the whole law and the prophets. We look upon the tomb's exterior and we call it foul or fair, according as it appears to us, but few of us have the moral courage to enter in and bring to light the hidden dead men's bones. The Pharisee, having told what vices he had not, proceeded to enumerate his virtues, and many of us, like him, are content with avoiding heinous sins, or with the easy outward forms of religion, to the utter neglect of the more difficult interior sanctification. Sanctity means mare than that. The rich young ruler, that would-be Apostle, soon learned his mistake, and was so frightened that he sadly turned away. To judge rightly of ourselves we must look at God, and seeing ourselves in His righteousness as in a spotless mirror, we will realize that whatever of good we do comes from Him, for by His grace we are what we are, and that whatever of evil is in us — and who shall estimate it? — is all our own. We will see then that like the Apostles on the Lake of Galilee we labor through the night of life, unprofitable servants, taking nothing, and in the presence of our God and in very terror at our unworthiness we will fall down before Him as did St. Peter, crying: " Depart from me, O Lord, for I am a sinful man," or supplicating Him in the words of the publican: " O God, be merciful to me, a sinner."
Brethren, we learn from the parable, secondly, how mistaken are usually our opinions of others. If, as St. Paul testifies, no man knows whether he be praiseworthy or blamable before God, if neither Cain nor Abel knows which is God's favorite until
