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REV. HUBERT BROOKE.
REV. CHAS. INWOdD.
REV. 0. H. C. McQREQOR.

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DAYS OF BLESSING

DELIVERED llV THE DELEdATES FROM THE KESWICK

CONFERENCE ON THE DEEI'ENING OF

SPIRIT AND LIFE

Rev. Hui'.ERT Brooke, Reading, England.

Rev. Chas. Inwood, Duhijn, Ireland.

Rev. G. H. C^I^McGregor, Ab^^RDEen, Scoti^and.

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CONFERENCE FOR THE DEEPENING
OF SPIRITUAL LIFE.

NOTES.

The Conference held in Association Hall in Toronto
from the 24th to the 27th of April, for deepening
of spiritual life, aroused such a remarkable re-
ligious interest that' a few notes about it may not
be uninteresting to those who had not the privilege
of attending. The Conference was conducted by
those ministers from the Old Land, who have for
the sake* of brevity been |[^d the *• Keswick
brethren," becJTuse .they arelSRhers in connection
with the widely known ConfereJice' held each
year at Keswick, in the region of the Cumberland
Lakes in England. These brethren came out by special
invitation from friends in Canada. Rev. Hubert
Brooke, of Reading, England, an Episcopalian clergy-
man, is the senior member of the deputation. He is a
man bordering on fifty, of very quiet demeanor, but
with a remarkably clear and comprehensive knowledge
of Scripture, and a wonderfully sympathetic tenderness
of speech. Rev. Charles Inwood is a Wesleyan
Methodist minister from Dublin, Ireland. He has a fine
appearance, beaming face and splendid vpice, and speaks

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wlthS/^'ry gri*at phWer and eafnostnoss. Rev. G. H.
C. iy\cpr|.'K()r, M.A., tilt* youn^fst of tlic three, Is
minister of Free bast Presbyterian Church, Aberileen»
Scotland, possesses a wonderfully matured mind ; has
a very clear and Incisive way of presenting the truth,
and a manner that has reminded some of the devoted
McCheyne. Thus the three men represent three differ-
ent countries, and three different Hvanjjelical denomi-
nations, and so may be taken to represent the true
twnty pf the Christian Church in that beautiful harmony
of spirit which enabled them to stand side by side In
seekinj^to lead Christians to a hi^^her plane of 'Christian
livinji. N

What is the explanation of the wonderful interest
manifested in tho'stj meetings where probably a thousand
people come in the BttJ^ afternoon of each day to hear a
simple Bible Reading ; and when the crowd was so great
iri the evenings that hundreds were unable to gain an
entrance ?

The interest was not in the m^ who came, or their
popularity, for they were entirely urmupwn, except to a
very ft^. One can easily understan^xhow Messrs.
Moody ahd Sankey could have large meeting^ for their
fame is world-wide.

Nor was it because of a genera^l enthusiasm IMhe
object of the Conference. A Sabbath School or a
E. Convention will^draw a large number because of
general interest in these branches of Christian wbrk.
But in regard to this Conference, many were in ignor-
ance as to the lines of teachj^ng, and not a few confusing
them with dangerous errors)^such as "Sinless Pei fee

s. Rev. G. H.
tlic thref, Is
irch, Aberdeen t
rt'd mind ; has
tinji the truth,
of the devoted
L*nt three differ-
iK^lical denoml-
esent the true
uittful harmony
side by side In
lie of 'Cliristian

iiderful interevSt
ibly a thousand
h day to hear a
vd was so ^reat
iibie to gain an

» came, or their
wn, except to a
how Messrs.
etirifes. for their

thusiasm irNthe
jchool or a
because of
!^hristian WDrk^
were in ignor-
i few confusing
Sinless Peifec-

tlon" and '• Antinomianism," wore in a position of
opposition, TIu'm jn most mvelings of this kind, a very
great deal of attention is given to such tilings as music,
advertising ^nd the like. Tliere were no distinguished
singers leading the praise, and because of unacquaint-
ance with tlie hymns, the singing was nut really as
good as in an ordinary congregation.

Yet these three unknown ministers, without any very
remarkable natural gifts, and with the principal of the
three laid aside most of the time by illness— simply
open their Bibles and present God's truth regarding the
privileges of believers in Christ Jesus ; and from the
very first meeting the people go away saying, God is in
this work. There are two things that seem to explain
this remarkable result. (1) These men i|re themselves
filled with the Holy Spirit, and as one has said, "are not
advocating a theory, but are testifying to an experience."
(2) They clearly and definitely present truth that
Christians feel they need, and that many are longing,
for. We say "clearly and definitely," because the
same truth in some form has been presented in many of
the evangelical pulpits of this city. But a full, clear
statement of it by men whd have deeply experienced
its blessedness themselves, has naturally aroused a pro-
found interest in huncjfeds of Christian hearts. ^

Conferences of this kind have so often gone off on
"perfectionism" of some kind* that the brethren were
particularly careful to repudiate utterly any such doc-
trine. Mr. McGregor sald^ in one of his addresses, " The
profession of sinless perfection is a soul-destroying error.
Tothe very end of life we have to pray, / Forgive qs

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our debts as, we forgive our debtors,' " and Rev. Hubert
Brooke safd quaintly, " I have heard many persons pro-
fess sinless perfection, but I never saw any one that
. practised It."

•Though there was no prearranged programme— this
being contrary to the method of such Conferences— yet
there was a very beautiful order of teaching. Tlie first
day (Monday, 24th), the brethren dealt specially with
the sins of Christiansvvho are leading careless, worldly
and unconsecrated lives. "

Mr. Inwood in his Bible Reading in the "afternoon on
Ezekiel vjii. 10, instituted a most searching comparison
between the sins of Ezekie^s day and now. The temple
differed from all other buildings— (i) In being set apart
for sacred uses only. (2) In being the place where God^
specially manifested His glory, and those represent the
human and the divine sides in thfe consecration of the
believer as a temple of the Holy Ghost. He pointed
.out the four abominations by which the temple was
profaned, and their modern representatives.

(i) The Image of Jealousy, representing the general
.spirit of idolatry, and seen in our day in shutting God
out of certain departments of the life altogether.

(2) The Chamber of Imagery, representing the pol-
lution in thought, and motive, and desire.
, (3) Weeping for Tammiiz, representing pollution and
wrong-doing in the outward life and conduct.

(4) And the Sun worship of those who had their
backs turned to the altar and worshipping ^he rising
sun, which has its counterpart in those who turn their
backs pn the atoning work of Christ and are running

and Rev. Hubert
any persons pro-
w any one that

programme — this
Conferences — yet
hing. The first
t specially with
:areles$, worldly

tie afternoon on
hing comparison
)w. The temple
1 being set apart
[)lace where God *
se represent the
isecration of the
St. He pointed
he temple was
/es. -

ting the general
1 shutting God
ogether.
senting the pol-

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»g pollution and
luct.

who had their
>ping 'the rising

Who turn their
nd are running

after every new fashion in philanthropy, srience and
criticism. He then showed how judgment followed this
evil, and how the glory of God withdrew first to the
threshold, then to the city, and finally to the Mount
outside the city. The worship continued but the glory
had departed. ,

In the evening Mr. McGregor spoke on the need of
purification from i Cor. iii. 10-15, an^^saiah i. 24, 25,
and in it showed how the fire of Christ's righteousness
would burn everything In our service that was false and
unworthy, as we stand at His judgment seat, and that
now God will purge the dross — representing the flagrant
outward evils— and take away the alloy— representing
the inner unfitness and desires to the surrendered heart.
God. does not eradicate the sinful disposition, but he
gives power to overcome the sins that vex and hinder
the daily life.

Mr. In wood followed by an earnest appeal to all to
fnake a full and unconditional surrender to Christ. He
said the greatest struggle in many a heart is not with
sin, but with the will of God.

The general subject for the second day was the power
and faithfulness of God, and the necessity of a full
surrender to Him. Mr, McGregor's Bible reading in the
afternoon on the names of God was truly a feast of fat
things. He showed that whenever God asks His people
to take an important step forward, He reveals Himself
by a new and appropriate name, (i) El, or Elohim,
means the strong one, suggestive of creative po\ver.
(2) El Shaddai (Gen, xvii. i), to Abram when He was
about' to fulfil His promise, which implies not only

almighty strength, but gracious providence. (3) Jeho.
vah (Ex. vi. 2, 3) to Moses when about to send him to
deliver the people from boqdage. It ^nplies the absolute
eternal, existence of God, the absolute sovereignty of
God, and His unfailing faithfulness. The names that
follow are but unfoJdings of that name. (4) J^hovah-
tsidkenu (Jer. xxiii. 6), the Lord our Righteteness.
Righteousness, being a prime necessity for God's people,
(5) Jehovah our Sanctifier (Ex. xxxi. 13), or the one
who consecrates, implying that they mus* be a people
for His own possession. (6) Jehovah-Jireh, the Lord
who provides, and will supply all the needs of His conr
secrated people. If the wants are supplied, there will
be rest, and hence the next, name (7) Jehovah-shalom
X Judges vi. 24), the Lord our peace. But when there is
peac6 with God, and when we possess the peace of God,
the conflict wil^ begin with enemies. So Jehovah-
shalom becomes (8) Jehovah-aissi, the Lord our Banner.
Satan will aim his deadliest assaults against us, and in
the fierce conflict we may forget our Leader and be
wounded, but not left, for Jehova-nissi is also (9) Jeho-
vah-Rophi (E^. vi. 26) the Lord that healeth. (10) Then
He is Jehovah our- Shepherd (Psa. xxiii.), keeping,
guarding; leading HisTpeople; and last of all, He is (11)
Jehovah-sHammah (Ezek.xlviii. 35)^ an ever present
God, Jxe Lord is there. Who will riot trust such a God ?
In nte evening Mr. Inwood spoke on Deut. viii. 7-9.
the contrast between the wilderness life and the
Cstiia^n life of Israel. God did not deliver them from
the bondage of Egypt, to leave them in the wilderness
but to bring them into Canaan, they remained in the

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lence. (3) Jeho-
)ut to send him to
iplies the absolute
te sovereignty of

The nanles that
e. (4) Jf hovah-
ir Rightedusness.
for God's people,
. 13), or the one
must be a people
-Jireh, the Lord
needs; of His con-
pplied, there will
I Jehovah-shalom
lut when there is
he peace of God,
. So Jehovah-
Lord our Banner.
2;ainst us, and in
r Leader and be
is also (9) Jeho-
leth. (10) Then
xxiii.), keeping,
of all, He is (II)
m ever present
rust such a God?

