yself unto them until they fell upon their faces
and feared? Thou knowest, my God! I have no humility which I can bring
Thee. In my blessed Saviour, who humbled Himself in the form of a
servant, and unto the death of the cross, I hide myself. In Him, in His
spirit and likeness, I would live before Thee. Work Thou it in me, by
the Holy Spirit dwelling in me, and as I am dead to self in Him, and His
cross makes me nothing, let Thy holy indwelling revive and quicken me.
Amen.

1. Lowliness and holiness. Keep fast hold of the intimate
connection. Lowliness is taking the place that becomes me;
holiness, giving God the place that becomes Him. If I be
nothing before Him, and God be all to me, I am in the sure path
of holiness. Lowliness is holiness, because it gives all the
glory to God.

2. 'Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of
heaven.' These first words of the Master when He opened His
lips to proclaim the Kingdom, are often the last in the hearts
of His disciples. 'The Kingdom is in the Holy Ghost:' to the
poor in spirit, those who know they have nothing that is really
spiritual, the Holy Spirit comes to be their life. The poor in
spirit are the Kingdom of the Saints: in them the Holy Spirit
reveals the King.

3. Many strive hard to be humble with God, but with men they
maintain their rights, and nourish self. Remember that the
great school of humility before God, is to accept the humbling
of man. Christ sanctified Himself in accepting the humiliation
and injustice which evil men laid upon Him.

4. Humility never sees its own beauty, because it refuses to look
to itself: It only wonders at the condescension of the Holy
God, and rejoices in the humility of Jesus, God's Holy One, our
Holy One.

5. The link between holiness and humility is indwelling. The
Lofty One, whose name is Holy, _dwells_ with the contrite one.
And where He dwells is _the Holy Place_.

Fourteenth Day.

HOLY IN CHRIST.

The Holy One of God.

'Therefore also that _holy_ thing which shall be born of thee
shall be called the Son of God.'--Luke i. 35.

'We have believed and know that Thou art _the Holy One of
God_.'--John vi. 69.

'The holy one of the Lord'--only once (Ps. cvi. 16) the expression is
found in the Old Testament. It is spoken of Aaron, in whom holiness, as
far as it could