man's natural craving for dominion, he vainly covets the worldly means he imagines necessary to the conquest of the world. In his efforts upward, he grasps at earthly things, but the tighter he clutches them the more he finds them escaping like sea-sand through his fingers. Had he but faith to know Christ and His Apostles, and the ways and means whereby they overcame the world, he would learn that as water rises to its own level, so, only he who humbles himself shall be exalted, only he whom God commends shall share the victory. The point at issue between the world and God is whether man shall live for this life or the next, and where by faith we take our stand with Christ and publicly confess Him before men in word and deed, we achieve, besides an earthly victory, a claim to a heavenly triumph when Christ shall confess us before His Father who is in heaven. Thus besides conquering this world we do violence to, and carry by storm, the world to come. In the eight Beatitudes are catalogued the weapons of our warfare. By pride was man's dominion o'er the world lost and his right to heaven forfeited, but we by meekness regain possession of the earth, and by poverty of spirit and a willingness to suffer persecution for justice's sake, we reopen the kingdom of heaven. Our weapons are virtues that follow belief in Christ, or briefly, that is the victory which overcometh the world— our faith.
Brethren, the conquest of the world by faith is a victory, yes! but like all victories, sadly incomplete. For continued warfare is the price of victory, and