Deut. viii. 7-9.
ss life and the
liver them from
1 the wilderness
remained in the

wilderness because of their unbelief. After sho\Ving
that Canaan is not a type of heaven except in a very in-
direct sense, but a type of the life a Christian may have
here, he pointed out four characteristics of this lite — (i)
It is sacred, and is compared to the keeping of the Sab-
bath. (2) It is restful. (3^ It is victorious, and (4)
It is enjoyable. When Israel got into the land flowing
with milk and honey there was no more lusting for the
flesh pots of Egypt. They entered Canaan by defi-
nitely committing themselves to God. The feet of the
pi-iests had to be dipped into the brimming Jordan before
a path was made foi* them. This committal is the first
step in the life of faith. °

Mr. McGregor followed on Matt, xiv. 22-32, with such
thoughts as these.: — Peter knevy it was possible to walk
on the Water because he saw Jesus doing it. -Seeing
Christ's victorious life is what makes us desire a life of
victory. Peter stepped out oft the bare word of Christ
" Come," and found the water like adamant beneath
him.^ When Peter took his eyes off Christ he began to
sink, showing that no change had taken place in Peter,
and wiat he was sustained by the power of Christ in
answer to his faith. The walk was begun in a moment
by one leap— this is consecration, and the walk was
continued so long as he looked to Christ— this is the
secret of t)eing kept. He took his eyes off Christ, this
is the secret of failure. But he was restored, and had
he walked long on the water he would have learned to
keep his eyes fixed upon Christ. The every act vyould
thus have become a habit or- attitude. This he applied
step by step to the Christian life.

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The third day special emphasis was laid on the work
o^the Holy Spirit:

X"^ Mr. Brookfe who appeared for the first time gave a
most instructive Bible study in the afternoon on the
Christian calling. Basing his remarks on i Peter i.
He pointed out that believers are called out of (i) An
Evil Life (i'. 14) ; (2) An Empty Life (j>. 18), and (5)
An Easy Life, (f. 6.) Called unto (r) Obedience (v. 2) ;
(2) Sprinkling of the blood of Jesus or Consecration ; (3)'
"Holiness (v. 14), and (4) Unfeigned love of the
brethren. Then he showed from i Thess. vs. 23, 24,
how this Iif0 is attained and lived. God is faithful, and
we are tolvalk with Him one step af a time. .

in the evening Mr. McGregor spoke of the Spirit's
work, 2 Cor. v. i7,^and C^ol. iii./ip,^as undoing the
work of sin, and hence His wtarkjs oilled a new crea-
tion , Then he compared the Spirit's work in Redprnp*

' tiori to His work in Creation. (1) Giving acknowledge ^
of God and His will. (2) Shedding abroad the Divine
Love. (3) Giving man power to- do God's will. But
man by his disobedience has darkened the understand-
ing, destroyed the affections, and rendered the will im-

* potent* Then he shewed with wonderful force and
clearness how the Spirit re-creates or renews man, and
restores In him communion with God.

Mr. In wood spoke on the filling of the Holy Spirit as
suggested by Acts iv. Ai . He showed that it is possible
for a man with sinful nature aiid in a sinful world, tp be

.so surrendered to God as to be filled with the Holy
Ghost. Then he referred to the results that followed'
this filling, (i) Boldness in testimony. (2) Oneness of

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irst time gave a
fternoori on the
:s on I Peter i.
d out of (i) An

(i>. i8), and (5)
Dbedience (v, 2) ;
;>onsecration ; (3)'
d love of the
fhess. vs. 23, 24,
d is faithful, and
time. .
e of the Spirit's

as undoing the
[illed a new crea-
work in Redpmp*
ng a- knowledge
Toad the Divine
God's will. But

the understand-
jred the will im-
derful force and
renews man, and

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spirit, .and affections. ^3) Generosity and liberality.
(4) Power on the. world. (5) Grace. He then pointed
out very clearly that it is the duty as well as privilege
of every believer to be filled, for it is a divine command.

On the fourth day the general subject seemed to be
the privileges and responsibilities of believers who are
surrendered to Christ to live a lite of faith.

In the afternoon Mr. McGregor took as the subject of
Bible study the 23rd Psalm. .

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that it is possible
nful world, tp be
I with the Holy
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ADDRESS

THE TWENTY-THIRD PSALM,

BY RRV. O. M. C. MgGRIGOR.

Sometimes we have very great difficulty in finding a
name to describe that life of blessing of which we have
been speaking so much this week, and into which so
many of you, by God's grace, have been led durin^p;
these days. Sometimes we speak of it^s the life of full
salvation ; yet I believe that term is apt to be misunder-
stood. One of our favorite names for tt is the name-
tljat the Apostle Paul gives us in the Epistle to the
Romans, whence speaks about, " The fulntfSs of the
blessingof the Gospel of Christ." Now, this afternoon
it has been laid on my heart to speak to you in the way
of a Bible Reading about some of the characteristics of
. this life of fulness of blessing, this life which is the con-
sequence of the coming into our hearts in its fulness of
God's Holy Spirit. Many who are here. to-day were
here last night, arid very solemnly received this
mighty gift, who believe that God is faithful to His
promise, and that God fills us with the Holy Gho^t.
Now, I want, both for the help of those, and very
specially for the help of some who may be beginners, to
go over the ground we have already traversed, and to
lay out before you from God's Word some of the bles§-

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ficulty in finding a
of which we have
ind into which so

been led durin^p;
it ^s the life of full
pt to be misunder-
br tt is the name
the Epistle to the
rhe fulness of the
3w, this afternoon
to you in the way
i characteristics of

which is the con-
ts in; its fulness of

here. to-day were
[ily received this

is faithful to His

the Holy Gho^t.

those, and very
y be beginners, to

traversed, and to
ome of the bles§-

ings which you may expect to find in your life as the
consequence of this filling with Qod's Holy Spirit. And
in order to do this, I want you to turn with me to what
is in Scotland perhaps the most familiar portion of the
whole Bible— I do not know how it is in Canada— the
23rd Psalm, that we may find the Spirit-filled life; the
life of fulness of blessing, set out in all its glory before
us there. If you look at this 23rd Psalm, which has
been so familiar to many of us from childhood, you will '
find that in structure it consists oif a proposition and
then a great number of promises that are deducible from
that proposition ; th«^ Psalm falls into two unequal parts,
the first part consisting of the first clause of the Psalm,
and then the v^hole of the rest of the Psalm being conse-
quences of this first clause.' Now, let us spepd a little
time on the first clause, because it gives us the key to
the whole Psalm. You see what the Psalmist here
says. He says, •* The Lord is my Shepherd." Here is
a man who has made a personal appropriation of God ;
he has not merely heard about God, but has taken God
to be his God; he h^s said, *• Let others do what they
will, asfor-me, I am God's, theXord is my Shepherd."
Now, dearlfriends, that is exactly what we have done.
What does this yielding of ourselves for the filling of the
Holy Ghost mean except that we invite, we receive that
Holy Spirit into our hearts to be absolute master ? I do
not k^imv any filling of the Holy Ghost that does not
involve that;-that is what makes it such a* tremendously
solemn thing-; it means the acknowledgment as never
before of the Lordship ^. Jesus Christ ; we appropriate
Him;' we take Him as our SaVkmr, but, far more, we take

Him to have as much dominion over us as a shepherd
has over a sheep; we put ourselves absolutely into His
hands, so that He has the power of life and death over
us ; and if the surrender for the filling of «the Holy Ghost
didn't mt»an that, dear men and women, you need not
look for it to brinj^ blessing into your souls. I think
that is what makes this whole matter to me so tremen-
dously solemn ; it is a surrender that goes down to the
very roots of my being ; it is the giving over of our will,
the very entirety of our being, into the hands of God.
But notice here that it is not only a personal appropria-
tion, but a present appropriation ; not "the Lord will
be my Shepherd,"- it is "The Lord is." Now, that is
true of us now, if what we did last. night meant anything.
As we have gathered here this afternoon, we are people
who have now accepted God as our absolute Shepherd.
Now, just think of what it means. What is the relation
in which the shepherd stands to the sheep who are
under his charge?

First of all, we know in regard to the eastern. shep-
herd that he knows liis sheep, they are not lost in the
crowd as in these countries hereabouts, the shepherd
has an individual care and individual knowledge of the
sheep. Another thought; the shepherd guides the
sheep. When the sun scorches up all the grass in the
lower valley it is the business of the shepherd to lead
the sheep to where they will find pasture; and often-
times he will take these sheep where they haven't the
least idea that they are going ; they do not know in the
least what is the mind of the shepherd regarding them,
but ft is their business only to follow the shepherd ; it

is his business to ^uide, and it is the business of tlie
sheep to lollow, ulthouRli tliey may not in tlie least
know where he is leading them. Then another thouglit,
the shepherd guards the sheep. You remember the
story we have in God's Word tliat illustrates that, liow
David himself took his life in his hand and perilled him-
self against the lion and the bear, that he might stand
between his sheep and destruction. And then we know
quite well a shepherd loves his sheep. Someone has
described the life of the eastern shepherd, where, living
"under the clear Syrian skies for weeK? together, without
any companion, he thinks of the helpless sheep who are
under his charge, ancj^en have spoken of the wonder-
ful love and tenderness' oi feeling that grows up in the
s shepherd's heart toward^ his sheep. And the Lord
Jesus Christ, knowing alLthat it 4aieant, said. •' I am the
good shepherd ; the good shjephelRl-layeth down his life
for the sheep." Now, men and women, with that idea
of the sheep in your mind, read the clause again, and
just think of the life that is yours now ! "The Lord is
my Shepherd," therefore the Lord knows me>, knows
me through and through, "He knoweth our frame. He
knoweth that we are dust, and because He knows that
so absolutely, there will always be between our Saviour
and ourselves the most perfect sympathy.

