tantly for three years.

I believe that if we are humble enough we shall be sure to get a great
blessing. After all, I think that more depends upon us than upon the
Lord, because He is always ready to give a blessing and give it
freely, but we are not always in a position to receive it. He always
blesses the humble, and, if we can get down in the dust before Him, no
one will go away disappointed. It was Mary at the feet of Jesus, who
had chosen the "better part."

Did you ever notice the reason Christ gave for learning of Him? He
might have said: "Learn of me, because I am the most advanced thinker
of the age. I have performed miracles that no man else has performed.
I have shown my supernatural power in a thousand ways." But no: the
reason He gave was that He was "meek, and lowly in heart."

We read of the three men in Scripture whose faces shone, and all three
were noted for their meekness and humility. We are told that the face
of Christ shone at His transfiguration; Moses, after he had been in
the mount for forty days, came down from his communion with God with a
shining face; and when Stephen stood before the Sanhedrim on the day
of his death, his face was lighted up with glory. If our faces are to
shine we must get into the valley of humility; we must go down in the
dust before God.

Bunyan says that it is hard to get down into the valley of
humiliation, the descent into it is steep and rugged; but that it is
very fruitful and fertile and beautiful when once we get there. I
think that no one will dispute that; almost every man, even the
ungodly, admires meekness.

Someone asked Augustine, what was the first of the religious graces,
and he said, "Humility." They asked him what was the second, and he
replied, "Humility." They asked him the third, and he said,
"Humility." I think that if we are humble, we have all the graces.

Some years ago I saw what is called a sensitive plant. I happened to
breathe on it, and suddenly it drooped its head; I touched it, and it
withered away. Humility is as sensitive as that; it cannot safely be
brought out on exhibition. A man who is flattering himself that he is
humble and is walking close to the Master, is self-deceived. It
consists not in thinking meanly of ourselves, but in not thinking of
ourselves at all. Moses wist not that his face shone. If humility
speaks of itself, it is gone.

Someone has said that the grass is an illustration of this lowly
grace. It was creat