hrist above me,
Christ at my right, Christ at my left,
Christ in the fort,
Christ in the chariot seat,
Christ in the poop,
Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me,
Christ in the mouth of every man who speaks to me,
Christ in every eye that sees me,
Christ in every ear that hears me.[53]

FOOTNOTES:

[48] The most charming chapter of Adolphe Monod's _Saint Paul_ is on the
subject of these two paragraphs. It is difficult to quote from it,
because one would like to quote it all; but I allow myself the pleasure
of borrowing these golden sentences: "C'est qu'en depit de tant de
promesses faites a la foi, nous sommes toujours plus on moins affaiblis
par un reste de force propre, comme nous sommes toujours plus on moins
troubles par un reste de propre justice, que les plus humbles eux-memes
trainent partout avec eux. Cette malheureuse force propre, cette
eloquence propre, cette science propre, cette influence propre, forme en
nous comme un petit sanctuaire favori, que notre orgueil jaloux tient
ferme a la force Dieu, pour s'y reserver un dernier refuge. Mais si nous
pouvions devenir enfin faibles tout de bon et desesperer absolument de
nous-memes, la force de Dieu, se repandant dans tout notre homme
interieur et s' infiltrant jusque dans ses plus secrets replis, nous
remplirait jusqu'en toute plenitude de Dieu; par ou, la force de l'homme
etant echangee contre la force de Dieu, rien ne nous serait impossible,
parce que rien n'est impossible a Dieu."

[49] Stearns, _The Evidence of Christian Experience_; Dale, _The Living
Christ and the Four Gospels_.

[50] "I feel most strongly that man, in all that he does or can do which
is beautiful, great or good, is but the organ and the vehicle of
something or some one higher than himself. This feeling is religion. The
religious man takes part with a tremor of sacred joy in those phenomena
of which he is the intermediary but not the source, of which he is the
scene but not the author, or rather the poet. He lends them voice, hand,
will and help, but he is respectfully careful to efface himself, that he
may alter as little as possible the higher work of the Genius who is
making a momentary use of him. A pure emotion deprives him of
personality and annihilates the self in him. Self must perforce
disappear when it is the Holy Spirit who speaks, when it is God who
acts. This is the mood in which the prophet hears the call, the young
mother feels the movement