Seek the Sacramental Edification of Others

Selfishness insinuates itself into our best services. “Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.”* How rarely do we give ourselves

* Philipp. 2: 4.

any concern, about the manner in which our friends and neighbours profit at the communion! Beformation on this point would tend to the revival of the churches. Seriously look around you, and consider who there are, properly within your reach, whom you may induce to employ those means which shall render this sacrament more edifying and more dear to them. By discreet counsels, by suitable books or tracts, and especially by the charm of a holy spiritual example, you may be as an angel of mercy to some whom you love.