lives changed, and indeed
transformed by a new affection? I have seen love work miracles; and so
far from not believing in such miracles within their sphere, I believe
in nothing else. But does that which wakes love put it there? Is some
new thing added to life? Rather let us say that it is life coming to
its own; just finding what was already there. This may be what the
Psalmist means when he speaks of deep calling to deep. The deep in man
answers to the deep of attraction which appeals to it. If man was
conceived in the image of God, then God is immanent in man. This is
not to say that this immanence is equal to, or implies the whole
content of what is known as Christian salvation. It is true that the
"eye and the brain must be there before the light can be perceived or
any object interpreted." But it has been pointed out with equal truth
that the "eye would be useless did not the light come to it, and that
the brain would have nothing to work on, were not objects from without
brought for our perception." [1] Which means that immanence alone
would be powerless apart from some transcendent influence. Unless this
be so, what are we to say of the multitudes which sit in darkness and
the shadow of death? Our salvation is in the answer of the life
immanent to the life transcendent, and the connecting and combining
power is the Holy Spirit.

But what, in the next place, is our part in this matter? How is this
power to come? How, to use a better term, are we to realize it? Have
we to wait for something, or have we to do something to make it a real
experience?

A youth, let us say, or a girl, is beginning to learn music, to play
the violin or the piano. At first it is drudgery, and its immediate
results are a trial unto all that are in the house. The parent or
teacher says: "Persevere, obey instructions, and as you pass through
routine into the soul, the task will soon be lost in the pleasure."
The beginner may not believe it; but granted the facility is there, and
determination to bend to the task of learning, and the reward comes.
That which is within is brought out, and by the only way it can be
brought out: "Stir up the gift that is in thee."

This hints to us the answer to the question, Have we to do something
that salvation may become a known and felt reality? We have to do
something. We have _to do_, as we are told by Him who only can tell us
what it is we have to do: "Will to do the will," says