ness was the exercise of lordship and authority. " But ye," He says, "shall not be so. He that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger ; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve." And then He enforces this principle by the mighty fact of His own example. " I am among you as he that serveth."
Usefulness in the world and Church, — a humble readi- ness to do anything, and put our hands to any good work, — ^a cheerful willingness to fill any post, however lowly, and discharge any office, however unpleasant, if we can only promote happiness and holiness on earth, — these are the true tests of Christian greatness. The hero in Christ's army is not the man who has rank, and title, and dignity, and chariots, and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. It is the man who looks not on his own things, but the things of others. It is the man who is kind to all, tender to all, thoughtful for all, with a hand to help all, and a heart to feel for all. It is the man who spends and is spent to make the vice and misery of the world less, to bind up the broken-hearted, to befriend the friendless, to cheer the sorrowful, to enlighten the igno- rant, and to raise the poor. This is the truly great man in the eyes of God. The world may ridicule his labours and deny the sincerity of his motivjes. But while the world is sneering, God is pleased. This is the man who is walking most closely in the steps of Christ.
Let us follow after greatness of this sort, if we desire to prove ourselves Christ's servants. Let us not be con- tent with clear head-knowledge, and loud lip-profession, and keen insight into cohtroversy, and fervent zeal for the interests of our own party. Let us see that we minis*