xiii. 43); and all this intensified shall be the reward of the true

pastor, according as he is faithful to his high calling from God.

Let the pastor, then, seek most of all to be faithful to Christ and His work. Let it be to him "a very small thing" that he "be judged" "of man's judgment" (1 Cor. iv. 4) and let him ever cherish as of chief moment a clear conscience, finding his highest comfort in the sweet assurance of God's approval. Be it his to have "respect unto the recompense of the reward," and so endure "as seeing him who is invisible" (Heb. xi. 26, 27). Thus, will his life approximate that grandest of merely human lives--the life of him who declared, "As we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the Gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God which trieth our hearts" (1 Thess.