“Let the dead bury the dead, but you go and preach the kingdom of God.” Let us learn from this saying, to beware of allowing family and social duties to interfere with our duty to Christ. Funerals, and marriages and visits of courtesy, and the like unquestionably are not in themselves sinful. But when they are allowed to absorb a believer’s time, and keep him back from any plain religious duty, they become a snare to his soul.
