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more important; more “exclusivaf #abominable expression-- thisn we are. I am not one of those who believe that the spirit of the anob is the real soul of humanity. but who can deny that it plays a great part in many careers Pr

Existence is a struggle for many who might otherwise pass it in comfort, because they are miserable unless they are making

as

much display as others, dressing as expensively, living in the supposedly fashionable corner, following the fashionable hobbies, *in," as they may, at every social distraction.

One: has heard of a "Hongkong bug" whose bite. is believed 10 impart Doubtless this particular virus.

here the thing takes forms of its

n, frequently comical, such as can be seen in other garrison towns and Government stations.

But the thing itself is as old as Solomon, and not even our Lord's reminder that every lity of the feld outshone the whole of Solomon's glory has succeeded in driving it out of the life of men and women who by this time really ought to know better.

"Camouflage; all the goods in the front window, to be seen of men. But we do not live in the front window, and if we want to live happily it is wiser to think about. the back parlour. Our proverb, to be sure, presents a reverse side in its second clause There is that. feigneth himself poor, yet hath great wealth.". A miserable outside and luxurious interior is the style of the rich man's house where it is desirable to avoid the attention of needy officials. But with us the miser who shams poor has become a social eccent- ricity. Still it is astonishing how hard up many people become, if you ask them to help some good work, though if it is a question of social display they put another foot forward. Yet the case may be as they say, for if one is living on show one cannot be

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generous. The widow whose two but the literal truth when it perfectly reverent phrase of the mites attracted the admiring no- affirms that the heart of man is American poet? generous because she did not care deceitful above all things.

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Is it not wiser to accept His It behoves every man who judgment, to seek for it, welcome To knew that she was poor thinks he stands to take heed lest it, and shape our life in accord- A happy woman she-let no one he fall. most especially when he ance with it? How can re pity her-happy, not only in her generosity but in her indifference measures the security of his own believe," our Saviour once asked who receive to what other people might think standing by the seeming unsafe as if in dispair, or say, and in being content to ness of some other man's found-glory of one another, and the ation. Some day without fail glory which cometh of the only seem just what she was, no more, foods will descend and winds God ye seek not?" We are wrong Do less.

Truly she possessed

blow, and it will be proved at the root if the main stress of great wealth," the treasure of s quiet mind, which is the privilege beyond question whether your our life's effort is to appear this house and mine and our neigh-or that in the eyes of our neigh- of all who will eschew pretence. hour's are solid structures or not. bours, our circle, our little world and be free of the soul-strangling what is the good of letting our or great one. Truly it is a salut- strain of its stratagems and selves be unreal, either within ary reflection and a cautionary insincerities.

The same tendency to make the accepted conventions of re-one

our ligion or outside them

Cannot last, reality

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of mind and heart.

more

have to do Uo-with one

at believe besets, of course,

and glance to religious life. Indeed the very

bottom our hearts' core where word religion seems to suggest reality is bound to come to light,, of

one else can see however bypocrisy to a vast number of What we each are comes out in no people. You can draw cheers the long run, whether worse or intimately he knows us, where cannot penetrate ourselves, from the gallery, any day by better than had been thought, we

The hollow reputation, built up on however undinchingly we may denouncing religious bumbug. especially if the attack is pointed neither intellect nor character pash our analysis. That is what against these religious people". collapses sooner or later, even in the Psalmist felt when he cried, atmosphere which floats Search me O God and knowe; Nowadays things have become an considerably tumed around in many a bubble. Bankruptcy over- try me and know my ways; and respect, and it is the publican takes the unsound business, even see if there be any wicked way. who lifts up his eyes to heaven in a world where trickery produces in me, and lead me in the way and thanks God be is not as big results. Sterling goodness everlasting."

In the last resort and at the these Pharisees, although he will comes to its own, so also does its

citizen's final issue you will have nothing cheerfully confess to breaking counterfeit. When a

will is read, if not sooner, the else to hold on to, not if you were every command in the

finds out what he the purest and most experienced of Decalogue. rather plumes World

"worth," himself

as we the very saints. Trace your оп it,

really in fact. is

we deepest motives, track them down Truth to tell there is not a little say, and similarly after

if gone.

bot before, fold after fold into the inmost camouflage of this special brand are going about. People seem to de-our characters are summed up mazes light in making themselves out to pretty accurately by a community The farther you go the be worse than they really are, which will be either keen to ground you will find, for the

kind to forget, sickening remember feigning themselves poor," so to

scepticism of Belf put it, taking on a pose of in- according as we have deserved leads men to abandon every self- difference, scepticism, irreligion, of it. The truth will out about founded hope, and to

проп the which is to a certain extent only every one of us-neither flattery themselves utterly

Question affectation. Such is the colour or slander is capable of keeping Almighty of the environment in certain it out of sight for ever, even the yourself strictly, ruthlessly, drop- Pain: ping all camouflage, and you Circles, and numbers of men and sight of our fellow men. women adopt it with apparently wears off; leaves wither away; will find yourself where Simon the son of Jonas found himself a conception that ander, the camouflage disappears.

the But if it were otherwise, if it after

Master's thrice- plea of making no pretences they

to live in this repeated were possible

"Lovest question, are indulging in camouflage of a

and die out of it thou Me?" had shown him peculiarly mean and disloyal kind. World

all more of himself than he had ever They go on all their lives doing deceiving ourselves and what the Apostle Feter did once others, there is, happily for seen before. You will be ready or an hour under the stress of us all, a searching glance from to let go of yourself altogether can be and to cry in the utter humility temptation when

which nothing is or he urned his back on the Galilean. hidden, a "word of God which is which contains the moet sub- Oh that they might see His face, alive and active.... and quick stantial hope, "Lord Thou know- urned toward them with the look to discern the thoughts and est all things, Thou knowest hich smote Peter to the heart intents of the heart." "And," adds that I love Thee" which is a ad made a man of him! I see the Apostle," there is no creature way of saying in the same breath is form of unreality diffused which is not manifest in His "I do not know myself; I dare mewhat widely. It is popular sight, but all things are naked not claim it; I leave it all to many quarters and colours aand open before the eyes of Him Thee."

severe

OF

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Saviour.

cast

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