1 wonder how many of you have felt the need of
sympathy, and know the sweetness of it; I wonder
how many of you here have been plunged- into deepest
"sorrow? I do not think a man can k^w what the
fulness of blessing is until he knows anfl^as proved
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fell on him ; and then, O m<?n and women, the sympa-
thy of Christ becomes a new thing to a man. Or If
you are persecuted or misunderstood, what a comfort it
is to remember that the Lord knows. Do you know
what it is to lie down after a hard day's work, when
every muscle is aching with exertion, and just to delight
and rejoice yourself in the exquisite tenderness of the
sympathy of Jesus Christ ? ItNis one of the greatest
blessings a man can have. TheA, the shepherd guides
the sheep. The shepherd leads th^heep. •• The Lord
is my Shepherd," what a splendid thought! In the ^
direction of our life there will be no mistake ; everyone
of you knows, that has actually taken the. Lord as a
shepherd, that the anxiety about making the best of life,
the worry about making the best of life, is taken clean
away. If I am the Lord's sheep, it is His business to
guide me ; if I am the Lord's sheep. He has the leading
oi my life, and it is only my business to liave ^ver my
eye towards him, tl;at I ,may follow wherever He leads.
We come across thjs tlipught^a little further dow^, I wfli
not dwell upon it, but what a glorious thought it is, •* All
things work together for the good of those that love
God," if we are really following Him ; because this
Shepherd never makes any mistakes, and if you are
only following Him, my brother, you may be quite sure
that you are just in the spot where God would have you
to be, and when you are there you have a right to claim
for your protection all the blessings and the power of
God. I say the Shtpherd leads. And then the, shep-
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ringing with the joy of a man who Is under the guardian-
ship of Jehovah. "God is our refuge and Strength,."
and the man who sung that said that he would not be
afraid though the whole earth was turned upside down,
" The Lord is on my side ; I will not fear : what can
man do unto me?" Then what marvellous peace fills
the soul in the vast difficulties of life. I have often said
that life Is becoming more and more terrible. 1 wonder
if you have noticed that hilarity and lightness is very
often the attribute of youth, and as men become older
they become .graver, because they see the terrlbleness
vof living; and 1 believe, brethren. If It were not for a
tfibught like this, the difficulties of life now-a-days would
take the hearts out of us altogether ; but oh, to think of
going through life, surrounded about by the Power of
God, kept by the Power of God through faith unto
salvation I And that Is ours to-day, because, " The
Lord Is my Shepherd," and therefore 1 am not afraid.
Life can bring nothing that God will not be able to deal
♦with, and to keep me In perfect peace In the midst of ft
all. 1 tell you, it is greater than we bargained for ;
there are mines here, gold mines in which we can dig
for the word of God all our days. Then, best of all, the
shepherd loves the sheep. They shall never perish, but
have everlasting life. T wonder what this means?
Well, It means knowledge of God, but L think It even
means more than that ; strengthened withal by the"
Spirit, now more than that, that we can be able to com-
.prehend with all saints what Is the breadth, and length,
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" Oh, Love Divine, how sweet thou art,
When shall I find my willing heart
All taken up with thee."
Now, that Is only the bejilnnlng. Is not that rich, the
blesslnj? of the Splrlt-filled life that just follows the Lord
wherever He leads ? Now, let us look at some of the
blessings that flow out of this. If the Lord is my Shep-
herd ; if to-day, in this hall, I can honestly say, *• The
Lord is my Shepherd," then notice-the blessings that
come over my life one after the othi^ First of all, there
Is the assurance of supply for ev^y vwint, " I shall not
want." This means the assurance of supply for tem-
poral wants, because the Lord is Lord of heaven and
earth, and food and clothing are |n His hand as well as
spiritual jblessings. Two or three years ago, I think it
was, I w^funning through this Psalm with my congre-
gation at olr weekly -prayer meeting, -and when I came
to this phrase— I did not hear about it at first— there '
a poor woman in my congregation, (Jr poor congre
of working people, some of them very poor), a wa!
woman, anjl every single cent in her house was gone,
there was-qi||^ep any food in the house. She was an
earnest, ^*^^1^|||||lVte, woman, and could not make
out what it ™|MKvfiiif^hear^ the minister was going
to preach onpP|(S; " I ^k not want,"" and she
wanted to knovt' whW he would have to say, because it
looked uncommonly like as if she was going to want.
She had told the Lord about it, and she did not exactly
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..{>wiHr)UKht,nie to my last cent, so I (annot tell how
'-»J»that womaf>*fdt ; but I know that If I wa^, He is able to
do for me what He did for her. and what I spoke about ;
and that woman was enabled to go hom^ holding with
moi^.fnith to this promise for dally breadi and she came
and told me about it afterwards. She weht away home
praising God, and she found an order wheh she got home
that kept her bflsy ever since ; she got right into work,
and never wanted since. 'M shall not iwant." And
there are those in this congregation too, I believe, who
could tell the same thing, who have proved the faithful-
ness of God In this matter of temporal sujpply so often
that they cannot for a moment doubt His power to do it
now. Then, dear friends, if it is true about temporal
supply. Is not it true about spiritual supply ? Why, is
not that what we have been finding out 411 this week,
thjOiLiveJwAl only give ourselves truly ui^to the Lord,
theWs no single good in our spiritual life He will not
supply. We are learning to believe all tliat the Lord
has written in His book. There are a great many half-
believing Christians, who take this promise, and that
other promi.se-, and believe it, and who take ihis promise
and that other promise an4 score them out of the Bible,
and do not believe them at all. Now, what We have to
learn, and what, God be thanked, we have learned this
week, is to believe all that God has spoken, to believe
that God means what He says when He says, r My God
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blessing ; not only have we the blessing of assurance of
supply for every need, but in this next clause, ^' He
jnaketh me to lie down," we have the blessing of rest^
This aspect of the blessed life of fulness of blessing has
^Jljeen brought under your notice very often, and it is a'
very wonderful aspect. You may say *• Dear me, surely
a shee*p can lie down." Well, dear friends, that is just
what a sheep cannot do ; before the sheep could rest the
shepherd had to make him lie down, and God requires
to teach His people how to rest before they get the rest
that Jesus gives. Now, have you ever thought of what
a sheep requires before it rests ? If you will watch a
sheep you will find it never lies down unless it has three
things. First of all it must be safe ; then it must know
that it is safe; and then it must be satisfied.

There must be saifety, security and satisfaction be-
fore the sheep will lie down to rest. And, O dear me,
how tjjfie that is of the Lord's people. A man cannot
be at rest unless he is safe ; as long as the thundej of
the Divine l^aw is ringing in his ears, as long as he is
under the (?urse, how can a man rest ? But then, dear
friends, I do not believe a man can rest even' when he
is safe unless he knows it. The sheep may be safe in
fold, anc^ the wolf not able to get at it, but if the sheep
is continually fearing lest the wolf leap over into the
fold, the sheep cannot take rest. So it is with those
dear Children of God who have not the assurance of
their salvation, who have not learned to know Him
they have believed, to be persuaded that He is able to
keep them. That is why they have so little rest, so
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are all their lives subject to bondage, And then, dear
friends, how many Christians have no rest because
they are not satisfied. Oh what for satisfaction. Here
you have a Christian who says she has given herself to
the Lord, but when she wants satisfaction it is away
from the Lord she^oes. Have you ever heard the story
abdut Rowland H/ll and one of his deacons. It is said
thatupon one Occasion Rowland Hill saw one of his
deacons whom i^e helard had been at the theatre, and
said to him, " I hear you have been at the theatre."
'♦ Oh, Mr. Hill," he said, "well, 1 have been, but 1 do
not go often there, 1 go there once in a while by way of
a treat." And Mr. Hill looked at him and said, " Oh
yes, that is it, is it "ii^ Then he s^ys, '"If I hear that
you are iif the habit of eating garbage, I wfll say, ' He
does not do it, but he takes a bit
way of a treat.' "

Now, friends, you are laughing^
some of you are not laughing at yourselves ? 1 do not
know what it is doing in this city, in Canada, but it is
the curse of the Church of God* in our country, this
flying to^ the world, to the blackness and darkness of the
ball-room, the theatre and worldly society by way of a
treat, this flying for joy and gladness not to Christ, but
to the world, oh, men and women, no wonder that
many Christians have so little rest if that is what they
are trying to find :— *" -

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Lord Jesus found in thee."
Now, if you know what the fulness of the Spirit is, you
know what it is to have Christ's rest. You must feel
that He is quite enough for you. Oh how He fills the
soul, irradiating the whole being with blessedness, and
then we can lie down. Now, another— because..Jhe
blessings are so big that I often start this Psalm but
rarely get past the third verse -"He maketh me to lie
down in green pastures." When the Lord brings His
people to rest, He always makes them rest in a nice*
place. He giyeS very special attention to tl^e rest to
which He britigs His people. "He leadeth me beside
the still wa/ers." That is the blessing of guidance.
Now, I hav/e not time to go into this at Jength, but I
want to ssty one or two things about it, because quite a
number {/f you have been speaking about this matter.
In regacd to this matter of guidance, dear friends, re-
member that if you have committed your lives to the
control of God's Spirit, jt is your privilege to be led of
the Spirit, it is your privilege to have God's Holy Spirit
revealing to you the will of God, what God would hav^e
you to do. Now, I want to point out one or two con-
ditions. If we Avould have this guidance -which God is
willing to give us, first of ail we must ask . it, and we
must ask it; In faith and in sincerity. Then, another
condition is this : we must ask with a determination to
follow the guidance that we get. Now, I think it is just
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ance. You want to know whethqfe^^ou should go to
China as a missionary/and go to seek guidance, ail the
while hoping in your heart that the Lord will not lead
you to China. Two courses are open\to your
and you go to seek the Lord's guidance about them,
but have a distinct preference for one, and adl the time
you are hoping, " I do hope the Lord will guide me along
that.rQaMl'- Now, friends, as long as we are in that
con(fl|i^6f soul, no wonder that we are perplexed
aboiilpiarice. When we say, •' What wouldst Thou
have me to do," we must say it as Paul said it, lying
at the Master's feet", that He may tell us what He means
us to do ; and that is' where so many of us come short ;
we want our own way, and because we want our own
way, fail to receive that guidance which God the Holy
Ghost is waiting to give us. 1 tell you, men and women,
the guidance of the Holy Spirit is ^ one of the most ten-
der things in the spiritual life. He whispers very softly,
and when that voice is not heard it is very often because
we have gone to seek guidance elsewhere. Have you
ever read the life of Elijah? There was a man who
only moved when the Word of the Lord came to him,
he remained until that Word came to him. I often think
it must have been awfully trying at the brook. There
it was, drying up day by day. He might think, ^*M am
going to die of thirst ; 1 came here at the Word of the
Lord, but there must be some mistake, 1 must have
misinterpreted the guidance," but there Elijah was kept
until that brook was dried up, and it looked as if he was
I , to die. And just at the.momei^ came the Word of the
* Lord, " Arise, get thee to Zarephath, I have commanded
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Look at the guidance of Abraham ; his hand was not
stopped until the knife was raised to slay his son. I tell
you, brethren, that test of resting i^ one of the greatest
tests of faith that God puts upon His children. But
then, besides leading you, He leads always beside the
still waters, ''He leadeth me beside the still waters."
And then» I never can read this Psalm without feeling

