Lord of the host of deep desires
That spare no sting, yet are to me
Sole echo of the silver choirs

Whose dwelling is eternity

With all save thee my soul is pressed
In high dispute from day to day,
But, Love, at thy most high behest
I make no answer, and obey.1

1John Drinkwater, Poems of Men and Hours, 21.

I COR.-5

LITERATURE.

Darlow (J. H.), The Upward Calling, 178.

Davies (D.), Talks with Men, Women and Children, iii. 405.

Herford (B.), Anchors of the Soul, 77.

Hodgkin (T.), Human Progress and the Inward Light, 42.
Jackson (G.), Memoranda Paulina, 225, 230.

James (J. A.), Sermons, iii. 158.

Jones (W. B.), The Peace of God, 243.

Keenleyside (C. B.), God's Fellow-workers, 79.
Lightfoot (J. B.), Ordination Addresses, 214.

Macgilvray (W.), The Ministry of the Word, 83.

Maclaren (A.), Expositions: 1 and 2 Corinthians, 30.
Menzies (G.), Pictorial Sermons in Industries, 48, 110.

Peabody (F. G.), Mornings in the College Chapel, ii. 140.
Percival (J.), Sermons at Rugby, 189.

Some Helps for School Life, 216.

Selby (T. G.), The Lesson of a Dilemma, 365.

Smellie (A.), In the Hour of Silence, 341.

Spurgeon (C. H.), Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, xxvii. (1881), No. 1602. Stalker (J.), The New Song, 38.

Vaughan (C. J.), Memorials of Harrow Sundays, 437.

Wells (J.), Bible Images, 239.

Wilson (S. L.), Helpful Words for Daily Life, 362.

British Congregationalist, Sept. 15, 1910, p. 208 (Cadman).

Christian Age, xxxiv. 258 (Diggle).

Christian World Pulpit, vi. 255 (Marling); viii. 329 (Beecher); xix. 104 (Woodford); xxix. 132 (Beecher); li. 364 (Armitage); liv. 70 (Snell); lx. 257 (Hunter).

Church of England Magazine, x. 417 (Holland).

Church of England Pulpit, xxxii. 28 (Reed).

Church Family Newspaper, Dec. 31, 1909, p. 1071 (James).

Examiner, Dec. 22, 1904, p. 600 (Jowett).

GOD'S FELLOW-WORKERS.

We are God's fellow-workers. -1 Cor. iii. 9.

1. THE characteristic Greek tendency to factions was threatening to rend the Corinthian Church, and each faction was swearing by a favourite teacher. St. Paul uses the words of the text to emphasize the truth that in the process of teaching and saving men God's work links itself with man's, and God's work is so much mightier and more wonderful than man's that it is idle to weigh the work of one human labourer against that of another, after the fashion of these Corinthian sectaries. We might just as well pick out tiny shells in the cement binding the stones of a minster and divide ourselves into factions to champion the architectural honour due to the several tenants of each particular primeval shell, or select striking portions of oak carving and divide ourselves into factions to champion the artistic possibilities of the several acorns that evolved such magnificent material. A rational being has not time to think of these infinitesimal questions. He wishes to save up his tribute of honour for the genius who planned arch and spire, and dreamt out flowered screen and stall, and guided the whole to its many-sided perfection. God's true labourers will be rewarded, not by the reckless praise and short-sighted judgments of men, but by Him who counts them allies, and in the strength of whose gift all right work must be done.

2. Startled by the boldness of the expression of the text, as if it verged on profanity, interpreters have been found to give it a different meaning "fellow-labourers under God," "fellowworkers in God's field." But this is not justified by the language used. The meaning of St. Paul's words is "We are at work with