The second charge of our text is "Look back upon the close their career."
The time of the scenes of faithful witnesses. call to-day is not for martyrdom but for hard work; for such whol hearted, devoted service for Christ fas makes the Kingdom come. There no doubt that had Charles Ewart Darwent lived in an age of martyrdom he would have gore to the Jetake or the block unflinchingly, bout, as the age that he lived in was one calling for hard work, be found full expression for his life' in ceaseless activity. Everything lett to. him was attended to punctually, The end of his life came suddenly, in the early hours of Sunday, October 12, 1924, but it was characteristic of him' that everything was in order, his sermon was nished, he was ready for the day's work.
The third injunction is that we "Copy their faith." We are not. called upon to copy their eceentrici. ies, nor their exact manner of life, but we are urged to copy that which is central to all life—their Christian faith. A true Christian leader must be a practical mystic. Practical because he must be at home in the world of men. A mystic because he is at home in the things of God and has a hidden source of strength in his fellowship. with Jesus Christ. In two great sentences St. Paul describes this Ife "I live, yet not I, but Christ live th in me." and "To me to live s Christ.
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