. that between that second . and third verse there is a
whole life history.' David knew>what it was to have the
Lord as his Shepherd; he knew what it was to; have
provision made for every n^ed ; he knew something
about this life of rest arid guidance ; but after David had
lived it for a while he thought he could take the guiding
into his own hands; like Peter, walking on the .water,
h.e began to look round about him, and what was the
resutt.,? Read' those awful chapters in the Book of
Samuel, and you will see what may come to him who
thinks he has any strength in himself, even although he
has been on the motintain top of blessing. David fell
utterly and bitterly into the horrible pit, and into the

.miry clay. What did the Lord do ? Did He crush him ?
Did F^e break the bruised reed, or quench the smoking
flax.' No, men and women, he brought David out of
that awful abyss ; He made David more useful to the
Church of God than he could have been without that
awful fall. He made that mgn write "the 32nd Psalm,
and the 51st Psalm, Psalms that have been drawing
penitents throughout the ages, shouting gratitude to

'God ; and He made him write this 23rd Psalm, anff put
this wonderful verse into it, " He restoreth my soul."
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fmds out vC'hat is wrong ; that is what He has been doing
for you, showing where the spot in your life was that
was keeping you from the fulness of blessing. Then
what the Lord does, if we only allow Him, He exorcises
or cup out that cancerous spot, that overgrowth that has
been paralyzing all our power, and then He causes new
streams of energy to. flow through us. That is what a
doctor does; he first finds the malady, he seeks to re-
move it, and then tones up the system with a tonic and
strengthening food. Now, that is what the Lord does;
that is what- 'He has done fqr a great number who are
here to-night. He reveals to. them their sins, and these
rose, it may be on Monday night, asking the Lord in His
mercy, to turn His hand from them to put away all their
sins. Then He took them away. And what did He do
last night? Oh, there is a hew light in the eyes of
some of you as you think of it, of the power of God's
Spirit, and to-day you are different men, because of that
toning and bracing up of the s>^stem, that investigation
of the inner man, through the presence of the Divine
Spirit. And now, what follows that ? " He leadeth me.
in the paths of righteousness for His own naipe's sake."
Well/my friends, the word that is used there is quite
diffe;ent from the first leadeth 5 the idea underlying this
particular leadeth, is more like the idea of a commander
leading his army ; t^ie other one is rather the leading of
cattle down to the water, but. this is the leading of a
commander leading his troops, and, if 1 read it aright,
there is the type of tighter grip over those who are led.
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to be described this way ; "The Lord is my Shepherd,
! shall not want, He maketh me to lie down in green
pastures; He leadeth me beside the still waters. 1
tumble ifito the ditch, and t^^" the Lord restoreth my
soul, and maketh me to lie down in green pasturi^s.; He-
leadeth me beside the still waters, and then I am into,
the ditch, again, and then He restores my soul once
more." That is the life some people have been living,
of up and down, high and low, an utterly fitful life.
Now, do' you notice what He says here ? The loving
Lord has been leading His child, and His child has re-
fused to follow the Divine leading, and has landed in the
ditch, and the Lord has stooped down and in His mercy
lifted him from the horrible pit and from the miry clay,
and now he says, * Mam not going to let you do that
again, I am going to take a tighter grip on you ; i am
going to exercise more strict authority over you than
before." It is just like a father having hold of a child's
arm,jrnd sayings " Now, child, you are to go with me, I
am going to lead you hand in hand, we are to walk
along the paths of righteousness." And I do not know
of any better description of the life we have been speak-
ing of , than the life of- walking with God, close to Him who
has restored our souls in His infinite mercy, we holding
n to His hand, He with His Almighty hand holding on

us, with His voice saying to us, *•' I am able to keep
.you from falling ; 1 give unto you eternal life, you shall
never perish, and no one shall pluck you out of My
hand." ' ' ♦ .

But, deaY friends, what rs the immediate consequence
of this life? The 'lininediate consequence of it is that

the Lord Jesus Christ is always in our thoujjhts ; you
cannot live this life without bocoiping habitually con-
scious of the presence of Jesus in a way which you
have not been before, and the other thing-for I find
that 1 must stop— the other thing that comes into your
life is expectation. Have you ever realized, dear friends,
that expectation is the measure of faith? If a man
rfiak^ an engagement with you, and you. believe htm,
you go to the place that he appoints, and you, expect
him to turn up, and if he does not turn up you are dis-
appointed. Your disappointment is the measure of your
faith. Now, there are a great liany people who in the
morning go to the Lord, and sa>(, *\ Lord, keep me to-day
from sin, keep this temper of mine," and before half-an-
hour-the temper has got the better of them, and they
3ay "Oh, Iknew it would be so, I couldn't help it."
Oh' child of God, is that the faiih you have in your
Saviour .? Did'you ask Him to keep you and then not
expect to be -kept? 1 do not know that theie is any-
thincr in this life that one notices more than the growth
of expectation of what Jesus Christ is able to do
for us, and to us. We are hind in h.md with Him.
He Is never far away from us, and because He is with us
there is habitual and constant expectation. We know,
that in all tl>inos, we are more than conquerors through
Him who loved us. M^hy ? Because, ^M am persuaded
that nothing can separate me from the love ^ of God
which is in Christ Jesus." Now, the last half of the
Psalm is almost better than the first ; it is just continual
blessing, blessing and blessing; there is the courage of
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the Alleluia of welcome. '• Surely, goodness and mercy
shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell
in the house of the Lord for ever." Oh, is it not worth
living for, is it not glorious, the life of fulness of bless-
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We Will read the 8th chapter of Matthew, to the end
of the chapter from the 34th verse. " And when He
had called the people unto Him, with His disciples also,
He said unto them, Whosoever will come after Me, let
him deny himself, and take up his' cross, and follow Me.
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it ; but who-
soever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's,
the same shall save it. For whatshall it profit a man,
if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own' soul ?
Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Whosoever, therefore, shallbe ashamed of Me and of My
words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him
also shall the Son of Man be ashamed, when He cometh
in the glory of His Father with the holy angels." .

If there is one character in the world that we are all
united more distinctly and definitely in despising, it is
one who puts on the garb of a soldier, and takes up the
profession of a soldier, and puts on the manners and
looks of a soldier, and then; when the hour of danger
comes, goes into civilian clothes and hides his head ; I
do not know anything much more despicably mean
ihan that. If he was a coward and afraid, no one
asked him to put on the soldier's uniform ; but if
h e pu t "P th e uniform, he is a double traitor if he then

flees in the hour of danger. And I do not know that it*
is much less mean and despicable if one professes to be
a soldier of Christy and says that he ban put on the
armour of Christ, and has taken Christ as his Leader
and his Captain, and has sun^ together with others of
the warfare, and the armour, and th^; weapons, and the
determination to face the foe, and then when the foe
comes along, just runs round to the back to rank himself
under the etiemy's colors, to the shame of his leader,
and hiding away among the foes of Christ, at any mo-
ment of danger, or even of discomfort. Of course i^jve
knew of such a person, we should be bound to des^Se
him; and if we found that such a person we^eourself,
we should be bound to despise him just the same.

Now, my friends, while it has not been my Jot to be ^"
with you during the earlier days of thjs Conference, I
need not tell you that 1 have followed with the deepest
interest and prayer all that has beeni told me about the
meetings, and we cannot help, shall I say plainly, won-
dering, at the large response made at least one night
during this week, when those w.ere asked to stand up and
to confess IChrist vyho had— J do not know the exact
laiji^uage ii^ which the matter was put— but who con-
fessed themselves to be out and out, whole-hearted, con-
secrated for God, and belonging to Him alone. That
was as complete a profession that you were ranked under
the banner of Christ, and had on the armour of Christ,
and^wer^ fallowing Chrigt,. as any man or woman could
make ; if /that was true of every heart, God be praised,
and I think Toronto will feel the difference. But lest
"there sl/ould be any mistake about it, \ would ask you

this closiriK evening to look first of all at what tfiat life

rfieans when it comes into practice. There was once

a man who just as h'e was coming out of church met

„*9 friend, who asked, "Is the sermon done ?" "No,"

^aid the man, " the sermon is not ; the preacher is done,

'!l^ut the sermon is only going to begin." Tlie Confer-

'' ynce to-night is done in one sense ; the speakers have

done-, and are going, but what you have heard, what you

profess to have taken in, is only going to begin now, and

it is going to begin its real being just at the lines of these

verses we ha v^ now read.

