March 10

Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God.—MATT. v, 8.

He who to run life's race doth dare

With wrong at heart, though fleet he flees,

He may not win although he wear

The sandals of Hippomenes.

But he who keeps a stainless soul,

Albeit by pain and trial shod,

Will reach at last the priceless goal

That stands before the throne of God.

CLINTON SCOLLARD.

How does Jesus make men pure? He made Himself one with our human nature that He might heal and bless it through contact with His divinity. He folded it around His eternal presence. He made it His own. He made it a power which could quicken and restore us; and then by the gift of His Spirit He bound us to it, He robed us in it; and henceforth Christian humanity became conscious of a Presence before which the unclean spirit cannot but shrink away.

CANON LIDDON.