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Keep hold of this all along as we go on: you have a claim on
Christ, on His Love and Power, to make you holy. As His redeemed
one, you are at this moment, whatever and wherever you be, _in
Him_. His Holy Presence and Love are around you. You are _in Him_,
in the enclosure of that tender love, which ever encircles you with
His Holy Presence. _In that Presence, accepted and realized, is
your holiness._

[1] There is one disadvantage in English in our having synonyms of
which some are derived from Saxon and others from Latin.
Ordinary readers are apt to forget that in our translation of
the Bible we may use two different words for what in the
original is expressed by one term. This is the case with the
words _holy_, _holiness_, _keep holy_, _hallow_, _saint_,
_sanctify_, and _sanctification_. When God or Christ is called
the Holy One, the word in Hebrew and Greek is exactly the same
that is used when the believer is called a saint: he too is a
holy one. So the three words _hallow_, _keep holy_, _sanctify_,
all represent but one term in the original, of which the real
meaning is to make holy, as it is in Dutch, _heiliging_
(holying), and _heiligmaking_ (holy-making).

Third Day.

HOLY IN CHRIST.

Holiness and Creation.

'And God blessed the Sabbath day, and _sanctified_ it, because
that in it He had rested from all the work which God created and
made.'--Gen. ii. 3.

In Genesis we have the Book of Beginnings. To its first three chapters
we are specially indebted for a Divine light shining on the many
questions to which human wisdom never could find an answer. In our
search after Holiness, we are led thither too. In the whole book of
Genesis the word Holy occurs but once. But that once in such a
connection as to open to us the secret spring whence flows all that the
Bible has to teach or to give us of this heavenly blessing. The full
meaning of the precious word we want to master, of the priceless
blessing we want to get possession of, '_Sanctified in Christ_,' takes
its rise in what is here written of that wondrous act of God, by which
He closed His creation work, and revealed how wonderfully it would be
continued and perfected. When God blessed the seventh day, and
_sanctified_ it, He lifted it above the other days, and set it apart to
a work and a revelation of