When Jesuji called the people unto Him with His dis-
ciples— don't mistake this, friends, the words were
^siioken to the whole people : it was a call to anyone
w^io liked to listen. But it was spoken to every drs-
jciple, he was bound to listen, and I suppose I am not far
wrong in saying if those were asked to rise here to-night
who are disciples of the Lord Jesus .Christ no one would
remain sitting. Well, that settles the matter that it is
for you. Jesus Christ called the people unto Him with
His disciples, and He said unto them, "Whosoever
will come after Me." There He has put before you the
• real conditions of discipleship, because of course a dis-
ciple or follower is one who comes after and learns from
his master, aqd that means that before he comes after
him the question is settled, that he has come to him.
You cannot go after a man in the sense of following him
step by step unless you have come up to him first of all.
You have doubtless noticed in these meetings we have
been speaking about matters that concerned the Lord's
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consciously come to Christ, and who know that they
have a place in Him, so let that t^e clear at the outset, if
any soul here to-night has not consciously come to
Christ, then, brother, sister, the best thin^ you can do
is to come at once, and make this the starting point in
the life of true discipleship; the Lord is waiting, even
now. Blessed Lord, if one soul before Thee has not
yet come, draw that soul unto Thyself, for pardon and
for peace, that he may start witii us all together in the
life of discipleship this night. Amen. Then for those
w^io have come to Him, " Whosoever will come after
Me." Well, every Christian, of course, professes at
once to be coming after Christ, that is the very mean-
ing of the word Christian, one who goes after Christ,
they have got Christ in them, and they profess to have
Christ'snature, and now they are going to walk in
Christ's steps. But when anyone enters the service of
a new master, of course the master makes his own con-
dition first of all, and if the proposed servant does not
like them he does not enter the service. Certainly no
sensible master is going to engage a servant on any
other than his own terms, and certainly, the Lord Jesus
Christ, the Lord of all, will have no soldier in His
ranks, fighting under His banner, will have no rewards
and prizes in the great rewarding day, for any soldier
who does not take up his conditions at once. ' There are
no conditions tl^at will lead us other than in the right
way, of course! and there are a great many people who
say, • * I have come to Christ, now, what shall 1 do ' ' ?
No, friends, it is not for you to say what ^ shall you do^
it is for you to see what the Lord wants you to do, it

you are goin« to take the rijiht position. Paul was the
ri^ht man when he said at the outset, the first question
he asked as soon as he had learned that it was Jesus
speaking to him, •• Lord, what wilt Thou have me to
do"? He started straight away from that very point,
just doinji what the Lord told him to do. And, dear
friends. If you are not intending to dQ that, I would say,
for the Lord's sake, do not profess yourselves Chris-
tians, because you will only brinjr reproach upon His
blessed name. The world is bound to look at Chris-
tians to see what Christ is like, there Is no other way
they can know Him, and If a Christian says, "I am a
Christian," and does not walk with Christ, he gives
false testimony of the Lord Jesus, and the Lord has
said, •' Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy
neighbour." Oh, friends, are there any here to-night that
have been bearing false witness to Christ, on whom the
world has been looking, on whom, perhaps, some poor,
hungering and thirsting soul has been looking to see if
Christ can satisfy them, and has found that for alltheir
satisfaction they go off to the world ? If that is so what
can that poor looker conclude but tliat Christ does not
satisfy, that He may do very well to save your sour at
the last, but is not worth taking now. That is what
the poor worldling thinks when he sees the professed
Christian going to^e \yorld for all his amusements and
recreations. Now, the Lord says,
come after Me ;" He wants people to
He wants people to go to Him, and the only purpose for-
which He bids you come to Him is that you may go out
in service. You know in the great type, the picture,

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the bringing of Israel out of Egypt, He said seven times
*over, "Let My people go, that they may serve Me."
. That is what Christian hearts have all heard ; let them
go from the burden of unforgotten sin, from the awful
sense of debt,. from the terrible looking forward to judg-
ment'to come, let them go from the fears of the coming
world, and they have come to Christ, and found that
- they were let go from these things, .and there they put
a full stop, where God put a comma. '* Let My people
go! that they njay serve Me," and any soul that stops
.at that comma is refusing the purpose for which the
Lord^aid let them go, that they may serve Me; that is
what any servant does, he )s ready to go where the
master tells. And then the master of all gives the con-
ditions, and let us look at those conditions; because they
are the conditions for divine lives for evei'yone of you.
They are signs' that you are to be whole hearted for the
Lord. '^Whosoever will come after Me, let him deny
himself," first ; " take up his cross," second ; and " fol-
• . low Me," third. Let him deny himself. It does not
say; mind you, "let him deny himself something," it
do^s not say, let him deny himself little things, here
and there; or big things somewhere else ; it does not say,
let him deny himself in his pleasures, or pursuits, &r
recreations, or business at all, it says, "let him deny
" himself.",-.

A man says, " Lent is coming on, 1 will stop smoking

- for Lent," and he calls that self-denial, and at the end

'* of Lent he has forty dollars more than he would have

~ had if he had smoked'; that is not self-denial, that is not

' denying himself, he has got the whole proceeds of that

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in his own pocket, and can spend it on himself. I read
in a paper the other day of a woman who said at the
end of Lent, ** After all it is not so bad, for I got enough
by abstaining from sweets to buy a new bonnet." That
i^'^iled self-denial. Yes, laugh away, but take care
when you laugh that you do not ever fall into the same
folly yourself. Now, the Lord Jesus Christ says at the
very outset, "If you mean to follow Me you have got
to deny yourself," not merely to deny yourself some-
thing; one is, a much more serious business than the
other. Do you know what denying yourself is ? It is
denying yourself as Peter did his Lord, it is the very
same word as was used when Peter thrice denied his
Lord. How did he do it ? That is the way you are to
do it. He *said about his Lord, "1 know not the man,"
and you are to say about yourself, •* I know ndt the
man," or "I know not the woman," when your ways
or will stand up against Christ's, that is self-denial.
And that is a wide feaching thing. It is not, " what
would I like to do to-night," but '♦what would the
Lord like me to do ;" to-morrow morning it is not,
"How can 1 make a profit out of this," but, " How
would the Lord have me conduct this business," and
when the day is over, not "How shall I amuse myself
and spend the evening,'' but "How woul^id the Lord
have me to spend it " ? It means that whenever a
question arises between you and the Lord you should
say to yourself what Peter said of his Lord, " 1 do not
know the man," and therefore the whole decision lies
with the other man, the Lord Jesus Christ ; that is self-
denial. He says at the very outset, "Whosoever will

come aft^r Me, let hi'm deny himself." Some people
say, •• Well, you know, that is extreme, you will get
to be a piece of mechitnism," My dear ifriends, is there
a single loyal wife Jn this house who, when she said to
the one she loved, 7 Yes, 1 vyill, go with you," said
" Yes, Lwill go with you if I may choose my own place
of residence,, if I may please myself in the mcrning, af-
ternoon and evening"? If she was a loyal wife,
worthy of the name, she said in answer just as the Old
Testament woman said when asked, "Wilt thou go
withthis man" ? " "I will go." That is self-denial.
That is the secret of every happy home in the land, the
self-denial' of the wife who puts the husband* s choice in
place of her own ; and you, who by God's grace know
it, rertiember you have in that a picture of what the
Lord wants you to do for Him. Do not suppose it is
impracticable, and going to make you into d piece of
mechanism, either. The loyal soldier that will go and
fight to the death for-^his captain or king, what did "he do .
at the outset when he enrolled his name in the ranks of
ar/hy? He denied himself. You would not go to a
soldier and say, "Where are you going to spend the
next year " .V " Why," he \yould say, "I have no
voice In the matter at all, I am enrolled in the army,
wherever my jgeneral says go, 1 go."

" But don't you find it very irksome ?" * " Oh, it is
the very best life in the world, 1 don't have to look after
my needs ; my sovereign provides me with my food and
uniform and home." You know there is no'one so free
from care as the loyal so^er of a good queen or king, '
everything is provided for them, and when their time

for work is over they get a pension, and perhaps tlieir
widows afterthem." The frtjest life from care you can
imagine is just to enter upon a life like that, by one con-
clusWe, life ftng, definite act of self-denial, sayfri^ that
from this moment on ray sovereign is going to decid^ '
where 1 am to go, where 1- am to serve, where 1 am to.
fight, where 1 am to retire^ right through the whole time
of my service. The soldier thinks no great things of it
when by one act of. self-denial he made his life over to '
his commander. Tha/is what self-denial means. Yott. '
know.whenthe Christian is wise enough to hand ove
his life to the Saviour, He calls His people His bride, and',
He calls therti His soldiers, so that He has the double,,;
claim of a husband upon a wife and^4he coirimander of
an army over his soldiers; When a Cl^ristian soui;a')e- -
•ginning to know what this is, purpose^'td do it," to den-y
himself, it means a l.ife of rest and guiet withiri that he
never knew before. / Do you know, any murmuring
Christian, or do yoy happen to be one yourself, brother
or sister ? Well,.rtell' you what, you have not denied
yourself if you are murmuring<< Murmuring means, " I /;
can do it better than the Lord."' A man goes home, and
finds that somethihg crosses him, and he sits do\Vn and
' grumbles. What does" that meati .? ^ U means fiaitAf he,
had had the ordering of ifhewouid have dorte.it better.
And the Christian who goes through life murmuring and
complaining is one who says, practically, 'Mf I had had
the ruling of my life 1 would have done it better ^ than
that," so he ignpres the 'Lord ais Vuler altogether. So v ^ jj
the Apostle Paul saJ/s/ " Let all thingsbe done ^without -M
murmuring," or without, dispute. And, you know, a — ;
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about others. The Lord Jesus Christ is the most per-
fect picture of a life of self-denial, he denied himself.
He said, he spoke only the words, of his father, and did
only the deeds of his father, and he sought only the will
of his father, and, as the yery infidel ajid sceptic is
compelled to acknowledge, it is the only perfect life eyer

J 'lived, and the secret of it,'the„way into' that Christ-like
life is by way of the door of self-denial. - So whipn he

'" was; reviled, he reviled not again; he had given his life
for the Father to rule, and if the Father chose to bring,
him where He^^id it was all right, the Father had -sent
him there.. And when our lives are thus given to the
Ldrd Jesus Christ, murmuring dies a sudden death, and
We are like that old saint irx the days of the martyrs in
the>5th century, who praised God for everything that
came. When he was taken captive, to be taken, to
Smithfield an\l burned there, he praised the Lord; and
when he fell oit his horse and broke his leg he praised
th^ Lord. He v((as carried into some yi^yside inn to
wait until hjs I^g was mended, and every day he said,

