hope or pray to see the splendour of the Kingdom: it is enough if He Who reacheth from the one end to the other, sweetly and mightily ordering all things, will but accept and guide our life:-"Shew, O Lord, Thy servants Thy work, and their children Thy Glory."

In proportion as we are able, by God's grace, and in union with the Sacrifice of our Blessed Lord, to make this prayer our own and to train our hearts to its sincerity of dedication, we shall escape from that dark shadow of self-praise which else must be the besetting peril and misery of our life. We shall cease to be greedy for results, restless when they are deferred, secretly and humiliatingly uneasy when they are surpassed. We shall not look about for little tasks which we can finish and with which our name may be associated: nor as we grow older shall we talk of what we have done, or claim for the merits of the past the gratitude or tolerance which we have ceased to justify by the present. And if thus we can shake off the love of self, if thus we can indeed desire only to do God's work that others may the sooner see His glory, we may enter into the Spirit which has moved in all the noblest work that has brought light on earth and joy in heaven. A French writer

has finely said that the work of science in its true character is impersonal: science ever accepts the labours of her servants, and forgets their names. We need not look back to the ages when unreckoned martyrs sowed the seed, or unknown evangelists carried far and wide the blessings of the Church of Christ, to see a like fruitfulness of self-forgetful service: we may learn it, if we will, in the change which comes at last over some miserable and shameless district, where brutality and drink and blasphemy are slowly retreating before the patience and simplicity of one who, right up to death itself, seeks only to bring to sinful men and women the knowledge of the love of God: -where the outspoken atheism, which among plain people represents the artistic infidelity of some of our magazines, is yielding to the old, unanswerable argument of a life like Christ's. Or we may turn to the records of the Church's work in Africa, or India, or Melanesia, and see how, one after another, men poured out their strength, and faith, and life, before the vast bank of angry clouds would even begin to move or melt at the light and glow of God's redeeming Love.. Doubtless, brethren, they who would serve the Crucified must not think of

self: thus He will accept their labours, and men will forget their names:

names which, none the less, may even now be written in heaven with a splendour above all that this dying world can give or take away. To work for Him Who died for us: to work without murmuring or complacency: to see by faith the true importance of this life, and the true dimensions of its various objects: to work in whatsoever field, as not expecting to achieve, but ever resolute to forward, the abiding purpose of God's Love: to work while courage makes us patient, and patience makes us brave : -this is the one temper and scheme of life which no death can either threaten or interrupt. For "here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours: and their works do follow them k."

And now to God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, henceforth and for evermore. Amen.

k Rev. xiv. 12, 13.

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