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HAPPY 
 
7' 
 
 HAPPY 
 
 OR 
 
 The 
 Holy Spirit in the Heart 
 
 By 
 
 Melville A. Shaver 
 
 Minister of Cobourg Congregational Church, Canada 
 
 Toronto 
 William Briggs 
 
 Wesley Buildings. 
 
 Montreal : C. W. Coates Halifax : S. F. Huestis 
 
 1899 
 
Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in 
 the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, by 
 Melville A. Shaver, at the Department of Agriculture. 
 
" Know ye not thai your body 
 
 is the temple of the Holy Ghost, 
 
 which is in you, 
 
 which ye have of God, 
 
 and ye are not your own f 
 
 for ye are bought with a price : 
 
 therefore glorify God 
 
 in your body and in your spirit, 
 
 which are God*s.'^ 
 
 —Paul. 
 
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THE ABIDER. 
 
 John xiv. 16. 
 
 O, the sweetness 
 And completeness 
 Of the life the Spirit giveth 
 Unto each one who believeth 
 In the Christ, towards Whom He every heart 
 constrains ! 
 He allureth me before Him 
 
 To adore Him 
 In the whiteness 
 
 And the brightness 
 Of the high and holy heaven where He reigns. 
 
 There is union 
 And communion 
 In His pureness that impelleth 
 Each true heart, wherein He dwelleth, 
 Into harmony with all that doth refine ; 
 So I gather, in His guiding 
 
 And providing, 
 Faith's foundation 
 
 For salvation, — 
 Love and hope sublimely glorious and divine. 
 
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 Teacher, Trainer, 
 And Sustainer : 
 He, my spirit's great Campaigner, 
 Maketh me a boundless gainer 
 By the prudence, grace and goodness He 
 bestows. 
 Every heart desire He heedeth. 
 
 And so leadeth, 
 As a lover 
 
 Watching over, 
 That I live in love's felicitous repose. 
 
 He resideth 
 And abideth 
 In my soul,— so joy inct iseth ; 
 Each unhol/ craving cfcc*seth ; 
 He with me and I with Him woik out His 
 will: 
 Prayer unceasing ; conscience tender. 
 
 That doth render 
 To another. 
 
 Foe or brother, 
 Word and deed that doth love's living law fulfil. 
 
 Holy Spirit, 
 Thine the merit 
 Of the knowledge of redemption,— 
 Of each spiritual exemption, 
 And the wisdom, light and purity I laud ; 
 In Thy leading and protection. 
 
 Pure perfection 
 Is the dower 
 
 Of Thy power ; 
 Thou wilt yet present me faultless before God. 
 
 —Llewellyn A. Morrison. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 'T'HE six addresses which this book contains 
 were given to the ladies of my congrega- 
 tion, in a beautiful home beside the blue lake 
 in Cobourg, in a series of four o'clock Tuesday 
 afternoon meetings, through April and May, 
 1899. These meeting were originated, con- 
 ducted and blessed by the Holy Spirit, to 
 Whom the author ascribes all loving praise for 
 His comforting and guiding. The addresses 
 were much appreciated by the ladies, but there 
 was no intention of having them published. 
 However, the Spirit Who prompted them has 
 guided in preparing them for print, that others 
 may be refreshed by reading what really were 
 heart talks about the Comforter Whom Jesus 
 promised and sent. Though the topics are 
 fully explained, yet the chapters are not pre- 
 
 II 
 
tentious essays. The purpose is practical 
 rather than philosophical. 
 
 I pray that the Holy Spirit may accompany 
 these written addresses as He inspired their 
 original utterance, for the one purpose that 
 weary souls may realize the virtue and the pre- 
 ciousness of the Lord Jesus, and that impover- 
 ished lives may exemplify the beauty and the 
 practicalness of the Christ ideal. 
 
 The talks were given, as I have said, to 
 ladies, but they are eminently suitable for men, 
 to assist them also in hiding the Incarnate 
 Word of God in their hearts, that their lives 
 may be "hid with Christ in God," and that 
 they may, though busy, "dwell in the secret 
 place of the Most High," and sweetly, securely 
 "abide under the shadow of the Almighty." 
 
 M. A. S. 
 
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CONTENTS. 
 
 Chap 
 
 
 Page. 
 
 I. 
 
 Heart Worship . 
 
 . 17 
 
 II. 
 
 Heart Fulness 
 
 • 33 
 
 III. 
 
 Heart Sweetness . 
 
 • 53 
 
 IV. 
 
 Heart Wisdom 
 
 • 75 
 
 V. 
 
 Heart Suggestions 
 
 . 107 
 
 VI. 
 
 Heart Meekness , 
 
 • 131 
 
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HEART WORSHIP. 
 
CHAPTER I. 
 
 HEART WORSHIP. 
 
 "His mother kept all these sayings in her heart." 
 
 -Luke ii. si. 
 
 HEART worship is really the only 
 kind of worship. There can be 
 no church worship unless there is heart 
 worship. We may go to church to 
 worship, but we do not worship at all 
 unless our heart is set on God, and its 
 devotion calls forth in affectionate ad- 
 miration of the Supreme One all the 
 good and praise there is in our soul. 
 Patronizing the house of God is not 
 worshipping God. Attending the sanc- 
 tuary is not adoring the Saviour. Wor- 
 ship is an internal thing. Man so far 
 has grandly looked after the external, 
 
 2 17 
 
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 HAPPY. 
 
 but he is coming to realize that God 
 regards the internal, hidden parts, that 
 God requires the heart. 
 
 In fact, Jesus taught the Samaritan 
 woman at the well that there is no need 
 of going to any temple or church to 
 worship God, for " God is a Spirit, and 
 they that worship Him must worship 
 Him in spirit and in truth.'' "The true 
 worshippers shall worship the Father in 
 spirit and in truth." Moreover, " the 
 Father seeketh such to worship Him." 
 God is anxious to have us worship Him 
 all the time and everywhere, and not at 
 some special time or place. God is 
 everywhere, and we must worship Him 
 everywhere. God is a Spirit, and we 
 must worship Him in spirit. A church 
 is not a place where we worship God 
 specially ; for we cannot worship God 
 in the church any more than we wor- 
 ship Him in the home, or in the store, 
 or in any other place. In brief, we can- 
 not worship God in church unless we 
 
HEART WORSHIP. 
 
 19 
 
 worship Him in heart. Certainly there 
 are times when we can give ourselves 
 deliberately to loving communion with 
 God, but the worship in such times of 
 meditation is the same in kind as the 
 worship which prompts us to be reverent 
 in conversation, honest in business, true 
 and kindly in the home and everywhere. 
 A church should not be a sort of 
 theological salve to give ease to a 
 guilty conscience one day in seven. A 
 church should not be a mysterious sanc- 
 tuary to give the Sabbath attendant the 
 impression that he is righteous if he is 
 present in church regularly. The Sab- 
 bath day should not be a day for going 
 to church to lay all our sins on Jesus as 
 a scape-goat, and then let Him go, and 
 forget nearly all about Him until 
 next Sunday. The Sabbath day is 
 not given to be a day of worship any 
 more than any other day. The Sabbath 
 is a day of rest, and it is an error 
 to crowd it full of religious services 
 
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 20 
 
 HAPPY. 
 
 which prevent physical rest, and even 
 mental and spiritual rest. The six days 
 are for worship and work ; the seventh 
 day is for worship and rest. We should 
 worship God everywhere, and we should 
 go to church to learn about God and of 
 God, in order to better worship Him 
 everywhere. This is the true use of a 
 church, and this end of attaining know- 
 ledge of God that we may worship Him 
 rightly is secured by pulpit explanations 
 of the Scriptures, by Bible study in 
 classes, by the fellowship and commu- 
 nion of spiritual minds, and other sanc- 
 tuary exercises, which enable the Holy 
 Spirit to reveal the truth about the 
 Christ of God. We should realize this, 
 then, that a church is not the true tem- 
 ple of God, but a church is a religious 
 school where we learn what the true 
 temple of God is, and how God comes 
 into and dwells in that temple, and the 
 responsibilities and privileges of His 
 indwelling. 
 
 
HEART WORSIIII'. 
 
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 Our bodies are the true temples of 
 God, for when our hearts are purified by 
 faith in the blood of Christ, God the 
 Holy Spirit comes into our hearts and 
 dwells there. Not merely do we wor- 
 ship Him in the heart, but He is in the 
 heart. So we worship a present God. 
 He dwells in us. How blessed to realize 
 this truth, that God is not merely with 
 His children but in His children. When 
 as sinful creatures we feel our sin, and 
 come with confession and faith in Christ's 
 blood to God, God pardons us freely for 
 Christ's sake, and gives us His Holy 
 Spirit to dwell in our hearts, and we 
 become His children. Thus God is in 
 us, and His gracious presence is the 
 cause of our peace and our joy, and the 
 cause of our utter disgust with .self and 
 the world and our increasing desire for 
 Christ and heaven. And the whole 
 secret of the Christian life is in allowing 
 the Spirit of God in us to have right of 
 way in us and through us. 
 
22 
 
 IIAPPV. 
 
 I ask you, then, to worship God in 
 your heart. If you are a Christian, even 
 a young Christian, you can and must 
 worship God in spirit and in truth. God 
 is present everywhere, He is near you. 
 liut you cannot realize His presence in 
 His world until you realize His presence 
 in you. If you are trusting in Christ as 
 your personal Saviour then God is in 
 you, for He dwells in every believer. 
 You must be quiet to realize His pres- 
 ence in you, and then your devotion will 
 lovingly pour out before Him its wealth 
 of tears and fragrant thanksgivings. For 
 God's presence in you is your salvation. 
 Your heart will become a Holy of 
 Holies. In the temple at Jerusalem the 
 inmost place of all was called the Holy 
 of Holies. There did God dwell and 
 manifest Himself to the priests. But 
 that Holy of Holies was only a type of 
 the human heart. The only place about 
 you or in you where God can dwell is 
 your heart ; and the only way you can 
 
HEART WORSHIP. 
 
 23 
 
 have any real or saving knowledge of 
 God is by the revelations which He 
 makes of Himself in your heart, and by 
 your obedience to such manifestations. 
 
 Now heart worship is something differ- 
 ent from head worship. Head worship 
 is a matter of thought, heart worship is 
 a matter of love. And the head cannot 
 think right thoughts unless the heart 
 loves rightly. For the centre of a man 
 is his heart, and unless the centre is 
 made right by Christ through His in- 
 dwelling Spirit, the circumference of the 
 man, his character and his life, cannot 
 be right. Head worship is mental love, 
 maybe, but heart worship is soul love. 
 And if the soul loves, the mind will 
 love: if the whole loves, the part will 
 love. With the head I may revere 
 Christ fancifully, as a superb, historical 
 personage; but with the heart I must 
 revere Christ believingl}-, as the Saviour, 
 present by His powerful Spirit. There 
 is too much fancy about our Christianity 
 
 iSBl 
 
24 
 
 HAPPY. 
 
 to-day, and not enough faith. There is 
 too much head assent, and not enough 
 heart assent. There is too much men- 
 tal worship of Jesus Christ which is 
 fashion? '"le and ridiculous, and not 
 enough heart worship, which is self- 
 denying and loyal. For with your mind 
 you cannot know God, but with your 
 heart. Your mind is valuable only as 
 you let your heart use it. God cannot 
 be thought out as a problem in geom- 
 etry, but He must be loved out as a 
 problem in friendship. God is love, 
 and only love can apprehend and know 
 God. Love Him, and you will know 
 Him. Love Him much, and you will 
 know Him better. Love Him supremely, 
 and you will know Him supremely. He 
 abides in your heart, so worship Him 
 there, love Him there, and, by the law 
 of an interpretative sympathy, you will 
 come to know Him Whom to know is 
 life eternal. 
 
 Again, worshipping God in your 
 
HEART WORSHIP. 
 
 25 
 
 heart will not make you absent-minded. 
 You may think that if you set up a 
 shrine in your heart and worship God 
 there continually, as I exhort you to do, 
 you will be forgetful ofteri of duties and 
 deeds of love. But not so, for the only 
 thing you will forget will be self And 
 that will be a grand achievement, to for- 
 get self In looking to God and wor- 
 shipping Him you will lose sight of self 
 and be conscious only of Him and His 
 love. But to be conscious of God is to be 
 conscious of others and their true needs. 
 God is always thinking of others, and 
 when you think of Him you must think 
 with Him of others. So worshipping 
 Him will not make you absent-minded, 
 but rather you will become sincere to- 
 ward every soul and helpful toward 
 every heart. You will have the ability 
 of grace to serve others in love, for in 
 worshipping and looking to God you 
 not only forget your selfishness but your 
 personality is realized and developed by 
 
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 HAPPY. 
 
 His presence in you. Thus you will 
 have presence of mind in the midst of 
 the despair and worry and unrest about 
 you, and you will be able to minister 
 many a loving solace to weary souls. 
 
