head, and the chain of gold about Joseph’s neck1—were not so graceful, as was this ornament of filial humility.2 Wherever we see it, it is the “putting on of the Lord Jesus Christ” in his lovely example—“going down with his parents, and being subject to them”3—Yea, honoring his mother with his last dying command to his disciple—“Behold thy mother!”4 The same reciprocal obligation binds the spiritual father and his children. Authority softened by tenderness—instruction moulded in parental endearment