magazines and lectures and conventions are good. They give a certain kind of authority-the authority of the scribe. Would you have a real, conquering, lasting authority? Then, like the great Master, live in sympathy with nature and the forces of the universe. Occupy your thoughts with the elemental and transcendent and immor tal. Above all, live in communion with eternal God Himself. Be closeted with Him in the intimacies of a celestial friendship. Like the Mountain Teacher, have a Godlike character. Then shall you teach with authority indeed. Thy method, O teacher, will be the method of Jesus Christ.

Life.

Lastly: Pilgrims to the great Beyond, do you, The Chart of Telemachus-like, ask for a Mentor? Here it isthe Instruction of the Mountain. It is the true chart of life. Consult it unceasingly. Enter into its spirit, and it will transfigure you. It is the philosophy of holy living. It is Heaven's itinerary for earth's pilgrimage. Walk by it, and your pilgrimage will end in Heaven. And so in the eternal Sabbath-school of the hereafter we shall be permitted to study world without end the Instruction of a nobler Mountain, even the heavenly Mount Zion.

Blessed Lord, who hast caused all holy Scrip- Collect. tures to be written for our learning: Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience, and comfort of Thy holy Word, we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed hope of everlasting life, which thou hast given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.

CHRIST'S DOCTRINE OF BLESSEDNESS.

MATTHEW v. 3-12. COMPARE LUKE vi. 20-26.

Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

PHILIPPIANS iv. 8.

II.

CHRIST'S DOCTRINE OF BLESSEDNESS.

tudes : Matt, v. 8-12.

"Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is The Beatithe kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for My sake: rejoice and be exceeding glad; for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.”

Such are the words with which the Mountain Teacher introduces His great Instruction. Most appropriate they are. In fact, they constitute the portico to His kingdom. May the Spirit Himself guide us as we traverse the eight-columned arcade of the Beatitudes!