ruly that our treasure is in heaven and our
heart also, and that we seek the things where Christ sitteth at the
right hand of God. Then the stock-market may fluctuate, riches go or
come, men praise or hate, nought will affect our peace, any more than
the tumults of a continental city, in which we are spending a night in
transit, can cause us serious disturbance.

(3) _Supreme love._--"I love the Father." I have so often noticed how
a supreme love in a young girl's life seems to calm and quiet her,
because it draws the whole of her nature in one strong flow toward the
man of her choice. Before that, there was a waywardness, a
vacillation, a nervous excitement, which passed away as soon as love
dawned upon her soul. So long as the heart is subject to every
influence, it quivers and wavers as the magnet needle when swept by
streams of electricity. A strong uniting love does for us what the
strong attraction of the pole does for the needle. Christ loved the
Father. There was no difficulty in bearing what He sent, or doing what
He bade. There were no rival claimants, no questionings or debate
within the palace of His heart. Every passion and emotion of His human
nature was quieted and stilled in the set of His whole being toward the
Father. If you too would have peace, you must love; you must love
supremely Him who alone is worthy, who can never disappoint or fail.
And in proportion as you love God, you will find pleasure in all
beautiful things, in all lovely persons, in all the fair gifts of
nature and life. Oh, love the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within
me, love His holy name!

(4) _A supreme source of authority._--"As the Father gave Me
commandment, even so I do." Every soul must have a supreme source of
authority in its life, if it is to have peace. Its own whim, the
suggestion of passion, the vagrant impulse of the moment, are
inconsistent with tranquillity. There must be for each of us one voice
which is imperative, one command which is indisputable, one authority
which admits of no gainsaying. If you will search your heart you will
see that this is so. Compare the restlessness of the Book of Judges
with the tranquillity of the reign of Solomon, and you will have an apt
illustration of your own experience before consecration put Christ on
His throne, and afterward. When the true Melchizedek established his
reign within you, at once your heart became Salem, the city of peace.
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