September 10
Companions of the Way (Morning)Yet no one is indeed richer than such a man, none more powerful, none more free: who knows how to leave himself and all things and to put himself in the lowest place.
HE who will in any degree become a Saviour must see other men go up to the feast while he lingers behind; must wait until his hour comes; must be, among the men that he would save, "as one that serveth"; must gird himself and wash the feet of those whose souls he wants to save. Thank God the lesson has been an easy one for multitudes of men and women to learn since it was written in the Face of Christ! Thousands have leaped, as to the gospel for which their lives were thirsty, to the great truth which they read there—that the exaltation of nature, while it means freedom of soul, means restraint of action; and so they have taken up the bounded and limited life which lay before them, as the symbol and witness that they had entered by the new birth into the full liberty of Christ.
PHILLIPS BROOKS, The more abundant Life
SERVICE