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CONTENTS.

Chapter. Page.

I. Life More Abundant, ... 9

II. Are You Willing.^* .... 16

III. Let it be Definite, .... 23

IV. Make it Complete, .... 30
V. Count it Done, 43

VI. The Trying of Your Faith, 53

VII. Waiting upon God, . ... 62

VIII. Victory, 73

^^LIFE MORE abundant:'

A PORTION of the Church of
God is hungry. While there is
a tendency toward materiahsm and
worldUness on the part of many, there
are encouraging indications that a rap-
idly increasing number of Christians
are hungering and thirsting for a more
extensive righteousness, as manifested
in the abiding presence of Christ
within them. There are tw^o convic-
tions growing in many Christians; one
is that they are dissatisfied with that
which they now have of spiritual
knowledge and experience and power,
and the other that there is something
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better than they have known, in the
salvation that has been provided for
them. Some one has Avell said that
" Christian experience is the realization
of that which is already true for us in
Christ." While I do not mean to sug-
gest that there is any new principle
discovered by which a man may walk
in the royal road of righteousness, I
do mean to say that there is a life in
Christ that is so much richer and more
filled with joy and strength and power
than the experience of the ordinary
Christian, as to be almost a different
thing, worthy to be mentioned in terms
of contrast rather than of comparison.
The deepest teachings of Christ are
almost meaningless for a very large
number of the members of the church.
For example, He says, "Abide in me
and I in you." The statement is made
that, abiding in Christ, we have actual

^'' Life More Abitndaiit ,'''' it

safety (John xv:6); Continual cleans-
ing (John XV.2); the love of God
(John XV 119); perfect obedience
(John xv:[o; i John v:3); love of our
fellow men ( John xv : 1 2 ) ; answered
prayer (John xv:7); the bearing of
fruit (John xv:5, ^^ ^^)5 ^^ power to
refrain from sin (i Johniii:6 cf. i John
1:8, 10); and continual .joy (John
xv:io).

One of two things is true; either
that the disciple is possessed of all these
blessings, or that he is not abiding in
Christ and Christ in him. In reading
the epistles of Paul, it would almost
seem as though he were writing to peo-
ple of different spiritual experience and
knowledge from the average disciple of
the present day. For example, read
this prayer:

" That the God of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the Father of glory, may give

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unto you the spirit of wisdom and rev-
elation in the knowledge of Him ; the
eyes of your understanding being en-
lightened; that ye may know what is
the Hope of His calling, and what the
riches of the glory of His inheritance
in the saints, and what is the exceeding
greatness of His power to us-ward
who believe, according to the working
of His mighty power, v^hich He
wrought in Christ, when He raised
Him from the dead, and set Him at His
right hand in the heavenly places, far
above all principality, and power, and
might, and dominion, and every name
that is named, not only in this world,
but also in that which is to come ; and
hath put all things vnider His feet, and
gave Him to be the head over all things
to the church, which is his body, the
fullness of Him that filleth all in all."
Here he prays that the power which

^^ Life More Abundant,'*'^ 13

God wrought in Christ when He raised
him from the dead, might be experi-
enced by his followers. Or take this
prayer as an example:

" For this cause I bow my knees un-
to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
of whom the whole family in heav-
en and earth is named; that he w^ould
grant you according to the riches of his
glory, to be strengthened with
might by his Spirit in the inner
man; that Christ may dwell in your
hearts by faith ; that ye, being rooted
and grounded in love, may be able to
comprehend with all saints what is the
breadth, and length, and depth, and
height; and to know the love of Christ,
which passeth knowledge, that ye might
be filled with all the fullness of God.
Now unto him that is able to do ex-
ceeding abundantly above all that we
ask or think, according to the power

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that worketh in us, unto him be glory,
in the church by Christ Jesus, through-
out all ages, world without end.
Amen."

It is not possible that Paul uttered
petitions for his friends that would be
impossible of fulfillment in their expe-
rience. The very heart of the teach-
ings of Paul may be summed up in the
two phrases, "In Christ," and "Christ
in you." In Colossians i \2^ he says
that the mystery which was hid for
ages and generations but that now is
made known to the saints to whom God
would make known these mysteries, is,
" Christ in you, the hope of glory."

He was able to live a life of which
the horizon was bounded by Christ and
the vital principle was Christ; so that
he could say, " For me to live is
Christ." " I am crucified with Christ;
nevertheless I live; and yet not I, but

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Christ liveth in me; and the life which
I now live in the flesh, I live by the
faith of the Son of God who loved me
and gave himself for me."

There is a life of perfect peace, of
the exact and full knowledge of God,
of the wisdom of the Spirit, of the
strength of Jehovah, of the power of
the Holy Ghost; a life of joy and con-
tinual victory.

The object of this little book is to
endeavor to point out, in the briefest
and simplest possible manner, by the
suggestions of Scripture and observa-
tion and experience, the method ap-
pointed by God, by which we may en-
ter such a " highway of holiness," and
continue therein.

II.

ARE rOU WILLING?

IT requires a great deal of seeming
sacrifice for a man to be willing to
be born again. So many are content
with what they have by nature that
they are not ^villing to receive what
they might have by grace. For that
which is born of the flesh is flesh, and
that which is born of the Spirit is spir-
it, and the flesh v^ill alw^ays lust against
the spirit, and the spirit against the
flesh. If a man might be born of the
Spirit and retain w^ith satisfaction the
life of the flesh at the same time, there
might be a great many more w^ho
would seek to enter the kingdom of
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Are Ton Willing? 17

God ; but in reality no one would enter
it, for the vital principle of living in the
kingdom of God is that we walk in the
Spirit and so do not fulfill the lusts of
the flesh. The very first question that
confronts a person who is thinking of
beginning a Christian life is the ques-
tion at the head of this chapter. Are
^you willing? It is the question of ques-
tions. When a man is willing to let
God lead him, God always teaches him.
He that wills to do the will of God,
knows of the doctrine. When a man
is willing to be transformed by the
grace of God to be, not what he de-
sires, but what God desires, God always
transforms him.

It is sometimes astonishing to see
how little a person need know or be in
order to begin to be a Christian. The
only question is this: are you willing ?

