with every dutiful,
generous, and unselfish impulse you have ever felt; for they are the
fruits of His Spirit. By that Spirit He was once unselfish even to the
death. By that Spirit He will enable you to carry out in action, as He
did, the unselfish instincts which He has given you; and to live the
noble life, the heroic life, the life of self-sacrifice; the life of God;
the life of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit; and
therefore the only life fit for those who are baptized into that Holy
Name."

This is the ground and method on which we should educate our children;
for it is the ground and method on which The Word of God is educating us.

SERMON XV. I.

PSALM CXIX. 94.

I am Thine, oh save me.

Let us think seriously this afternoon of one word; the word which is the
key-note of this psalm. A very short word; for in our language there is
but one letter in it. A very common word; for we are using it all day
long when we are awake, and even at night in our dreams; and yet a very
wonderful word, for though we know well whom it means, yet what it means
we do not know, and cannot understand, no, nor can the wisest philosopher
who ever lived; and a most important word too; for we cannot get rid of
it, we cannot help thinking of it, cannot help saying it all our life
long from childhood to the grave. After death, too, we shall probably be
saying that word to ourselves, each of us, for ever and ever. If the
whole universe, sun, moon, and stars, and all that we ever thought of, or
can think of, were destroyed and became nothing, that word would probably
be left; and we should be left alone with it; and on what we meant by
that little word would depend our everlasting happiness or misery. And
what is this wonderful little word? What but the word I? Each one of us
says I--I think, I know, I feel, I ought, I ought not, I did that, and
cannot undo it: and why? Because we are not things, nor mere animals,
but persons, living souls, though our bodies are like the bodies of
animals, only more perfect, that they may be fit dwelling-places for more
perfect souls. The animals, as far as we know, do not think of
themselves each as I. Little children do not at first. They call
themselves by names by which they hear others call them: not in the first
but in the third person. After a while there grows up in them the
wonderful thought that they are persons, different from any other person
round