joy in his service. A friend asked me not long ago if I
could give in a sentence the after result in my life of what I said had
come to me in 1916, and I replied, "Yes, it can be all summed up in one
word, 'Resting.'"

Some have asked, "But have you never sinned?" Yes, I grieve to say I
have. Sin is the one thing I abhor--for it is the one thing that can, if
unrepented of, separate us, not from Christ, but from the consciousness
of his presence. But I have learned that there is instantaneous
forgiveness and restoration to be had _always_. That there need be no
times of despair.

One of the blessed results of this life is not only the consciousness of
Christ's presence, but the _reality_ of his presence as manifested in
definite results when, in the daily details of life, matters are left
with him and he has undertaken.

My own thought of him is beautifully expressed in Spurgeon's words:

"What the hand is to the lute,
What the breath is to the flute,
What's the mother to the child,
What the guide in pathless wild,
What is oil to troubled wave,
What is ransom to a slave,
What is flower to the bee,
That is Jesus Christ to me."

The special Bible-study which I made at that time was embodied in a
leaflet. Proving helpful to others, it is added below.[3]

=God's Presence=

The secret of Victory is simply Christ himself in
the heart of the believer. This truth, of Christ's
indwelling, is, and always has been, a _mystery_.

Romans 16:25.
Ephesians 3:9 with Colossians 1:26, 27.
Ephesians 5:30, 32 (R. V.).
Colossians 4:3.

Christ himself taught this truth.

John 14:20, 23; 15:1-7; 17:21-23.
Matthew 28:20.
Revelation 3:20. (See also Mark 16:20).

It was a vital reality to the Apostle Paul.

Romans 8:10.
1 Corinthians 6:15.
1 Corinthians 12:27 (R. V.).
2 Corinthians 5:17.
2 Corinthians 13:5.
Galatians 2:20.
Galatians 3:27.
Galatians 4:19.
Ephesians 3:17.
Philippians 1:21
1 Thessalonians 5:10.
Hebrews 3:6.

The words "in Christ," which recur in many other
passages, will have a new literalness when read in
the light of the above.

The Apostle John had a like