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This is also true of the entrance into
the larger life and the living of it. In
every development of knowledge and
peace, and strength, and growth, and
power, there is still the same question:
"Are you willing?" For God has
chosen v^eak things, and base things,
and despised things, and things that
are not, in order that no flesh may
glory in his presence. To have the
peace of God, it is necessary to be
willing to be satisfied with divine
peace, rather than with earthly content-
ment. To have the knowledge of
God, it is necessary to recognize the
fact that the wisdom of man is foolish-
ness with God, and that God has
made foolish the wisdom of this world.
In order that Christ should be " made
to us wisdom and righteousness, and
sanctification and redemption," it is
necessary that we should deny our own

A re To u Willing P

discretion and righteousness, and purity
and freedom.

The whole secret of abiding in
Christ, and having Christ abide in us,
is this: First, that we should be will-
ing that all the horizon of the life
should be bounded by Christ; that he
should be the house out of which we
should never choose to go; and, on the
other hand, that we should be willing
that he should abide in us as the per-
manent proprietor of the mind, the
heart and the will, casting out every-
thing displeasing to him, and bringing
his royal train to fill all the unoccupied
chambers of the soul. When we see
that Christ makes this the door to
every experience and attainment of
value, and when we realize that to
pass through that door, it is necessary
to turn away from every other path,
we begin to perceive that which is

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called the strait gate and the narrow
w^ay that leadeth unto life. The phil-
osophy of this we need not understand,
nor is it profitable to be worrying our
minds w^ith the search after philosoph-
ical principles that underlie the truths
of God's revelation. Some of it, in-
deed, we cannot help but understand,
but whether we comprehend it or not,
this is the vital point against which the
adversary v^ill bring his efforts to bear,
that we should be unwilling in the ut-
termost to surrender, to give ourselves
up to the Spirit and the will of Christ
dwelling within us. If God can make
the path plain to you, are you willing
to walk in it? If you can see the first
step in the life of entire consecration,
are you willing to take it? Are you
willing? Are you willing?

Any further knowledge or light

Are Ton Willing P 21

might prove to be a curse instead of a
blessing until you answered this simple
question. Let it be answered now, this
minute, saying in that entire lack of
knowledge and of self-confidence,Avhich
is the essence of trust and of peace,
"Lord, I am ready ; speak, for thy
servant heareth, and vs^hen thou hast
spoken, I will not pause to consider
whether I shall run or tarry, but the
word that thou dost speak unto me, that
will I perform."

*'I will go where you want me to go, Lord,

Over mountain or plain or sea;
I will do what you want me to do, Lord,

I will be what you want me to be."

Do not say, "Show me thy will, and
I will think about it" ; but make the
surrender first instead of last, and say,
"Lord, I have surrendered; what wilt
thou have me to do? Show me, and
/ will do itP And if this prayer is

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uttered with honest intention to do what
may be the clearly revealed will of God,
you may be assured that you are not
far from the light that shineth more
and more unto the perfect day.

III.

LET IT BE DEFINITE,

THE question is frequently asked,
as to whether a life of consecra-
tion is an act or an experience; wheth-
er the full development of the Chris-
tian life is a growth or is instantaneous
in its manifestation. The answer to
these questions is that it is both; it is
an experience that is caused by an act;
it is a life which must be definitely com-
menced and definitely lived, in order
that God may develop in us his full
purpose regarding our character and
our joy. There are those v^^ho are al-
w^ays learning and never coming to the
knowledge of the truth; who seem to
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be always hungering, but never filled;
always acknowledging their weakness
but never receiving strength; always
fighting, but never conquering. There
must, unquestionably, be something in-
finitely better than this, worthy of the
name of Christian experience. I be-
lieve that every permanent advance-
ment in knowledge and character is
caused by some definite act of sur-
render to God. This is true of the
commencement of the Christian life,
and it is also true concerning that life
of faith and of the conscious presence
and wisdom and joy and strength of
God himself, w^hich is the desire of many,
but the experience of few of the fol-
lowers of the Master.

The place into which God will lead
us, will be a large one, w^ith which it
will take not only time but eternity, to
become acquainted ; but the door by

Let It Be Dcjiiiltc, 25

which we must enter, is a plain one,
and consists of the definite consecration
of all we are and have and may be-
come. I believe that with the expe-
rience of every Christian who knows
what it is to abide in Christ and to
have Christ abide in him, there has
come a time when he definitely took
his hands off from himself ; hence-
forth to count himself not his own,
but bought with a price, and to glorify
God with his body and his spirit,
which are God's. Do not be getting
ready to do this. Do it. Many a
time we may have been moved in the
congregation by the truth of God, and
said, " Some time I w^ill lead a con-
secrated life," but the seed has been
that which fell by the wayside, and
the birds of the air have come and
gathered it up. Sometimes in med-
itation and reading of the Word, and

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prayer, we have been impressed that
the time had come to let the whole be-
ing be utterly given up to God; but
we have let the attention be diverted
and the mind turned away w^hile we
have waited for a further revelation
which never came, and which will
never come until the act of complete
consecration has been definitely accom-
plished. Let it be now. Without the
slightest reference to any emotion or
emotional impulse, but because it is our
reasonable service to present the body
a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable
to God, let it be done now. Get alone
with God immediately. Tell him that
so far as you know your own heart, you
do now consciously yield it entirely to
him ; that you give to him all things
that you know, and all things that you
do not know, all that you are and
have, and all that may come to you in

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the future; that you offer yourself to
God as a sacrifice to be passed as entire-
ly from your control as though you
were an offering literally slaughtered
and offered in death upon an altar.

And when you have done this, no
matter whether or not there be an im-
mediate response in the fire from heav-
en that shall seem to consume the sac-
rifice, count it done never to be undone,
and never needing to be done again.
After that, if God gives you an impulse,
act on it. If the vision tarry, wait for
it, but let it be distinctly settled in your
mind once and forever that you are
God's, and that, no matter wdiat expe-
rience or lack of experience may come
to you, you will never count yourself
your own again. Let it be definite.
Let it be done now.