 Now, in conclusion, I would have you 
 understand plainly that it is the Com- 
 forter, the Holy Ghost, Who is in your 
 heart and Whom you worship in your 
 heart. Jesus said, *' If I go not away 
 the Comforter will not come unto you, 
 but if I depart I will send Him unto 
 you." Jesus did depart, and did send 
 the Comforter. And that Comforter, 
 even the Holy Ghost, is in your hearts 
 if you are trusting truly in Christ, and 
 you must worship Him and know Him 
 and receive Him fully. Christ is not 
 here. He is risen. He is ascended. 
 He is in heaven at the right hand of 
 God. It is a mistake, because confus- 
 ing, to think or teach that ChrisL is here. 
 Truly He said, *' Lo I am with you 
 alway," but this He spake of His Spirit. 
 
HEART WORSHIP. 
 
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 By the Comforter Christ is with us and 
 in us. And we should give ourselves 
 up to the Comforter, we should love, 
 obey and worship Him. For when we 
 honor the Comforter we honor Christ, 
 even as when the Jews honored Christ 
 they honored God. Let us remember 
 that Christ is not here but the Comforter 
 is here, and when we hear people speak 
 of Christ here or in us they mean the 
 Spirit of Christ here and in us. 
 
 I know of no truth which will so 
 readily and effectively revolutionize 
 methods of Christian experience and 
 gospel work, which sadly need revolu- 
 tionizing, as this plain truth of God 
 the Comforter dwelling in, delivering, 
 developing and dispensing by charity 
 believers in Christ. Paul did say, 
 " Christ in you the hope of glory," but 
 he manifestly meant the Spirit of Christ, 
 for " if any man have not the Spirit of 
 Christ he is none of His." Or if Paul 
 meant more than this, he meant the 
 
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 HAPPY. 
 
 character of Christ which is formed in 
 you. And how is this done? I used 
 to think from what I was taught that 
 Christ in some way Hterally came into 
 me, cr His love came into me ; or the 
 Holy Spirit in me, I used to think, 
 revealed the risen Christ to me as a pro- 
 fessor of art would stand and describe 
 a landscape for my entertainment and 
 aesthetic inspiration. But I was mysti- 
 fied, not helped, by such teaching. For 
 I could not imitate Christ, nor could I 
 successfully appropriate Him. I re- 
 mained unsatisfied, until I saw and 
 experienced the truth I am trying to 
 make plain to you. How is Christ 
 formed in you ? Simply by the Holy 
 Spirit in you prompting you to do or 
 not do certain things, and by your com- 
 plete obedience to the Spirit's voice. 
 That is the secret of Christian attain- 
 ment. You are the clay, the Spirit is 
 the Heavenly Potter. He moulds you 
 after the fashion of Christ. He will 
 
HEART WORSHIP. 
 
 29 
 
 pain you, but He will also comfort, for 
 He is the Mighty Comforter. He will 
 humble you, but He will also beautify, 
 for He is the Divine Beautifier. You 
 must keep " looking unto Jesus " that 
 the Holy Ghost may be able to draw 
 the likeness of Jesus on your soul. The 
 Spirit's fruits or accomplishments in you 
 will be beauties of Jesus in you. Thus 
 you will " win Christ." This Comforter 
 is in you, if you believe on Jesus. Get 
 to know Him, for truth, apart from the 
 Spirit of God, is a cold thing, and can- 
 not save or sweeten. Truth must be 
 associated with a personality. Truth 
 must be the outcome of friendship. The 
 Holy Ghost in you is your Friend, your 
 Lover. Commune with Him and you 
 will become Christlike, and be able to 
 communicate the truth in love. The 
 world needs sympathy, truthful sym- 
 pathy, and that you will be able to give 
 the world if you worship God the Holy 
 Ghost in you and be obedient to His 
 
 J 
 
30 
 
 HAPPY. 
 
 wise counsels and be comforted by His 
 tender comfortings. 
 
 •' Take time to be holy, 
 
 Be calm in thy soul ; 
 Each thought and each motive 
 
 Beneath His control ; 
 Thus led by His Spirit 
 
 To fountains of love, 
 Thou soon shalt be fitted 
 
 For service above." 
 
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 HEART FUI.NESS. 
 
 

 CHAPTER II. 
 
 HEART FULNESS. 
 
 " The supply of the vSpirit of Jesus Christ." 
 
 -Phil. i. 19. 
 
 EVERY heart is full. But every 
 heart is not rightly filled. Some 
 hearts are full of self Self sits on the 
 heart throne, and egotism rules the soul 
 empire. When a person thinks of self, 
 talks of self, does business for self, seeks 
 amusement for self, his or her misery is 
 about as complete as it can be. You 
 may be occupied with external things 
 and yet be supremely selfish. Self may 
 deceive you ; you may be really selfish 
 and not know it, for there are various 
 ways of gratifying or worshipping self 
 
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 3 
 
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34 
 
 IIAITY. 
 
 Some hearts are full of home cares. 
 They are "troubled about many things." 
 lUit though such people complain bit- 
 terly at times that they have irksome, 
 wearying duties, yet they do not try to 
 lessen their labors. They really do not 
 desire to do less. They like to worry. 
 Many, many there are who just like to 
 worry. Sighing is their characteristic 
 mood, and they imagine that unless 
 others fret, they, too, can do nothing. 
 But worry is a sign of weakness, and 
 wherever there is weakness, there Christ 
 is wanting. Other hearts are full of 
 worldly concerns. They desire to pos- 
 sess earthly things. Their affections 
 are not set " on things above." And 
 some are filled with social affairs. 
 Their life is a social anxiety. Their 
 success is a social appearance. Still 
 other hearts are filled with literature, 
 art or reform. Such people are Shake- 
 sperian, aesthetic or political oddities. 
 
 Again, there are many whose hearts 
 
HEART FULNESS. 
 
 35 
 
 are full of church work. They are 
 more anxious about God's work than 
 they are about God. Many ministers 
 have so much theology and church in 
 their hearts they have no room for 
 Christ. Religious work would be more 
 of a success than it is to-day, and an 
 easier success, if we had fewer church 
 hearts and more Christ hearts. The 
 Jews had so much religion they had no 
 room for their heavenly King. Bigotry 
 is not belief We should get godliness 
 by getting God. We do not need 
 divine blessings so much as we need the 
 divine Benefactor. Christian professors 
 must possess and be possessed by the 
 Holy Ghost, for the only hobby there 
 is any sanity in having in this world, in 
 view of the awful facts of sin and God, 
 is the spiritual hobby. The only real 
 work God requires you to do is that of 
 working out your salvation. This is 
 the greatest work in the world, and the 
 grandest. It is the hardest and the 
 
 
36 
 
 HAri'Y 
 
 happiest. Other toil makes men per- 
 spire, but this necessitates bloody sweat. 
 Christ has accomplished much for you, 
 but you must accomplish much yourself 
 by His indwelling Spirit. Only God 
 should dwell in your heart. Only God 
 should fill your heart. God made you 
 for Himself, and nothing less than God 
 will satisfy you. And your spiritual 
 lungs should not be filled with worldli- 
 ness, nor religion nor anything else to 
 hinder His inbreathing of Himself by 
 His Holy Spirit into your .soul, and 
 prevent your enjoying the pure atmo- 
 sphere of His love. 
 
 Now, I have said the heart is the real 
 Holy of Holies. There God must dwell 
 in fulness. His blessed presence, by 
 His Spirit, should fill us completely. 
 But God's temples are sadly desecrated 
 to-day. The hearts of His children are 
 occupied with tinholy things. Jesus, by 
 His Holy Spirit, must to-day drive out 
 of the temples of our souls the " oxen, 
 
1 
 
 HEART FULNESS. 
 
 37 
 
 and sheep, and doves, and the changers 
 of money." Our hearts must not be 
 hou.ses of merchancHse, nor pleasure, nor 
 kist, but houses of prayer and praise. 
 With theSpirit's ".scourge of small cords," 
 that is, with His gentle afflictings and 
 testings, our heart temple must be 
 cleansed. Even the pretty things, the 
 foreign doves, that inhabit our sacred 
 courts, must be banished, to make room 
 for the Heavenly Dove, the Spirit. 
 There mu.st be a complete hou.se- 
 cleaning of the heart. All the privi- 
 lege carpets, over which flattering 
 friends have walked, must be taken 
 up, and dust-beaten and aired. The 
 vain pictures, which greeted the public 
 eye, must be removed. The dishonest 
 sweepings behind the broom of pride 
 must be taken out. The cobwebs of 
 carelessness must be taken down. 
 Fresh air must fill the rooms. Parental 
 traditions must be brought in. The old 
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 family altar must be restored. Hymns 
 of devotion must be played and sung. 
 The friends of Christ must be welcomed 
 and entertained. The children must be 
 brought in from the kitchen, and be 
 loved and trained, and not be left for 
 servants to care for. In brief, cleanli- 
 ness and sanity and order must be 
 established in the home of the heart 
 which has been holding high revel and 
 forgetting God. 
 
 Many Christians, who received surely 
 the Holy Spirit when they began to 
 trust in Christ, have not allowed the 
 Spirit in them to have right of way. 
 They have felt His gentle promptings, 
 but they have acted selfishly. So now 
 they are in a strange state. They can- 
 not say they are not trusting in Christ, 
 but they are not satisfied. They are — 
 
 " Sometimes trusting, sometimes doubting, 
 Sometimes joyful, sometimes sad." 
 
 All such have tried to " serve God and 
 
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 mammon." They must now dedicate 
 their heart to God alone. Things that 
 maybe are not sinful they will need 
 to give up. Weights must be laid aside; 
 and you can always tell a weight, it is 
 something you are doubtful about. Do 
 not trouble asking somebody if it is not 
 right, but give it up at once. A poor 
 man can surely afford to give up his 
 toys to live in a palace. If there is to 
 be any palace for you in this world it 
 must be within you. Your heart is 
 either a prison or a palace. You are 
 either bound there or you are free there. 
 God wants to make your heart a palace, 
 a garden of Eden, a temple where He 
 can dwell and commune with you. It 
 is painful indeed, the heartache and the 
 weariness there is among believers. I 
 plead with you to just give up a'l for 
 Christ and He will come in by His 
 blessed Spirit and fill you with joy, and 
 you will know no more weary days or 
 nights. Make room for God. 
 
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 " Room for business, room for pleasure, 
 But for Christ, the crucified, 
 Not a place that He can enter 
 In the heart for which He died." 
 
 There are three classes of people in 
 the world : (a) Those who are unlike the 
 dwellers in the home at Bethany — they 
 will not even admit Christ into the home 
 of their heart. Such are not Christians 
 at all. If you have not yet made room 
 for Jesus in your life make room now, 
 and open the door of faith and welcome 
 Him freely in. Jesus by His Spirit is 
 standing without at your heart's door 
 and is tenderly saying, " Behold I stand 
 at the door and knock : if any man hear 
 My voice, and open the door, I will come 
 in to him, and will sup with him and he 
 with Me." That questioning in your 
 mind, that thrill, that conviction — these 
 are the Spirit's knocking at your heart's 
 door. Say to Him you will serve Jesus. 
 Invite Him in. He will save you thus. 
 Do not let Him depart. (/^) Those who 
 
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 are like Martha — they let Christ into 
 their home but they themselves are 
 busy early and late in the kitchen and 
 cellar, while He sits waiting in the 
 parlor. Such are professing Christians 
 who have no communion with Christ. 
 They are like the five foolish virgins 
 who had no oil in their vessels. I be- 
 seech you do not merely believe in 
 Christ, but love Him and talk with 
 Him, for by His Comforter He abides 
 in you. (c) Those who are like Mary — 
 they not only let Christ in but they also 
 sit at His feet and learn of Him. There 
 are very few of this class. But this is what 
 I mean by making room for the Spirit. 
 Let Him have more than a parlor pre- 
 eminence. Let Him come into the 
 kitchen with you, after you have com- 
 muned with Him in the parlor, and He 
 will help you to serve in the kitchen. 
 You will find He will commune with 
 you in the kitchen, and the kitchen will 
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 do when you give up all for Him and 
 worship Him must be done as for Him, 
 and nothing is secular any more, but 
 everything, even dish-washing, is sacred. 
 Just as everything which a precious 
 child handles is of importance to the 
 fond mother, so everything you need to 
 '': '.'■ sacred to God who loves )'ou. 
 
 i Ccilizing, then, your emptiness and 
 need of God, consecrate yourself fully to 
 Him. Determine by your w'll to serve 
 Him. Then behold the fulness of sup- 
 ply there is in Jesus for your aching 
 heart. " He that spared not His own 
 Son but delivered Him up for us all, how 
 shall he not with Him also freely give 
 us all things." " If ye, then, being evil 
 know how to give good gifts unto your 
 children, how much more shall your 
 Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to 
 them that ask Him ? " Ask God to give 
 you, to fill you with the Holy Spirit. By 
 faith receive Him from the risen Christ. 
 As you took pardon and peace from the 
 
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 crucified Christ, so now and ever take 
 the Comforter, the Spirit, from the risen 
 Redeemer. You ask for the Spirit. 
 Jesus says, "Receive ye the Holy Spirit." 
 So receive Him. By your faith invite 
 Him in, and thank Him for cominf^. It 
 is not some influence or blessing you 
 are receiving. It is the Holy Ghost, 
 Who is a divine personality and God. 
 And you will know when He comes in. 
 A delicious comforting will fill you. Then 
 be careful to obey His gentle voice. He 
 does not speak audibly, He impresses 
 you. Paul puts it nicely when he says 
 he was " pressed in the spirit." The 
 Spirit in you v/ill thus suggest what you 
 should do. He will not force you. But 
 He will bless you if you obey implicitly, 
 and give you more of Himself You 
 will have the worst sadness a soul can 
 have, if you refuse to obey His least re- 
 quest. It is so simple ! Do not make 
 it hard ! Keep consecrated. Keep be- 
 lieving. Keep filled. If you keep the 
 
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 dcor of your house open, the sunshi.ie 
 and air will pour in. If you keep >'our 
 faith in Christ, the Spirit will pour into 
 your weary heart, until, the habit bein^r 
 formed and without any effort any more 
 on your part, the blessed Comforter will 
 consciously dwell in you. Never mind 
 trying to analyze your heart, just sur- 
 render yourself fully to Christ, asking 
 Him to subdue your will to the wishes 
 of His loving will, and immediately 
 bv' faith take now and ever the Holy 
 Spirit Who flows freely and fully from 
 the risen Lord. Be filled with Him. 
 When He dwells in you at first He 
 will try you. Be careful to obey His 
 least prompting. Obey at once with- 
 out any questioning. But if you do 
 grieve Him, as I did many times before 
 I appreciated His presence, instantly get 
 alone with Him and ask forgiveness, and 
 He will come again. As often as you 
 need Him, wherever you are, invite Him 
 to possess you and guide you. Thus 
 
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 your heart will be filled with God the 
 Comforter, and you will praise Him day 
 and night for His wonderful manifesta- 
 tions and indwelling and leading. 
 
 As a result of the Holy Spirit's pres- 
 ence in you, you will be pure in heart, 
 and so, pure in life. You live from the 
 heart. The indwelling of the Comforter 
 is the secret of heart purity. If some 
 one had only told me that years ago I 
 would have thanked them sincerely. It 
 was impressed upon me by teachers of 
 religion that I had to get some blessing 
 of sanctification, and then another bless- 
 ing of entire sanctification. But I found 
 out after weary struggles and failures 
 that what I needed was not some sancti- 
 fication, but the Spirit of God, the Com- 
 forter. And when the Spirit came in, 
 then there was sanctification. How 
 simple ! " Through sanctification of 
 the Spirit." True, the Holy Spirit will 
 not dwell in your heart unless it is pure. 
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 is foul or selfish desire, and if you 
 by your will-power desire to be pure, 
 and ask Jesus for the Holy Ghost to 
 dwell in you, He will come instantly 
 into your heart. Your sanctification 
 will be complete then if you allow the 
 Spirit to rule in you. But if your will- 
 power has been weakened by habits of 
 sin, the Spirit will purify you gradually, 
 paining you to perfect you, reinforcing 
 your will until you choose God supreme- 
 ly. I would emphasize this fact, that 
 all the work of salvation in you is done 
 by the Holy Spirit. Therefore receive 
 Him, know Him, and obey Him fully. 
 Talk to Him as your True Friend, for 
 your purity and your salvation are the 
 results of His holy and inspiring fellow- 
 ship. And your heart will not only 
 become pure, desiring only what pleases 
 God, but your heart will be filled with 
 love, even as your body is full of blood. 
 And just as when your body is injured 
 or the skin is pricked, the blood shows 
 
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 itself, so when criticisms or insults or 
 testings come to your life, only love will 
 be manifested. 
 
 Now, as a last word, I would like you 
 to understand how full your heart is 
 when the Holy Spirit dwells there. 
 Jesus said, " If a man love Me he will 
 keep My words, and My Father will 
 love him, and We will come unto him, 
 and make Our abode with him." This 
 is indeed wonderful. This is a greater 
 mystery than the mystery of the God- 
 head, because this is the Godhead in us. 
 I said in my first address that Christ 
 is not here, and when we speak of 
 Christ here we mean the Spirit of Christ, 
 the Comforter. That is all true in 
 order to have names correct, and to be 
 intelligent for the sake of expediency. 
 Christ is not here. His personality is 
 in heaven, and we wait for His appear- 
 ing again. But we must allow for the 
 Three Persons, or Subsistences in the 
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 in the Trinity is present, the Three are 
 present. So Jesus mystified indeed the 
 Jews by saying, " He that hath seen 
 me hath seen the Father;" and the Holy 
 Spirit dwelt in Him also while He was 
 in the flesh. So when the Comforter 
 abides in the believer, God the Father 
 is there also, and Christ the Son. This 
 is wonderful, but we cannot understand 
 it, for we cannot comprehend the Trin- 
 ity in Unity. The mystery should not 
 stagger us as to how the Three are 
 present in us, for it is a great mystery 
 as to how the Spirit is in us at all. 
 The fact that God the Father, and 
 Christ the Son, are present in us with 
 the Holy Ghost, ought to surely inspire 
 us to be unceasingly thankful, and 
 prayerfully watchful and obedient. 
 What a fulness for your heart and 
 mine ! The Godhead in us ! Is that 
 not fulness enough ? Does not God 
 love us? Though the Father and Son 
 are with the Spirit in us, yet we should 
 
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 address the Godhead in us as the Spirit, 
 the Comforter. We should think of the 
 Spirit in us, give up to the Spirit in 
 us, commune with the Spirit in us. 
 For the Spirit in us is a divine person- 
 ality, our God and Comforter. Christ 
 is the Door. By Christ we go into 
 God, and by Christ God comes into us. 
 We should pray to God the Father 
 through Christ, but we should commune 
 with the Comforter in our hearts. And 
 whatever our occupation may be, we 
 should do everything to the glory of 
 God, and in the power of His Spirit of 
 love. 
 
 '* So all the while I thought myself 
 Homeless, forlorn, and weary, 
 Missing my joy, I walked the earth, 
 Myself God's sanctuary. 
 
 *' God is never so far off 
 As even to be near ; 
 He is within, our spirit is 
 The home He holds most dear. 
 
 
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 Is almost as untrue 
 As to remove His throne beyond 
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 HEART SWEETNESS. 
 
 " Singing and making melody in your heart to the 
 L,ord."-EPH. V. 19. 
 
 SWEETNESS of heart means some- 
 thing more than a joyful appear- 
 ance or a pleasant manner. A joyful 
 bearing and a pleasant disposition are 
 social requisites, as no one desires a 
 sullen companion. The very word friend- 
 ship suggests brightness and courtesy. 
 The morose person is shunned. The 
 gloomy, serious mind is unwelcome. 
 For this reason the godly soul or the 
 soul that is seeking after God is not 
 popular. The world does not want 
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 not want love, it wants laughter ; it 
 does not want strength, it wants show. 
 Because repentance makes one real, and 
 salvation makes one serious, the frivo- 
 lous world contemns Christian hearts. 
 
 But though the world is An, and 
 does not appreciate truth or the love of 
 truth in personalities, yet believers are 
 often to blame for the indifference by 
 which worldlings crucify afresh the 
 Christ, because believers betray the 
 lovely Christ by their unflashing gold 
 of cheerless testimony into the unwit- 
 ting hands of such worldlings. A soul 
 that has awakened to the reality of 
 Jesus Christ should certainly be serious, 
 but should not be sad. The only reason 
 why a Christian is clumsy, care-worn, 
 controversial or cheerless is that he or 
 she, while consecrated and conscien- 
 tious, has not yet realized the fact and 
 the power of the resurrection of the 
 Lord in Whom confidence is placed 
 for salvation. And until such earnest 
 
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 souls do realize that Christ is risen and 
 ascended into heaven and that His pro- 
 mised Spirit the Comforter has come 
 and is here, near them, in them, waiting 
 and longing to reveal Himself ; and 
 until such anxious hearts talk with the 
 Holy Spirit and allow His blessed 
 friendship and fulness to possess them, 
 so that worries and desires and plans 
 are submitted to Him that His wisdom 
 may be obtained and His promptings 
 obeyed ; — until the Holy Spirit is 
 known Christian people will not be 
 truly happy, nor will they bear true 
 testimony concerning Jesus. 
 
 While it is a fact that God's children 
 have no need to appease or please 
 worldly people, yet God's children, by 
 their habits and manners of love, will 
 strongly witness for the divine truth 
 and convict unbelievers by such noble 
 behaviour. The culture of the Cross 
 receives its finishing touches as well as 
 its rudimentary knowledge and rugged 
 
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 discipline from the hands of the Holy 
 Spirit, Who is the wise Teacher and 
 Trainer of heavenly deportment. Young 
 ladies need to-day professors who will 
 give them something more than super- 
 ficial knowledge and artistic manner. 
 There is too much brain culture, and 
 not enough heart culture in these times. 
 Young people are taught to act from 
 the head, but the result is a miserable 
 failure, for when the time for acting 
 comes the acting is done from the heart. 
 Every performance that gives delight 
 is a heart performance. Children are 
 entertaining because they act from the 
 heart. Heart acting is natural, real, and 
 free. Therefore it is joyous. Any other 
 kind of acting is artificial and preten- 
 tious ; and the teachers of knowledge 
 to-day are mostly teachers of the arti- 
 ficial and pretentious. To teach and 
 illustrate theories is to impose upon and 
 fill up the youth with your own origin- 
 ality or that of others, and to leave the 
 
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 soul and its originality unawakened, 
 except as some flash will reveal self to 
 the youth. So education is a chance 
 work, it is not the scientific thing it is 
 supposed to be and ought to be. Why 
 do the youth come out of the schools 
 and colleges with no flesh on their 
 mental and heart bones ? Why have 
 they no tact and love to take hold of 
 life ? Why are they practically ignorant 
 of the real conditions and needs of men? 
 Why have they not power to alleviate 
 social distress ? How is it the youth 
 are trained to have great ambitions for 
 self and are given sharp ability to 
 achieve such ambitions, and are trained 
 to forget ideals of unselfish usefulness 
 and social good ? It is all because the 
 heart is neglected. If knowledge is not 
 acquired by love and directed by love it 
 is worse than simple ignorance. If edu- 
 cation makes the youth clever while it 
 neglects to make them good it is a vile 
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 and do not refine the heart you are 
 educating the youth away from himself. 
 You need not think the heart will get 
 better just because the head gets wiser. 
 The head is not a *' good Samaritan." It 
 will not come down to the heart. In- 
 deed the head will assist the " robbers " 
 to weaken and abuse the heart. Know- 
 ledge will make a person vain, unless 
 love is strong. When love is strong, 
 then the heart will use knowledge for 
 personal betterment and social uplifting. 
 And that is the ideal way. The heart 
 should use the head, but the head should 
 never use the heart. Love should con- 
 trol all things. If the heart basis and 
 not the head basis was the basis in 
 our educational system, there would be 
 chaste manners and fewer mannerisms 
 in our youth, there would be more rever- 
 ence and less ribaldry, there would be 
 true nobility and less nonsense. 
 
 The world needs frank examples of 
 sobriety and gallantry. All such wit- 
 
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 nesses are consciously or unconsciously 
 the work of the Holy Spirit. I am ask- 
 ing you to discern that true refinement 
 comes from God. God is so refined that 
 He is holy. We must be refined by His 
 Spirit dwelling in us and showing us 
 what is true and lovely. If we could get 
 the culture of Christ, the refinement of 
 love, somehow taught in the schools 
 without the managers knowing that it 
 was of Christ, that it was religion, the 
 desired end would be accomplished. 
 Teachers do not see that God is light, 
 and that all betterment even to scholars 
 comes from God. Teachers are afraid 
 to see this for some reason or other. So 
 they are unconsciously being used by 
 God's Spirit to increase knowledge and 
 goodness in the earth. How much bet- 
 ter it would be, how much easier, how 
 much grander in rapid results, if every 
 teacher consciously knew the Holy Spirit, 
 was indwelt by Him, directed by Him, 
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 and used by Him ! How the eyes 
 of the scholars would brighten ! How 
 the contact of teacher with pupil would 
 be electric and not elegiac ! How 
 the fifth proposition would be clearly 
 demonstrated by the logic of love ! How 
 the hours would be happy, inquiring 
 into the truths of nature and num- 
 bers and nations ! There would be no 
 gruffhess in the teacher, but gentleness. 
 How can the youth be refined by fits of 
 temper and words of unkindness ? I do 
 not mean to say that teachers are bad, 
 but they are not inspired. There were 
 never so many good teachers as to-day 
 in our schools, but there was never so 
 much need of holy character in teachers 
 as to-day. We do not want creeds or 
 religion taught in the schools. But we 
 do need the plain facts of Christ's revela- 
 tion respected in our educating process, 
 and this involves the placing of emphasis 
 on the soul and not the mind, the en- 
 lightening of the heart as well as the 
 
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 head, the disciplining ofthe love as much 
 as the thought. We do need in the 
 .schools, as everywhere else, individuals 
 as leaders and instructors who have dis- 
 cerned the divineness of life, and who 
 have by the Spirit of God dwelling in 
 them the ability to teach from the centre, 
 describing as complete a circle as their 
 human circumference will allow. It 
 would be a grand achievement if we 
 could get teachers indwelt by the Spirit 
 of God, for they have greater influence 
 than any other individuals not excepting 
 preachers, and they then would be able 
 to beautify lives as well as broaden in- 
 tellects. 
 
