3. _His life was truly a life of devotion._--His was a life of prayer. Philosophy asks for a reason for the efficacy of prayer, and waiting for an answer, never prays at all. Religion hears that God will be inquired of by us, thankfully bends the knee, touches the golden sceptre, and bears away the blessing. We always want; we must always pray. And wish we for a model of high aspiration in prayer? Let the apostle elevate and expand our languid desires. 4. _His life was one of heavenly-mindedness._--He lived indeed in the flesh, but his life was in heaven. Heavenly-mindedness is the result of three things--an assurance of present acceptance with God, habitual intercourse with Him through His Son, and the extinction of the worldly spirit. Our fears and aversions result from principles directly opposite. 5. _His life was one of cheerful submission to providential appointments._--His was no life of envied ease. In every city bonds and afflictions awaited him. These dispensations operated on a tender and delicate mind, for in him were united great energy and great tenderness. Yet this man, hunted like a beast of prey, always preserves and exhibits a contented cheerfulness. There was no sorrow for himself, none allowed to others for him. The principle itself reason could not furnish; but when furnished it is seen to be most reasonable. 6. _His life was one of laborious usefulness._--He lived not to himself, but to Christ Jesus his Lord, in the promotion of His will in the moral benefit and eternal salvation of men. This was the life he lived in the flesh, even to spread the light and influence of the Gospel to all. +II. The principle and source of his life.+--1. _It is Christian faith._ Its object, the Son of God. It receives His words as true, and regards Him as an atoning sacrifice. "He gave Himself for me." 2. _In its nature it is confiding and appropriating._--How does faith connect itself with the results stated? (1) It regenerates as well as justifies. (2) It produces vital union with Christ. (3) It is habitual in its exercise. (4) It is realising. It gives a spiritual apprehension of invisible and eternal realities.--_R. Watson._ _Self-abolished and Replaced._--Caroline Herschel, the sister of the great astronomer, was through all her life the most attached servant of her brother. She called herself "a mere tool, which my brother had the trouble of sharpening." She learned the details of observing with such success that she independently discovered eight comets. Her devotion was most complete. Wherever her brother was concerned she abolished self and replaced her nature with his. Having no taste for astronomy, her work at first was distasteful to her; but she conquered this and lived to help his work and fame. Ver. 21. _The Perils of False Teaching._ +I. It seeks to base personal righteousness on an effete legalism.+--"If righteousness come by the law."