ess into a
discordant family and how Eden-like the home becomes! Why are we not as
considerate and polite to those who are all the world to us as we are
to strangers and neighbors? Christlike kindness would fill our hearts
with thoughtfulness for those about us. It would bid us carry a torch
to many a darkened life, and incite us to share the burden pressing
upon many an aching shoulder.

TRUE HUMILITY.

Christ had great charity for the faults of those with whom He was
associated. How He bore with the dull and almost stupid disciples! How
He bears with us in our worse and more inexcusable blockheadedness!
And, if He is so charitable and patient with our faults, how ought we
to be with others? There comes a time in our lives when we are simply
astonished that people pay any attention to us at all. We are so
conscious of our short-comings, and so keenly aware of our mistakes,
that it seems to us that surely no one is quite so blundering and
fallible as we are. How easy it is then to bear with one another!

LOOKING-GLASS HUMILITY.

We ought to work humility out into our lives. Jesus lived an humble
life--a life of the truest and deepest humility. Not a humility
conscious of itself and ever gazing at itself through the fancied eyes
of others, but a humility that was real and unaffected.

A CHRISTLIKE MAN.

The writer has in mind a man of deep and earnest piety, a scholar, a
successful preacher and author. With all his learning and scholarship
he is as humble as a child, and one can not look at him without
feeling, "There is a Christ-man." Often as the pen flies quickly across
the page, or as the lips are moving in the delivery of a sermon, or as
an altar service is in progress, the slight, thin figure of that man
flashes to the brain, and the eye grows dim and the heart-prayer rises,
"Lord, make me an humble man." There are so many great men, eloquent
men, learned men, dignified men, but so few humble men. God, increase
their number in the land!

ACTIVITY.

Another thing in Jesus' life which sanctified people ought to learn to
imitate was His activity. His days, and even His nights, frequently,
were filled with service. After long days of teaching and preaching, He
would seek out some quiet nook and spend the still and lonely hours of
night in prayer to the Father.

THE INDIVIDUAL VISION.

Men who come into close touch and communion with Christ are impelled
irresistibly to earnest and ceaseless service. They s