lustre of the spirit which is indispensable for social service.[194] On this the ancient Greek was at one with the ancient Hebrew. _Enthusiasm_ is just _God breaking into glory_ through a human life. Here lies the secret of the buoyancy and "freshness of the earlier world," whether pagan or Hebrew, and by this may be understood the depression and pessimism which infects modern society. They had God in their blood, and we are anæmic. _But I, I said, I have laboured in vain; for waste and for wind have I spent my strength._ We must all say that, if our last word is _our strength_. But let this not be our last word. Let us remember the sufficient answer: _Surely my right is with the Lord, and the meed of my work with my God_. We are set, not in our own strength or for our own advantage, but with the hand of God upon us, and that the Divine life may _break into glory_ through our life. Carlyle said, and it was almost his last testimony, "The older I grow, and I am now on the brink of eternity, the more comes back to me the first sentence of the catechism, which I learned when a child, and the fuller does its meaning grow--'What is the chief end of man? Man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him for ever.'" * * * * * It was said above, that, as light breaks to visibleness either from a mirror or a wick, so God _breaks to glory_ either from the witness of men,--that is His mirror,--or from their sacrifice--that is His wick. Of both of these ways of glorifying God is the Servant conscious. His service is Speech and Sacrifice, Prophecy and Martyrdom. II. THE SERVANT AS PROPHET. Concerning his service of Speech, the Servant speaks in these two passages--ch. xlix. 2 and l. 4-5: _He set my mouth like a sharp sword,_ _In the shadow of His hand did He hide me,_ _And made me a pointed arrow;_ _In His quiver He laid me in store._ _My Lord Jehovah hath given me_ _The tongue of the learners,_ _To know how to succour the weary with words._ _He wakeneth morning by morning, He wakeneth mine ear_ _To hear as the learners._ _My Lord Jehovah hath opened mine ear._ _I was not rebellious,_ _Nor turned away backward._