is as much relation between "good" or "right" doctrine and good and holy character as there is between good bread and pure water and a healthy body. Good bread will make good muscles and sinew, bad bread will not nourish the human frame. Pure water is indispensable to health, stagnant water will breed a hundred diseases. And mistaken views about God must be fruitful of soul disease. Results prove this to be the case. National and individual history prove the truth of it. "By their fruits ye shall know them" (Matt. vii. 20). As we can foretell what the quality of the harvest will be from the seed sown, so can we tell what has been the character of the seed from that which it brings forth. _OUTLINES AND SUGGESTIVE COMMENTS._ Verse 2. The common cry is "Who will show us any good?" and every man will lend both ears to a good bargain. The doctrine here delivered is good every way, whether you look to the _author, matter_, or _effect_ of it.--_Trapp._ God's commandments are not like the commandments of any other, which are directed to the benefit of the commanders: but God's commandments do only bring good to him that is commanded. . . . What is there so absurd, as to despise His commands who doth command that He may have matter for rewarding: for God doth not want our obedience, but we do want His commanding. Therefore it is said, "As the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their master, and the eyes of a maiden to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God until he have mercy upon us," that is, until He command us something, and that, thou, O David, callest mercy.--_Jermin._ Good. +I. In itself.+ It is most majestic, as containing not trivial and common sentences, but high parables and extraordinary mysteries. It gives the highest direction in the greatest things. +II. It is good to us.+ Good for profit and pleasure. Good for soul and body (1 Cor. xv. 2; Deut. xxviii. 1). Good for this life and the life to come (1 Tim. iv. 8). Good when it pleaseth us (Psa. cxix. 7). Good when it crosseth us (Isa. xxxix. 8).--_Francis Taylor._ Verse 3. Noteworthy is the prominence given to the mother's share in the training of the child. Among the Israelites and the Egyptians alone of the nations of the old world, was the son's reverence for the mother placed side by side with that which he owed to his father.--_Plumptre._ Verse 4. Training, discipline, not foolish indulgence, is the truest evidence of affection to our tender and beloved ones (chap. xiii. 24; with 1 Kings i. 6).--_Bridges._ "He taught me." The prayer of Solomon, at Gibeon, for wisdom, as the principal of God's gifts, was suggested to him by his father David, just before his death. (See 1 Chron. xxviii. 9, xxix. 19).--_Wordsworth._