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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, Cal. · Jan 10, 1900

APPLES OF GOLD

By William Cowper

LIBRARY. "A weekly study system to help apples of gold to buckets of silver." PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING CO. No. 11. Oakland, Cal., April, 1894. 10c per Year

RIGHTEOUSNESS - WHERE FOUND BY WILLIAM COWPER

IN His sermon on the mount, Christ told His hearers to seek "first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness." He stated that if they did this, other necessary things should be added, for His Father knew that they needed the temporal things of life. But the first thing to be sought was God's righteousness, because it is of the most important. Matt. 6:33.

There is no way of obtaining this grace except by seeking for it. Our Redeemer says, "Ask, and it shall be given you, seek, and ye shall find, knock, and it shall be opened unto you." Matt. 7:7. In order to find that for which we seek, we should learn where to look for the object, and how we may attain it.

We learn that God's law teaches what the principles of righteousness require. Upon this point many scriptures could be cited, but we only have space for a few. "Thy testimonies that Thou hast commanded are righteous [margin, "righteousness"] and very faithful." Ps. 119:138. "My mouth shall speak of Thy word, for all Thy commandments are righteousness." Ps. 119:172. See also Isa. 51:7 and Rom. 1:26