...more important than we have been in the habit of considering them. Can you not see how indeed we are to be the salt of the earth, the light of the world ? Do you not see it needs salt and needs light ? Where shall it get it if we fail ? If the salt have...

...know that the elect part is chosen not merely for its own sake, but also for the sake of the whole, to be the salt of the earth, the light of the world, and the leaven to leaven the corrupt mass.1 We simply observe that the power of the Saviour is not compulsory....

...every disciple conscious of a kindred responsibility, and to show his church that they were, as a body, to be the salt of the earth, the light of the world. " Te shall be witnesses unto me," was the injunction given to the whole company of those who beheld...

...God, to whom the minister of the cross is to say, "Behold your God" (Is. xl. 9), and she is indeed the " salt of the earth," the " light of the world," and " the city get upon a hill;" and " beautiful for situation also," and " the joy of the whole earth." Come...

...subdue the world to his spiritual dominion. By moral influence he is to be King. This communion is to be the salt of th,e earth, the light of the world. It is to extend its influence by holy example, by good works. He will be in spirit with the apostles...

...Missionary a partaker of the Apostolate. The Apostles were to "sit upon thrones " (St. Luke xxii. 30) — to be " the salt of the earth," " the light of the world," " the light put upon a candlestick" (St. Matt. v. 13, 14, 15); and the rewards promised to them —...

...from all iniquity, and purify to Himself a people peculiarly His own, zealous of good works. We are to be the salt of the earth, the light of the world, the living epistles of Christ, the imitators of God. There is no question that the new teachers aro...

...difference. The distinction between apostles and believers is nowhere clearly asserted. Every believer is to be the salt of the earth, the light of the world (Matthew) ; every apostle is to be one of those poor, hungry, weeping, persecuted ones of which the...

...nation was called upoii to humble itself before God and implore his favor and assistance. Religion is the salt of the earth, the light of the world, and the true preservative from social corruption and decay, generating the great moral forces, such as intelligence...

...fasts of the Pharisees ; He Himself incurs the name of wine-bibber and glutton ; His disciples are to be "the salt of the earth," "the light of the world ;" His last prayer for them is, " I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that...