the other--"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the
kingdom of heaven."

It has been an experience of the past week, which I am now beginning
dimly to recognise, that the child and the child-spirit are necessary
elements of the presence of the kingdom--as necessary as they are for
_entrance into_ the kingdom.

And the kingdom consists in the keeping; in conscious, clearer, simpler
on-leading in the life of Christ. I am kept because I am a child--when
I cease to be kept it is because I become a rebellious child; and of
this kingdom and peace there has been no end to-day--there is therefore
no hindrance (save a divided will) to its continuance, and thus one is
led into the faith of the Son of God--that _our brothers are not
orphans_, and that prayer and work must in this faith overcome the
world.

The grace of the Lord Jesus be present continually to energise in us
this faith, and to work in us all the good pleasure of His will.

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And so, beloved friends, with these words of his own we conclude our
testimony to him; we keep this Memorial of the Blessed Dead, not
sorrowing, as those do who have no hope; if we grieve at all, it is
that our love was so sparing of the spikenard wherewith we should have
anointed him to his burial.

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Requiescit in pace.

"Thou has made him most blessed for ever, Thou has made him exceeding
glad with Thy countenace."

[1] _In Memoriam, Arthur George William Neale, B.A. (St. John's
College), who passed through the veil 1st July 1880. Aged 22 years._

II

BELIEVING AND BECOMING

"To as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons
of God, even to them that believe on His name."--JOHN i. 12.

John soon gets away from abstract theology and takes the soul up into
the mount of contemplation, from which it may discern the length and
breadth of the land of promise and privilege. He knew that our faith
was not only "Emmanuel, God with us"; but that if we had the skill and
could read the word backwards, we might say,--"and we also with God."
He begins his Gospel, "the Word was with God "; he goes on, "the Word
was with man"; and then he completes the triangle by saying, "and man
also with God"; for "to as many as received Him, He gave power to
become the children of God." And again, later on, in the seventeenth
chapter, we have the thoughts, "I in them," and "Thou in Me," and "they
also in Us," until one is left in a deli