86 THE VEN. ARCHDEACON W. MACDONALD SINCLAIR, D.D., ON 
things for His human children are the Blessings of the Sermon 
on the Mount; that He is the God of healing and pity, the 
God of the most righteous and absolute justice, and yet the 
most tender sympathy and condescension; the God of the 
Sross of Calvary. 
4. The Human Response in Self-sacrijice. 
It is to Him, holding as He does in His hands the issue of 
life and death, watching us at each moment of our lives, and 
telling us by every line of His message that this life is only 
the brief preparation for the true life beyond, that in the 
exercise of our faith, if we desire our religion to be effectual, 
we cannot withhold the sacrifice of the whole heart and soul 
and mind and strength. Ah! my brothers, I know how 
many are the competing interests. The daily affairs of life, 
the associations of business, home and ordinary occupations, 
these humble things are often in combination strong enough 
to blunt our faculty for the divine, and to hold us back from 
the full devotion of ourselves to Him Who alone is great. 
Then there come flocking about us all the various kinds of 
pleasures and amusements, which, to many, especially to 
those in the light spirits of youth, are a still more potent 
spell to hinder. Sometimes there are intellectual substitutes 
for the Eternal which claim our allegiance, and which 
prevent us from approaching near His spiritual and invisible 
throne. But all these are transitory and disappointing, and 
we find them so. 
d. The Devotion of Browning. 
“Therefore to whom turn I, but to Thee, the ineffable Name, 
Builder and Maker Thou of houses not made with hands! 
What ? have fear of change from Thee Who art ever the same ? 
Doubt that Thy power can fill the heart that Thy power expands? 
There shall never be one lost good ! what was shall live as before ; 
The evil is null, is naught, is silence implying sound ; 
What was good shall be ‘good, with for evil so much good more ; 
On the earth the broken ares,—-in the heaven a per fect round |” 
Browning. 
Self-devotion in the Smallest Things. 
Moved by such thoughts as these, raised on the wings of 
devotion and praise, we feel that we can in sincerity dedicate 
ourselves to Him in whom alone we live and move and have 
our being. Well would it be for us if we never entered into 
