of persons Thy people can be, in the day of
Thy power, in the beauty of holiness. We bow our knee to Thee, O Father,
that Thou wouldst grant us, according to the riches of Thy glory, to be
mightily strengthened in the inner man by the Spirit of Holiness. Amen.

1. What manner of men ought ye to be in all the holy living? This
is a question God has written down for us. Might it not help us
if we were to write down the answer, and say how holy we think
we ought to be? The clearer and more distinct our views are of
what God wishes, of what He has made possible, of what in
reality _ought_ to be, the more definite our acts of
confession, of surrender, and of faith can become.

2. Let every believer, who longs to be holy, join in the daily
prayer that God would visit His people with a great outpouring
of the Spirit of Holiness. Pray without ceasing that every
believer may live as a holy one.

3. 'Seeing that _ye look for_ these things.' Our life depends, in
more than one sense, upon what we look at. 'We look not at the
things which are seen.' It is only as we look at the Invisible
and Spiritual, and come under its power, that we shall be what
we ought to be in all holy living and godliness.

4. _Holy in Christ._ Let this be our parting word. However
strong the branch becomes, however far away it reaches round
the home, out of sight of the vine, all its beauty and all its
fruitfulness ever depend upon that one point of contact where
it grows out of the vine. So be it with us too. All the outer
circumference of my life has its centre in the ego--the living,
conscious I myself, in which my being roots. And this I is
rooted in Christ. Down in the depths of my inner life, there is
Christ holding, bearing, guiding, quickening me into holiness
and fruitfulness. In Him I am, In Him I will abide. His will
and commands will I keep; His Love and Power will I trust. And
I will daily seek to praise God that I am Holy in Christ.

NOTES.

NOTE A.

Holiness as Proprietorship.

In a little book--_Holiness, as understood by the Writers of the Bible;
A Bible Study by Joseph Agar Beet_--the thought that by Holiness is
meant our relation to God, and the claim He has upon us, has been very
carefully worked out. Holy ground was such because 'it stood in _special
relation_ to Himself.' The first-born