e, to sing for. There is one in that
house humble, where humility itself would almost become high-minded. And
meek, where Moses himself would have lost his temper. And submissive,
where rebelliousness would not have been without excuse. Mark these few
men for Mine, says Emmanuel. Mark them with the inkhorn for Mine. For
they shall surely be Mine in that day, and they shall walk with Me in
white, for they are worthy.

3. 'Wherefore gird your garments well up from the ground.' A
well-dressed man, a well-dressed woman, is a beautiful sight. Not over-
dressed; not dressed so as to call everybody's attention to their dress;
but dressed decorously, becomingly, tastefully. Each several piece well
fitted on, and all of a piece, till it all looks as if it had grown by
nature itself upon the well-dressed wearer. Be like him--be like her--so
runs the third head of the etiquette-card. Be not slovenly and
disorderly and unseemly in your livery. Let not your livery be always
falling off, and catching on every bush and briar, and dropping into
every pool and ditch. Hold yourselves in hand, the instruction goes on.
Brace yourselves up. Have your temper, your tongue, your eyes, your
ears, and all your members in control. And then you will escape many a
rent and many a rag; many a seam and many a patch; many a soil and many a
stain. And then also you will be found walking abroad in comeliness and
at liberty, while others, less careful, are at home mending and washing
and ironing because they went without a girdle when you girt up your
garments well off the ground. Wherefore always gird well up the loins of
your mind.

4. 'And, fourthly, lose not your robes, lest you walk naked and men see
your shame'; that is to say, the supreme shame of your soul. For there
is no other shame. There is nothing else in body or soul to be ashamed
about. There is a nakedness, indeed, that our children are taught to
cover; but the Bible is a book for men. And the only nakedness that the
Bible knows about or cares about is the nakedness of the soul. It was
their sudden soul-nakedness that chased Adam and Eve in among the trees
of the garden. And it is God's pity for soul-naked sinners that has made
Him send His Son to cry to us: 'I counsel thee,' He cries, 'to buy of Me
gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; white raiment, that
thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not
appear. Behold!' He cries in