“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.”—MATT. 5:3. “Ye are not come unto the mount that burned with fire, nor unto the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of ‘awful’ words.” With such accompaniments the old law was promulgated, but here, in this Sermon on the Mount, as it is called, the laws of the Kingdom are proclaimed by the King Himself; and He does not lay them down with the sternness of those written on tables of stone. No rigid “thou shalt”