be the slave of the conditions of his day, while he _is_ to "serve his
own generation by the will of God." [Acts xiii. 36.] So I appeal most
urgently to my reader, if he should chance to need the friendly call, to
awake to a renewed attention to the responsibility of example, and to
watch accordingly over consistency in everything.

"FOR THEIR SAKES."

With the humblest reverence may I quote in this connexion the words of
our blessed Lord in the High Priestly Prayer? "_For their sakes I
sanctify Myself._" So said JESUS CHRIST. [John xvii. 19.] Perfectly holy
personally, He was yet always deliberately hallowing Himself, separating
Himself, to the Father's will and work, "for their sakes"; because of
His relations with His disciples. Shall not we sinners, at whatever
interval, yet really, "follow His steps" in this also? "For their
sakes," for the sake of our brethren in the Ministry, for the sake of
our servants, for the sake of our neighbour of all sorts and kinds, let
us "sanctify ourselves" in a daily, willing separation from the way of
self to the will of God, diligently seeking the expression of that will
in His holy Word. It is the duty of every Christian. It is _par
excellence_ the duty of every Christian Minister, from the oldest
Archbishop to the youngest Deacon. To take Orders is to renounce all
ideas of a selfishly _private_ life. Our whole life henceforth is "for
their sakes"; even in those parts of it which must, from another point
of view, be most jealously protected from officialism, and lived as if
for the time no one existed but the man and his God. We are emphatically
now "their bondmen for Jesus' sake." [2 Cor. iv. 5.] "Others" have now
an indefeasible right not only to our ministry of Ordinances, and to our
preaching, and our visiting, but to the example of our habits, of our
lives.

MANNER.

Following up the same line of remark, let me say a word about our duty
to others in the matter of _manner_. It is sometimes, surely, forgotten
by Christian men that they have no right to be careless of their manner.
Many an excellent and otherwise consistent Clergyman seems to assume
that, whether with his brethren or with his parish neighbours, his
manner may take care of itself, if he only "does not mean it." But
well-meaning is a poor substitute for well-doing; especially that otiose
sort of well-meaning which only means not meaning ill.

*"NOBLESSE OBLIGE."

Christians have no business with so poor an