upied in
the mere repetition of an everlasting Trisagion; or that, as Beecher
once said, "they stand like wax candles round the throne, uttering an
occasional Hallelujah"? Is it not rather God's way of showing us how
He is unceasingly glorified in those who live nearest Him, whose lives
worship Him?

The worship must be continuous with the life. I have a thermometer
which has become perfectly useless because the air has broken up the
continuity of the alcohol; it is worth next to nothing as an index of
temperature. And little can we learn from any soul in which the
continuity of the religious life is broken, and which has become life
streaked with worship.

Now let us learn one or two of the characteristics of a pure
life-worship.

Out of the worship according to the pattern in the Mount all
respectability has been differentiated: the Christian religion will not
hold caste in solution; it precipitates it to the bottom; its founder
died the death of a slave; how could they give the slave a back seat
after that? On the contrary, they gloried in the name; Paul, a slave
and an apostle; a slave, and so eligible for the honour of crucifixion;
an apostle, and so sent with the good news of life. Respect of persons
holds not in heaven; none there will criticise the clay out of which
the first raiment of your soul was made. What need is there, then,
that we should leave off holding the faith of our Lord Jesus, with
respect of persons (there are few churches where the ministers dare to
preach on such a text as that). Let us have done with such
classifications. In Jesus Christ there is neither barbarian nor
Scythian, bond nor free, town nor university, but Christ is all, and in
all.

We know, too, that the life-worship to which God calls us consists in
abandonment and surrender to an animating, impelling spirit. "The
Spirit of the Lord will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy, and
thou shalt be turned into another man. And it shall be, when these
signs are come upon thee, that thou shalt do as occasion serve thee,
for the Lord is with thee." "Whither the Spirit was to go, thither was
their spirit to go." The highest life is one in which we realise not
merely surrender to the Divine Will, but harmony with it, so that the
rails on which the life moves, the human and Divine wills, become
strictly parallel.

A surrendered life implies surrendered lips: this is the key of true
worship; every one having a psalm, a