a proof of great virtue to struggle with happiness, so that it shall not seduce, corrupt, subvert.  Learn to trample on this world; remember to trust in Christ.  And if your foot be moved,—­if you totter,—­if there be some temptations that you cannot overcome,—­if you begin to sink, cry out to Jesus, Lord, save me.  In Peter, therefore, the common condition of all of us is to be considered; so that, if the wind of temptation endeavor to upset us in any matter, or its billows to swallow us up, we may cry to Christ.  He shall stretch forth his hand, and preserve us from the deep.

It follows:  “And when he was come into the ship, the wind ceased.”  In the last day he shall ascend into the ship of the Church, because then he shall sit upon the throne of his glory; which throne may not unfitly be understood of the Church.  For he who by faith and good works now and always dwells in the Church shall then, by the manifestation of his glory, enter into it.  And then the wind shall cease, because evil spirits shall no more have the power of sending forth against it the flames of temptation or the commotions of troubles; for then all things shall be at peace and at rest.

It follows:  “Then they that were with him in the ship came and worshipped him, saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of God.”  They who remain faithfully in the Church amidst the tempests of temptations will approach to him with joy, and, entering into his kingdom with him, will worship him; and, praising him perpetually, will affirm him of a truth to be the Son of God.  Then, also, that will happen which is written concerning the elect raised from death:  “All flesh shall come and shall worship before my face,” saith the Lord.  And again:  “Blessed are they that dwell in thy house; they will always be praising thee.”  For him, whom with their heart they believe unto righteousness, and with their mouth confess to salvation, him they shall see with their heart to light, and with their mouth shall praise to glory, when they behold how ineffably he is begotten of the Father, with whom he liveth and reigneth, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God to all ages of ages.  Amen.

THOMAS ARNOLD (1795-1842)

Doctor Thomas Arnold, the celebrated head master of Rugby was born June 13th, 1795, at West Cowes, in the Isle of Wight, where his father, William Arnold, was a Collector of Customs.  After several years at Winchester school, he went to Oxford where in 1815 he was elected a fellow of Oriel College.  His intellectual bent showed at Oxford, on the one hand, in fondness for Aristotle and Thucydides, and on the other in what one of his friends has described as “an earnest, penetrating, and honest examination of Christianity.”  As a result of this honesty and earnestness, he became and remains a great force wherever English is spoken.  Elected head master of Rugby in December 1827, and remaining in charge of that school for nearly fourteen