come true of you--

Thou shall lower to their level, day by day,
All that once was fine within thee growing coarse to sympathize with
clay.

Or you may choose--God grant that you may choose--the other path; the
path of the law of Christ, and of the Spirit of Christ; the kingdom of
God and His righteousness. And then shall come true of you, as far as
God shall see good for your immortal soul, those other promises--

"Come, ye children, and hearken unto me, and I will teach you the fear of
the Lord. What man is he that loves life, and would fain see good days?
Let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no
deceit. Let him eschew evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue
it. For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and His ears are
open to their prayers. . . For the Lord ordereth a good man's going, and
maketh his way acceptable to Himself. Though he fall he shall not be
cast away, for the Lord upholdeth him with His hand . . . I have been
young, and now am old, and yet never saw I the righteous forsaken, nor
his seed begging their bread. Flee from evil, and do the thing that is
good, and dwell for evermore. For the Lord loveth the thing that is
righteous. He forsaketh not His that be godly, but they are preserved
for ever."

Choose that; the better part which shall not be taken from you; for it is
according to the true laws of political and social economy, which are the
laws of the Maker of the Universe, and of the Redeemer of Mankind. And
then, whether or not you leave your children wealth, you will, at all
events, leave them an example by which they, and their children's
children, must prosper to the world's end. And your prayer will be, more
and more, as you grow old and weary with the hard work of life--

"I will go forth in the strength of the Lord God, and make mention of His
righteousness only. Thou, O God, hast taught me from my youth up until
now. Therefore will I tell of Thy wondrous works. Forsake me not, O
Lord, in my old age, when I am grey-headed, till I have shewn Thy
strength unto this generation; and Thy power unto those that are yet to
come."

To which end may Christ bring us all, of His infinite mercy. Amen.

SERMON XXVII. THE BEATIFIC VISION.

PSALM LVII.

_A Psalm of David when he fled from Saul in the cave_.

Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me, for my soul trusteth
in Thee, and under the shadow of Thy