it is greater than all herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come, and dwell in the branches thereof.

PARABLE OF THE LEAVEN OF THE TREASURE OF THE PEARL -OF THE NET-THINGS NEW AND OLD.

WHEREUNTO shall I esteem the kingdom of God

to be like? It is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

THE kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in a field; which a man having found, hid it, and for joy thereof goeth, and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.

AGAIN, the kingdom of heaven is like to a mer chant seeking good pearls. Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went his way, and sold all that he had, and bought it.

AGAIN, the kingdom of heaven is like to a net cast into the sea, and gathering together of all kind of fishes. Which, when it was filled, they drew out, and sitting by the shore, they chose out the good into vessels, but the bad they cast forth. So shall it be at the end of the world. The Angels shall go out, and shall separate the wicked from among the just. And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

HAVE ye understood all these things?... Therefore every scribe instructed in the kingdom of

JESUS IN THE SYNAGOGUE AT NAZARETH-A PROPHET WITHOUT HONOUR IN HIS OWN COUNTRY-ELIAS-ELISEUS.

heaven, is like to a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old.

"THE spirit of the Lord is upon me; wherefore he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, he hath sent me to heal the contrite of heart. To preach deliverance to the captives, and sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of reward."... This day is fulfilled this scripture in your ears.

DOUBTLESS you will say to me this similitude: Physician, heal thyself: as great things as we have heard done in Capharnaum, do also here in thy own country.-Amen I say to you: A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and in his own house, and among his own kindred.

In truth I say to you, there were many widows in the days of Elias in Israel, when heaven was shut up three years and six months, when there was a great famine throughout all the earth. And to none of them was Elias sent, but to Sarepta of Sidon, to a widow woman. And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet: