e wither.

_We live in His life._--The tiny streamlet of our being has joined His,
is merged in it, and flows on together with it, to the great ocean of
eternity. To us to live is Christ, both here and hereafter. Our aims
and purposes are merged in His; we are enriched in all that enriches
Him; gladdened by all that promotes His happiness and glory; made more
than conquerors through our oneness with Him, in the victory that has
overcome the world.

_We live because He lives in us._--At the moment of regeneration He
came to indwell. He that hath the Son hath life; he that hath life
hath the Son. It has pleased God to reveal His Son in us. We have
found Him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write, and we
have found Him in our hearts. Where dwellest Thou? we asked Him; and
He replied, Come and see; and He manifested Himself as having become to
us the inward principle of an endless life. Christ dwells deep in our
heart, and we are beginning to comprehend the immensity of the Divine
love of which He is the exponent.

Let us draw on this life more confidently, availing ourselves of it
perpetually in all our time of need--in all time of our sickness and of
our wealth, in adversity and prosperity, in the hour of mortal anguish
and the day of judgment; and finding what we could not do or bear or
encounter, Jesus can do and bear and meet in and through us, to the
Father's eternal glory.

"Lord Jesus Christ, grow Thou in me,
And all things else recede."

XII

Many Mansions for God

"If a man love Me, he will keep My words: and My Father will love him;
and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him."--JOHN xiv. 23.

The Immanence of God! That God should be willing to make His home
_with_ man is much; but that He should be willing to come in--to
indwell, occupy, and possess our nature--this is incomprehensible to
the intellect, though it may be received and rejoiced in by the heart.
This is no subject for light and thoughtless speech. We touch on the
profoundest mysteries of the Being of the Infinite, and the capacity of
human nature. Be reverent, O my soul, in the consideration of such a
theme, and take the shoes from off thy feet, for the Bush burns with
fire!

It was owing to the question of Jude, that the universal application of
our Master's words is so clear. A day or two before, our Lord had
entered Jerusalem amid the enthusiasm of the crowds, and the disciples
fondly th