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a higher standard of character, as interferences withtheir private business, would be very amenable to the influenceof the same person if he approached them withsuch evidences of true devotion and loving interest aswould be indicated by the performance of some menialact. It is the sympathetic ones who are most successfulin helping the various members of the Body of Christout of the besetments and difficulties incident to the followingof the Lord in the present time. Oh, let us studyand strive and pray that we may be very successful inobeying the Master's injunction, "Ye also ought to washone another's feet!"How many opportunities we have for comforting, refreshing,consoling and assisting one another in some ofthe humblest affairs of daily living or in respect to someof the unpleasant duties, experiences or trials of life!By love we are to serve one another, but not as a mereformality. Any service done or attempted to be done inlove, with the desire to do good to one of the Lord'speople, has, we may be sure, the approval of the Head ofthe Church.Let us lose no opportunities of this kind; let us rememberthe Master's example. Let us not merely assumethe guise of humility, but let us actually have that graceof character which will enable us to do kindnesses andservice to all with whom we come in contact. Then weshall all the more enjoy this privilege as we find the needyones to be members of the Body of Christ--The Christ.====================R5095 : page 275"CAST NOT AWAY YOUR CONFIDENCE""Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hathgreat recompense of reward."--Hebrews 10:35.WITH VERY MANY of God's people, as wellas with the world's people, the ideal Christianlife is one of constant peace and tranquility.They have never learned that "thepeace of God which passeth all [worldly]understanding," promised to the Christian,is to rule in and keep his heart (Phil. 4:7;Col. 3:15), but does not apply to his outwardlife. They forget, or perhaps neverlearned, that our Master's words were, "Inthe world ye shall have tribulation, but in Me ye shallhave peace" [in your hearts]. "If the world hate you, yeknow that it hated Me before it hated you." "If theyhave called the Master of the house Beelzebub, howmuch more them of His household?" "Yea, and all thatwill live godly in Christ Jesus [in this present world, ordispensation], shall suffer persecution." It is of a wickedclass, and not of the saints, that the Prophet declared,