y, and to it he gives himself wholly. It is a work which, we
trust, is not likely to carry him off from God; not only because it is
His work, but, what is a more sure reason, because commonly it gains no
great thanks from men. However, for this reason it is difficult for
Christian ministers to speak about your trial in this matter, my
brethren, because it is not theirs. We are tried by the command to
live out of the world, and you by the command to live in it.

May God give us grace in our several spheres and stations to do His
will and adorn His doctrine; that whether we eat and drink, or fast and
pray, labour with our hands or with our minds, journey about or remain
at rest, we may glorify Him who has purchased us with His own blood!

[1] Acts i. 11.

SERMON XII.

Vanity of Human Glory.

"_The world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not._"--1 John iii. 1

Of St. Simon and St. Jude, the Saints whom we this day commemorate,
little is known[1]. St. Jude, indeed, still lives in the Church in his
Catholic epistle; but of his history we only know that he was brother
to St. James the Less, and nearly related to our Lord and that, like
St. Peter, he had been a married man. Besides his name of Jude or
Judas, he is also called Thaddaeus and Lebbaeus in the Gospels. Of St.
Simon we only know that he was called the Canaanite, or Zealot, for the
words have the same meaning, belonging, before his conversion, to a
certain fierce sect, who, under the idea they were doing God service,
took upon themselves to execute the law upon offenders without legal
authority, and without formal accusation or trial. It is said that
both Apostles were at length martyred in the course of their efforts to
gather together God's elect into His fold.

Little is known of St. Simon and St. Jude; they laboured and they
taught in their generation; they were gifted with miraculous powers,
and by their preaching founded churches and saved souls; they travelled
into the East and West, till at last they were taken away from the
earth. Yet we know little of their history now. Although "honoured in
their generation, and the glory of their times," yet they "have no
memorial, but are perished as though they had never been[2]." St.
Jude's Epistle, indeed, is a standing monument, yet not of his doings,
but of his gifts. What he wrote leads us to conjecture indeed what he
was; but of his history, we know no more than of that of St. Simon