Excerpt from Losing and Finding: A Memorial Discourse, Suggested by the Death of Mrs. George Gould, Preached at Jamaica Plain, Jan. 4, 1874

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it, and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. Matt. Xvi. 25.

These words mark the beginning of the last stage of our Lord's life on the earth. He was not many days now from his cross: its shadow was already entering his soul. Peter, the rash, had presumed to reb'uke in his Master these sad premonitions: Be it far from thee, Lord, these thoughts of suffering and death. Pity thyself. This shall not be unto thee. Peter had' not yet mastered the alphabet of Chris tianity how much less had he spelled out that word in which its chief and profoundest law lies hidden, - the little word love I Nor was Peter the only ignorant disciple, if he was the boldest. This law, so soon to be enunciated on the cross, was as dimly apprehended by the other eleven as by the son of Jonas himself. Our Lord, therefore, turns from him, smart ing under rebuke, and utters to them the words of the text: Whosoever will save his life shall lose it, and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

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