 I entreat you to allow the Spirit of 
 God in you, if you are a believer, to 
 sweeten or sanctify your love that your 
 life may witness beautifully for truth, 
 for it is by such witnessing God's king- 
 dom is to be extended. Not only are 
 you to behave kindly for this reason, 
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 ally will rise on stepping-stones of your 
 dead self to higher things. If you are 
 insulted or slighted do not turn sour, 
 but die to self, act forgivingly and thus 
 rise to a truer and sweeter disposition. 
 
 I have said that a Christian should 
 not be gloomy, though serious. His 
 profession should be one of peace and 
 joy. But let us remember, that just as 
 the world cannot give the peace which 
 Christ gives, neither can the world un- 
 derstand His peace in us. It is a divine 
 peace, and an unbeliever cannot know 
 or appreciate the beauty of that peace 
 in another. We need not try to make 
 the world think we are happy. The 
 world does not care whether we are 
 happy or not. And we should not be 
 dismayed if the world misunderstands 
 our happiness. A Christian's joy is dif- 
 ferent from a worldling's joy. There is 
 a quietness about a Christian's joy ; there 
 is an excitement about a worldling's joy. 
 Do not try to make your joy show bet- 
 ter than an unbeliever's. If there is 
 
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 sweetness in sugar it will sweeten, and 
 the sugar-bowl need not be pretentious. 
 Your peace will display itself noiselessly, 
 and your life will be easy and content. 
 Just be yourself sweetened inwardly by 
 the Spirit's balm and fragrance. Throw 
 away all dignity and all posing, and act 
 naturally or lovingly from the heart. 
 Though a joyful appearance and a pleas- 
 ant manner are often superficial virtues 
 for the sake of social fame or success, 
 yet they may be, and ought to be, the 
 genuine manifestations of sweetness of 
 heart, for **a merry heart maketh a 
 cheerful countenance." 
 
 It is melancholy to behold how gay 
 people seem to be when they really are 
 unhappy in heart. It is noble to appear 
 strong, even though one is weak, from 
 the heroic standpoint. 
 
 " For the test of the heart is trouble, 
 And it always comes with the years, 
 And the smile that is worth the praise of 
 earth 
 Is the smile that comes through tears." 
 
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 But to appear well habitually when 
 one is not right is hypocrisy and con- 
 temptible. Worldly people have a nice 
 exterior. Behave well and you will be a 
 social success. Behave excellently and 
 you will be idolized. Behave perfectly, 
 according to Parisian patterns, and you 
 will be famous. Flatter and fawn, and 
 you will be applauded. But be truth- 
 ful, and you are unpopular. So when 
 Sir Henry Irving told a London audi- 
 ence in his play, " The Medicine Man," 
 that he could find as much moral weak- 
 ness in the West End of London as he 
 could find delirium tremens in the East 
 End, the fashionable audience did not 
 applaud. It is distressing the dishon- 
 esty there is among the better class of 
 people in trying to be what they are not. 
 If men and women, instead of trying to 
 be pleasant, would spend the time in 
 refining their natures by communion 
 with God, being pleasant would be easy. 
 Old Socrates was right when ^ j saiJ, 
 
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 "the way to gain a good reputation is 
 to endeavor to be what you desire to 
 appear." It would, indeed, be a happy 
 world, if people were as happy as they 
 seem to be. 
 
 Now I would remind you that sweet- 
 ness of heart is not a natural endow- 
 ment. There are some who naturally 
 are really bright arid beauteous. Sel- 
 fishness is foreign to their character. 
 They always act freely, and are always 
 winsome. But such people are uncom- 
 mon. Moreover, their joy is not the 
 deepest joy. It is a good feeling, rather 
 than a gracious feeling. It is an exuber- 
 ance of natural spirit, rather than an 
 overflow of the divine Spirit. Those who 
 have a nice disposition naturally rarely 
 realize their need of the perfecting fel- 
 lowship of the Comforter. Whereas a 
 soul, which feels its moral ugliness by 
 selfish impoverishment, may be so purified 
 by the indwelling Spirit of Jesus, that a 
 fragrance more tender than perfume of 
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 flowers will emanate from its refined per- 
 sonality. Do not be discouraged by 
 thinking that some Christians can easily 
 be pleasant. If there is true geniality 
 in any soul, it is the result of humiliation 
 and renewal by divine processes. 
 
 Neither does heart sweetness depend 
 on virtuous environment. Very often 
 those who are surrounded by favorable 
 influences are the least honorable and 
 happy. '* A man's life consisteth not in 
 the abundance of the things which he 
 possesseth." A man may live in a pal- 
 ace, and yet be a genuine pauper. And 
 a man may live in a cabin, and be a real 
 prince. It is not where you live, but 
 how you live. It is not where you are, 
 but what you are. Some people think 
 if they had wealth, they would be happy. 
 But you cannot be made happy from the 
 outside. I do not care where you live, 
 you can be as joyful one place as another ; 
 and you cannot be any more joyful really 
 one place than you are another. You 
 
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 cannot get happiness by travelling, nor 
 marrying, nor money-making. You will 
 get happy as you get holy. And that 
 is why God wants you to be holy. Be 
 holy, and you will be happy. Because 
 the law of holiness or love is unselfish- 
 ness. The more unselfish you are, then, 
 the happier you will be. Only selfish 
 people are unhappy. " It is more blessed 
 to give than receive." The only posses- 
 sion that really enriches is love. Love 
 brings a wealth of sympathy and a ful- 
 ness of gentleness. The person who is 
 the most gentle is the greatest. What 
 a true soul does do is good, what that 
 soul can do is better, what it would do 
 is best, and this shall receive the reward. 
 So there are uncrowned heads in the low 
 places of life. Some of the sweetest 
 souls in this world are to be found in 
 wayside cottages on beds of pain. These 
 shut-in ones are really saints. God loves 
 to help the weak, for they love to have 
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 empty your heart of all else, He will 
 dwell in you wherever you live, and your 
 graciousness will cast a halo over the 
 whole sphere of your influence. 
 
 Now, from what I have said already, 
 you will have discerned that heart sweet- 
 ness is a result of the Holy Spirit dwell- 
 ing in the heart. To love in the heart is 
 to be sweet in the heart, and to love from 
 the heart is to be sweet from the heart. 
 You cannot love in or from the heart un- 
 less God is in the heart. And you can- 
 not really love anybody unless you love 
 and worship God. You cannot be sweeter 
 to anybody else than you are to Jesus. 
 You cannot sing better to anybody else 
 than you do to Christ. You cannot hold 
 truer fellowship with anybody else than 
 you hold with the Comforter. You can- 
 not be an inspiring friend to anybody 
 unless you are an adoring friend of the 
 Holy Ghost's. Please remember this, 
 you cannot be sweeter to anyone else 
 than you are to Jesus Christ. You may 
 
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 on occasions try to say sweet things and 
 to be sweet, but it is only trying. Love 
 God in your heart, for He is in your 
 heart if you are trusting in Jesus as your 
 Saviour, and you will love people. Com- 
 mune sweetly with the Comforter Who 
 is God in you, and you will be able to 
 commune sweetly with souls. There is 
 no other way. All other ways are weary- 
 ing and failures. The divine method is 
 the most delightful. It is not a policy, 
 it is a principle. Happiness becomes a 
 habit when we commune with the Com- 
 forter. Just as there is a fragrance from 
 the rose, so there will be a sweetness 
 from your soul if you abide in God. 
 
 Now there is only one condition re- 
 quired of you if you would be truly 
 happy in God. You must cast all care 
 on Him. "Cast thy burden on the 
 Lord and He will sustain thee." He 
 will not sustain you until you cast your 
 burden on Him. Having told Him all 
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 leave all with Him. Do not worry even 
 about your burden, for you might as 
 well carry your burden as carry its 
 worry. Cast burden and worry and 
 all thought about the whole matter on 
 Him, then He will sustain, and your 
 poor heart will experience wonderful 
 comforting. If the worry comes back, 
 give it again to God. "Commit thy 
 way unto the Lord, trust also in Him, 
 and He shall bring it to pass." What 
 is " it " ? " It " is whatever you are 
 anxious about. God will answer your 
 requests as far as it is wise. You are 
 anxious about some blessings ; God is 
 concerned about you. So " He shall 
 bring it to pass." " It " is your personal 
 perfection. That is what God will 
 bring to pass. He will bless you and 
 others thus. Cast all upon Him, and be 
 sure of this, '* He shall bring forth thy 
 righteousness as the light, and thy judg- 
 ment as the noonday." So " rest in 
 the Lord, and wait patiently for Him." 
 
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 Rejoice in Him. You cannot, maybe, 
 you should not if you could, rejoice in 
 your affairs or blessings. " Rejoice in 
 the Lord." Always rejoice in Him. 
 Let your happiest hours be those spent 
 in communion with Him. Talk to the 
 Holy Ghost in you as your Dearest 
 Friend, and He will fill you with joy. 
 You will be able to delight in the Lord 
 then even though outward conditions 
 are unfavorable for you, and if you wait 
 patiently and delight yourself in Him 
 He will give you the desires of your 
 heart, and astonish you by His good- 
 ness. So while you are obtaining favor 
 thus with God you will be obtaining 
 favor with man, for your contented 
 spirit and joyous bearing in your life 
 of love will be the gracious effects of 
 the worship and trust and sweetness 
 in your heart. 
 
 
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CHAPTER IV. 
 HEART WISDOM. 
 
 "The wise in heart shall be called prudent." 
 
 — Prov. xvi. 21. 
 
 HEART wisdom is not the same as 
 head wisdom. Head wisdom is 
 wisdom of thought, while heart wisdom 
 is wisdom of love. Head wisdom is 
 clever, but heart wisdom is kindly. Head 
 wisdom is speculative, but heart wisdom 
 is practical. Head wisdom is a matter of 
 opinions, but heart wisdom is a matter 
 of convictions, and the world is moved 
 by convictions. In the social state to- 
 day there are many standing around 
 with the pigeon-holes in their heads 
 filled with opinions and theories. Such 
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 eloquent, but they are not nimble and 
 operative and enthusiastic. Their sug- 
 gestions are entertaining and exhibitive, 
 but not electric and efficacious. They 
 have been well-informed, but they are 
 not well-disposed. Their heads have 
 been educated, but they themselves in 
 their hearts have not been enlightened 
 and energized. They are learned, but 
 they are not loving. And though a few 
 people are moved by great thought, the 
 world is helped by great love. So while 
 head wisdom is standing looking on, 
 heart wisdom is around behind the 
 scene alleviating the distress of the sick 
 and weak. Head wisdom plans a way ; 
 heart wisdom finds a way or makes one. 
 Head wisdom is diplomatic and ram- 
 bling ; heart wisdom is disciplined and 
 ready. Head wisdom is idealistic and 
 ingenious ; heart wisdom is independent 
 and ingenuous. Head wisdom desires 
 to do things correctly ; heart wisdom 
 desires to do things charitably, and in 
 
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 the charitable performance there is more 
 correctness than there is in the other. 
 Love makes fewer mistakes than reason. 
 Self may enter into and mar reason in 
 its performance, but love is unselfish, 
 and therefore true in its acting. The 
 convictions of the heart indwelt by the 
 Holy Spirit are usually right, and will 
 make better the world, even if they do 
 seem rough and revolutionary. The 
 world needs loving hearts ; it is weary of 
 wise heads. The times demand the 
 dash of earnest souls. For the man who 
 lovingly does something is infinitely bet- 
 ter than the man who is going to do a 
 great thing. 
 
 Certainly there need be no quarrel 
 between head wisdom and heart wis- 
 dom. They cannot be separated in 
 reality. In practice they ought to work 
 together, and they do. But in college 
 they are separated ; in schooling they 
 have not equal rights. The one is 
 treated indulgently, as a pet child ; the 
 
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 other is treated indifferently, as a dunce. 
 However, there is much divinity in a 
 dunce. The lads who wore the fool's cap 
 in school have been applauded for their 
 cleverness in later life. And Jesus de- 
 sires to make disciples of the dunces. 
 He seeks the foolish and the weak. He 
 values the pearls which wise-acres do not 
 prize. Human hearts are dunces, and 
 are outcasts from educational and even 
 thcolo<;ical seminaries. They cannot be 
 trained there, because the professors 
 are not proficient enough in humility 
 to be patient with them, nor religious 
 enough to be reverent and real, nor 
 divine enough to be discerning and de- 
 voted. So youthful hearts, frivolous but 
 unhappy, lie outside the fold of scholas- 
 tic care, and are the prey of newspaper 
 wolves and night beasts. But Christ, 
 the Good Shepherd, comes seeking the 
 outcasts. He cares for hearts, and trains 
 and develops them, so that they are fit 
 for the heavenly kingdom. Thus the 
 
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 dunces are promoted and honored, and 
 their despoilers and dcspisers will be 
 called into judgment. For not all hearts 
 will be saved, because Christ's work is 
 not helped by educational methods as 
 it might be. A person who professes 
 to polish another's mind and make it 
 clever receives the praise of men, but a 
 person who helps to perfect another's 
 heart and make it clean will receive the 
 praise of God. 
 
