. The Church of England pulpit, and ecclesiastical review. cannot ourselves get theshekels to buy up Omans threshing-floor, butwhat we cannot procure Christ has supplied. Andthe smoke of the offering has gone up to God, andthe plague is stayed. And the greatness and the reality of that sacrificeof love which Jesus made for the whole world, andfor you, is an example of the sacrifice which Heasks you to make of the jewel He has given you—your life ! A diamond it is, unpolished, uncut,but capable of infinite beauty of form, infinitepurity of lustre. He will help to shape and mould 54 The Church o
. The Church of England pulpit, and ecclesiastical review. cannot ourselves get theshekels to buy up Omans threshing-floor, butwhat we cannot procure Christ has supplied. Andthe smoke of the offering has gone up to God, andthe plague is stayed. And the greatness and the reality of that sacrificeof love which Jesus made for the whole world, andfor you, is an example of the sacrifice which Heasks you to make of the jewel He has given you—your life ! A diamond it is, unpolished, uncut,but capable of infinite beauty of form, infinitepurity of lustre. He will help to shape and mould 54 The Church of England Pulpit and Ecclesiastical Review. it, then to brighten and polish it, and then to keepits lustre undimmed and its sparkle clear. Finally also, God will ask you for it, , yourlife, and if worthy, He will place it, a bright jewel,in the eternal crown. High destiny ! Great end !How can I, thus conscious of the eternal plan, doelse than present to Him my noblest and my best?I will not offer unto the Lord my God that whichhas cost me For Health and Immortality. SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1884. THE KING AND HIS SATELLITE. MR. BRITON RIVIERE has a very strikingpicture in this years exhibition of theRoyal Academy. A lion, rather bigger, it must beconfessed, than life, stalks towards a herd withhead erect, seeing and scenting his prey, whilearound his heels a pack of little jackals are prowling,read)7, as soon as the lordly beast has struck hisgame and satisfied his hunger, to fight amongthemselves for the leavings. We do not knowwhether the artist has enough of satire in his com-position to intend this picture for an allegoricalportrait of Mr. Gladstone and his courtiers, butcertain it is that the resemblance is complete. ThePrime Minister is marching steadily onwards tothe great prize of his ambition. To break downthe last institution that ventures to resist hisdespotic will, and to live the three or four yearsof active life that may yet remain to a septua-genarian
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