Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too shall cry out and receive no answer. Sermons
It is true, indeed, that as we sow we reap. It is not only true that God will in some way or other cause iniquity to suffer and righteousness to be recompensed, but we find that sin meets with its appropriate penalty, and worth with its appropriate reward. " Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." We have an illustration of this in the text, as we find many others elsewhere. I. INHUMANITY AND PITY. "Whoso stoppeth his ears," etc. Men will have no mercy on the merciless. Let a man be known to be hard-hearted, selfishly and cruelly indifferent to the distress of his neighbours, and when the time of his calamity comes he will discover that there is no eye to pity and no hand to help him. On the contrary, his misfortune will give a secret if not an open satisfaction. But let a man be pitiful and generous in the day of his prosperity, then when adversity overtakes him the hearts and the hands of many will open to sympathize and succour. The same principle, is applicable to an evil which is similar though not quite so serious, and to its corresponding virtue, viz. - II. SEVERITY AND LENIENCY. Our fellow men will be sure to treat us with the same severity we impose on them. Austerity constantly begets austerity; it is not long before it hears the echo of its own harshness. Be down with rigid particularity on every offence you detect in your child, or your servant, or your neighbour, and you may reckon confidently on having the same unbending rigorousness of judgment applied to any deviation that can be discovered in yourself. But leniency brings forth leniency; charity is the beautiful mother of charity. Make every kind and just allowance as you judge your brother, and you shall have every extenuation granted you when your infirmity leads you into error. We have the same thing showing itself, the appropriateness and correspondence of the penalty or the reward to the offence or the virtue in - III. GROSSNESS AND PURITY. "He that soweth to the flesh, of the flesh reaps corruption; and he that soweth to the Spirit, of the Spirit reaps life everlasting" (Galatians 6:8). Bodily indulgence means bodily degeneration; spiritual culture means spiritual enlargement. IV. GODLESNESS AND GODLINESS. The man who lives without God has to do without God in life and at the end of life as well as he can. He has to dispense with all the comfort and support of the consciousness of God's favour and that Divine indwelling which only comes with faith and love. But he who walks with God and lives unto him enjoys all the unspeakable and inestimable advantages of the near presence, the gracious power, the continual comfort and succour of the Divine Spirit. As he sows, he reaps. - C. Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard. I. SOCIAL DISTRESS. "The cry of the poor." The poor may be divided into two classes. 1. The deserving. There is a poverty that comes on men by circumstances over which they have no control: infirm bodies, diseased faculties, social oppression, untoward events. Such poverty is often associated not only with great intelligence, but with virtue and piety of a high order. 2. The undeserving. II. SOCIAL HEARTLESSNESS. "Whoso stoppeth his ears." 1. The wealthy. 2. The legislating. In the name of heaven, what is the good of a government if it cannot overcome pauperism? III. SOCIAL RETRIBUTION. () 1. We may always expect, both in general society and in the Church of God, "the rich and poor to meet together." Wherever there has been property it has been in various portions; and were there an equal division of property to-day, there would be a difference to-morrow. There are varieties of poverty; for poverty is a relative and comparative term. And among the indigent and dependent poor there are also varieties — the industrious and the indolent; the sober and the intemperate; the virtuous and the vicious, the deserving and the undeserving. 2. Nothing can be of greater consequence than marking this distinction, and regulating our charity accordingly. There is a "stopping of the ears" that is at times a virtue — requiring an effort of self-denying principle in opposition to the mere emotion and impulse of present pity. Charity must be exercised judiciously. 3. The sin here reproved is an unmerciful disposition; unfeeling hardness of heart; pitiless, avaricious, griping selfishness. This may be exemplified in beating down the wages of the poor labourer and artisan; in the denial of protection to the poor when it is pleaded for against oppression, and when we have it in our power to afford it. () People SolomonPlaces JerusalemTopics Closes, Cry, Ear, Ears, Poor, Shuts, Shutting, Stopped, Stoppeth, StopsOutline 1. The king's heart in the hand of the Lord
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5230 beggars
5972 unkindness
8330 receptiveness
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