that the world commends and pats on the back, Christ condemns, and all that the world shrinks from and dreads, Christ bids us make our own, and assures us that in it we shall find our true blessing. “The poor in spirit,” they are the happy men. The reason for the benediction is as foreign to law and earthly thoughts as is the benediction of which it is the reason—“for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.” Poverty of spirit will not further earthly designs, nor be an instrument for what the world calls