ithout feeling, is our loss and our shame.

Do not wait for feeling. Begin your part in the work of your own
salvation. If feeling carry you into decision, and it sometimes does,
well and good. But for one case where feeling leads to decision there
are probably a score where feeling must be made by what follows
decision. Take care of doing, and feeling will take care of itself;
and as we rejoice in its inspiration, we shall realize that, perhaps
for the most part, it can come no other way. To have the joy of doing
good, we must do good. We cannot have the tonic and bracing sense of
vigour by saying we will climb the mountain. It is when we have scaled
its heights that we have the experience of a new physical creation.

Why wait, then, for what is waiting for us? The Divine Spirit is
universal and infinite. It is the mother-soul of the universe, with
eternal power and sweetness and beauty, and glory, shining down upon
all men, stimulating them to be nobler, to go up higher. And when we
accept the influence of the Holy Spirit seeking the divine in us, and
co-operate with it, we have found the answer to the question: What must
I do to be saved?

Does any one say, I ask again, that he has never had this impulse? As
truly can he say that he has never felt the sun. Let him take heed.
The sun sets, and it is night. There can be a night of the soul--the
darkest, blackest, most hopeless night of all.

"He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God
hath not life." To be saved is to live; and only to the life above us
can the life within us respond. Out of Christ we do not live; we but
exist. And existence at its highest estate has no power inherent in it
to cast out the selfishness and death that build a hell's despair, in
what might be the kingdom of heaven in our human life and world. Do we
want to be saved? Do we desire life? Then pray, and begin at once to
do what our heart and conscience tell us the Christ would have us do.
Will to do the will, and doing it we shall enter, gradually at first,
and then with more royal progress and joy unspeakable, into the truth
of His word: "Because I live, ye shall live also."

[1] Rev. W. L. Walker.

[2] Dr. Lyman Abbot.

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