" Prdfise the Lord," and before the leg was meoded

, Queen Mary died, and then he had double reason to'
praise the Lord. 1 suppose someone else would have
said it was bad enough to have to be taken to .Smith*
field to be burned,vbut to have one's, leg broken into the
bargain is wofse. Bu| you see that breakjng of his leg
saved his life. Tljat is what the Lord teaches us to 46
when we can see. Well, we see it no^; ,my 'heart's-
desire rs to deny myself. And the next tbing when you
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question, then, *' Take up His cross;" that is the'thinjz
you are to take up, that your own will has laid down.
That is another thing jthat people talk strange nonsensj^
about sopietimes. They say, "Oh, the cross is my
will given up to God's will, and when we fall into line
the cross goes away." That is not a crS^s. Why,
when the Lord Jesus Christ was carrying His cross
through Jerus^lemr His will was in the most absolute
"harmony with the Father. It was the very time when
He "had said, not My will, but thine, be done, and then
He took up His cross. And some people say, ** I have
a bad temper, that is my cross, you know." Cross!
Nothing -of the sort, it is not a cross, that is a crime. If
you are bearing a b/irden wfiich the Lord Jesus Christ
has forbidden you^to bear, is it anything short Of a
cwme for y^u t(^gd on bearing it } If you are fettered
by a chain jjie^tftfd^ Jesus Christ has told you that He
js the breaker of chains, the iooser from fetters, and
what are you if not a criminal .^ What are you if you
stand there Ni'ith your hands fettered when you might
be' free .? Well, we should call a man a fool, and Ido
h^t know that there is much freer choice NVhen the
Lord Jesus Christ wl^o could say to the poor cripple,
"Take up thy |5ed a^d walk," can /as easily loose the
fetters, now a;s He did I for Pet^ in prison. Or someone
has a quarrelsome member of their householdj-and calls
that his cross. \i^ vou use that quarrelsome person
right it may be your crown> a jewel in ybur crown.
Well, what is the cx(ks. If you had walked in Jeru-
'sal^m in the days whbh the Lord was there, and had ;
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said? A condemned criminiil,|];oing to b^ executed.'
that is wiiat the cross means, a cross on any man's
shoulders meant that the world has judged liim to be
unfit for tlieir society. Away with such a man, thtiy-

vsaid; it is n6t fit that he should live ; and they said it
three times over in different ways, they complained that
he was not fit to live, and that he was worthy of death,
that is the way they put their -cross upon him. And
they did the same with Paul, they lay in wait to kill him.
Why I Because he came in to tell them about Jesus.
1 do not know how it is in Toronto, but in most other'
towns and. cities of the world at the isres^nt time there '
are plenty of places w(iere if you begin to talk about
Jesus they would rather you v\^&nt out. Is it so here in
Toronto ? If there are such places, of course there are
only those people there who do . not knovy the Lord
Jesus ; poor souls, tliey do not know' any better^, but if
Christians go in there and let their mouths be muzzled
rather than bear the cross and have to go out, "I am
afraid they afe not coming after Jesiis, that is all. " If a .
man will come afterVMe, let him take up his cr6ss;'* let
him share my rejection by the \yorld; let' him be ready
to incur the reproach and scorn of the world as 1 did, of
telling of my Father's love and. my way of salvation;
&nd if the story of the Father's* love ; and if the gentle -

t^^estimony of Jesus i^ not welcome in the assemby; i)ut
with every Christian from that assembly for good and
all. That is what it means, take up the^cross; and go ,
nowhere that you cannot speak of Jesus and know at
any -rate that the message will be-received. If you go,

keep those rcliaiousopfnions at h6me«^" you know What
to do. "1^0 where m^' IVUster goes, I no nowhere
where my lips are shut." That means tienying your-
self itnci taking- up the.cross. It is j^'erious m^itter, it
really means standing reproach sometimes. It would

; fmean great change in many Christian lives in the world,
perhaps in some that are represented hefe to-night, if
they began td say to Him, "Lord, I want to do for Thee

• what Thou hast done for me, 1 want to ^ut Thee a^
Lord in my heart." And putting Jesus aa| the Lord in
your heart means to bear reproach by the world,, to be
called a fanatic, a puritan, to be told that you are a

' stuck-up, self-righteous person. But m all those things,

/ my dear friends, if you are evil spoken of for the -sake
-of Christ, glory in it, for the Spirit of Christ and His
glory will rest on you. There was a man telling us the
other day, coming across the Atlantic, of (the time when
as a soldier he found Christ ; the was a private in an
English regiment. He found the Lord one night, and he
went back to his barracks, and he said to himself,
♦• ISow, this, being a Christian means kneeling down 4in
prayer before I go to resl^" but there were twenty-eight
men in that room, "and not another ' Christian among
tltem, and he said he could not "do it that night, but got,
irvto bed and prayed there. But that would, not da, so
♦the next night he got down oh his knees before them
aU. And then, he said, **! gotit Hot. they were just
twenty-seven blaspheming, cursing, gambling men, 'and
1 got it hot." "But," lies^id, ' ♦ Th»t was twenty-©ne
or twenty^two years ago, and I do not\ know that in any
of the years since 1 have knovyn such \ deep, wondrous

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sense of the Lj)rd's companionship as I knew in these
; days of trial for Christ'* sake." That is it, when the
world is shut out for Jesus' sake<» then you find, as you
never found before, that the Lord Jesus Christ is shut
in for the disciple's sake.

This taking up the cross is no light thing ; the Lord
Himself said it Was no light thing. It is not to say, *M
am going to follow Christ," and the first time the ctoss
is put in. your hand to say /'No, I cannot bear that."
Take up your cross, and follow Me, think of that; follow
Me, that is th^ mark of the true sheep. " My sheep
hear My voice, and they follow Me. ' ' And it is the
mark of the trUe disciple; " If any mart will so^^Me,
let him follow Me ;" it is the jnark of the serva|rt of the
Lord Jesus Christ, Who Said to His disciple Peter, when
He questioned him, ''What is that to thee,- follow thou
Me." So if we want to be true sheep, so that all men
can distinguish {is, not sheep that are ashamed of their'
master and want to get among the goats, where they
would be sure^o'get hurt by the horns of the goats, if
we want to be true servants of the Lord Jesus Christ,
there is one thing that the servant must do, follow Him./
.^ is very simple. When Elijah cast his mantle upon
%lisha by way of saying, •• I want you to be my suc-
cessor," we are told that Elisha went after Elijah and
ministered unto him. That is the only way you can
minister. If you Want to minister to your Master, you-
must be close to Him. If you want to -.follow the Lord
Jesus Christ, that\must be the one aim of your life, and
as you make that ybur aim, He makes your delight His
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make a \vhole-heaietett c6fisecration ; if you wouiti follow
Him, you must deny^ yourself , and take up your'crbss^
and follow Him. Arid *that means going nowheri? that
He does not go before. I am not going to tell you Where,
that is. 1 do not know where HC; is going to lead you|
but I can tell you a great many placi?s where He will ijoji
lead you ; but I do not think 1 need tell them at all; thj?
real question is, do you want to follow Jesii^. If you g6^
looking at these things you once loved, it will not be long'^\-
before you leave Jesus Christ behind, and qh, it would
be a shame to leave Him to walk alone. \ <.

The story is told in the early traditions of tne Chiitcti,
that the Apostle Peter, kfiew he would be adprehended
and put to death in Rome if he did not flee, and he fled,
and as he 3v^s flying out of the city by night he met the
Lord Jesus Christ coming in, and His face was very sad,
and Peter said to Hini, .1^^^^ art Thou

going ?" Anji41«rt:6rd answered him, "1 am going in
to be fiiticified ^gain, because my disciple is afraid."
And Peter said, "Oh no. Master, 1 am going,',' and then
he went back to be crucified i&[ the Lord's sake. You
see he was fleeing from the crossVand he Icioked at Jesus,
and the cross was welcome when i;ie looked at Jesus. \
would ask you, friends, to count the cost to-night, but
not in the way that most people count the cost. They
say, " If I am, going to be out and out for Christ, I shall
lose certain friends, 1 shall not be welcome in certai
circles, 1 shall have to give up certain pleasures and hai^e
to adopt certain pursuits, and have to follow certain
plans. Weil, that is desperately hard." They count
the cost of what th e y will lose, and put it down t»imost

to a cent ; they know exactly what they will lose if they
follow the Lord Jesus Christ, and they forget the other
side altogether, what they will lose if they do not follow
the Lord Jesus Christ. Have you ever begun to reckon
that up ? And you know this is but a short little time
that we have to live, and when that little time is over,
the glorious time begins. The Lord tells us there are
some people whom He is going to welcome with joy,
some people He is going to confess before the angels of
heaven, some people He Is going to have sit down with
Him in His throne, some people He is going to have
ruling over His people throughout the world, His earthly
people, some people who are going to be crowned With
crowns and adorned with precious jewels, shining as the
stars forever and" ever. Who are those people ? The
people who calculated what they were going to lose, and
thought it too much; or the people who counted what
they were going to gain, and thought it was worth
while ?

. There is many a successful business man who, after
making a calculation and having examined it, has put
his all into one venture, and who has come out success-
fully and had rest and peace and ease for the remainder
of his days, but that was a venture in which he might
have lost. But I am talking to you of a venture in
which you are bound to win» the Lord of all power and
might has pledged His word, "If any man serve Me let
him follow Me ; and where I am there shall also My ser-
vant be ; if any man serve Me, him >yill My Father
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the Lord Jesus making His ahode*- with those who love
Him and keep His commandments, the Lord manifesti/ig
His presence with them, the Lord keeping them in per-
fect peace, the Lord giving them power for His services,
the Lord making their life one long life of deep inner
joy ; they may have outward sorrows, but always well-
springs of joy within ; the Lord crowning with mercy
and loving-kindness, and for eVery one of those things
you have counted so carefully the life for Christ giving
you one hundred fold rewVd. Years ago, in speaking
to my own people about giving up anything for Christ,
1 said remember there is a huiidred per cent, in return
if you give it up. After the service was oyer a banker
came in and said, " You made a great mistake, you said
a hundred per cent., but you know it is ten thousand
per cent., not a hundred per cent. ; if you gave up one
and got two that is one himdred per cent., but this ,is
ten thousand per cent." That is the Lord's way of
dealing, and no soul has ever tried Him yet that has not
got it. I was told by a person only the other day that
once, in a time of great need, the Lord plainly showed
them they were to lay out the last $A they had for some-
thing, and they could riot refuse, and laid it out for the
Lord, and the very next morning came a letter with
^250 for their work, which they had never dreamt of
getting. That is the way the Lord gives back. If you
give up for the Lord's sake any pleasure, pursuit, or
recreation. He is bound to keep His word, one hundred
foldreward. Then on the other side, "What shall it
profit a man if he gain the whole world^and lose his
own"— ah, don't always say. souJ, bj^Uuse it is the