There are conditions that we cannot
know concerning the victorious Chris-

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tian life until w^e have definitely sur-
rendered the will to God. It seems as
though by this very act, God gave to
us the clearness of eyesight regarding
the conditions of peace and power, and
also supplied us with the necessary
strength and resolution in order that
we might enter into the fulness of
blessing. The very first thing is to
surrender unconditionally, to give to
God not only w^hat we know, but what
we do not know: ignorance as well as
knovs^ledge, and poverty as well as
wealth, and to do it once for all; just
as it was with Abraham when he heard
the voice of God that called him out
from his father's land that he might be
a wanderer on the face of the earth,
giving himself up entirely to the guid-
ance and sustenance of his God. The
place into which he was led was one of
even completer consecration, until the

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last thing had been surrendered; and
God poured upon him unHmited bless-
ings. So will it be with every soul,
who, without question, or hesitation, or
condition, or limitation, definitely sur
renders the will to be forever subject
to the will of God. The true essence
of faith is the step that leads us to take
the hands forever off from ourselves,
trusting God for all consequences; and
that act in itself will be such a de-
termining one as to set in motion forces
that will lead us into the place of the
deeper knowledge of God, into a wider
fellowship with him and into the
stronghold of security, where the
peace of God that passeth all under-
standing shall keep sentry over the
heart and mind, in Christ Jesus. Let
the matter of entire self-surrender be
settled once for all, and now.

IV.

MAKE IT COMPLETE,

BECAUSE thou hast done this
thing," said Jehovah unto his
friend Abraham, " by myself I have
sw^orn, that in blessing I w^ill bless
thee, and in thy seed shall all the nations
of the earth be blessed, because thou
hast obeyed my voice."

He had done other things. He had
left his father's home at the call of
God, and had become a wanderer, not
know^ing w^hither he w^ent, sojourning
in the land of promise as in a strange
country, dwelling in tents with his son
Isaac, and ready to sacrifice all things
at the word of his Master; but through
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all his life until this hour, the experi-
ences and consecration of the past were
only preparing him for the supreme
test of the offering up of his son.

There is an influence about any sort
of honest consecration to God that
leads by an inexorable law to the
necessity of a further consecration; un-
til there are suggested to us undreamed
of possibilities in the things that may
be surrendered at the call of God. To
consecrate one thing is to hear the call
to the consecration of other things, un-
til at last it may be possible for one to so
surrender the last thing as to hear the
word that shall say, " Because thou hast
done this thing, I will bless thee and
make thee a blessing."

There were people round about this
dweller in tents, who were idolaters,
and whose custom it was to offer up
their children unto idols; and when

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once the suggestion had come into the
mind of Abraham that he might be
unwiUing to do for his God what the
people about him seemed to be eager
to do for the sake of their false wor-
ship, there could be no rest for him un-
til the knife had been sharpened and
laid at the throat of this son who was
the child of promise. It seemed as
though by his obedience it would be
necessary for him to make God disloyal
to his own word, for he had said, " In
Isaac shall thy seed be called;" and
now it seemed to the father as if the
word of God was to be made of none
effect by the sacrifice of this son. But
this was a man who in the name of
God had learned to count the things
that are not as those that are, and he
believed God, accounting that it was
possible for God to raise him up even
from the dead, from whence also he re-

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ceived him, in a figure. "He staggered
not at the promise of God through un-
belief, but was strong in faith, giving
glory to God, and being fully persuaded
that what he had promised he was able
to perform, and therefore it was im-
puted to him for righteousness."

When God was endeavoring to
soften the heart of Pharaoh in order
that he might allow the Children of
Israel to go on a three days' journey to
sacrifice in the wilderness, there were
various propositions looking toward
their release that were made by the
Egyptian king. One of the first sug-
gestions that he made was when he
said to Moses and Aaron, " Go ye, and
sacrifice to your God in the land ;" the
second suggestion was, " I will let you
go, that you may sacrifice to the Lord
your God in the wilderness, only you
shall not go very far away;" the third

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proposition Avas, that the men should
go, but that the women and children
should be left behind. And finally,
when he found that none of these
things were availing, he said, " Go ye,
and serve the Lord, only let your flocks
and your herds be stayed." But Moses
answered, " Thou must give us also
sacrifices and burnt offerings, that w^e
may sacrifice unto the Lord our God.
Our cattle also shall go with us. There
shall not a hoof be left behind ; for ev-
erything must we take to serve the
Lord our God, and w^e know^ not with
what we must serve the Lord until we
come thither."

It is not possible for one w^ho is en-
tering upon a life of entire consecra-
tion, to reserve a known or an unknow^n
thing from dedication unto God. If
the devil can cause the people to sac-
rifice to God in the land, or not to go

Make It Complete, 35

far away, or to leave anything in con-
nection with their families or earthly
relationships, or to reserve any thing of
material value from entire surrender to
God, he always gains the victory.
The fact is, that vv^hen one wills to fol-
low God fully, he is not able to make
any sort of reservation, expressed or
implied; for he does not know with
w^hat he must serve the Lord until he
gets into the place where God can re-
veal the secrets of his counsel unto
him.

It was so again with the Israelites
when they entered into the land of
Canaan. The walls of Jericho had
fallen down flat, and yet they were
overcome w^hen the army marched
against the little city of Ai because of
the lack of obedience of one of the
members of the host.

After this, when they had again

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sought God's favor by the taking away
of the evil thing and the punishment
of the offender, there came to Joshua
men from Gibeon, vs^ho heard w^hat he
had done unto Jericho and unto Ai,
w^ho did w^ork v^iHly and w^ent to make
as if they had been ambassadors, and
put old sacks upon their horses, and
wine bottles old and rent, and bound
up, and old shoes clouted upon their
feet, and old garments upon them, and
all the bread of their provision was
dirty and mouldy, and they went to
Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and
said unto him and the men of Israel,
"We be come from a far country.
Now, therefore, make ye a league with
us." And the men of Israel fell into
the trap, and made a league with the
inhabitants of Gibeon to let them live.
And the princes of the congregation
swore unto tbem, and it came to pass

Make It Complete, 37

at the end of three days after they had
made a league with them, that they
heard that they were their neighbors,
and that they dwelt among them. And
then it was, seeing that they had fallen
into a trap, they arranged with the peo-
ple of Gibeon to be to them hewers of
wood and drawers of water, instead of
executing upon these opponents of
God the judgment which had been
long ago pronounced, and had been
waiting for execution. And God told
the people that because their leaders
had made this compact, instead of ful-
filling his law against the idolaters;
that, so long as they abode in the land
of promise, so long should there abide
by their side the people who should
lead them into continual temptation,
and should be snares and traps unto
them, and scourges in their sides and
thorns in their eyes, until the peo-

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pie of Israel should perish from off the
good land which the Lord their God
had given them.

