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I can drink of the clear cold spring, and be refreshed, though I may not hope to pierce the awful foundation of granite from whence it comes rushing up. I can take of the grain of the tawny sheaves, or of the laden vine, though I cannot tell how the unconscious root and fibres select, elect — never mistaking — out of a common soil that which shall produce their specific fruit. I can rejoice in the shining sun, and fan my cheek with the breathing wind, though I am ignorant as an infant of the great palace of light, and "know not when the wind cometh, nor whither it goeth." Even so; I stoop my parched lips to the "living water," and I rise revived; and I know not man nor woman who ever sought to do so and was hindered. I am content with that.

(A. B. Grosart.)

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KJV: Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

WEB: Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money;