Mount,--though this name has been given it by compilers and translators of
the Bible, and not by the Master himself or by the Scripture authors.
Indeed, this title really indicates more the Master's mood, than the
material locality.

Where did Jesus deliver this great lesson--or, rather, this series of great
lessons--on humanity and divinity? On a hillside, near the sloping shores
of the Lake of Galilee, where he spake primarily to his immediate
disciples.

In this simplicity, and with such fidelity, we see Jesus ministering to the
spiritual needs of all who placed themselves under his care, always leading
them into the divine order, under the sway of his own perfect
understanding. His power over others was spiritual, not corporeal. To the
students whom he had chosen, his immortal teaching was the bread of Life.
When _he_ was with them, a fishing-boat became a sanctuary, and the
solitude was peopled with holy messages from the All-Father. The grove
became his class-room, and nature's haunts were the Messiah's university.

What has this hillside priest, this seaside teacher, done for the human
race? Ask, rather, what has he _not_ done. His holy humility,
unworldliness, and self-abandonment wrought infinite results. The method
of his religion was not too simple to be sublime, nor was his power so
exalted as to be unavailable for the needs of suffering mortals, whose
wounds he healed by Truth and Love.

His order of ministration was "first the blade, then the ear, after that
the full corn in the ear." May we unloose the latchets of his Christliness,
inherit his legacy of love, and reach the fruition of his promise: "If ye
abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it