LECTURE 6
ON HOW TO LOOK ON THE PAST WHOSE CONTEMPLATION MIGHT LEAD UNTO PRIDE
Again, dear friends, I will teach you how to handle the past whose episodes make you proud. When such a past appears before you, and shows you all your good deeds, and virtues and how that all men praise you, just fight it by surrendering yourself to Jesus. Through Jesus, you will consider all its adulations as deadly venom to your soul and then cast it from you.
LORD, FOR EVER AT THY SIDE
By James Montgomery
Lord, for ever at Thy side,
Let my place and portion be;
Strip me of the robe of pride,
Clothe me with humility.
Meekly may my soul receive
All Thy Spirit hath reveal'd,
Thou hast spoken;--I believe
Though the prophecy were seal'd.
Quiet as a weanèd child,
Weanèd from the mother's breast,
By no subtlety beguiled,
On thy faithful word I rest.
Saints! rejoicing evermore,
In the Lord Jehovah trust;
Him in all his ways adore,
Wise, and wonderful, and just.