they were intimate, should have attained to such eminence. Instead of being proud of Him, and glorifying God for Him, they were jealous of Him and belittled Him. He was nothing but the member of a very ordinary family, and what right had He to teach them new ways of life? Christ’s explanation of their conduct is a proverb, parallels to which exist in various languages. Pindar tells Ergoteles, the runner, that his fame would have faded away at the family hearth, if fortune had not driven him from