Spirit in our hearts. In hours of great sickness, it is only the humble who can be patient; who believe that even enforced hours of being set aside from work, and active participation in a life of usefulness, have their blessing also, and that God is served, and can be served, by a resigned retirement, wherein the spirit of man communes deeply and continually with its God. Pride rejects the occasions and the opportunities of closer walk with God. Pride says, "It has no need of such purification, such a trial." It has resources in itself, it can best prescribe and provide for all spiritual as well as temporal necessities.

Well, the time and the hour come; the storm beats against that ill-built human edifice, and it is washed away like a straw on the waves of misfortune; but the lowly, the meek, the humble, lay deep down their foundations on a Divine groundwork, and it stands all test and trial, because it is built on a Rock.

Humility is perhaps a virtue somewhat out of fashion. It is fast disappearing even in the dress of those who once boasted of their nonconformity to the fashion of the world.

Perhaps they were proud of broad-brimmed hats and quaint clothing, and they have learnt that there was pride in their attempt at humility.

Humility is briefly analyzed by Selden, as being "a virtue which all preach, none practise, and yet everybody is content to hear of."

Let us, then, examine what our disposition is on this point. Humility is not weakness, any more than pride is strength. To be of a great mind one must first be of a humble one. Humility and magnanimity may be bracketed together. There need be no abnegation of manliness.

For our Divine Example showed us that although when He was reviled He reviled not again, that although He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth, yet His meekness was dignity, and His patience true heroism; and since He suffered all this for our sakes, we ought to put away from us all pride and vainglory, and learn of Him who is meek and lowly of heart, and so find rest and peace to our souls.

Our Way through Life

“As Unknown, and yet Well known.”

(2 COR. vi. 9.)

TWO SERMONS PREACHED BEFORE
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN

AT WHIPPINGHAM CHURCH, JANUARY II, 1880,
AND AT OSBORNE, JANUARY 2, 1881.

(AND ALSO AT ST. PETER'S, SOUTH KENSINGTON.)

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SERMON I.

JOSHUA iii. 4.-" For ye have not passed this way heretofore." THROUGHOUT the Bible the fact that we are strangers, not yet at rest and home, and pilgrims on a journey, is constantly set before us in plain, unmistakable language.

And the very simple inference to be drawn from this statement is that there must be a rest and home awaiting us, since we are bidden to turn our thoughts thitherward, and that, if we are pilgrims, our wanderings and walk must end sooner or later.

The words "strangers" and "sojourners" are used by David in the Psalm familiar to us from the solemn occasion on which it is used in our Burial Service. "I am a stranger with Thee, and sojourner, as all my fathers were." A "stranger" is one who is in a foreign country, a "sojourner" is one who is passing through it. Transitoriness, dependence, helplessness, and ignorance of the