The worker's memorial in Three Mills Green in east London provides the backdrop for today's sermon on our sacrifices and discipleship to others. On the memorial is found this inscription: "Of your charity pray for the souls of Thomas Pickett, Godfrey Maule Nicholson, Frederick Eliott and Robert Underhill, who lost their lives in a well beneath this spot on 12 July 1901. The first named while in the execution of his duty was overcome by foul air. The three latter successively descending in heroic efforts to save their comrades shared the same death…"