d them was true. So there are a great many
people who don't believe the glad tidings that peace has been made.
Jesus Christ made peace on the Cross. He satisfied the claims of the
law; and this law which condemns you and me has been fulfilled by
Jesus Christ. He has made peace, and now He wants us just to enjoy it,
just to believe it. Nor is there a thing to hinder us from doing it,
if we will. We can enter into that blessing now, and have perfect
peace. The promise is: "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind
is stayed on Thee. Trust ye in the Lord forever, for in the Lord
Jehovah is everlasting strength." Now, as long as our mind is stayed
on our dear selves, we will never have peace. Some people think more
of themselves than of all the rest of the world. It is self in the
morning, self at noon, and self at night. It is self when they wake
up, and self when they go to bed; and they are all the time looking at
themselves and thinking about themselves, instead of "looking unto
Jesus." Faith is an outward look. Faith does not look within; it looks
without. It is not what I think, nor what I feel, nor what I have
done, but it is what Jesus Christ is and has done, and so we should
trust in Him who is our strength, and whose strength will never fail.
After Christ rose from the grave, three times, John tells us, He met
His disciples and said unto them, "Peace be unto you." There is peace
for the conscience through His blood, and peace for the heart in His
love.

SECRET OF JOY.

Remember, then, that love is power, and peace is power; but now I will
call attention to another fruit of the Spirit, and this too is power--the
grace of JOY. It is the privilege, I believe, of every Christian to
walk in the light, as God is in the light, and to have that peace
which will be flowing unceasingly as we keep busy about His work. And
it is our privilege to be full of the joy of the Lord. We read, that
when Philip went down to Samaria and preached, there was great joy in
the city. Why? Because they believed the glad tidings. And that is the
natural order, joy in believing. When we believe the glad tidings,
there comes a joy into our souls. Also we are told that our Lord sent
the seventy out, and that they went forth preaching salvation in the
name of Jesus Christ, and the result was that there were a great many
who were blessed; and the seventy returned, it says, with great joy,
and when they came back they said that the very