anoel11Jf'. "Look not every man on hie own thinas, bnt every man also on the things of othere." Thie does not mean, of course, that yon are to neglect your own things. There nro things that every man must attend to for himself-his own physical health, intellectual culture, etc., but it means that we are not to attend to our own tbin"S chiefly, and in such a way ae to neglect the concerns of others. There ie no re7il antagonism between the interest of self and the interest of others; on the contrary, we can only secure our own individual well-being or happiness by promotin,:,; the interestH of othere. It is only as men become generously engrossed in the interc~ts of other.~ that tbey can realize their own individual happiness and perfection. The man rises only as he becomes self-oblivious; thus Paul felt, "I am crucified with Christ, never- theless I live." The ego must be swallowed up in the non-ego-the spirit of universal benevolence. This is genuine socialism, and it is here urged by- 11. A.POSTOLIO PERSUASION. "If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like-minded." "'!'here are here four influencing motives to inculcate the four Christian duties corresponding respectively-that ye be like-minded, havino- the same love, of one accord, of one mind. 1. 'If there be [ with you, as I assumeJ any con- solation in Christ,' i.e. any consolation-but Ellicott, to avoid tautology, 'comfort' fol- lowing, translates (paraklesis) 'exhortation,' Rom. xii. 8--of which Christ is the source, leading you to console me in my afflictions borne for Christ's sake, ye ought to grant my request. 2. 'If there be any comfort of [i.e. flowing from] love,' the adjunct of consolation in Christ. 3. 'If any fellowship of [joint participation of] the Spirit' (2 Cor. xiii. 14). As 'pagans' meant those who were of one village and drank of one fountain, how much greater is the union which conjoins those who drink of the same Spirit (1 Cor. xii. 4) I 4. 'If any bowels [tender emotions] and mercies'(' compassions,' Col. iii. 12), the adjuncts of fellowship of the Spirit. The first and third mark the objective sources of the Chriotian life-Christ and the Spirit; the second and fourth, the sub- jective principle in believers. The opposites _of the two pairs into which the four fall are reprobated in vers. 3 and 4" (Fausset). A man like the apostle would not have urged this true socialism with such mighty earnestness had he not been impressed with its importance; and what can be of greater importance than this unity among the race ? For this Christ prayed the night before his death," that they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us."-D. T.
Vere. 5-11.-The moral history of the Ohristly spirit. "Let this mind he in you, which was also in Christ Jesus," etc. "From a practical introduction in the familial' exhortation to follow the example of our Lord, St. Paul passes on to what is perhaps the most complete and formal statement in all bis Epistles of the doctrine of his great humility. In this he marks out first the Incarnation, in which, 'being in the form of God, he took on him the form of a servant,' assuming a sinless but finite humanity; and next the passion, which was made needful by the sins of men, and in which his human nature was humiliated to the shame and agony of the cross. Inseparable in themselves, these two great acts of his self-sacrificing love must be distinguished. Ancient speculation delighted to suggest that the first might have been even if humanity had remained sinless, while the second was added because of the fall and its consequences. Such speculations are indeed thoroughly precarious and unsubstantial -for we cannot ask what might have been in a ditforent dispensation from our own, and moreover, we read of our Lord as 'the Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world' (Rev. xiii. 8; see also 1 Pet. i. 19), but they at least point to a true dis- tinction. As tho 'Word of God' manifested in the Incarnation, our Lord is the treasure of o.11 humanity as such; as tho Saviour through death, he is the especial treasure of us as sinners" (Dr. Barry). This is one of the gramlcst passages in tho Dible; it has been the arena of many a theological battle, the subject of many a sermon ny, and of many volumes _too. Esche~ving, as far as po~sibl~, u.11 !erbal criticism and 6pecule.tion, I sha!l turn _it_ to a pract(cal a~count by ~~m~ 1t ~o illustrate ~he moral history of the Ohristly 6pint-tbe spint which the l'h1!1pp1ans 1u the prece,lm~ verses aro exhortetl to obtain and cherish. Using it with this view, there are two great facts to be noticed. I. IT rn A sPrnrr OF SF.LF-ADNEOATION. "Let this mind be in you, which was also PIIILIPPIANS, H 98 Tim EPISTLE •ro THE PHILIPPIANS. [uR. 11, 1-30,