right to testify has told us that, when we do the will
of God as if it were our own will, we realize that God is doing our
will as His own. There is a great truth in this. We so often fail
because ours is a broken obedience. We expect God to do His part,
while we keep back part of the price of our own, and what response we
have is the sense of being mocked in ourselves. We have to find out
that we cannot serve two masters. However we fall short in practice,
the intention must be all for God, or it will be none. But let us be
genuine co-workers with Him in this great work of personal
character-building; and we find that we have a power not ourselves, and
infinitely greater than ourselves. Our achievements are not so much a
question of gift, as of dynamic. They are not in the machinery, but in
the driving power.

"How is it"--was a question recently asked concerning one of the most
useful men in the Christian ministry--"that with his obvious
limitations he has accomplished so much?" And the answer was: "Because
he has made it possible for God to use him for all he is worth."
Failure is impossible in the man who can say: "I live, and yet not I,
but Christ liveth in me." We cannot explain the power; but it is
there, and we all may have it by obedience to the conditions through
which it can be given. "I have been down deep in the hell of moral
failure," writes one, "and by the grace of God I have come out of it.
I may not be able to explain His grace to the satisfaction of others;
but will others explain me to my own?" Our lives may be the living
evidences of this power. The world asks for no more; the world will
accept no less. Our day, we are told, has ceased to believe in such
miracles. It were truer to say that it has ceased to believe in
anything else.

Goodness is possible; and not to achieve it is to defeat the purpose
for which we were born into this world. Let us believe in goodness.
Let us learn to love goodness because it is goodness. Let us say, and
live our word, that there are no charges we can pay which we are not
prepared to pay to be, and to do, that which is possible to us--and God
will not fail us. Any man who is putting out all his strength in work
and prayer to build up his higher nature need have no devil-fear that
his strength will not be equal to his day. He may not be able to
choose his circumstances; but he can show that he, and not the
circumstances, is the master. He can off