 For this reason Jesus is cctiled the 
 Good Shepherd. Other shepherds see 
 after minds and thoughts ; Christ sees 
 after hearts and loves. Christ's method 
 is the wiser ; for if the heart is properly 
 looked after, there will not be so much 
 need, and it will be easier to look after 
 the head. In fact, if the heart is right, 
 the head will be right. If the love is 
 right, the life will be right. There may 
 not be eloquence in the speech, but the 
 tongue will be true if the heart is pure ; 
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 It will not listen to tinkling cymbals or 
 sounding brass. A sermon that has 
 more elocution than love in it is the 
 kind of sermon you are taught to preach 
 in the iheological schools to-day, and 
 it is not inspiring despondent, weary 
 hearts. Rev. Mr. Grubb said truly that 
 Christ never taught His disciples to 
 preach, He taught them to pray. If a 
 man can pray he can preach, and that 
 old-fashioned kind of preaching is needed 
 to-day. For by communion with God 
 the Holy Ghost a fire of love is kindled 
 and kept ablaze, and love must con- 
 strain and consume .souls. Charity, like 
 mercy, is twice bles.sed : "it bles.seth him 
 that gives and him that takes." It edifies 
 and builds up. It suffers long and is 
 kind. It does not behave itself unseemly. 
 It .seeks not its own. It is the greatest 
 thing in the world. So the way to be 
 great is to study how to love, and then 
 love. 
 
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 the head will be right. And that is 
 true. It is better to have a right head 
 than an intellectual head. It is better 
 to have a balanced head than a smart 
 head. It is better to have a wise head 
 than a clever head ; and the only way 
 to have a wise head is to have a wise 
 heart. Get the heart right, and then 
 no wrong notions can stay in the head. 
 For "as a man thinketh in his heart so 
 is he." Christ teaches us that it is of 
 little importance what thoughts are in 
 the head, but of very great importance 
 what thoughts are in the heart, for a 
 man is made by what he thinks about 
 in his heart. Head thoughts are dreamy 
 and inoperative ; heart thoughts are de- 
 signing and irresistible. Head thoughts 
 arv never dangerous or advantageous, 
 unless they are used by the heart. For 
 the heart thought is what is wrought 
 out in life. A man's character or work 
 will be no grander than his heart 
 thoughts, just as an icicle will be 
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 no purer than the water-drops which 
 form it. The moving power in a 
 man is his heart. Get his heart right, 
 and his motion will be right. The 
 centre of a man is his heart. Make 
 his centre good, and the man and his 
 life will be good. It is not of the first 
 importance what goes into a man's head, 
 but it is of the first importance what 
 the state of a man's heart is, for out of 
 the heart "are the issues of life." You 
 cannot make men better by giving them 
 beautiful thoughts, but men must make 
 themselves better by thinking beauti- 
 fully. And it is impossible to think 
 beautifully unless one is beautiful inside, 
 and one cannot be beautiful inside unless 
 the Holy Spirit dwells in the heart. 
 Then one can think and live. If you 
 worship God in your heart, then your 
 mind is clothed and right. So if your 
 heart is pure you can see God. If you 
 can see God you can think and love. 
 If you can love you can live. And 
 
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 Jesus says if a man does not love he 
 does not live, he only exists. He who 
 loves the most lives the most. lie who 
 sees God the best thinks the best. And 
 if a man has not seen God at all, he 
 docs not think at all. A man may 
 imagine he thinks and he may be a 
 great journalist, but any thought that 
 is not complete thought is not true 
 thought, and how can thought be com- 
 plete which does not respect or know 
 God ? In fact God clearly tells us that 
 the thoughts of all those who do not 
 know Him are " fleshly wisdom." So 
 " the wisdom of this world is foolishness 
 with God." And " the fear of the Lord :•. 
 the beginning of wisdom." Because by 
 fearing and worshipping God in your 
 heart you get to love and know Gr)d, 
 and so become wise. Worldly know- 
 ledge, like the earth, is sky bound ; 
 but spiritual knowledge is celestial, and 
 therefore as far-reaching as the immortal 
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 complete and therefore true. The heart 
 thoughts of the .soul in communion with 
 the Holy Ghost are almost infallible, for 
 the heart is the Holy of Holies where 
 God reveals Himself Except as the 
 .soul ear mistakes the voice of Satan for 
 the voice of God, or misunderstands the 
 words of God's voice, the soul know- 
 ledge is perfect. It is the most perfect 
 knowledge in the world, for the heart is 
 less liable to err than the head, and if 
 there is no heart perception of God the 
 head perception is valueless. Other 
 knowledge is knowledge about the 
 earth, but .soul knowledge is knowledge 
 about man himself and man's God. 
 Other learning is relative, this is real. 
 Other learning is puzzling until this is 
 perfecting. And so you can understand 
 now what the u.se of the head ought to 
 be : As ^v ell as being of .service in 
 preparing for and arranging the soul 
 knowledge, it should serve the heart 
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 the things of this world. But there is 
 little need of the head collecting facts 
 for the heart to use unless the heart is 
 ready or is preparing to use them. 
 Naturally the heart is not fit to use 
 knowledge, for it will use knowledge 
 for selfish purposes. Only by the Holy 
 Spirit purifying the love of the heart 
 will the heart be capable of wisely using 
 mental facts, and will the mind rightly 
 collect and present the facts for use. 
 
 Now, from what I have said you can 
 discern that head wisdom may be gotten 
 from another — another can give it to 
 you, but you must get heart wisdom 
 yourself Others can give you facts, 
 but they cannot give you faith. Others 
 can give you light, but the>' cannot give 
 you love. Others can give }'ou proof, 
 but they cannot give you perfection. 
 The unwillingness of others ma\' hinder 
 your head wisdom, but the only thing 
 that can hinder your iieart wisdom is 
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 deny yourself, your love will increase. 
 If you will seek to plea.se God in all 
 things, your love will become wiser and 
 more perfect. If you will meditate day 
 and night on the law of G(jd's love, your 
 heart wisdom will be as excellent as 
 you can desire on earth. But some- 
 thing el.se must be attended to : You 
 must practise your love. It is not 
 enough that you worship God in your 
 heart temple, you must display your 
 love for Him in your life. You are 
 to love God, but a' so your neighbor ; 
 and you are to be as wi.se in loving 
 your neighbor as you are in loving God. 
 You must plan to love those around 
 you. Hut really love needs no plan- 
 ning. Love God purely, and you will 
 love your fellows. But )'ou cannot love 
 on the horizontal any more than )'ou 
 love on the perpendicular. You cannot 
 love in the valley any more than you 
 love on the height. You cannot love 
 man unless you love God, and you can- 
 
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 not love man any better than you love 
 God. Love God supremely, and you 
 will be able to serve the souls of men in 
 love. You will know how to love men 
 as you learn how to love God, for love 
 is ever the .same principle. The more 
 you praise God, the more you will be 
 able to help men. If you give yourself 
 completely to God, you will be able to 
 give yourself completely to men. And 
 you will know when your wisdom of 
 love in practi.se is nearing perfection, 
 for the perfection of heart wisdom, as 
 far as its outward thought is concerned, 
 is to love your neighbor as yourself 
 You do not love your neighbor as your- 
 self unless you make your love intelli- 
 gent concerning your neighbor's needs 
 and their gratification, and then give 
 yourself to the betterment of your 
 neighbor to the extent that you have 
 been zealous in )'our own betterment. 
 For you cannot make another better 
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 him better, and give money to make 
 him better, but " the soul of improve- 
 ment is the improvement of the soul." 
 Improve your own soul, and you will be 
 able to improve the souls of others. 
 Improve the souls of others, and the 
 world will be made better. You must 
 not merely improve the minds of others, 
 but their hearts. Your love must inspire 
 and direct their love, and your love must 
 instinctively be as great for others as it 
 has good in it.self Thus will be worked 
 the truest reformation. Please remem- 
 ber, then, you can help the world as 
 much as you choose, for your heart 
 wisdom, which will be your working 
 power, will be as efficient and capable 
 as your soul is sincere. 
 
 Another thing about heart wisdom is 
 that it enables you to deal skilfully first 
 with self, whereas head wisdom enables 
 you to deal skilfully first and always 
 with others. Head wi.sdom is selfish ; 
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 is politic ; heart wisdom is philanthropic. 
 Head wisdom is mean ; heart wisdom is 
 meek. Head wisdom is bold to possess ; 
 heart wisdom is bold to give. Heart 
 wisdom instructs a man how to set his 
 own house in order ; head wisdom in- 
 creases the disorder of the soul. Heart 
 wisdom receives visitors and entertains 
 them ; head wisdom receives visitors and 
 bores them. Heart wisdom goes visit- 
 ing and promotes peace and joy ; head 
 wisdom goes vaunting and publishes 
 pride and jingle. Head wisdom is 
 haughty ; heart wisdom is humble. 
 Head wisdom is patronizing ; heart 
 wisdom is plaintive. Head wisdom is 
 deliberate ; heart wisdom is dispas- 
 sionate. Head wisdom is the wisdom 
 and the way of the world ; heart 
 wisdom is the wisdom and the way of 
 God. Head wisdom is diabolical ; heart 
 wisdom is divine. The destruction of 
 man is clever, scheming, selfish thought ; 
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 selfless love. When Solomon said, "wis- 
 dom is the principal thing," he did not 
 mean head wisdom, but he meant that 
 with all our getting we are to get under- 
 standing of heart. When James said, 
 " if any man lack wisdom, let him ask 
 of God," he did not mean wisdom of 
 thought, but wisdom of love. When 
 Paul exhorted to " walk in wisdom," he 
 did not refer to scholastic deportment, 
 but to a life of intelligent love. 
 
 The most perfect example of heart 
 wisdom this world ever had was Jesus 
 Christ, l^ecause the wisdom of Jesus 
 was heart wisdom, the world did not 
 understand Him; nor does it understand 
 Him to-day. l^ecause the heart wisdom 
 of Jesus was fearless, men wondered at 
 Him. Because His heart wisdom was 
 perfect, men hated and crucified Him. 
 For the same reason men to-day do not 
 esteem Christ precious, nor hold fellow- 
 ship with His Comforter. The carnality, 
 the selfishness, the thoughts of human 
 
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 hearts make them despise the thoughts 
 and the ways of God, The Jews thought 
 about God ; Jesus loved God. The wor- 
 ship of the Jews was intellectual, and so 
 ritualistic ; the worship of Jesus was 
 spiritual, and so real. The Jews were 
 formal and fastidious ; Jesus was fervent 
 and fascinating. The Jews were tradi- 
 tional ; Jesus was true. The knowledge 
 of the Jews made them exclusive ; the 
 knowledge of Jesus made Him inclusive. 
 The Jews were self-contained ; Jesus was 
 self-expansive. The Jews were bigoted ; 
 Jesus was brotherly. The information 
 which the Jews possessed made them 
 dissatisfied ; the information which Jesus 
 possessed made Him rejoice in spirit. 
 The same facts which Jesus had revealed 
 to Him the Jews had revealed to them, 
 but the selfishness of their hearts dark- 
 ened their understanding, and they could 
 not be wise. The blood of Jesus Christ 
 must cleanse the heart of Jew and Gen- 
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 of true culture and wisdom. For, when 
 by faith in His blood the heart temple 
 is cleansed, the Holy Spirit will dwell 
 there, and make one capable of accepting 
 the thoughts of God and of thinking 
 into tho.5e thoughts. The man really 
 does not think, but God dwelling in him 
 thinks through his mind for him to the 
 degree that man will be quiet and simple 
 before God. We must allow the Spirit 
 of God in us to use all our faculties, so 
 that we are made not extraordinary and 
 excellent on some occasions, but pleas- 
 ant and wise on all occasions. For the 
 Comforter does not desire to do things 
 for us once in a while, but He desires to 
 do all the things we need to do all the 
 time. Everything is sacred, and every 
 day is Sunday when the Spirit is in the 
 heart. We must rest one day in seven, 
 but we should be in the Spirit every day. 
 The Comforter will inspire and empower 
 for all work, — for selling goods as well as 
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 as for fishing for men, for doing business 
 as well as for worshipping God. In the 
 strength of God you are to go wherever 
 you go, and whenever you go. This was 
 the beauty and the secret of Christ's 
 life : " He that sent Me is with Me ; the 
 Father hath not left Me alone, for I do 
 always those things that please Him." 
 " As He spake these words many be- 
 lieved on Him." And people will believe 
 in you, and your life will be a beautiful 
 testimony for God, if you please God in 
 all you do ; and you may please God in 
 all you do, for as Jesus was fully indwelt 
 by the Spirit so may you be. And here 
 is the virtue of witnessing, and the power 
 of converting the world. Not only so, 
 but thus is heart wisdom, which was the 
 perfection of Jesus, gained. Jesus learned 
 by obeying, and He learned " obedience 
 by the things which He suffered." He 
 did His Father's will, and so knew of 
 " the doctrine." That is the royal path to 
 knowledge for us. Having His Spirit 
 
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 in us, we must obey the Spirit. Thus 
 we will please God in all things, and 
 come to know God. Obey God, and your 
 knowledge of Him and your influence 
 for Him will be phenomenal. Your 
 heart wisdom, for that is heart wisdom, 
 will be increased abundantly. This is 
 the beauty and the secret of the Christian 
 life, as it was the beauty and the secret 
 of Christ's life. As He loved perfectly, 
 so you will come to love perfectly. As 
 He loved wisely, so you will come to love 
 wisely. As the culture of God refined 
 Christ's whole personality, so that Paul 
 said, "Christ the wisdom of God," so 
 the culture of the Comforter will refine 
 your whole being, until men acknowledge 
 you are a child of God. 
 
