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ciated. He stands as one of the most truly illustrious types in History, of self-abnegation in devotion to duty. He was great in his uncOnSciOuSneSS He came down from the Mount, not knowing that "the skin of his face shOne.'
 It was parable of the method by which God chooses to witness of his own truth ip the world. The shining face of Moses prefgured that full trans tiguration of the Christ, which was Heavens own signature to mission which the world did not at all under stand. ''They crucified Him. He was glOritied by the purpose which shone forth in His divine life and was voiced in the words, II seek not mine own glory: There is One that seeketh and Judgeth.''
 God does witness of His truth in the world. Men ask, with the scornful Pilate, "What is Truth?" That ques- tton has been once and sufficiently an- swered by the Christ whom he deliv- cred to be crucified. "To this end was I born and for this cause came I into the world, that 1 should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice." Gods truth is the incarnate righteousness manifested in love and working through love. But it is always truth in and by righteousness. No man by searching can find Him out. The researches of science discover "parts of His ways, :" but it is only as science recognizes mans place in nature that the somer thing more begins to appear which witnesses of rela tions beyond the phy- sical. The voice of authority speaks in his conscience and only as we obey may we know.
 Men look for him everywhere out side of themselves and name Him the Unknowable. He says, "it is not in Heaven that thou shouldst say, who shall go up for us to Heaven and bring it unto us that we may hear it and do it, neither is it beyond the sea that thou ShOuldeSt say who shall go over the sea for us and bring it unto us, but the Word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart that thou mayest do it."
 From Moses on the Mount to St John in the Revelation this principle with an iron pen in the rock forever "1f any man willeth to do Gods will he shall know" This state of "will ing to do' is the state of receptivity which makes the soul translucent to God and so, like Moses the unconscious witness of his presence and power.
 God witnesses of His truth through the man who knows Him in the obedi- ence of his heart. They said of Christ and His Apostles that they were de- ceivers and Paul retorts with, the splendid paradox, Gas deceivers and yet true" The 'yet true" in Christi ianity has always survived and domi- hated the charge of falseness, because which compels the assent of every mans conscience in the sight of God. Duty is, of all things, the most prosaic and yet it is through duty cdrried up to it's highest relations that the most Illuminating forces in life appear.
 DEVOTION TO GOD AND HIS RIGHTEOUS
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 is the least popular of aims. It is not, humanly speaking, the best policy. Men try to shine in other ways and, like dead wood, or the flash of waves at night, have a phosphoresence all their own. The forces which live are the forces which radiate from lives which never think of shining. They are beautiful in their unconsciouSneSs. This uncOnSciOuSneSS is the peculiar characteristic of their power. The Scribes and Pharisees and men of their class in every age are self-conscious in their mOralitieS. "All their works they do to be seen of men" or of some motive drawn from social cOnSidera- tions they bear witness of themselves as we'll behaved, reputable people and that is all. There is no unconscious rr10u in thnir d0iFonc DlfnoSCinr nf Q higher than earthly communion. Saul of Tarsus held the Tables of Stone in his grasp with prosecuting zeal, but not until he had become Paul the Apostle counting alluthings but loss for the excellency of the knowledge O. Christ Jesus his Lord, did he radiatt unconsciouslY an influence which spread far beyond his own rugged per sonality and down through the gener atiOnS even to the present. II knov you," said our Lord to the Pharisees 'that ye have not the love of Got within you." That was the qualit. lacking in their righteousness.
 Love, born of Gods love to us is th' glory in which He reflects Himself and bears His witness to the world
 Pure love is always beautiful, whethe it is the love of country, or of friend ship or the mother love with it's owl peculiar light, as it looks down int
 the eyes of trusting babyhood. Blu
 the love which is warmed into bein
 by the home coming of the prodiga soul to the Father of our spirits is al atmosphere impalpable, but real
 though difficult to describe. Mightie
 in it's witness for God, than gifts 0
 tongues, or miracles, or healing, it never conscious of itself. The worl
 feels it's presence in persons who re fleet in their personal charac ters some
 thing holier, than the artificial, the atrical glare of our social moralities , They think little of themselves. The
 grow humber with the years. Thei chief care is to keep themselves in tn , ''love of God which passeth know ledge" and so they unconsciously re fleet that love and know not that the |; are being "changed into the same in
 age from glory to glory" even as b the spirit of the Lord.
 It follows from these consideration , that the measure of
 A MANS USEFULNESS IN THE WORL
 IS DETERMINED
 by what he is and not by what he ma actually, in his brief life time, accon