." But the Lord had found him, and he had found the Lord, in
the midst of his University life; and he had learnt most deeply and
effectually, at the feet of Jesus, the consistency of Considerateness.

I do press this aspect of our daily walk with all earnestness on my
younger Brethren. I press it on them at least _to think about it_ with
painstaking attention. No Christian man, as such, means for one moment
to be selfish. But lack of attention does in very many cases indeed
allow the real Christian to contract, or to continue, selfish habits.
Many good men quite fail to realize how selfish, practically, it is to
be unpunctual. You have your understood mealtimes in your lodging. It
may not be always possible to keep strictly to them; the exigencies of
work may make it honestly necessary now and again to be out of time. But
let nothing less than duty do so for you. The breakfast kept standing
because you are not up when you should be may very likely mean much
needless trouble and much domestic disarrangement. Guests often brought
in without any notice may mean the same.

SIMPLICITY AT TABLE.

Perhaps I need not say, yet I will say it, that the consistent servant
of God, whether at his own table or at his neighbour's, will "take heed
unto himself" not even to _seem_ fastidious. There are some men about
whom, if you know them, you feel sure that they will _not_ choose the
best dish at the table; and there are others, I am afraid, about whom
you feel pretty sure that they will. One man will not think, or at least
will not seem to think, whether the meat is hot or cold; and another
will rather decidedly avoid the latter. Pardon the details; they have
something very real to do with our Consistency.

USE OF THE TONGUE.

And indeed we have need to ponder Consistency when we come to "the
unruly member." It is not often, perhaps, that the risks of the tongue
are specially present in a bachelor's life in lodgings. But they are not
absent there. Friends come in, and we will suppose that you and they are
waited upon at your meal. What does the servant hear? Much talk about
other and absent persons? Unkind or flippant criticisms? Idle, frivolous
words? Very likely not, thank God; for we do want to remember our Lord.
But let us take heed. Nothing is more conspicuously inconsistent in the
Christian than needless, unloving discussion of the characters and lives
of others; nothing is more keenly noticed when overheard; nothing more
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