the flesh, in its own strength seeks for holiness as a
beautiful garment to wear and enter heaven with. It is the
daily death to self out of which the life of Christ rises up.

4. To die thus, to live thus in Christ, to be holy--how can we
attain it? It all comes '_according to the Spirit of
holiness_.' Have the Holy Spirit within thee. Say daily, 'I
believe in the Holy Ghost.'

5. _Holy in Christ._ When Christ lives in us, and His mind, as
it found expression in His words and work on earth, enters and
fills our will and personal consciousness, then our union with
Him becomes what He meant it to be. It is the Spirit of His
holy conduct, the Spirit of His sanctity, must be in us.

[11] See Note F.

Twentieth Day.

HOLY IN CHRIST.

Holiness and Liberty.

'Being made _free from sin_, ye became servants of righteousness:
now present your members as servants of righteousness _unto
sanctification_. Now being made _free from sin_, and become
servants unto God, ye have your fruit _unto sanctification_, and
the end eternal life.'--Rom. vi. 18, 19, 22.

'Our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus.'--Gal. ii. 4.

'With freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be
not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.'--Gal. v. 1.

There is no possession more precious or priceless than liberty. There is
nothing more inspiring and elevating; nothing, on the other hand, more
depressing and degrading than slavery. It robs a man of what constitutes
his manhood, the power of self-decision, self-action, of being and doing
what he would.

Sin is slavery; the bondage to a foreign power that has obtained the
mastery over us, and compels often a most reluctant service. The
redemption of Christ restores our liberty and sets us free from the
power of sin. If we are truly to live as redeemed ones, we need not only
to look at the work Christ did to accomplish our redemption, but to
accept and realize fully how complete, how sure, how absolute the
liberty is wherewith He hath made us free. It is only as we '_stand
fast_ in our liberty in Christ Jesus,' that we can have our fruit unto
sanctification.

It is remarkable how seldom the word _holy_ occurs in the great argument
of the Epistle to the Romans, and how, where twice used in chap. vi. in
the expression 'unto sanctification,' it is distinctly set forth as the
aim and fruit to be reached th