Teach us, O Lord and Master, the high and difficult lesson that only
those who lose their lives shall truly find them. Show us that the
manna hoarded in miserly fashion is always touched by Thy curse. In
small things as in great, may this be a token that we are Thy disciples,
that virtue also goeth out of us. Amen.
"_But when Jesus heard_
_that, he said unto them, they_
_that be whole need not a physician,_
_but they that are sick._"
(MATTHEW ix. 12.)
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