Paul wrote to Titus says that we are to be sound in
patience, faith and charity. We have got Christians, a good many of
them, that are good in spots, but mighty poor in other spots. Just a
little bit of them seems to be saved, you know. They are not rounded
out in their characters. It is just because they haven't been taught
that they have a terrible foe to overcome.

If I wanted to find out whether a Man was a Christian, I wouldn't go
to his minister. I would go and ask his wife. I tell you, we want more
_home piety_ just now. If a man doesn't treat his wife right, I don't
want to hear him talk about Christianity. What is the use of his
talking about salvation for the next life, if he has no salvation for
this? We want a Christianity that goes into our homes and everyday
lives. Some men's religion just repels me. They put on a whining voice
and a sort of a religious tone, and talk so sanctimoniously on Sunday
that you would think they were wonderful saints. But on Monday they
are quite different. They put their religion away with their clothes,
and you don't see any more of it until the next Sunday. You laugh, but
let us look out that we don't belong to that class. My friend, we have
got to have a higher type of Christianity, or the Church is gone. It
is wrong for a man or woman to profess what they don't possess. If you
are not overcoming temptations, the world is overcoming you. Just get
on your knees and ask God to help you. My dear friends, let us go to
God and ask Him to search us. Let us ask Him to wake us up, and let us
not think that just because we are church members we are all right. We
are all wrong if we are not getting victory over sin.

PART II.

INTERNAL FOES.

Now if we are going to overcome, we must begin inside. God always
begins there. An enemy inside the fort is far more dangerous than one
outside.

Scripture teaches that in every believer there are two natures warring
against each other. Paul says in his epistle to the Romans:--"For we
know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For
that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what
I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto
the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin
that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,)
dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to
perform that which is good I find not. For th