May 19

Blessed is that servant whom his Lord when He cometh shall find so doing.

"HE went about doing good." So we might say in our own age of two or three who have been personally known to us, "He or she went about doing good." They are the living witnesses to us of His work. If we observe them we shall see that they did good because they were good,—because they lived for others and not for themselves, because they had a higher standard of truth and therefore men could trust them, because their love was deeper and therefore they drew others after them. These are they of whom we read in Scripture that they bear the image of Christ until His coming again, and of a few of them that they have borne the image of His sufferings, and to us they are the best interpreters of His life. They too have a hidden strength which is derived from communion with the Unseen; they pass their lives in the service of God, and yet only desire to be thought unprofitable servants. Their way of life has been simple—they have not had much to do with the world. . . . They may have been scarcely known, or not known until after their death; they may have had their trials too—failing health, declining years, the ingratitude of men, but they have endured as seeing Him who is invisible.

BENJAMIN JOWETT

HIS SERVANTS