 In his gospel Luke tells us Jesus 
 " increased in wisdom." It is helpful 
 for us to remember this. Even Christ 
 was not made perfect suddenly. Jesus 
 " increased in wisdom." As far as purity 
 is concerned He was perfect always, 
 
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 but the truth of love and life and God 
 unfolded gradually before Him as He 
 obeyed God. Our hearts must be made 
 pure as I have said before we can begin 
 to know truth, for unless our hearts are 
 made pure by faith in the blood of Christ 
 the Comforter cannot dwell in us, but 
 " when He the Spirit of truth is come 
 He will guide you into all truth." 
 As far as purity is concerned we 
 must be perfect through the blood of 
 Christ, and then the Spirit will dwell 
 in us and guide into the truth. It 
 is folly to try to know the truth with- 
 out the Spirit. That is the reason the 
 majority of Christian people have such 
 little knowledge about God, and the 
 reason there is little love in their know- 
 ledge. Abstract truth is not Christian- 
 ity. Christianity is divine truth with 
 a warmth of love behind it, even the 
 warmth of the personality of the Holy 
 Ghost. Increase in heart wisdom there- 
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 the Holy Spirit. As we become pos- 
 sessed with the Spirit, and His gracious 
 fulness increases in us, we will grow in 
 knowledge. We will become " wise as 
 serpents," and yet be "harmless as 
 doves." We will know Whom we have 
 believed. But our attainment in truth 
 will be gradual. For, as we see the light, 
 we must " walk in the light." Our char- 
 acter must be refined by our obedience 
 to the revelations made to us. Know- 
 ledge in itself does not refine, but in our 
 doing what we know there is self-better- 
 ment. In performing the obligations 
 which truth makes upon us in reference 
 to our own personality and life we 
 acquire prudence and humility, which 
 encourage the Truth-giver to enlighten 
 us further, until we secure a simplicity 
 and strength of soul, or, what is the 
 same thing, possess heart wisdom. Let 
 us see to it then that we increase daily 
 in this knowledge by communing with 
 the indwelling Comforter, and obeying 
 
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 His least prompting, and it will be 
 eventually true of us that marvellous 
 thing which John says, "ye have an 
 unction from the Holy One and ye 
 know all things." " All things " are two 
 things, for they are divisible into two 
 classes — good and evil. By the Holy 
 Ghost resting upon us we will be able 
 to discern between good and evil, and 
 also be able to defeat evil and to pro- 
 mote the properties of good which we 
 understand. God accounts that a man 
 is proficient, knows " all things," if he 
 wisely apprehends the facts of soul, sin 
 and Christ, and acts in love accordingly. 
 And earthly knowledge is valuable or 
 vain only as, by this standard, it is 
 helpful or hindering in this higher real- 
 ization and nobler practice of truth. 
 
 Now, in concluding these thoughts 
 on heart wisdom, I wish to draw your 
 attention to the analysis which James 
 in his epistle makes of this wisdom 
 from above ; for heart wisdom is from 
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 above, is of God. Because the heart 
 which perceives it is born from above, 
 or of God. And the Spirit who reveals 
 it is from above, or of God. And the 
 wisdom itself, being divine reality, is 
 from above, or of God. James says, 
 " the wisdom that is from above is first 
 pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy 
 to be entreated, full of mercy and good 
 fruits, without partiality and without 
 hypocrisy." This is a splendid analysis 
 of heart wisdom or perfected love. By 
 communion with the Holy Spirit in us 
 we are to educate our love, and educated 
 love is to be the salvation of our own 
 soul and the souls in the world. How 
 beautiful this is ! How wonderful! How 
 simplifying ! How urgent ! Not to 
 educate thought, and ;;ive it whatever 
 love we can throw in or put in, but 
 to educate love and give it whatever 
 thought is necessary for the accomplish- 
 ment of its ideal. Study how to love. 
 That is the science of Christ. That 
 
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 ought to be the schooh"ng of Christians. 
 Let us look briefly at the characteristics 
 of this wisdom as portrayed by James. 
 
 Heart wisdom, or the wisdom that is 
 from above, is remarkable for 
 
 PURENESS : " First pure."— Worldly 
 wisdom may be pure or impure. Its 
 teachers may be pure or impure. But 
 heart wisdom is pure, for its Teacher is 
 pure, and demands pure capacities for 
 receiving His truth. The very nature 
 of heavenly wisdom is pure, for God is 
 light. All light is pure. God is holy, 
 and the love of God which " is shed 
 abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost 
 which is given unto us," is holy love. 
 A true friend ennobles, and the fellow- 
 ship with the Comforter, our Nearest and 
 Best Friend, ennobles our desires and 
 thoughts. 
 
 Peaceableness : " Then peaceable." 
 — About worldly wisdom there is always 
 worry. The more a man knows the 
 more he wants to know. There is a 
 
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 greed, a lovelessncss about mental cul- 
 ture. One wants to possess prizes more 
 than knowledge. Fame is sought for 
 selfish gratification. But soul know- 
 ledge is peaceable. The world may not 
 see the peace, but the Christian experi- 
 ences peace : There is contentment 
 with worldly possessions. There is 
 gratitude for divine grace. There is 
 cessation of carnal thought. There is 
 satisfaction with the truth that is 
 revealing. There is the calmness of the 
 presence of God in the soul. There is 
 the awe of the eternity to be spent with 
 God. Jesus said, " My peace I give 
 unto you," and Jesus gives His peace 
 by giving His Spirit and His love. 
 
 Gentleness : " Gentle." — Worldly 
 wisdom is boisterous, even if it is elo- 
 quent. Learning does not lessen the 
 roughness of the soul — it may hide it. 
 Passion may be rampant, even in a col- 
 lege professor. But the wisdom from 
 above is gentle. That is why it is wis- 
 
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 dom. The Christian is a self-possessed 
 soul. His powers are in subjection. 
 Because he rules his own spirit he is 
 kindly. He perceives that the Spirit of 
 God is as gentle as a dove, so he is gen- 
 tle. He is tender-hearted and tender- 
 tongued. 
 
 Approachableness : •' And easy to 
 be entreated." — The next element in 
 heart wisdom is approachableness. A 
 true Christian is always ready to receive 
 guests. Yes, but it means more than 
 that. A true Christian is always ready 
 to receive beggars, book -agents and 
 busybodies. Love is ever approachable. 
 It may not require a caller's goods, but 
 it manages not to send the caller away 
 empty. A smile and a God-bless-you, 
 at least, will be given. Solomon wel- 
 comed the Queen of Sheba. So will 
 the wise heart welcome queens or pau- 
 pers. Jesus turned none away. Love 
 entertains strangers as though they were 
 angels. Thc.e is no stififness in love. 
 
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 Mercifulness: "Full of mercy." — 
 Earthly wisdom is severely just. Pro- 
 fessors are very precise. Executive offi- 
 cers are exact. God is always merciful. 
 His wisdom is perfect. For that reason 
 He is gracious, and the love He begets 
 in His children is forgiving. Love does 
 not demand rights, it performs sacrifices. 
 The perfection of love is charity. 
 
 FruitfulnesS: "And good fruits." 
 — Love that has nothing to show is 
 feigned or impoverished love. A wor- 
 shipping soul must be a working soul. 
 " He that winneth souls is wise." Help- 
 ing the poor and visiting the sick are 
 good works, but a Christian should be 
 a conqueror and a comforter of souls. 
 The fields " are white already to harvest." 
 With the sickle of truth love must gather 
 sheaves for the harvest of heaven. 
 
 Impartialness : "Without partiali- 
 ty." — Heart wisdom is no respecter of 
 persons. Love pours in its blessings 
 wherever there is need. The Christian 
 
HEART WISDOM. 
 
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 is never bigoted, and is not a partisan, 
 liut a Christian must not be indifferent. 
 He must be intense in his zeal to do 
 good, yet he must treat all alike in love. 
 To be impartial is to be well-disposed 
 toward every one. 
 
 Genuineness: "And without hy- 
 pocrisy." — Love must "be with -ut dis- 
 simulation." There must be a sound- 
 ness in the soul A true ^)pearance is 
 not sufficient. A Christian must be 
 true. Love, when constant, is wise. 
 Then it will prevail ; then it i.s love. 
 Honesty must be not a policy, but a 
 principle. Faithfulness is required. 
 
 All these characteristics of heart wis- 
 dom will be developed and exemplified 
 by the soul which realizes and enjoys 
 communion with the Holy Spirit, the 
 indwelling Comforter, Who will encom- 
 pass every environment, enable for every 
 undertaking, direct in every duty, and 
 interpret the meaning of God's Word, 
 which the believer must industriously 
 study. 
 
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CHAPTER V. 
 
 HEART SUGGESTIONS. 
 
 " It came into his heart to visit his brethren the 
 children of Israel."-AcTS vii. 23. 
 
 THE only suggestions that are power- 
 ful are heart suggestions. Head 
 suggestions lack the force of persuasion. 
 In fact, the heart is the only place where 
 anything is suggested. The head per- 
 ceives, but the heart hears. The thought 
 of the mind is increased from itself by 
 discerning facts, but the love of the 
 heart is increased from without by 
 discerning voices. The wisdom of the 
 world is gotten by outward attention, 
 but the wisdom of God is gotten by 
 inward quietness. The voice that speaks 
 in the heart may not reside in the heart, 
 
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 but even if it does reside in the heart 
 the voice is foreign to the nature. By 
 foreign to the nature I do not mean dif- 
 ferent from the nature, but that the voice 
 is not self-originated. One voice resides 
 in every heart, but another non-resident 
 voice may speak in the heart though it 
 is indwelt by one voice. 
 
 In every heart there is either the voice 
 of God or the voice of Satan, The two 
 voices cannot reside at the same time 
 in one heart. The two voices may be 
 heard to speak about the same time in 
 one heart, but, though the one voice is 
 resident, the other is transient as the 
 voice of a visitor. Every man can per- 
 ceive the two voices speaking in his 
 heart, for the one incites to good and 
 the other to evil. And every man can 
 know what voice is abiding in his heart. 
 If there is in the heart an urging to do 
 things for self, though what is done is 
 beautiful and moral and not disgustingly 
 offensive, the urging is from the voice 
 
HEART SUGGESTIONS. 
 
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 of Satan residing in the heart. If there 
 is in the heart an urging to do things 
 for Christ, though what is done seems 
 insignificant and poor and not perfect 
 accomplishment, the urging is from the 
 voice of God residing in the heart. The 
 selfish persuading of the voice of Satan 
 in the heart may not be fully obeyed, 
 for the mental reverence for religion 
 and the social respect of truth will make 
 the person unwilling to fulfil all the 
 selfish desires begotten in him ; selfish 
 ambition may only be pursued as far as 
 it is nice. The unselfish persuading of 
 the voice of God in the heart may not 
 be fully obeyed either, for the mental 
 attention to the world and the social 
 love of appearance will make the person 
 unwilling to fulfil all the unselfish desires 
 begotten in him; unselfish ambition 
 may only be pursued as far as it is 
 urgent. A man may not know the 
 voice of God in his heart, and a man 
 may not know the voice of Satan in his 
 
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 heart. And besides, the voice that is 
 not resident may interject its plea 
 occasionally. But no serious person 
 ought to think lightly of these inward 
 voices, for success or failure in attaining 
 happiness and usefulness from the stand- 
 point of Jesus depends on knowing our- 
 selves. There may be a holy conform- 
 ity outwardly to recognized standards 
 of goodness, and a serious or joyous 
 hope that somehow everything will 
 come out well because the person has 
 formally fulfilled doctrinal beliefs, but 
 such a heart is not well-pleasing to 
 God, God is pleased always with 
 zeal to know Him, but God is not 
 well pleased unless He is known, for 
 God can be and desires to be known. 
 If we will cease from our own methods 
 of knowing God, for we have, like Israel, 
 zeal which is " not according to know- 
 ledge," and take God's own revealed 
 methods of knowing Him, we shall soon 
 come to say with Paul, *' I know Whom 
 
HEART SUGGESTIONS. 
 
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 I have believed." Christian testimony 
 to-day has httle substance in it, and 
 even many excellent performances in 
 the name of Christ that seem to be 
 successful and idealistic are not inspired 
 by faith, which "is the substance of 
 things hoped for." Christianity to-day 
 has little soul in it, because the Spirit of 
 God is not known in the hearts of Chris- 
 tians. The joy of the Lord cannot be 
 your strength unless you realize the 
 Lord, the Holy Ghost, in you, and allow 
 His presence and peace to permeate 
 your personality, and His gladness to 
 gird your soul with glorious strength. 
 
