ifiable, experimental,
spiritual preaching; preaching to a heart in the agony of its
sanctification; preaching to men whose whole life is given over to making
them a new heart--that kind of preaching is scarcely ever heard in our
day. There is great intellectual ability in the pulpit of our day, great
scholarship, great eloquence, and great earnestness, but spiritual
preaching, preaching to the spirit--'wet-eyed' preaching--is a lost art.
At the same time, if that living art is for the present overlaid and
lost, the literature of a deeper spiritual day abides to us, and our
spiritually-minded people are not confined to us, they are not dependent
on us. Well, this is the Communion week with us yet once more. Will you
not, then, make it the beginning of some of the suppletory arts and
stratagems of the spiritual life with yourselves? I cannot preach as I
would like on such subjects, but I can tell you who could, and who,
though dead, yet speak by their immortal books. You have the wet-eyed
psalms; but they are beyond the depth of most people. Their meaning
seems to us on the surface, and we all read and sing them, but let us not
therefore think that we understand them. I cannot compel you to read the
books, and to read little else but the books, that would in time, and by
God's blessing, lead you into the depths of the psalms; but I can wash my
hands so far in making their names so many household words among my
people. The _Way to Christ_, the _Imitation of Christ_, the _Theologia
Germanica_, Tauler's _Sermons_, the _Mortification of Sin_, and
_Indwelling Sin in Believers_, the _Saint's Rest_, the _Holy Living and
Dying_, the _Privata Sacra_, the _Private Devotions_, the _Serious Call_,
the _Christian Perfection_, the _Religious Affections_, and such like.
All that, and you still unqualified! All that, and your eyes still dry!

CHAPTER XX--MR. HUMBLE THE JURYMAN, AND MISS HUMBLE-MIND THE SERVANT-MAID

'Learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart.'--_Our Lord_.

'Be clothed with humility.'--_Peter_.

'God's chiefest saints are the least in their own eyes.'--_A Kempis_.

'Without humility all our other virtues are but vices.'--_Pascal_.

'Humility does not consist in having a worse opinion of ourselves than
we deserve.'--_Law_.

'Humility lies close upon the heart, and its tests are exceedingly
delicate and subtle.'--_Newman_.

Our familiar English word 'humility' comes down