THE CHRISTIAN KNIGHT ERRANT 275

Again,

" We are all lepers. Some have their leprosy covered
with silk, some with tattered rags ; take ofif the silk and
take off the rags^ there are the lepers t Cover the face and
cry^ ' Unclean, unclean 1 ' The leper in rags shows more
to the fleshly eye of his leprosy than the leper in silk." *

And again,

« Every one who pretends to be better than his fellow
is a hypocrite (Isa. ix. 17)."

He lived resolutely at his life, however. As he
grew in knowledge of Christ, he grew, of course, in
knowledge of his own shortcomings.
"One thing I find is that, as we advance in union with
Christy we get more and more sensitive to our deficiencies;
this is only natural, but it certainly does keep one very
much alive — I expect, because one is unused to the frame
of mind."'

As he discovered temptations he attended to them.
From the Soudan in 1874, he wrote :

''Keep me from writing and talking, and then I am
humanly safe. As a rule. Christians are really more in-
consistent than 'worldlings.' They talk truths, and do
not act on them. They allow that * God is the God of
the widows and orphans,' yet they look in trouble to the
gods of silver and gold : either He can help altogether, or
not at all. He will not be served in conjunction with
idols of any sort.""

^ '' Letten to His Sister/' p. 44. • lUd., p. 199.
»J5kf., p. 70.