 So I ask you to consider these inner 
 voices. You mostly obey the sugges- 
 tions that are made in your heart, for 
 the suggestions carry with them author- 
 ity, which, if your will consents, pushes 
 you to performance. Whatever power 
 occupies the throne in your heart com- 
 mands you and convicts you and con- 
 trols you. The qu«;stion for you is, 
 
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 what power does rule in you ? If Satan 
 is in your heart, and he surely is if you 
 love self and are seeking things for self 
 chiefly, then Satan suggests continually 
 what you are to do and you are kept 
 busy fulfilling his behests, and you are 
 worried and worldly, and do not know 
 God and have no time to study God. 
 I assure you that Satan does not mani- 
 fest his full purpose to you, but he 
 knows you are naturally selfish and so 
 he quietly keeps you seeking and serv- 
 ing self, for in this way you will be kept 
 from seeking and serving God. As 
 long as Satan can keep people con- 
 tented with themselves or keep them 
 occupied with worldly affairs, he is satis- 
 fied, for his work is then accomplished. 
 Satan is not particular how people are 
 deceived as long as they are deceived. 
 It is hard to say to men that the spirit 
 of Satan is in them, if they are careless 
 about Christ and His work; but Christ 
 said harder things than that directly to 
 
HEART SUGGESTIONS. 
 
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 the Jews. The spirit of Satan in a man 
 may be a very decent spirit, but so 
 surely as it keeps the man occupied 
 about self it is the spirit of Satan. 
 God's voice may be heard occasionally 
 calling to a life of devotion to Jesus, 
 but, when the echoes or the convictions 
 of God's voice of love die away in the 
 midst of worldly noise and selfish excite- 
 ment, the soul proceeds with its self- 
 indulgence knowing only the peace and 
 pleasure that come from possessing what 
 is earthly and destructible. I empha- 
 size this truth then, that as long as 
 Satan can keep you from desiring and 
 seeking God he is well satisfied. Satan 
 will give you new friends and will in- 
 crease your pleasures, and try in every 
 way he can to entertain you if he per- 
 ceives you are getting weary of self. 
 Then, if you realize whom you have 
 been serving and desire to dethrone 
 Satan, Satan will make his outgoing 
 
 terrible. He will overcast your soul 
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 with darkness and despair even, but the 
 Morning Star which you have beheld 
 will increase His light and fill you by 
 His comforting Spirit with peace. 
 
 If it is sad to tell men that they 
 are " the synagogue of Satan," is it not 
 sadder to tell Christians that they are 
 unacquainted with the Spirit of God in 
 them ? Very few believers know the 
 Comforter. Jesus said His disciples 
 would know the Spirit, the Com- 
 forter. The majority of Christians 
 imagine they are saved because they 
 have peace in their hearts through trust- 
 ing in Christ, but they do not realize 
 that this peace is a result of the presence 
 of God in their hearts, and that they 
 should be quiet to apprehend His pres- 
 ence and hear His voice. Indeed this 
 seems like a new doctrine, or a new re- 
 ligion. Yet it is real Christianity, and 
 as orthodox as the promise of Jesus, 
 that if He went away He would send 
 " another Comforter." But, though every 
 
HEART SUGGESTIONS. 
 
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 soul, which earnestly repents of sin and 
 consecrates itself to God and trusts in 
 the blood of Christ, is immediately in- 
 dwelt by the Holy Spirit, many Christ- 
 ians do not even know there is any 
 Holy Spirit. He is in them, giving 
 them what peace they possess and long- 
 ing to comfort them more, but He is 
 not realized nor loved nor talked to. So 
 Christians cannot understand themselves. 
 They are confused and unhappy most 
 of the time. Not knowing God's voice, 
 which is entreating them to cast all care 
 upon Christ and to "abide under the 
 shadow of the A Imighty," they do not obey 
 His voice; for, though they sometimes feel 
 they can trust God very well, they have 
 not strong confidence because they do 
 not realize it is God's voice in them 
 seeking to assure them of His power and 
 love. As a result there is confusion in 
 the soul, for Satan will come speaking 
 occasionally, trying to lead to selfish 
 thinking and living again. What a 
 
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 wretched state that is I well know, and 
 I sympathize with all Christians who are 
 in such darkness, and may the Holy 
 Spirit lovingly show the truth about Him- 
 self to many for their comforting- 
 Although you are converted and your 
 desire is to please God, yet if you do 
 not know the Holy Spirit is in you and 
 do not obey His voice, you will get into 
 distress. Satan will suggest things to 
 you, and you will not be wise enough 
 to defeat him. You will recognize 
 Satan's voice as a familiar voice, for 
 you were acquainted with him in the 
 past, but he will charm your old affec- 
 tions, and not knowing God's presence 
 which should be your protection and 
 strength, you will be deceived and de- 
 feated by Satan. I ask you, then, to 
 realize the Spirit of God is in you, if you 
 believe on Jesus, and to be filled with 
 Him as your Comforter. Surrender 
 all to Him. Do not strive to trust 
 God. Ask your heart if God can trust 
 
HEART SUGGESTIONS. 
 
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 you. Keep giving up to the Spirit. 
 Consider how He can have more of you. 
 Tall< with Him, for He i.s in you. Tell 
 Him just what you desire, and ask Him 
 to live in you, for you are not satisfied 
 and you wish to glorify Jesus. Com- 
 mune with Him in this way. Keep 
 talking to Him until you know He hears 
 you. Think about Him. Obey His 
 least prompting, and you will soon com- 
 mence to realize His presence and to 
 know His voice. 
 
 Thus God spake to His children in 
 past times. But God also spoke to His 
 people in other days out of visions, and 
 by signs and wonders. He speaks in 
 all these ways to-day ; but, since Pente- 
 cost, every soul may be filled with the 
 Holy Spirit, and God's chief method of 
 speaking to His people is by the Spirit 
 dwelling in them. This is the only way 
 there can be any real knowledge of God, 
 "With the heart man believeth unto right- 
 eousness." Heart faith opens the heart 
 
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 door for Christ to come in by His Spirit, 
 and the Spirit of God in us saves us by 
 keeping us from sin and revealing God 
 to us. I would ^»ave you know in fact 
 that the Holy Spirit in us is God in us, 
 and God is not merely an influence or 
 an abstract power. God, Who is in us, 
 is a Spirit with a personality of power 
 and love. He is actually God in us. 
 He will dwell in us in all fulness if 
 we desire Him. He will suggest how 
 we may have more of Himself He will 
 love us freely. He will gladden us now 
 and eternally. 
 
 Heart suggestions are of three kinds. 
 I am now speaking of the suggestions 
 made in the soul by the Spirit of God 
 abiding there. 
 
 Suggestions About Self.— The 
 Spirit in us will teach us about self 
 He will tell us how to behave, and we 
 must behave as He says. He will sug- 
 gest that we do not do some things we 
 have been used to doing. We should 
 
HEART SUGGESTIONS. 
 
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 obey His least prompting. And if at 
 any time we are in doubt as to whether 
 it was His prompting, we should act in 
 the way that will be the most unselfish. 
 In cases of perplexity we may ask 
 Him to guide us, and rest assured He 
 will in some way show us our duty. 
 The Comforter is not arbitrary, for He 
 is our Lover and Friend. The Song of 
 Solomon becomes the song of the soul 
 when the Comforter is within. In love 
 He deals with us always, paining us to 
 perfect us. He will show how to deny 
 self, and to bear the cross. There will 
 be real crucifixion, but there will be 
 genuine comforting. He knows the 
 way you take. When He has tried 
 you, you will " come forth as gold." All 
 your plans and thoughts must be sub- 
 mitted to Him. You may feel you can- 
 not do some things He asks of you, but 
 He will enable you. Hewill supply "your 
 need according to His riches in glory by 
 Christ Jesus." You know if a Briton is 
 
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 living on British territory, even though 
 the land be narrow and surrounded by 
 a country belonging to another power, 
 yet if the British subject is oppressed 
 by the neighboring enemies of the 
 Crown, all he needs to do is to 
 inform the British magistrate where 
 he lives that he is oppressed by such 
 enemy, and then there will be over 
 him and around him instantly the 
 strong protection of all Britain. So 
 when the Spirit is in you, all you need 
 to do is to call upon Him for aid, for 
 He is the Heavenly Magistrate, and has 
 all power behind Him for your protec- 
 tion. The Holy Ghost in you should 
 be consulted in reference to all matters, 
 that your mind may be relieved from 
 all care, and that your joy may be full. 
 If people insult you, tell the Comforter 
 about it, and say to Him that you will 
 not mind, so long as you have His sweet 
 friendship, what people say. Do not ly 
 to make people understand you. Do 
 
HEART SUGGESTIONS. 
 
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 not argue about religion with anybody. 
 The Spirit desires you to witness, not to 
 argue. You are convinced. You can- 
 not convince others. That is not your 
 work. That is His work. Do not try 
 to save people. He must do that. 
 Just witness. Just live in loving joy, 
 always hearing what He says, and 
 obeying Him. Rejoice in Him. He 
 is your Fertilizer, Lover and Friend. 
 He is your present supply. Forget all 
 about the past. Forget yourself. Be 
 conscious of Him. Do business for 
 Him and with Him. Take Him into 
 your confidence and into partnership. 
 Ask Him to direct you, to make you 
 wise. These are only a few hints as to 
 how the Spirit will talk to you, and 
 what He will suggest. 
 
 Suggestions about Christ.— The 
 Comforter will reveal Christ to you, and 
 He will do this practically, not sermon- 
 ically. He will ask you to deny your- 
 self in some way, and if you obey, you 
 
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 will perceive the beauty of Jesus in your 
 act. Moreover, that is how Christ is 
 " formed in you." By implicit obedience 
 to the Spirit's promptings your habits 
 will become holy, and your character 
 Christly. " Mercy and truth " will meet 
 together in your nature, " righteousness 
 and peace" will kiss each other. Your 
 visions of Christ will be beautiful also. 
 You will meditate on His life and death, 
 and resurrection and glory. But you 
 will only attain Christ as you obey the 
 Spirit. " If any man have not the Spirit 
 of Christ, he is none of His." If any 
 man obey not the Spirit of Christ, he 
 will not know Christ nor be Christlike. 
 You will admire Jesus, but you must 
 obey His Spirit. So, " beholding as in 
 a glass the glory of the Lord," you 
 will be " changed into the same image 
 from glory to glory," "by the Spirit 
 of the Lord." Abraham sent his ser- 
 vant into Mesopotamia to secure a wife 
 for Isaac his son. The servant, you 
 
HEART SUGGESTIONS. 
 
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 remember, told Rebekah about Isaac, 
 and emphasized what posessions Isaac 
 had, given to him by his father. Then 
 the servant presented Rebekah with 
 " jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and 
 raiment." Thus Rebekah became inter- 
 ested in and appreciated the power and 
 kindness of Isaac ; but Rebekah would 
 never have really enjoyed the posses- 
 sions of Isaac if she had not believed 
 and obeyed the servant, and so come to 
 where Isaac lived. The Holy Spirit is 
 God's Servant in us, showing us what 
 beauty there is in His Son Jesus, and 
 Low that the Father hath given all 
 things into His hands; but we will 
 never possess the virtues and beauties 
 of Jesus unless we obey the Spirit in us. 
 Suggestions about Others.— The 
 Holy Ghost will suggest that you let 
 others have their way. He will show 
 you the nobility of self-sacrifice. He 
 will point out the goodness in people, if 
 there is any, but He will give them in- 
 
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 spiration for a higher ideal through you. 
 He will teach you to be kind and gen- 
 tle. You will come to love children and 
 old folks. You will have sympathy with 
 all conditions of men. Your hands will 
 be open always ready to do something 
 for anyone in need. You will behave 
 seemly. You will be led to serve others 
 in various ways You will unconsciously 
 be a blessing wherever you go. The 
 Comforter will make your whole life a 
 ministry and a fragrance in love. Just 
 according as you resign to Him and 
 obey Him will your goings be estab- 
 lished. You can do whatever you will 
 for Christ if you obey God's Spirit. 
 There is no can't or cant when the 
 Comforter dwells in you. God wants 
 people who will obey Him. If you 
 obey Him lovingly He will promote 
 you daily, and promote Christ's work 
 through you. He will show you that 
 Single Tax cannot save the soul. He 
 will encourage reforms, but emphasize 
 
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 the need of Christ always. He will 
 declare that Christ is the world's chance. 
 The Holy Spirit will test our willing- 
 ness to serve others. While on a train 
 in the United States not long ago, I 
 was talking with an American soldier 
 who had been down in Cuba. The 
 poor fellow was almost a wreck through 
 drink. I talked to him kindly, and he 
 listened attentively. He knew I was 
 sincere when I told him about Christ, 
 the Friend and Saviour. My sympathy 
 went out to him, and I was wondering 
 what more I could do for him, when a 
 suggestion came to give him the little 
 Bible from which I was reading. It 
 was a precious Bible to me, for, as 
 well as being a beautiful vest-pocket 
 Book, it was the Bible I had with me 
 in my trip over Palestine, and I had 
 marked in it the places visited. So, 
 when the voice of the Spirit said give 
 the soldier your Bible, I began to argue 
 the matter within myself. But I sud- 
 
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 denly perceived I was grieving God's 
 Spirit, so I instantly gave the Bible to 
 the astonished soldier, who promised to 
 read it. Then peace possessed me. In 
 peculiar ways the Comforter will try us, 
 and direct us in our work of love, so 
 implicit obedience is necessary. 
 
