37
Prayerfulness 41
Love to the Brethren 45
Sympathy 49
Fidelity in Rebuke 53
Gentleness in Rebuke 57
Endurance of Contradiction 61
Pleasing God 65
Grief at Sin 69
Humility 73
Patience 77
Subjection 81
Not Retaliating 85
Bearing the Cross 89
Holy Zeal 93
Benevolence 97
Firmness in Temptation 101
Receiving Sinners 105
Guilelessness 109
Activity in Duty 113
Committing our Way to God 117
Love of Unity 121
Not of the World 125
Calmness in Death 129

Let

THIS MIND

Be in you,

Which was also in

Christ Jesus.

First Day.

COMPASSION.

"I have compassion on the multitude."--Mark, viii. 2.

What a pattern to His people, the tender _compassion_ of Jesus! He found
the world He came to save a moral Bethesda. The wail of suffering
humanity was every where borne to His ear. It was His delight to walk
its porches, to pity, relieve, comfort, save! The faintest cry of misery
arrested His footsteps--stirred a ripple in this fountain of Infinite
Love. Was it a _leper_,--that dreaded name which entailed a life-long
exile from friendly looks and kindly words? There was _One_, at least,
who had tones and deeds of tenderness for the outcast. "_Jesus_, being
moved with compassion, put forth His hand, and _touched_ him." Was it
some blind beggars on the Jericho highway, groping in darkness, pleading
for help? "_Jesus_ stood still, and had compassion on them, and touched
their eyes!" Was it the speechless pleadings of a widow's tears at the
gate of Nain, when she followed her earthly pride and prop to the grave?
"When the _Lord_ saw her, He had compassion on her, and said, Weep not!"
Even when He rebukes, the bow of compassion is seen in the cloud, or
rather, that cloud, as it passes, dissolves in a rain-shower of mercy.
He pronounces Jerusalem "_desolate_," but the doom is uttered amid a
flood of anguished sorrow!

Reader! do the compassionate words and deeds of a tender Saviour find
any feeble echo and transcript in yours? As you traverse in thought the
wastes of human wretchedness, does the spectacle give ri