hole longing as He entered the
cloud of the last agony:--"And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will
draw all men unto me." Bear witness in the world that the one thing
needful to it is Christ. Tell statecraft that it needs the laws of the
kingdom, to regulate its methods and to indicate its ends. Tell monarchs
that they need to observe _the_ Monarch, that their rule may be a
benediction to loyal subjects instead of a curse to cringing slaves.
Tell citizens that they need to become citizens of this kingdom, that
the commonwealth on earth may be the image and the vestibule of the
commonwealth of the skies. Tell classes that they need the instructions
of this Master, that society may be less a den of selfish contentions,
and more a field of gracious ministries and ennobling toils. Tell
commerce that she needs the inspiration of this duty, that the dull, the
common, the base may be transfigured and wear the forms of beauty,
nobleness, and truth. Tell life that it needs the quickening of this
spirit, that it may not drop piecemeal through the corruptions of sin
into the darkness and rottenness of the pit. Above all, tell every soul
that hears you, that it needs Christ, the living Bread; the bread of
Christ's truth, the bread of Christ's life, the bread of Christ's love,
that it may not settle into the darkness of death for ever, but "have
everlasting life," where Christ lives and reigns at God's right hand
eternally.

FOOTNOTE:

[A] King Alfred's "new book of laws" opens with the sentence, "And the
Lord spake all these words and said, I am the Lord thy God," etc. Then
follows the decalogue; and then, "Whatsoever ye would that men should do
unto you, that do ye also unto them." Besides, there are many passages
quoted from the word of God, with most wise reflections on them and
applications of them to the matter in hand; and then he proceeds to the
laws of the realm.

II.

THE DUES OF CAESAR AND OF CHRIST.

"Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and
unto God the things that are God's."--MATT. xxii. 21.

What things are Caesar's? Clearly the things which bear his image and
superscription; the things on which he has the right and the power to
imprint his mark.

What things are God's? Clearly those things which bear His immediate
mark and superscription, which belong to the diviner part in man, which
are in man by the breath of the Divine inspiration, and which God
claims, and t