Acts 3:1

Look (1) at the social side, and (2) at the Apostolic side of this incident.

I. The social side. (1) We may be able to carry the cripple while we are unable to heal him. Do what you can. (2) The commonest minds, as well as the highest, have always associated the idea of charity with the idea of religion. (3) Look at the compensations of the poorest life. The man was carried daily by friendly hands. The man had the temple as his daily hope.

II. The Apostolic side. (a) The Apostles never attempted to do without public worship. (b) The Apostles never neglected human want in their anxiety to render Divine worship. (c) The Apostles never attended even to physical necessities in their own name.

Parker, City Temple,vol. ii., p. 117.

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