All the sad history of the doubting
and vacillation and defeat, all the go-
ing aw^ay into idolatry, all the w^eak-
ness in the time of battle, and the de-
feat in the presence of the foes of God,
all the sad and bitter experiences that
finally culminated in the Babylonish
captivity, w^ere due to the fact that w^ith
the Gibeonites and some other idolaters
of the land of Canaan the people made a
compact, instead of utterly destroying
them at the first.

Saul had a similar experience in con-
nection w^ith the campaign against
Agag, w^hom he w^as commanded to
utterly destroy, with " all that he had,
men and women and infants and suck-
ling kids and sheep, camels and asses."
But " Saul and the people spared Agag

Make It Complete. 39

and the best of the sheep and of the
oxen and of the fatlings and of the
lambs," under the pretext that they
needed to have material to sacrifice un-
to the Lord ; and Samuel said, " Hath
the Lord as great delight in burnt of-
ferings and sacrifices as in obeying the
voice of the Lord: behold, to obey is
better than sacrifice and to hearken
than the fat of rams; for rebellion is as
the sign of witchcraft, and stubborn-
ness is as iniquity and idolatry. Be-
cause thou hast rejected the word of
the Lord, he hath also rejected thee
from being king."

The trouble with the young man
whom Jesus loved, w^as, that he lacked
one thing in the surrender of his will
to God, and when the test came by
v^hich he might show that every-
thing had been surrendered, he w^as
not ready to meet it. We need to give

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up all we know and have, and all we
may know or be or have. This only
is faith, and this is the faith that work-
eth unto righteousness.

On his twenty-first birth-day, Jona-
than Edwards w^rote in his diary, "I
Avill make the salvation of my soul my
life work." Later he said, "If I be-
lieved that it were permitted to one
man — and to only one — in this gen-
eration, to lead a life of complete con-
secration to God, I would live in every
respect as though I believed myself to
be that one."

There is a story told about a monk
who w^as disobedient to the law of the
superior of the monastery, and was
taken out to be buried alive. He was
placed standing in the grave, and the
earth was filled in so that he could not
move his feet. The superior asked
him, "Are you dead yet ? " and he

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said, "Xo." The earth was then filled
in, until it rose up on his chest, and it
was difficult for him to breathe, and
w^hen the question was repeated, he
said,"No, I will not die." The earth
was then filled in until it was almost
impossible for the man to speak, and a
few more shovelfuls of earth would
have smothered him, and he said, " I
give up. I will die."

I would it might be that every
reader of these words should be ready
to pray the simple words of this
hymn :

0 God, mj heart doth sigh for Thee;
Let me die, let me die.

Now set my soul at liberty:

Let me die, let me die
To all the trifling things of earth,
They're now to me of little worth.
My Savior calls, I'm going forth ;

Let me die, let me die.

Oh, I must die to scoffs and jeers;
Let me die, let me die.

1 must be dead to slavish fears;
Let me die, let me die.

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To all the world and its applause,
To all the customs, fashions, laws,
Of those who hate the humbling cross,
Let me die, let me die.

If Christ would live and reign in me,

I must die, 1 must die.
Like him I crucified must be,

I must die, I must die.
So dead that no desire may rise
To pass for good, or great, or wise,
In any but my Savior's eyes.

Let me die, let me die.

Begin at once to drive the nail ;

Let me die, let me die.
Oh, suffer not my heart to fail;

Let me die, let me die.
My God, I look to Thee for power
To help me to endure the hour.
When crucified by Sovereign power

I shall die, I shall die.

When I am dead, then Lord to Thee

I shall live, I shall live.
My time, my strength, my all to Thee,

I do give, I do give.
Nothing for self shall henceforth be.
Dear Lord, I've given myself to Thee,
For time and for eternity,

I shall live, I shall live.

V.

COUNT IT DONE.

NOT long ago, in an inquiry meet-
ing, a pastor said that " Some
folks think that one way to become a
Christian is to commence to act as though
you were already a Christian." The lead-
er of the meeting said, "That is the only
way," and I am sure that I agree with
him. The only principle upon which
prayer is eyer answered, is that enun-
ciated by the Master when he said:
" Whatsoeyer things ye desire when
ye pray, belieye that ye haye receiyed
them, and je shall haye them."

When a man takes some definite
promise of Christ, such, for instance,

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44 Victory Through Surrender,

as the wonderful words, "Him that
Cometh unto me, I will in no wise cast
out," and says for himself, "I have
come to him the best I know, and I
believe his word, he has not cast me
out," he is fairly in the kingdom of
God. Or, if he takes the words, "Be-
hold, I stand at the door and knock ; if
any man hear my voice and open the
door, I will come in to him and will
sup with him and he wnth me," and
says concerning it, "I know that I have
opened the door, and I believe his
word; he has come in, and he is now
within me," Christ will make real for
him that w^hich he receives by faith
We need continually to keep in mind
the fact that the principles that govern
the entrance into the Christian life are
the same principles that govern every
advanced step, and the develop-
ment of the life of God in man. The

Count It Done, 45

Savior said to the ten lepers, "Go,
show yourselves to the priests," and
w^hile they were still covered with lep-
rosy, they turned to go to the priests.
There was for them no indication that
they had been healed, save the impli-
cation contained in the words that bade
them be examined by the health offi-
cer. "And it came to pass that, as they
went^ they were cleansed." The com-
mand given to the man with the with-
ered hand was, "Stretch forth thine
hand." This was the thing that he
had been wanting to do for years and
had been unable to accomplish. If he
had been possessed by any spirit of
unbelief, he would have hesitated to
make the effort; but as he made the
effort, the power to do what God told
him, came, "And he stretched forth his
hand, and it was restored whole like
unto the other."