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same word as in the verse before, life, and when
spoken to Christians it does not mean that they are going
to lose tlieir souls, it means they are goinj» to be savejd,
but their lives will be lost. Lot was saved, that righteous
soul escaped, but his lift' was utterly wasted down there
^in Sodom. Do you know, friends, that it is possibleler^
Christian souls, believers in the Lord Jpus Christ, who
have kept their lives for themselves Instead of giving
them to the Lord, and who have declined to follow Jesus,
to come up before hfim in the* glory, like one that has
escaped naked from a burning house? Oh, that is a
sad prospect for those who are Christians, a miserable
prospect for themselves and a shaming prospect for the
Lord Jesus, who gave them all a beautiful prospect.
'•What shall it profit a man " ? The Christian mart
may make up his mind that the one thing he wants is so
much money before he dies. He may get it, but his life
will be lost, it is wonderful how men will do that. \^e
were singing just now,

" Seek ye first not earthly treasur€^
The love of Christ that passeth measure.**
That is the thing to Jbe sought first, if you seek Him first
He gives you the rest, " Make you His sef^^ice your de-
light, your wants shall be His care.** Are there souls
here who are fixing their mindfe on these other things
they want first ? I will tell you a story that was told
me by the old servant of a manufacturer in Yorkshire.
He said his old master was determined to make a hun-
dred thousand pounds, andinnany a time he would have
a bale of inferior wool, and he would throw a handful of
Saxony into it, and call that Saxony. " Well, Sir,"

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this old man said to me, ••he made his hundred
thousand pounds, and then he died.'' He was not a pro-
fessing Christian, but I want to show you what happened
Where a soul made up its mind to have something defi-
nitely. He made hi> hundred thousand pounds, and he

died, and that old man outlived him some fifteen or

twenty years, and he told me that his three sons had
that hundred thousand pounds between them, and to-day
one of them is a scavenger, one a hopeless drunkard,
and the other penniless and in debt. That is what hap-
pens when we do not put the Lord Jesus Christ first ;
you may gain the whole world, and if you are not
Christ's your soul is lost, and if you lui^e been Christ's
and have yet held on to Him somehow, your life is lost ;
^ you go up as one olc^ dying one once said when ;isked,

** Are you afraid to/die " ? •• O, no," she said, 'T am
not afraid to die, but I am juJrt ashamed to die ; 1 have
known the Lord for forty years, and I have not served
Him as I might nave done." Ah, friends, we don't want
that, do we .? It is just a question of Jesus now; He
puts His appeal to us at the end when He says in the
closing verse,/" Whosoever, therefore,"— this isthecon^
^elusion of the whole matter — '• shall be ashamed of Me
and of My words in this adulterous and sinful genera-
tion ; of Him also shall* the Son of Man be ashamed
when He cometh in the g|ory of His -Father with the
holy angels." ^ '"■*: — ^

-^^1 think Christians do not see why the Lord calls the
world an adulterbus and sinful generation. It is well to
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and does not want to know Christ, than it is for the fair
purity of a married woman to be walking with one whose
name we cannot mention, 'Mf anyone' is ashamed of
JWe arid of'My words,"— that is just what you are when
you get into the world in this way—" in this adulterous
and sinful generation, of him shall the Son of Man be
ashamed;" and then, " If anyone shall confess Me
before men."— before this adulterous and sinful genera-
tion— " him will the Son of Man confers when He comes
in the glory of His Father with the holy ai^gels." Well,
friends, it is for you to decide to-night, those are the
' closing words to you. It is not so much a question of
whether you have risen to testify here ; the question is,
are you going out to testify there in your life, be-
■:}ginning perhaps to-night, and continuing the next and
^the next, following "and confessing Him Who is your
Lord before the world, and looking forward to the day
when He will confess and welcome you in the glory of
His Father. "Choose ye this day whom ye will serve.'

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John i6th chapter, 32nd verse, - Behold, the hour
Cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered,
every man to his own, and shall leave Me alone ;^ and
yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me. _
Alone, and yet not alone, because the Father is with
me: The part of the Lord Jesus Christ was a very
lonely part, and it grew more and more lonely as "e
neared the cross. * When He first spoke plainly of His
death, when John, 6th chapter, tells us, " From that
time many of His disciples went no mcvre after Him.
and even those who remained^ were not in very close
touch with Him, the Lord Jesus was evidently painfully
conscious that even those who did remain did not under-
stand Him, He was an enigma unto them. ^

^ And then, when He began that last strange march to
Calvarv wel^ told that they followedHim ; He went
S^?^^^wed after, and as they followed, they
^ fraic^ and in that hour Jesus Christ felt more than
Iver that He was alone\ And then, when the moment
came, of which the text speaks; when they all forsook
Him and fled. then, to a degree hitherto unknown, the
S of the Lord Jesus became a lonely one, Jhe march

through the valley of the shadow ; and as He entered
C lonely solitude the word uttered here was the word

on His heart, "Ye shall leave Me alone," 'and He felt
the pain in the quick of His soul as He said that word •
alone, for He craved the sympathy of His;own : " Ye,"
My disciples, who were years with Me,'*'' shall leave
Me alone." " ^

Then he commenced to brighten, and the heart leaped
up, as he said, "And yet I am not alone, because my
Father is with me." Then, my d^ar' friends, we read
on in the very next chapter, which serves as a key to ex-
plain this, " For their sakes," and for your sakes, " I ,
sanctify mjfself," or [separate myself,. " that they also
may be sanctified throMgh the truth," that you also may
be truly separated or sanctified. That, is what true
haliness involves; it m^ans peace, thank; God it is per-
fect peace ; it means rapture such as you never felt be-
fore; it means power such as we were speaking about
last night ; it means Victory such as we were speaking
about the night before ; it means all that, but it means
more than, that ; It means fellowship -with Jesus Christ's
suffering ; it means conformity to Jesus Christ's death ;
it means,, as we have hearcl , to-night, the taking and
keeping the place of crucifixion with the Lord Jesus
Christ. Holiness rneans separation, and separation
necessarily involves loneliness. At your conversion, if
it was a real conversion, th^'re was ,a separation, and a
sharply cut separgition|from"^ sinners, blit I have come to
think that when one faces for one's self the question of
entire sanctification, then" the separation is a separation
very generally not'*from sinners, but from Christians.
If you elect \o tread the path of holiness you will soon
find that holiness is not a bijt more welcom'e to flesh and

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blood to-day than it was when the Lord Jesus Christ
Himself lived amongst men. So the Lord has. put it into
my heart, in speaking a closing word to you, to present
to you to-night this one truth, the loneliness of the*
separated life, and the compensating presence. Lone-
liness. -^ be left alone. There are three classes of
^Christian people, so called, three classes of Christian
people who will probafoly leave you severely alone, if,
as ,we desire yo" "^^Bftf' you Hve out the separated
life. First of all thej||(Ppthose— and they are many—
who do not understand you. Spitltuar things, we say,
are spiritually discerned, and we often apply that truth
to the unconverted, and it does apply to them ; but it
applies just as deeply and definitely to worldly Christ-
ians : the most spiritual truths, the deepest spiritual
truths in God's Word, are only discerned by the most
deeply spiritually minded people. And so you will find
a great many Christian people who do not see these J
deep spiritual truths, which, God, by His grace, has led
you to see this week. Every truth in God's Word has
beauty, and at first Christian people can seethe beauty
fast enough, but only the spiritual vision sees the whole. .

If you ponder over a thought such as the wonderful
word uttered by the Apostle in his first prayer to the
Ephesians, "That the eyes of your understanding being
enlightened'^— in the rhodern it is, " The eyes of your
heart "—it proclaims thi^fact, that there are truths, and
they the deepest, richest, most glorious possession of
God's people, there are truths which you"" cannot get at
through the head, which can only be interpreted by the
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• do notse.e the^, but if God te t>een opening the eyes
of your heart, and you look out at those truths from the
heart rather than the brain," jijju see them. But when
you come in contact wjth people* who do rft see them''
Jhey Will think some of" you are dreaming, when you
talk about," as actualities, whatyou have been, expieri-
xMicing tliis week ; they Will c^ari \you" mystics, fandtics,.
extremists, impracticables-ra most popular word- to-day,
a word, the devil is usi^^ more t'han any other . word Ho
ketjp.thousafids of Cliristian people, from facing- thjs
question— they will, ca^lyou perfectionists. ^People^will.
call you that, although^tu are as far removed .from it
as God's word.^s,'and thej^ivill call you names like that.
They will not petf;|eGute yoi, but they wilf think; if the
work is real, that some of tou people are 'graduating for.
the lunatfc asylum. Thatfis ;what they Will think, as
sure a's I am till king to yoiij^hey will hear your talk,'
and watch your lives, and listen to your testimony, and
when you get into close quarters with/them they will

' listen to you, and then 5um up their wfiole concentratied
judgment in that extraor-dinary stateiyient, *^Wellj you
know, you go to extremes, and.one)canhot go with you,"

"and so Biey Will politely bow you out^^ That is the first
class from which you will be separated if you live this
separated, consecrated, .whole-hearteS life. Then there
is another class, those who do, not/like holineiBs itself,
and you will find many of them Christian people ; they
do not likeholiness, it is too severe for them, too drastic,
too sweeping in its demands ; it means giving up, ani
they know it means giving up so much upon- Which their
hearts ^re set. Yes, they are quite willing to follow the

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Lord Jesus Christ to Jordan, wh^re He tt^ag baptized^ it '
does not give Va than mUch pain, to fee bapti7ed with
water/quitewining to follow Him to the transfiguratiQn
scene, ind have what they call " a good time,*' they are -
quite willing to go with Jesijs Christ into the wilderness,
and take part in*passihg the^lpayes from His hands to
thehOngry multitude, that Js, even an hqnprable posi-
tion. Ye^, they are wlUingior that, but not willing to ,
follow the Lord Jesus Christ to" Calvary ; they- are pre-
pared^to accept the death of the' Lord Jesus Christ for <
sin, butithey -do nbt \yant to be themselves dea^ to sinr
Np; th^will sfng in the •meeting, " All the way to Cat- ,
vary He werit^or me-, " *ut .they won't loo||c' up ii}fo' His •
face and say, /' Lord Jesus, all, fhe way tO; Calvary J ^
wijlgdfor Thee."' No,'|)ey do rvbtjik^ holiness^,- afid;^^
therefore thiey wiirnQt have mugh to doAvith yqu- Th^n "
there is another, class, those^^ wlop ^ ar#; con^sciously
searched and condemned by.you if youJeadCat holy life..
Mark this. " Every m'an in this,iTie"eting,^r;wpipan^ that,
from torday lives, out— fol- F do- not care ai^hing i^^
mere 6phi ion,' holiness that wil) 'do ;iipthing--but any;
man or wbman who l#es out in. Toronto the holy life, '
will be anjrtcarnated bar of Judgment for every CKristian
who is not living a holy life, ai>d th€y Will feel it, and
they will smart und^r it ; they will\be -Sjearclied and .con-
demned by it. Perhaps some of you thirik* tl^isls strong!

