an example that we should follow in His steps,' that is the
culmination of the walking 'with,' and 'before,' and 'after' God
which these Old Testament saints were partially practising. All is
gathered into the one great word, 'He that saith he abideth in Him
ought himself also so to walk even as He walked.'




THE COURSE AND CROWN OF A DEVOUT LIFE


'And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took
him.'
GENESIS v. 24.

This notice of Enoch occurs in the course of a catalogue of the
descendants of Adam, from the Creation to the Deluge. It is
evidently a very ancient document, and is constructed on a
remarkable plan. The formula for each man is the same. So-and-so
lived, begat his heir, the next in the series, lived on after that
so many years, having anonymous children, lived altogether so long,
and then died. The chief thing about each life is the birth of the
successor, and each man's career is in broad outline the same. A
dreary monotony runs through the ages. How brief and uniform may be
the records of lives of striving and tears and smiles and love that
stretched through centuries! Nine hundred years shrink into less
than as many lines.

The solemn monotony is broken in the case of Enoch. This paragraph