host before Him touches the Lord and makes Him use
His power to relieve them. But what is striking in the
narrative is this, that when Jesus is moved by their
suffering, He is moved in all His nature. Every part
of Him is stirred. Not merely His emotions and His
impulses, so that He is eager to relieve at once the
wretchedness which looks up to Him out of their famished
eyes, but His wisdom is stirred. All the principles of
His life start into action together, all His care and
pity. His care and pity for the soul as well as for the
body move at once. It is this completeness of His
nature, the way in which it is all one, and works
and lives as one, that makes Him often so very differ-
ent from us. Our lives are disjointed. One part of us
works at a time. It is hard for us to be brave and
prudent together; hard for us to be liberal and just at
the same time. Our sympathy is excited, and we help
a man often in a way that does more harm than good,
because we help with only one hand, with only half
our nature; with our pity but not with our wisdom;
with care for his hunger but with no care for his self-
respect and manliness. But when Christ helps a man
His whole nature in complete balance moves upon that
other life. He feels all its claims and needs in their
just proportion. So He meets Nicodemus in the mid-
night chamber, and the young man who comes to Him
in the temple, and Thomas after the resurrection.

Now in this miracle of Jesus which I have recalled
to you there is a meeting of generosity and frugality
which is striking and suggestive. These two things
do meet indeed with us. We try to be generous and
frugal at the same time, but the result in us is mean.

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