Would she ever after that night grumble and give up her place in a passion because she had been asked to do what was beneath her to do?
Would she ever leave that house for any wages?
Would she ever see that bason without kissing it?
Would that towel not be a holy thing ever after in her proud eyes?
How happy that house would ever after that night be, not so much because the Lord's Supper had been instituted in it, as because a servant was in it who had learned humility as she went about the house that night.

Let all our servants hold up their heads and magnify their office.

Their Master was once a servant, and He left us all, and all servants especially, an example that they should follow in His steps.

Peter, whose feet were washed that night, never forgot that night, and his warm heart always warmed to a servant when he saw her with her bason and her towels, till he gave her half a chapter to herself in his splendid First Epistle.

'Servants, be subject,' he said, till his argument rose to a height above which not even Paul himself ever rose.