Be Intent Upon The Perfection Of The

The Sun Meets Not The Springing Bud That Stretches Towards Him With Half The Certainty That God, The Source Of All Good, Communicates Himself To The Soul That Longs To Partake Of Him.

As All Types And Figures In The Law Were But Empty Shadows Without The Coming Of Christ, So The New Testament Is But A Dead Letter Without The Holy Spirit In Redeemed Men As The Living Power Of A Full Salvation.

Devotion Signifies A Life Given, Or Devoted, To God. He Therefore Is The Devout Man, Who Lives No Longer To His Own Will, Or The Way And Spirit Of The World, But To The Sole Will Of God, Who Considers God In Everything, Who Serves God In Everything, Who Makes All The Parts Of His Common Life, Parts Of Piety, By Doing Everything In The Name Of God, And Under Such Rules As Are Conformable To His Glory.

Now If You Will Stop Here And Ask Yourself Why You Are Not As Pious As The Primitive Christians Were, Your Own Heart Will Tell You That It Is Neither Through Ignorance Nor Inability, But Purely Because You Never Thoroughly Intended It.

If, Therefore, A Man Will So Live As To Show That He Feels And Believes The Most Fundamental Doctrines Of Christianity, He Must Live Above The World.