 Now, you will discern that I have been 
 talking to you about being guided by 
 the Holy Spirit. " As many as are led 
 by the Spirit of God they are the sons 
 of God." Just as the professor of hyp- 
 notism mesmerizes the individual who 
 becomes his subject so that he will do 
 whatever the professor suggests, so the 
 Spirit of God will control us if we are 
 humble enough to allow Him, and 
 He will impress upon us things which 
 we will gladly do. But we should not 
 think every impulse is from God. Satan 
 may try to deceive us. If any impres- 
 sion is from God's Spirit the conviction 
 will remain with us, and urge us to the 
 performance of that thing as our duty. 
 
HEART SUGGESTIONS. 
 
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 We should receive the fulness of the Com- 
 forter daily, and then commune with 
 Him in our hearts, and get to know 
 His voice or promptings. We have two 
 external methods of knowing that a sug- 
 gestion in our heart is of God, if we are 
 in doubt. Any suggestion that is of 
 God will be corroborated by God's 
 written Word, the Bible, and by circum- 
 stances. The Spirit's impression, the 
 Bible, and circumstances — these three, 
 says Rev. F. B. Meyer, are always in 
 line or always agree. I pray that you 
 will make room for the fulness of the 
 Comforter, and invite Him in and get to 
 know Him. He will beautify your soul 
 and life, and use you. Be quiet to hear 
 His voice, and then be quick to obey. 
 Remember you must meditate in God's 
 Word regularly, and listen in its Eden 
 Garden for the voice of the Lord God 
 among the promises. 
 
 •* Just to let Him speak to thee 
 Through His word, 
 
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 Watching that His voice may be 
 
 Clearly heard ; 
 Just to tell Him everything 
 
 As it rises, 
 And at once to Him to bring 
 
 All surprises ; 
 Just to listen, and to stay 
 
 Where you cannot miss His voice ; 
 This is all, and thus each day 
 
 Communing with Him you'll rejoice. 
 
 " Just to ask Him what to do 
 
 All the day, 
 And to make you quick and true 
 
 To obey ; 
 Just to know the needed grace 
 
 He bestoweth, 
 Every bar of time and place 
 
 Overfloweth ; 
 Just to take thy orders straight 
 
 From the Comforter's command ; 
 Blessed day, when thus we wait 
 
 Always at our Sovereign's hand." 
 
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CHAPTER VI. 
 HEART MEEKNESS. 
 
 " Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me. for I 
 am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest 
 unto your souls."-Matt. xi. 29. 
 
 THh natural heart is proud. It may 
 have little to be proud about, but 
 it is proud nevertheless. Some folks 
 take pride in keeping proud, and about 
 all they really have to be proud of is 
 their pride. Starch is a social requisite. 
 People imagine they must present a nice 
 and a bold front. Maintaining dignity 
 is the occupation of many persons. But 
 that kind of living is very wearying. It 
 is costly to the soul to buy respect. It 
 pays to earn what you receive, for no 
 one can then mortgage your honor. 
 
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 What Jesus desires to accomplish 
 for each of us by His indwelling 
 Spirit is naturalness. The disciples 
 wished to know who was " the greatest 
 in the kingdom of heaven." " And 
 Jesus called a little child unto Him 
 and set him in the midst of them, 
 and said, Verily I say unto you, except 
 ye be converted and become as little 
 children, ye shall not enter into the 
 kingdom of heaven. Whosoever, there- 
 fore, shall humble himself as this little 
 child, the same is greatest in the king- 
 dom of heaven." If we do become "wise 
 as serpents," we are to be " harmless as 
 doves." The one thing to do is to 
 become simple. We are too complex. 
 We should be transparent. Even in 
 our religion we are too professional. 
 Thus we miss the end of religion, which 
 is meekness and lowliness of heart. 
 
 Heart meekness is not the same as 
 head meekness. The only time the 
 head is ever meek is when it is weak ; 
 
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 the only time the heart is ever meek 
 is when it is strong. Head meekness 
 is premeditated ; heart meekness is un- 
 studied. Head meekness seeks favors ; 
 heart meekness gives favors. Head 
 meekness is affected ; heart meekness 
 is unaffected. Head meekness is modest ; 
 heart meekness is unpretentious. Low- 
 liness of heart is winsome; lowliness 
 of mind is admirable. Lowliness of 
 heart wins friends; lowliness of mind 
 wins favors. A person may be meek 
 in mind, and yet not be meek in 
 heart, for a person may be pleasant 
 for selfish purposes. Mental culture 
 enables one to be politic in professing 
 obeisance; heart culture enables one 
 to be devoted. If a man is meek in 
 heart, he will become meek in mind. 
 The love of the heart will control the 
 thought of the mind, and make the 
 person true and sympathetic. 
 
 Christ asks us to learn of Him, for 
 He was "meek and lowly in heart." How 
 
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 meek Jesus was! What counsel He 
 returned for cruelty ! What comforting 
 of truth He gave for crowns of thorns ! 
 What thoughts he exchanged for 
 threats ! What testimony He gave in 
 the midst of treachery ! People be- 
 trayed Christ, but Christ befriended 
 people. Men forced Christ, but Christ 
 forgave men. He was delivered to 
 death, but He delivered from death. 
 The weary found Him, but they 
 never found Him weary. The mob 
 railed murder at Him, but He railed 
 mercy at the mob. His enemies peti- 
 tioned earthly powers to condemn Him ; 
 He petitioned heavenly powers to for- 
 give His enemies. Jesus was always 
 humble. He would not take any advan- 
 tage. He would not blame anybody. 
 He would not sentence the guilty. He 
 would not be harsh to the weak. He 
 did not demand His rights. He did not 
 destroy anything. He did not accuse 
 anybody. He was considerate and 
 
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 compassionate. He was gracious and 
 gentle. He was contented and cour- 
 teous. He was a wanderer and abused, 
 but He " came not to be ministered unto 
 but to minister." He came not to re- 
 ceive applause, but to give approbation. 
 He came not to make devotees, but to 
 make disciples. He 'would stoop to 
 write love in the sand, but He would not 
 stand to write law against a soul. He 
 preferred the expediencies of love to the 
 extremities of law. He lived urging 
 men to be true ; He died that men 
 might be true. 
 
 The world needs the humility of Jesus 
 to-day. Boasters are abroad. Egotists 
 are enjoying the envy of their enemies. 
 Over-capitalization is overcoming the 
 laborers. Greed is gaining and grind- 
 ing. ** Jealousy is cruel." Haughtiness 
 has lifted on high its head. " All seek 
 their own, not the things which are 
 Jesus Christ's." Selfishness is strong. 
 Modesty is missing. Bigotry is brag- 
 
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 ging. Christian people must give new 
 examples of self-denial. Charity must 
 begin at home. The disease of " touch- 
 iness " must decrease. Individuals must 
 not look for insults. Criticism must not 
 be Ctvred for. Applause must not be 
 askec: ^hls prayer must be prayed : 
 
 *' Keep .ne little and unknown, 
 Prized and loved by Thee alone." 
 
 Only as hearts are refined by the in- 
 dwelling Spirit of God will they be truly 
 humble. Only as men are purified by 
 fellowship with the Comforter will they 
 be meek. Only as Christians are con- 
 trolled by the Holy Ghost will they be 
 courteous. The Holy Ghost will show 
 that there is nothing to be proud about. 
 He will enlighten and energize by love. 
 He will make us meek. He will humble 
 us. He will keep us humble. He will 
 show us how to walk humbly. He will 
 simplify and sweeten our life. He will 
 take care of our honor, and yet we will 
 
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 be honorable. He will make our love 
 overflow. He will teach us that " char- 
 ity suffereth long and is kind ; charity 
 envieth not ; charity vaunteth not itself, 
 is not puffed up ; doth not behave itself 
 unseemly ; seeketh not her own ; is not 
 easily provoked ; thinketh no evil ; re- 
 joiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in 
 the truth ; beareth all things, believeth 
 all things, hopeth all things, endureth 
 all things." The Comforter will con- 
 vince us that His love never fails, and 
 that true " charity never faileth " to be 
 humble. 
 
 Now heart meekness is the secret of 
 the Christian's rest. Jesus said, "ye 
 shall find rest unto your souls." Soul 
 rest is the only kind of rest. And we 
 are to secure this rest by taking His 
 yoke upon us. His yoke, says Drum- 
 mond, is His way of looking at life. 
 Look at life as Jesus did, and you will 
 grow contented, loving, humble. Jesus 
 looked at life from the heavenly side : 
 
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 " It is more blessed to give than to re- 
 ceive." So he died to self, and in that 
 is the secret of rest. We must learn 
 this. We will grow more restful as we 
 grow more selfless. 
 
 The secret of rest is humility, but the 
 secret of humility, as you have discerned, 
 is to be in communion with the Com- 
 forter. Receive the fulness of the Holy 
 Spirit from the risen Christ. Confide 
 in Him, for He abides in you and is 
 your heavenly Comforter. Ask Him to 
 make you humble, and he will gradually 
 unman you. Ask Him to "let this mind 
 be in you v/hich was also in Christ Jesus, 
 Who, being in the form of God, thought 
 it not robbery to be equal with God, 
 but made Himself of no reputation, and 
 took upon Him the form of a servant, 
 and was made in the likeness of men ; 
 and being found in fashion as a man, He 
 humbled Himself and became obedient 
 unto death, even the death of the cross." 
 The Comforter will see that you are 
 
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 crucified, if you wish to be humble, but 
 He will prepare " spices and ointments " 
 for each resurrection. You will be 
 brought low by Him, but you will be 
 loved by Him. He will crush the pride 
 out of your nature, but He will clarify 
 the peace of your soul. And this will 
 be your heart perfection. In humility 
 you will live and love. Surrender all to 
 the Holy Ghost. Ask Him to keep 
 you, to hold you, to guide you. Then 
 live trustingly, committing all to Him. 
 Be natural and simple, or else there will 
 be a selfishness about your very meek- 
 ness. Be a child to the Spirit, happy 
 and obedient. Be friendly with Him, 
 loving and confiding. And if you are 
 meek in this way before God, you will 
 be meek before men. If you are humble 
 in heart, there will be manifested the 
 beauty of the humility of Jesus in your 
 life. 
 
 In concluding I wish to draw your at- 
 tention to some of the precious promises 
 in the Bible referring to meekness : 
 
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 The meek are of great price in 
 THE SIGHT OF GOD : " Whose adorn- 
 ing let it not be that outward adorning 
 of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of 
 gold, or of putting on of apparel ; but 
 let it be the hidden man of the heart, in 
 that which is not corruptible, even the 
 ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, 
 which is in the sight of God of great 
 price," — God loved Moses because he 
 was meek. God does not respect osten- 
 tation. He desires simplicity. If you 
 would like God to love you very much, 
 be very meek. 
 
 The meek will be beautified 
 WITH SALVATION : " For the Lord 
 taketh pleasure in His people. He will 
 beautify the meek with salvation." — If 
 you are truly humble, God will honor 
 you. If you are contrite and sincere, 
 you will be saved to the uttermost. If 
 you are meek, you will certainly be 
 beautified by the Holy Spirit dwelling 
 in your heart, and your body will be the 
 
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 be refined, and your life will exhibit the 
 graces of the Spirit. 
 
 THE MEEK WILL BE GUIDED IN 
 JUDGMENT : " The meek will He guide 
 in judgment, and the meek will He teach 
 His way." — Only the meek can be 
 guided in judgment. Haughty persons 
 cannot be taught anything. God will 
 respect the desire of the humble, and 
 will give them knowledge of Himself 
 This knowledge will enable the meek to 
 " judge righteous judgment." The ideas 
 of the meek are generally correct. 
 
 The meek shall inherit the 
 EARTH : " Blessed are the meek, for 
 they shall inherit the earth." — Those 
 who honor God by their lowliness before 
 Him, and their trust, shall have as much 
 of the earth as they need. " All things " 
 are theirs through Christ. God will 
 supply all their " need according to His 
 riches in glory by Christ Jesus." " Trust 
 in the Lord and do good, so shalt thou 
 
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 dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt 
 be fed." 
 
 The meek shall increase their 
 JOY : " The meek also shall increase 
 their joy in the Lord." — Humble hearts 
 will be made glad by the God Whom 
 they seek. Their joy will be increased, 
 because it is not dependent on worldly 
 things, but on God. God gives the best 
 last, but His first is infinitely better than 
 the world's best. The heart which is 
 indwelt by the Holy Spirit will experi- 
 ence increasing raptures. As the Com- 
 forter is known and obeyed, living will 
 be delightful in the Lord. 
 
 " I am happy each glad morning, 
 
 All my being sings His praise ; 
 Every moment I'm rejoicing 
 
 In the favor of His ways. 
 Now 'tis pleasure to obey Him, 
 
 And the joy His gifts afford 
 Makes each duty so delightful 
 
 In the service of the Lord." 
 
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