when it is hatched, the young cuckoo, being so much larger and stronger, contrives to get to itself the worms that the mother-bird brings, and so starves her young ones. Sometimes, too, he turns the true young ones, one after another, out of the nest, and so gets all the food to himself. But sometimes these young ones, seeing that if they do not get rid of the cuckoo he will get rid of them, make a great effort, and heave him over the nest; and then he falls down, and dies on the ground beneath the tree. This is just like our two natures: one must kill the other. Well, then: I—that is the worse, the sinful I-am crucified with CHRIST: nevertheless I-that is the better I, the I that came of Baptism-live.

But just as we think we understand this very plainly, we hear something to make it more difficult : 66 nevertheless I live, yet not I, but CHRIST liveth in me." Ah! and how is that? Why, take the same example again; and we may take it the more boldly, because you know our dear LORD Himself says, "How often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!" When those young sparrows have pushed the cuckoo out of their nest, they live; yet they do not live of themselves; they could not live unless the mother-bird brought them worms or crumbs, or what else she can find for them, every quarter of an hour. So, unless our LORD helped our better

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selves to keep alive, to do His will, to do what of our old nature we hate, to leave undone what of our old nature we love, we never could get on for a moment. I will tell you a very good type of this in the Old Testament. You remember, that when the ark was in the land of the Philistines, and wherever it was taken, there emerods, that is, dangerous boils, broke out on all the people, the soothsayers told the lords of the Philistines to get a new cart, to put the ark there, to harness two milch kine, that is, cows that were giving milk to their calves, to the cart, to shut up their calves at home, and then to see if they went up by the way that led to the land of Israel. If they did, then they would allow that it was the GOD of Israel that afflicted them; if not, it was a chance that happened to them. Well, they did so; and the cows went along to Bethshemesh, the first city in Judah, and it is especially said, "lowing as they went.” They lowed, because they felt the grief and pain of leaving their calves behind; but still they went on. Now these cows are types of us. They had to come up from where to where? From the land of the Philistines to the land of Israel. Where have we to go? We have to leave this world, of which the land of the Philistines was a type; and we seek, as S. Paul says, a better country, that is, a heavenly, of which the land of the Jews was a type. But we do not leave it easily; we have our own pleasures and favourite sins, and things which

GOD calls us to give up, if we desire to serve Him; and if we do go on in our way, it is as these kine went, that lowed as they went. We go on, every now and then desiring to turn back; every now and then feeling how hard it is to serve GOD, every now and then feeling the pain of that being crucified with CHRIST of which I have been speaking.

And now, my children, GOD says to you, what Jehu said to the people in the palace of Jezreel, "Who is on my side, who?" And I hope you will all try to give the same answer. This is now becoming so large an Orphanage that by it GOD must either be greatly honoured or greatly dishonoured. There are more than twice as many as there were when first you came here; and almost every week now is adding to your numbers. Therefore I, therefore we all, have the more occasion to pray for you. But our prayers will not do without your own. Try, then, in the changes which you are going to have, a larger house, more room in every way, more companions; try to make this the chief change, that you may each and all now try to serve GOD ten times better than ever before!

READING XXXII.1

"Such honour have all His Saints." Ps. cxlix. 9.

WHERE is this written? and what is the honour? Such honour; such honour as what?

The day reminds me to speak to you, my children, of this; and, if the day did not, the very change made with repect to you would.

What is the meaning of that change, and its use? To remind you that you have been Confirmed; that is, strengthened with the strength by which the Saints became what they were; armed for the battle, which they, in their days, fought; and that you are looking forward, or ought to be, for the honour they have.

And yet, the world so hates GOD and His Saints, that, as you know even now, and will know better some of these days, it uses the word Saint as a word of reproach. Oh, you must be a Saint! Are you setting up for one of the Saints ?"

Hereafter, when you are in service, if you stand up for God's glory by trying to keep the Fourth Commandment, when others break it; and go to Church when perhaps others pretend to go, and use the time in their own amusements, or worse: would you not be called a Saint? If you kept the

1 Preached on All Saints' Day, 1860.

Fifth Commandment by refusing to join in talk against your master and mistress, by doing exactly what they desired, even though it seemed, aye, even though it were, useless or fidgety, would you not be called a Saint? If you kept the Sixth, by forgiving a wrong done, would you not be called a Saint for being mean-spirited? If you kept the Seventh, by stopping your ears against impure conversation, turning your eyes from unseemly books or pictures, showing by your whole manner of behaviour how the least liberty offended you, would you not be called a Saint for being strait-laced? If you kept the Eighth Commandment, by having nothing to do with the underhand little pilfering ways that go on in so many kitchens, would you not be called a Saint for being so particular?

"Such honour have all His saints." And the honour, you see, in your case, would be that of hard words to be heard, and ridicule to be endured. But yet that is an honour for CHRIST's sake also; and so I hope you would all of you try to feel it, if it pleased GOD that it should come to you. That is the beauty of this word such in the Psalm; it leaves it so very uncertain what particular kind of honour it may be to each. Think first of the great multitude, which no man can number, of all nations, and kindreds, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the Throne, and before the Lamb, whom this day we keep in mind;