In the early days of his love to Christ, visiting a friend, and seeing him mending a quill pen, he said: "Brother H----, do you pray to God when you mend your pen?" The answer was: "It would be well to do so, but I cannot say that I do pray when mending my pen." Brother Muller replied: "I always do, and so I mend my pen much better." As we cast this last backward glance at this man of God, seven conspicuous qualities stand out in him, the combination of which made him what he was: Stainless uprightness, child-like simplicity, business-like precision, tenacity of purpose, boldness of faith, habitual prayer, and cheerful self-surrender. His _holy living_ was a necessary condition of his _abundant serving,_ as seems so beautifully hinted in the seventeenth verse of the ninetieth Psalm: "Let the _beauty of the Lord our God be upon us,_ And _establish Thou the work of our hands upon us."_ How can the work of our hands be truly established by the blessing of our Lord, unless His beauty also is upon us--the beauty of His holiness transforming our lives and witnessing to His work in us? So much for the backward look. We must not close without a forward look also. There are two remarkable sayings of our Lord which are complements to each other and should be put side by side: [Transcriber's note: The following two paragraphs are printed side-by-side in two columns.] "If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me." "If any man serve Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be. If any man serve Me, him will My Father honour."