n increase in warm
personal love for Jesus. Conversion plants divine love (agape) in the
heart, but sanctification quickens and intensifies it. Conversion drops
a coal into the breast; the fuller grace fans it into a flame.

SOUNDING STRINGS.

There is a place in experience where Christ's voice sets the whole
being vibrating. The soul is so in tune with Him that the cadences of
His tones fill the soul with a tremor of glee and gladness. If you sing
the scale in a room where there is a piano the corresponding strings of
the instrument will sound. Thus it is with Jesus and the sanctified
soul. When Christ speaks the heart answers spontaneously.

REGENERATION

Regeneration does much for us. But there is that even in the heart of
the regenerate which is antagonistic to Christ. The whole man does not
say instinctively, "Thy will be done"; yet there is something within to
which the Lord can appeal. Consult Peter. He tells us of "exceeding
great and precious promises by which we become partakers of the Divine
nature." We "take a part" (partakers) of the divine Shekinah into our
hearts. We are not only "adopted" but born of God, and by a divine
heredity we possess His character.

SAMUEL.

We see this beautifully illustrated in the case of Samuel. Given in
covenant to God from his birth, and early taught the word of the Lord,
he possessed the changed heart and the attuned ear. When God's voice
fell out of the skies that night something in Samuel heard what aged
and mitred Eli could not hear. Eli had the theory and reasoned out who
the speaker must be, but the heart of Samuel awoke intuitively at the
sound of that voice.

THE VOICE FROM THE SKY.

As Jesus taught in the temple God spoke, and many whose ears were dull
because their hearts were hard and unchanged said, "It thundered."
Others saw that something extraordinary had occurred and admitted that
"an angel spoke to Him." But the disciples whose "names were written in
heaven," and who had regenerated hearts, knew it was the voice of God.

THE FLINTY WORLD.

But while the child of God is in sympathy with God he must be
sanctified wholly to be fully, constantly and completely responsive to
Christ. Jesus wants a bride who will live His life with Him and enter
into all His plans and sorrows, ambitions and trials, aims and
purposes. There are many people who are glad Jesus died for them who
know nothing about "suffering with Christ." Yet the Bible is filled
with allu