e-hearted friend of mine, now at rest for
ever, early called away from heroic Missionary work. He had found
himself rapidly getting richer in a successful school-enterprize; and
recognized _in this_ a summons to give it up, and volunteer for the
foreign field.

But I say no more. Probably to the great majority of my readers these
last paragraphs seem little to the purpose, at least at present. But
there are few lives in which, sooner _or later_, such reflections may
not find a corner for application.

THE MOTIVE.

Meanwhile, whether our call is to avoid debt or to avoid gathering, we
will look up for new motive power into our Master's face. Him we love;
Him we long to commend; and to Him we belong with all we have. In His
Name, and for His sake, we will take heed unto ourselves.

CHAPTER VI.

_THE DAILY WALK WITH OTHERS_ (iii.).

_Thrice happy they who at Thy side,
Thou Child of Nazareth,
Have learnt to give their struggling pride
Into Thy hands to death:
If thus indeed we lay us low,
Thou wilt exalt us o'er the foe;
And let the exaltation be
That we are lost in Thee._

Let me say a little on a subject which, like the last, is one of some
delicacy and difficulty, though its problems are of a very different
kind. It is, the relation between the Curate and his Incumbent; or more
particularly, the Curate's position and conduct with regard to the
Incumbent.

A LECTURE ON CURATES.

I need not explain that the legal aspect of this important matter is not
in my view. Not long ago I listened, in the library of Ridley Hall, to
an instructive lecture, by a diocesan Chancellor, on the law of Curates;
one of a series on Church Law delivered under the sanction of the
University. The Lecturer informed the audience, certainly he informed
me, of many points of practical moment not clearly known to us before.
He gave a sketch of the history of the licensed Curate as an
institution, and made us aware that he is a modern institution,
comparatively speaking. Before the Reformation the numerous host of
"chantry-priests" was largely used to supplement the offices of the
parochial Clergy. After the Reformation, for a very long while, the
pastoral arrangements did not include a special institution of
Assistants. Then, as the unhappy system of pluralities grew large and
common, such as it was all through the eighteenth century and beyond it,
"the Curate" meant not the active assistant of the