+II. How it was cultivated.+--1. By frequent meditation on the holiness of God. 2. By looking away from self to Christ. 3. By gratitude to God and to Christ for an interest in the blessings of redemption. 4. By a due appreciation of the importance of humility. It is ornamental, but it is also useful. It lies at the very root of all the graces of the Christian character.--_G. Brooks._ _Humility a Growth._--The progress which St. Paul made in humility has often been given by comparing three expressions in his epistles with the supposed dates when they were written: "Not meet to be called an apostle" (1 Cor. xv. 9: A.D. 59); "Less than the least of all saints" (Eph. iii. 8: A.D. 64); "Sinners, of whom I am chief" (1 Tim. i. 15: A.D. 65). _The Unsearchable Riches of Christ._--The riches of Christ's Divinity are unsearchable, the riches of His condescension are unsearchable, the riches of His tenderness are unsearchable, the riches of His redeeming love are unsearchable, the riches of his intersession are unsearchable, the riches of his faithfulness are unsearchable, and the riches of his supporting grace are unsearchable. These riches will never be expressed, even to all eternity. No! not by the noble army of martyrs, nor the glorious company of the apostles, nor the goodly fellowship of the prophets, nor the general assembly and Church of the first-born, nor the innumerable company of angels, nor the spirits of just men made perfect, nor by all the ransomed throng of heaven. It will form their most ecstatic employment in heaven. Join, all ye happy throng--join, holy Abel and Enoch, upright Job, perfect Noah, souls of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, grand souls of Moses, Samuel, and Elijah, pardoned David and Manasseh, soul of Isaiah the prophet. Join, all ye whose souls are under the altar cry, "How long, O Lord, wilt Thou not avenge our blood upon the earth?" Join, holy Stephen and Polycarp, holy Latimer, Ridley, Hooper, Rowland Taylor, and Anne Askew. Join, brave Wicklif, gallant Luther, stern John Knox, sweet John Bunyan, and praying George Fox. Join, pious Doddridge and tuneful Watts, noble George Whitefield, holy Fletcher, exhaustless John Wesley, dauntless Rowland Hill, and grand though lowly Robert Hall. Ye sweetest trebles of the eternal choir, ye million million babes who died without actual sin, join all your notes of praise! Pull out every stop of the grand organ of heaven, from the deep swell diapason to the lofty flute and cornet! Gabriel, strike the loftiest note of thy harp of gold. And let all the host of heaven, angels and men, begin the grand anthem, "Worthy is the Lamb." And let the eternal +Amen+ peal and roll and reverberate through all the arches of heaven! But never through all eternity shall the gathered host be able fully to express _the unsearchable riches of Christ.--Thomas Cooper._ Ver. 9. _The Fellowship of the Mystery._