Acts 20: Serving the Lord with all humility of mind

Stranger to pride and stateliness,
A man of true humility
May yet his own example press,
"Thus far — be followers of me!"
Conscious his way of life is right,
He bids us after him go on,
While least of all in his own sight,
Glory he gives to Christ alone.
(). Serving the Lord... with... tears, and temptations, Sfc. — x 19.

Servants of God, by JesuV Love
Are not exempt from grief and pain,
Though caught to the third heaven they prove
That still on earth they are but men,
Through sinners' contradiction here
For others, sorrowful they mourn,
Yet guided by the Comforter
With songs of joy to God return.

The' apostle gloried in distress:
Yet when his ambush'd foes essa M
To stop the course of gospel -race,
And oft prevail'd with Satan's aid:
Those haters of the' incarnate God
Who made his Saviour's eyes o'erflow.
The same bloodthirsty men he view'd,
And weeping traced the Man of woe.