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When the IsraeUtes had come to the
borders of the river Jordan, on then-
second approach to tlie boundary of the
promised land, as they advanced into
the w^ater, the waters w^ere rolled
back, and they passed over upon dry
ground. And when they came to one
of the great walled cities which had
frightened the timorous spies forty
years before, they were told to march
round about it once every day for seven
days, and on the seventh day seven
times, and then, at the signal given by
the rams' horns of the priests, they
were to shout. If there had been a
spirit in them that said, " For what
shall we shout? " they would have been
overcome by their enemies. But as
the shout of victory went up w^hen as
3^et there was no victory in sight, God
made real for his people that which
they had received by faith, and the

Count It Done. 47

walls fell down flat; and, so far as the
jDeople of Israel were concerned, they
gained a bloodless victory.

There never was, and there never
will be any way to walk in the light
of God other than by faith. In fact,
the thing that God offers to us is his
own faith, the principle by which he
lives, and the knowledge that what he
says shall be accomplished. The ex-
act expression that the Master used in
speaking to his disciples, as the word
is recorded in the eleventh chapter of
Mark, is not as the King James ver-
sion puts it, "Have faith in God," but
rather as the margin records it, "Have
the faith of God." What Paul said to
the Galatians concerning the principle of
the life that he lived with Christ ^vas,
that the life which he now lived in the
flesh, he lived by "the faith of the Son
of God." The gift which God makes

48 Victory Through Surrender.

to us in giving us faith, is that sublime
confidence which enables us to count
the things that are not as those that
are, and thus the faith is reckoned
unto us for righteousness. When
the Lord Jesus uttered a command, or
worked a miracle, he had no question
in his mind but that what he said
would be perfectly accomplished; and
just so far as we grow to be like
him, and have no will but the will of
God, abiding in Christ and having
Christ abide in us, do we have the same
sublimity of faith, and w^e shall ask
what we will, and it shall be done unto
us.

We need to make the words in the
sixth chapter of Romans exceedingly
practical, where Paul says, ^'Likewise
reckon ye also yourselves to be dead
indeed unto sin, but alive unto God
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let

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not sin therefore reign in jour mortal
body, that ye should obey it in the lusts
thereof. Neither yield ye your mem-
bers as instruments of unrighteousness
unto sin, but yield yourselves unto God,
as those that are alive from the dead,
and your members as instruments of

righteousness unto God Know

ye not that to whom ye yield your-
selves servants to obey, his servants ye
are to whom ye obey; whether of sin
unto death, or of obedience unto right-
eousness? . . . For as ye have yielded
your members servants to uncleanness
and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so
now yield your members servants to
righteousness unto holiness. For when
ye were the servants of sin, ye were
free from rio^hteousness. . . . But now
being made free from sin, and become
servants to God, ye have your fruit
unto holiness, and the end everlasting

5o Victory 71i7^otigh Surrender,

life. For the wages of sin is death,
but the gift of God is eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord."

I would to God that we might see
that when we present ourselves to God
as if we were alive from the dead,
that God does indeed make us alive
from the dead, and that no practical
faith was ever manifested toward him
in vain. As a friend of mine said, in
turning his back forever upon having
any confidence in the flesh, and utterly
surrendering himself to God, "I felt as
though I walked out to the end of the
ridge pole in the darkness, and jumped
off, and Jesus caught me."

Having made the surrender definite,
and by the revelation of God having
made it complete, let it be fully settled
in your own mind that you have done
this once for all; that you have fully
accepted God to be all things unto you.

Count It Done, 51

and that God has accepted you that in
this way he may perfectly fulfill your
wish, and, though all the devils in hell
and all the faithless and half-conse-
crated people upon earth should try to
shake your confidence, set to your sea.
in this that God is true, and reckon
yourself to be "dead indeed unto sin.
and alive unto God through our Lore
Jesus Christ."

"I see a door, a multitude near by.
In creed and quarrel, sure disciples all!
Gladly thev would, they saj, enter the hail,
But cannot, the stone threshold is so high.
From unseen hand, full many a feeding

crumb,
Slow dropping o'er the threshold high,

doth come;
They gather and eat, with much disputing

hum.

"Still and anon a loud, clear voice doth call;
'Make your feet clean, and enter so the hall!'
They hear, thej stoop, they gather each a

crumb.
Oh, the deaf people! would they were also

dumb!

52 Victory Through Surrender,

Hear how they talk! and lack of Christ de-
plore,
Stamping with muddy feet about the door,
And will not make them clean to walk upon
his floor.

"But see, one comes ; he listens to the Voice ;
Careful he wipes his weary, dusty feet!
The Voice has spoken to him is left no

choice;
He hurries to obey, that only is meet.
Low sinks the threshold, leveled with the

ground ;
This man leaps in, to liberty he's bound.
The rest go talking, walking, picking round."

VI.
THE TRTING OF TOUR FAITH,

NOTHING is stronger than its
weakest part. No man has more
faitii than he has in the time of the se-
verest testing. No man even know^s
whether he has faith or not, until he is
tested, but in a time of testing he does
know^ it, and knows it with a con-
fidence that puts to flight all his ene-
mies, and gives him the joy and satis-
faction and courage of one who has
been a conqueror, and who knows that
in the days to come he still shall con-
quer. James says to us: "My breth-
ren, count it all joy w^hen ye fall into
divers testings, knowing this: that the
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54 Victory Through Surrender,

trying of your faith worketh patience.
But let patience have her perfect work,
that ye may be perfect and entire, want-
ing nothing." Paul says: "We glory
in tribulations also, knowing that trib-
ulation worketh patience, and patience,
experience; and experience, hope; and
hope maketh not ashamed, because the
love of God is shed abroad in our hearts
by the Holy Ghost which is given unto
us." The Savior said: "Blessed are
they which are persecuted for right-
eousness' sake; for theirs is the king-
dom of heaven. Blessed are ye when
men shall revile you and persecute you,
and shall say all manner of evil against
you falsely for my sake. Rejoice and
be exceeding glad: for great is your
reward in heaven : for so persecuted
they the prophets which were before
you."

