the Father. In the measure our faith enters into
the doctrine of Christ in that measure we shall have deeper
fellowship with the Father and His Son. Is your cry, dear reader,
for more reality in this fellowship? There is one way only which
leads to this. It is an increase in the knowledge of the Son of God
and as you abide there, you _have_ the Father and the Son.

And now we shall call to our remembrance other passages in the first
Epistle of John in which our blessed Lord as the Son of God is
mentioned. They are sweet and precious to faith and if read in the
Spirit they will bring the joy, the blessing, the peace and the
comfort of the doctrine of Christ to our hearts.

"The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin" (i:7).
That precious blood, His own blood, has cleansed us once and for
all. "For this purpose the _Son of God_ was manifested that He might
destroy the works of the devil" (iii:8). "And this is his
commandment, that we should believe on the name of His _Son_ Jesus
Christ and love one another as He gave us commandment. And he that
keepeth His commandments (which are: believing on Him and loving one
another) dwelleth in Him and He in him. And hereby we know that He
abideth in us, by the Spirit which He hath given us" (iii:23-24).
"In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God
sent His _only begotten Son_ into the world that we might live
through Him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He
loved us, and sent _His Son_ into the world to be the propitiation
for our sins." "Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love
one another" (iv:9-11). "And we have seen and do testify that the
Father sent _the Son_ to be the Saviour of the world. Whosoever
shall confess that Jesus is _the Son of God_, God dwelleth in him
and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God hath
to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God
and God in him" (iv:14-16). "Who is he that overcometh the world,
but he that believeth that Jesus is _the Son of God?_" (v:5) "If we
receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this
is the witness of God which He hath testified of His _Son_. He that
believeth on the _Son of God_ hath the witness in himself; he that
believeth not God hath made Him a liar; because he believeth not the
record that God gave to _His Son_. And this is the record that God
hath given to us eternal life, and this life is _i