Sixty Years

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill THE UNSEARCHABLE RICHES OF CHRIST1 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach unto the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ. ? Eph. 3:8. HUMILITY is an essential element of religion, a fundamental principle of Christianity. The proud man never acknowledges God, or bows at the name of Jesus. But he who reflects upon himself, and realizes that his existence is in a vast and illimitable universe, cannot avoid some feeling of humility. A sense of dependence forbids self-elation. A sense of insignificance among countless myriads of being confounds and overpowers thought. We are appalled; we feel belittled in the awful mystery. When we look into measureless space, when we consider the heavens, we say: Lord, what is man that Thou art mindful of him? When we consider the Infinite and the Eternal, we call upon ourselves: Oh come, let us worship, and bow down; Let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker. Humility was a distinguishing mark of Jesus Christ. No human being was so free from pride and vanity. When he affirmed his mission it was without arrogance or assumption. He relied not upon self-assertion, but upon his character and life. Caution, reserve, a gentle and prudent carriage of himself marked his coming and going. At the beginning of his ministry, 1 Preached on the preacher's eightieth birthday, Nov. 17, 1901. in the Sermon on the Mount, he made no mention of himself as Son of God or as Messiah. Men inferred the truth before he avowed it. After speaking of his divine mission and inviting his disciples to come and cooperate in his work, Matthew puts it into his lips to say, I am meek and lowly in heart. He disdained pomp and show. He sounded no trumpet. He suppressed and concealed his endowments. It wa...