s, God honoured on the cross,
and took unto Himself, and blest and consecrated for ever. And now
blessed are the poor, if they are poor in heart as well as purse; for
Jesus was poor, and theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are the
hungry, if they hunger for righteousness as well as food; for Jesus
hungered, and they shall be filled. Blessed are those who mourn, if they
mourn not only for their sorrows, but for their sins; for Jesus mourned
for our sins, and on the cross He was made sin for us, who knew no sin;
and they shall be comforted. Blessed are those who are ashamed of
themselves, and hate themselves, and humble themselves before God, for on
the cross Jesus humbled Himself; and they shall be exalted. Blessed are
the forsaken and despised; did not all men forsake Jesus in His hour of
need? And why not thee, too, thou poor deserted one? Shall the disciple
be above his Master? No. Every one that is perfect must be as his
Master.

_National Sermons_.

Never let us get into the common trick of calling unbelief Resignation;
of asking, and then because we have not faith to believe, putting in a
"Thy will be done" at the end. Let us make God's will our will, and so
say, "Thy will be done." There is a false as well as a true and holy
resignation. When the sorrow is come or coming, or necessary apparently
for others' good, let us say with our Master in the Agony, "Not what we
will, but what Thou wilt!" But up to that point, let us pray boldly.

_Letters and Memories of Charles Kingsley_.

Christianity heightens as well as deepens the human as well as the divine
affections. I am happy; for the less hope, the more faith. God knows
what is best for us. I am sure we do not. Continual resignation, I
begin to find, is the secret of continual strength. "Daily dying," as
Boehmen interprets it, "is the path of daily living."

_Letters and Memories_.

In all the trials of life, there is still some way of escape to be found
if a man goes to the right place to look for it; and, if not of escape,
still of compensation. I speak of that which I know. Of my own comfort
I will not speak--of the path by which I attained it I will. It was
simply by not struggling, doing my work vigorously where God had put me,
and believing firmly that His promises had a real, not a mere
metaphorical meaning, and that Psalms x., xxvii., xxxiv., xxxvii., cvii.,
cxii., cxxiii., cxxvi., cxlvi., are as practically true for us as th