+I. A good man is a way, because he is the means to an end.+ The way to the city is the road by which we reach it. The life of a holy man is a way to spiritual and eternal life, because it is the means by which men come home to God. If there were no good men in the world, there would be no means by which sinners could be brought from death unto life. Christ is pre-eminently "_the way,_" because His life is the great means by which men learn to know and to return to God. "No man cometh unto the Father but by Me" (John xiv. 6). The longer a path is trodden the more distinctly it proclaims itself as a way. So a good man becomes a more evident way the longer he lives. A good life is so distinct in its teachings that both sage and savage are compelled to admit its influence, and the longer it exerts its power for good the more pronounced it becomes. The Son of God has for ages been the way to life, and the longer He continues to be so the more distinctly is He seen to be the means to this end. +II. The conditions to be fulfilled in order to become a way of life.+ 1. _The man must keep instruction._ It is not enough to _receive_ it. The Word of God must not only be _heard,_ but must be _kept._ "If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them" (John xiii. 17). 2. _He must submit to discipline even when it takes the form of reproof._ This is implied in the last clause of the verse, "He that refuseth reproof causes to err." The man who has attained a position in any profession, and has thereby become qualified to lead others, has done so because he has submitted to discipline even when it has been in the unpalatable form of reproof. Such a man can well exhort others to submit to that by which he has become fit to be their guide. Even the Son of God "_learned obedience_ by the things which He suffered" (Heb. v. 8). +III. An ungodly man injures others as well as himself.+ He not only wanders from the path himself, but he "causeth (others) to err." We often hear it said of a godless man--of one "who refuseth reproof"--that "he is nobody's enemy but his own." This cannot be. It has been truly said that "nothing leaves us wholly as it found us. Every man we meet, every book we read, every picture or landscape we see, every word or tone we hear, mingles with our being and modifies it." This being so, every man makes every man with whom he comes in contact better or worse, and as every good man draws others into the path of life, so every man who refuses to submit to Divine discipline drags others with him in the broad road that leads to destruction. _OUTLINES AND SUGGESTIVE COMMENTS._