the seas it may float. And so, wherever there is a Christian man,
there is a bit of God's kingdom, and over that little speck in the
midst of the ocean of the world the flag with the Cross on it should
fly, and the laws of the Christ should be the only laws that have
currency. If it could be said of us as Haman said to his king about
the Jews, that we were a people with laws 'diverse from those of all
people,' we should be doing more than, alas! most of us do, to
honour Him whom we profess to serve. Follow Christ, and people will
be quick enough to say of you 'The man from the other side,' 'He
does not belong to our city.' There is no need for ostentation, nor
for saying, 'Come and see my zeal for the Lord,' nor for blowing
trumpets before us at street corners or elsewhere. The less of all
that the better. The more we try to do the common things done by the
folk round us, but from another motive, the more powerful will be
our witness for our Master.

For instance, when John Knox was in the French galleys, he was
fastened to the same oar with some criminal, perhaps a murderer. The
two men sat on the same bench, did the same work, tugged at the same
heavy sweep, were fed with the same food, suffered the same sorrows.
Do you think there was any doubt as to the infinite gulf between
them? We may be working side by side, at the very same tasks, and
under similar circumstances, with men that have no share in our
faith, and no sympathy with our hopes and aspirations, and yet,
though doing the same thing, it will _not_ be the same thing.
And if we keep Christ before us, and follow His steps who has left
us an example, depend upon it people will very soon find out that we
are men 'from across the water.'

Notice, further, how this dissimilarity and obvious aloofness from