The Knights of Christ are men who have no use for dirt of any kind.
"And I beheld a white horse, and He that sat upon him was called
Faithful and True, and in righteousness He doth judge and make War ...
and the armies which were in heaven followed Him upon white horses,
clothed in fine linen, white and clean."[2] There is nothing so unclean
but that Christ can cleanse it; and to all who would be His Warriors He
can, and He does, give the white armour which they must have. Here is
the greatest soldiering of all. It is worth the struggle to be a better
man, it is worth the effort of faith which will let Him re-make your
life, if thereby you may be fit to take your place in His Army and go
after Him as He rides forth to conquer in the Holy War.
[2] Revelation xix. 11, 14.
*LOYALTY*
"Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the
Kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of My Father which is in
heaven."--ST. MATTHEW vii. 21.
"Be Thou the King, and we will work Thy will Who Love Thee."--TENNYSON.
"Jesus shall reign where’er the sun
Does his successive journeys run;
His Kingdom stretch from shore to shore,
Till moons shall wax and wane no more."--ISAAC WATTS.
*V*
*LOYALTY*
The Coronation Service of His Majesty King George V. is still a
comparatively recent event. The whole ceremony is, as many will
remember, full of beautiful symbolism. One of the most moving and
dramatic moments is that when, after the King has been crowned, his
chief subjects come forward to kneel down and do him homage. One after
another the Archbishops, the Princes of the Blood Royal and the Peers of
the Realm, kneel down, putting off their coronets, and pronounce the
words of homage: "I do become your liege man of life and limb, and of
earthly worship; and faith and truth I will bear unto you, to live and
die, against all manner of folks. So help me God." And then, proceeds
the rubric, "the Peers having done their Homage, the first of each
Order, putting off his coronet, shall singly ascend the throne, and
stretching forth his hand, touch the Crown on His Majesty’s head, as
promising by that ceremony for himself and his Order to be ever ready to
support it with all their power; and then shall he kiss the King’s
cheek." This sense of owing loyal service to a King is an immemorial
instinct in men. And it is a deep-rooted tradition that those who are
his "Knights" are bound to him in the closest ties of honourable
obligation. In the earliest centuries of our national history the King
used to have his "war band," bound personally to him by their free
choice, and sworn to fight for him to the death. He was their "lord,"
they his "thegns."
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