viii. PAGE. SERMON IV. OUR BLESSED LORD AS OUR EXAMPLE IN PATIENCE. PS. IX. 18. "The patient abiding of the Meek shall not perish for ever." [P. Bk. Version.] 30 SERMON V. OUR BLESSED LORD AS OUR EXAMPLE IN WORK. S. JOHN IX. 4. "I must work the works of Him that sent Me while it is day; the night cometh when no man can work." SERMON VI. OUR BLESSED LORD AS OUR EXAMPLE IN S. LUKE XXIII. 6. "And when JESUS had cried with a loud voice, He said, Father, into Thy Hands I commend My spirit; and having said this, He gave up the ghost." པ་ 40 The Great Example. Our Blessed Lord as our Example in Self-Sacrifice. HEB. X. 9. "Lo, I come to do Thy Will, O God." ON Sunday last (Quinquagesima) we heard our dear Lord saying to His disciples in the Holy Gospel, "Behold we go up to Jerusalem." And that is simply just what the Church is doing at this season of Lent. She bids her children to come apart into the wilderness to watch and fast with Christ; and then she makes her yearly pilgrimage to the earthly Jerusalem, where our Blessed Lord suffered for us men for our salvation, and in heart and thought leads us up to Calvary all along the way that He once trod, His way of sorrows, the King's Highway of the Cross. Let us also go, that we may die with Him to the world, to sin, to self. And as our Blessed Lord hath left us an example that we should follow in His steps, let us now during the next few Sunday evenings follow Him along His path of suffering and sorrow, and fix our gaze attentively on Him as our Great Example in Self A Sacrifice, in Love, in Obedience, in Patience, in Work, and in Death. So shall we learn at once how to live, and how to die,—to live unto God, and to die in the Lord. Behold the Man ! What Man? The Man, Christ JESUS, the Man that is God's Fellow, the Man that has become as one of us to know good and evil, and Who is indeed Bone of our bone, and Flesh of our flesh, our ever-adorable Redeemer, Lord, and God. Behold the Man in Self-sacrifice. What do I mean by self-sacrifice? I mean the giving up of our own will and way, our pleasures and desires; the denying ourselves in lawful things; the willing and obedient taking up of the cross appointed us by God, for there is a cross in every lot, the crucifying of the flesh with the affections and lusts; the dying to the world,—the mortifying of that inner world of taste, feeling, habit, desire, imagination, and memory, which is summed up in the one word self. And this our Blessed Lord, the second Adam, the one true type and representative of man, did in a marvellous way--tracking out the path for us, and leaving us an example that we should follow in His steps. For what was the whole of His earthly life, from the manger to the Cross, cradle to the grave, from the but one long course of self sacrifice? At Bethlehem, in Egypt, at Nazareth, at |