The great apostle said of his own ex-

The Trymg of Toicr Paith, 55

perience: "I take pleasure in infirmi-
ties, in reproaches, in necessities, in
persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's
sake, for when I am weak, then am I
strong." Peter said: "If ye suffer
for righteousness' sake, happy are ye."
The Word also says: "Blessed is the
man who endureth temptation, for
when he is tried, he shall receive a
crown of life, which the Lord hath
promised to them that love him."

The terrible power of the adversary
is manifested in making men satisfied
with second best things, and while the
Christian is continually kept in perfect
peace, he may be also assured that the
way that he shall gain the cause and
guaranty of peace shall be through the
testing of his faith. No man ever left
aught for the kingdom of God's sake,
but he received a hundredfold in this
present time. But, on the other hand, no

56 Victory Through Surrender,

man ever stepped out in the Spirit of
Christ, saying: "Lo, I come to do thy
will, O my God," but he was "led up
of the Spirit into the wilderness to be
tempted of the devil." It is indeed
very significant that after those days
of testing we read that " Jesus returned
in the power of the Spirit unto Gali-
lee," which is the first expression of a
similar import that we find in the gos-
pel record. In his experience in the
desert with the adversary he was
"tempted in all points like as we are,
and yet without sin" and he was also
passing through the experience which
fitted him for the Garden of Gethsem-
ane and the hour of darkness and the
evil time when it seemed to him as
though his God had forsaken him.

Men may have opinions concerning
certain truths of the Word of God, be-
lieving that they are the truth, but a

The Tryi)ig of your Faith, 57

man never knows the truth in such a
way that it makes him entirely free
until he has been tested to the last
limit of his confidence, and has realized
in the mighty strength and power of
God that he can always be led forth to
triumph in the Lord Jesus.

It is a great fact that when a man
stretches himself on the altar, God
binds him fast, and when he lays him-
self willingly on the cross, God sees to
it that the nails are driven, and that the
sufferer remains there until the death
has come that makes possible the glo-
rious resurrection.

It is not a hard thing to fight, so
long as we may gain the victory, and
the victory is already partly gained
when we are anticipating the attack of
a foe and are thoroughly prepared with
the armor of God against him. It is a
tremendous warning that says that

58 Victory Through Surrender,

" we wrestle not against flesh and
blood, but against principalities, against
powers, against the rulers of the dark-
ness of this world, against wicked
spirits in heavenly places." It is in-
deed true that the nearer we come in
our lives to God, that the more subtle
and deadly are the emissaries of evil
that are sent against us, so that the very
shrewdest of all the devils in hell are
the wicked spirits that attack those who
would live in heavenly places. But it
is also true that there is a way of con-
tinual victory, as in that same passage
the writer says: " Ye may be able to
stand against the wiles of the devil."
. . . ''Ye may be able to with-
stand in the evil day, and having done
all to stand." ..." Ye shall be
able to quench all the fiery darts of the
wicked." The armor which he so
graphically and particularly described

The Trying of Tour Faith, 59

•

is all of it summed up in a word in an-
other place where he says: "Put ye
on the Lord Jesus Christ," for Christ
is called the truth, and our righteous-
ness, and our peace, and our faith, and
our salvation, and just so far as we have
appropriated him v^ill he in the hour
of testing: make himself all these thinos
to us; girdle, and breastplate, and san-
dals, and shield, and helmet, and the
sword of the Spirit, which is the Word
of God.

When the Romans landed on the
coast of Britain there came swarming
to meet them tens of thousands of the
savage natives of the country, and as
the primitive people gathered along
their w^hite cliffs and looked down up-
on this strange foe, they uttered howls
of rage, and seemed to be about to cast
themselves down and exterminate the
invaders. It was then that the Romans,

6o Victory Thi'oiigh Surre7ide7\

4

offering sacrifice to their gods and look-
ing for one moment out across the sea
toward far distant Rome which they
might never see again, instead of pre-
paring their ships for flight, that thus
in case of the defeat which seemed to
be almost a certainty, they might flee
in safety, lighted each man a torch and
set fire to the vessels w4iich would have
been their only hojoe of escape in case
of disaster. And as the savages along
the cliffs, many times in number the
invaders, looked down upon that he-
roic act, they were struck with a fear
that caused a panic to come upon them,
and they fled before the heroic band
who had counted the cost and squarely
met the issue in the time of testing, as
the dry leaves are whirled along by
the tempestuous wind.

God said to the shrinking Jeremiah :
" Be not dismayed at their faces, lest I

The Trying of 7 our Faith, 6\

confound thee before them, for behold
I have made thee this day a defenced
city, and an iron pillar and brazen
walls against the whole land, against
the kings of Judah, against the princes
thereof, against the priests thereof, and
against the people of the land. And
they shall fight against thee, but they
shall not prevail against thee, for I am
with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver
thee."

The sound by w^hich a man says " I
do now belong to God," is a challenge
to the enemy to do his worst, and the
doing of the w^orst by the adversary
and the consequent victory that comes
to the child of God who has no confi-
dence in the flesh, is the means by
vs^hich his eyesight is cleared, his
strength increased, his faith developed,
and he is led in the confidence of tri-
umph from victory unto victory.

VII.

WAITING UPON GOD.

''^^/"E have need of patience, that,
X after ye have done the w411 of
God, ye might receive the promise."
" Let patience have her perfect work,
that ye may be perfect and entire,
v^^anting nothing." " Tribulation vs^ork-
eth patience; and patience, experience;
and experience, hope ; and iiope maketh
not ashamed; because the love of God
is shed abroad in our hearts by his
Spirit w^hich he hath given unto us."
After the trying of our faith comes
patience. This is a great word, which
implies in its meaning not simply to be
uncomplaining in the time of testing,
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Waitmg Upon God. 63

but rather everything that comes be-
tween the commencement of a Chris-
tian Hfe and the final victory w^hen we
shall hear the word of commendation
for those who, by patient continuance
in well-doing, have been seeking for
glory, and honor and immortality.

No one has ever learned the secret
of the Most High, who has not known
what it means to rest in the Lord and
wait patiently for him. We are told
that "those who wait upon the Lord
shall inherit the earth ; " and that " it is
good that a man should both hope and
quietly wait for the salvation of the
Lord." We read that " they that wait
upon the Lord shall renew their
strength; they shall mount up with
wings as eagles; they shall run and not
be weary, and they shall walk and not
faint;" and the counsel of God upon
this subject may be summed up in

64 victory Through Surrender,

the words: "Wait on the Lord; be
of good courage, and he shall strength-
en thine heart; wait, I say, on the
Lord."

