The Cloud of Witness Saturday

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Week of the Eleventh Sunday After Trinity.

"The Snare of Pride"

"God resisteth the Proud."

A Prayer for the Week

O Lord, Father and God of my Life, give me not a proud look, but turn away from Thy servants a haughty mind.

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Saturday. Eleventh after Trinity.

Spritual Pride.

The Pharisees answered and said unto him, "Thou wast altogether born in sin, and dost thou teach us?" And they cast him out.--John ix. 34.

Men who proudly clung
To their first fault--and withered in their Pride!
Browning.

A mean estate is not always to be condemned; nor the rich that is foolish to be had in admiration.
Ecclus. xxii. 23.

Pride brandishes the favours he confers.
Young.

On the verge of never-ending woe
Man doubting stands, yet plum'd with Pride the while,
Folding his arms in self-admir'd repose,
Cased in self-confidence!
I. Williams.

Let not the refinement of Society make us forget, that it is not the refined only who are received into the Kingdom of God.
Jowett.

O seeming sole to awake,--thy sun-bathed head
Piercing the solemn cloud
Round thy still dreaming brother-world outspread . . .
Be not too proud!
Oh! When most self-exalted, most alone!
Chief Dreamer, own thy dream!
Thy brother-world stirs at they feet unknown;
Who hath a Monarch's hath no Brother's part.
Matt. Arnold.

Esteem not thyself better than others, lest perhaps in the sight of God, Who knoweth what is in a Man, thou be accounted worse than they.
Thos. A. Kempis.

Do thy day's work, dare
Refuse no help thereto, since help refused
Is hindrance sought and found.
Browning.