The Rich Poor

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matt. 5:3 How strangely paradoxical is this benediction upon the disciples of the Lord! Blessed are the poor! And again, these poor are blessed because they are rich and are possessors and heirs of the glorious kingdom of heaven! How foolishly contradictory, how wholly incompre­hensible, how utterly impossible this beatitude must seem to the mind of this world, to the natural mind, the mind of the flesh! How inconceivable...