fty-first Psalm the model of all
true penitence for evermore. Penitential prayers in all ages have too
often wanted faith in God, and therefore have been too often prayers to
avert punishment. This, this--the model of all true penitent prayers--is
that of a man who is to be punished, and is content to take his
punishment, knowing that he deserves it, and far more besides.

_Sermons on David_. 1866.

A Real Presence. August 28.

Believe the Holy Communion is the sign of Christ's perpetual presence;
that when you kneel to receive the bread and wine, Christ is as near
you--spiritually, indeed, and invisibly, but really and truly as near you
as those who are kneeling by your side.

And if it be so with Christ, then is it so with those who are Christ's,
with those whom we love. . . . Surely, like Christ, they may come and go
even now, though unseen. Like Christ they may breathe upon our restless
hearts and say, "Peace be unto you," and not in vain. For what they did
for us when they were on earth they can more fully do now that they are
in heaven.

_All Saints' Day Sermons_. 1862.

A Living God. August 29.

Man would never have even dreamed of a Living God had not that Living God
been a reality, who did not leave the creature to find his Creator, but
stooped from heaven, at the very beginning of our race, to find His
creature.

_Sermons on David_. 1866.

Thine, not mine. August 30.

Whensoever you do a thing which you know to be right and good, instead of
priding yourself upon it as if the good in it came from you, offer it up
to your Heavenly Father, from whom all good things come, and say, "Oh,
Lord! the good in this is Thine and not mine; the bad in it is mine and
not Thine. I thank Thee for having made me do right, for without Thy
help I should have done nothing but wrong. For mine is the laziness, and
the weakness, and the selfishness, and the self-conceit; and Thine is the
kingdom, for Thou rulest all things; and the power, for Thou doest all
things; and the glory, for Thou doest all things well, for ever and ever.
Amen."

_Sermons_.

The Unquenchable Fire. August 31.

A fire which cannot be quenched, a worm which cannot die, I see existing,
and consider them among the most blessed revelations of the gospel. I
fancy I see them burning and devouring everywhere in the spiritual world,
as their analogues do in the physical. I know that they have done so on
me, and