d, and hateth his brother, he
is a liar. We know that we do know Him if we keep His commandments."
You can show your love to God by showing love and kindness to your
brethren. By kindly judgments of another's fault; by gentle words of
comfort, of pity, or of warning; by tender hands stretched out to bring
back the wandering sheep; by loving acts of charity to the sick and
suffering; by care for the poor bruised reeds of this rough world, you
can show your love for God, who is the source of all love. If we love
God we shall try to lead others to Him. A true Christian cannot be
selfish. Think of the example you set to others. Is it a good one, a
strong one, a light shining before men so that they can see your good
works? At the battle of Tel-el-Keber our troops had no sufficient
plans of the ground. The General therefore ordered a young naval
officer to lead the Highland Brigade by the light of the stars to their
destined post. When the fight began the Highlanders were ready, and
among the first to fall was their young leader. The victory was
gained, and the General hastened to the tent of his wounded officer.
The dying man smiled as he raised his trembling hand to his commander,
and looking him in the face said, "General, didn't I lead them
straight?" My brothers, we are leading our fellow men by the example
of our lives, the question is, _are we leading them straight?_

Another fruit for which God looks in a Christian's life is _humility_.
Every act and word of our Saviour's earthly life teaches us to be
humble. Let the haughty, the proud, the self-satisfied man, open his
Gospel, and he will find a reproof to his pride on every page. Let him
bend his head, and bow his stiff knee before the Almighty God, cradled
in a manger, fasting in the desert, homeless, friendless, silent before
His foes, stripped, mocked and beaten, dying upon the Cross. Go, my
brother, and bow your head at Gethsemane; go, kneel before the Cross of
Calvary, and ask God to make you humble. The longer a true Christian
lives the more humble-minded he becomes. A young man, just starting in
life, holds his head high, and is inclined to look down on others. But
as he journeys on through the world, learning by experience, his head
grows bent and lowly. So is it with Christ's people. The longer we go
to His School, and the more we know of the way of godliness, the
humbler we become. Like S. Paul, we count not that we have attained
the ma