Excerpt from Blessed Are the Meek: A Sermon, Preached at the Opening of the Chapel of Keble College, on S. Mark's Day, 1876 But also there is this common to all, that they all imply some degree of self-denial, self-sacrifice or temporal hardness, willingly endured for the sake of God. Of some this is expressed, as of those in whom the blessings culminate, those who are persecuted for righteousness sake, and, when men shall revile you and persecute you and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for My sake. But mourning too is from some outward or inward sorrow, although this issues in the cry of the soul to God: rarely would it, unoccasioned by ought besides, be solely from the soul's missing its seemingly absent God. Hunger and thirst after righteousness are the burn ing disquiet of the soul, through the body of death in which it is imprisoned, and for its unlikeness to its God. The histories of saints attest with what hardness and self-discipline purity of soul is, by the grace of God, maintained: the history of sinners, how incompatible it is with self-indulgence or ful ness of bread. Mercifulness, in its very name, implies a fellow-suffering. Compassion, sympathy, mitleid. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.