hat he was has given a meaning and confirmation
to what he has here said, which cannot be exaggerated. It is inevitable
that there are those who will read and reject as mystical and
unpractical, that which is so directly concerned with the intimacies of
fellowship with the unseen Lord. I would, however, venture to remind
such that the writer of these pages founded the China Inland Mission! He
translated his vision of the Beloved into life-long strenuous service,
and so kept it undimmed through all the years of a life which has had
hardly a parallel in these our days.

This is really the commendation of the following short chapters. They
proclaim an Evangel which has been distilled from experience, and form
at least a track through this fenced portion of God's Word, which will
lead many an one who treads it into the joys of Emmanuel's land.

J. STUART HOLDEN.

ST. PAUL'S,
PORTMAN SQUARE, LONDON, W.
_June 1, 1914._

CONTENTS

PAGE

INTRODUCTORY 1

THE TITLE 7

SECTION I
THE UNSATISFIED LIFE AND ITS REMEDY 8

SECTION II
COMMUNION BROKEN--RESTORATION 27

SECTION III
THE JOY OF UNBROKEN COMMUNION 37

SECTION IV
COMMUNION AGAIN BROKEN--RESTORATION 47

SECTION V
FRUITS OF RECOGNIZED UNION 58

SECTION VI
UNRESTRAINED COMMUNION 70

APPENDIX 83

THE SONG OF SOLOMON

INTRODUCTORY

THE great purpose towards which all the dispensational dealings of GOD
are tending, is revealed to us in the fifteenth chapter of the First
Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians: "That GOD may be all in all." With
this agrees the teaching of our LORD in John xvii. 3: "And this is (the
object of) life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true GOD,
and JESUS CHRIST, whom Thou hast sent." This being so, shall we not act
wisely by keeping this object ever in view in our daily life and study
of GOD'S holy Word?

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable, and
hence no part is, or can be, neglected without loss. Few portions of the
Word will help the devout student more in the pursuit of this
all-important "knowledge of GOD" than the too-much neglected "