Fifth Sunday After Pentecost.
Holiness, Pharisaical and Christian.
'" Unless your justice abound more than that of the Scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." — Matt. v. 20.
SYNOPSIS.
Ex. : I. Fifth Commandment. II. History of incident. III. Division.
I. Scribes and Pharisees: 1. Exceptions. 2. Teaching. 3. Practice.
II. We: 1. Fraternal correction. 2. Three punishments. 3. Our sins and temptations.
III. Remedies: 1. Reconciliation. 2. No substitute. 3. Remember last end.
Per. : 1. The letter. 2. The spirit. 3. The means and reward.
SERMON.
"Unless your justice abound more than that of the Scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." In other words, my dear Brethren, unless you keep God's commandments in your thoughts and words as well as in your actions you shall not save your souls. In to-day's Gospel, our divine Lord preaches His disciples a little sermon on the fifth commandment. Last Sabbath, as He was teaching in the Synagogue at Jerusalem, a man with a withered hand came to Him to be cured. Now the Scribes and Pharisees watched if Jesus would heal on the Sabbath, that they might have an excuse for killing Him. But thinking to win their