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and remember that it has been true ot^myself. 1 have
found, next to God's Word, no field that has taught me
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heart, and I can look back to a time -when I had not
received this blessin^and 1 kneW others who hadit; I
knew some godly ministers wh6 had, and^ 1 know very
well how I felt to them . They \^ere holy men, godly men',
and if. there were any little bit in the address that I
could criticise, anything in their manner or action that 1
GOti^d get hold of, I was glad to do it ; and as 1 have
looked into my heart since, I have foijnd this, that ttown
in my heart there was a bitterness against those people,
.because I feltj •• That man has something I have not,
which. I know in my. conscience 1 ought to have," and
so the man was like a bar of judgment to me. loused to.
feelr— and piy dear brotHer iWcGrfrgpr, was telling us the
?ame thing of his experience— f I used to feel almost a
hatred of those men, a bitterness of spirit. l§eeitriow,
I was searched and condemned by the holy life those
men were leading, and I was not filling to yield inyself
utterly to God. So you will meet with people of that kind,
Ghristian^ people— I don 't mean to absolutely unchrist-
ianize them— you will find those people, when they dis-

. cover that you are living a, holy, consecrated Ijfe, will
just part W|th you as many of these people parted cofti-
pahy with il^eir Lord and Master, and, let me add, the
further you advance to Golgotha the more lonely and
isolated willyour part beconre; If you Christian people
go back to your Churches and champion worldlihess, you
will be very popular, you will be applauded in some

.quarters, and the members inside the- Chijrch,^'^^ the"
Christian members, to a great extent, will applaud yop,

-and say that you are broad^ and liberal, and advanced,
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cant that has caught tripping ^scores^arn^ hundreds of
Christian people. That is what they will siry4o you if
yoy^o in for the easy-)5oing, pleasure loving, w^lUJy
type of Christianity; but if you step clean out, if .you
talk separation frpm the world, asid if. you live it, if you
let it be known clear out from •to-dky> when the invita-
tions come, that you are notgoing to the theatre again,
that you are not going to- the ball room again, that you
are not^going to wast^ your precious moments playing
cards again, that you are^not going to have. anything to
do with those worldly societies agaifl, and not g5ing to .
the secret societies that .are steeped with worldliness;
if you let that be known, and- honestly and tculy U^ it
out, unless I am dreadfully mistaken you will fmd mese
people leaving you in scores and hundreds ; ,those vv*ho^
t6-hight-WojLild say the best thing they could about you,
' wrill be very very ready to sji^rihe worst thing in tht?"
•coming time. They jji^ Some of the people who ,
stepped out and soughfpardon ajt the very same penitent
rails where you found it;, some of the people Who have
joined with' you in godly, Chtistian work, in temperafrce
movements, Sunday schools and Christian Endeavour
Societies.' Yes, these people some . of them will not
fotlow you if you speik out and claim purity of heart
and baptism of the Holy Ghost. -

■ There occurs to mj^ mind to-night one dear, sainted .
brother, intimately known and loved by every member
of our deputation, one who sought' the fount of blessing
some years ago at pur convention, but at that time'an
honored man, the pastor of a leading church, a pro-
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but as soon as that man let it be known that he had
definitely sought and definitely claimed, and definitely
entered into the fulness of blessing, the friends of a jgng-
honored lifetime slipped away by the dozen, his bosom
friends and companions of the same church and ministry'
cut him, to use an expression you will understand ; to
this very day some of them will not speak to the man,
and have never shown him one single bit of brotherly kind-
ness for no reason whatever but this ; this qian had sought,
and found, and now does not hesitate to preach any-
where, this gospel of rest, peace and power which by
God's grace we have been presenting to you. Oh yes,
you will have to pa,y for it in' that way, it will mean a
really lonely paff, but it is enough for the disciple that
he be asliis master. Lfet'me say one word or two about
the oth^thought^before I close,. It would be very easy
to be left by worldly people and sinners, but to be left
by one's own 'relatives, it ^ill touch some of you there,---
son;ie of ywyoung people, to be left by your own
church associates, to be left by , members of your own ,
churches, 'aye, perljap? some of you, to be left, by, or

iried by your .own ministers, people
nd Jove in your hearts ; the hardest
es ftom people in that quarter, and
1 radical WQrk has been wrought.
Now, what iyitobecome of it ? If God has cdled you ■
to" live out this .lonely separated life, is God going to
leave you? No; the lonely part, and then the (Compen-
sating presence," I am alone, yet> not alone^ Mfor the
Father is with me.** v
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covery of America, and if you are familiar with it, you
'Will remember in that poemthepoet describes Columbus
when this one great thought had seized Itim ; he des'-v
cribes him as being an exile in the throng of the marj<et ;
he deiscribes him as bein^ isolated by this secret that is
locked up in his own bosom, and, after de'$cribing the
Isolation which comes with the sedret, the poet then '
passes on to speak of the compensation, and of this lonely"
man, walking lonely anriid the crowds. of men, he says, ,
" The pent up spul, widened b'eyon(tl the"* circle of the '
^ars, and all' the sdeptre/1 spifits-^ of the past come
thronging in to greet him a|s their peer." - ^(

There is something beautiful in it ; the man, shut out
from his own round about him, by this siecret which he '
believes, though it' i^ by- that -Secret he is isolated, yet
by it he is let into ((ins^hip with all the^sceptred spirits of
ttie past. It is a beautifuj ronception. But oh, there is
something infinitely grander. and richer Viere. God Him- <
self is the compensating presence. What does that
mean .? It means that He comes to the lonely, separate^P
man or woman. It mearis first of all, that God conies
closier to that lonely soul than ever He did, or would, or ,
could before. God knows, brother, what ypu have lost
by choosing this separated part.. God knows the^need
of your heart created by the Very loneliaess of the part,
and when you have a new need yoy have a new claim'
on God's heart, which God is/always ready, and willing,
and eager-fto meet.-

I can speak from experieijice here. I know tTiat God
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there Is a nearness, there is an abicllngness and satisfac-'
tion, there is a ravishment of souj In God, whi<ih some-„
how one never knows before. There afe people t<*
whom God means nothin^z, as far as they are concerned,
and there are other people to whom God means some-
thing, and then there are other people to whom God
means everything, -and that Is just what I am talking
about here, God coming so close to you that He means
everything to you. So while, on the one hand, you
may expect a smaller circle of earthly friends, you will
have as your compensation a larger God than you had
before, and that is what you want.

Just as a room is bright in exact proportion as the sun
shines into it, so the human life is rich in exact propor-
tion as God comes into it and abides there. God will do
that, and do that for you ; God will come closer to you.
One other thought before I finish. God will not only
come closer to you, lonely one, but God will confide
more in you than He ever did before. ' 'L ■"

The tenderest secrets of human love are not tolTin
the presence of a third person, and so there are secrets
of love which God delights to tell us, but He never tells
them to us until He gets us positively alone, The lonely
worker and walker does hear secrets of love, tender and
sweet, he never heard before. You have noticed that,
surely, in the life of Moses. It was when Moses, on ac-
count of the sin of the people, separated himself front
tliem, that the glory cloud came down from Sinai and
rested upon and enwrapped the poor little tent where
Moses dwelt, and then God talkedvvith Him, face to
face, as a man speaketh with his friend, it was just

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was a very lonely part, so far as huhian companionship
and fellowship was concerned^ but hfceased to be lonely
when God walked with him. As they walked along, the
converse became so close and so sweet, and so precious,
^hat Enoch never noticed how far he had walked until
the brijiht glory of the better land broke upon his spirit,
and he found he was at home. And oh, my dear friends,
if you tread this lonely path, you will find that God will
come into your life, and will whisper secrets of love to
you„that will be'abundant compensation for all that you
have lost with the world by leading this holy life. My
last word to you is this. If you want to live out this
♦life, make much, oh, make much of the Lord Jesus
Christ, get Him within, get satisfied with Him, filled
with Him, and my dear friends, you will have no more
desire for these miserable, wretched, paltry pleasures
than for the man in the moon. Siome of you may haytv
heard the beautiful Grecian legend of the siren music,
which was so sweet that as mariners went by they got
bewitched by the music, and were lured to an island,
wrecked and lost. And one day Ulysses came up, and
did not want to have his , vessel wrecked on the rocks,
so he stopped the ears of his sailors with wax, so that
they could not hear the sirens, and when he had done
that he went and lashed himself to the mast, and they
got passed tl/e island of the sirens, and escaped destruc-

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the ears of ^is sailors, and he did not lash himself to the

mast, as Ulysses had done ; ne tooMUs own harp and

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sirens, and the sailors did not care for the music of the
sirens, because they had sweeter music on their own
ship. Brothers and sisters, you want to jjet the Lord
Jesus in your hearts, and get His music, thrilling and
satisfying your souls with 'the sweeter, richer music, and
you will have no desire then for the siren music of the
world, which will be positively discordant and disagree-
able to you, you will find such ravishmeftt in Him, and
Him alone. Oh, if I thought that anything that has.
been said or done in this Convention would in an^y,
measure whatever turn your thought away from Jesus,
I would run away from Toronto in shame and broken
hearted sorrow. We want you to think, no^ of the
movement ; we want you to get absojutely satisfied with
Him, so that If all else goes you are absolutely happy,
because you have Jesus, His whole comfort and satisfac-
tidn for your souls. Oh, may God bring you, as He has
brought some of us, to know what that means, that you
can look up to Jesus, as thank God I can do it here
to-night, and say, •* Praise God, I know now more than
I need for the trial." ^ ,. . •

"I cannot do without The^,"! cannot stand alohe>
1 have no strength or gbodness, or wisdom of my own ;^
But Thou, beioved Saviour, art all in all to me,
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sisters, that you will go out and live this separated life,
losing these things, it may be, but. absolutely resting in
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