lar dispensation. His second promise is that he is in us if we
be children of God, and we need only to yield to his presence day by
day to be delivered from the power of sin. His third promise is that
he will take of the things of God and show them unto us. Things which
the world's people cannot understand he makes plain unto us. "Eye hath
not seen nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man
to conceive the things which God hath prepared for those who love him,"
but the Spirit hath revealed them unto us. The fourth promise is that
he will not leave us. We may resist the Spirit, we may grieve the
Spirit, but we will not grieve him away. His power may be greatly
limited in our lives, the work of sanctification under the influence of
his presence be greatly hindered, but he is with us, "nor height, nor
depth, nor any other creature can separate us from him."

Third: By faith we have a vision of things unseen and they become real
to us. Faith is to the soul what the eye is to the body. The things
of God become actually real, and becoming so they are powerful. Under
the influence of this vision temporal things are trifling. The
Christian who is true to his position lives in heaven, breathes its
atmosphere, is pervaded by its spirit and so becomes pure, tender,
obedient, loving. No wonder that to these people whose lives were so
attractive Paul wrote in the text, "This is the will of God, even your
sanctification."

II

Justification and sanctification ought to be compared to appreciate the
latter. The first is an act, the second is a work. We do not grow in
justification. There is no distinction between Christians in this
respect; the smallest child accepting Christ is as truly justified as
the saint of a half century. So far as sanctification is concerned
there is the widest possible difference. Justification depends upon
what Christ does for us, sanctification depends upon what Christ does
in us. First of all it is a supernatural work. In this respect among
others it differs from reformation. Henry Drummond has said that in
reformation men work from the circumference, in sanctification they
work from the center. The Triune God may really be counted upon as the
author of this work. In 1 Thessalonians the fifth chapter and the
twenty-third verse we have the work of the Father. "And the very God
of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul
and body be pre