ification by works."

Mr. M.--A man says: "I have not found peace." How would you deal
with him?

Mr. R.--He is really looking for the wrong thing. I do not look for
peace. I look for _Christ;_ and I get peace with Him. Some people
put peace in the place of Christ. Others put their repentance or
prayers in the place of Christ. _Anything_ put in the place of
Christ, or between the sinner and Christ, is in the _wrong place_.
When I get Christ, I possess in Him everything that belongs to Him,
as my Saviour.

Mr. M.--Some think they cannot be Christians until they are
sanctified.

Mr. R.--Christ is my Sanctification, as much as my Justification. I
cannot be sanctified but by His blood. There is a wonderful passage
in Exodus. The high priest there represented in picture the Lord
Jesus Christ. There was to be placed on the forefront of the miter
of the high priest, when he stood before God, a plate of pure gold,
and graven upon it as with a signet, the words: "Holiness to the
Lord." My faith sees it on the forefront of the miter on the brow of
my High Priest in heaven. "And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead,
that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the
children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it
shall be _always_ upon his forehead, that they may be accepted
before the Lord." That was for Israel of old! _That_ on the brow of
Jesus Christ is for me. Yes--for me, "that I may be accepted before
the Lord." As I believe this truth it purifies my heart, it operates
on my affections and my desires; and I seek to walk with Him,
because He is my Sanctification before God, just as I trust in Him
as my Justification--because He shed His blood for me.

Mr. M.--What is it to believe on His name?

Mr. R.--His name is His revealed self. We are informed what it is in
Exodus. Moses was in the mount with God, and He had shown him
wonderful things of kindness and of love. And Moses said, "O God,
show me thy _glory!_" And He said, "I will make all my _goodness_
pass before thee." So He put Moses in the cleft of the rock, and
proclaimed the name of the Lord: "The Lord, the Lord God, merciful
and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth;
keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and
sin"--there it is, root and branch "and that will by no means clear
the guilty." That is His name; and His glory He will not give unto
another: and to believe in the name of the Lord