After the garden, and the cross, and
the resurrection, and just before his
ascension to be with his Father, Christ
bade his disciples " not to depart from
Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise
of the Father, which, saith he, ye have
heard of me." This waiting upon God
is anything except the occupation of
the idler. First of all, it furnishes for
God the necessary element of time in
the perfecting of our characters. Al-
though God is tremendously in earn-
est, he is never in a hurry, and for
ages he had been working in the world
before the fulness of the time in
which he might send forth his only-be-
gotten Son; and even after all these
centuries of God's planning and work-

Waiting Upon God, 65

ing, "we know the whole creation
groaneth and travaileth in pain together
until now; and not only they but our-
selves also, which have the first fruits
of the Spirit, even w^e ourselves groan
within ourselves, waiting for the adop-
tion, to vs^it, the redemption of our
body. For we are saved by hope; but
hope that is seen is not hope; for what
a man seeth, vs^hy doth he yet hope
for? But if we hope for that we see
not, then do we with patience wait for
it." " For the earnest expectation of
the creature waiteth for the manifesta-
tion of the sons of God." // takes time
to make meji and women. I believe that
the secret of Paul's counting himself
perfect, and ahnost with the same
breath announcing that he does not
count himself yet to have attained
perfection, lies in the fact that we may
be perfect children, while we are not

66 Victory Through Surrender,

as yet men and women, but are grow-
ing day by day into " the measure of
the stature of the fuhiess of Christ."
So far from doing nothing, this is
the time of real working, and the
growth and the development of fruit.
" The husbandman waiteth for the
precious fruit of the earth, and hath
long patience for it, until he receive
the early and the latter rain." We
know that the time of waiting on his
part is by no means a time of inaction,
but of careful watching and tilling and
helping in the processes that shall bring
into perfection the fruit of all his
thought and toil. We must not think
God inactive or indifferent concerning
us because we do not see every hour
some new fruit of his toil in us. Con-
cerning those with whom the good
seed was sown that was to spring up

Walt ill or Upon God, 67

and bring forth fruit an hundred fold,
we read the significant words, these are
they that " bring forth fruit with pa-
tience." " So is the kingdom of God,
as if a man should cast seed into the
ground; and should sleep and rise
night and day, and the seed should
spring and grow up, he knoweth not
how. For the earth bringeth forth
fruit of herself ; first the blade, then the
ear, after that the full corn in the ear."
Again, the place of waiting is a
place of absolute humility. The Psalm-
ist says: " Truly, my soul waiteth
upon God;" and as we look into the
margin, we find that the Hebrew ex-
pression is, " My soul is silent unto
God." There are things that God can-
not tell except with the still, small
voice, and that we cannot hear except
when ^ve are in the place of absolute
silence and freedom from all human

68 Victory Through Sti7'rende7\

questioning, and thinking, and wish-
ing, and striving.

Still further, this is the place of ex-
clusive dependence upon God. No
more pertinent exhortation could be
voiced than this : " My soul, w^ait thou
only upon God, for my expectation
is from him." The secret of the Lord
which is with them that fear him, so
far as it can be revealed in words, I
think is this; that God is satisfied not
with our simply being dependent upon
him, but with our being independent
of everything else. " Wait thou only
upon God." There were things which
God could do in his struggling with
Jacob, but there was one thing which
he could not do, and that was what
Jacob did when, realizing that all his
scheming had been in vain, and that
now he could not even run from the
vengeance of his brother Esau, and

Waiting Upon God, 69

hanging as a poor, weak cripple upon
God, he cried out: "I will not let thee
go, except thou bless me." There
were things that Elisha could do for the
woman who was in such dire distress;
but this woman had to be shut up alone
with God before the increase of the oil
might come, and her debt might be
paid, and she and her children have
provision for all their need; and any
soul that is longing to deny himself,
and to count the things that are not as
those that are, who will lay hold upon
God in that spirit which will know
nothing unless God teaches it, and have
nothing unless God gives it, and be
nothing except by the birth and life,
and strength and development of God,
unto him w^ill be revealed all the riches
of the knowledge of God and the
boundless love of his only-begotten
Son.

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In the fourth place, this waiting up-
on God is an act of exceeding great in-
tensity and persistence. It is not
enough to have a spasm of entering
into the closet for an interview with
God; but to have so turned away from
other things that we shall wait for him
more than the w^atchers wait for the
morning. David says, " On thee do I
wait all the day," and there is no more
intense occupation than that of such
waiting. Elijah heard the sound of
abundance of rain in his heart before
he saw the cloud the size of a man's
hand in the sky ; and even after he was
certain that the rain was coming, and
had risked his life upon the prediction
of its near approach, still did he bow
his head down between his knees and
wait before God until the shower v^as
at hand. He knew that the rain was
there, and he knew that it was in the

Waiting Upon God.

power of his intense waiting before
God to bring it; and I believe that un-
less the rain had come, that Elijah
would have died in that place of self-
denying faith, bowed down before
God and claiming his promise. We
read of the unjust judge who, because
of the continual coming of the woman,
gave to her her desire, and of the man
who rose to give unto his friend be-
caus-e of his importunity; and immedi-
ately in connection with this latter in-
cident we find the words : " Ask, and
it shall be given you; seek, and ye
shall find ; knock, and it shall be opened
unto you. For every one that asketh
receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth;
and to him that knocketh it shall be
opened."

Ages ago the prophet said: "If the
vision tarry, wait for it," and so for
those of us who have been led, step by

72 Victory Through Surrender.

step, until the last thing has been laid
upon God's altar, and the faith has
been tested by the attacks of the ad-
versary, and we have gained confidence
by the fact that w^e have not been over-
come, for us there is the place of silence
before God, and of that patient v^^ait-
ing in w^hich he may fulfill his w^ill,
and see in us the travail of his soul and
be satisfied.

VIII.

