which he felt himself to belong, he would have had no objection to
cast in his lot with the order and the people with whom he lived on
friendly terms. But although he bought and sold with them, and
fought for them and by their sides, and acquired from them land in
which to bury his dead, he was not one of them, but said, 'No! I am
not going into your city. I stay in my tent under this terebinth
tree; for I am here as a stranger and a sojourner.' No doubt there
were differences of language, dress, and a hundred other little
things which helped the impression made on the men of the land by
this strange visitor who lived in amity but in separation, and they
are all crystallised in the name which the popular voice gave him,
'The man from the other side.'

That is the impression which Christian people ought to make in the
world. They should be recognised, by even unobservant eyes who know
nothing of the inner secret of their lives, as plainly belonging to
another order. If we seek to keep fresh in our own minds the
consciousness that we do so, it will make itself manifest in all our
bearing and actions. So that exhortation to cultivate the continual
sense that our true city--the mother city of our hearts and hopes--is
in heaven is ever to be reiterated, and as constantly obeyed, as the
necessary condition of a life worthy of our true affinities and of
our glorious hopes.

Nor less needful is the other exhortation--live by the laws of your
own land, not by those of the foreign country where you are for a
time. If you do that thoroughly, you will not need to say, 'I am
from another country.' Your conduct will say it for you. An English
ship is a bit of England, in whatever latitude it may be, and
however far beyond the three-mile limit of the King's authority upon