C. Every thing which we have in this life: our strength, and health, and reason, and money, and time.
F. How may we trade with these for the King?
C. By trying to use them all so as to please Him and set forth His glory.
F. Who are those who rose up early to go into the town?
C. Those who begin to serve the Lord even from their youth.
F. What is shewn by their finding the
streets easy to pass, and the markets full of rich goods?
C. That this service of God is far easier to such as begin to serve Him in youth; and that such are able to offer to Him the best gifts of early devotion, and their first love, and the zeal of youth, and tender hearts, and unclouded consciences.
F. What is taught us by their seeing the beautiful things of the city at their ease, after their diligent trading?
C. That those who serve God truly in a youthful piety commonly find more than others, that “godliness has promise of the life which now is, as well as of that which is to come.”