VICTORY

AN unknown benefactor has sent
me the right message for this
place. It is this: "You need not
count your resources ; they are Hmitless.
You need not measvn*e your strength;
it is measureless. You need not cal-
culate difficulties; is anything too hard
for the Lord? You need not tremble
for results; God's results are all suc-
cesses. He stands with you beside a
dead world and promises its resurrec-
tion."

There is the definite statement in the
Word of God, that when patience has
perfected her work, the man of God

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74 Victory Tlwough Sui'rejider,

shall be complete, shall " be perfect and
entire, wanting nothing." There is
also the statement which we have be-
fore quoted, that " tribulation worketh
patience; and patience, experience; and
experience, hope; and hope maketh not
ashamed, because the love of God is
shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy
Ghost which is given unto us."

The life of a man who has passed
through such a process as this, and is be-
ing continually developed by the Spirit
of God, is a life of continual victory over
ignorance and perplexity. Sometimes
a man says that he is thoroughly con-
secrated unto God, and then asks this
question : " How is it that you are able
to tell what God's Avill is concerning
you ? " and " how do you make a choice
between good things, as to which one
is the best thing?" The asking of
this question is an indication either

victory, 75

that the man has not surrendered him-
self fully unto the Sphnt of God, or else
that he has not realized the fulness of
his inheritance in the appropriation
of the wisdom of God. The statement
is very distinct, that '' Christ is made
unto us wisdom," and the prayer of
Paul, which was quoted in the first
article of this series, was, " that the
God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
Father of glory, might give unto the
Ephesians the spirit of wisdom and
revelation in the knowledge of him."
Even under the Old Dispensation, one
of the sjDirit-enlightened saints had re-
ceived this truth, and tells it in words
that could not be surpassed in any age,
when he says: "Trust in the Lord
with all thine heart and lean not unto
thine own understanding; in all thy
ways acknowledge him and he shall
direct thy paths."

76 Victory Through Surrender,

A friend of mine says: "People
sometimes lean to their own under-
standing when they do not rest upon
it;" and in order to have the Lord's
wisdom, and to know continually that
we are working according to his coun-
sel, we have but to be in the place of
perpetual self-denial and acknowledge-
ment of his guidance. Sometimes, in-
deed, when we have not known for
ourselves by any definite indication that
we were being led of God, our eyes
are afterward opened to see that the
Lord was fulfillmg his promises, and
was causing us to walk in his statutes
and his judgments and in the way that
we should go.

The life of abiding in Christ is a life
of victory over sin and selfishness.
God always administers his own prop-
erty. He may not seem to be interested
in another's estate; but just so far

Victoiy, 77

and just so fast as thought and imag-
ination are brought into captivity unto
Christ, does the Lord possess the
thoughts and the imaginations and the
words and the deeds, and work in them
and through them for his own glory.
The reason that he does not keep some
hves in the condition of continual
cleansing is that he does not have the
opportunity. He cultivates only the
fields that belong to him, by the defi-
nite relinquishment of the former own-
er; but these fields he always does cul-
tivate, and while a man may not have
attained his perfect growth in an in-
stant, he may be sure of this, that God
will keep him in a place where, mo-
ment by moment, he will cleanse away
his sin, and will protect him even
from the approach of sin, even as
someone has beautifully said, " the con-

78 Victoiy Through Surrender.

tinual action of the eye-lid protects the
eye."

Again, the Hfe of self -surrender and
appropriation of God is a complete
victory over fear and unrest. God
never uses meaningless words, and
to the fullest does he fulfill his
promise, " Thou will keep him in per-
fect peace whose mind is stayed on
thee, because hetrusteth in thee." One
of the sins that it seems hardest for
God to forgive and eradicate, is the
fatal sin of anxiety; but when one has
no ambition but God's ambition, and
no will but the will of God, he may
dwell in a perfect calm which the
world cannot give nor take away.
When we are anxious for nothing, but
" in everything by prayer and suppli-
cation with thanksgiving, are letting
our requests be known unto God, the
peace of God which passeth all under-

Victory. 79

standing keeps our hearts and minds
through Christ Jesus." The word
" keep " is a beautiful expression that
refers to the action of the Roman sen-
try, so that the peace of God not only
abides in our hearts, but on the outside
stands as a sentry to ward off attacks
which might prove to be disturbers of
our perfect rest.

Still further, the life of the complete
trustnig of one's self to God, is a vic-
tory over weakness and vacillation. In
all the ages, there has gone up the cry
that came from the broken heart of the
king who had terribly sinned against
light and opportunity: "Renew aright
spirit within me." This word " right "
means constant, and it is for the guar-
anty of constancy that some have been
continually lookmg. This, too, is a
result of the life of self-surrender and
of waiting upon God. After Hosea

So Victory Through Surrender,

had portrayed the attitude of the peo-
ple that desired to forsake all their sins
ill their return unto God, he promises
unto the people who have thus yielded
themselves to him, forgiveness and life
and restoration and refreshment and
delicacv and strength and growth and
beauty, and then he adds, " Ephraim
shall say, ' What have I to do any more
with idols?'" The great blessing of
constancy is for the man who is able to
say, " My heart is fixed, O God, my
heart is fixed."

And finally, this is the place where
we realize the enduement of j^ower,
concerning which Christ bade his dis-
ciples to tarry at Jerusalem until they
had been endued with the power from
on high, and concerning which he said
to the seventy disciples when he sent
them out, " Behold I give you power
over all the power of the enemy."

Victory, 8 1

When we have realized that God has
chosen the weak things, and the fooUsh
things, and the base and despised
things, and the non-existent things, and
that to accompHsh his purposes he is
looking for the man that has made
himself of no reputation, then indeed
do we realize that '^ the eyes of the
Lord run to and fro throughout the
whole earth, to show himself strong in
behalf of them whose heart is perfect
toward him." To-day I believe all
the infinite life of God, in purity, and
wisdom, and peace, and strength, and
power, is waiting for the one who is
willing to receive it.

Christ says to us as he said to
the father of the demoniac lad, '' If
thou ca7tst^ all things are possible to
him that believeth." He said to
Martha, "If thou wouldest believe,
thou shouldest see the glory of God,"

S2 I'^ictory Through Surrender,

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victory of God within our souls, is
the measure of our faith. So shall we
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through us, that they that " wait upon
the Lord shall change their strength,
they shall mount up with wings as
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