WHY then is it neglected by so many of his professed followers to-day. The answer is easily given: It is Christ's ordinance of humility, but his professed Church has become too proud to practice it. This is shown in his own words: "I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them." The servant has become greater than his lord, and so considers himself free from the example and obligation of his Lord: he that is sent has become greater than He that sent him, and counts himself at liberty to dispense with the ordinance instituted by his Lord. When the churches were despised and persecuted, they were humble enough to not despise Christ's lesson of humility. But now the Church is courted by the world; now she is "rich and increased with goods and hath need of nothing." But she needs the humility of Christ. The "International Lesson" for to-day is entitled "Jesus Teaching Humility": how many will learn the real lesson which he teaches? how many will practice the lesson which he taught, as he taught it? "I have washed your feet." "I have given you an example that ye should do as I have done to you." "Ye also ought to wash one another's feet." "If ye know these things, happy [blessed] are ye if ye do them."